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Fire Walk With Me

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3. I learned the hard way not to talk to cops at all, even to promote in the most general terms
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 06:33 PM
Mar 2013

Occupy's ideals and to recommend they watch "Inside Job" about the bankster scandal.

Anyone promoting violence is a cop or a Fed. Step back. Walk away.

Cops troll for arrestable reactions. Watch for them to hassle and violently arrest the younger and physically smaller / visibly more popular members of your protest in hopes of someone doing anything they can use to make another arrest.

If you are not specifically part of an established movement, some of your fellows may hold different ideals regarding reform and change. They may also not know or not care that they don't have to talk to cops, that they can walk away from any questioning, and if detained, can immediately demand a lawyer and outwait the detention period and attempts at questions designed to wear one down and get them to answer questions in return for being allowed to leave such ugly conditions.

The young know they're fucked ($1 trillion in student debt) and are passionate about Change.

Protests which at the end of the day, go home, allow business as usual to continue and politicians know they can outwait protests and anger. The Montreal student movement worked in shifts of 8 hours so that fresh protesters were marching and making NOISE 24 hours a day.

THANK YOU for going to Lansing to demand change. Trust but don't get fucked. DHS and police are domestic terrorists using force and threat of force to change the political position of US citizens. That's terrorism, ladies and gentlemen. They are what they claim to seek to end.

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