The American double standard

[debgeisler]

Apparently, the federal Department of Justice is not concerned about the issues in Oakland, California's crackdown on "Occupy" protestors. As Wired points out:

When Egypt teargassed and beat protestors in Tahrir Square, the world, including the Obama administration, howled in outrage.

But when police did the same to Americans in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza, the Obama administration said nothing.

But since it's good old *American* tear gas...and good old *American* police brutality, it's not something to get upset about, right?

Comments

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Of course not. Because in America the government is always on the side of Right! Our government tells us that.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

It's also disturbing for those of us old enough to remember Chicago in 1968.

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Not to mention Kent State in the same era.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

I lived ~45 miles from Kent State then...and had friends whose older siblings went to college at KSU. It was...hard.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

That too. But this event was a lot more like Chicago, I think.