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   From: jdgraeme74@yahoo.com   
      
   "In almost every country of the world, the state power--the   
   government--is the greatest source of organized violence. States have   
   armies, whose main purpose is to use violence against other state   
   armies. States also have police forces, whose purpose is to use   
   violence to control the domestic population.   
      
   The U.S. war on Iraq is only one case in point. After killing 3,000   
   Iraqi children a month for over 10 years starting in the 1990s through   
   a regime of crippling sanctions, the U.S. has now also caused over 1   
   million "excess deaths" in Iraq since it invaded and occupied the   
   country in 2003.   
      
   And what of the role of the U.S. government at home? Here, the   
   military was founded as a force for the genocidal extermination of the   
   Native Americans, and the police were first organized as slave-   
   catchers. Today, the U.S. government holds, by force of arms, 2.2   
   million of its own citizens (most of them convicted of non-violent   
   offenses) behind bars"   
   --Brian Jones   
      
   Veterans of the Bridgeport Police Department – Elson Morales, Joseph   
   Lawlor and Clive Higgins were caught on tape kicking and stomping on a   
   man previously incapacitated with a stun gun.   
   A shaky video that goes in and out of focus captures the moment the   
   suspect is shot with the stun gun and knocked to the ground paralyzed.   
   One of the officers exclaims “Nice shot!” and walks over to the fallen   
   man, kicking him as the other cop is standing by.  He quickly joins in   
   and they go on kicking and stomping on the helpless suspect. Sirens   
   can be heard in the background as another patrol car is arriving to   
   the scene, and the third officer uses the chance to join his coworkers   
   and land a couple of kicks himself just before the backup arrives.   
   There were a couple of witnesses observing the brutal beating, but   
   that didn’t keep the cops from acting the way they did   
      
   Stomp a Man & Get Paid Vaction, if employeed at Bridgeport Police   
   Department   
   “Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins, all 10-year veterans   
   of the Bridgeport Police Department, are shown on the tape kicking and   
   stomping on a man they had already subdued with a stun gun.”  I’m not   
   too surprised to learn of the actions of Morales, Lawlor and Higgins,   
   considering the hostility displayed by every single one of their   
   colleagues I met when in Bridgeport on Sat., 19th, including David   
   Uliano. In fact, it’s likely that a heavy-handed culture permeates the   
   ranks of Bridgeport police – something that can never entirely be   
   mitigated when the very institution is based on coercion.   
      
   Fortunately an individual nearby recognized what was happened and   
   documented the aggression through the lens of a camera. It’s great   
   this practice is becoming so pervasive. It is making a positive   
   difference (for more related, check out CopBlock.org/KnowYourRights).   
      
   While the video evidence may be enough for anyone with common sense to   
   draw pretty accurate conclusions, the so-claimed “authorities” are   
   only now “investigating” themselves for an incident that happened in   
   May of 2011. Oh yeah, and the aggressors are on paid vacation.   
   http://www.copblock.org/27012/stomp-a-man-get-paid-vaction-if-em   
   loyeed-at-bridgeport-police-department/   
      
   "An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach   
   is more so."   
   --Mahatma Gandhi   
   _Non-Violence in Peace and War_, vol. 2, ch. 150, 1949.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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