A Complete List of National Politicians Who Have Embraced the Occupy Wall Street Protests
1) Bernie Sanders.
October 2011
September 2011
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
“To indefinitely waive one’s right of secession is to make one’s self a slave.”
—Benjamin Tucker
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people.”
—J.R.R Tolkien, 1943 letter to his son Christopher
“Some year, when an Anarchist feels exceptionally strong and independent, when his conduct can impair no serious personal obligations, when on the whole he would a little rather go to jail than not, and when his property is in such shape that he can successfully conceal it, let him declare to the assessor property of a certain value, and then defy the collector to collect. Or, if he have no property, let him decline to pay his poll tax. The State will then be put to its trumps. Of two things one—either it will let him alone, and then he will tell his neighbors all about it, resulting the next year in an alarming disposition on their part to keep their own money in their own pockets, or else it will imprison him, and then by the requisite legal processes he will demand and secure all the rights of a civil prisoner and live thus a decently comfortable life until the State shall get tired of supporting him and the increasing number of persons who will follow his example. Unless, indeed, the State, in desperation, shall see fit to make its laws regarding imprisonment for taxes more rigorous, and then, if our Anarchist be a determined man, we shall find out how far a republican government, ‘deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed,’ is ready to go to procure that ‘consent’—whether it will stop at solitary confinement in a dark cell or join with the czar of Russia in administering torture by electricity.”
—Benjamin Tucker
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
—Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Wall Street Protesters is Named in Civil Liberties Lawsuit from 2004 RNC Protests →
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A senior New York police officer accused of pepper-spraying young women on the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations is the subject of a pending legal action over his conduct at another protest in the city.
The Guardian has learned that the officer, named by activists as deputy inspector Anthony Bologna, stands accused of false arrest and civil rights violations in a claim brought by a protester involved in the 2004 demonstrations at the Republican national convention.
Then, 1,800 people were arrested during protests against the Iraq war and the policies of president George W Bush.
“Anarchy is not chaos, but order without control.”
—David Layson
“Government is not the doctor, it is the disease.”
—H.S. Ferns (via haereticum)
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” 1963
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
—Albert Einstein
“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
—Noam Chomsky
let's give it back to the squares: President Obama tried to save Troy Davis from execution →
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The president is given the power under the Constitution to “grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” The president may grant a full pardon to a person accused or convicted of a federal crime, releasing the person from any punishment and restoring her or his Civil Rights. The president may also issue conditional pardons that forgive the convicted person in part, reduce a penalty a specified number of years, or alter a penalty with conditions. This power can check the legislative and judicial branches by altering punishment for crimes. Presidents can issue blanket amnesty which forgives entire groups of people for a crime. President Jimmy Carter offered amnesty to Vietnam War draftees who fled to Canada. Presidents can also issue temporary suspension of prosecution or punishment in the form of respites. This power is most commonly used to delay federal sentences of execution. The President can also commute a sentence which, in effect, changes the punishment to time served. While the guilty party may be released from custody or not have to serve out a prison term, all other punishments still apply. President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of White House staffer Lewis “Scooter” Libby. A pardon is generally a private transaction between the president and an individual. However, in 1977, President jimmy carter granted an Amnesty that was, in effect, a blanket pardon to those who were either deserters or draft evaders during the Vietnam War.ATLANTA, Sept. 26, 2011, 4 p.m. - President Obama candidly Friday took a little time to explain how he tried to save Troy Davis and why he did not say anything about his controversial execution, two sources told Redding News Review.
Obama’s White House…Thinksquad:
Why didn’t the president just pardon Troy Davis, I mean if he was really concerned and wanted him to live why didn’t he pardon him. Besides pardons, the president may also grant commutations (reductions) of sentences, remissions of fines, and reprieves. The president, bound by no higher authority than Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, is in no way required to follow them and retains the ultimate power to grant or deny clemency.
Because the President has no authority to pardon someone for a state offense.
Article II of the Constitution states that “The President … shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”
Troy Davis was not convicted of an offense against the United States, therefore
the President’s pardon power was entirely useless in his case.I know people forget that we’re living in a federal republic, but we are. Contrary to what Ron Paul and his delusional followers say, the US government does not have carte blanche to interfere in internal state matters.
That still levels open the question why Obama didn’t order the AG to open a civil rights investigation and get a federal judge to stay the execution, but asking why didn’t Obama pardon Troy Davis fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the President’s pardon power.
