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[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

NY Citibank Customers Arrested for Closing Accounts

Watch the video. The woman was not even in the bank, but outside on the sidewalk!

[Adventurer]

Well, the woman wasn't simply a customer, but also a protester it appears. However, she was outside at that time, so arresting seems like an abuse of power. That doesn't surprise me when it comes to the police.
It seemed like he was trying to punish the woman.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Direct, non-violent action requires a response.

The genius of direct, non-violent action, as Ghandi and King understood, was that it forces a confrontation with personal ethics and the law. (Unfortunately, the cops are caught in the middle--they are the children of the underclass, hired to protect the interests of the over-class).

One of the classic expressions of it is Dr. King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'.

Eight local clergymen had written that African-Americans should be patient and endure the continuance of social injustice, just as they had for decades and decades after the Civil War because any change would make the white over-class uncomfortable and inconvenienced. Dr. King answered:http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html

One part:

Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative."

There is no need to read the letter any more as black/white. It can be understood as privileged, entitled upper class/the rest of us. There is no difference. The country has waited for 43 years to confront this issue. It had to be postponed while the racists and bigots of the early 60's died off, as LBJ predicted.

Maybe it is too early. Maybe the reactionary forces of kowtowing to the privileged few are still assendant. But finally, the progessive forces are awakening.

[Steelrails]

Going to throw out this blast...which is full of tripe but still needs to be said...

At least in the case of some of those hippies, maybe they'd have a job or a better one if they didn't spend all of college smoking weed and doing shrooms and "finding themselves".

OF course this has nothing to do with the rampant outsourcing of jobs and the shameless selling out of Washington to Wall Street, but I have trouble taking the drum circle crowd seriously.

Although statistics indicate that only about 15% of the people at the protests are unemployed.

OWS would be great if it ditched the hippies and young people who don't even bother to save money but believe they should tell other people what to do with it.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Kuros]

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

^ And what on earth does it have to do with the OP in the first place?

[Kuros]

I don't know what to think of this incident. The protestors are provocateurs, but its non-violent and cleverly skirting the line of legality. The police are trying to do their job, but they're not doing it very well.

Just another day in New York City?

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

^ Wait a minute. So for closing my bank account, I'm a provocateur?

Please do not ever become a judge.

[Kuros]

[geldedgoat]

The protesters inside weren't arrested for closing their accounts; they were arrested for trespassing. How were they trespassing? By causing a disturbance inside a private business and refusing to behave and/or leave of their own accord. Blame Citibank for that if you like, but I'm not seeing police abuse... except for the arrest of the woman outside. That was beyond bizarre, and it deserves an explanation. Also, that bit about locking the protesters inside to prevent them from leaving (and thus avoiding arrest) was odd, but there has to be more behind that.

[Ineverlie&I'malwaysri]

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