It Has Begun

[Ambrocious]

At the end of the day, we are a software site, not a news site, so yes here at least it is more important ;) . Arguing is a messy subject, that i'd like to see that we avoid where possible.

You are welcome to post your news items when things like this come to realisation.

Lite

AND HERE IT IS:

Jason Bermas

September 27, 2009

In what was possibly the most surreal, horrific, and unimaginable thing I have ever witnessed in my life, 1200 Riot Police and Military Personal rabidly attacked a group of well under 300 American citizens, many of them just students that were unaware there was even a protest going on. They then expanded their perimeter and shut large areas of Oakland down. This is how my last experience at the G20 in Pittsburgh went down, out of control authorities mercilessly attacking an unarmed crowd with batons, tear gas, pepper spray, sound weapons, and rubber bullets. Around 10pm on Friday night, long after the vast majority of dignitaries and protesters had left, it became evident that the outrageous show of force by the Military and Police was not enough to stave off their thirst for blood.

G20 Police & Military Savagely Attack Peaceful Protesters In Pittsburgh Park

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet.com

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Editor’s note: Here is an example of the sort of violent behavior the Pittsburgh police are notorious for using against non-violent demonstrators.

Update: Infowars Reporter Rob Dew Now Released After Being Arrested

Police and military units savagely attacked peaceful protesters in a Pittsburgh park last night, cracking heads with billy clubs, deploying LRAD sound cannons and shooting rubber bullets at close range, according to Infowars’ Jason Bermas. Fellow Infowars reporter Rob Dew was arrested during the melee.

Bermas called Alex Jones last night as the attack unfolded. Around 200 to 300 peaceful protesters had converged at Schenley Park for a demonstration but they were soon under assault from busloads of riot cops and military units who quickly descended on the scene.

According to Bermas, police were aggressively charging protesters and cracking them on the head with billy clubs and also shooting rubber bullets at close range, which in numerous past cases has proven deadly.

Police also deployed LRAD sound cannons once again in an attempt to disperse the protesters. Pittsburgh marks the first time that such weapons have been used against American citizens in public as before they were only used against insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bermas described the scene as like something out of a movie as police attempted to block off the whole park and catch every single protester and were prepared to use violence to do so, saying that they would run up to people and crack them on the head as hard as possible.

“Everyone was just sort of standing around spectating. No one was really having an adamant protest. It was just a bunch of college kids,” witness Ben Balik told The Pittsburgh Channel.

“Varun Viswanathan, a Pitt sophomore, said he saw a police officer hitting one individual, reports Pitt News.

“I think they completely use unnecessary force on us,” he said. “They have no right to do that.”

“Pitt senior Ken Egler called the police action “one of the crazier things” he’d seen during last night’s protests, especially since he didn’t see many demonstrators in Oakland.”

“I really think it’s ridiculous,” Egler said. “We should be allowed to protest. This is needed, and they’re just basically trying to scare us.”

It is important to emphasize that the obscene behavior of cops in Pittsburgh suggests that police in America will now follow any orders, no matter how barbaric. No one can plausibly deny that the majority of cops would willingly line up American citizens and blow their heads off if they were ordered to.

Police behavior at the G20 has been widely condemned as unwarranted and the violence metered out not to provide security but to provoke demonstrators.

“The deployment of police seems to be more geared toward suppressing lawful demonstrations than actually preventing crime,” Witold Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, told the Associated Press.

“Legal observers at the gathering saw police surrounding, chasing and arresting students who weren’t involved in the protest, said Paige Cram, spokeswoman for the National Lawyers Guild, a liberal legal-aid group. She called the show of force “an ominous spectacle,” adds the AP report, referring to a similar protest on Friday night.

“A video posted Friday on YouTube shows a group of Pitt students briefly trapped on the outdoor stairwell of a campus building, evidently exposed to gaseous pepper spray and unable to move because riot police were blocking the bottom and top of the stairs. The students had been standing on a second-floor balcony, observing the clash between police and protesters on the street below.”

As of Saturday morning, we were unable to trace the exact whereabouts of Infowars reporter Rob Dew after he was arrested last night.

“After a long night of calls to Allegheny County Jail and the Pennsylvania Corrections Department, they keep referring us to one another saying they have no information, but that “protesters” are treated differently,” writes Jason Bermas.

We can now report that Rob Dew has been released and the Infowars crew are attempting to catch their flights back to Austin.

SOURCE: InfoWars.com

This is just the beginning...

[manpe]

I watched some videos and it's apalling !

[3NIGM4]

Thx for letting us know.

[Ambrocious]

Please note that the mainstream media is barely scraping at all of this as if it was nothing. This is why I do not trust mainstream media.

[shought]

'No one can plausibly deny that the majority of cops would willingly line up American citizens and blow their heads off if they were ordered to.'

*cough* sure *cough*

You know what I heard? They're going to use nukes next...

C'mon man, you've got a few points, these people shouldn't've been 'attacked' and they do have the right to protest, but please don't exaggerate, ok?

It's not nothing, nor is it a 'big something', these things happen and it's not right, but it's not like they're commanded to attack civilians...

[dMog]

'No one can plausibly deny that the majority of cops would willingly line up American citizens and blow their heads off if they were ordered to.'

*cough* sure *cough*

You know what I heard? They're going to use nukes next...

C'mon man, you've got a few points, these people shouldn't've been 'attacked' and they do have the right to protest, but please don't exaggerate, ok?

It's not nothing, nor is it a 'big something', these things happen and it's not right, but it's not like they're commanded to attack civilians...

I agree with Shought...come on ...original poster...you say that you do not trust the mainstream media but how can you totally ignore or worse, actually believe as the gospel truth, the out and out lies your favorite news crew tries to pass off as "proof" of their agenda. Yes sometimes the police do go to far, this happens in in the course of the day to day running of the world not because their agenda is to kill "us" but because at the end of the day mo matter what you do there will always be a FEW bad apples in every organization no matter if it is a police force or a group of 90 year old ladies that have a knitting club. You think police in America are all bad, go to many of the other countries in the world and do what "your" news crew did.... The armies there and the police forces would have locked them up and thrown away the keys and that's only if they intended to let them live.

All i am saying is that if you think something is true you really need to look at the integrity of who is purporting it. Whether it be mainstream media that does eventually have some checks and balances or your news team that has time and time again reported out and out fabrications or very out of context reporting and basically makes it up to support the theory they have

[Lite]

Every "news" item has a certain amount of bias/ hype associated with it. When we all realise that the world will be a better place :P

I advise everyone to chill and accept things happen that we don't like.

[jtmulc]

That's right. The cops in this town are a nightmare. I tell you, these days it's like you can't block traffic and protest against.... whatever it was they were protesting against. What were they protesting? What do they hope to accomplish? No one knows. Call me weird, but I grew up in the cold war era. Getting 20 world leaders to talk to one another for a couple of days sounds like a good idea to me.

I live in Pittsburgh, actually IN the city limits, not out in the suburbs. I can see downtown ('dahntahn' in the local dialect) from my bedroom window. What did I do during the G20? I stayed the frak home. I knew security was going to be tight, added police were brought in to deal with protestors, and that the cops were going to have less of a sense of humor than airport security with all the bigwigs in town. I knew that with all the protesters brought in by the busload, even if I went out to watch, there'd be a good chance I'd be using my one phone call to have someone bail me out of jail. It doesn't take too much brains to see that if there are a bunch of cops and protesters over there, you should stay the frak away.

International summits and their accompanying band of nutjobs notwithstanding, Pittsburgh City cops are usually pretty decent folks who don't give people a hard time. The farther you get out into the suburbs, however, the more likely you're going to get harassed due to race, sexual orientation, appearance, or economic status and the residents like it that way.