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Seattle City Council backs Occupy Seattle

Occupy Seattle: Octogenarian activist Dorli Rainey on being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, importance of activism

Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to [b]“take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy to say, ‘Well I’m going to retire, I’m going to sit around, watch television or eat bonbons,’ but somebody’s got to keep ’em awake and let ’em know what is really going on in this world.”

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Rich Lang, the clergyman who was pepper sprayed:
 
The police were once conceived to be a citizen force created to serve and protect the public. Today however, the police have been militarized and view the populace as enemy combatants, as threats to their well being. The police, like our Armed Forces, are well trained, disciplined and exceptionally talented. They follow a chain of command and are increasingly apprenticed into a culture of institutional conformity. Because America has always affirmed the right of dissent, the role of the police is to keep the peace. They are trained to enter the protesting arena as unfeeling protectors of property and people. What has changed in our time is that the police are entering the arena of protest as agents of provocation. They push and shove at will, they ride their bicycles up the backs of protesters, they engage in verbal abuse. Their commanders allow this breach of discipline. Their comrades silently condone the bullying. The police become the agitators encouraging violence. It is as if they are spoiling for a fight — a fight mind you against the citizenry, against the youth, the unemployed, and those who are trying to return America back to its promise, and dare I say it, return America to its covenant with God, “we hold these truths to be self evident …”

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Pepper-sprayed woman gets mayor’s apology

Seattle mayor apologizes to peaceful protesters who were pepper sprayed

Chicago Tribune - ‎8 hours ago‎

Given that the police blocked our passage and then used pepper spray indiscriminately suggests that it is not Occupy Seattle that is unwilling to work with the city, but rather that SPD is not willing to work with Occupy Seattle. …

 

Senate stirs pot with TSA groping bill, sanctuary cities
By Mike Ward / AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 11:02 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Protesters led by radio host Alex Jones, center, gathered outside the doors to the Senate gallery Wednesday, upset that the upper chamber sunk a bill that would have prohibited ‘intrusive touching’ by airport screeners. Bill sponsor Sen. Dan Patrick is upset, too.
Larry Kolvoord / AMERICAN-STATESMAN
www.statesman.com/news/texas-pol … 98725.html

“Protestors try to storm senate” – Texas vs TSA

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Boisterous protest over airport-groping bill
By Mike Ward | Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 03:16 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/05/25/protestors_try_to_storm_senate.html

Protesters at the Capitol
KXAN.com – ‎5 hours ago‎
Crowds spoke out loudly in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill in the Texas Capitol Wednesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esW0mCkChxQ

Alex Jones Storms The Capitol
Texas Tribune – ‎6 hours ago‎
May 25, 2011 Talk show host Alex Jones gathered a group to protest the Texas Senates so-called TSA “groping” bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42kDecHQjdo

KXAN: Protesters loud at Texas Capitol – 6 pm News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EE4WJ6vk4c

KXAN.com – Web Extra: Protesters at Texas Capitol, May 25, 2011
A crowd of people yell “criminals” inside the Capitol in protest of the failure of the anti-groping bill which is about TSA body checks at airports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdETlZDDvEE

Texas Legislature, Federal Government Clash Over Airport Pat-Down Bill
NPR (blog) - Eyder Peralta – ‎7 hours ago‎
A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down check on an airline passenger at a security checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. A Transportation Security Administration agent performs a pat-down …
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 … -down-bill

9/11 Truther, Radio Host Leads Mob to Capitol
Houston Chronicle (blog) – Gary Scharrer – ‎7 hours ago‎
Alex Jones — a man best known for claiming the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks were an inside job and hosting Charlie Sheen’s phone-in program of choice — led a group of about 100 people, initially, to the wrong chamber as they protested the failure of … http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/201 … o-capitol/

The TSA war appears over and Dan Patrick lost
Houston Chronicle (blog) – ‎7 hours ago‎
The headlines out on the Internet about the death of Houston Sen. Dan Patrick’s anti-groping TSA bill sound so dramatic: Yesterday, Patrick accused Dewhurst of undermining his anti-pat down bill on the Senate floor. Today, he took his complaints a step …
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05 … rick-lost/

Anti-TSA protesters storm through Capitol halls
Dallas Morning News (blog) – Kelley Shannon – ‎8 hours ago‎
Protesters shouting “cowards, cowards” and “treason, treason” marched through the Capitol halls on Wednesday protesting the reluctance of the Senate to take up a bill banning routine invasive pat-downs by the Transportation Security Administration. …
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/ … -thro.html

TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If ‘Groping Bill’ Passed
Forbes (blog) – Kashmir Hill – ‎14 hours ago‎

Upset about invasive screening techniques at the airport, the Lone Star State was considering a bill that would make a TSA patdown that involves touching “the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person including through …
http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/201 … ll-passed/

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New “Laser” Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail

Guards at the Los Angeles County jail complex in Castaic will start using a newfangled weapon that produces a deep burning sensation — which is not to be confused with a “warm fuzzy feeling” — in whomever it is aimed at.

The 7 1/2-foot-tall “Assault Intervention Device,” which sheriff’s deputies demonstrated Friday at the Pitchess Detention Center, emits an invisible beam that causes an unbearable sensation, reported the Daily News.

The device will be mounted near the ceiling in a unit housing about 65 inmates, sheriff’s Cmdr. Bob Osborne of the sheriff’ Technology Exploration Program told the newspaper.

“We hope that this type of technology will either cause an inmate to stop an assault or lessen the severity of an assault by them being distracted by the pain as a result of the beam,” said Osborne. “So that we have fewer injuries, fewer assaults, those kinds of things.”

Deputies have tested the device on themselves and say the invisible beam is painful — especially when it’s not expected.

“I equate it to opening an oven door and feeling that blast of hot air, except instead of being all over me, it’s more focused,” said Osborne.

The pain stops when you move out of the beam’s path, which people do instinctively.

The device, developed by Raytheon, is controlled by a joystick and computer monitor and emits a beam about the size of a CD up to distances of about 100 feet.

The energy traveling at the speed of light penetrates the skin up to 1/64 of an inch deep. No one can stand being in the beam’s path for more than about three seconds, Mike Booen of Raytheon told the Daily News.

The device is being evaluated for a period of six months by the National Institute of Justice for use in jails nationwide.

Sheriff’s deputies are getting to try it out for free.

About 3,700 inmates are housed at Pitchess, where 257 inmate-on-inmate assaults occurred in the first half of the year.

Do you think this is a controversial weapon with the potential for major misuse and abuse, or is it just another way to restore order in our prisons? Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @NBCLA or add your comment to our Facebook page.

SOURCE: New “Laser” Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail | NBC Los Angeles.

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