Mass Media = False Media
an individual’s personal account about the Occupy LA arrests that happened a few days ago.
i will be honest and say that i haven’t exactly identified myself with the Occupy movement… let alone be physically part of it.. but from what I know with everything else that is going on (i.e. passing of the National Defense Authorization Act), it’s reaching a point where it doesn’t matter what the causes are anymore, but rather, retaining our rights as American citizens on American soil… to be able to say and do what we believe needs to be said and done, to be able to express our opinions on what we believe to be true.
original article here: http://culvercitycrossroads.com/2011/12/05/dear-editor-lapd-arrests-the-truth-at-occupy-la/
You think you know what really happened by watching the local news? Read on.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”