(Dec. 19) 11 Occupy D.C. & Freedom Plaza kettled & arrested at White House for PROTESTING (9 of 16)
Channel: democcupy
Date: 20/12/2011

On December 19, 2011, 11 members of Occupy D.C. and Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. were arrested in front of the White House.  

They were was arrested for disobeying a lawful order, which was not to protest on the sidewalk immediately in front of the White House.  The protestors held a non-violent sit-in to express their outrage over President Obama's reneging on the promise he made to America to rectify, not worsen, the unconstitutional consolidation of power in the executive branch.  

Although those arrested were members of Occupy, the evening's protest was an independent autonomous action that did not go through the Occupy D.C. General-Asssembly/Action Committee.

Do not be mistaken. The eleven peaceably assembled individuals were arrested for protesting. Shameful. 

Obama has not yet signed the 2011-2012 National Defense Authorization Act. For information on the act, Glenn Greenwald has written an informative article here: http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/singleton/ 

Please call the White House (202-456-1111 , http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call#call), write a letter (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., 20500), sign a petition, or tell someone about the unconstitutional actions this cowboy congress, and our supposedly constitutional-law scholar of a president, have taken. 

The People have the right to protest; the legal technicality of on which side of the sidewalk one is "legally" able to protest is without basis. 

It is unclear whom such a regulation serves.   

It is a shame that we do not have a government so committed to regulating the immoral and unethical financial, banking, private higher education, agribusiness, and, among others, corporate sectors. 

Perhaps if the government had fulfilled its sworn obligation--duty--to serve the People and not the billionaires funneling millions of dollars to elected officials by way of campaign donations....


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