Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local teenagers’ Twitter feeds, law enforcement had learned that a group of high school students was planning to march on the Mondawmin Mall. In response, the BPD did what any self-respecting police department in post-9/11 America would do: it declared war on the protesters.He continues on to describe how they responded to the anticipated protests, and then provides a general strategy that ruling class authorities use "to police a protest movement in the new age of domestic counterinsurgency". Yes, it appears we will soon arrive at a globalized world in which domestic dissidents will be treated like foreign populations who are under occupation by the armies of the Empire.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The Wars Come Home: A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
Click here to access article by Michael Gould-Wartofsky from Huffington Post.