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Direct Democracy Wins in Kent as Anti-war/May 4 Protesters Take to the Streets |
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by Bruce C. Lupfer
Email: bclupfer (nospam) netscape.net (unverified!)
Address: Kent State University-Kent/ Gaia's Warmth |
06 May 2002
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Anti-War rally MAY 4, 2002 Witness for Peace Report. No-Charge-Arrest Law enacted unconstitutionally by City of Kent. |
Direct Democracy Wins in Kent as Anti-war/May 4 Protesters Take to the Streets of Kent For Free Speech/ Assembly, and Direct Democracy.
In a test of freedom of citizenship, both political and human rights, verses police and Kent, Ohio Municipal government?s new ?arrest without charge? law; Anti-War marchers took to streets of Kent in a procession from front campus to downtown Kent from 6pm to 8:30pm. The Municipality of Kent denied an earlier request for a permit from KSU?s Anti-War Student group. Twenty thousand plus flyers for the KSU Anti-War Rally were distributed among activists at A20 in DC in the largest ever march for Palestine in US history. Social justice and human rights feelings and citizenship demanded more from the majority in attendance. Later all the assembly in street freedom merged with witnesses for peace monitors.
Chants and solidarity rang from issues of May 4 slayings, Free Palestine, genocide in Palestine, ending the war in Afghanistan, and ending all war. In America?s, your face, and ours were ?agents of crowd control and arrest? in helmets, tear gas masks, guns, pr24?s, and multitudes of plastic cuffs in block unit. ?We have banners, you have Guns. Who?s the Violent Ones? rang from the direct democracy citizenry on Kent?s plaza.
All on the streets thought we were in for a violent mass arrest. A lot of bullhorn and group-psi logic helped save the day from violence and marred democracy.
There was one problem, police and all knew Kent?s new law was unconstitutional and the anti-war procession was in response to extreme genocide exposed in Jenin Massacre and elsewhere, daily, in Palestine.
Both humanity and the U.S. Constitutional were upheld for this short time in Kent Ohio today. Thoughts rang think among all on the issue of a 20-minute longer, all night, or multiple day protest response. The intersection was occupied with direct democracy for a short time by protesters and then occupied by police for an equally or more lengthy time. Direct Democracy won. Direct Democracy Won this time. Will the police continue to exercise ethics and constitutional duty in essence of true peace keeping and foundational law enforcement training and practice. Strained praises for Kent police, armed to the teeth, against infants to jr. high students, families, elders, direct democracy weekend workers, and students and activists that made the main body of the march. There were no arrests of yet, likely will not be, and shouldn?t be.
No test case yet. Hope there never will need to be. Hope for citizenship and constitutional oath to rein supreme in the hearts, minds, and actions of Kent police, Ohio state Troopers, and supporting nearby community police personnel.
Cut corruption against the constitution at it?s first line of exercise, in the freedom, sense of democracy, commitment to the US Constitution, and outrage at crimes against humanity among our shared citizens as electorate, media, and public employees. Here the police assigned to this event today.
It went well enough. To the bristling of those planning violence in the name of an unconstitutional law and suppression of citizen awakenings actions of genocide among our global citizens, we exchange our common win for direct democracy for less bristling next direct democracy action.
For The Officers Of The Day.
Everything you wear, your badge, your self-defense weapons, your cars are a representation of the people as direct democracy now, future, and in our revolution of independence from tyranny.
You are us, the direct democracy electorate. You are other electorate stopped for a breath of human dignity at genocide and government corruption. You are the Arab-American US citizens and UDHR global Arab citizens and their profiled look-alikes that were kidnapped by our federal government. You are all public employees and servants? oath to the US Constitution and protection of/by the UDHR. You are the US Constitution. You are the UDHR. ?And so are we, your power; your people.
We have, as public servants, a duty to serve all the electorate, our conscious in the US Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, accords for law enforcement officers that have become international law from the UDHR, and our collective humanity in allowing political expressions unplanned or repressed that cry from the collective heart and soul of humanity. We know some you have seen the 50 photos from Storm Bear Williams of the Jenin victims on Cleveland IMC.
You were citizens of democracy and peace officers today. Thank you for a non-violent event. We ask for a less posturing and psychologically less rarified next direct democracy action. Visually every electorate direct democracy could go as peacefully attention awakening, as social justice and human rights affinity demands in the spirit of inalienable rights.
Peace, really.
Peace
Bruce C. Lupfer
KSU senior, past 10 year plus public servant, ex-law enforcement officer (USNPS/USCustoms), independent media writer.
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