My part of Oakland is full of poor people. Theres at least one murder a week. Old creeps pimp out teenaged girls in broad daylight. You can buy crack or heroin 30 feet from my door, and two of my neighbors have been held up at gun point this summer. And the City of Oakland says they dont have the police to stop any of that. But a bunch of people protesting the fact that rich people got a bail out and everyone else got nothing? The city shuts them down tight. Bang. Done. Riot act. Do you ever get the feeling youve been cheated? I do. Every day.
The injustice of the reaction to the act of defiance is proof that defiance was needed in the first place...