Forum Post: Reflections on the Occupations of Boston, Seattle, Dallas, and elsewhere

After the events of last night, including the crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Boston and similar threats on other cities, it has become very clear that police departments throughout the United States are carrying out a coordinated nationwide assault on Occupy demonstrators. Police raids, the infliction of violence on peaceful protesters, the destruction of personal property, the banning of peaceable assembly, and mass arrests have ranged from Boston, to Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Dallas in recent days. We should be thanking the police for letting us know how effective we are. This simply proves definitively that the confluence of corporate and state power that rules the United States is terrified of what we have already accomplished. The State is exerting the brute force of its hired mercenaries, the police, to squash our peaceful dissent because they have correctly perceived the Occupation as a threat to their stranglehold on political and economic power. The whole world is watching, and I have no doubt that this will only galvanize our movement even further.