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...thought they were regular policemen," reported a Lebanese campus guard. "They wore the red berets of the Squad 16 riot police, which made me unsuspicious. I was astonished to see them about ten minutes later racing out in a jeep with the professors. They were pointing guns to the professors' heads. One of them yelled at me, 'If you talk we shall finish...
When thousands of demonstrators set out in Manila last week to march on Malacanang Palace, the office of President Corazon Aquino, the police took standard precautions. To contain the roisterous crowd, which chanted demands for immediate land reform, 500 riot policemen equipped with truncheons and metal shields lined up in eight-deep rows at the foot of the Mendiola Bridge, the main approach to the palace. Two water cannons and eight fire trucks pulled up as well, and a contingent of Philippine marines, on temporary security duty at Malacanang, deployed behind the police phalanx...
Simple justice. Is not turning an elegant film noir like The Maltese Falcon into a lurid color riot a travesty? Like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa...
...overwhelming, if one does not include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...
Furthermore, in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi and Thoreau we engaged in basically nonviolent protest. It is extremely sad that there were injuries among both the police and the students. From my vantage point as an arrestee, I was appalled by the large presence of state riot police and examples of unnecessary use of force by the police. Jay Allain