Good morning!

“Just noticing…”

I was flipping through a fashion magazine the other day and I just noticed a question posed by a well know clothing designer, Kenneth Cole.

“Should it be a woman’s right to choose if she’s the one carrying it?”

Okay…so it’s obvious we’re talking about a woman’s right to choose having or aborting her baby, since she is the one carrying it. What irked me is that that question, in my opinion, should not even be addressed…it shouldn’t be asked in the first place.

I feel that the question posed is telling us that there are people who don’t think that women have the right to choose, just because she is the one carrying it. Yes, I know people feel this way.  But my point is, they shouldn’t. No one should have the right to tell me what to do with my body.

If you want to address something to bring about conversation over women and their choices, that doesn’t lead the reader that he/she has control over someone else,  it should have been a question  like this:

“The woman is carrying it, what choice would you make?”

This leaves the decision “open”:  The woman has the right to choose “to have a baby” or to “choose to abort it”. The decision is left up to her – Whatever is best for that women – it is her body.

Why is is that when it comes to a woman’s rights over her body, there has to be a question. I know many “pro-lifers” do not agree with me, but to me the answer to the posed question is an obvious “Yes, of course!”, and shouldn’t be addressed in the first place. It is a choice that every woman should have the right to make herself.

I decided to go to the website connected to the ad: Wheredoyoustand.com just to see what it was all about.  I liked the website. It poses some other questions, some with relation to sex, wearing condoms: Do young people today believe that safe sex can be good sex?  Okay that is a good decent question. It’s open ended. It doesn’t take away anyone’s rights. It’s not asking, “Should it be a young person’s choice to practice safe sex?” Now that would question their freedom of choice to wear a condom or not. We all know that practicing safe sex requires wearing a condom, but we don’t demand by law that people do. No…men would never go for that.

So..why does Cole ask the question: “Should it be a woman’s right to choose if she’s the one carrying it?” He shouldn’t be asking it.

As much as I like Kenneth Cole, and the topics that he supports, the questions that he poses,  on his Wheredoyoustand.com website, the question that he posed and posted in a popular fashion magazine, tells me that he does not promote a woman’s right to choose, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked it. The fact that he did pisses me off. It is this subliminal advertising that tells people it is still okay that we discuss whether a woman has the right to chose what happens to her body. It isn’t.

Cole: If you really want to be in support of women, ask the right questions.

“When are women going to give a final ‘no’ to men controlling and trying to control the rights over women’s bodies?” When will men stop trying to control women’s bodies and let women make their own choices?”

Now those are questions that needs to be asked.

Thoughts? – Blog me.

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Bagram: My pleasure. I love featuring courageous women such as Elmahdy. 

Fiyal: I hear you. Unfortunately the situation for women in Egypt is no different than many of the other muslim countries. The men want the women to support them when they give little to no support to the women in support of their needs and well-being. In Iran Madaline encouraged the women to only assist the men if they, the men, would fight for women’s rights. Why bother helping the men in their wars, only for the women to get nothing in return, and possibly end up with less rights and/or in a worse situation?

Henry: You’re welcome. A big thanks goes to Lois for enlightening us.  You sound like a reasonable republican, especially since you came to the conclusion that you will never be the 1% and that Romney will be supporting the 1% at your expense. I wish more republicans would wake up to that fact. My request is that you use your smarts and realize that should Romney be the republican pick, staying at home and not showing up at the polls will be an automatic vote for the republican candidate. If you are waking up to the republican rhetoric and lies, please don’t give them back the keys by default. Vote for the country. Vote for Obama. 

Ghayda: That statement is so true. I feel the same way. Sisters around the world are uniting. It is easier for us to communicate, create, and collaborate now more than ever. Now is our time.  

Falak: Thank you, but I wish that I could do more. There are so many who do. And all it takes is one to inspire us. Elmahdy seems to hold that position. Her photo has gone viral – I HOPE her courage does the same same.

Juan: I hear you as well. I found this article interesting. The natives have their work cut out for them. Don’t give up. Hafa Adai.

Luke: This is true but getting into a conversation/debate with Fox viewers is exhausting because they believe such rhetoric and lies. Perhaps now that this news is out, Fox viewers will question what they hear, do some research and tune into something else. I know…a tall order, but one can HOPE.

Dehab: The women who are saying this are frightened no doubt – and those words of complaint are the words of their men, not theirs. What Elmahdy did is unacceptable in the eyes of the men, and by doing it anyway, she put her life on the line. – that is not freedom. Women should never have to fear being killed because they want to express themselves, in any way. The way women are going to get their freedom is when more women such as Elmahdy, stop begging for scraps and just take it.

MK: Thanks for the heads up. I am not familiar with Ailes.

Tom: I do and many others do too. And I will continue to “lash out” and expose the truth. Be responsible and do your homework. See SC’s comment right below yours, and then to go the left hand column of my blog and click on FactCheck.

Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

Social Butterfly: Thank you for sparking my interest in Aliaa Maghda Elmahdy, and her blog “A Rebel’s Diary“!  I love and applaud Elmahdy’s boldness…her courageous stance in the face of being an Egyptian woman, and living in Egypt, a place of horrific extremism where women have no rights…where their men treat them as sexual objects, breeding machines…Elmahdy’s story is so inspiring, I could not help but post her today under the title heading. This gutsy girl certainly deserves it.

Here’s a write from an interview that Elmahdy did with CNN. Note: CNN didn’t post her fully naked picture but I decided to include it. I am sure those that oppose are going to be pissy that I’m not only featuring her today as a Wonderful Woman Of The World,  but that I am posting her beautiful naked body. Fuck ‘em. Freedom of speech..freedom of press….as long as I am able.

Egyptian blogger Aliaa Elmahdy: Why I posed naked

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) – Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has become a household name in the Middle East and sparked a global uproar after a friend posted a photo of her naked on Twitter.

The photo, which the 20-year-old former student first posted on herblog, shows her naked apart from a pair of thigh-high stockings and some red patent leather shoes.

It was later posted on Twitter with the hashtag#nudephotorevolutionary. The tweet was viewed over a million times, while Elmahdy’s followers jumped from a few hundred to more than 14,000.

Her actions have received global media coverage and provoked outrage in Egypt, a conservative Muslim country where most women wear the veil. Many liberals fear that Elmahdy’s actions will hurt their prospects in the parliamentary election next week.

Elmahdy describes herself as an atheist. She has been living for the past five months with her boyfriend, bloggerKareem Amer, who, in 2006 was sentenced to four years in a maximum security prison for criticizing Islam and defaming former president Hosni Mubarak.

Here she talks exclusively to CNN in Cairo about why she posed nude.

CNN: Why did you post a photo of yourself nude photo on Twitter, and why the red high heels and black stockings?

Elmahdy: After my photo was removed from Facebook, a male friend of mine asked me if he may post it on Twitter. I accepted because I am not shy of being a woman in a society where women are nothing but sex objects harassed on a daily basis by men who know nothing about sex or the importance of a woman.

The photo is an expression of my being and I see the human body as the best artistic representation of that. I took the photo myself using a timer on my personal camera. The powerful colors black and red inspire me.

CNN: Who is Aliaa Elmahdy inside the body portrayed in the nude photo?

Elmahdy: I like being different. I love life, art, photography and expressing my thoughts through writing more than anything. That is why I studied media and hope to take it further to the TV world too so I can expose the truth behind the lies we endure everyday in this world. I don’t believe that we must have children only through marriage. It’s all about love.

CNN: How have your Egyptian Muslim parents reacted? How do they feel about you living with your boyfriend unmarried?

Elmahdy: I last spoke to them 24 days back. They want to support me and get closer, especially after the photo was released, but they accuse Kareem of manipulating me. He has been my support system and has passed along their text messages to me. I dropped out of AUC (The American University in Cairo where she was a media student) months back after (my parents) attempted to control my life by threatening not to pay the fees.

CNN: The press has labeled you a revolutionary but you were not in Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the revolution in February this year. Is there a political element to you posing nude?

Elmahdy: I was never into politics. I first joined the protests on May 27th because I felt the need to participate and decided I might be able to change the future of Egypt and refused to remain silent. I made it clear that I was not part of April 6th Movement (an Egyptian political group that came to prominence during the revolution) after the rumors were spread by remnants of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party who wanted to capitalize on the reaction to the photo.

What shocked me is April 6th’s statement clarifying that Aliaa Magda Elmahdy is not part of their organization and how they don’t accept “atheism.” Where is the democracy and liberalism they preach to the world? They only feed what the public wants to hear for their political ambitions.

CNN: What do you think about the forced virginity testsperformed by the Egyptian military on more than a dozen girls arrested in Tahrir Square?

Elmahdy: I consider this rape. Those men in the military who conducted these tests should be punished for allowing this to happen without the consent of the girls in the first place. Instead, the girls walk around feeling the shame and most of them are forced to remain silent.

CNN: Do you practice safe sex in your sexual revolution?

Elmahdy: Most Egyptians are secretive about sex because they are brought up thinking sex is something bad and dirty and there is no mention of it in schools. Sex to the majority is simply a man using a woman with no communication between them and children are just part of an equation. To me, sex is an expression of respect, a passion for love that culminates into sex to please both sides.

I do practice safe sex but I don’t take pills because I am against abortion. I enjoyed losing my virginity at the age of 18 with a man I loved who was 40 years older than me. Kareem Amer is the second man and the love of my life. The saying suits us: “Birds of the same feather flock together”

CNN: How do you see women in the “New Egypt” and will you leave the country if the ongoing revolution fails?

Elmahdy: I am not positive at all unless a social revolution erupts. Women under Islam will always be objects to use at home. The (sexism) against women in Egypt is unreal, but I am not going anywhere and will battle it ’til the end. Many women wear the veil just to escape the harassment and be able to walk the streets. I hate how society labels gays and lesbians as abnormal people. Different is not abnormal!

CNN: What are your future plans with Kareem and will you find it hard to deal with your new notoriety?

Elmahdy: I have discovered who my real friends are, and I have Kareem who loves me passionately. He works as a media monitor and I am currently looking for a job. I embrace the simple things in life and I am a vegetarian … I am a believer of every word I say and I am willing to live in danger under the many threats I receive in order to obtain the real freedom all Egyptian are fighting and dying for daily.

From Elmahdy’s blog with the caption that /SB posted:

…Elmahdy repeats her initial nude pose, this time covering her genitals, eyes and mouth with a yellow bar. “The yellow rectangles on my eyes, mouth and sex organ resemble the censoring of our knowledge, expression and sexuality,” she wrote.

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Readers: This girl Elmahdy is not just bold and gutsy but she’s got a brain too. I think she is just so intelligent. I am proud to be able to tout her in all of her glory. She is an inspiration to me and no doubt to so many more. I HOPE this is just the beginning of the greatness that we will surely see from her.

Thank you again Social Butterfly!  And thank you for sharing how you were able to access my blog once you had trouble seeing it. It seems that was helpful to Dehlia. I HOPE it is helpful for others as well.

Lois: Your guess is as good as mine. Who knows! People are stupid or think that they’re going to be a part of that 1% some day. Romney is telling it like it is, blatantly, and some people will still vote for him. Inane isn’t it?

ZL, Christine, and all those that wanted to but couldn’t wish a wonderful Thanksgiving, thank you.

Howie: I like your words. In these times it can be challenging to see the glass half full, so thanks for the reminder…and the kudos.

Doug: Interesting comparison. It can be those same people who take more time planning their vacation, than planning their retirement. We need to do more than HOPE for our future; we need to be, in the words of Ellie Drake of BraveHeart Women,  ”inspiration in action”. Just love that.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Doug: I just noticed that you beat me to it.  We are running the same thoughts this morning. What you posted this morning was going to be my topic for today. And considering it is such an important topic, it is very much well worth me reposting. Enough can not be said about women that are subjected to this kind of abuse.

Readers: So I was just informed that there is an update to this story. If you haven’t already read what Doug posted, please make sure that you click over to the article first, and then read this:

Jailed Afghan rape victim has sentence reduced, remains in jail

(If video doesn’t work, click here to watch)

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) – Afghan prosecutors announced Wednesday that a young rape victim, jailed for adultery after reporting the crime and pushed into marrying her attacker, would have her sentence reduced from twelve to three years. The prosecutor said she would, for now, remain in jail — with her child — for not reporting her attack fast enough.

In a remarkable case that is all too common in Afghanistan but has drawn international attention, 21-year-old Gulnaz was attacked by a relative two years ago, but sentenced to 12 years in jail for adultery.

She has since given birth to a girl from the attack. Because of the dishonor of sex outside of wedlock, she had been given the choice of marrying her attacker to get out of jail and legitimize her infant daughter in the eyes of Afghanistan’s conservative society.

The child is imprisoned with her at Badambagh Prison on the outskirts of Kabul.

Gulnaz says she at first tried to hide the attack against her because she could be killed for bringing shame on her community. Only her pregnancy exposed the attack and began criminal investigations that led to her conviction for adultery.

On Wednesday a spokesman for the Afghan attorney general said her sentence had been reduced by another court hearing to three years and that the main remaining charge against her was not reporting her attack early enough. A lawyer for Gulnaz, Kim Motley, said her client was only on Tuesday made aware of the reduced sentence and there had been no official notification of it.

The attorney general spokesman, Rahmatullah Nazari, said their investigation had concluded there was no rape, but instead sex outside of wedlock, resulting in both the male attacker and Gulnaz being convicted of adultery.

“Gulnaz claims that she has been raped. But because she reported the crime four months later, we couldn’t find any evidence [of an attack],” Nazari said. “She was convicted for not reporting a crime on time.”

Gulnaz’s attacker denied having sex with her. He told CNN he was serving jail time because he had been accused of rape. His conviction records show he is in jail for “zina”, a Dari word that directly translates as “adultery.” Human rights workers note that rape cases are often handled as adultery in Afghanistan’s court system.

The spokesman for the prosecutor added, however, that Gulnaz might soon receive a presidential pardon.

“There is a strong possibility that she would be pardoned under a presidential decree in the upcoming important dates like Prophet’s birthday or Afghan new year,” said Nazari.

Nazari said the Afghan prosecutor’s investigation had concluded that Gulnaz and her attacker had had consensual sex several times. Months later, when it emerged she was pregnant he said, their families met to try and settle the issue through a financial payment. When those discussions broke down, Nazari said, the accusation of rape was made.

The courts ultimately found both parties guilty of adultery, Gulnaz receiving two years, and her attacker seven. A later court ruling then increased her sentence to twelve years. A third court hearing, which happened in the past month but about which Gulnaz heard little until Tuesday, decided that she should serve a total of three years — not for adultery but instead for failing to report a crime quickly enough.

Throughout her interview with CNN, Gulnaz was emotional but consistent and clear in telling her story of a single incident of rape by one attacker, the husband of her cousin, when her mother left her alone to make a hospital visit.

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Readers: You read the story. I don’t need to go into the details. All I can say is that EVERYTHING about this story is sickening. I wish that I could say that this is an isolated circumstance, but it is not. Hundreds of women, and probably more, are faced with this illogical, insane male reasoning when it comes to a woman being raped.

And with respect to the EU afraid that his might bring more harm to women. More harm? – please…these women endure the worst that can happen – they are in fear of being brutally killed by their families “out of shame” . What could be worse? No…the best thing that can happen for these women is for everyone to find out. This type of atrocious abuse needs to be stopped, and the only way to do that is for it to be widely known that this is actually happening to women…many women, around the world.

Mr Ambassador: If you are truly that concerned about the situation of the women, then you’ll do what it takes to have it be in the public eye as often as possible. Not showing the film doesn’t take away the fact that it is happening. Screw your political relations. This is about humanity and the well-being of women.

So…the update: Gulnaz’s sentence got reduced from 12 years in jail to 3. Not good enough. She should never be in prison in the first place. But hey she deserves to be in prison right? She didn’t report her attacker fast enough. Hmm..Let’s see, what choice did she have?  Risk being killed by her family ”out of shame”, or face a jail sentence? What would you do when faced with the worse of two evils?

And don’t you just love the way countries like this say they are they way they are because they are a “conservative society”. What a bunch of BS. Just tell it like it really is: “We are like this so that we can control and abuse our women any way we see fit.”.  That’s the sickening truth.

I could go on and on and on…Your turn – the blog is now open ( I HOPE) Blog me. 

Peace and Love….

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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good morning. 

John: I could not help but answer your comment, even though you weren’t asking a thing. So, thanks for the inspiration for my write this morning. First of all, I am not lost because I am not a mormon – I bet you’re one who wishes all women were lost and sought the mormon life style. This girl is not one of them.

So…this one’s for you John and all you others out there who feel people are lost because they are not mormons:

The True Origins of Mormonism Part 1 (The Book of Mormon)

Oh..and secondly John,  Mitt Romney will not be the next president.

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Lenny, Sally, and all the newbies of my blog just joining me: My blog has issues. And those issues are that the powers that be don’t like what this blog has to say, nor the reach that this blog has. So…you might have trouble posting…you might get notices that say, “You’ve said that already” and yet, you don’t see your post.

Along with having a difficult time posting, my blog may not show up at all sometimes – like I don’t exist. I do. I posted this information last week, but will continue to post it periodically to keep those that have just started reading my blog informed.

Google is blocking my blog…whether they know it or not.

There are hidden instructions to block access to “blog.michellemoquin.com.”

The blocking is designed to frustrate the potential reader. It doesn’t happen all the time but enough to discourage most looking to check out or continue to tune into my blog.

Believe me, it has been frustrating as well for me. It has been hell for me sometimes to find my blog, and be able to access it so that I can write. I am continually bugging my server about it so that it can be rectified as quickly as possible. No one seemed to have an answer.

Yesterday I got this from a loyal reader. (Much gratitude – you know who you are) He/she showed me what was hidden in the search instructions when one attempts to find my blog through google.

So…as you can see, below is the e-mail, that I received, informing me that Google is blocking my blog. Don’t ask me how I found out. Don’t ask me who gave me this information. I got it and that’s all that matters.

It is nothing that anyone sees when they Google my name or my blog, but it is there. This is the hidden message that is directing Google and others to block access to my blog.

I highlighted the important part in RED – Notice it says, “Block all blog.michellemoquin.com results.” If you google blog.michellemoquin.com you don’t see the hidden message, but it is there.

Subject: hidden implanted instructions on google

Readers: The only way I won’t be blogging is if I CHOOSE to shut my blog down. Other than that, I will be here. So please don’t give up.  I HOPE like Sally, you don’t get easily discouraged, because I am doing all that I can do and it might get worse at times. I promise though, your time here is worth it.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

If you love my blog and my writes, please make a donation via PayPal, credit card, or e-check, please click the “Donate” button below. (Please only donations from those readers within the United States. – International readers please see my “Donate” page)

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“Just noticing…”

…the thugs with badges are at it again…only this time they’re abusing their power, not with fire hoses or batons but with pepper spray. Yep…this video is shocking. Students are sitting on the ground, peacefully protesting during an Occupy Movement at U.C. Davis, and along comes a thug on a power trip, stands above the students, and begins to spray them!

What you are going to see is just sickening:

UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute

WASHINGTON — On Friday, a group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest victims of alleged police brutality to be captured on video. The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing it off for the crowd before dousing the seated students in a heavy, thick mist.

This incident recalls the earlier infamous pepper spraying by a New York Police Department official of several women who were seated and penned in. The UC Davis images are further proof that police continue to resort to brutal tactics when confronting Occupy activists. One woman was transported to a hospital to be treated for chemical burns.

“The UC Davis students were peacefully protesting on the quad,” wrote one student who took videos in an email to The Huffington Post. The filmmaker, a senior, asked that his name not be used for fear of retribution by campus authorities. “The cop gave them 3 minutes to disperse before he said they would come and disturb the protest. The main objective for them was removing the tents. … The students did have a right to be on campus, they were assembling peacefully and the campus was open at the time.”

In a longer version of the video, the students are shown seated across a stretch of walkway surrounded by more than a dozen UC Davis cops, dressed in riot gear and clutching batons. Many other students are standing along the sides of the scene, watching and protesting as the standoff unfolded. Some students shouted “Thugs on campus!” and “From Davis to Greece, fuck the police!” Those chants were tamped down quickly by others, who warned all to “Keep it peaceful” and “Keep it nonviolent.”

So the students started up a new chant that would prove prophetic: “You use weapons! We use our voice!”

At one point, one of the riot cops ambles over to the seated line and asks one of the students a question. The student replies, “We’re sitting here.”

The police officer then returns to his position with the other officers. He also turns his back on the seated students, as does at least one other officer. They show no fear that the students might turn violent or threatening. The first cop talks on his radio for a while.

After a few “mic checks” and few more chants, a cop goes back to the seated students. The student asks, “You’re gonna shoot me for sitting here? You’re shooting us for sitting here?”

Roughly a minute later, the officer can be seen shaking the pepper spray canister as the gathered students start shouting, “Don’t shoot your children!”

As the officer began spraying the group of students, onlookers screamed, “Don’t do it! Don’t you do it!”

A news account captured the officer on camera spraying the students. The account names the officer as UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike. He did not return a voice mail message nor an email left Friday night. His voice-mail box eventually filled up to capacity as his name and phone number were posted on Twitter.

The UC Davis Police Department did not return calls from The Huffington Post seeking comment.

The UC Davis chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, released a statement Friday. It states, “We deeply regret that many of the protestors today chose not to work with our campus staff and police to remove the encampment as requested. We are even more saddened by the events that subsequently transpired to facilitate their removal.”

Nathan Brown, an assistant English professor at the university, released an open letter to the chancellor, calling for her resignation. He wrote, “You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt.”

The student filmmaker, who says he is not part of Occupy Davis, told HuffPost, “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t think such a thing would ever happen on campus over a tent being on campus. It’s embarrassing on the part of the police to take such actions.”

Another video shows officers body-slamming a student in what appears to be a confrontation earlier in the day. Ten students were arrested Friday on campus.

After the pepper spraying, the crowd of students began marching down the quad. The UC Davis cops? They’re pushed back down the walkway and finally leave. The students start an old cheer that rang true again, “Whose quad? Our quad!”

UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza defended her officers’ actions to KCRA. She argued that it just wasn’t safe for students to camp on the quad. “It’s not safe for multiple reasons,” Spicuzza said.

In a report by the CBS Sacramento station Friday night, Spicuzza said the officers’ own safety was also a concern. “If you look at the video, you are going to see that there were 200 people in that quad,” she said. “Hindsight is 20-20, and based on the situation we were sitting in, ultimately that was the decision that was made.” Spicuzza also said authorities were reviewing the videos.

UPDATE: Nov. 19, 11:55 a.m. — Claudia Morain, a UC Davis spokesperson, told The Huffington Post that there were 35 police officers on the scene, 50 occupiers and 200 bystanders.

She said that UC Davis officials had warned the occupiers that they could not set up a tent city. They were given notice that they had to clear out their tents by 3 p.m. on Friday. Some complied. Others did not.

“I can’t speak for the thought process for the officer,” Morain noted about the use of pepper spray. She said that the officers were essentially trapped (the videos suggest otherwise) and had to transport several of the arrested students. “The pepper spray was used because they needed to get out of there,” she said, emphasizing that the students were repeatedly warned before the spray was deployed.

Morain admitted that she had not thoroughly studied the videos of the incident.

But she said, “We are just not going to allow a tent city. Just period. In these budget times, we shouldn’t use resources that should be going to our core academic mission going to a tent city.”

Nine students and one nonstudent were arrested. “The police tried to use the least force that they could,” Morain explained.

WATCH a 15-minute video of events immediately surrounding the pepper-spraying:

Readers: This video shows that the students were just sitting and speaking. Non violent behavior. At 6:24, the police decided that they wanted them to move, so they decided to pepper spray them to get them to move. And this was the least violent that they could be?

UPDATE: Nov. 19, 12:49 p.m. — In a statement, Bernie Goldsmith of the nearby Occupy Davis, a separate group from Occupy UC Davis, said:

At Occupy Davis, relations with the democratically elected city council and local police forces have been genial and productive. The authorities have worked continuously to harmonize the occupation’s presence with the park and surrounding businesses and ensure that all aspects of the encampment remain non-violent. Those in charge of using force are aware that they are democratically elected officials that are directly accountable to the people.Occupy UC Davis, a mere three blocks away, is under the jurisdiction of an undemocratic, appointed regime of force over which its subjects have no meaningful democratic control. The authorities there attacked non-violent protesters with indifference, and, in some cases, a clear display of sadistic pleasure.

There could be no better illustration of the differences between a democratic, accountable public safety effort and a fascist, totalitarian, unaccountable police state. The students of UC Davis have no meaningful voice, and that is reflected at the very top of the administration down to the officer on the ground who can spice up his day with a confident sense of utter, unassailable impunity.

UPDATE: Nov. 19, 9:17 p.m. — UC Davis student Thomas Fowler, who made perhaps the best-known video capturing the pepper-spray incident at UC Davis, answered several questions in an email exchange with HuffPost.

When the pepper spraying started, he said, “I was just completely appalled, I was just speechless. … I couldn’t fathom what reason they believed they had to spray the students. …[T]hey could have easily just stepped over them and left peacefully.”

Moreover, he said, “No tents were confiscated yesterday. The protesters were able to break them down and get them off the Quad before the police officers could do anything about it. Which makes their actions that much more confusing, seeing that the reason they were called to the campus was to have the tents removed.”

Fowler said the mood on the campus “has shifted drastically. A lot of the students who were on the fence or weren’t following the movement closely are getting very involved now. There [are] a lot of students calling for the Chancellor’s resignation in response to what had occurred yesterday.”

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Readers: I am sick to my stomach watching the police brutality go unchecked. Students being pepper sprayed as they sit. These students were doing nothing but sitting and peacefully protesting. And these thugs with badges are simply abusing their powers and authority. This is appalling. I ask myself how did the police get this kind of power to feel so at ease brutalizing the civilian population?

Of course it came from whites giving it to the police so they could beat the shit out of OTWs. We gave them that power many years ago. Hellooo…OTWs had to go through this for years…to “keep them in their place”. And did anybody but OTWs complain about it back then? There is no difference between this happening at U.C. Davis, and when blacks were sprayed with fire hoses strong enough to break their backs.

So here we are. Now it has come back to haunt the group that most benefited from bestowing all that power onto the police. Now it is their children being clubbed and peppered sprayed or their parents being drug or body slammed into the curb. And now people are complaining – now it’s on the front page news.

I don’t like seeing the abusive footage of cops of the past, and I don’t like seeing it today. So…what are we going to do about it? 

In my opinion, now we need to take back all those immunities to accountability we have given the police. We need seriously empowered watch dog agencies set up to check police conduct as they go about the people’s business of keeping order and preventing crimes.

It is the people’s business and they work for us. They do not or should not have autonomy to do as they damn well please. We need to empower those watch dog agencies with the power to bring charges for bad conduct and to seek  disciplinary, and criminal action if it warrants it agains the violators. These oversight boards need to be all-civilian manned and have the power to hire private investigators to investigate civilian complaints and to see into the folders of any police officer they wish to see.

They need the power to not only recommend a cop be fired but to have the justice department follow through on criminal litigation recommended by their investigative panel. We have to take back our streets from rogue cops, or risk as Robert said,  ”having our streets policed by thugs with badges’.

We need an “AA” – an “attitude adjustment” when it comes to police officers. That attitude should begin with: Police have to earn the respect we give them”.  A cop is not the “cities finest” unless they operate as the “cities finest”. And in my opinion, I have not even begun to see the “cities finest” with the actions I have witnessed by cops.

As I’ve said before, a cop is not a HERO just because he wears a badge and risks being shot or killed by the bad guys. That quite frankly is the job description of an application to be a cop.

So he is NOT hero because he is doing something that he gets paid very well to do.  Unlike our military if a cop doesn’t like the heat in the kitchen he can quit and take another job. His benefits and salary is the attraction that lure a cop to be a cop like any other occupation, we do what we have the skills to do to command the highest salary we can.

This is what the person feels he must do to command that salary. That does not make him/her a Hero, it makes him/her an employee of the city or state that hires him/her. That make them Public Servants. Why are they getting a pass to avoid the scrutiny that any other civil servant must endure? I say that day is over.

Thoughts? Comments? Blog me.

Emily:  Six year old Douglas is correct in my opinion.

Lacy: That is quite the story. I’m sorry for your loss. I don’t know how you can contact the spirits but this is the place to ask, as you never know who might be reading.

Christine76: I believe that if it weren’t for the fact that we are a cattle planet that feeds aliens, and that the TWO are located somewhere here, thankfully, aliens would care less about us humans. They see how we disrespect our planet, the animals, and not to mention our fellow human beings – why should they care about us when it’s obvious we have little care and concern for each other? But hey, there’s nothing wrong with HOPEing.

Anna of Guam: I am always still surprised when I see grocery stores still handing out plastic bags. I think even paper bags should be banned. There are so many reusable bags being sold that last forever, everyone should have one. Stores should just sell these and ban the bags (plastic and paper) . One place that I shop at has a bin where people can donate used bags. So if someone forgets to bring their own bag (BYOB), they can grab one from the bin.

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