My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan (tags)
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”
TSA is an American word that means Gestapo in German. (tags)
The TSA and Homeland Security Police thugs are patrolling the Valley Metro Light rail trains during the All Star Games in Phoenix. When I got on the train this morning I felt like I was in Nazi Germany
Protest Against Scientology (tags)
"[T]hey do creepy things. I told them when I was in, 'You are creating your own enemies,' and I still say that to them. People are here because Scientology creates their own enemies." -- Tory Christman