CC Liu, Amber Dorrian, PFC Sandoval, Allen Weiss (Wisdom Quarterly)
Unions join Occupy Wall Street demonstrators today. Will the dogs behave? (krittersthattwitter.com)
Should a Cat Strike Back? Just as in the animal plane, so in the human. Dogs tear at cats, aggressors at pacifists, fear against peace. Fear is a form of hate. So love and peace must be demolished, batons against flowers. There is an ancient Indian sentiment about how the peaceful, beautiful flower" people respond to forces dressed in black hoping to provoke "rioting" to justify cracking and instituting Marshall law:
Just as the sandalwood tree sprinkles Perfume on the very axe that lays it low So the good/wise person showers with Love even those who approach as foes.
"Poetic justice" is not justice. Police use these incidents to justify preemptive brutality. There are a great many back up troops to conduct mass attacks in an unending bouts of retaliation.
In the movie "Berkeley in the Sixties," many students talk about how police coralled them, blocking from leaving campus after a sit in/speech. A military helicopter was getting into position to tear gas them. It did as the riot police laughed, swung batons, and arrested anyone still standing. Business as usual.
Police train to corral peaceful demonstrators. Now they are "illegally" assembled. And it is time to round them up. It just happened in the arrest of 700 peaceful activists led onto then trapped on the Brooklyn bridge -- misguiding them into actions they can be arrested, shot, brutalized, or maced over. It is no accident, no crossed signals, no error. This is how they are drilled in from covert training manuals. The CIA has its own Anarchist's Cookbook. They want activists to break the law to counter it with draconian tactics, torture, brutality, and a militaristic mentality.
The US illegally invaded Buddhist countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) in covert wars. American college students stood up. Massacres of students by the police that provoke rather than pacify them is exactly what "peace" officers train and hope for.
One of the strongest drives for a musician is for their voice to be heard. Lyrics provide an undeniable platform to say whatever needs to be said, whether that's about a long lost love, recent heartache, or the current state of the world.
Alissa is so adamantly opposed to the annual Canadian seal slaughter that she lent herself -- and her voice -- to PETA for a new ad, insistently stating, "Bang your own head, not a seal's."
The Agonist (Alissa) speaks up for peta2 and compassion
It's time to put Canada's great shame -- the annual seal slaughter, during which hundreds of thousands of harp seals are clubbed and beaten to death -- in the spotlight. Every year at this time, sealers take to the ice to bludgeon migrating seals and their babies, all for the sake of selling fur pelts on the international market.
We don't understand why people would want to wear a dead animal (and contribute to the devastating environmental effects of fur production), and neither does Alissa.
Watch our exclusive video with Alissa -- a lifelong vegetarian -- to learn why she is so passionate (and compassionate) that she is willing to stick up for seals and why she will always take a stand against animal cruelty. Then take a stand by writing to the Canadian government!