Police Tear Down San Jose City Hall Occupation, 8 arrests

That sucks guys. Santa Clara Police are especially right-wing nut jobs and I raise my glass to you for dealing with them and standing up for your rights. Hopefully something will be organized in the coming days to help everyone out. Especially court solidarity!

NOTE: police are welcome to join the 99% when they stand up against tyranny and stop arresting other 99%ers

I personally participated in the Occupy San Jose POLITICAL rallies by standing on the sidewalk and holding my signs. I did not participate in the camping out. I can say without question that the protesters that I saw when I was there were polite, well-spoken, idealistic, self-disciplined, law-abiding and self-policing. When they would walk from THE PEOPLE's City Hall to the park or to San Jose State University, they would make sure that NO ONE EVEN CROSSED THE STREET ON A RED LIGHT! As you can see from the photographs posted of Occupy San Jose, the tents and surrounding areas were extremely clean, neat and organized. I saw NO ONE URINATING or in any way excreting bodily waste on any public property! I specifically overheard one of the guys talking to another protester say that he was going to a restaurant for meals and would use the restroom at the restaurant.

The reason that others (Vietnamese) were allowed to camp outside of City Hall is because our San Jose elected officials cater to the Vietnamese community to get their votes and because of the sheer sizes of their numbers in our city. In addition, they court the rich VIETNAMESE BUSINESS OWNERS for political campaign “contributions.” By allowing the Vietnamese to camp out on OUR city property, the police and the City set a precedent to allow POLITICAL demonstrators to remain overnight on city property.

Since the City could not scare away the ralliers, they have now set loose on the ralliers the bullies and hoodlums that masquerade as SOME of our police officers. The citizenry who is exercising its CONSTITUTIONAL right to free speech are being attacked because the demonstrators stand for the anti-cancerous capitalism that has destroyed the lives of MILLIONS OF OUR CITIZENS and of their families.

With credit dried up, the working class has realized that they are NOT EQUAL to the rich and that the belief they once held that they could afford to obtain what they needed for themselves and their families (a home, a car for transportation, food, clothing, education, health care, medications, etc.) was ONLY AN ILLUSION. With that illusion destroyed, hopelessness and despair has set in.

A people without hope, who have little to lose, will take whatever action they deem necessary to bring justice to society and to create fairness for themselves. As a social observer, I can say without question that this is a very dangerous social and political time. It need not have come to this if only OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR JUDICIARY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS, HAD NOT BEEN IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RICH, passing laws and interpreting those laws in a way that hurt the majority of the people of this great nation and that benefited their rich friends, cronies, families, and those who grease their palms with bribes - AKA "political campaign contributions."