Occupy Underground

and police have been proven to lie, so I'll wait until I have further information on this. I've even posted about cops proven to be lying about peaceful Occupiers here on DU. It's not democracy when this happens. I want my democracy back.

However, the big problem is here:

"allowed to continue walking through Charlotte while surrounded by police officers."

It's not Democracy if someone disallows your freedom of choice for a peaceful protest, and if democratic representatives do not listen, or provide an opportunity to hear 1st Amendment issues. PFC Manning is one of importance. Have any DNC speakers mentioned him at all? I will guess they have not and will not. The military-industrial complex and its continuous war budget is the elephant in the room but I'll mention it because they will not.

And they have definitely been surrounding the marchers. It is patronizing beyond measure to have cops constantly shifting to surround them, dominating, intimidating; it's as patronizing as those "child on a leash" products, and the child most certainly knows it is being robbed of its dignity. This is not democracy. This is a police state.

The experience of those within the convention center is entirely different from the experience of my people. There is something terribly wrong in this country, and it is present at both "conventions".