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FIGHT BACK
"Excuse me," the cop asked, all of a sudden sounding polite. "Yes, I do," I repeated, pissed off that for a few minutes I had let him scare me into a steaming pile of silent complacency. I admit it, he had scared me when he asked me if I wanted to go to jail. In those days cops were scarry things, especially Prichard Cops. They were mostly tobacco-chewing good ole boys They wore those crumply and ill-fitting uniforms topped with the soft garrison Kit Carson caps like those assholes in those photos who are grinning during their Mississippi trials for hanging black kids. These were "troubled days" and they were the lilly white front line of falangist resistance, pulled in like all of the other cops in the area for Nixon's visit to Mobile.
From the moment our group had walked past Broad Steet heading for the International Trade Center we had been bird-dogged by an all-too-obvious surveilance. Cop cars and "undercover" government cars paced behind us, some of them backing up as we walked down the street. Helicopters hovered. The scene was surreal. When we reached Water Street we were ringed by police. The cop had asked to see my sign. I handed it to him, never expecting him to rip it up. So, when I composed myself, I told him that I was ready to go to jail, that I had merely been asserting my rights and that he had been wrong. Taken aback, he answered that he was just "following orders". "That's what Calley said," I told him, "you saw how they let him hang in the breeze," and he just walked away.
To his credit, local lawyer Graham Gibbons offered to file a civil rights action for us. I found out years later that while it was happening Clay Swanzy, Jack Edwards' press secretary had voiced concerns about what he saw as a clear violation of our rights. But it went away because we didn't do anything about it.
So, when you see this video of the lady who is arrested for having an anti-Bush sign or hear about the reporter and Scalia, or any of the other reminders of just how much we have come to tolerate all of the encroachments on our liberties, take a second to recompose yourself and fight back, dammit.
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