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The Responsibility for the Arrests: The Cops

If the cops just let the demonstrators march south on Michigan Ave., there would have been no arrests. But they are, after all, cops; so what do you expect?
I marched with the demonstrators from Federal Plaza to Michigan Ave. where it turns into Lake Shore Drive...and when we arrived at the park just north of the Drake Hotel,at Oak St.. The cops formed a three-sided box around us, not allowing the demo to proceed further in any direction. The leaders of the demo seemed intent on heading south on Michigan Ave, down the Mag Mile; but this the cops would not allow. The demonstrators started chanting "Let Us March!", but the pigs would not relent. The cops continued to reinforce their forces to the south, west and north of the demonstrators. Some protestors headed north and crossed Michigan Ave just north of the Lake Shore Drive underpass at the head of Michigan...but then the cops reinforced until they blocked off that avenue of escape. We decided to head east along Oak, and passed through the pigs'daisy chain before they could sufficiently reinforce it. Then, when several thousand of us started to head south on the Inner [Lake Shore] Drive, the po-lice on horseback cut us off again at about Delaware. Me and my friends biled out along Walton...but as we approached Michigan, the cops started blocking the sidewalk on the north side of Walton. Then, as we approached Michigan Ave., the "defenders of our Constitutional Rights" started blocking the south sidewalk on Walton. We were among the last to squeak past the squealers... only to see the swine were starting to block off our escape by bringing up Cook County Sherriff's buses along the northbound lanes of Michigan Ave. I and my comrades ran out across Michigan just before the buses blocked this last escape route. It's my guess that, shortly afterward, the cops closed the trap around the protestors who are now being thrown into Mayor Richard Daley's dungeons. (He's a Democrat, you know...)

The only reason that anyone was arrested is because the pigs wouldn't allow us to march south on Michigan Ave. The protestors were totally nonviolent...I doubt if any of the thousands of cars we marched past on Lake Shore Drive suffered so much as a scratch from us...we were very polite.

So the blame for the arrests lies, where it usually does, among the swinish Chicago Police, the herd owned and fertilized by the big pig, Richard Daley (he's a Democrat...did you know?)
FREE ALL THE ANTIWAR PROTESTORS! DROP ALL THE CHARGES!!
DEFEND IRAQ!

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