An encounter between members of a society quickly collapses into a crude calculation of relative power and force. The rules of schoolyard bullying become the foundation of “law and order.”
This is the consequence of police treating protests not just as vectors of potential violence but as an insurgency that must be quelled.   -the new republic

how can cities keep the stormtrumpers out? we are under occupation, like the palestinians and the indigenous, and the disenfranchised everywhere. money power and military might 
have captured democracy. we have state terrorism in our cities. it's not over there, it's here.