All she had on was the radio, and all he wore was a smile

A picture does say more than a thousand words. People are expressing the thought, and because of that will get hurt. It happened in Oakland, Denver, countless places where just a simple eviction was carried out using tear gas (chemical agent with possible long term effects aka CS), flash-bang explosives, massive man power (5 to 1 ratios for police to protesters have been reported) and use of attack dogs. Not the kind of like for like response to a peaceful protest one would expect.

By the way, it should be noted that Use of CS in war is prohibited under the terms of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, signed by most nations in 1993 with all but five other nations signing between the years of 1994 through 1997. The reasoning behind the prohibition is pragmatic: use of CS by one combatant could easily trigger retaliation with much more toxic chemical weapons such as nerve agents. Only five nations have not signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and are therefore unhindered by restrictions on the use of CS gas: Angola, Egypt, North Korea, Somalia, andSyria.^[18]

I'm not making this up, Wiki is.

This violence the is usually perpetrated claiming 'health risks' (people will stink after camping out for a couple of days without a shower), 'local law' (I know you have a right under the 1st amendment but I have a park to run here) and more good stuff.

I believe it is illegal to hit your kids in the USA, at home or at school (where home can be disputed). This then would lead me to believe that parents and other authority figures like mayors tend to bide their time until the kids have left school, are starting to get an opinion and are nicely in debt.

It also raises the question why the response is so violent.

Earlier, I talked about what the Occupy movement stands for: a thought. And a thought is impossible to catch or to destroy, especially in this day and age where people have real time access to events.

This thought is exposing a world wide class warfare (mind warfare: USA agreed not to use tear gas in such situations and are now breaking also that promise), a world wide web of corruption, deceit and greed. The thought just exposes all this and asks the question: what are you gonna do guys?

So the thought is threatening a class of people and businesses. Business interests, based on manipulation of people's jobs, lives, health, are at risk. So the thought must be destroyed.

Then, the thought also exposes the threat the current web poses to our survival as a species, the survival of the full 100%. This is an even bigger threat as the '1%' like to think that they can still squeeze out a final profit before retreating to their safe places to watch 99% die while they have a fine wine, maybe even a whisky...

The thought threatens that heavenly sight, sick as it is, and therefore must be fully destroyed, annihilated.

So police turn out in droves, in riot gear, with dogs. Try to bully the protests, scare the protesters, make them shut up. However, the 99% movement has shut up too long, so keeps coming back, non-violent but insistent, reclaiming their rights, their vote, their voice.

And the 99% will win using their weapons:
For tear gas - Non-violence
For arrests- Patience in the knowledge that there are legal experts ready to help
For biased mainstream media - Social media like Twitter, and live feeds
For hatred - Love, the nastiest weapon of all to those who don't know it
For top down commands - Strike, the bottom up NO

But most of all, remain non-violent. It's easy and sounds a bit like this:

All she had on was the radio, and all he wore was a smile.

Anything else just ends up creepy.