It is our inalienable right to protest peacefully and law enforcement have responded with unwarranted violence in recent weeks. State and local government will not hold the initiators of these tyrannical and menacing acts accountable, but certainly the federal government can step in and halt this nationwide betrayal. Stop the hypocrisy of addressing other nations to fight for their rights, then stripping our own citizens of the rights we thought we had. Stop performing acts of violence against our own countrymen. Give justice to those who are supposed to defend us, like Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, who at an Occupy Oakland rally was struck in the face with a police-fired projectile and is now in the hospital. He deserves the same justice he sought to protect when he joined the Marines



