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America, home of the free.

Democratic congressional candidate Ray Lutz was arrested for registering voters in San Diego’s public Freedom Plaza (AKA Civic Center Plaza), where the local Occupy protest has taken place. The San Diego police arrested Mr Lutz for trespassing and confiscated his voter registration forms.

I’ve been skeptical of the “this is what democracy looks like” slogan (since mostly, democracy looks like boring things like long meetings, constituency consultations, and voter booths). But by any measure, registering voters in a civic square is assuredly “what democracy looks like.” And arresting people who register voters? Well, that’s something else altogether.

Ray Lutz being arrested at Freedom Plaza - Occupy San Diego

I’m really starting to be disgusted by the police. I usually am one of those ‘isolated incident, but on the whole, the police do an effective job, so I appreciate their work’ - but this repetitive show of police aggression just makes me despair for the state of the public mentality, the police mentality, and the system as a whole.

(via mil0o)