On 10th day of the Occupy Wall Street protests around 80 protesters were illegally arrested, including media representatives. Youtube videos and Democracy Now report attest that police used force, nets, pepper spray and general violence.
Syria rushed to call US an impotent copycat, not capable of shaping its own crackdown tools and methods. It cited techniques, such as use of dragging protesters on the ground by hair, rejecting medical aid to arrested injured protesters, ignoring calls to emergency medical services among others as Syrian know-how and warned of going into international patent agencies to register them to secure protection by copyright laws and claim compensation from US.
Rival South Caucasus states, Armenia and Azerbaijan, with their vast experience in opposition suppression and protest crackdowns, have approached their respective US ambassadors independently, offering technical support, video manuals and training in protest crackdowns, illegal arrests and media control amid continued protester camping, sit ins and organized actions in Wall Street in New York. America’s regional ally or what some call the America’s second state of Georgia, announced that US should look into Georgia’s protest suppression experience instead, calling it a “a new, but tested, and truly democratic and western one”.
Russia’s stronghold and born against presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin urged US to further reinforce its reputation of a trustworthy partner by committing to a full and final departure from what he called “the empty concept they call democracy” and welcomed US into the axis of civil. “The US departure from principles of governance by people and for people clearly shows that there is no space for the concept in our civil and progressive 21st century”, “We are happy to welcome US back into the family of the civil” he added.
Belarussia’s dictator Lukashenko extended deep sympathies and moral support to the regime in US. He pointed out to the fact that even US does not respect the rights of citizens to assemble and practice their rights to free speech, when it comes to elite interests, and sought for decreased criticism from the west. Lukashenko called the protests a stage performance by marionettes, which reminds him of similar uprisings in places like Serbia or Georgia, and suggested a possible George Soros role.
Iran has not yet reacted to the Wall Street march crackdowns, choosing to “wait and see”, while a senior Iranian official, wishing not to be identified, informed that with the Gitmo tortures and massive violations of human rights by US in the last decade, Iran was becoming more inclined to see a potential peer and a friend in US, but was wary of not being tricked into it intentionally, whereas the illegal arrests and use of violence against peaceful protesters in the heart of New York did clearly signal America’s continued commitment to values Iran and its friends cherish dearly.
