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I always wonder what peoples general response will be to protests in the United States being put down in this type of fashion? Surely it will just serve to piss people off and build support among the general population – Is that ideally what the powers that be are trying to achieve?

Will the American populous take their freedom in much the same way that other countries are starting to around the world? Has this really happened? Have people in Egypt for example secured their freedom?

I don’t think so – Read my previous posts. In the next couple of months here are my predications – a second wave of revolution in Egypt and Libya resulting in bloody civil war – increased descent in the United States which will keep everyone busy whilst the US furthers its foreign policy objectives. Lets see ! I hope I am wrong. A can of pepper spray in the fricking face isnt going to help things.

Police in the U.S. have used pepper spray against students taking part in an 'Occupy' campaign at the University of California. Demonstrators had been ordered to remove their camp, but after refusing, officers showed up and tore their tents down.

Hundreds of arrests, accusations of police brutality and dozens of injuries - this is how the 'Occupy' movement in the U.S. marked its two-month anniversary this week. Officers in riot gear tore down camps and broke up mostly peaceful demos against the unequal distribution of wealth in major American cities. At the heart of the campaign, in New York, a crowd of activists took to the subway and tried to block off the Stock Exchange. Evidence has been emerging of disproportionate police action in response to the rallies.

At the University of California, a group of students staging a sit-down protest were pepper-sprayed in the face. In an earlier incident, an officer was filmed beating an Iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen, although he seemed to pose no threat. And yet, as Anastasia Churkina reports, the crackdown is not deterring protesters.

RT delves a little deeper into what lies behind the Occupy movement, our correspondent Alyona Minkovsky talks to the political rapper - Immortal Technique. He thinks a gradual erosion of basic rights has inspired the nationwide wave of protest.

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