Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.

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      Everyone knows the crime is Criticizing Dear Leader, but they don’t have the laws in place for that yet so they’re improvising.

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      “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested – the only person arrested out of 200 people,” she told the outlet.

      Imagine that. 200 protesters, but she was the only one obstructing a roadway. That must have been crazy. 199 protesters safely protesting and this one crazy lady out in the road. /s

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    USA is cooked, man. It’s no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.

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    Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:

    She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.

    More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what’s right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated “illegally” but spent decades contributing to the US’s society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole “for-profit prison” concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!

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    To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, “Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army.”

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      How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I’m pretty sure laws like “Don’t murder” and “Don’t rape” and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren’t just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.

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        Except even “don’t murder” and “don’t rape” isn’t equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.