Amazing Video from Occupy Berlin - right at the beautiful Brandenburg Gate

[Lars77]

Run time: 15:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShiFl3APQA   Posted on YouTube: November 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: Comaxx Views on YouTube: 40   Posted on DU: November 13, 2011 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 1824

 
My German is not great, but about 2 minutes in the police start removing their tents. They do not resist, but do not move either.

The Brandenburg Gate was built in the late 1700s. Napoleon rode under it when he took Berlin in 1806, after the war it was stuck behind the wall in East Berlin. It has since become a symbol of German reunification.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Unless you are in the 1%.

those thugs in uniform are not going to protect you.

[Mosaic]

2. I love the amazing solidarity

We have with our brothers and sisters worldwide.

[xchrom]

3. recommend

[davidthegnome]

4. This, ladies and gentlemen

is the beauty of hope - it is worldwide. In this, we are all together.

[1monster]

5. "We are the 99%!" In Berlin. In ENGLISH?! The Arab Spring really started

something, with the whole world watching. And with the majority of the world getting behind and supporting 'WALK LIKE AND EGYPTION" people began to understand that we are ALL being held down by the same interlocking system. That the 99% is bigger than in every way (except for money) than the 1% that somehow believe they own us.

That is the one percent's biggest fear. All we need is for the world's police and military forces to recognize that they, too, are part of the 99%, and this planet is headed in a new direction...

[davidthegnome]

6. I heard it it, it is amazing

Remember though, that those police have sworn an oath. Some of them obviously take it more seriously than others - but when the laws they serve may have become corrupt, or the officials in higher positions have... do they have the same obligation to the oaths they have sworn to protect a failed system? To obey?

Many will certainly think they do and will do as they are told, a police force cannot function at all without a chain of command and people who follow orders. It is similar in every military or police organization, to my knowledge. Oaths are sworn, you do not get into the force if you refuse to take orders. On the other hand - if they can be convinced that they are on the wrong side, that orders from the corrupt and the cruel have no validity... then perhaps, things may change. They are part of the 99%, but an oath can be as binding as chains.

Education, information... that is what must be shared and spread everywhere. I wish I could get out there and be a part of this.