G-20 Protests - Police Attack Students at Univ. of Pittsburgh

Police used teargas pepper spray and rubber bullets against University of Pittsburgh students during the Pittsburgh G20 Summit. Many of the students were not part of any demonstration but bystanders curious to find a mass of armed riot police on their campus. The students were obviously not prepared for these kinds of actions... otherwise they would have come wrapped with the American flag and banners with constitutional provisions written on them. Still I doubt that they would have been covered with even a fraction of the frenzy with which the media covered the recent Iranian protests. The point is not the legitimacy of these protests and for that matter - as a comparison - the Iranian protests. Rather it is the hypocrisy of the media coverage and the selective implementation of freedom of expression by the powers that be.

On the Iranian protests check out Phil Wilayto's open letter to the anti-war movement published in the "Monthly Review" on July 8 2009:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/wilayto080709.html