Sep 17 2012
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“ The system is a meat grinder for sending young black men to prison; it really ought to be obstructed at every opportunity. I also now see that I had accepted the police’s definition of “disorderly conduct.” In fact we should all be allowed to go out into the street and obstruct traffic whenever we please, if by doing so we are trying to make a point. That should be protected speech. Finally I was wrong to think that I could have an honest, straightforward relationship with the state, as if the state were a person. You can only have political relations with the state, not personal ones.
— The Billfold asked Keith Gessen how much his Occupy Wall Street arrest cost him, and he told them, but then he had some more important things to say
