A camera phone is your best protection against police abuse.
Make a 50% mixture of Malox ant-acid and water. If you get hit with OC (not CS), have a friend pour a little into each eye. Spraying it with a squirt bottle on exposed skin offers some relief also.
3M painter's masks make excellent and cheap gas masks. Have it assembled and fit to your head before you leave the house. The OC floats around and often is invisible. DO NOT WEAR CONTACT LENSES!
Put a newspaper in your backpack. If the police start shooting their paint balls, flip your backpack around and wear it on your chest like a breast plate.
Never, ever touch the police as this is a felony assault.
If asked if you have a permit, say yes it is in my pocket and it is a copy of the Constitution.
OC is 'pepper spray' and looks red/orange. It is what American police use. CS is yellow/white military 'tear gas' and is not usually used in the USA, but it is used in other countries. It was used in the USA in the 1960s, but not today usually. Some of the 'grenades'/fire crackers police throw that make a loud bang also release a small cloud of CS gas. Seattle police used these against May Day 2013 protesters.
I noticed in Tehran, Iran the people used an open flame (like a candle or burning paper) to destroy the CS gas. The people in Turkey were subjected to both.
Bear/dog repellent is a mix of CS & OC, but is illegal to use on humans.
Oh, the one you turned on in the exact same place you turned off the one minutes earlier that's tied to your home address and credit card? Right.
Oh, look, your real identity at your home residential IP is the very first view on the video uploaded to this google account created yesterday on a burner phone that just happened to be turned on at your house before going to the protest.
You're fooling yourself if you think a burner phone is the solution to wholesale wiretapping.
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A camera phone is your best protection against police abuse.
Make a 50% mixture of Malox ant-acid and water. If you get hit with OC (not CS), have a friend pour a little into each eye. Spraying it with a squirt bottle on exposed skin offers some relief also.
3M painter's masks make excellent and cheap gas masks. Have it assembled and fit to your head before you leave the house. The OC floats around and often is invisible. DO NOT WEAR CONTACT LENSES!
Put a newspaper in your backpack. If the police start shooting their paint balls, flip your backpack around and wear it on your chest like a breast plate.
Never, ever touch the police as this is a felony assault.
If asked if you have a permit, say yes it is in my pocket and it is a copy of the Constitution.
Solidaridad!!!
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Nice name & comment combination.
I was known in the SEA & PDX occupy as a street medic.
OC? CS? which is which? How to tell them apart?
OC is 'pepper spray' and looks red/orange. It is what American police use. CS is yellow/white military 'tear gas' and is not usually used in the USA, but it is used in other countries. It was used in the USA in the 1960s, but not today usually. Some of the 'grenades'/fire crackers police throw that make a loud bang also release a small cloud of CS gas. Seattle police used these against May Day 2013 protesters.
I noticed in Tehran, Iran the people used an open flame (like a candle or burning paper) to destroy the CS gas. The people in Turkey were subjected to both.
Bear/dog repellent is a mix of CS & OC, but is illegal to use on humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cs_gas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC_gas
And please do remember to switch your mobile phones to Flight Mode!
Because, to get an idea, just watch this clip:
http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention/
This makes the phone useless. Leave it on, recording, and uploading.
Turn it off on the way to the protest and after, but leave it on there. Burner smart phones are <$100 if you want to be more anonymous.
Oh, the one you turned on in the exact same place you turned off the one minutes earlier that's tied to your home address and credit card? Right.
Oh, look, your real identity at your home residential IP is the very first view on the video uploaded to this google account created yesterday on a burner phone that just happened to be turned on at your house before going to the protest.
You're fooling yourself if you think a burner phone is the solution to wholesale wiretapping.
You need to learn more about how cellphone GPS is implemented.
You also need to learn what an Internet cafe is.