yemeni cops: "we fired only in the air"

Once again the State uses deadly force to shut up those who still insist on dialogue in spite of all the incoherent rambling and lies they only ever get in response...
The world over, people seem to be getting tired of asking the State for reform. If they haven't yet, this kind of thing should hip them to what's really going on.

What's the point of asking questions when the answer is a gun butt to the face? What's the point of believing in your country when your country doesn't believe you ...or in you? The state, eternally authoritarian and suspicious, allied with Capital, eternally pandering and deceitful, and with the Socialists, eternally arrogant and power hungry, have once again defeated the people. "What happened in San'a today was a strong expression of the popular rejection of authorities' attempts to falsify the elections," the socialist bureaucrat-in-training Yaseen No'man said. "It's clear evidence that people rejects anyone forging their will." He doesn't realize that elections themselves are forgeries of the people's will, and that the people also reject functionaries taking credit for their actions and "explaining" them.

The Socialists are the second biggest party and used to rule in Yemen; if the vote-rigging the yemenis were protesting yesterday were to be banned, as the Socialists who 'organized' the protest want (obviously the people organize everything real for themselves, and the socialists take the credit) and the Socialists ushered back into control, the only difference would be a socialist gun butt in the face. Hopefully the people of Yemen and the world will see this brutality as just another example of why protest needs to go further than the simple demand for honest elections and arrive at the demand for a radically different society, and not just a more well-regulated and slightly less hypocritical one. When people realize they need to see an end to representation itself instead of being told they want to see more fairly chosen representation, then and only then will we have an end to the violence of the dominant politics and its loyal opposition.