Police violence like in Syria and Libya

Hundreds of police officers cleared the demonstrators from Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in New York on Tuesday. The daily Delo has harsh words for the police action and draws parallels with dictatorial regimes: "The police's violent treatment of the peaceful demonstrators has exposed the other side of the supposedly freest country in the world. The Democratic government reacted to the demonstrators' call for a true right to free elections with such brutality and violence that it was worthy of the former regime in Tripoli and the current one in Syria."

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