Hugh Pickens writes "James Fallows writes that you don't have to idealize entirety about the Occupy motility to recognize the stoic resolve of the protesters at UC Davis being pepper sprayed as a moral drama that the protesters clearly won. 'The dignity they show, while being assaulted, reminds me of grainy TV footage I saw as a kid, of black civil rights protesters being fire-hosed by Bull Connor's policemen in Alabama. Or of course the Tank Man in Tiananmen Square,' writes Fallows. 'Such images can have tremendous, lasting power.' We can't yet imagine all the effects of the panopticon society we are beginning to live in but one benefit to the modern protest moving is the omnipresence of cameras (video) as police officials, protesters, and nearly all onlookers are recording a bit goes on bringing greater accountability and a reality-test for police claims that they 'had' to use redundant force. 'What's new is that now the perception war occurs simultaneously with the objective struggle. There's almost parity,' writes Andrew Sprung. 'You have a truncheon or gun, I have a camera. You inflict pain, I inflict infamy.'"

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