A  policeman on a blindfolded horse looms above a protester banging on a plastic container with a stick. The policeman understands the situation as scum threatening him with a stick, and justly runs him down with his blindfolded horse, and clubs him as he goes by.  The horse is blindfolded because it knows better than to run down a person, plus it also knows better than to be put in harms way by a careless officer running down a defenseless protester. This is the face of freedom of speech in the USA. Corporately funded government rules without the need for justice.

At least six people were arrested in Cincinnati yesterday after a peaceful protest against an international trade meeting got out of hand.

About 350 to 400 protesters gathered to draw attention to the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, two days of meetings involving about 90 corporate executives from Europe and the United States and about 100 international trade officials.

Rebecca Smith, 20, of Toledo, said she came to the city to spread the message "that the people aren't going to stand for corporate rule anymore."

The demonstration ended with a rally in the city's central plaza, but then many of the protesters formed a loud and impromptu march off the assigned parade route. Some broke through barricades and scuffled with police, above.

A mounted police officer, at right, confronted a protester waving a stick.

Several windows were broken in the demonstration.