He's from Toronto............so he's practically American.
I'm close enough to smell it that's for sure...
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
You didn't see what happened before the video, and she was trying to walk through the police line. as for your ignorant view of the police and justice system as a whole is a joke at best.
Amen
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you must be really fun to hang around with in between insults...
dont play the victim card. my ass you were merely asking a question. you were insinuating that somehow america has become such a police state that tourism is now dropped.
heres a question, how stupid do you feel?
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The best part is these so-called protesters smashing windows and breaking things all the while having their faces covered. Pansies. Cowardly pansies.
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You didn't see what happened before the video, and she was trying to walk through the police line. as for your ignorant view of the police and justice system as a whole is a joke at best.
NICOLE SALAZAR: Well, basically, Sharif and I had been out that morning filming the antiwar protest, which was mostly peaceful. We were out for three hours, four hours filming that. Eventually, we left the main protest. We went back to the office. We were going to digitize our tapes.
And then, from the offices, which, like you said, are here in SPNN, we saw that there was some activity down on the street, so we grabbed our camera. Basically, what we saw then was just police in riot gear moving down the street. We didn’t see any crowds. So I grabbed my camera, and I ran out the door and just basically followed the police.
I saw that they were preparing to put on teargas masks, and I was just filming them. Shortly after, Sharif came down, and, you know, he brought my press pass down and put that around my neck. So we followed the crowd for a few blocks, and very quickly we saw that there were police coming from all directions. There were police on horseback. There were police on bicycles. And there were police officers in riot gear.
So, that moment that you saw, that was after we had moved into an intersection where police were coming from three different directions. They were telling us to move back, and that’s what we were trying to do. That’s what I was trying to do in the video. I was trying to move back, but I was in a parking lot, and I wasn’t able to get back. And one—
AMY GOODMAN: A car was behind you, a parked car?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Cars were behind me. We were in a parking lot. And, you know, I was telling them that “I’m press. I’m press. Please, you know, don’t—you know, let me pass.” But I couldn’t turn around. And I tried to move in between the—between two cars, and instead of, you know, letting me pass and following the crowd, they instead came right after me and slammed me into the car, at which point I think my camera came back and hit me in the face. And two cops were also behind me, and they pushed me through that row of cars into the next area of the parking lot and slammed me to the ground and said, “Get your face on the ground! Get your face on the ground!” And I was, you know, at that point—
AMY GOODMAN: So you were on your stomach, on your face, on the ground.
NICOLE SALAZAR: I was on my stomach on the ground. And one of the officers, I think he was trying to grab me. He was trying to drag me. He was grabbing my leg. And another officer put his boot on my back and was pressing me to the ground.
AMY GOODMAN: And he was pulling you with your leg, the other officer.
NICOLE SALAZAR: He was trying to pull me. They weren’t very well coordinated, I guess, because one of them was, you know, pushing me to the ground with his foot, and I was stomped on, so I had to stay where I was, but the other one was pulling on my leg.
AMY GOODMAN: So if he was dragging you, and they told you, “Put your face”—we heard him say, “Put your face on the ground,” then they would drag your face along the ground.
NICOLE SALAZAR: I guess so. I was trying—I was trying to keep my face up, because I kept trying to tell them I’m press and show them my pass. And I had my camera in my hand, and I was trying to protect that.
AMY GOODMAN: We heard you shouting, “Press! Press!”
NICOLE SALAZAR: Right. So I guess they were, you know, trying to drag me and get me into this area, and I was surrounded by maybe five or six cops at that point. And eventually, I just had to, you know, acquiesce, and I just laid there and put my head on the ground. And I could see that my nose was bleeding onto the pavement.
AMY GOODMAN: Were there medics around?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Shortly thereafter, a medic did come over, and, you know, he asked me if my teeth were hurting, what had happened. And I was like, “You saw what happened. You know these police officers knocked me down.” And he, you know, wiped my face with a towel. But I kept just saying, “I’m with the press. I’m with Democracy Now!” You know, “I want to be released.”
AMY GOODMAN: Had they handcuffed you by now?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Yes, they had put me in those plastic cuffs, and my hands were behind my back. And my camera was, you know, two feet away from my face, lying on the ground. And I think shortly thereafter one officer came over and picked up the camera and took out the battery. And at that point I was worried that they were going to take my tape, but I don’t think—I mean, they didn’t, because now we have the tape, but he did take the battery out, I guess so the camera wouldn’t be recording.
Where in the video did Amy try to cross a police line? While trying to ask her question she's shoved through the police officers while being arrested. She being the head producer at DN wanted only to speak to a commanding officer to have her colleagues released. They were cornered while video taping and it matter none that they were press taping the events.
What this tells me is that media can't record what police are doing at events like this and therefore the police in this case can do whatever they want and get away with it. basically done on the first day of this covention to disrupt any recording of the convention, basically INTIMIDATION scare tatics.
Peace
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AMY GOODMAN: Right, we don’t know if the Associated Press photographers have gotten out, if the Pepperspray videographers have gotten out. Even the New York Post guy, we don’t know what happened to him at this moment. And, of course, there are many, many people who are on the streets who get rounded up just by virtue of being there. When they move in with such a fast pincer move from all corners and surround a block—this was basically a parking lot—there is nowhere to go.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Right. There’s nowhere to go. And, of course, they know that, as well. It’s not like they haven’t mapped out the whole area and don’t know exactly what forces are moving in which directions. They do know. And, of course, it’s pretty clear that Nicole and Sharif were making their status as press widely known, and it was easy to hear it; you know, clearly on the tape, it was easy to hear. So that’s pretty disturbing to me, and I’m actually pretty upset about it.
AMY GOODMAN: So you weighed in last night as they were in jail. You called the police commissioner.
REP. KEITH ELLISON: I called and let them—just provided the information. You know, this is who you have. This is the deal, stuff like that. So, you know, I just think it’s important to make sure that when journalists are trying to do their work, that they are allowed to do it.
AMY GOODMAN: This is only the second day, and, in fact, the Republican convention was not in even full gear because of Hurricane Gustav yesterday, though the protests in the streets were. You’ve got a number more days. What is the plan for the city?
REP. KEITH ELLISON: Well, you know, that’s what I’m trying to find out right now. I mean, before, quite frankly, I was perfectly content to allow the police to do the work they were doing, and I’m just going to go do the work I do. But now, I do have a new—an urgent curiosity to find out what the plan is. When are massive uses of force going to be deployed? What circumstances will trigger them? Have we looked—have we recognized the fact that we can actually cause more trouble than what would otherwise happen, when we bring forth this massive use of force as we saw on the tape? And so, I’m concerned about it. I think overreaction is as bad as under-reaction, and what I saw on that tape was pretty disturbing.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
CorporateWhore you most certainly are CorporateWhore. I've met some CorporateWhore's that are awesome, noble peeps, and then, well ... there is always a dark side to things ... need a lighter? : >
dont play the victim card. my ass you were merely asking a question. you were insinuating that somehow america has become such a police state that tourism is now dropped.
heres a question, how stupid do you feel?
Less of an ass than someone else is I suppose...
Maybe if my country started torturing people I would understand...
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
if not...you can disappear for some torture, or be jailed for months without trial.
nice!
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
It's not a "police state" when combative douchebags disturb the peace, defy police officers who are simply trying to maintain order, and commit acts of vandalism.
So this life is sacrifice...
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It's not a "police state" when combative douchebags disturb the peace, defy police officers who are simply trying to maintain order, and commit acts of vandalism.
Organized protest is not "Disturbing the peace"
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It's not a "police state" when combative douchebags disturb the peace, defy police officers who are simply trying to maintain order, and commit acts of vandalism.
What does this have to do with Amy Goodman and her associates??
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
again with this bullshit. who are you talking about?
oh nothing I suppose...sleep tight...
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
It's not a "police state" when combative douchebags disturb the peace, defy police officers who are simply trying to maintain order, and commit acts of vandalism.
Yeah,
but when the establishment can just hire goons and anarchists at their leisure, or just dress up as such and become agent-provocateurs themselves,
what hope is left for freedom of speech in such a world?
If they don't like what is going on,
they just start their own violence,
and then clamp down on everyone.
Yes, thats how it works.
:cool:
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Yeah,
but when the establishment can just hire goons and anarchists at their leisure, or just dress up as such and become agent-provocateurs themselves,
what hope is left for freedom of speech in such a world?
If they don't like what is going on,
they just start their own violence,
and then clamp down on everyone.
Yes, thats how it works.
:cool:
That's not only how it works...that's how it's been working.
"America...we torture..."
come on by...all the Kool-aid you can drink!
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
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Amy Goodman Grills St. Paul Police Chief About Her Arrest and Two Democracy
Now! Producers *
On Tuesday morning, St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington held a news conference
where he spoke about the nearly 300 people arrested in a police crackdown on
protesters a day earlier. Among them were several journalists covering the
protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now!—Amy Goodman,
Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Amy Goodman questions Harrington about
the arrests.
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Freedom to say whatever you want as long as it doesn't defy the neo-con mantra.
Gotta crack down on those protesters...how dare they disagree with imperial magistrate!
The mighty words of rule have been spoken...now follow them, or risk everything you own, and perhaps your very life and well being.
"You are either with us or against us"
but you're free to behave according to a host of harsh new laws...or else.
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
Clearly you people do not know how the system works.
If you get arrested, deal with it. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, just go. The police are not gonna let you go, no matter what you say or do. It's up to the court system to decide if the arrest was legal or not. In this case, it was ruled that they were unfounded arrests. The accused were freed. End of story.
I pledge to you a government that will not only work well, but wisely, its ability to act tempered by prudence, and its willingness to do good, balanced by the knowledge that government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
-Reagan
Clearly you people do not know how the system works.
If you get arrested, deal with it. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, just go. The police are not gonna let you go, no matter what you say or do. It's up to the court system to decide if the arrest was legal or not. In this case, it was ruled that they were unfounded arrests. The accused were freed. End of story.
If you get unjustly arrested, and physically stomped on, just let it go...somehow we all deserved it anyways...and even if we didn't deserve it...we still deserved it.
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
Clearly you people do not know how the system works.
If you get arrested, deal with it. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, just go. The police are not gonna let you go, no matter what you say or do. It's up to the court system to decide if the arrest was legal or not. In this case, it was ruled that they were unfounded arrests. The accused were freed. End of story.
Not really, They were video taping with their press passes and were roughed up pretty good which doesn't end the story. They were not protestors so why not at least checkout who they are and even after being arrested the Secret Service took their id's and passes. clear intimidation. Fuck em.
Peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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Charges Dropped Against Democracy Now! Journalists – Investigation Needed
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The St. Paul City Attorney's office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman also issued a statement Friday that “the city will decline to prosecute misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists arrested during the Republican National Convention.”
Both announcements come two weeks after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention where over 40 journalists were arrested while reporting on protests taking place outside the convention center.
Upon learning of the news, Democracy Now! Host, Amy Goodman said, “It's good that these false charges have finally been dropped, but we never should have been arrested to begin with. These violent and unlawful arrests disrupted our work and had a chilling effect on the reporting of dissent. Freedom of the press is also about the public's right to know what is happening on their streets. There needs to be a full investigation of law enforcement activities during the convention.”
Goodman was arrested while asking police to release Kouddous and Salazar who had been violently arrested while reporting on street demonstrations. After being handcuffed and pushed to the ground, Goodman reiterated that she was was a credentialed reporter. Secret Service then ripped the credential from around her neck.
During demonstrations on the first day of the convention police used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and force against protesters and journalists. Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, as was a photographer for the Associated Press.
John Lundquist, attorney for the Democracy Now! journalists, said, “The most notable lapse by law enforcement during the RNC was the record-breaking number of journalists indiscriminately arrested and detained for doing nothing more than performing in the best tradition of reporters who gather the news.”
In the weeks after the journalist arrests, tens of thousands of members of the public contacted St. Paul officials to protest the unlawful arrests of working journalists. Goodman said, “We were deeply moved by the outpouring of support. We thank everyone who called and wrote first to have us freed and then to have the charges dropped. We thank everyone who stood up for press freedom and the First Amendment.”
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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I'm close enough to smell it that's for sure...
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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dont play the victim card. my ass you were merely asking a question. you were insinuating that somehow america has become such a police state that tourism is now dropped.
heres a question, how stupid do you feel?
Footage of Producer Nicole Salazar's Arrest at RNC
NICOLE SALAZAR: Well, basically, Sharif and I had been out that morning filming the antiwar protest, which was mostly peaceful. We were out for three hours, four hours filming that. Eventually, we left the main protest. We went back to the office. We were going to digitize our tapes.
And then, from the offices, which, like you said, are here in SPNN, we saw that there was some activity down on the street, so we grabbed our camera. Basically, what we saw then was just police in riot gear moving down the street. We didn’t see any crowds. So I grabbed my camera, and I ran out the door and just basically followed the police.
I saw that they were preparing to put on teargas masks, and I was just filming them. Shortly after, Sharif came down, and, you know, he brought my press pass down and put that around my neck. So we followed the crowd for a few blocks, and very quickly we saw that there were police coming from all directions. There were police on horseback. There were police on bicycles. And there were police officers in riot gear.
So, that moment that you saw, that was after we had moved into an intersection where police were coming from three different directions. They were telling us to move back, and that’s what we were trying to do. That’s what I was trying to do in the video. I was trying to move back, but I was in a parking lot, and I wasn’t able to get back. And one—
AMY GOODMAN: A car was behind you, a parked car?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Cars were behind me. We were in a parking lot. And, you know, I was telling them that “I’m press. I’m press. Please, you know, don’t—you know, let me pass.” But I couldn’t turn around. And I tried to move in between the—between two cars, and instead of, you know, letting me pass and following the crowd, they instead came right after me and slammed me into the car, at which point I think my camera came back and hit me in the face. And two cops were also behind me, and they pushed me through that row of cars into the next area of the parking lot and slammed me to the ground and said, “Get your face on the ground! Get your face on the ground!” And I was, you know, at that point—
AMY GOODMAN: So you were on your stomach, on your face, on the ground.
NICOLE SALAZAR: I was on my stomach on the ground. And one of the officers, I think he was trying to grab me. He was trying to drag me. He was grabbing my leg. And another officer put his boot on my back and was pressing me to the ground.
AMY GOODMAN: And he was pulling you with your leg, the other officer.
NICOLE SALAZAR: He was trying to pull me. They weren’t very well coordinated, I guess, because one of them was, you know, pushing me to the ground with his foot, and I was stomped on, so I had to stay where I was, but the other one was pulling on my leg.
AMY GOODMAN: So if he was dragging you, and they told you, “Put your face”—we heard him say, “Put your face on the ground,” then they would drag your face along the ground.
NICOLE SALAZAR: I guess so. I was trying—I was trying to keep my face up, because I kept trying to tell them I’m press and show them my pass. And I had my camera in my hand, and I was trying to protect that.
AMY GOODMAN: We heard you shouting, “Press! Press!”
NICOLE SALAZAR: Right. So I guess they were, you know, trying to drag me and get me into this area, and I was surrounded by maybe five or six cops at that point. And eventually, I just had to, you know, acquiesce, and I just laid there and put my head on the ground. And I could see that my nose was bleeding onto the pavement.
AMY GOODMAN: Were there medics around?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Shortly thereafter, a medic did come over, and, you know, he asked me if my teeth were hurting, what had happened. And I was like, “You saw what happened. You know these police officers knocked me down.” And he, you know, wiped my face with a towel. But I kept just saying, “I’m with the press. I’m with Democracy Now!” You know, “I want to be released.”
AMY GOODMAN: Had they handcuffed you by now?
NICOLE SALAZAR: Yes, they had put me in those plastic cuffs, and my hands were behind my back. And my camera was, you know, two feet away from my face, lying on the ground. And I think shortly thereafter one officer came over and picked up the camera and took out the battery. And at that point I was worried that they were going to take my tape, but I don’t think—I mean, they didn’t, because now we have the tape, but he did take the battery out, I guess so the camera wouldn’t be recording.
Here's the full interview then SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS speaks:Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest Give the interview a read.
Footage of Amy Goodman's Arrest at RNC
Where in the video did Amy try to cross a police line? While trying to ask her question she's shoved through the police officers while being arrested. She being the head producer at DN wanted only to speak to a commanding officer to have her colleagues released. They were cornered while video taping and it matter none that they were press taping the events.
What this tells me is that media can't record what police are doing at events like this and therefore the police in this case can do whatever they want and get away with it. basically done on the first day of this covention to disrupt any recording of the convention, basically INTIMIDATION scare tatics.
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
-Enoch Powell
Are you for real ... or just trying to get a "rise" out of folks?!
Do leftists cry daily?
Answer: yes.
-Enoch Powell
CorporateWhore you most certainly are CorporateWhore. I've met some CorporateWhore's that are awesome, noble peeps, and then, well ... there is always a dark side to things ... need a lighter? : >
Less of an ass than someone else is I suppose...
Maybe if my country started torturing people I would understand...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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if not...you can disappear for some torture, or be jailed for months without trial.
nice!
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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What does this have to do with Amy Goodman and her associates??
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
again with this bullshit. who are you talking about?
oh nothing I suppose...sleep tight...
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Yeah,
but when the establishment can just hire goons and anarchists at their leisure, or just dress up as such and become agent-provocateurs themselves,
what hope is left for freedom of speech in such a world?
If they don't like what is going on,
they just start their own violence,
and then clamp down on everyone.
Yes, thats how it works.
:cool:
If I opened it now would you not understand?
That's not only how it works...that's how it's been working.
"America...we torture..."
come on by...all the Kool-aid you can drink!
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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Now! Producers *
On Tuesday morning, St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington held a news conference
where he spoke about the nearly 300 people arrested in a police crackdown on
protesters a day earlier. Among them were several journalists covering the
protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now!—Amy Goodman,
Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Amy Goodman questions Harrington about
the arrests.
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/3/amy_goodman_grills_st_paul_police
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Gotta crack down on those protesters...how dare they disagree with imperial magistrate!
The mighty words of rule have been spoken...now follow them, or risk everything you own, and perhaps your very life and well being.
"You are either with us or against us"
but you're free to behave according to a host of harsh new laws...or else.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
(\__/)
( o.O)
(")_(")
If you get arrested, deal with it. It doesn't matter how wrong it is, just go. The police are not gonna let you go, no matter what you say or do. It's up to the court system to decide if the arrest was legal or not. In this case, it was ruled that they were unfounded arrests. The accused were freed. End of story.
-Reagan
If you get unjustly arrested, and physically stomped on, just let it go...somehow we all deserved it anyways...and even if we didn't deserve it...we still deserved it.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Not really, They were video taping with their press passes and were roughed up pretty good which doesn't end the story. They were not protestors so why not at least checkout who they are and even after being arrested the Secret Service took their id's and passes. clear intimidation. Fuck em.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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The St. Paul City Attorney's office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman also issued a statement Friday that “the city will decline to prosecute misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists arrested during the Republican National Convention.”
Both announcements come two weeks after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention where over 40 journalists were arrested while reporting on protests taking place outside the convention center.
Upon learning of the news, Democracy Now! Host, Amy Goodman said, “It's good that these false charges have finally been dropped, but we never should have been arrested to begin with. These violent and unlawful arrests disrupted our work and had a chilling effect on the reporting of dissent. Freedom of the press is also about the public's right to know what is happening on their streets. There needs to be a full investigation of law enforcement activities during the convention.”
Goodman was arrested while asking police to release Kouddous and Salazar who had been violently arrested while reporting on street demonstrations. After being handcuffed and pushed to the ground, Goodman reiterated that she was was a credentialed reporter. Secret Service then ripped the credential from around her neck.
During demonstrations on the first day of the convention police used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and force against protesters and journalists. Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, as was a photographer for the Associated Press.
John Lundquist, attorney for the Democracy Now! journalists, said, “The most notable lapse by law enforcement during the RNC was the record-breaking number of journalists indiscriminately arrested and detained for doing nothing more than performing in the best tradition of reporters who gather the news.”
In the weeks after the journalist arrests, tens of thousands of members of the public contacted St. Paul officials to protest the unlawful arrests of working journalists. Goodman said, “We were deeply moved by the outpouring of support. We thank everyone who called and wrote first to have us freed and then to have the charges dropped. We thank everyone who stood up for press freedom and the First Amendment.”
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)