Amy Goodman arrested at RNC....

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  • spyguy
    spyguy Posts: 613
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    You don't have to be American to have eyeballs

    edit I should say a "US citizen"...lot's of Americans don't live in the United States.

    you dont really see whats going on in America by watching 30 second youtube clips. you have to live here and see it 24/7 with those eye balls u speak of. you aren't american or live here. viva la you tube!
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    spyguy wrote:
    you dont really see whats going on in America by watching 30 second youtube clips. you have to live here and see it 24/7 with those eye balls u speak of. you aren't american or live here. viva la you tube!

    it's been going on for a while now....actually minutes after 9/11 it all went postal.

    You're approaching a police state whether you want to acknowledge it or not. Nice uniforms...
    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.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I wonder how tourism in the US is doing these days....
    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.

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  • heartdesire
    heartdesire Posts: 430
    freindlyfired wrote:
    On 29 September 2006, the House and Senate approved the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), a bill that would remove habeas corpus for any person determined to be an “unlawful enemy combatant" engaged in hostilities or having supported hostilities against the United States”[4][5] by a vote of 65–34. (This was the result on the bill to approve the military trials for detainees; an amendment to remove the unavailability of habeas corpus failed 48–51.[6]) President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law on October 17, 2006. The declaration of a person as an "unlawful enemy combatant" is at the discretion of the US executive branch of the administration, and there is no right of appeal, with the result that this potentially eliminates habeas corpus for any non-citizen.

    Bush ... hmmm ... playing all sides. Signs this, though let's the Bin Laden family depart America ... though approves of torturing prisoners. Truth please, does anyone have access to it?
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  • heartdesire
    heartdesire Posts: 430
    A friend sent this to me today, felt it fit in with this thread ...


    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30/police_raids/


    ... it is really hard to gauge what is going on and what is perpetuating this.
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  • spyguy
    spyguy Posts: 613
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    it's been going on for a while now....actually minutes after 9/11 it all went postal.

    You're approaching a police state whether you want to acknowledge it or not. Nice uniforms...

    spoken like a true outsider. you dont live here, you dont drive or walk the streets everyday.

    that or you have your own made up definition of a police state. go visit north korea and get back to me.
  • spyguy
    spyguy Posts: 613
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    I wonder how tourism in the US is doing these days....

    do you know how stupid you sound? seriously.

    http://www.ita.doc.gov/press/press_releases/2008/tourism_062308.asp

    TRAVEL & TOURISM IN THE UNITED STATES IS BOOMING
    International Visitation and Spending Up in the First Quarter of 2008

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced international visitation to the United States rose 15 percent, and visitor spending increased by 20 percent in the first quarter of 2008 over last year. In March 2008, visitation to the United States climbed substantially to 4.7 million, an increase of 19 percent over March 2007.

    International visitors spent a record $11.4 billion in March, accounting for the 20 percent increase from March 2007. Spending by international travelers while in the United States, including travel receipts and passenger fares, is defined as a U.S. export. Travel and tourism to the United States contributes positively to the overall economy.

    “America’s success is its openness, and being open to international travel and tourism to the United States boosts the U.S. economy,” said Commerce Assistant Secretary William G. Sutton. “Rising international visitation continues to have a positive impact on our travel and tourism industry. The strong start in the first quarter of 2008 builds on the momentum set in 2007, a record-breaking year for international arrivals and receipts.”
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    spyguy wrote:
    spoken like a true outsider. you dont live here, you dont drive or walk the streets everyday.

    that or you have your own made up definition of a police state. go visit north korea and get back to me.


    So you think it's all improved...

    yes I can see that...obviously.

    do you have posters of Bush in your bedroom?
    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.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    spyguy wrote:
    do you know how stupid you sound? seriously.

    http://www.ita.doc.gov/press/press_releases/2008/tourism_062308.asp

    TRAVEL & TOURISM IN THE UNITED STATES IS BOOMING
    International Visitation and Spending Up in the First Quarter of 2008

    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced international visitation to the United States rose 15 percent, and visitor spending increased by 20 percent in the first quarter of 2008 over last year. In March 2008, visitation to the United States climbed substantially to 4.7 million, an increase of 19 percent over March 2007.

    International visitors spent a record $11.4 billion in March, accounting for the 20 percent increase from March 2007. Spending by international travelers while in the United States, including travel receipts and passenger fares, is defined as a U.S. export. Travel and tourism to the United States contributes positively to the overall economy.

    “America’s success is its openness, and being open to international travel and tourism to the United States boosts the U.S. economy,” said Commerce Assistant Secretary William G. Sutton. “Rising international visitation continues to have a positive impact on our travel and tourism industry. The strong start in the first quarter of 2008 builds on the momentum set in 2007, a record-breaking year for international arrivals and receipts.”

    I asked a question and you're on the attack....

    you must be really fun to hang around with in between insults...
    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.

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  • brandon10
    brandon10 Posts: 1,114
    spyguy wrote:
    spoken like a true outsider. you dont live here, you dont drive or walk the streets everyday.

    that or you have your own made up definition of a police state. go visit north korea and get back to me.

    He's from Toronto............so he's practically American.
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    brandon10 wrote:
    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.

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  • tybird
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    beachdweller wrote:
    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
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • spyguy
    spyguy Posts: 613
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    I asked a question and you're on the attack....

    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?
  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    The best part is these so-called protesters smashing windows and breaking things all the while having their faces covered. Pansies. Cowardly pansies.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    beachdweller wrote:
    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.

    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.

    Peace
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  • g under p
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    Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists
    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
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Rather than just being arrested, she should've been deported. Ugly lesbos with nothing better to do than protest need to take a hike.
    All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
    -Enoch Powell
  • heartdesire
    heartdesire Posts: 430
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Rather than just being arrested, she should've been deported. Ugly lesbos with nothing better to do than protest need to take a hike.

    Are you for real ... or just trying to get a "rise" out of folks?!
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  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    heart&desire wrote:
    Are you for real ... or just trying to get a "rise" out of folks?!

    Do leftists cry daily?

    Answer: yes.
    All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
    -Enoch Powell
  • heartdesire
    heartdesire Posts: 430
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Do leftists cry daily?

    Answer: yes.

    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? : >
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