Amy Goodman arrested at RNC....

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    spyguy wrote:
    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.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    freedom to protest in a caged little box....

    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.

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  • darthvedder81
    darthvedder81 Posts: 688
    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...
    6/30/98 Minneapolis, 10/8/00 East Troy (Brrrr!), 6/16/03 St. Paul, 6/27/06 St. Paul
  • Nevermind
    Nevermind Posts: 1,006
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    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"
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    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??

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  • spyguy
    spyguy Posts: 613
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    freedom to protest in a caged little box....

    if not...you can disappear for some torture, or be jailed for months without trial.

    nice!

    again with this bullshit. who are you talking about?
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    spyguy wrote:
    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.

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  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    beachdweller wrote:
    as for your ignorant view of the police and justice system as a whole is a joke at best.
    oh, I'm sure you know so much.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    darthvedder81 wrote:
    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:
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    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    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!
    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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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    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.

    Listen/Watch/Read
    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/3/amy_goodman_grills_st_paul_police

    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)


  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    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.

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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    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
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    MattyJoe wrote:
    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.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    MattyJoe wrote:
    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)


  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Charges Dropped Against Democracy Now! Journalists – Investigation Needed
    Thank You For Your Support!

    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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