Things are getting scary in Miami...turnon CNN

[La_Serpiente]

Things might happen.

The guy is reporting something different than what the TV is showing.

[brainshrub]

1. Anybody got a stream?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. stream

nice stream http://www.ftaaimc.org/en/2003/11/992.shtml

[WoodrowFan]

2. huh? what??? NT

[Terwilliger]

4. protest and police lines shifting positions

some scuffles between police and protestors...one protestor detained and on the ground

Lots of cameras on the scene...they must not have known that MJ would happen and they haven't redeployed yet

[maddezmom]

3. What are they saying?

nothing on CNN international.

[La_Serpiente]

6. The protestors and police

bumped up to each other. The protestors put on gas masks. They also tried to bring down a fence with grappling hooks until the cops started throwing gas. But the guy is reporting something differen than on the TV.

[brainshrub]

9. Nothing on CNN at all. Checking other sources.

[brainshrub]

12. Nothing on foxnews.com or msnbc.com

Surprised?

[brainshrub]

14. Minute-by-minute posts via this link.

http://www.ftaaimc.org/en/

[LeahMira]

10. Hoping...

... that this gets broadcast all over the place so everyone can see just how Americans are treated by their government.

[Kitsune]

5. Blaming it on the protesters

as the cops beat the absolute shit out of them.

Riiiiiiiiiight.

[maddezmom]

8. where is the freedom to protest

"freedom is beautiful" according to twig.....just in every other country.

[E_Zapata]

13. Exactly.........this is just a trial run to teach us protesters

to not protest...... squelching of freedom of assembly and free speech.

The way the WH has tried to mess with the UK protesters (shooting to kill with immunity) is just a real strong message to us all: Zero tolerance for any dissent.

I hate this country these days.

[Kitsune]

11. This guy is such a media whore

Saying that the cameras make it look like there's far far more protesters than there really are. RRRRRRRRGH.

The cops just dragged someone out of line and beat on him.

[Cornus]

15. Homeland Security

Just finished reading this snippet from The Nation (Dec. 1): "Tucked away in Bush's $87 billion spending bill for Iraq is an $8.5 million item for security operations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas protests in Miami."

Dosen't that make you feel safer?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. What I see are lines of police

in Darth Vader outfits standing three deep, in numbers nearly equal to the protesters.

I was half a block away from where the Portland cops gassed babies and grandmothers in August 2002, and this looks even more threatening.

Yet the CNN commentators are saying things like, "Well, there wouldn't be a protest if it weren't for the TV cameras."

They conveniently don't mention that, for example, the anti-Iraq invasion demonstrations were routinely ignored in recent years until they became too big to ignore.

[LuCifer]

17. why don't we just change out nation anthem to

DEEEEEEEEEEUTLAND DEEEEEEEEEEUTLAND UBBBBBBBER ALLLLLLES.

SEIG HEIL BUSH AND FTAA! If you don't agree, we'll get your ass,
Lu Cifer, off now to take a massive pee in honour of how piss poor stuff has sinked to.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

18. protestors may be socially liberal, but they aren't fiscally conservative

so it's nightsticks across the face for them.

[morgan2]

19. guy on msnbc just said something interesting

I have heard people complaining that the police in Miami have come out in favor of the FTAA, saying its a good thing. The person on MSNBC just mentioned that the city of Miami wants to be the headquarters of the FTAA, no wonder they want it so bad could mean a lot of money for them.

[Kolesar]

21. Do the protestors have permits?

I know that there was talk of Direct Action in Miami.

[morgan2]

20. guy on msnbc just said something interesting

oops gave me an error when i posted at first didn't think it went through.