God bless Thom Hartmann. He's got Amy Goodman and other reporters

[Cleita]

that were arrested yesterday by the jackboots in the twin cities covering the protestors. This is so unAmerican I can't believe this is my country. They told of how they were treated, but said the way the scrawny kids protesting were treated was worse. Between preemptive raids on organization headquarters and confiscation of their cameras and hard drives and the use of pepper spray and rubber bullets on kids who were protesting peacefully and the fact that they were bloodied and hurt in other ways, then released without charges whereby they won't have any recourse in court. Amy worries about the data base they are building.

Damn where is the ACLU?????

[Overseas]

1. K&R!! Thanks to Thom for bringing Amy on to tell us about her arrest and others.

Very intense police tactics.

[Hugin]

2. Yeah, what happened to the First Amendment?

Amy Goodman is a member of the Press.

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. Or the 4th.

[Moochy]

3. "where is the ACLU?" Training 75 lawyers...

Amy Goodman:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Amy-Goodman-Arrested-At-RN-by-Kevin-Gosztola-080901-693.html

She also wrote that, “Meanwhile, in the Twin Cities, the evening Obama was giving his Democratic acceptance speech in June, the St. Paul Police Department arrested a 50-year-old man peacefully handing out leaflets promoting a Sept. 1 march on the Republican National Convention. ACLU Minnesota predicts hundreds will be arrested in St. Paul, and is organizing and training 75 lawyers to defend them.”

[Cleita]

7. Thanks for posting.

I'm glad they are on the ball there. The M$M is totally ignoring this story so far.

[Moochy]

8. Its a good question

Since I'm a card carrying member I had to do my part ;) oh and K&R!

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. This is so important folks!!

[siligut]

6. Not what MSNBC is reporting.

Apparently there was a group calling themselves the RNC Welcoming Committee, self-described anarchists and they started trouble (cut to broken store window for effect}, then other the other groups would follow them, so these “other groups”? They deserved it:sarcasm:. According to MSNBC 280 were arrested and 130 face felony charges.

[Cleita]

9. So did they report on all the kids they sprayed and bloodied at close

range who were doing nothing violent and the reporters who were manhandled and arrested? Probably not.

[Moochy]

11. Did they mention that felony charges in protests are always dropped?

And are just standard police intimidation tactics? Of course not.

Look for some of the protesters to star in some of MSNBC's PRISON DOCUMENTARIES!

[Cleita]

13. They did mention it and pointed out that it puts the people who were

assaulted in a black hole because there is no recourse for them in court. Amy also brought up that she fears what kind of database they are building up.

[siligut]

17. Up date.

What really happened according to MSNBC. Police would follow the groups that looked like trouble or were starting trouble, but then another group they weren’t watching due to following the first group, would start that pesky trouble (they broke a Macy’s window?), and that is when the police had to throw the tear gas, just had to because with 50 mil extra reinforcement money they just couldn’t keep their eyes on all the trouble makers at once.

A funny note, well ironic, MSNBC keeps reporting that twice as many demonstrators have been arrested at the RNC as opposed to the DNC. You think this is due to the idea that there are probably 10 times as many protestors at the RNC? Or maybe due to the paranoid punitive and militaristic ideology of the repukes? Hmmmm.

Did anyone else read where Mitt Romney actually infiltrated the DNC to heckle the media? Investor’s Business Daily reported on it. Mitt obtained a press pass from CNN. The Repugs played the protests/undermining smart. Well, sort of smart, because after all, it was just Mittens.

[Bozita]

10. "Cameras and computers are the tools of journalists"

[Cleita]

12. Thom calling it the "national police riot" now. LOL n/t

[ellenfl]

14. ko is doing the convention but maybe tds will have this story. eom

[Cleita]

15. Says many of the police are unhappy with the orders they are getting from

the RNC and SS. Since when is the RNC in charge of this?

[Moochy]

16. Yeah I'd love to see that Organizational Chart

WTF?