Folks:
Found this story in my travels. All I heard about it Monday night was a crawl on MSNBC that 90 (I think was the number reported) protesters had been arrested.
Earlier that night I was at a presentation by an all-around asshole of a sex educator (I was in a minority of 2 in my assessment of him as an asshole, out of the 2-3 dozen people who attended his talk); one of his many assholy comments reminisced about the massive protests of the 60s and 70s and bitched about "Why don't kids do that today??" Now I regret not having stood up and yelled in his face (as I was tempted to do) "Because today it doesn't work!" Protesters in the past met police violence. Protesters today meet restrictions that prevent them from ever communicating -- not only with the people they're protesting against, but with anything close to mainstream media. The state has taken away the rights of free speech and assembly in perhaps its most necessary and essential form: when protesting politically in public space. And because it's done in the name of public safety, it's accorded a pass by the public at large. If only the power establishment was half as concerned about, hell, I'll let you fill in the blank with your own concern, from the 43,000 people who died in car accidents on the nations roads, to the people who've died in the Iraq War, to the millions of kids harmed by some chemical or another. But no: It's allegedly constitutionally protected peaceful political protests that's a threat to public safety.
BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT.
I've also got this video on the homepage of my profile (myspace.com/bearealman).
And these are the links to where I found the story.
http://newsproject.org/videos/113
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/100_protesters_arrested_in_Denver_hit_0826.html
Police Trap Peaceful Protesters in DenverBy Davin Hutchins on Aug 25, 2008
A calm political protest quickly turned chaotic as anxious
Denver police surrounded protestors peacefully marching
toward the Democratic National Convention Center. After
trapping the crowd between two buildings, hundreds of
officers used pepper spray, batons and unwarranted
aggression. After being surrounded for 20 minutes, two ANP
producers managed to escape after recording the whole affair.
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