Minneapolis under siege
So Amy Goodman was arrested and her credentials stripped for asking police how to get two members of her team out. Let’s be real, this has nothing to do with journalists being disorderly. This is censorship. Use a camera to record the police and you go to jail.
More details from Democracy Now.
While it’s possibly true that small anarchist splinter groups untrained in nonviolent protest provoked police action randomly, the thousands who marched remained nonviolent throughout. It’s also not clear if police infiltrators into some of the small groups provoked the dunderheads to act as they did. That’s an old, familiar tactic to veterans of marches past.
In any case, that does not grant the police license to practice censorship, to break the laws themselves or to act with racism.
This is somewhat reminiscent of the Chicago police riots of 1968. And most of the country supports the police doing this stuff. It’ll likely continue till we get more Kent States and Jackson States and people are murdered by authorities. This is not, however, crowd control. This is totalitarianism.
And if you don’t defend the people wrongfully teargassed, arrested and assaulted, who do you think will be left to speak up on the day they come for you.
Been there, experienced it. I’m not exaggerating at all. You will be incredulous when you are doing nothing wrong and they take you away.
Rights? Don’t make me laugh.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 am
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