Tuesday, September 2, 2008

RNC protest police state

Bitch, PhD:

Criminalize dissent, privatize public space (and, I would add, politicize private space): the tactics of police and Homeland Security over the weekend leading up to the convention

Needless impounding of a bus on which this earth-activist family lives

All the lies told in defense of the police state

Video from Amy Goodman, journalist with Democracy Now! who was arrested for nothing

See also Glenzilla ("Massive police raids on suspected protectors" -- emphasizing the pre-emptive nature of the police response and its brutality. The best part is where the city code people come by to try and shutter the house for violations including a busted back door -- that the police kicked in). Also his Scenes from Saint Paul, other links as well.

Firedoglake: It also helps to remember that the fascists behind this do so to cover up their own corruption. (Godwin violation mine, not theirs)

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