Embezzled monkey testicles
I know that everybody likes to keep up on the newest terminology, the hip new slang, um...yo. So I thought it would interest you to know that people no longer "plan to protest", instead, and I think you'll agree this is much cooler, they are engaged in a "Conspiracy to riot in the furtherance of Terrorism".
People generally thought the argument that these terrorism laws and labels would eventually be applied to us was absurd. That it was the slippery slope argument of alarmists. And yet there it is. The people who are being charged with this did nothing more than to help coordinate the already existing protests at the RNC so they could work together more effectively. These charges can bring them up to seven and half years in prison.
Apparently, while there's nothing morally wrong with killing and torturing hundreds of thousands of people, it is morally wrong to suggest it is. These are the same protests where Amy Goodman and two other reporters from Democracy Now, along with several others, were arrested and released the next day. The charges against Amy Goodman of obstructing the police for asking them to release her journalists, who clearly had press passes and every right to be there have not been dropped, and so far they seem to have every intention of taking it to trial.
And why not? Her "reporting" was in fact obstructing the the police's ability to crack down on the public. If people keep filming these things and telling the public about them, it interferes with the cops abilities to preemptively raid houses of "potential" protesters and hold their children at gunpoint. What's the point of being a cop after all if you can't terrorize the public. How else are they supposed to get revenge for 4 years of being called "shit stain" in high school?
Since being accused of terrorism can cause you to lose many of your imagined rights, including your right to a phone call and habeas corpus, this means of course that no one is safe anymore from being shipped off to Guantanamo to have clamps put on their nuts. Not that they were really safe from it before, but hopefully this will strip away a little more of the illusion.
TORTURE FUN FACT! The manual we use to train our "enhanced interrogators" is the very same one used by the Chinese to torture prisoners. Of course, not understanding semantics as we do, they foolishly called it a torture manual. Also, the point of torture was never to garner intelligence, but instead to illicit false confessions.
But, no worries, as long as you've never said anything that could be considered negative of the government on the phone or over the internet you're safe. Probably.
This is America after all.
People generally thought the argument that these terrorism laws and labels would eventually be applied to us was absurd. That it was the slippery slope argument of alarmists. And yet there it is. The people who are being charged with this did nothing more than to help coordinate the already existing protests at the RNC so they could work together more effectively. These charges can bring them up to seven and half years in prison.
Apparently, while there's nothing morally wrong with killing and torturing hundreds of thousands of people, it is morally wrong to suggest it is. These are the same protests where Amy Goodman and two other reporters from Democracy Now, along with several others, were arrested and released the next day. The charges against Amy Goodman of obstructing the police for asking them to release her journalists, who clearly had press passes and every right to be there have not been dropped, and so far they seem to have every intention of taking it to trial.
And why not? Her "reporting" was in fact obstructing the the police's ability to crack down on the public. If people keep filming these things and telling the public about them, it interferes with the cops abilities to preemptively raid houses of "potential" protesters and hold their children at gunpoint. What's the point of being a cop after all if you can't terrorize the public. How else are they supposed to get revenge for 4 years of being called "shit stain" in high school?
Since being accused of terrorism can cause you to lose many of your imagined rights, including your right to a phone call and habeas corpus, this means of course that no one is safe anymore from being shipped off to Guantanamo to have clamps put on their nuts. Not that they were really safe from it before, but hopefully this will strip away a little more of the illusion.
TORTURE FUN FACT! The manual we use to train our "enhanced interrogators" is the very same one used by the Chinese to torture prisoners. Of course, not understanding semantics as we do, they foolishly called it a torture manual. Also, the point of torture was never to garner intelligence, but instead to illicit false confessions.
But, no worries, as long as you've never said anything that could be considered negative of the government on the phone or over the internet you're safe. Probably.
This is America after all.