RNC head-busting update

Sep 03, 2008 12:14

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arrests, journalists, civil liberties, politics, protest, rnc

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inverted_man September 4 2008, 20:11:25 UTC
Thanks for posting these. And you're right.

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infrarad September 5 2008, 05:39:19 UTC
My commentary is a little too close to random-content-free-internet-comments-page for comfort, in retrospect. The lady pointed out that in certain situations, the police arrest everyone they can see and sort it out later. However, I get really nervous when journalists are arrested.

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robcallahan September 5 2008, 08:29:28 UTC
Naomi Wolf states: Early on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere - while someone is being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: "dogs go on with their doggy life ... How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the disaster."

Pretty much what I've been seeing this week. Condo dwellers sipping espresso and wine, ignoring the sound of gas grenade launchers one block over and police snipers loaded with rubber bullets just across the street...

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