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- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -17/+351FTA: When I asked St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington how reporters are to operate in this atmosphere, he suggested, "By embedding reporters in our mobile field force."
Jesus... - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -18/+233There is still work to do. This story has barely made it into the MSM. Amy and her co-workers are still facing charges. Please digg this story.
- TheLoneHoot, on 09/04/2008, -6/+186Reminds me of Amy Goodman's question to Harrington about why they were arrested and he said, he didn't know, he'd have to see THEIR video tape! Um, hello? You arrested us and you can't tell why until you've seen the evidence WE have of YOUR actions?!
Gestapo. - phnx0221, on 09/04/2008, -13/+157http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/3/call_to_ ...
The Ramsey County Attorney’s office is in the process of deciding whether or not to press felony P.C. (probable cause) riot charges against Democracy Now! Producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Please contact Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner by all means possible to demand that her office not press charges against Kouddous and Salazar.
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner
RCA at co.ramsey.mn.us (cc: dropthecharges at democracynow.org)
651-266-3222
Susan Gaertner for Governor
info at susangaertner.com (cc: dropthecharges at democracynow.org)
(612) 978-8625
(612)804-6156
The St. Paul City Attorney’s office has already charged Amy Goodman with misdemeanor obstruction of a legal process and interference with a peace officer. Contact St. Paul City Attorney John Choi by all means possible to demand that the charges against Goodman be dropped immediately.
St. Paul City Attorney John Choi
john.choi at ci.stpaul.mn.us (cc: dropthecharges at democracynow.org) (651) 266-8710
Be sure to cc: dropthecharges@democracynow.org on all emails so that our team can deliver print outs of your messages to the St. Paul City Attorney and Ramsey County Attorney offices. - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -7/+147First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -12/+150Where have we heard that before? Embedded reporters were used in Iraq and just look at the biased reporting we got from there.
- BottomTicket, on 09/04/2008, -12/+133It is completely absurd that the msm is not covering this story but they are covering garbage that doesn't effect our citizens civil liberties please shout this to your friends and help get the word out
- swrostmore, on 09/04/2008, -5/+111Police in St. Paul are being accused of continuing to intimidate a group of videomakers that traveled to the Twin Cities to document police conduct during the Republican National Convention.
On Saturday, police raided a home where members of the I-Witness Video collective were staying. Members of the group were detained for over two hours.
Yesterday police armed with batons and a battering ram entered a St. Paul office building that housed the offices of I-Witness Video.
Police claimed they were investigating reports of anarchists holding hostages in the building. Members of I-Witness Video accused the police of blatant harassment and of using the bogus “hostage” claim to seek entry to their office.
Lawyers and legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild described what happened. While the kidnapping report turned out to be false, the incident had an immediate effect on the work of I-Witness Video. After the group held an impromptu press conference outside, the building’s landlord forced the group to move out.
democracynow.org - Meekus, on 09/04/2008, -8/+104I know a few very good police officers. Friends with them and their families. So my first instinct is to think to myself "There has got to be more to this story".
But then I put myself the reporter's situation. I am simply doing my job, recording what is going on. Then an officer in riot gear pushes me back and back, hits me, demeans me, and attempts to assault me into submission. I'd like to think I would be a law-abiding citizen and realize HE is just doing his job. But then, if I get hit, my first reaction is to hit back to defend myself. I would feel the anger and resentment building inside as everything screams "THIS IS WRONG!". I fear I would be beat to a bloody pulp for fighting back. And then charged with a million things because I tried to defend myself. - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -11/+104What's scary here is that reporters and photographers wield a great deal of power relative to the ordinary citizen who gets swept up in these raids. Imagine how much worse it is for protesters. The notion of charging these people with felonies is frightening. What's worse, the msm barely covers this aspect of the story.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -15/+98FTA: "The Democratic and Republican national conventions have become very expensive and protracted acts of political theater, essentially four-day-long advertisements for the major presidential candidates."
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I tried watching the DNC by I felt like I was watching an infomercial. I couldn't stand it and turned it off. - H3LLSL337, on 09/04/2008, -2/+82That statement made by Harrington really is horrible. You would think that a sheriff would know that the burden of proof is on the state and he should not have to rely on the defendants video to exonerate them. It's completely bass ackwards.
- pmctosh, on 09/04/2008, -10/+86The more I see this kind of ***** the more it confirms for me that we really are living in a police state in North America. Freedom, yea right.
- BelatedHero, on 09/04/2008, -2/+78Nicole Salazar's video of her own arrest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9wmqO2Khw - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -5/+74My thought, exactly. I'm just so disgusted, I literally couldn't type it out. I'm running low on energy. These MFrs are hard to keep up with.
- razor150, on 09/04/2008, -11/+69Welcome to the final stages in the death of America. The Constitution is in shambles and one party is actively dismantling it while the other is to afraid to say anything because preventing the dismantling might get them called un-American.
- Lucas123, on 09/04/2008, -8/+61I must be reading this wrong. Did this take place in St. Paul or Tiananmen? We don't do this in the U.S. -- do we?
- insomniac8400, on 09/04/2008, -4/+51At first I was willing to side with the cops, since protesters usually end up protesting the police instead of whatever they were there for to protest and basically force the police to act. But ripping the RNC press credentials from someone's neck and arresting them, because they were inquiring about coworkers that were arrested is pretty insane. Of course since this didn't happen to a mainstream reporter, the police will probably get away with it.
- allowners, on 09/04/2008, -21/+67Amy Goodman was arrested because sell-out, authoritarian corporatists don't like a strong independent woman.
- TheLoneHoot, on 09/04/2008, -5/+51Sorry cawpin, but she did NOT try to move past the officer. She asked a question and was arrested.
If that had happened to the Republicans (from out of state) trying to stop the recount in Florida in 2000, when they were truly being disruptive and physically crowding law enforcement officers, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Michelle Malkin, and the rest of their ilk would have had a field day. How many times have you seen abortion protesters arrested for simply asking a question? Even if they're forcibly moved backward, they're almost NEVER arrested unless they do something really wrong.
by the way, she was a FULLY CREDENTIALED MEMBER OF THE PRESS WHO HAD MADE THE FACT CLEAR. - CrazedLeper, on 09/04/2008, -8/+43I'm sorry, are you citing some kind of law? Has the administration not made it clear that they will not be bothered with such trifles?
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -25/+56These bastards have homes and they have to sleep. A visit at 2am to express your displeasure with their tyrannical tactics could be done and over in less than 10 minutes. Enough said.
- unfairunbalance, on 09/04/2008, -11/+38No freedom of the press. Corporate Fascist Nazis that control America step all over the Constitution. The police action in St. Paul was organized by the Secret Service. In fact they act more like the SS of Nazi Germany. America unite against the oppressors of freedom and take up arms to restore the Republic against this tyranny! They will not listen to reason then fight for freedom against this abomination of shadow government set up by the Rockefeller's CFR.
- MWeather, on 09/04/2008, -1/+29That's what they count on: outrage fatigue.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -5/+30When the fox is guarding the hen house, it never indicates such.
Your (our) civil liberties are about as important to these traitors as a piece of dog ***** stuck in your shoe tread is to you. Their ultimate goal is to deprive you of what little liberty you have left and then eventually taunt you for not doing something to protect your liberty when you had the chance.
Live on your knees or die on your feet. Eventually you'll have to choose. - fluoro, on 09/04/2008, -5/+31Being a journalist is not a real job? What law did she break? Seriously, spell it out for us. What did she do that was illegal? I want you to to cite exactly what it was, and give us some kind of reference to where the law is.
From where I'm standing, it looks like the police are the ones who broke the laws. Tell me why I'm wrong. - mr0nine2five, on 09/04/2008, -4/+30The sick and disgusting thing is, when you try to explain this to people who only watch "main stream" news, they respond like it MUST be the reporters fault. Or that the I Witness group must have done something wrong.
I'm trying not to make too general of a statement, but it seems like the older generations just don't seem to get it anymore. They lived through WWII and Vietnam, but can't understand what it means to REALLY fight for freedom these days. Not just join the army and do what your CO tells. That our government has become so corrupted that the "political parties" are just one giant mechanism for control. - BLiSTeD, on 09/04/2008, -7/+33First :When was there a riot? Because there are police in riot gear does not equate a riot in progress...
Second: If there was a riot, how come it was not reported on? These kinds of movements generally spark interest when revolving around politics.
Third: You defenders of this label those against these actions as "sheeple", oddly enough you are the people who suggest doing whatever an authority says with no question or hesitation. That seems more sheeple than requesting an explanation. - inactive, on 09/04/2008, -4/+27There is a precedent. AP photographer Matt Rourke is reportedly going to get his charges dropped. He was arrested at the same time as the 2 Democracy Now! producers.
"Phil Carruthers, the Ramsey County attorney's office division director, told AP that no charges against Rourke were anticipated."
http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/09/03/3320/ap ... - methodmonk, on 09/04/2008, -8/+31if people dont start fighting back like they did against that one arrest at the RNC, we are going to seriously find ourselves in a police state soon.
they cant arrest/shoot everyone. especially not when half the people are videotaping it. DAMN THE MAN! take the country back. - aabra, on 09/04/2008, -2/+24Threats to journalists for reporting the truth are not just happening in the US. Documentary filmmaker Andrew Berends is being held in Nigeria on espionage charges, which carry the death penalty.
- brightlight4, on 09/04/2008, -3/+24Right DiggGeek, this is the PreFascist state that you are living in right now, the full Fascist State will probably come into being once the elections are over and the Republicans Cook the Votes again as they did with Bush!!!
- grobinson, on 09/04/2008, -6/+27"... agent came over and ripped my convention credential from my neck."
That sickens me, this whole story sickens me. - positron, on 09/04/2008, -5/+25Just remember that a good cop who does nothing to stop bad cops is not a good cop at all.
- dragnonfly310, on 09/04/2008, -3/+22What ever happened to innocent until PROVEN guilty? An arrest is NOT proof of guilt. That's why we have trials, genius.
- wootup, on 09/04/2008, -5/+23You sound like a very happy and fulfilled individual.
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -18/+36Make your donations today to Democracy Now on Link TV. Support our independent media!
- inactive, on 09/04/2008, -9/+26I think it's time to start searching tax records and providing GPS coordinates to the homes of these treasonous scum.
- BitKid, on 09/04/2008, -0/+18You'll have to pry my DNS from my cold dead router!
- LeepII, on 09/04/2008, -6/+24Nice to see there are still a few real Americans willing to defend the country.
WAKE UP AMERICA! - glasnostic, on 09/04/2008, -1/+18i think its quite telling. obviously the police in this situation regard themselves no longer as a protection force for all citizens, but as an offensive force, there to take out and arrest anybody freely expressing their right to protest.
they think of themselves as equivalent to our invading forces in Iraq, and they want our reports behind the lines because they anticipate the use of broad and non specific aggression. - NonServium, on 09/04/2008, -0/+17No, both parties are controlled by the same people. One side may say "taste great" while the other side says "less filling", but trust me there is a monied interest behind it all.
- Pstmann, on 09/04/2008, -2/+18I recommend that you get back to work on whatever it is that nobody gives a crap about.
At least these people are trying to do something that is a service to the community. - CrazedLeper, on 09/04/2008, -3/+17Last stop, FEMA coffin. Everybody off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epMeGr-wDc0&feature ... - bremstrong, on 09/04/2008, -5/+20Arresting a guy because he asks a question? Kind of sums it up.
- Kahnza, on 09/04/2008, -7/+21I'm prepared to fight and die for my freedom. Are you?
- randyzaia, on 09/04/2008, -3/+17INTERNET TOUGH GUY ALERT
- razor150, on 09/04/2008, -2/+16So is she convicted? Since when is the burden of proof on the person and not on the state?
- phnx0221, on 09/04/2008, -2/+14http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/AP_photographer_ ...
might as well have linked this, so we can keep getting this info out to people. - groverblue, on 09/04/2008, -3/+16being a woman has nothing to do with it.
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