Scared police is no police
While Cindy McCain and the Republicans inside the RNC shat dimes for the proleptically unfortunate of Lousiana (and admired themselves for so doing), US journalists were getting beaten, robbed and incarcerated by USian polizei in St. Paul.
Scared police is no police.
- Secret Service ripped press credentials from the necks of legitimate journalists with high-level passes to the convention, and walked away, ignoring requests for ID, receipts.
- Minnesota Police advised the journalists to not be present in the streets, but to spy on the demos from afar, through telephoto lenses.
- Police removed batteries from journalists' cameras.
Scared police is no police.
Labels: demonstrations, fear, freedom of speech, journalism, mccain, police brutality, republican national convention, st. paul
posted by Tom Matrullo at Tuesday, September 02, 2008
3 Comments:
All of this could have been prevented if they had their equipment anointed before the convention. Jesus.
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Very edifying, but I'm still a little unclear: would all have been ok had they simply had their nokias anointed, or would they have had to receive calls from the Church of Wasillassahtahknotentotep, whose ministering tools were themselves anointed, in order to have the blessing full bore, as it were?
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