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.

• 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.

Fear breeds scum, scum breeds fear

Raymond kept rising in the Republican ranks. In 1998, Sen. Mitch McConnell hired him ...

McConnell this a.m. was quoted on NPR as saying, in effect, USians "should be afraid."

Indeed.