The McMedia has Condescended to Pay Attention? (or Too Little Too Late)
Finally someone in the mainstream media has somewhat stepped up to the plate and written an article about the unlawful arrests at the Republican National Convention last summer and the repercussions since. It's not the world's best article, but its pretty good and I think does come across illustrating how the city, the NYPD, and the Secret Service (who is the top authority for security at national security events such as this) trampled upon the civil liberties of many. As you can see, I'm not the only one who chose to fight rather than accept an ACD, and many of those who did accept it did so only under misinformation and sleep deprivation after being held in filthy conditions under duress for days...clearly a situation ideal for important legal decision making, no?
The quote from the police about quality arrests is clearly false; the Bloomberg administration and the NYPD stepped into a huge pile of horse shit with this one and are desperately trying to cover the stench with cheap perfume. It stinks like Jean Nate and horse shit...a new perfume, called "Eau de Bloomberg". Of course the city cannot prosecute successfully- not because of the sheer number of arrests, as they claim, but because of illigitimacy of the arrests to begin with. Duh. You sweep the streets with giant orange nets indiscriminately, blatantly breaking the law yourself (to say nothing of several incidents of police perjury proven in court creating some of the dismissals) and of course you can't prosecute. That's not to say they're not trying their damnedest, and at least getting the satisfaction of making us schlepp endelessly to and from 100 Centre street.
I'm actually pretty excited that its being brought to light, though funny how no one would touch it before the election or inauguration isn't it? At least this is one article that doesn't make protesters sound like crazed dangerous troublemaking loonies, like most tend to.
Not to say that I'm not a crazed loony, I'm just not dangerous.
The quote from the police about quality arrests is clearly false; the Bloomberg administration and the NYPD stepped into a huge pile of horse shit with this one and are desperately trying to cover the stench with cheap perfume. It stinks like Jean Nate and horse shit...a new perfume, called "Eau de Bloomberg". Of course the city cannot prosecute successfully- not because of the sheer number of arrests, as they claim, but because of illigitimacy of the arrests to begin with. Duh. You sweep the streets with giant orange nets indiscriminately, blatantly breaking the law yourself (to say nothing of several incidents of police perjury proven in court creating some of the dismissals) and of course you can't prosecute. That's not to say they're not trying their damnedest, and at least getting the satisfaction of making us schlepp endelessly to and from 100 Centre street.
I'm actually pretty excited that its being brought to light, though funny how no one would touch it before the election or inauguration isn't it? At least this is one article that doesn't make protesters sound like crazed dangerous troublemaking loonies, like most tend to.
Not to say that I'm not a crazed loony, I'm just not dangerous.
posted by Le Synge Bleu at 4:38 PM
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