Comments on: Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Unlawfully Arrested

By: Kerrick

Kerrick — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:09:11 +0000

The police are attacking people with children and families and responsibilities; I’ve been watching as moms with their young kids are held at gunpoint. I doubt seriously that you think police should burst into people’s homes on the mere suspicion that they might potentially attend a protest and hold four year olds at gunpoint and make children sit in handcuffs for hours, as has happened. I doubt seriously that you think that people exercising their legal rights should be knocked over, beaten, and tasered multiple times while unresisting, and then held without charge and without medical care, and beaten up while in custody. I don’t believe you’re that much of a fool, to give away your constitutional right to dissent or to humane treatment should you ever be arrested. But maybe you are, since as you point out Republicans tend not to exercise the right to protest very much. Perhaps that’s because there’s nothing to protest when you own the major media corporations and have controlled the tenor of discourse for eight years. Or perhaps that’s because Republicans believe the voices of ordinary people don’t belong in politics.

If you don’t want your free speech I’ll take it. But of course you prefer to make comments on blogs rather than talk to people face to face as the protesters are doing. If anyone deleted your small-spirited gloating you would go whine that they were violating your right to free speech. I’ve seen countless right wingers do that; it’s nothing new. Which takes more moral courage—to stand unarmed and unresisting in front of an armed officer and state your position, or to post a narrow, vicious little gloat on someone else’s website? Maybe it’s not that Republicans feel complacent in their tyrrany, or that they think ordinary people’s voices shouldn’t be heard—maybe it’s just general cowardice.

By: Cole Krawitz

Cole Krawitz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:03:05 +0000

You’re glad that journalists are being arrested?!!

Riots? They’re protesting. It’s called free speech. The choice of the St. Paul police to utilize military tactics and dress up in riot gear is about their wanting to stop people from exercising their free speech. So I guess you just want the First Amendment gone — that’s what you’re advocating, a world where journalists don’t get to report on the stories, and people aren’t able to express dissent.

By: Daniel Zimnikov

Daniel Zimnikov — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:49:32 +0000

Her crime is for being an idiot and for insitigating stupidity, like those riots that the Democrats cause during every single Republican National Convention.

Do you ever hear of Republicans marching on the DNC? No. Thats because they have jobs, and kids, and responsibilities.

I’m glad they got arrested.

By: SoUrban

SoUrban — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:47:54 +0000

Indeed, we are all thankful that Sharif, Nicole and Amy emerged from those prisons. We know what kinds of “accidental deaths” happen when people are left in police custody too long..

Let us give thanks and also give generously to nonprofits like Democracy Now! who are bringing us the real news- in real time.

Peace to you all.

http://www.sourban.net/Riot-Geared-Feds-Abusing-and-Arresting-Peaceful-Members-of-the-Press-at-RNC

By: Aimee Kligman, nee Dassa

Aimee Kligman, nee Dassa — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:57:41 +0000

Cole, I watch Democracy Now everyday, and yes it was absolutely shocking. Amy Goodman was back at her post today in Minneapolis reporting. All of them (3) were released, but there’s some heavy duty investigations going on. When I watched the videos on YouTube, it looked as if we were in an autocratic nation. Kouddous was actually “bloodied”. You never anything like that happening at Democratic National Conventions. I wish more people would watch Link TV.