Police On Horseback Charge Small Group
September 7, 2007 by Sumo
Fellow Sirens and friends of the blogosphere…I knew this day would dawn. I’ve seen it coming as I’m sure you all have…but in no clearer way than this story here. George sent his mounted police to charge an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq War in Washington yesterday. Three freedom fighters were arrested. It was a peaceful crowd of 20 journalists and four or five protestors. Of the three arrested…Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who has done two tours of Iraq, Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and a lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles.
Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least $10,000 unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15th march that many thousands are expected to attend. This doesn’t surprise me either. This is the test people. This is the test whether George will unleash the hounds on the crowds…and by that I mean…we may see another Kent State. I think the big guns will be coming out for this one gang. Rubber bullets injure and kill too…and I see it in our future. This is NOT what executive privilege means my friends…this is fascism at its best. It is the suppressing of a country’s populace…trampling on their free will to speak out at that which would attempt to stifle their voice of freedom. Hard as the Bush madministration will try…we will not be stopped…only until we are dead. He hasn’t got enough of his goon police for that…not yet anyway.
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Last night, I watched “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.” It’s a film about Sophie and Hans Scholl, a brother and sister in Nazi Germany who were members of the White Rose Resistance Group. They were arrested along with Christof Probst, tried and convicted of treason, and beheaded.
It’s an important film.
Where is that freedom Bush claims he is bringing to the Iraqi’s, it sure isn’t here.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Sumo. I missed it. You’d THINK with freedom of the press, they’d be bitching long & hard about this.
I’ve been meaning to thank you also for your other posts of late.
Thanks DP…much appreciated.
Hey, after I left here, I decided to do a search of news re freedom of the press, & guess what popped up?
“US, Indonesia urge China and India to press Myanmar
1 day ago
“SYDNEY (AFP) — The US and Indonesian leaders called Saturday on China and India to bring their clout to bear on Myanmar’s military junta to improve its human rights record, but Beijing immediately rebuffed the appeal.
“US President George W. Bush and his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued the call after talks on the sidelines of an Asia Pacific summit in Sydney, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said.
“Wirajuda however conceded that international pressure had so far failed to produce a change in the behaviour of Myanmar’s military regime.
“US Deputy National Security Adviser Jim Jeffrey confirmed Bush had raised Myanmar with Yudhoyono, saying he had done so with many of the 21 leaders attending the Asia Pacific Economic forum summit.
“I wouldn’t want to single out any single country, but we would be delighted if both of those countries would do more. Everybody needs to do more,” he said.
“I wouldnt want to single out specific actions. We want everybody to take the Burma situation seriously,” he added, using the name by which Myanmar is still commonly known.
“Bush was calling on all countries attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit “to deal with this pressing human rights problem,” Jeffrey told reporters.
“But Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao ruled out the possibility of Beijing wading into the internal affairs of another country.
“We have repeatedly stated China’s position, which is not to interfere in other nations’ internal affairs. It’s a very important principle,” he told reporters.
“China has never advocated the use of pressure to handle relevant issues. Facts also prove that such a principle has produced good results in the past. So we still believe this issue should be solved through a dialogue of mutual respect,” he said.
“Wirajuda said countries grouped in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) had realised their admission of Myanmar to the organisation 10 years ago had not had the desired effect.
“All of us in ASEAN have in the past year admitted and recognised that the constructive engagement by ASEAN has not produced any tangible result — we admit that,” Wirajuda said.
“Likewise also the West, they admitted the sanctions and pressure approach do not work, so we are all frustrated,” added Wirajuda, who was present in the meeting between Bush and Yudhoyono.
“He said Yudhoyono told the US leader it was “important to also work with China and India to help encourage Myanmar to change” because they are its two biggest neighbours.
Bush “agreed that we should talk with China and India,” Wirajuda said.
“The US president spoke about Myanmar earlier in his visit to Sydney for the summit, accusing its military rulers of “tyrannical” behaviour in cracking down on street protests.
“It’s inexcusable that people who march for freedom are then treated (this way) by a repressive state,” he said.”
Can’t seem to highlight that last part, which is what I wanted to emphasize.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jLDb_4jeE8ejHCsMtTtFtH3cOb0g
Fuckin’ hypocritical cretin!