news crew arrested for covering news story
April 22, 2009 by Betmo
just when you thought it was back to having civil liberties- bam! reality takes over and you realize that not much has changed here in the new america. nope. we have paramilitary swat and other special task forces all over america; we have municipalities hiring private security instead of police forces; we have our very own military patrolling within our borders for the first time in our history- and i won’t even go into the homeland security forces.
do we really need that much ’security?’ or is it security for the folks who keep shafting us over and over and over?
at any rate, the few independent journalists who are trying to do their job- get arrested and manhandled for their efforts- ala amy goodman. i highly doubt that this was a ‘rogue’ cop using ‘misjudgment’- my gut tells me it’s more rampant like the rodney king cops.
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Betmo, you just educated me about something that happened a few miles from my house! I did not know that.
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Like you told me on another post Betmo..its all about power and exerting it.
i love susan boyle- i see that it’s border explorer’s latest post
i find the stuff going on in the news very scary and disheartening. especially in your home state. looks like we are going to have to keep on top of things like this as bloggers. we have an obligation to continue under obama what we started with bushco.
toward the end, after the cameraman was forced to put his camera down, you see at least one soldier with the firemen.
More military and police presence causes us to lose more of our freedoms daily.
This is not a new scenario but with more cops and “security forces’ in place it happens more often.
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