While I understand the need for crowd control at such an event, it appears, from many eyewitnesses to the events mentioned on other websites, that the police have taken things a bit too far. I have watched Amy Goodman and her colleagues for over a year now and find it hard to believe that they have been caught up in the inciting riot charges hung around their necks. Fortunately, all three of the members of her media team, including herself were released within a day of being arrested, although charges are pending still against all three.
At both the DNC events of last week, and more particularly the RNC in Minneapolis/St. Paul, the federal government, state and local authorities have displayed utter disregard for both the tenets of free speech and peaceful demonstrations. In their zeal to cater to the image of a efficiently run media spectacle at both Denver and Twin Cities venues, they have trampled over dissent of the policies of both political parties and the establishment.
I fear for our country as more and more people are both swept up and silenced in the attempt to tamp down public opposition to a failed and unpopular war, administration and government.
And what I especially am frightened of is the notion that the majority of Americans don't know that this is happening on the streets of their cities. They are just complacent and content to go about their lives while those that fight for and stand up for justice are silenced. Maybe we deserve the government and society we get if we let those with a voice to speak out on injustice and truth go unnoticed and worse yet, drowned out by the sameness of our media, the mediocrity that is corporate-owned and backed media in America today.
Amy and those like you fighting for reporting what is really going on in the US today, we applaud your efforts and want you to keep fighting the good fight.
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