US: RNC cops brutally suppress press freedom

NATIONAL STRIKE DAY PROPOSED!

Dear Americans,

I would like to propose a "NATIONAL STRIKE DAY" for every American that is able. I have heard France has been doing this with great success. Please let us get everyone engaged here and anywhere we can post this message or one of your own.

The Questions I would ask here are as follows: What day should it be and when and how often? Once a month to start or? I believe this would really give the people back their power in this country. It is time to take action! If we do not take some action now as our Declaration of Independence says we have the right and obligation to, it looks like our country will fall.

People are losing their homes by the millions, and jobs of course with it, and our government with the media's help are trying to hide it from us. They are going to let us just fall, we have to save ourselves, to many good people's lives are being ruined.

This is the responsibility of a free people. Be sure the world bankers have a diabolical plan for us and unless we truly want to be slaves, we have to do something. I am open to other ideas, or maybe someone is already doing this (I heard something). I plead with each American here on Twitter to get involved and support this idea, and everywhere else we can get this message out.

This will be a peaceful way to get our government's attention, while we take back our country. Trust me if George Washington and the many honorable men and women who fought our war of Independence were here today, they would have already taken action years ago, many years ago, and I doubt it would be very peaceful.

Thus, no one works until our demands are met. Start with say five or ten demands. So my idea, proposal is that Americans just go to the street, your city hall, or what is ever appropriate in your state. No one works until our demands are met. But absolutely No violence, no vandalism, no matter what please. That will destroy our honest political cause afforded us by our constitution. In fact, we should make, in my opinion that it is a very somber and quite sit in, almost complete silence until our demands are met, so they cannot try and intimidate people or arrest them unlawfully as they have been doing. I believe this is very important point, no conflict what so ever, just freeze everything. We are all allowed to stay home from work. We need to get employers involved obviously.

My list of demands start as follows:

1.) No more bail outs, but instead money is to be given directly to the American people.
I heard some experts are saying that this is the only real cure, some 450,000.00 to each American is the answer to our financial crisis. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?=26321

2.) Abolish the IRS, period!

3.) Reinstate our fourth Amendment rights.

4.)

5.)

I hope others will give their suggestions. I would recommend we elect a board and thus work to organize our first AMERICAN NATIONAL STRIKE DAY, or if someone has already started this, please if anyone is aware of this let me know.

Sincere hope for our beloved nation,
Stephen Paine

American Constitution- The Bill of Rights- Amendment I:
gives: Right of the PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE!! when some (I said some) of those people broke that right they forfeit all their rights (to be treated fairly) Throwing stones at shop keepers windows, blowing up someone else's car and throwing shit at anyone apposing what they are saying/doing- I don't see these acts condoned in the constitution. It is inevitable and sad that innocent people are going to get hurt in a large riot, blame the pathetic excuse for an "acting out" protester for any innocent peacefully assembled protester being hurt!!!!! "we want peace for this country but we will riot to get it" Hypocrites!!!

This is the same c*#p that happened in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. History repeats itself. It just switches sides once in awhile to make it interesting.

This video shows those of us who love our country why we now live in a foreign land...

the truest form of american patriotism is being torn to shreds at the rnc. whatever happened to our duty and responsibility to question our country through dedicated journalism?

Shit. Now I'm just plain angry.

the irony is that it is now the conservatives who have lost what it means to be american. I bet the majority of the neo-cons on this site have at least 3 flags in front of their house.

they just forgot what those flags mean.

Whether you think it was dramatized or not, this is America. Our countries identity is based on the citizenry being able to voice their discontent. History is replete with examples of this. Those the question the history of protest in our country are simply ignorant of their own history. I question the patriotism of anyone who defends these criminal acts against citizens who gather for peaceful protest. We are supposed to be an example of freedom to the world. This only demonstrates how far away we are getting from that ideal.

What the fuck is your point GraveLehr? They were locked up for conducting a peaceful protest. And I don't want to hear no bullshit about "unlawful protests". That just means they didn't get "DAH Fuehrer's" permission. This is how they control WHO gets to protest and WHAT they can protest.

This shit angers me to the point that I could just scream, and people like YOU want to discuss the Semantics of prison and jail? Come on man!!!

Sorry about the language for all of you with virgin ears but this pisses me off.

Welcome to Nazi Germany... ah wait... it's Burma... err no... welcome to the USA... now it's correct!

The capitol grounds were vacated before 5 pm.

Thank you for this video, (even though it is heart breaking.) And thank you especially for the links....looks like I have some homework to do. Utterly incomprehensible!

This isn't a case of suppressing freedom, this is a case of the police in the area having to treat everybody around them as a threat.

Due to the radicalism of the protesters.

Now, the question is, did this event take place after 5:00PM? Because ALL protesters and those associated where supposed to get out.

I was just released from the Ramsey County lockup, at 5 30 am Friday morning (the prison where all of us on the Marion st bridge were taken to on the final day of the convention). I was also there on tuesday when they didnt allow Rage to play and we marched down to RNC, before being broken up on St Clair ave. On the final day we marched, around a thousand and a half strong, to university and rice. If you know anything about the Saint Paul area, that is a very big intersection. Once we arrived there, a line of bike and riot cops awaited us. I was shot in the leg by a smoke canister, in this first wave. The cops did not use tear gas, choosing to use the mace instead. We were forced to fall back quickly to the south, which consist of a Sears complex. There we were split in half. As we continued south bound without leadership we were met by more and more cops until we were surrounded , they continued to fire upon us, as many in the crowd asked where we could disperse to. They told us to go to the bridge and we would be allowed to leave the area. Around 300, including my self were herded onto the bridge, and even then they continued to throw concussion grenades at us. After about a half an hour (9pm) we were informed that we were all under arrest, no officer would tell me what crime we commited. We were told to place our hands on our heads, after an hour or so (10pm) Metro transit bus's began to arrive. There route names were replaced with the simple words "Police Bus". One by one the three hundred of us were arrested, by 1 am they brought portable bathrooms to the bridge which they allowed us to use after being searched. Those that used the bathrooms were escourted by a police officer, who watched us. Then we were loaded onto the buses (2 am). At the lock up, we were placed into large cages, according to which bus we came on. There we waited like dogs at the animal shelter for a corrections officer to call our name. From there we were booked and given a citation for unlawful assembly. I was loaded into a van at (5 30 am), with 7 of my fellow inmates and driven a block away, where we were unloaded and given back the possessions that we had in our pockets. (Any backpacks, bags, bikes, etc are being held until Monday). Thankfully, as I was dressed in a tee-shirt and a pair of shorts while it was around 40 to 50 degrees out, we were met by a group of supporters who offered us food, cigarettes, clothing and legal support.

Compare Goodman's video (and others from the RNC protests) with the following article/video/propaganda:

Police Brutality at the Democratic National Convention: Two Minor Girls Arrested for Sidewalk Chalking Near Senator Obama's Hotel

DENVER, Aug. 28 -- On Wednesday, August 27, police officers brutally arrested two teenage girls, ages 15 and 17, near Senator Obama's Denver hotel. The young women, Julia Giacopuzzi and Jayne White, were writing messages in sidewalk chalk on the public sidewalk when the police officers rushed in and violently arrested the girls without warning or provocation.

The girls are members of the pro-life youth organization Survivors, and were in Denver during the Democratic National Convention to call attention to Senator Barack Obama's pro-abortion position as part of A Prayer for Change.

Throughout the DNC, the youth of Survivors were using sidewalk chalk throughout the city of Denver with the permission of City Attorney David Fine and Denver Deputy Chief of Police John Lamb. It was understood by the young women that sidewalk chalk was an accepted medium, and they were given no warning by the police before being cuffed and dragged away.

View video of the arrests:

http://www.youtube.com/v/3Ev3QO3NzbM

Ohhh, and take a look at all the damage done to these girls faces:

http://www.earnedmedia.org/Jayne_Julia.htm

I'm surprised they're still alive : - P

(The original article can be found at
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/733757654.html

...yeah, ChristianNewsWire, quite a shock : - P )

You people that find this shocking should really look around the world today, these people were treated as potential suspects who were still in an area after the police asked them to disband.

For any one who researches this protest/riot at the RNC you will find videos of people right in the middle of the protest breaking innocent vendors/businesses windows and destroying public property.

It is standard procedure to ask the protestors to disband from a particular area, to clean it up and secure the businesses.

Someone cried because of a short video that no one has any proof of where it was taken...??? LOL come on people lets get real! Lets grow up and GROW SOME BALLS!!!!

im glad that another video leaked that angers people like this one does. the revolution is nigh my brothers and sisters. nigh like apple pie on the fourth of july.

I think the litigation that will inevitably follow these conventions will have enormous implications on the future of the 1st Amendment. Maybe more needs to be done. Maybe the faces of the officers (perfectly clear in many videos) need to be linked to names so that the media can hold them personally accountable for their actions. I don't know.

"Fuck the police" -NWA

its a sad day in america when an unarmed woman gets beaten down by a man payed to serve and protect.

police are supposted to serve and protect, at least thats what i thought.

Unalienable rights? This is a human being. These cops, and many others, have no respect for the constitution. We give them power, hoping they'll protect our rights, instead they take them away.

She over-dramatized that. If this was real, then it would be horrible, but cops know that people are trying to make them look bad and therefore don't do this. They don't just beat people to the ground for protesting.

Ummm...Civil Rights movement? Hello?

I want to know why exactly someone higher up in the chain of command ordered the street officers to act so aggressively. They are all acting aggressively in unison. There must be some kind of psychological reason. They know these people pose little threat.

I'm more than certain each of those officers has a conscious that they face each night before they go to sleep, just like everyone else at the convention; except for Sarah Palin, her heart was frozen and shattered in the Alaskan tundra. Making cracks about community service. She can't see further than her own family.

Though, there must be some specific reason for their aggression.

Everyone in this country needs to take a chill pill. I don't see the gain of pushing someone on the ground. Are our minds so lost and distorted that we beat up someone screaming for help?
If so, do they realize that the victim could be someone just like them?
If so, I fear the future.

Amy Goodman was on PBS's "Now" with this footage as well as her own arrest outside of the RNC.
Approximately 500 protesters and the journalists covering the action were arrested and held to be prosecuted at a later date.
Many of the captured and abused journalists were quoted as saying that a Secret Service agent approached them, took their Press passes and walked away with no interferece by the police.
I have friends in Saint Paul who witnessed many of these over-the-top events.
Don't you dare tell me that it wasn't real.

It is the same force that took my name and ordered us to cease and desist via handgun when I protested Regan in the 1990's. The only difference is that they have been controlling America for so long that they no longer fear the American people they steal their power from. I am sorry people had to go through this.

There's no proof that was at the RNC

When has protesting ever gotten anything done? People that are beaten by the police are usually asking for it. You can't form a large group and shout things in an angry manner and not expect to get batoned.

my GOD what is going on? when i used to watch people in germany and china beaten in the streets by police i felt so outraged at the fact that this could happen- not in any country, but just to humans living on this planet. i also felt that even though i didn't always agree with my government, it did keep me safe most of the time.

What do people around the world think of our great crumbling nation? I myself feel sick, sicker than I have for the last eight years- and thats saying something.

Who do we turn to now but ourselves? If the US is the so called "world police" then what does that mean for the world?

I'm pretty sure this is acted out and made for dramatization. I think I've seen it on TV, but if not there is something seriously wrong.

It's not the country I know.

Your papers please!

Please state your business!

Get on the ground!

You are free. Free to what your told!

What a Fucked up reality exists here in the U.S. at the moment.

Good luck my fellow citizens.

Ride on!

its a truly sad thing, how many of these intances do you think go unnoticed in our country? i wish there was a camera for every single moment this happened because it's more common than people think. Shame that in the land of the free we still have to worry about the diminishing concept of freedom of speech