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Throughout the summer, threats of violence against Robeson and the scheduled August concert filled The Peekskill Evening Star. The night of the 27th sheriffs watched as 300 men — many American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars members — used clubs, rocks, bottles, knives, and fence posts to smash cars, destroy the stage and seating, and attack concertgoers. A dozen victims were rushed to the hospital. Protesters even set a cross alight on a nearby hill. During the nearly three hour attack, the mob shouted, “We’re Hitler’s boys,” “Lynch Robeson,” “Kill every Commie bastard in America,” and “Every N—- and Jew bastard dies here tonight.” Meanwhile the authorities did nothing and arrested no one. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declined to investigate the incident unless officials at the Justice Department compelled him to. They didn’t.

 And today, accredited journalists filming protests of the RNC are brutalized and arrested.

The protests against the Republican convention have barely begun but the police have already begun their crackdown against any one perceived to be involved the demonstrations. Police in the Twin Cities worked with federal officials to detain dozens of activists and conduct a series of coordinated raids on a number of locations. Among them was Democracy Now!’s Elizabeth Press who was detained, along with several others, in a house raid on the video collective, I-Witness Video. Press files a report from the streets of the Twin Cities.

But why should I care, you ask, I’m not a rabble rouser, I won’t have anything to worry about in the police state these tactics hint we’re going towards.

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

Frankly, this is hugely anti-constitutional. In the last 8 years the 4th amendment has been completely bent over the oval office desk and fucked, hard-core, and we’ve said nothing, because only “terrorists” were getting no-knock raids. (Interesting, isn’t it, that the Jews were almost the last to be persecuted by the Nazis, and the first were the communists - persecuted by the Nazis, the socialist party…) Now, our media and others who dissent against the ruling class are being ‘detained’ (the same term they use for captives in Guantanamo, right?), stripped of their rights given to us by the very founders of this country who fought against governmental oppression and intolerance.

Free speech and the right to protest and bear arms against your goverment is enshrined in the very words of the founders of our contry, these aren’t some piss-ass amentments brought to ban flag burning, these are the words of those who risked EVERYTHING to give us everything we hold dear in this country. This is being taken away from us. It will not be given back without fighting for it again. People died for these freedoms (the same freedom we’re claiming to defend in Iraq and yet denying to anyone saying the Iraq war is a bad idea). Do you want to die for these freedoms, against your fellow countrymen who think you shouldn’t have them? Someday you may.

Some may say it will never come to American vs. American for our constitution rights, but to get these rights at all it was British vs. British until they declared American sovereignity.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that leading someone to believe you have child pornography to show or exchange is a federal crime, brushing aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or even innocent e-mails that describe pictures of grandchildren.

 So pretending to be a 14 year old wanting to have sex with someone is okay, but pretending to have pictures of a 14 year old wanting to have sex with someone is now a federal crime.

The new law sets a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child pornography. It does not require that someone actually possesses child pornography.

 Hello thoughtcrime!

The Honeywell Micro Air Vehicle or “Honeywell MAV” is seen during a flight test in this undated photograph taken at an undisclosed location. The MAV weighs 16 pounds when empty (dry) and 18 1/2 pounds when fully loaded with fuel (wet). It is 14 inches in diameter and 22 inches from the feet to the top of the MAV structure. Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime.

Well, who didn’t see this coming? Thankfully, it should be fairly easy to disable with an EMP type weapon (which it’s not geared to detect, only visual and infra-red light wavelengths). The race against a police state was started over 200 years ago when our country was founded. That’s what the second amendment was all about. Bear arms will totally keep the police off of you.

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Utah man gets tasered for arguing about a speeding ticket.  What strikes me as odd is how other traffic ticket taserings come up in the related videos section. I had no idea this happened. Everything was caught on tape by the cop’s car. The guy maintained, even after being tased, that he had been obeying the prior speed limit before he got to the 40mph sign and had slowed down upon passing it.

Now, on the one hand, the guy should have been a bit nicer to the cop.

On the other hand, the cop had no reason to feel this guy was a threat. Nothing threatening was said, no threatening moves were made, though I guess you could say this is “resisting arrest.” Arrest for what, and not being read your rights, however, is another matter. The cop didn’t claim he was resisting arrest however, he just said, when asked why he did such a thing, he replied “Well, you should have followed my instructions.”

Later, the cop threatens to arrest the guy’s pregnant wife if she doesn’t do exactly as he says.

He never read the guy his rights, and never said why he was arresting him other than “You were speeding” and refused to tell the guy how fast he was allegedly going.