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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: erika on September 04, 2008, 02:45:07 PM
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I don't usually jump up and down about the US becoming a "police state" but I'd say that's pretty much what's happening at this point:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30/police_raids/index.html
Is there some sort of implant I can have put in my brain to make me stop caring about this election or the future of this country? Because it's giving me lots of heartburn and making things seem pretty bleak. I don't like it.
I'd like to replace all thoughts about this election with ones about kittens and puppies or something. Liberal ones.
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Just for you, Erika.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
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haha. Sadly, my company posts ad banners for our products/newsletters on that site. So I'm familiar with it :-\
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I live more or less adjacent to all this RNC nonsense; at one point last night I heard a noise outside my window and looked to see about eight horseback cops just trotting along the street. I have attempted to look as non-countercultural as possible (read: polo shirts) over the last week, but I still worry about accidentally getting swept up in some shit and finding myself arrested by association just for trying to get back to my apartment after work. I don't have any sympathy for the assholes running around smashing windows and being violent, confrontational boneheads, but just about everyone else down here for the peace movement is getting harassed and gassed and arrested more or less by proxy and I'm thinking the cops are at the point where they just assume anyone even remotely protesterish is fair game for rubber bullets.
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haha. Sadly, my company posts ad banners for our products/newsletters on that site. So I'm familiar with it :-\
I don't get it, is that a bad site? I wasn't familar with it before.
The story as reported in Salon is an outrage. A line has been crossed, to my mind.
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That hippie girl from the hippie house kinda looks like the girl who zung me and whose paintings I was advised to slash.
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haha. Sadly, my company posts ad banners for our products/newsletters on that site. So I'm familiar with it :-\
I don't get it, is that a bad site? I wasn't familar with it before.
It's pretty much for conspiracy theorists.
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Ok, I see. I'm not one of those people, but I have a funny feeling I'm going to become one someday, against my will.
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It's pretty much for conspiracy theorists.
That's about the nicest way to put it.
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It's pretty much for conspiracy theorists.
That's about the nicest way to put it.
Defiinitely a nice way to describe an Alex Jones website. I remember figuring out that he was the crazy, scream-y guy from Waking Life after seeing the movie. Then I realized he's not acting...
[youtube]pfEuSNejejY[/youtube]
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It's pretty much for conspiracy theorists.
That's about the nicest way to put it.
Defiinitely a nice way to describe an Alex Jones website. I remember figuring out that he was the crazy, scream-y guy from Waking Life after seeing the movie. Then I realized he's not acting...
[youtube]pfEuSNejejY[/youtube]
I kinda like that guy.
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I live more or less adjacent to all this RNC nonsense; at one point last night I heard a noise outside my window and looked to see about eight horseback cops just trotting along the street. I have attempted to look as non-countercultural as possible (read: polo shirts) over the last week, but I still worry about accidentally getting swept up in some shit and finding myself arrested by association just for trying to get back to my apartment after work. I don't have any sympathy for the assholes running around smashing windows and being violent, confrontational boneheads, but just about everyone else down here for the peace movement is getting harassed and gassed and arrested more or less by proxy and I'm thinking the cops are at the point where they just assume anyone even remotely protesterish is fair game for rubber bullets.
Basically the same way they're running the war on terrorism -- round up anybody who looks vaguely suspicious, throw them in jail on vague charges (or none at all), and figure out the rest later. Or don't figure it out.
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we're fighting a war we can't win
they hate us, we hate them
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us and them attitudes will probably help
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us and them attitudes will probably help
Hammerhead would get me.
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NOW people want to talk about police state? It's nice after three years of secret arrests, rendition and torture as a policy some people are starting to get a slight inkling things may be amiss.
Naomi Wolf
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc[/youtube]
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This is really appalling, but it's basically a refinement of a policy that began under Clinton and Blair, and is used all over the world, in democratic and even some authoritarian countries (when they're not just shooting dissenters): preemptive arrests, convincing well-meaning but not terribly well-informed cops that "anarchist terrorists" are out to get them, shoving dissent into free speech pens. It's heartening that the Obama campaign had the good sense to send out a couple of low-level staffers to talk to Iraq Vets Against the War instead of letting the Denver police beat them up, but to be fair, this isn't entirely a Bush tactic - though I still think he's a rich scumbag idiot who finds democracy contemptible. Not to mention my high gas prices!!
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Couldn't have been all that bad . .
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/_44989185_flower_getty_466_300.jpg)
Anti-Iraq war protesters demonstrated outside the convention. Here one peace activist hands a riot policeman a flower.
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They've also been arresting identifiable members of the press.
http://twincities.indymedia.org/
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Couldn't have been all that bad . .
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/_44989185_flower_getty_466_300.jpg)
Anti-Iraq war protesters demonstrated outside the convention. Here one peace activist hands a riot policeman a flower.
Police state or hippies in Dr. Seuss hats. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
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Couldn't have been all that bad . .
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/_44989185_flower_getty_466_300.jpg)
Anti-Iraq war protesters demonstrated outside the convention. Here one peace activist hands a riot policeman a flower.
Police state or hippies in Dr. Seuss hats. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.
Hippie police in Dr. Seuss hats?
I'm moving to Canada when that day comes.
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I'm actually a Dr. Seuss Stalinist. Anyone who doesn't want to participate in the Cat-in-the-Hat-style fun gets shipped right off to the old gulag.
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Couldn't have been all that bad . .
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/hippocatgeek/_44989185_flower_getty_466_300.jpg)
Anti-Iraq war protesters demonstrated outside the convention. Here one peace activist hands a riot policeman a flower.
This is a picture that can make someone a Republican just by looking at it. I'm not judging, I'm just sayin'....