Police State, anyone?

[erika]

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.

[dave from knoxville]

Just for you, Erika.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/

[erika]

haha. Sadly, my company posts ad banners for our products/newsletters on that site. So I'm familiar with it 

[Stupornaut]

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.

[Fido]

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.

[John Junk 2.0]

That hippie girl from the hippie house kinda looks like the girl who zung me and whose paintings I was advised to slash.

[erika]

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.

[Fido]

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.

[cutout]

It's pretty much for conspiracy theorists.

That's about the nicest way to put it.

[PatrickChew]

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]

[John Junk 2.0]

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.

[daveB from Oakland]

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.

[Denim Gremlin]

we're fighting a war we can't win

they hate us, we hate them

[Andy]

us and them attitudes will probably help

[Denim Gremlin]

us and them attitudes will probably help

Hammerhead would get me.