Charges may well have changed since this article was written. 8 or 5 what does it matter. The object of the exercise was crush all political dissent during the RNC, so the stage managed American Idol floor show, that passes as a political convention, could be conducted in a political vacuum, a it was unrepresentative of the will of the American people. I suppose arresting the media falls within your standards of democratic free speech as well you seem to have conveniently overlooked that point as do most conservatives do, and cherry pick bits and pieces while leaving out more damning evidence and the essence of what is at stake. You can't do much better than speaking to one of their lawyers who is also a member of National lawyers guild, who clearly points out the spurious illegality of ANY charges being leveled at all. And let's conveniently forget the agent provocateurs employed by the police state. You should at least somewhere repudiate the curtailing of a constitutional right, yet you display your outright hostility in entertaining any such thought. Is your practice affiliated with that of justice Scalia's in any way?
BTW. Amy Goodman is not a socialist and Democracy now is a cheer- leading rag for the Democrats, but then again you are confused about much. Your continual defense of a religious zealot says a lot about your dogmatic lack of objectivity, and that she sees the work in Iraq as some kind of holy-war. She is a very sick individual. A pig wouldn't deign to kiss her, lipstick or not. Bruce Nestor, president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and attorney for Monica Bicking, one of the eight defendants, told the World Socialist Web Site that the authorities have shown no indication that the charges will be dropped. The charges are predicated on an a priori assumption of guilt; not on what actually happened, but what might have happened had no arrest been made. Furthermore, the charges are almost entirely based upon the evidence of two confidential paid informants. Nestor pointed out in an earlier interview with the Minnesota Independent that “the most outrageous allegations made by the authorities are not supported by any evidence other than the statement of the confidential informants. They’re not supported by the evidence seized.” On Sep 12, 9:20 am, "Keith In Tampa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 12:49 am, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Political dissent as terrorism: "Minnesota Patriot Act" charges > filed against RNC Eight > The charges of terrorism leveled against the eight youth who had sought to > organize protests and civil disobedience against the Republican National > Convention (RNC) in Minnesota last week sound an alarm that political > opposition in the US is on its way toward being criminalized. > In what may be the first case of its kind, American citizens have > been arrested and charged as terrorists for no other act than planning > to protest and obstruct a political event. In this case the occasion was the > nominating convention of a party chiefly responsible for policies detested > by the majority of Americans, including the war in Iraq and the enrichment > of a tiny layer of the enormously wealthy. > > Keith, being collectively calm, and realizing that Frank is a communist, > responds: > > Hey Frank! > > Wake up and smell the coffee! First off, this is another one of your > "stories" off of the World Socialist and National Socialist Web sites: > > http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/minn-s11.shtml > > Unless something has changed, there are only five that remain charged, they > were not charged with any violations of the Minnesota Patriot Act, there is > no such thing as the "Minnesota Patriot Act", that is moonbat speak for > "Conspiracy to Riot"!!! > > (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, and an admitted > Socialist:(http://anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=59.html; also put out > the > misleading information that there were eight charged with violations of the > Minnesota Patriot Act: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTQXRI_IaEE&eurl=http://www.infowars.c... > > This is an outright misstruth. These eight individuals were charged with > conspiracy to riot, which has been on the books since the 1950s!!! Later > three of the individuals' charges were dismissed. > > More importantly, these folks were not charged for speaking, or organizing a > peaceful protest or freedom of speech, they were charged for conspiracy to > riot! > > There were buckets of feces, buckets of urine, bomb making equipment, > Molotov Cocktail making equipment, and tire spikes found in the Republican > Welcoming Committee's Abode. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAvbEDAliA > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njxmbOitsb8 > > These individuals were caught organizing the destruction of both public and > private property, as well as attacking and interrupting a political > convention. > > In other words, your socialist spin, is just that, "spin". > > RNCConvention.jpg > 48KViewDownload > > RNCConvention2.jpg > 55KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
