Bushtapo supress Sept. 15 press conference.

While the momentum for the Sept. 15 Peace/Impeachment demonstration grows, the Bush Administration is going to extraordinary lengths to suppress the mobilizing for this mass demonstration.

Less than 18 hours ago, National Park Service Police turned a September 15 Press Conference, held in front of the White House, into a chaotic scene. On the pretext that there was no permit for a three foot long folding table that the media placed their microphones on, the police intervened in the middle of the press conference to announce that it was an unpermitted activity. Three people were arrested and are still being held in jail. They include Adam Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran; Tina Richards of Grassroots America; and Ian Thompson an ANSWER Coalition organizer.

The Parks Police even rode a horse directly into the crowd of reporters and shocked onlookers. The National Parks Police is an agency in the Interior Department whose Secretary is a member of George W. Bush's cabinet. In recent weeks September 15 organizers have been fined more than $30,000 for putting up posters promoting the September 15 March on Washington.

We encourage ImpeachBush.org members to circulate this email and the important story from the AFP wire story that documents this outrageous assault against Free Speech rights by the Bush Administration. At the end of this email we are also enclosing a link to a video on YouTube that shows some part of the suppression of the September 15 press conference yesterday.

Bush and company want to prevent people from coming out for a mass action led by Iraq war veterans and their families that will expose his war propaganda as a lie. The Administration wants to suppress the growing movement for impeachment. This is a showdown of great magnitude.

Please make every effort to come to Washington DC on September 15. We will not be intimidated. Join the tens of thousands who are coming to Washington, DC on September 15. Buses, car caravans and vans are coming from more than 100 cities.

Police break up anti-war meeting in Washington

AFP Photo: Tina Richards of Grassroots America being arrested.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an AFP reporter said.

"The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium" erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP.

"Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them," Becker said.

The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt.

Three people -- Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles -- were arrested, Becker said.

"A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week's activities."
The ANSWER coalition is trying to rally support for an anti-war demonstration in Washington that is due to take place on September 15.

Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march.

Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations.

"At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the paste we use conforms to the rules," Becker said.

"One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put up a poster, so they arrested her and two others."

"This strategy of suppression has not worked. We expect many tens of thousands of people" in Washington for the September 15 anti-war demonstration, he said.

The march has been timed to coincide with the release of a report by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and will be part of a week of protests led by veterans of the Iraq war.

A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week's activities, ANSWER has told AFP.
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This was cut & pasted from an email I received this morning from "Impeachbush.org" it is mostly an AP report.

Here is a Youtube video of the whole disgusting mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0

This makes me want to grab a bucket of wheat paste & 1000 posters and coat every damn thing I see with them.
We need to be there by the 100s of 1000s but be prepared for anything.

This is an outrage

Where is America's outrage at this overtly fascistic attack on free speech and free assembly. Are you so ignorant of the freedoms guaranteed to you by your constitution that you don't even bat an eye when someone is ARRESTED for having a three foot table. WAKE UP AMERICA, OR LOSE YOUR CONSTITUTION FOREVER.

While I applaud your statements...

...I don't recognize the handle, and it sounds like boilerplate BS, so I gave you a negative point. This story is a day old, at least, so the whole thing seems staged.

S

Hmm

This story is a "day old" because it took 24 hours before it got posted after I sent it in. I felt I had to list this because naturally the Mainstream Media has not said a word about it and no one else here seemed to know about it either.
I thought it a good idea to show everyone here that might be going to Washington DC between now and the 15th what to expect.

and what seems "staged"? Your whole statement seems rather bizarre honestly.

I concur.

I have no idea what Styve is trying to say here. Maybe he can explain.

Thanks for the video!

It's a revealing video, and while it could've been worse, I find police suppression very disconcerting! It was like a riot on downers! Fascist police wanting to appear less than menacing and portestors who want to maintain some semblance of political correctness!

I like Nunyabiz's perspective, but I do also question how far protesting in the streets gets a movement? I do thank you for the video. It was interesting!

If it has something to do with the Bush Administration, please

...don't believe them!

Welcome

Yes it is quite revealing, clearly the park police are a bunch of fascist nut bags doing the bidding of Mein Fuhrer.

Protesting in the streets today basically get NO WHERE unless 2 things happen.

Absolutely huge crowds well in excess of 2+++Million and part of the protest surrounds various news outlets and demands coverage.

Or Absolutely huge crowds with serious fire in their eyes that are mad as hell.
Personally I would like to see about 10 Million hit the streets around every single thing Faux Noise owns and burn it to the ground to where these treasonous bastards cant even make a cell phone call let alone stay on air spewing their propagandist Reich wing bullshit.

The Media is really THE key, without their complicity these bastards could have never even stolen the election in 2000 let alone all the other crimes they have committed.

I urge you all to spread this message and video

This is an outrage, but it provides... opportunities. Publicizing this can only help the momentum for the march to grow.