the video is the picture that speaks a thousand words.

(I agree she has censored 9/11 truth but she is not the enemy)

But expand?

Goodman's arbitrary arrest is par the course for the poor and people of color. What's changing is that the middle class is now coming under attack. The modern police state was erected in response to the turmoil of the 60's and beyond, which scared the bejeesus out of LBJ and later NIxon. In a report for the Trilateral Commission, Samuel Huntingdon called it an "excess of democracy". What most people view as great leaps forward (eg the civil rights movement) are regarded as terrifying expressions of the "mob" by ruling elites. The phony war on drugs was a means of nationalizing and militarizing the police in order control this "threat": the threat of the "Underclass", otherwise known as "social dynamite".

If you look at the etymology of the word "beat", you find that it was an area of land that of a certain size that could be be “patrolled” by “pat-rollers”– whose job it was to police and deal with slaves, particularly escaped ones.

"Policing" was originally the job of slave-holders and strikebreakers like the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who murdered and mutilated unruly workers. Occasionally (in fact, rather frequently) the state itself was brought to bear against expressions of lower class power. The 20th C has seen the process nationalized, refined, and made more "friendly" ie less overtly brutal. What was it Neil Young said in "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World"? "We have a kindler, gentler machine gun hand".

However, it would be a mistake to term what is currently happening "fascism". If we were living in a fascist society Goodman would already have a bullet in her head. Call it "neo-fascism" or "friendly fascism", but it's important to stress that people in our society still have certain rights which can be enforced through popular outrage, if not the courts. Fear is what they want (hence the darth vator uniforms). We have to stand tall.

Ultimately the only way of stopping these abuses is proper democratic control of the police. Obviously this is not possible in a state bearing only the formal trappings of democracy. Judges known damn well who keeps the blood money flowing, which is why police are hardly ever disciplined no matter outrageous their crimes.

Awful stuff. When I see this I have no thoughts of whether or not she's covered 9/11 truth, I think mainly of her welfare as a person, as a woman journalist who has risked her life for her work already many times, as someone who has done amazing coverage of horrific crimes like that in Haiti when the democratically elected leader was abducted by the US and taken to Africa in the middle of the night and DNow was the ONLY outlet covering the truth . . . their website was down because the entire world was going there for the truth . . . and so many other stories like that . . . And then I think of how things are getting worse everyday, and this is just one more indicator. The sense of powerlessness one feels is exactly their goal.

But I was relieved to hear she's been released.

Wash Post was the only MSM covering it. Really sad.

Those in the streets need us to make a phone call tomorrow. The pressure does add up and change things. Shame does work in these things. Make the city ashamed it hosted them. We should call the city councilors since they must've signed off on the deal. They're the ones to blame for allowing this.

Looks like she is released now but people should absolutely support Amy Goodman and her colleagues in this incident of shocking and ridiculous police thuggery

You know the reason this is all going on, don't you. They are getting extremely desperate and even violent because Americans, as shown via Chris Matthews/Alex Jones, are waking up to the fact that 9/11 was an inside job.

Keep up the good work everyone.

"...ironically, an original printing of the Declaration of Independence will be in St. Paul for public viewing just in time for the convention. The Declaration states:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

The police in St. Paul should think about these words."

Apocalypse Now? Miami Model Applied to Republican National Convention in Minnesota
Written by Cyril Mychalejko
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1384/1/

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"But truthfully, I don't really know. We've had trouble getting a handle on Building No. 7."
~Dr. Shyam Sunder - Acting Dir. Bldg. & Fire Research Lab. (NIST)
"We are [still] unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse." (NIST)

At the Keene event in May suggested Amy is CIA. I wish he hadn't done that. Amy has not been friendly to 9/11 Truth (meaning she hasn't given it the exposure it deserves), but she has covered it over the years. She has had David Griffin on (and yes, surprised him with Chip Berlet). She has had Dylan & Co on to debate. She has covered Sibel Edmonds several times. She recently confronted Philip Zelikow with regards to the Phil Shenon allegations. No, she has not been friendly to 9/11 Truth to the extent that we would like her to be, but she sure as hell didn't deserve to be arrested.

Goodman's arrest is, at this moment, featured as the hottest video.

Thank God we finally live in the era of the internet.

Twenty years ago the American Civil Liberties Union would've been all over free speech-cancelling events like this: filing for injunctions against the police, preparing class action lawsuits, giving well-publicized media interviews, being right there with the stymied protesters.

Granted, I haven't followed this thing all that closely, but I haven't heard a peep out, or mention, of the ACLU in all this latest business. Or anything for years about anything.

Did it go out of business? Is it just shut out of the Mockingbird media? Or did the clandestine forces of State control infiltrate it and render it toothless?