Comments on: Things are heating up

By: leigha

leigha — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:46:30 +0000

oooh - a good link from Robin Garwood on Cam Gordon's staff - it's the Police Practices Resolution, passed last month. See page 574, section 27 for the prohibition of taking cameras, etc. Entire section about "Adopting police policies regarding public assemblies" starts on 572.

Seems like a good couple of pages to print and keep on your person if you go out protesting or documenting protesters.

By: kwatt

kwatt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:30:09 +0000

Just curious if anyone thinks this is an overreaction.

By: swandog

swandog — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:05:05 +0000

And I don't think it's reasonable to be expected to show the police what you have on your camera without a search warrant.

I agree wtf. Who do they think they are. This is all in the name of democracy. This country is fucked. Part of the problem is the right and the Left have been fighting over little things for so long that none of them see the big things happening in this country. It's about feeling good but not about what is right or wrong. Freedom of speech is not saying what "they" want you to say, it is saying what should be said. We need to protect each other on this one. I and you pay for the gad dame side walk. WE PAY TAXES it is our money it is our side walk, it is our excel energy center, the god dam tax payer paid for it so leave us the hell alone. Man I am getting pissed about this. IF this keeps up I will be protesting with the nut bags soon.

By: leigha

leigha — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:23:07 +0000

I just read Second Ward City Council Member Cam Gordon's great blog post about it, and also read the accounts of the two other incidents with the MPD and journalists that he cites.

I hope that someone keeps an ongoing list with links/documentation of every single infraction of our protected rights that happens preceding and during the RNC...I imagine there are going to be loads.

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:10 +0000

oh, the horror! those nasty photographers are going to bring down america!

By: justpbob

justpbob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:45:02 +0000

My name is Bob Moffitt, and I appove this message...

By: spaceman

spaceman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:41:03 +0000

are you done with your commercial yet, bob, or should we refrain from posting for a bit so you can finish up?

By: spaceman

spaceman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:39:08 +0000

[wondering whether kwatt knows the definition of "confiscate"]

By: kc!

kc! — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:38:39 +0000

This is one of the those topics that I really like. Not because of what the police did, but because pretty much everyone thinks the police overstepped their bounds, left and right.

We may disagree on a lot of things, but pretty much everyone thinks the police don't have the right to take peoples' stuff without a crime being committed or a warrant.

Hooray for America.

By: justpbob

justpbob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:38:32 +0000

No, but I have now. Clear Channel is one thing, but CBS running scarred is another. Chilling. I'll let you know if we run into any flak re: our billboards and skyway posters.

PS: Watch for our teevee spots, too, on KARE and Jason's Stations. David Gillette (the animation dude from TPT's Almanac) did them for us.