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Cops Arrest AP Photographer, Broadcaster At Start Of RNC
First amendment trashed as journalists body slammed, beaten and handcuffed simply for covering protests
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Plaudits for the relative restraint of Denver police during last week’s Democratic National Convention are not set to be repeated at the RNC, as cops signaled their intent by arresting an AP photographer as well as Democracy Now host Amy Goodman simply for documenting protests in downtown St. Paul.
Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke was arrested on a gross misdemeanor riot charge simply for taking pictures of a protest yesterday.
“Covering news is a constitutionally protected activity, and covering a riot is part of that coverage,” AP assistant chief of bureau in Washington David Ake said. “Photographers should not be detained for covering breaking news.”
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman was arrested after she complained about the assault and arrest of her colleagues, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.
According to Democracy Now, “All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest and back. Salazar’s violent arrest by baton-wielding officers, during which she was slammed to the ground while yelling, “I’m Press! Press!,” resulted in her nose bleeding, as well as causing facial pain. Goodman’s arm was violently yanked by police as she was arrested.”
“During the demonstration in which the Democracy Now! team was arrested, law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force against protesters and journalists. Several dozen demonstrators were also arrested during this action, including a photographer for the Associated Press.”
All three were eventually released but face felony charges. Democracy Now has vowed to fight the false charges which they characterized as an intimidation of independent journalists.
Another AP photographer, Evan Vucci, was body slammed, kicked in the ribs and then handcuffed by police, only avoiding arrest by showing his press credentials.
“The police had pushed the protesters into a parking lot where they had police coming from all sides to encircle one area,” Vucci said. “Once they got all the protesters into this one parking lot they kind of rushed and arrested all the protesters in there,” said Vucci.
With 50,000 demonstrators expected to protest the RNC, more incidents of this kind can be expected.
On Friday, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s office, directed by federal authorities and armed with semi-automatic weapons, raided the headquarters of a protest group and detained and photographed 50 people. Six were arrested on charges of organizing a riot. None of the six have been convicted of a felony or crime of violence and all hold respectable positions within the community.
The raids were carried out after moles were planted in the group by the Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force.
The raids were specifically “aided by informants planted in protest groups,” notes Salon writer Glenn Greenwald.
“Back in May, Marcy Wheeler presciently noted that the Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force — an inter-agency group of federal, state and local law enforcement led by the FBI — was actively recruiting Minneapolis residents to serve as plants, to infiltrate “vegan groups” and other left-wing activist groups and report back to the Task Force about what they were doing. There seems to be little doubt that it was this domestic spying by the Federal Government that led to the excessive and truly despicable home assaults by the police yesterday,” writes Greenwald.
Amy Goodman arrested for asking questions about the assault and arrest of her colleagues.
Police fire tear gas at protesters as they run away.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
Welcome to the revolution. Welcome to Amerikkka.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 am
Scary! I guess it shows the ideological disparity between the Democrats & Republicans. Isn’t it Constitutional Law to allow freedom of press?
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 am
And half of America is voting to ensure this negligent and obvious betrayal of our civil liberties?
Is this how it dies? In thunderous applause and mass political apathy?
God Help America! And for f***’s sake, America help yourself!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 am
fucking police
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 am
I guess the police there don’t mind being sued. Must be nice to have bottomless pockets! I hope that the AP sues them for millions!
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Give me a break “freedom of the press” there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. You are apparently still brainwashed into believing that false paradigm. Nothing drives me more insane than idiots running around talking about Left VS Right, Repubs VS Dems. They are both controlled by the same people that controll your brain.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 am
This is what is being done to our young males everyday,with these bad police officers. We must go after the officers in charge and the police officers that commit these acts. We need to publish their records to a private agency, so that they will know their history. This is the only way that we will get rid of this type of unfair treatment.
On one hand we need them and on the other,we would like them to use common sense.I think we should make sure we do a good background check on every officer, across this country. If we dont make sure these people are check out and investigated, this will be repeated in another setting.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 am
At least from now on Amy Goodman will assume 901 was an inside job.
901/2008 = the day Amy did learn 911 was an inside job
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:56 am
Annette, you won’t help anyone by quoting (badly) lines from Star Wars movies.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 am
April 21, 2008Obama’s Weathermen – Explosive Past, Radical Forecast
by Liberally Conservative @ 10:50 am. Filed under Politics, Elections, Historical, Law & Justice
Sen. Barack Hussein Obama was asked during a televised debate about his links to a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization, Bill Ayers, who is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Weather Underground Organization, was a violent U.S. radical left group formed in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They took their name from a lyric in the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues”,”You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” which they used as the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18th, 1969, as part of a special edition of New Left Notes.
According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the University of Michigan where he became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society.
Ayers joined the Weatherman group in 1969, but went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which three members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers’s girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a bomb. The group planned to bomb Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey.
From 1969 until 1975 the group carried out a domestic campaign that included bombing the Pentagon, the US Capitol, police facilities and banks. At least one police officer died and several injured.
In 1981, Weathermen and members of the militant group the Black Liberation Army robbed an armored car in New York state, killing two police officers and a guard in a shootout before being arrested.
Ayers’s interviewed with the New York Times about his book, Fugitive Days: A Memoir, on September 11, 2001, and opens with his statement:
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Ayers later explained that by “no regrets” he meant that he didn’t regret his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that “we didn’t do enough” meant that efforts to stop the war were obviously inadequate as it dragged on for a decade; the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.
Ayers avoided jail because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives of SDS, the Weathermen and other radical, anti-war groups. Much like Mr. Obama, Professor Ayers feels he is misunderstood, and much like Barack Obama this statement only comes out once he is exposed.
Professor Ayers has never retracted his statement to the New York Times and to this day claims to:
“have never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently.”
Setting bombs in the US isn’t terrorism but liberating a country and fighting Islamic terrorist requires anti-war rhetoric. It’s funny how the radical left sorts fact from fiction and advocates peace.
In 1997, Mr. Obama cited Mr. Ayers’ work on criminal justice in a Chicago Tribune article on what prominent Chicagoans were reading. For a year after the infamous comments in the New York Times, Mr. Obama served with Mr. Ayers on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago and had appeared on various panels together.
Mr. Obama won’t discuss how he came to know Mr. Ayers, why he chose to associate with him and what he thinks of his current opinions about the US government.
Ayers wife and former Weathermen colleague, Bernardine Dohrn, has feelings of America that might remind us of other radicals Mr. Obama associates with.
“There’s no way to be committed to non-violence in one of the most violent societies that history has ever created. I’m not committed to non-violence in any way.”
“Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks.”
The Friends We Keep
The mainstream media has protected Barack Hussein Obama; he has lived a glorious campaign but things are slowly beginning to get a bit rough for the candidate who has gone through little scrutiny. Slowly the past of Mr. Obama is appearing with the help of spiritual mentor’s and even one spouse, Michele Obama.
Radical Recap:
Rev. Jeremy Wright Jr.:
“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday. Did anybody else see him or hear him? He was on Fox News. This is a white man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out — did you see him, John? — a white man, he pointed out, ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true — America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and The Pentagon, and we never batted an eye… and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people that we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that.”
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that’s in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, as long as she pretends to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.”
Tony Rezko:
Barack Obama worked rom 1993 to 2002, with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Rezko’s first major officeholder patron and a law firm representing Rezko, Rezmar, and community groups in partnership with Rezmar, that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding. The firm’s then senior partner, Allison S. Davis, was a member of the Chicago Plan Commission and went into business with Rezko.
On July 31, 1995 the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.
Starting in 2003 Rezko was on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million. Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, and that fundraiser was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race. Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has in consequence donated almost two thirds of that amount to charity.
In 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65M ($300,000 below the original price) on the same day that Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.
Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, before Obama bought a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko’s property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value, in 2006.
In June 2007, the Chicago Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis.
Rashid Khalidi:
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to “political enlightenment,” threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
Rashid Khalidi today is a professor at Columbia University and is a close associate of Barack Obama. Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended Barack Hussein Obama.
In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser for Mr. Obama.
On Palestinian violence Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out.
A top official at the Pentagon during former President George H. W. Bush’s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintains that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Khalidi.
Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations.
As director of the Woods Fund board in Chicago Barack Obama granted Khalidi’s controversial anti-Israel group the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, $40,000 in 2001 and $35,000 in 2002.
At a special farewell dinner for Khalidi in 2003 then Illinois Senator Barack Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.” (LA Times)
Bill Ayers:
Professor Ayers lived in the same Chicago neighborhood Obama did, had donated $200 to Obama’s 2001 state senate campaign.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
“Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology — he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School. “If Obama takes a different view on that — well, OK, that’s data about Obama.”
“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Maria Warren wrote on her blog in 2005.
“They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”
When contacted the various Hyde Park Liberals will not make further comments about any meetings between Ayers, Dohrn and other activists only expressing concern that Republicans would use accounts of the event for “left-baiting.” Remarkably, the Leftist crowd now considers Obama a bit too “conservative” for their liking.
We must realize that on the surface Obama and Ayers had “limited” contact but when we put the Obama associations together and his willingness to “talk” with terrorist regimes around the world we see a pattern.
In the 1960s, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn saw themselves as urban guerrillas who just might be able to overthrow the US government and force an end to the Vietnam War. They were members of the Weather Underground, a radical offshoot of the antiwar movement, who went into hiding for a decade after a bomb accidentally exploded, killing three members of the group. (Washington Post)
Ayers was a son of privilege — his father was the chairman of the utility Commonwealth Edison — who decided in the late 1960s that violence was needed to transform the country. After he disappeared, he was charged with joining the bombing conspiracy and with crossing state lines to incite a riot.
Are we to suddenly dismiss the past of Ayers and his wife because of time and connecting dots to Barack Obama? Many would like to present the case that this is old news but the erstwhile radicals are not repentant. Liberals use the term, “social justice” and “mainstream liberal good works” to reconcile the differences of past and present, terrorism and good social activism.
Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in shortly after their second son was born. They raised Chesa Boudin, the son of Weather Underground parents imprisoned for a 1981 Brink’s robbery that left three dead. Boudin won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2002.
Dohrn pleaded guilty to a state charge and later served seven months for refusing to give a handwriting sample to federal authorities. She told a reporter that the FBI already had a sample, and that she considered grand juries “illegal and coercive.” Today Dohrn is a professor of law at the prestigious Northwestern University.
When Obama was asked about Ayers during Wednesday’s debate, he described him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” He said he does not exchange ideas with him “on a regular basis.” How about on an irregular basis or are we back into Obama denial.
“The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense,” Obama answered in his most recent debate.
How old was Obama when Hamas was established, the Mullahs took over Iran, North Korea became an oppressive Communist state and Syria became home to Hezzbollah?
Does this now make a difference? Does Mr. Obama feel his past is not to be questioned, not be analyzed; he is not to be vetted?
Associations become a sum of the total parts of a person and Mr. Obama has links to some very disturbing people. Suddenly the public is asking too many questions and queries to the “colleagues” are not answered.
Obama noted that President Bill Clinton had commuted the prison terms of Weather Underground members Susan L. Rosenberg, arrested with 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, and Linda Sue Evans, convicted of participating in eight bombings, including the one at the Capitol. Does this make the crime more palatable to Mr. Obama? Bill Clinton commuted sentences and pardoned a host of sordid individual on a pace that set a record for last minute Presidential pardons. Does that erase the crimes?
Obama’s association with Ayers is small but I don’t believe trivial. Once again, Obama has associations with a host of radicals with current and past anti-American beliefs. Mr. Obama has effectively avoided intense scrutiny but the party election isn’t over and Mr. Obama must come clean, which we doubt he can.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson of ABC News weren’t just criticized for their tough questioning of Barack Obama during last week’s Democratic debate. They were flayed, writes John Fund.
According to liberal journalists, all these topics are irrelevant. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo said they were “frivolous items . . . that presumed the correctness of Republican agenda items.” Mr. Obama agreed, dismissing the items brought up by ABC as “manufactured issues.”
John Harris and Jim VandeHei of Politico.com conclude that the heat directed at ABC News over its debate:
“is the clearest evidence yet that the Clintonites are fundamentally correct in their complaint that [their candidate] has been flying throughout this campaign into a headwind of media favoritism for Obama.”
Mr. Fund continues:
But Mr. Obama, who sports the most liberal voting record of any senator according to the nonpartisan National Journal, has avoided much criticism of that record by implying that any conventional critique of his issue positions represent the tired politics of the past. If he had his way, questions about character and questions about issues would be off-limits.
Obama really needs to recalibrate his sense of moral equivalence. Obama again demonstrated his utter unwillingness to risk giving offense to his own side by pairing off an unrepentant Weatherman bomber with a US Senator; evidently he has run over relatives and is reduced to pitching friends under the bus. Indeed!
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April 21, 2008Obama’s Weathermen – Explosive Past, Radical
Sen. Barack Hussein Obama was asked during a televised debate about his links to a former member of the Vietnam-era militant Weather Underground organization, Bill Ayers, who is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The Weather Underground Organization, was a violent U.S. radical left group formed in 1969 by leaders and members who split from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They took their name from a lyric in the Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues”,”You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” which they used as the title of a position paper they distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18th, 1969, as part of a special edition of New Left Notes.
According to his memoir, Ayers became radicalized at the University of Michigan where he became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society.
Ayers joined the Weatherman group in 1969, but went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which three members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton, who was Ayers’s girlfriend at the time) were killed while constructing a bomb. The group planned to bomb Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey.
From 1969 until 1975 the group carried out a domestic campaign that included bombing the Pentagon, the US Capitol, police facilities and banks. At least one police officer died and several injured.
In 1981, Weathermen and members of the militant group the Black Liberation Army robbed an armored car in New York state, killing two police officers and a guard in a shootout before being arrested.
Ayers’s interviewed with the New York Times about his book, Fugitive Days: A Memoir, on September 11, 2001, and opens with his statement:
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Ayers later explained that by “no regrets” he meant that he didn’t regret his efforts to oppose the Vietnam War, and that “we didn’t do enough” meant that efforts to stop the war were obviously inadequate as it dragged on for a decade; the two statements were not intended to elide into a wish they had set more bombs.
Ayers avoided jail because of prosecutorial misconduct during the long search for the fugitives of SDS, the Weathermen and other radical, anti-war groups. Much like Mr. Obama, Professor Ayers feels he is misunderstood, and much like Barack Obama this statement only comes out once he is exposed.
Professor Ayers has never retracted his statement to the New York Times and to this day claims to:
“have never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently.”
Setting bombs in the US isn’t terrorism but liberating a country and fighting Islamic terrorist requires anti-war rhetoric. It’s funny how the radical left sorts fact from fiction and advocates peace.
In 1997, Mr. Obama cited Mr. Ayers’ work on criminal justice in a Chicago Tribune article on what prominent Chicagoans were reading. For a year after the infamous comments in the New York Times, Mr. Obama served with Mr. Ayers on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago and had appeared on various panels together.
Mr. Obama won’t discuss how he came to know Mr. Ayers, why he chose to associate with him and what he thinks of his current opinions about the US government.
Ayers wife and former Weathermen colleague, Bernardine Dohrn, has feelings of America that might remind us of other radicals Mr. Obama associates with.
“There’s no way to be committed to non-violence in one of the most violent societies that history has ever created. I’m not committed to non-violence in any way.”
“Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks.”
The Friends We Keep
The mainstream media has protected Barack Hussein Obama; he has lived a glorious campaign but things are slowly beginning to get a bit rough for the candidate who has gone through little scrutiny. Slowly the past of Mr. Obama is appearing with the help of spiritual mentor’s and even one spouse, Michele Obama.
Radical Recap:
Rev. Jeremy Wright Jr.:
“I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday. Did anybody else see him or hear him? He was on Fox News. This is a white man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out — did you see him, John? — a white man, he pointed out, ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true — America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and The Pentagon, and we never batted an eye… and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
“Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y’all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people that we have wounded don’t have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that.”
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that’s in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, as long as she pretends to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.”
Tony Rezko:
Barack Obama worked rom 1993 to 2002, with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Rezko’s first major officeholder patron and a law firm representing Rezko, Rezmar, and community groups in partnership with Rezmar, that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding. The firm’s then senior partner, Allison S. Davis, was a member of the Chicago Plan Commission and went into business with Rezko.
On July 31, 1995 the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.
Starting in 2003 Rezko was on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million. Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, and that fundraiser was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race. Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has in consequence donated almost two thirds of that amount to charity.
In 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65M ($300,000 below the original price) on the same day that Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.
Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, before Obama bought a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko’s property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value, in 2006.
In June 2007, the Chicago Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis.
Rashid Khalidi:
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to “political enlightenment,” threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
Rashid Khalidi today is a professor at Columbia University and is a close associate of Barack Obama. Before getting his job at Columbia University Rashid Khalidi was a Middle East professor at the University of Chicago, where he befriended Barack Hussein Obama.
In 2000 Khalidi held a successful fundraiser for Mr. Obama.
On Palestinian violence Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out.
A top official at the Pentagon during former President George H. W. Bush’s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintains that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Khalidi.
Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations.
As director of the Woods Fund board in Chicago Barack Obama granted Khalidi’s controversial anti-Israel group the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, $40,000 in 2001 and $35,000 in 2002.
At a special farewell dinner for Khalidi in 2003 then Illinois Senator Barack Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.” (LA Times)
Bill Ayers:
Professor Ayers lived in the same Chicago neighborhood Obama did, had donated $200 to Obama’s 2001 state senate campaign.
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
“Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology — he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School. “If Obama takes a different view on that — well, OK, that’s data about Obama.”
“When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Maria Warren wrote on her blog in 2005.
“They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread.”
When contacted the various Hyde Park Liberals will not make further comments about any meetings between Ayers, Dohrn and other activists only expressing concern that Republicans would use accounts of the event for “left-baiting.” Remarkably, the Leftist crowd now considers Obama a bit too “conservative” for their liking.
We must realize that on the surface Obama and Ayers had “limited” contact but when we put the Obama associations together and his willingness to “talk” with terrorist regimes around the world we see a pattern.
In the 1960s, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn saw themselves as urban guerrillas who just might be able to overthrow the US government and force an end to the Vietnam War. They were members of the Weather Underground, a radical offshoot of the antiwar movement, who went into hiding for a decade after a bomb accidentally exploded, killing three members of the group. (Washington Post)
Ayers was a son of privilege — his father was the chairman of the utility Commonwealth Edison — who decided in the late 1960s that violence was needed to transform the country. After he disappeared, he was charged with joining the bombing conspiracy and with crossing state lines to incite a riot.
Are we to suddenly dismiss the past of Ayers and his wife because of time and connecting dots to Barack Obama? Many would like to present the case that this is old news but the erstwhile radicals are not repentant. Liberals use the term, “social justice” and “mainstream liberal good works” to reconcile the differences of past and present, terrorism and good social activism.
Ayers and Dohrn turned themselves in shortly after their second son was born. They raised Chesa Boudin, the son of Weather Underground parents imprisoned for a 1981 Brink’s robbery that left three dead. Boudin won a Rhodes Scholarship in 2002.
Dohrn pleaded guilty to a state charge and later served seven months for refusing to give a handwriting sample to federal authorities. She told a reporter that the FBI already had a sample, and that she considered grand juries “illegal and coercive.” Today Dohrn is a professor of law at the prestigious Northwestern University.
When Obama was asked about Ayers during Wednesday’s debate, he described him as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” He said he does not exchange ideas with him “on a regular basis.” How about on an irregular basis or are we back into Obama denial.
“The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense,” Obama answered in his most recent debate.
How old was Obama when Hamas was established, the Mullahs took over Iran, North Korea became an oppressive Communist state and Syria became home to Hezzbollah?
Does this now make a difference? Does Mr. Obama feel his past is not to be questioned, not be analyzed; he is not to be vetted?
Associations become a sum of the total parts of a person and Mr. Obama has links to some very disturbing people. Suddenly the public is asking too many questions and queries to the “colleagues” are not answered.
Obama noted that President Bill Clinton had commuted the prison terms of Weather Underground members Susan L. Rosenberg, arrested with 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, and Linda Sue Evans, convicted of participating in eight bombings, including the one at the Capitol. Does this make the crime more palatable to Mr. Obama? Bill Clinton commuted sentences and pardoned a host of sordid individual on a pace that set a record for last minute Presidential pardons. Does that erase the crimes?
Obama’s association with Ayers is small but I don’t believe trivial. Once again, Obama has associations with a host of radicals with current and past anti-American beliefs. Mr. Obama has effectively avoided intense scrutiny but the party election isn’t over and Mr. Obama must come clean, which we doubt he can.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson of ABC News weren’t just criticized for their tough questioning of Barack Obama during last week’s Democratic debate. They were flayed, writes John Fund.
According to liberal journalists, all these topics are irrelevant. Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo said they were “frivolous items . . . that presumed the correctness of Republican agenda items.” Mr. Obama agreed, dismissing the items brought up by ABC as “manufactured issues.”
John Harris and Jim VandeHei of Politico.com conclude that the heat directed at ABC News over its debate:
“is the clearest evidence yet that the Clintonites are fundamentally correct in their complaint that [their candidate] has been flying throughout this campaign into a headwind of media favoritism for Obama.”
Mr. Fund continues:
But Mr. Obama, who sports the most liberal voting record of any senator according to the nonpartisan National Journal, has avoided much criticism of that record by implying that any conventional critique of his issue positions represent the tired politics of the past. If he had his way, questions about character and questions about issues would be off-limits.
Obama really needs to recalibrate his sense of moral equivalence. Obama again demonstrated his utter unwillingness to risk giving offense to his own side by pairing off an unrepentant Weatherman bomber with a US Senator; evidently he has run over relatives and is reduced to pitching friends under the bus. Indeed!
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO (5:17)
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Abraham Lincoln is so bored, he forgot to end his civil war re-enactment.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 am
Or is that falling bridges? Around the United States, it seems to be falling bridges.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:38 am
It just shows you that it doesn’t matter if you are a ‘D’ or ‘R’ when going to protest a so-called political convention. Should you not go along with Their plan, then you will be targeted for arrest or even worse. Restricted Free Speech will now be business as usual.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 am
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely
An observation that a person’s sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
http://www.bartleby.com/59/13/powertendsto.html
Well, that means we don’t have a democracy, even if the mantra is recited over and over again, like a Joesph Goebbels speech.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
I only want to know one thing. Where is Alex? He was all about being the center of attention at the DNC. Did he not even GO to the RNC??? It’s a lot bigger deal than the DNC was… Very very strange…
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
* “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”
o George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
So tell me a person who doesn’t know any 1 who other people say are controversial.I guess americans are so stupid they actually believe you have to be an “annoited person” to be president.All people prove to the government is that they’ll let the government make all the decisions for them.If you aint part of this cabal your not acceptable.Maybe some of you’s been exposed to too much chem-trails.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:03 am
I’d rather see someone wrapped in the constitution burning the flag than someone wrapped in the flag burning the constitution . . .
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
For a moment, after the DNC, where the Police acted professionally and with restraint for the most part, i thought that perhaps Denver’s Police Force were against crushing legal demonstrations.
Now of course i realize that they were just conserving ammunition for those protesting the Republicans.
They didn’t want to run out of “pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades” before the RNC.
They use chemical weapons and concussion grenades on us, aim rubber bullets at our heads and laugh about it(as many of us have seen on video), use “non-lethal” Tazers in a manner that causes death, use of non-lethal batons in a manner that causes death…
There has been no uprising and yet we are treated like a military target. Why? Do they see a coup d’etat as imminent? Are they out there to provoke a response?
I think it’s just a dress rehearsal for the police who didn’t get the chance to bust skulls in Iraq. They’re training their wills out of the old “peace officer” paradigm. After all where else can a Peace Officer learn to spray chemicals on an unarmed crowd indiscriminately?
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:06 am
I’d rather see someone wrapped in the constitution burning the flag than someone wrapped in the flag burning the constitution . . .
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 am
Well, if you’re not part, of the cabal, you ain’t a decider. The only absolutely thing we know is that not anyone can be president. That cabal belongs to the millionaire’s club. Which is, of course, nepotism at it’s very worse. Oil companies, secret societies, are just little cliques with the same people.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 am
“dendover obama”
Stop with that copy n paste crap.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 am
Wakey Wakey, Amy. Forthcoming Democracy Now story: America is a Police State (and maybe 9/11 WAS an inside job . . . ) We can only hope.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
Being no great fan of the russians I realy feel I have to say,at least they pulled no punches,if you were to protest you would expect as a certainty that your life would be in a consideral amount of danger.They didnt try to con yo .You knew from get go that it was par for the course you would also expect to be sent to Siberia for a nice long holiday.But that was no problem for their protesters. To them the sacrifice was worth it I suppose you could say it was an arangement of sorts, strange it may be, you could also say they where honest about being dishonest,each party was fully aware of where they stood.I guess what I am trying to say is WHAT A BUNCH OF BLOODY COWARDS OUR MASTERS ARE !! I mean, come on just say it, never mind the B.S, this is no democracy( I doubt very much they could spell it let alone implement it).This is pure unudulterated nazism . We know it, they know it, we all know it,in America and,more so I beleive,in Europe(probably because this is where I se it from,not competing).What really stings is watching innocents such as the lady above and also children being manhandled by steroid taking,knuckle dragging,granny bashing,chid abusing,nazi thugs, and that is what they are.Give them a proper fight and you will see every olympic record for track running broken in a big way.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
ha, Amy is such a wannabe M&M.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
Not that I agree with communism. oh Bugger, I’m sure my point is made.Its just it makes a person mad,sad,and feel bad.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 am
Don’t feel too bad, I agree with neither socialism nor communism. And like every other American, feel that the United States is headed in the wrong direction.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 am
Remember the story of the Pharisees and Sadducees, Jesus agreed with neither. Though, he was on his own with his 12 Apostles. The end of the story wasn’t really that great, though.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 am
The Third Reich has raised its ugly head here in America.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 am
Don’t diss socialism. It is not communism. Capitalism can never last, it always leads to fascism which is WORSE than socialism.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 am
Now everybody knows why killing cops, their superiors and the Repugs who control the apparatus is a good thing!
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
Most of police weapons are “semi-automatic.” The 1911 .45 caliber handgun is “semi-automatic” and it was made in…1911. Not defending the cops, they did get 50M dollars worth of new toys, including Tasers and Pepperball launchers (I have fired both). These are the weapons people should be concerned about, not the super evil “semi-automatic weapons” that cops have been armed with for nearly 100 years.
The new toys are the ones we should be worried about. The only purpose of the Pepperball launcher is to “control” large amounts of people. The old argument of “Well, they can’t shoot us all.” no longer applies. With the Pepperball they can and will shoot at will. And before you say, “Whatever, I’ve been hit with a paintball.” this is a whole new animal with 4 times the kinetic energy of a regular paintball. The bruises are pretty gnarly.
I doubt the police are gonna put these things on eBay when the convention is over. Welcome to the new standard. Police are now here to “control” the public.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
There is some truth in their lies and some lies in their truth.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
If their rights are gone then its a safe bet yours and mine are gone also? The terrorists hate our rights, well the President and Cheney do too as well as some of the posters here. They try to change the subject by bring up Obama or liberals and where’s Alex. Alex has spent a grueling week in Denver in the hot sun and still managed to do a live show yesterday. Earthmother, whats wrong with getting your lazy unpatriotic ass to the RNC? Or maybe your already there as an informant? What better place than to get inside info than here and at infowars and give it to the Gastapo? Turn in an American today. Traitors, we will find out who you are! The troops have to be told about this, they are fighting for nothing.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 am
might as well be bringing pipe bombs and assault rifles to these protests because we need to start a war with these fascist police. then when all the pigs are on the roast we’ll deal with the politicians.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Patriot:
It’s Fascism vs. Nazism = corporate fascism = socialism for the super-rich. That’s why the world is full of Masonuments to the “Fallen”.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 am
“EatMe” you are despicable! Nobody is advocating the killing of cops or their superiors! We are against the Police State mentality and the loss of our rights. To suggest the killing of cops not only is reprehensible but also totally takes away from our righteous cause.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
Like we have any rights left? George Orwell: Big Brother is watching you. No, I don’t think we have ANY rights.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 am
hey “patriot” socialism is fascism you tool! It is centralized control over economic policy, lowering the quality of life available!
You have alot of reading to do. I suggest that you start with Fredric Bastiat’s book, “the law”. Need I remind you that socialism was the prefered economic system of the Nazi’s.
Until all you democrats socialists and big government supporters educate yourselves about the systems of control you will never be free!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Here in Madrid, Spain, there was absolutely nothing in the press about the disturbances at the DNC in Denver. However, the demonstrations at the RNC in St. Paul are already on the “news” here. And now the arrest of the “left-gate-keeper” Goodman. Just the fact that the RNC is being held in Minnesota instead of in, for example, Texas, is very suspiciously provocative. This smells of false-flag psy-op to get the “left” into the street before the “NO New World Order” does the same. Let´s hope Goodman knows that she is being utilized by the elite and if not that this be enough to wake her up to the fact.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
I wonder why the RNC protesters are being treated like animals, but at the DNC there were hardly any problems ? I guess the powers-that-be really don’t want the Republicans to win this thing.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
they are just tenderizing them for a long bus trip across canada,
where your chinese seatmate will turn and ask “guess who comin to dinnah roundeye?”
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
How pathetic these thugs look… decked out in black riot gear to protect themselves from the likes of Amy Goodman- what a bunch of fragile momma’s-boys, HA! Typical cowards: only act in large numbers against an unarmed and peaceful opposition, clothe themselves to give an appearance of strength, but on the inside- where it counts- in the spirit, they are weak. Pathetic… and ultimately, Losers.
EatMe, if you are on our side, you should know that advocating violence hurts our cause. If you are provocating to make us look bad, take a look around you at how many people are waking up to the truth… you’re on the losing side.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
It’s because the DNC was well publicized and they knew Alex Jones and others were out in force with live camera feeds to document the police state actions. That’s why we need more people like Alex Jones out there. The camera is your weapon.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
This is the best news I’ve heard all day.
Amy Goodman, leftist gatekeeper and 9/11 denier…you finally reap what you’ve sown.
NOW…MAYBE…just maybe…something will change.
Just goes to show that if you serve either side of the NWO it doesn’t matter, it’s all the same. You will still be under the boot you arrogant fools.
Maybe now they will cover the TRUTH.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 am
Un-American faggot Nazis! I say we jump their pussy asses! It’s comin PUNKS! IT’S COMIN!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
loooook! its darth vader and darth vader jr. keeping gotham city safe from the evil taliban photographers staking out Gotham twin cities for Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen..I’m beginning to hate America as much as the rest of the world when i see this outrageous,ridiculous nonsense..how do they get so many to go along with this fake terror crackdown police state?
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
They would shit if a patriot(s) brought a flamethrower(s) to that constitutional gathering. I can hear the fore-fathers of this country cry from their graves “Get those Motherfuckers and Hang their ass!” American police have lost ALL CREDIBILTY in this country! Fuck ‘em WE DONT NEED THEM!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
Maybe history will repeat itself; after the 68 Dem Con, we were inundated with TV cop shows. This served to put the mind numbed at ease, thinking that law and order prevail in spite of the “hippie freaks” who want to “tear it all down, man.”
Now we’re being primed again. I can’t wait to see Adam-12, Barney Miller, McCloud, Barreta AND ALL the rest of the zion-mason fantasies rehashed, refurbished, rescripted and regurgitated for our consumption.
Gee, how I really hated the 70’s. And it’s coming back. Arrrrrrgggghhhh.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
WAKE UP PEOPLE WHEN WILL YOU WAKE UP , STOP BEING SHEEP … THIS IS CLEARING ORWELL’S 1984 … ITS HAPPENING , ITS REAL ! YOU’RE BEING LED AND FED .
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
Those cops crack me up in their silly costumes complete with their camelback water canteens and everything. They look like a cross between little league baseball catchers, moped riders and paintball enthusiasts. Funny how it takes all of that silly crap for them to be equipped enough to beat up a woman half their size. It’s too bad that “groupthink” overcomes any sense of real patriotism among them.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
I am responding only to the video of the woman being arrested. As it appear was arrested for crossing the police line not for asking questions. This is no way advocates the violence of the police. Within our own hearts stands anger, the prelude to violence.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 am
Don,
We’ve already woken up, you d&$#weed! That’s why we’re ehre and talking about it! Why is it that so many people can only yell “wake up” and not add anything constructive?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:08 am
Opposition from from many sides can coalesce into a warning heeding of the dangers, that may yet be preventable.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Imagine that cnn aka corporate controlled media is claiming that anarchists started rioting and trashing the streets. wonder how many of the anarchists were connected to the cops or the feds.
sounds like its past time for a social revolution against the nazi’s who’ve co opted the u.s.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
i will not surrender to the nazis. they will never win
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
seems to me, citizens should start hiring their own security detail to protect them from police!
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
Love the lame cherry comments toward women yet still it never seizes to freaking amaze me.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:29 am
The cop’s sure stand out against the rest of the crowd. Obviously they can’t get a job doing anything else; it’s not surprising since they could care less about the constitution or the liberty so many people have given there lives for.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 am
Seems like they apply a little more fear and pressure each and every time. Anyone in opposition of course. Along with ‘free speech zones’ bullying and intimidation, their ultimate goal is to suppress free speech and curb protesting altogther. Once this is in full effect, once this most fundamental and essential right is gone, they have won. We should never cower to these bullies, we must bring 1000s with us, power by numbers. We play their game only bigger and better. Tyrants always gain power by being bullies, we can intidimate them by numbers. Problem is the US is full of cowards.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 am
If not the soap box, the ballot box.
If not the ballot box, the jury box.
If not the jury box, all that’s left is in the cartridge box!
How many more?
How many more assaults to the people of freedom?
How many more broken bones?
How many more ruined lives?
How many more bodies left to lie?
How many more cities to turn cold unto thy brothers and sisters?
How many more disgraces to stomach?
How many more hours, days, weeks, months, years, if ever?
A cause is worth NOTHING if those who own the cause aren’t willing to vigorously defend the cause. The time for pacifism is over!
Next time may be under the hand of machines and NOT men!
Pacifism is dead. Defend yourselves, America, or not at all!
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
i live in St Paul. i can’t speak for the Miniapolis police or any of the feds, but i have found St Paul police to be professional servants of the people over the years. also i would point out that 10,000 peacful protesters were able to do their thing unmolested by police. not to defend arresting valid journalists. that is wrong any way you cut it, but these little anarchist weasles make us all look bad and if they’re not already on the payroll of the nwo they dammed well should be. as far as the anarchists go the little fuckers bring it down on themselves by and large.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
These are monumental times in the establishment of the police state dictatorship. Preemptive raids and the broadening of the domestic terrorist to include perma culture teachers are worht noting.
Tivana
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
The NWO are showing their true colors. These brainwashed cops are just following their marching orders from their “LORD DARTH VADER”. Hey you civil service police officers and miltary, when you get through with us “civilians”, the NWO has a nice present for you. No pensions, no paychecks, no retirement funds,etc. Please get your heads out of the sands and wake the hell up you civil service police officers and military forces. The NWO had already stolen five trillion dollars from the Pentagon’s pension funds since the “LORD” Bush was selected in office. Yea civil service cops, your pensions will be stolen from you from these same international bankers.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Neocon conversation on the Republican Convention went something like:
Cheney – “What are we going to do about all them damn protesters who think they can influence who we choose to be president?”
Minneapolis Police Chief – “Well Dark Lord Cheney if you can give us millions of dollars to fund the most militarized convention in history we can crush thier Constitutional right and prove once and for all that the Constitution is just a God Damn Piece Of Paper just like your assistant Georgie says it is…”
Cheney – “Well Done my good and faithfull servant I will make sure the millions in funding enable you to jack boot anyone who Disagrees with us including journalists, photographers, and since we control everything why not women and children as well.”
Minneapolis Police Chief – “Your wish is my command Cheney I will draw up some fake warrents that will lead to zero arrests and by the time it is all proven as a sham… your Propaganda Convention will be long over.”
Cheney – “Crush them…”
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Welcome to Nazi America!
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
why go protest unarmed bring a gun with you then the police will back off if all the protests people had guns with them
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
@Gregory
You list internet and cell phones as things to pacify truthers? What a sham, they are inanimate and can be used for either propaganda or truth. To blame “Truthers” for the state of politics in America because we have cell phones or internet is the most unitellegent thing you could say. Thats like saying any freedom you enjoy is used as a reason to take away your freedom. I would even call it double speak since you are not from the US and I just wanted to let you know you were pushing silly concepts to people on here who are generally educated about what is going on in US politics.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
the police have you under control why cant you fight back realy if the police were to lose a fight it would change the world freedom colud be here only if we fight back I think some police might change sides if they knew who they were working for
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Well I talked a real COP he said, no matter what they must have warrant for any search before the actions. There is no going back to get a warrant and they carry a copy not the original. Don’t believe that enemy of the state or patriot act bs its a lie. So they F Up once. Secondly, they have right cover the police arrest. Called freedom of the press. The Republican’s are just scared that Democracy now will expose them and we will have riots like in Asian or Europe. Now Mexico that currently peaceful. If OBAMA loses their will be huge riots worst than LA ones.Lastly, I am not justify or pushing for any riots but if things keep going this way. Well you know.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
You have the police subdued, where they are. There was a larger protest scheduled on Maple street, to cower the dogs and police down will be compelled to stoop down, becuase they orders. Some sergaents lost his wig in the crowd but order was restored and people stopped laughing with the mostly-overweight policew omen backed off.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Well here in dallas ft worth they are famous for framing people and then secretly trying to force them to confess to the crime. For years they have been trying to secretly corral me into being their fall guy. I have lost all of my friends and family. I cannot go to church anymore. My friends buddy was machine gunned to death in broad daylight on a crowded street in dallas. They seem to have recruited some of the most vile creatures walking the earth to do their dirty work and yet they look at me as I am the criminal. I said it before and I will say it again I have not committed any crimes and until you want to come and formally accuse me you need to stop with the innuendo and intimidation campaign. I don’t want to hear your suggestions I don’t want to hear anything you have to say. It seems to me that they enjoy secretly torturing me. Apparently they want to wait to formally accuse me until I am dead or completely incapacitated. I have contacted human rights organizations, attorneys, the government of Canada to no avail. I applied with canada for asylum under the United Nations convention on torture but was rejected and told to contact my local police. Let me see I am supposed to walk into the local police or F.B.I office and say hey I am trying to figure out for what crimes I may be a suspect and secretly being tortured for. I really don’t see that scenario going to well. So I guess I will just continue to stand alone against the hordes and to endure the pain and the pressure and the harrassment and intimidation , manipulation like I have been for more than a decade. I will patiently await on justice for it will come to all of us shortly.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
@Gregory
Your propaganda from Russia? You got me all figuired out Buddy…
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
If you haven’t been handcuffed and kicked to the ground or asked to show your ‘papers’ on the streets of your hometown yet, It’s coming. If you are thinking the US-Chertoff-gestapo-network is on your side; you are mistaken. The machinery of dictatorship is beaurocracy and it raises brother against brother. It does this by
segregation by fear, by suggesting one group has plotted against another wholesale, and it comes for us all, in the night,just like Neimoller said, and it’s coming, reaching for our throats and it’s a rough animal and it challenges souls for their eternal value. It gives you a choice; your life or someone elses; your life or your childs. The smashed skull will soon be mine,yours, ours and the boot of corporatism will be in childrens faces forever if this rough, slouching beast is seated as god in jerusalem.
jmho
peace
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
@Gregory
1.You like to type about nothing.
2.You know me not. You understand nothing I have personally done to support restoring the Constitution.
3.You are a hypocrite who makes assumptions of others who type at a keyboard when you do alot more of it.
4. You do not appear as a Patriot to me nor do many seem to support your demonization of everyone who resides in the US as lazy and incapable of allowing you to run everything because you have it all figuired out.
5. You do not have your own Website like Alex Jones nor do you really seem to support the Truth movement as you take every attempt to complain that it is not going as you would have planned.
6. You probably come from a country with less freedoms (Russia?) therefore you do not appreciate that we are fighting for the freedoms we still have left and to restore America’s place as a leader in free thinking.
7. Assuming you post the same thing everytime that America is bad you offer no solutions about how great things are where you are from.
8. You are anti-technology as they are used to “Pacify” us Americans, even though technology can be used for either good or bad… making your point irrelevant. (sure you live in the stone age with only your computer right comrad?)
9. Your deep insight we are all supposed to support from your foriegn viewpoint is that without all your assumptions we are just sheep and shows your true lack of understanding.
10. You pretend you are some great leader when posting your BS but where are you at the RNC convention or did you even make it to America to even show what candidate you would have us all vote for from your Foriegn Point Of View.
11. You use general terms like sheep and matrix but you are too righteous to have a clue what you are actually talking about.
12. You are probably an older guy who never influenced much of anything in the political world therefore you hope you can pretend to be important here if only Truthers would listen to you.
13. You don’t support any efforts at all to restore the Constitution – Are you Communist?, Libertarian?, Anarchist?, or just a pretender that instigates any response you can get as you personally have nothing to offer in the form of solutions.
Thanks for Assuming you know me as you expose your lack of understanding and therefore you can keep typing at “your keyboard” about how important you must be in some other country as you do not make any effort to come to the US and protest what you dont like instead of complaining that all Truthers are sheep because you say so…
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hey Gregory, the most posts on this comment page are from you! So calling others basically cyber cowards is fucked!! I spent 3 years in the 82nd airborne. Most of my friends are ex-military. You show some level of meaningful organization and maybe people would get more active. Getting arrested just for the sake of getting arrested is moronic for no reason. I will do what is necessary to protect my family, block, and home. I don’t care about the consequences, it is better than throwing away my life away for a bunch of criminal assholes. Your probably a fucking agent provocateur trolling alternative media outlets. Alex your obviously putting a bug up the right butts because more of the idiocracy seem to be finding their way to your sites. I’m going to side with the constitutionalists because they seem to be the only splinter group in our society who aren’t lying to me. They’re derided as conspiracy theorists, but they always seem to back their arguments with facts instead of SCREAMING AT ME on the msm with no substance to their hyperbole. P.S. jonny please work on that spelling dude, or we are going to be portrayed as illiterates.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Folks, your getting some view of what evil looks like. It sure does exist doesn’t it? Did you think God was kidding? Just turn to Him and pray. Repent! Ask Him to come into your life. Everybody wanted Him out – out of the way so they can just do what they want. He’ll back up. He has no problem turning away from a land that doesn’t want Him. But you better be prepared for who steps in. Because good and evil certainly exists. I never thought I’d live to see this in my day. I have to kick in my own faith muscle everyday. I can only imagine what this world feels like if you don’t have God. ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him ’shall not perish’ but have everlasting life.”
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Human rights?
What rights?
We’re not allowed to have rights.
You need to know why…
http://illuminatimatrix.wordpr.....ental-ism/
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The only rights you have are god given, all others are lies. For example, to have a right called freedom of speech, assuming we agree first what that exactly means, says nothing of who gave you that right for if it did it would have to acknowledge the truth of who gave you your body and its ability to speak.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hey Jay, I essentially agree with you, but would say that “getting arrested as an INDIVIDUAL making a stand” is moronic from the sense that the position of the individual will make no difference to the public, if they even hear of it at all through mainstream news sources. The actions of that individual will be presented as threatening because they are anarchists. As a collection of disorganized individuals, we will fail, no matter how great our numbers. An acquaintance of my wife, who was incidentally a police officer, is currently sitting behind bars because he tried to rightfully claim that he hasn’t paid federal income taxes because they are illegal and unconstitutional.
I think you’ll find that the majority around here, including myself, are Constitutionalists who are for change through peacful, non-violent means for as long as that peace can be maintained. So fight on, my brother. As we continue to bring more Americans into our great cause for freedom, things will undoubtedly get worse before they get better, as our threat to the status quo becomes more clearly defined. If we can hang on and maintain the choke, this will simply be their last struggle before they fade to black. In my opinion, Gregory is on our side, but he’s an example of someone who has reached the point where he’s ready to take up arms right now. I disagree with his position, but acknowledge where I feel his loyalties lie.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
What we need right now is another BraveHeart Dude to rally the protestors! Hell back in the day, they did’nt even have or used bullhorns!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
“In 1940, teachers were asked what they regarded as the three major problems in American schools. They identified the three major problems as: Littering, noise, and chewing gum. Teachers last year were asked what the three major problems in American schools were, and they defined them as: Rape, assault, and suicide.” – William Bennett (1993)
Our taxes pay for these scumbag cops and they can’t do the job that is required of them but yet they go around beating up American citizens just so they can get their jollies…So why do we pay taxes, oh… I forgot… they force us to pay….
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
To Gregory Fegel – just exactly what is it YOU have done to protect our rights? All I see is you b**ch and complain about others. Armchair critic you are!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Regardless of what you’re seeing, don’t worry – good things are coming your way.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
According to Enoch 9:1-2 Gabriel, along with Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Suriel hear the cries of humanity under the strain of the Nephilim. It was their beseeching of ‘the Ancient of Days’ [Yahweh], that prompted God to call Enoch to prophethood.
After Enoch informed the Watchers of their fall from Grace, Yahweh sent the archangels to earth to complete various tasks. Gabriel was to ‘Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them fourth and excite them against one another. Let them perish under mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs.’ Enoch 10:13. And so, Gabriel instigated wars among the Giants (the children of the Watchers).
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Nothing would energize and unite the nazi faithful like a Seattle type riot in St. Paul. The Left is going to have to ignore the GOP agents that have been planted in their midst or be ready to fight.
FREE AMERICA
REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hussein Obama for President! Long live the Wheather Underground!
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
They were pretty gentle with Amy, makes you wounder if it was staged. Hmmmmm….
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Neocons, they have nothing better to do than bash women……
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Here’s one that the Neocons wouldn’t and didn’t protest
ABC News: DOJ Shuns Hearing on Halliburton/KBR Rape Cases
WATCH: 20/20: Halliburton/KBR Rape Allegations. KBR Chief Knocks Woman’s Rape Claims … WATCH: Victim: Rape Cover-Up by Halliburton/KBR …
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blot.....amp;page=1 – 93k
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ABC News: Congress to Probe Iraq Rape Allegations
… lawmakers demanding answers in the case, which will be featured on ABC … container in which she says Halliburton/KBR held her following her alleged rape. …
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3992370&page=1
And another
http://www.commondreams.org/ar.....4/03/8078/
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
these are not law officers, they are terrorists. They should hang their heads in shame because they have done more to destroy our freedoms and destroy our country’s founding principles than any of the fake 911 “terrorist attack” bullshit that has been forced down our gullets.
…arise my fellow citizens. A true patriot knows when his country needs him….
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
check this shit out-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFOsoKzpD0
2:50 towers fall..
popping out.. floor by floor.. slow mo-
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
~Benjamin Franklin
PS
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I just spent 5 hours from downtown st.Paul and I have to say that
I saw 2 snipers on top of the public library,secret service and fbi every 20 feet im not exaggerating.Police from Arlington Texas,Federal Capital police who i talked to,Cedar Rapids Iowa.2 helocopters hovering constantly,very very very Martial law like.
Cops telling you to cross the street now maam,very agitated policeman,and even chaplins in police attire all over.I later that night was on my way to the bus stop and I witnessed at least 300 national guardsmen and police in riot gear grouping up and readying for something,I guess only they knew.If they see people congregating at all they make a move towards them folks.IT’s not an exxaggeration.I saw 3 guys walking and talking and a policeman from another state i know it wasn’t Minneapolis or St.Paul,he held a camera up and walk towards them photographing the back of them.This is so sick to see this.Every 20 feet of every block in a 6 block radius had FBI and many other forms of federal presence.They were all unfriendly.God help us all.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
The NWO needs civil unrest or another “pearl harbor event” to further repress civil liberties without violent opposition. NWO operatives may use existing gangs or anything they can slap a gang/violent revolutionary label on and pay leaders of these gangs like warlords using them in the same way as shaskavilli was.
It will be hollow and easy to see through like 911 is now. kinda like recreate 68 only more paramilitary .Awareness is everything we need to wake up more people and fast.
The headline will be: The war on terror comes to mainstreet ! lock your doors ! beware of your neighbor the spy ! All facist regimes eliminate counter revolution by sewing distrust and fear among those who have joined and those who would be inclined to join.
This is a very old book of tricks folks, with only variations on the same tired themes of control. Watch for the story of the hero
who stopped a terror event by calling on his neighbor. just some thoughts. stay safe. in the words of a wise man; trust but verify.
peace
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I just really hope we are not to late.
Far too few of us understand.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Just remember you brutal cops who think a badge gives you a right to harm harmless people that your name and address, along with your kid’s school activities can be found really easy for those who want them. What if a MS-13 gang member decided your name was on the list? What about Mexican Mafia? What about a person who is a perfect example of life and you never see him coming? I would suggest getting on the right side of this tyranny thing. Bad things happen to cops who disobey their duty to SERVE and PROTECT and turn on citizens. Just my opinion.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
You are right there, Had Enough. If one in any gang green-lighted cops for being bastards, that would be it. The cops pick on whites it seems, but maybe the gangs have had enough too, plus they get status and a move up the ladder to “deal” with bad cops. I wish we could all come togethe to fight what’s truly bad. It is this NWO shit and not our races. They intend to get us all as slaves or in camps as slaves. Death too.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 am
I’m not from the U.S.A. but would urge all True Americans to throw all you can at this, don’t let it slide or next time they will think they can get away with anything because no body cares. Apathy and ignorance are your greatest enemy.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 am
im from israel and im soory for us the good pepole let me remaind you all that every day born new person that lern the truse becose of us brave pepole lets go to the war by standing toole
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:34 am
Well, the left wing assholes in the US media have always applauded a commie control-freak gov. But what goes around comes around. Now they too are the victims of the police state that they support. How does the medicine taste ASSFUCKHOLES?!? Still support the police state?!? LOL!
Jason
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer’s life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”
“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.
“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
“An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other assault and battery.” (State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).
“Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self- defense.” (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).
“One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted to such custody, without resistance.” (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16, 48 S.E. 910).
“Story affirmed the right of self-defense by persons held illegally. In his own writings, he had admitted that ‘a situation could arise in which the checks-and-balances principle ceased to work and the various branches of government concurred in a gross usurpation.’ There would be no usual remedy by changing the law or passing an amendment to the Constitution, should the oppressed party be a minority. Story concluded, ‘If there be any remedy at all … it is a remedy never provided for by human institutions.’ That was the ‘ultimate right of all human beings in extreme cases to resist oppression, and to apply force against ruinous injustice.’” (From Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones, Oxford University Press, 1987, an account of the reading of the decision in the case by Justice Joseph Story of the Supreme Court.
As for grounds for arrest: “The carrying of arms in a quiet, peaceable, and orderly manner, concealed on or about the person, is not a breach of the peace. Nor does such an act of itself, lead to a breach of the peace.” (Wharton’s Criminal and Civil Procedure, 12th Ed., Vol.2: Judy v. Lashley, 5 W. Va. 628, 41 S.E. 197)
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
@Gregory
You have been called out. You have been weighed. And you have been found Wanting…
in case you didnt already know
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Fascism in Denver-
Defend the Republic!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Dont give up the fight no matter what. And keep bringing up the name Illuminati in their face to let them know that we the people are awake.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:41 am
If your going to protest, how bout doing it right, like when I witness Korean students setting themselves on fire as the Rok Army poise their weapons at the slightest repell of a burning student as they watch and let them burn. To catch a fish you have to smell or behave like one otherwise your just waisting your time. Remember we are all one of same.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
i was at the protest on thursday during McCains speech. I was tear gassed and had grenades blow up right next to me. i was then sprayed with mace and when i tried to leave i was grabbed by police and was beaten, tazed, and maced. My nose is broke and my eye and jaw are extremely swollen, my back is hurt from the tazer, my hands are still numb from the zip tie cuffs which were left on for an extended time period, and my body is bruised from the beating. But i will tell you this they will never break my spirit and no matter what physical violence they threaten i will not back down because i will stand up for what i believe in. to all the others involved in the protest i thank you for being there, and for all those people who want their voice to be heard never back down and have no fear.
September 7th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Dont you all think it’s time to start shooting back ..backbone people lets muster up!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
God bless you protesters! “We the people” are realizing just how crooked our government is. According to bible scripture, satan has dominion of the air. What is the air? It’s the air from the earth to, let’s say, the tallest mountain. We are truly seeing spiritual wickedness in high places. As I grow older and wiser I can’t help but come to the conclusion that the sriptures are right on and everything is happening as explained.