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Police Brutality (or, Sometimes the World Makes Me Want to Purge)
So this is probably getting around by now, but I want to post this anyways.
Very recently, a UF student-Andrew Meyer, was arrested and tasered by UF police at a John Kerry speech in Gainesville, FLorida. After having his mic cut, Meyer was dragged from the mic by the police, while yelling "why am I being arrested?!" and "help me!". As the police dragged him from the auditorium, he began to resist the officers (All 5 of them) and so they threw him to the ground and tasered him. I linked two videos below, and you can hear the taser go off, as well as Meyer's screams of pain.
Dig on This
So I just got this e-mail today. I think it poses a good question. What are everyone's thoughts?
"Dear activists, colleagues, and friends,
Well Fox News went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus' testimony last week, when our friends at Media Matters let us know that they had 7 to 1 analysts in favor of escalation. It was hard to believe, even for FOX!
Yikes!
So here's where it's at. Bush Jr. is meeting with very official-sounding people in uniforms because, well, he thinks that security levels in Iraq might be able to be contained with less troop presence as previously expected. Seems like even the President is beginning to realize the full weight of this war (or rather, occupation). So it's good news. But it's frustrating that, more than likely, he'll be praised for this. Of course, if any other candidate expresses a desire for less (or god forbid, NO) troop pesence, they're a "cut and runner."
Just Putting This Out There
This happy little news item occured one county over from where I live on Long Island, and I'm just putting it out there for you all to dig on. Marijuana law's a very touchy touchy thing.
Here's the article, and here's the gist of it:
Monday Front Page Post / Open Thread
So, Alberto Gonzales has resigned! I mean, of course it's the chickenshit way out, and no, he is not brought to justice, yet he's fuckin outta there.
Also, score one for the humanitarians.
And then there's this.
Meeeeeting
{bumping this post back up top so maybe some more core members will see it --- nudge nudge. -jake}
Jake and I were talking about an Outreach meeting that would take place sometime this week. I know it's short notice, guys, but what does everyone feel about Wednesday? Maybe 7:00pm eastern? Or if that's too early for you west-coasters, we could push it to 8 or 9? Post your availability...
White House has a Freaking Manual which Details How to "Deal" with Pesky Protesters
It seems that the White House has a manual that's issued to Secret Service Agents and White House organizers on how to deal with protests within the President's visual plane. This is not a manual on how to deal with security breeches, but how to deal with people smuggling in signs (look out for folded cloth!) or any other anti-whatever paraphenalia and effectively remove them from the President's sight, and into "free speech zones." It gets worse. Just read the article.
Humanity
So let’s imagine the apocalypse. Let’s assume that global warming – to put a contemporary (and highly probable) spin on it – has become irreversible. The climate is fated to change and change and change until the earth winds up, as Stephen Hawking put it, much like Venus— 250 degrees Celsius and raining sulphuric acid. We are doomed from this moment on. It’s a prospect that’s extraordinarily frightening. To face death is one thing. It is a personal struggle, but able to be handled because (and I am speaking for myself here, but I feel that it’s true with most) we have the knowledge that life will go on without us. We may die, but others are born and others live, and then they die, and more still are born, and so on. But death in the face of apocalypse?