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anotheranonJust when I was talking about rays of sunshine earlier...I may be braindead, but I didn't need to be that cognizant to realize that this is Bad News(TM):
The Martial Plan: Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own - discusses police/prison abuses of men arrested after September 11, and detainment of foreign correspondents desperate to get a Bennifer Lopez story.
"So what?" We might justly ask - most of us aren't suspected terrorists or journalists. This doesn't have anything to do with me, and the pendulum will swing the other way eventually, etc.
It does get worse: South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges.
Look at the video at the bottom of the article (I refrain from a direct link out of respect for those on dialup). I admit, I don't know the full situation - maybe the school in question does have a serious drug problem, but am I completely naive to find it extremely disturbing to see armed police casing a public school like it's a crackhouse?
Were I more awake I'd work up a fire and brimstone rant on these abuses, but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and I'm equally sure there are others out there who can righteously condemn these actions more eloquently than I can.
Right now I'm just wondering -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jlsjlsjls - that fold out sofa still available?
The Martial Plan: Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own - discusses police/prison abuses of men arrested after September 11, and detainment of foreign correspondents desperate to get a Bennifer Lopez story.
"So what?" We might justly ask - most of us aren't suspected terrorists or journalists. This doesn't have anything to do with me, and the pendulum will swing the other way eventually, etc.
It does get worse: South Carolina Students Were Terrorized by Police Raid With Guns and Drug Dogs, ACLU Lawsuit Charges.
Look at the video at the bottom of the article (I refrain from a direct link out of respect for those on dialup). I admit, I don't know the full situation - maybe the school in question does have a serious drug problem, but am I completely naive to find it extremely disturbing to see armed police casing a public school like it's a crackhouse?
Were I more awake I'd work up a fire and brimstone rant on these abuses, but I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir, and I'm equally sure there are others out there who can righteously condemn these actions more eloquently than I can.
Right now I'm just wondering -
jlsjlsjls - that fold out sofa still available?
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Date: 2003-12-24 08:20 pm (UTC)Any time. We have a policy of taking in refugees from the United States ... starting with Loyalists during the Revolution :-)