This is America. We don't jail journalists here!! -- Please tell the M$M to air video!

[Breeze54]

This is America. We don't jail journalists here.

:grr:

A free press is supposed to be a cornerstone of our democracy.

But journalists are being arrested at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police
while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified
as press, Goodman was charged with "obstruction of a legal process and interference with a
'peace officer.'" Two of her producers were arrested for "suspicion of felony riot."



You won't believe how upsetting this arrest was until you see it.

http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=1376&id=796-1649025-7_wQC2x&t=1">Click here to watch the video, then take action.

Goodman and her producers were released last night. (An AP photographer was also arrested
and released). But the charges are still pending.

Amazingly, this story has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. The cable channels
are providing extensive coverage of events related to the Republican National Convention, but
there has been a virtual news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the "Democracy Now" team.

Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs.

We must demand that CNN and MSNBC include this story in their coverage of the RNC.

https://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/index.html?r=1376">Click here to e-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus to demand coverage of this brutally important story.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Kate Stayman-London, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

[datasuspect]

1. there never was an idealized America

America is a fiction.

[Breeze54]

2. The police broke the law... please sign the letter!

Thanks.

[Breeze54]

3. Kicking for the Constitution!

:kick:

[Ghost Dog]

4. You do in Iraq, though. And kill them too.

Sorry, but it had to be said. :(

[Breeze54]

5. Why? We're talking about a US city in this thread.

*sigh*

But I suspect these boot jack thugs that were hired by the RNC from out of state came straight from Abu Garaib!!

[Breeze54]

6. Kicking for Amy Goodman and her producers

:kick:

[ManiacJoe]

7. An important 2 minutes is missing from the front of the video.

Where she is, and how she got there are important (and missing from the video).

It is highly likely the cops screwed up big time, but you cannot tell that from this video.