19 yr old chanting for food in Ramsey Co. jail is hooded and tortured.

[EFerrari]

"During the news conference, a 19-year-old activist named Elliot Hughes said he was beaten and tortured inside Ramsey County Jail. Sheriff Bob Fletcher told the Star Tribune that Hughes was “extremely disruptive” in jail and that “it took some force to control him.”'

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/5/ramsey_county_sheriff_admits_local_police

Eliot Hughes, his face clearly battered, describes his ordeal in a press conference by RNC Welcoming Committee in the second hour of Democracy Now! today. He says he was punched in the face, his head slammed down on the floor, taken to another cell, where they hooded him, separated his jaw, bent his foot straight back.

[valerief]

1. Kick

:kick:

[Solly Mack]

2. sick sick country

[EFerrari]

7. This was going on while the Republican morons were chanting "USA! USA!"

:puke:

[Solly Mack]

9. and if they were witnessing the young man's torture they would still chant that

[EFerrari]

11. You heard them cheer when Caribou Barbie criticized Obama

by saying he wanted to read al Qaida their rights. You bet they would.

[Solly Mack]

13. I heard it. Posted about it

It said a lot about Palin....

[EFerrari]

22. I remember that now. Habeas, the Geneva Conventions.

Republicans: Rules are for other people.

[Solly Mack]

23. she was so glib about it

and should her son be captured and tortured, Palin will wail - with much keening about "terrorists"

and not once will she think about her own words...about her own beliefs...that it's OK to torture people, to deny them rights

[Raineyb]

12. Thom Hartmann mentioned seeing the cops beat up on a kid in front of an outdoor cafe

And the Republicans across the street from him cheered.

These "people" are despicable.

Regards

[Solly Mack]

15. They truly are despicable

[EFerrari]

24. Disgusting. Has Thom been talking about the police in St. Paul

this week? I can't have the radio on while I'm working.

[Raineyb]

26. I'm podcasting so I'm a little behind but he did have Amy Goodman and two of her producters

on for an hour on Tuesday talking about her arrest and the detaining of the I-Witness video people as well as the behavior of the police. I haven't listened to Wednesday yet.

Regards

[intheflow]

17. True dat.

The morons were chanting "USA!" when McCain't was talking about people losing their homes and jobs.

[Solly Mack]

18. Idiots

Beyond idiots really

[Greyhound]

25. Another triumph for American anti-intellectualism.

We're #1!

:kick:

[midnight]

3. Why is our country in the hands of these people?

They were spied on for over a year! Thrown in jail and abused! "400 to 500 alleged anarchists for creating unrest in St. Paul over the past week."

[Bob Dobbs]

4. Complete blackout on fascist network propaganda outlets.

We have descended into the darkness of total fascism.

[EFerrari]

5. Who thought this sh!t would never come home to us? n/t

[Raineyb]

14. It's always been here

Remember the police siccing dogs on protesters during the 60's? It's just that back then the media would show these pictures. Now they hide evidence of police abuse and call protesters anarchists so that the average dim-bulb will think that the person got what they deserved. Because the dim-bulb's mode of thinking they wouldn't do anything to deserve such treatment so it'll never happen to them -until it does.

Regards

[EFerrari]

20. You know, you're right. A lot of these tactics originated in our prisons

iirc.

[atreides1]

6. To Serve And Protect

That's what the police seem to do these days, serve and protect the wanna be Nazis who can pay them.

[malaise]

8. Shock Doctrine at work

Expect way more voltage come November

[EFerrari]

10. "Pain compliance". Did you see this, malaise?

That kid was struggling to get his sentences out.

[intheflow]

16. Disgusted that I have to K&R this.

WTF is wrong with those St. Paul cops? I'm beginning to think SS no longer stands for Secret Service but Schutzstaffel. Don't even know which emoticon to use: :scared: :puke: :grr:

[EFerrari]

21. There seems to be some Federal puppeteering going on here.

Amy did a segment about two weeks ago where her guests explained why "fusing" local police to Federal agents was a terrible idea. This is what they meant.

[mojowork_n]

27. Exactly.

My thought, too. I used to live in St. Paul (O.K., it was a long time ago), but I still find it hard to believe Minnesota has become Abu Ghraib West overnight, without something else going on.

[Greyhound]

19. But, it's not a police state.

It's not fascism, it's a post 9/11 world. I'm just so sick of the defenders of totalitarianism I just want to start dragging them out of their cars and houses and showing them life from the other side.:grr:
:kick: & R