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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI only wish the media cared one iota about the infiltration & targeting of Occupy and peace groups
guess we didn't whine enough? I am not going to jump and defend the IRS. But I want to know why the RW assholes get their asses kissed by the "liberal media" every time.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)when the mass media is a PR front for the system that it is an integral part of? They kiss the asses of those who associate in the club that we have no membership card for. They can imply "democracy" and "representational" all they want, but it is getting more difficult to support that facade as a means to quell the growing droves of the disgruntled.
We can see that when we explore alternatives, so even if people want to consider that merely an "opinion" it is easy to prove to one's self. With alternative news and information and some discernment, it becomes more obvious that mass media is tits on a bull hog with a generous ladle-full of Bernay's sauce slathered over it.
The media IS the massage/message.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)There is a reason why none of the big hitters -Stewart, Colbert, Maddow, Sharpton, etc.- didn't hitch their wagons to Occupy.
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G_j
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Occupiers Prevail Over Infiltrators, Unconstitutional Ordinances, Vindictive DAs
http://www.nlg.org/news/blog/occupiers-prevail-over-infiltrators-unconstitutional-ordinances-vindictive-das
March 19, 2013
On the second Friday in February, Boston prosecutors announced that they were dropping all charges against 26 people who had been swept up in two late night raids of Occupy Boston almost a year and a half earlier. The move came as a surprise to the arrestees and their NLG defense team who were deep in preparation for a trial the following Monday. While it would be welcome news to any criminal defendant, the evaporation of the charges was a strange end to a long and grueling saga, especially because of what came with the announcement:
Theres now parity with prior cases arising from the protests, Suffolk County District Attorneys Office spokesman Jake Wark told the Boston Globe. Theyve served essentially the same sentences.
Occupy Boston activists, though glad to see their charges dropped, were outraged that the D.A.s office could confirm their harshest critiqueswhich held that the criminal justice process is itself a punishment enacted by the state to deter continued activismand keep a straight face.
Despite the mixed emotions they evoked, the dismissals are undoubtedly a victory for Occupy Boston and for the Massachusetts NLG chapter, which provided legal support to the protest camp from the beginning. The win is only the latest in a string of NLG victories as the saga of the Occupy movement continues to play out in courthouses across the country.
Texas
Greg Gladden, a Texas Guild lawyer and newly elected Mass Defense Committee co-chair scored a major win in helping to secure the dismissal of felony charges facing seven Occupy Austin protesters charged with felonies after participating in a port facility lockdown. The charges, felony possession of a criminal instrument, stemmed from the activists use of a lockbox which Gladden showed through an aggressive discovery strategy to have been hand-built and delivered by three Austin police officers posing as protesters.
The revelation of police involvement led to the dismissals which were actually the second time a judge tossed out the chargesafter the first, a prosecutor had them reinstated through a federal grand jury. Gladden represented Ronnie Garza, one of seven Occupy Austin protesters charged for blocking an entrance to the Port of Houston with a sleeping dragon as part of the December 2011 Occupy port shutdown. In addition to the three infiltrators named for their direct involvement in the criminal case, the discovery points to the presence of at least three more undercover agents working within the Occupy camp in coordination with a local fusion center.
Also in Austin, Guild member Jim Harrington in his capacity as Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project prevailed in a federal lawsuit challenging the Citys practice of banning people from City Hall Plaza, which had been used to deter 37 Occupy Austin protesters from returning to the encampment site. Federal Judge Lee Yeakel ruled that the citys use of criminal trespass notices violated the First Amendment and due process and banned the practice.
Chicago
Lawyers and legal workers from the NLGs Chicago chapter coordinated the defense of nearly all of the several hundred activists arrested during Occupy Chicago demonstrations. In September, the 92 arrestees whose curfew violation cases were still open saw their charges dismissed by a Cook County Court judge. In his written ruling, Judge Thomas Donnelly upheld Guild lawyers motion to dismiss, finding that the park curfew ordinance was unconstitutional on its face and as applied.
The ruling states:
While the City arrested everyone remaining in Grant Park during the Occupy Chicago rally, the City arrested no one at the Obama 2008 presidential election victory rally, even though the Obama rally was equally in violation of the Curfew. That violates Defendants right to equal protection because it treats similarly situated citizens differently.
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Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)movement, including the illegal arrests of journalists. It was an important event in U.S. history and no one had any busy ignoring it because they might be worried about "hitching their wagon."
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Defense contractors which presents a big conflict of interest in covering the wars! They are part of the same group of corporate overlords that own most Republican AND DEMOCRATIC politicians! They have a system of legalized bribery to elect politicians. "Vote my way on this and get campaign money. Vote against my issues and get a primary opponent with more money than God in your next election!!! We need COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (CCFR)!!! The corruption and conflict of interest is right in our faces but the media refuse to comment on it. Dylan Ratigan went off one day and said Obama should address the American people and tell them that Congress has been bought off! Soon after he lost his show. Corruption is worse here than the third world and here at DU many still believe in the system and Democrats! There is only 1 Bernie Sanders and 1 Elizabth Warren. The rest are suspect at times, and heroes at other times. Some roll over frequently!!!
watoos
(7,142 posts)that are not owned by the 6 multinational corporations. I think you will find that the figure is closer to 100%, including msnbc.
Dustlawyer
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Rex
(65,616 posts)Ya funny how that works right!? Noticed that long ago and stay perplexed at times at how much more bullshit I can take by the double standard. I decided on none. The M$M is just as much a problem in this and some like to lie and blame alt media or bloggers for it.
Like that shit would fly.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Wouldn't it be nice if this violation of the press spurred the press, finally, to start giving a shit about all the other government assaults they have been ignoring...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)LeftInTX
(25,224 posts)Their surveillance of OWS didn't even make headlines.
I guess even if it did, Fox would spin it as, "OWS under surveillance. Are they a terrorist organization?"
It seems we can't win.
Yep, "kick the hippy"