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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post The Climate of Repression During the NATO Summit
Another detail I left out: Charlotte police were in Chicago to do security during the summit. What they learned and what they thought “worked” will be used in policing during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Why I’m Challenging Secrecy in Bradley Manning’s Court Martial
Kind of surprised. Nobody seems to have said anything about who is signed on to this challenge.
Myself aside, what do you all think of this great group of people that have come together to challenge the government here? Good? Doesn’t matter?
We’re fighting so don’t feel so dejected. That’s debilitating and what the powers that be want us to feel so they can keep doing what they are doing.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post The Climate of Repression During the NATO Summit
Had to drown all the stroke job news articles and op-eds about Chicago police during the NATO summit in some truth.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post The Climate of Repression During the NATO Summit
I don’t think these cases go anywhere. The feds abandoned them, as evidenced by the fact that the state of Illinois is prosecuting them under a state terrorism law. The feds invested resources into this, but it failed to produce anything so the state is picking up the pieces and trying to salvage what was done. But, I think we’ll see what happened with the RNC 8 happen again.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Post-NATO Summit Roundup: Police Brutality, Repression & More
Yes, I sent those out a bit earlier today on Twitter. Paul Weiskel took them. He was here in Chicago to cover the summit. He’s really good.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Post-NATO Summit Roundup: Police Brutality, Repression & More
Got the video embeds to work now.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post The Preemptive Prosecution of the NATO 5
I can do that.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
I have contacted her. She has been exhausted.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post CPD, FBI & Secret Service Claim NATO 3 Came to Chicago to Commit ‘Terrorist Acts of Violence’
Fixed. It’s such a ridiculous allegation.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post CPD, FBI & Secret Service Claim NATO 3 Came to Chicago to Commit ‘Terrorist Acts of Violence’
Fixed
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Federal Judge’s Injunction Finds NDAA Is Worse Than Material Support Law
FDL is so late with this because this writer is busy covering the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago. He also did a book presentation on Bradley Manning last night. And he took extra hours to put together an in-depth analysis of this important decision.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Charged With Providing Material Support for Terrorism Ahead of NATO Summit
I just called Gary out. He wouldn’t have had that bit about an FDL blogger being arrested if I didn’t report it yet he didn’t acknowledge me in his summary.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Charged With Providing Material Support for Terrorism Ahead of NATO Summit
Yes, you are. Because saying, “Fuck the police!,” shouldn’t get you charged with terrorism.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Disappeared Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
Well, it’d be nice if it were so easy to accuse Rahm or Obama of giving the order. My guess is they are just complicit enablers.
The people pulling the strings are feds giving Chicago police tips of “anarchist activities” or suspected “Molotov cocktails” that they got from who knows where.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Disappeared Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
None of this is happening under NDAA. This clear and blatant police repression.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Disappeared Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
Clarification: Bush policies is synonymous with Bush administration policies; just like Obama policies is synonymous with Obama administration policies. Sometimes the word might be missing but it means the entire administration or regime.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Disappeared Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
It was never my intention to sanitize the headline. Fixed.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Raided & Arrested Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
People opposed to Bush regularly called him a fascist. It had merit yet people thought they were making the term meaningless by how often they used the term to describe his policies.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Raided & Arrested Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
“Routine visits” to homes on the south side of Chicago, to me, is fascist.
I know left-leaning people have a reputation for using that term loosely but that is the appropriate term to describe the nature of Chicago police department operations.
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Kevin Gosztola commented on the blog post Activists Raided & Arrested Ahead of NATO Summit Continue To Be Held Without Charge
Going on RT now
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