Protestors at Air and Space Museum Tell Their Stories (Video) |
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| By: RFShunt Sunday October 9, 2011 11:16 pm | |
Here are protestors (and legal counsel) telling what happened at the Air and Space Museum during the pepper spray incident in Washington DC on Saturday, in their own words.
This is edited for brevity, obviously, but also to try to roughly follow the chronology of events.
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Good people in good spirits enduring horseshit.
Someone needs to train the security guards at the Smithsonian.
Without justification they freaked out and came too close to seriously injuring and possibly even killing nonviolent protesters.
That is unacceptable and they should be prosecuted for assault.
I cannot access these videos, but on the subject (since other posts have gone away) I am listening to Thom Hartmann this morning, and he has just interviewed one of those at this incident. Mostly it was an acceptable interview, but right at the end Thom threw in a hot potato, and he did it with guile, to the effect (I can’t quote it exactly) that ‘don’t you think that some members of your group might feel it important to go further than nonviolence in order to demonstrate the other side’s bad instincts?’ The way he framed it, the question asked for a ‘yes’ answer.
I was very taken aback by this, he even brought in a favorable reference to the Weather Underground. I consider this deliberate incitement and confusion of the stated goals of the New York protesters which hopefully will percolate down to all their offshoots.
The interviewee answered very firmly that nonviolence is the only answer, so that was well done on his part. Bad, bad Thom, though. Not really with it, so be warned folks.
I haven’t been able to listen to Hartmann for a long time now. Have taken to ignoring him. I notice now that many others are coming around to expressing this perspective on his “input” as well.
I find Hartmann is an opportunist, at best, and that is not a good thing to be these days.
Oh, and he’s a know-it-all, too … very boorish and perhaps a good deal of the problem with him.