1st September 2008, 4:45 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/pol...fJB8HL+HPQ
Just to be clear, yes a similar thing also happened at the democratic convention, and it was as horrible there as it is here.
What I'm saying is this is terrible, and honestly neither political party, which is to say, a frickin' gathering, should have this sort of political control over the police forces of these two cities.
It's oppression and violation of human rights, pure and simple. We judged China guilty of the same sorts of actions (done to a greater degree, admittedly) during the olympics and rightfully so. It's a shame how easily ideals are forgotten when you preach them in a building while they are broken outside it.
Just to be clear, yes a similar thing also happened at the democratic convention, and it was as horrible there as it is here.
What I'm saying is this is terrible, and honestly neither political party, which is to say, a frickin' gathering, should have this sort of political control over the police forces of these two cities.
It's oppression and violation of human rights, pure and simple. We judged China guilty of the same sorts of actions (done to a greater degree, admittedly) during the olympics and rightfully so. It's a shame how easily ideals are forgotten when you preach them in a building while they are broken outside it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)