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Interesting tidbit on the NYPD crackdown. Although this documentary & WeAreChange.org surely has some liberals, it shows the growing police state measures being implemented in NYC (and soon across our nation). The video link is below the article...
A Moment of Pause in the Life of New York's Police State
Mini-feature Police State & Critical Mass in New York peers into the reality of daily conditioning on the city's streets and examines the casual disposal of Constitutional rights by NYPD officers everywhere as the theoretical light of an ideal New York has dimmed and, surely, freedom with it
Aaron Dykes / JonesReport.com | August 3, 2007
Awake in a nightmare of arbitrary law, total control, corralling on the streets. A woman cries out "but I ride my bike all the time" as she is dragged away and handcuffed. A high-level police officer barks into a megaphone a repeatedly, droning "Heads up, heads up, heads up, heads up, heads up for traffic." Then faster, moving along a few stragglers, "Heads-up, heads-up, heads-up--"
"We will arrest as many as we can," police tell cameras.
"Keep moving." "Don't go past this line." Police everywhere shoving on people, dragging others off to be arrested. Demands for identification. 'What have I done?' Police tell cameras they will "arrest as many as we can We."
The whole of this picture is a reality in New York, down any street, on any given day, around the next corner and standing in the way. Gone is the cultural metropolis its name was known by.
Police State & Critical Mass in New York
A vast departure from the New York once emblematic of the guaranteed freedoms and unprecedented opportunity available in the land of America that activist reporters from WeAreChange.org captured in cinematic strides, juxtaposing the hopeful life of music, food, drinks, music and city life with the harsh, grinding rhythm of police control, crowd management, check points, random (illegal) searches and other routine, systematic violations of the Constitution.
Police State & Critical Mass in New York makes a case-study out of the state of "security" as it has solidified since the "terrorist" attacks that took place nearly six years ago. Absent is almost any sense of freedom as police surround a peaceful congregation of bicyclists known as "Critical Mass" who tour through the city. Police regarded them as a quasi-demonstration and ensued ticketing, arresting and harassing any and all of them on no pretense at all.
Amongst the chaotic swirl of the bikes, cars and people are claustrophobic pedestrian walkways lined with officers shouting at cameras while captured and detained cyclists wait on the curb, some in handcuffs.
Down the way, another cyclist explains how police forced him into the middle of the road for the sole purpose of ticketing him. Clearly others on bikes were simply going from point-to-point, and not affiliated with the quasi-demonstration yet were ticketed and arrested. A man is cuffed and taken away without cause after speaking through a cardboard-megaphone things like "Grow up, Read the Constitution."
But the officers have "orders to clear the block," and everyone must obey. Only someone yells back,
"What's next? Put us in pens?"
"What's next? Put us in railroad cars?"
"What's next?"
***Article & video link...
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/030807_police_state.html Edited by: DixieDestroyer
A Moment of Pause in the Life of New York's Police State
Mini-feature Police State & Critical Mass in New York peers into the reality of daily conditioning on the city's streets and examines the casual disposal of Constitutional rights by NYPD officers everywhere as the theoretical light of an ideal New York has dimmed and, surely, freedom with it
Aaron Dykes / JonesReport.com | August 3, 2007
Awake in a nightmare of arbitrary law, total control, corralling on the streets. A woman cries out "but I ride my bike all the time" as she is dragged away and handcuffed. A high-level police officer barks into a megaphone a repeatedly, droning "Heads up, heads up, heads up, heads up, heads up for traffic." Then faster, moving along a few stragglers, "Heads-up, heads-up, heads-up--"
"We will arrest as many as we can," police tell cameras.
"Keep moving." "Don't go past this line." Police everywhere shoving on people, dragging others off to be arrested. Demands for identification. 'What have I done?' Police tell cameras they will "arrest as many as we can We."
The whole of this picture is a reality in New York, down any street, on any given day, around the next corner and standing in the way. Gone is the cultural metropolis its name was known by.
Police State & Critical Mass in New York
A vast departure from the New York once emblematic of the guaranteed freedoms and unprecedented opportunity available in the land of America that activist reporters from WeAreChange.org captured in cinematic strides, juxtaposing the hopeful life of music, food, drinks, music and city life with the harsh, grinding rhythm of police control, crowd management, check points, random (illegal) searches and other routine, systematic violations of the Constitution.
Police State & Critical Mass in New York makes a case-study out of the state of "security" as it has solidified since the "terrorist" attacks that took place nearly six years ago. Absent is almost any sense of freedom as police surround a peaceful congregation of bicyclists known as "Critical Mass" who tour through the city. Police regarded them as a quasi-demonstration and ensued ticketing, arresting and harassing any and all of them on no pretense at all.
Amongst the chaotic swirl of the bikes, cars and people are claustrophobic pedestrian walkways lined with officers shouting at cameras while captured and detained cyclists wait on the curb, some in handcuffs.
Down the way, another cyclist explains how police forced him into the middle of the road for the sole purpose of ticketing him. Clearly others on bikes were simply going from point-to-point, and not affiliated with the quasi-demonstration yet were ticketed and arrested. A man is cuffed and taken away without cause after speaking through a cardboard-megaphone things like "Grow up, Read the Constitution."
But the officers have "orders to clear the block," and everyone must obey. Only someone yells back,
"What's next? Put us in pens?"
"What's next? Put us in railroad cars?"
"What's next?"
***Article & video link...
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/030807_police_state.html Edited by: DixieDestroyer
