Agence France-Presse & Impeach Bush.org – 2007-09-10 22:10:01
Freedom of speech is your first amendment right, as is to meet in groups, and redress of grievances, but then Bush uses a different Constitution than the rest of us. Ironically, Bush calls his war “Iraqi Freedom.”
During Alex Jones’s radio broadcast, a caller from Pennsylkvania said he was carrying a sign “911 was an inside job,” when a cop attempted to arrest him for demonstrating on private property. He was walking down a public sidewalk to put the sign up in his store. He was never on private property.
“If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Police Supress Press Conference
While the momentum for the Sept. 15 Peace/Impeachment demonstration grows, the Bush Administration is going to extraordinary lengths to suppress the mobilizing for this mass demonstration.
Less than 18 hours ago, National Park Service Police turned a September 15 Press Conference, held in front of the White House, into a chaotic scene. On the pretext that there was no permit for a three foot long folding table that the media placed their microphones on, the police intervened in the middle of the press conference to announce that it was an unpermitted activity.
Three people were arrested and are still being held in jail. They include Adam Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran; Tina Richards of Grassroots America; and Ian Thompson an ANSWER Coalition organizer.
The Parks Police even rode a horse directly into the crowd of reporters and shocked onlookers. The National Parks Police is an agency in the Interior Department whose Secretary is a member of George W. Bush’s cabinet. In recent weeks September 15 organizers have been fined more than $30,000 for putting up posters promoting the September 15 March on Washington.
We encourage ImpeachBush.org members to circulate this email and the important story from the AFP wire story that documents this outrageous assault against Free Speech rights by the Bush Administration. At the end of this email we are also enclosing a link to a video on YouTube that shows some part of the suppression of the September 15 press conference yesterday.
Bush and company want to prevent people from coming out for a mass action led by Iraq war veterans and their families that will expose his war propaganda as a lie. The Administration wants to suppress the growing movement for impeachment. This is a showdown of great magnitude.
Please make every effort to come to Washington DC on September 15. We will not be intimidated. Join the tens of thousands who are coming to Washington, DC on September 15. Buses, car caravans and vans are coming from more than 100 cities.
If you cannot personally come you can help by making a generous donation. The buses, literature, posters, stage, sound and other expenses are immense. Many have already contributed. Please do your part and make a contribution today by clicking this link. http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=t6q3omm_kvOdFB7jEJureg..
• Youtube video
Click this link to see a video of the police suppression http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=YOKsX46bfPDbyTVmxGlvBA..
Police Break Up Anti-war Meeting in Washington
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON (September 9, 2007) — Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an AFP reporter said.
“The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium” erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP.
“Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them,” Becker said.
The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt.
Three people — Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles — were arrested, Becker said.
“A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week’s activities.”
The ANSWER coalition is trying to rally support for an anti-war demonstration in Washington that is due to take place on September 15.
Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march.
Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations.
“At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the paste we use conforms to the rules,” Becker said.
“One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put up a poster, so they arrested her and two others.”
“This strategy of suppression has not worked. We expect many tens of thousands of people” in Washington for the September 15 anti-war demonstration, he said.
The march has been timed to coincide with the release of a report by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and will be part of a week of protests led by veterans of the Iraq war.
A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week’s activities, ANSWER has told AFP.
Alex Jones Arrested by NYPD
Infowars.com
NEW YORK (September 8, 2007) — Media activist Alex Jones was arrested by New York Police Department officers while filming a documentary about the sixth anniversary of September 11th and joining the protest against the official version of what happened on 9/11.
According to Infowars sources Jones was singled out by police from the head of a crowd of about 400 9/11 Truth Activists and protesters. He was verbally accosted and forced by the police officers to present identification which he was not carrying at the time.
NYPD officers arrested Jones for “unspecified charges” and removed from the protest crowd to be taken to the nearest police precinct where he currently remains.
Rob Jacobson, camera operator on Jones’ documentary production crew indicated that a large portion of the protest crowd has moved to the precinct where Jones is being held to ensure his fair treatment and safe release.
More news as it develops…
Reporter Alex Jones Arrested in NYC
The JAWA Report
NEW YORK (September 9, 2007) — The leather-lunged, bull-horn wielding nutbar Twoofer king himself was arrested outside Fox News today for disrupting a Geraldo broadcast.
No – he didn’t spit on them:
During the program which was being broadcast outdoors, Rivera first told the protesters to “get a life” when they first began assembling behind him during his show. Later on in the show Rivera referred to the group of protesters that organized behind him as an anarchist group and even referenced the Jones arrest live on air.
Jones could be heard prior to his arrest on the live Fox News broadcast shouting through a bullhorn saying “9/11 was an inside job” with the rest of the protesters. No word on if that’s why he was arrested, but since New York City requires a permit to use a bullhorn that is a likely
scenario.
VIDEOS OF ALEX’S ARREST….
• http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/189318.php
• HTTP://WWW.WeAreChange.org Truth TV
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