Shnews Article – MIAMI LICE:
“It is sometimes easy to forget, in the midst of a furious crowd, that all our liberties were acquired not through polite representation, but by means of insurrection and protest.” ~ George Monbiot
While George Bush was telling us Brits how his country values its “civil rights” and “freedom” people demonstrating against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami were experiencing something a little different.
Thousands of militarised police, in full riot gear, armed with everything from tear gas, rubber bullets and bean bags, electrified shields, tanks, water cannons, automatic and semi-automatic weapons, were busy violently arresting peaceful demonstrators, in some cases with tazers, in others at gun point. Busses filled with union members were prevented from joining permitted marches; human rights activists had guns pointed at their heads at military-style checkpoints. Embedded journalists similar to those used in Iraq meant any independent ones were attacked, arrested and had cameras stolen.
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