Posted by
Bob B on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:43:55 PM
WBAI Host gets Arrested
John Hinderaker of Power Line writes
A busload of [Boy] Scouts were en route to the convention, where they were to present the colors to open the convention. A group of protesters--liberals, Obama supporters, or whatever--blocked the road, surrounded the bus, and attacked it, rocking the bus back and forth, denting and scratching the sides, and generally terrifying the children trapped inside. The left-wing protesters attacked a number of buses in the same way, but there is something especially despicable about attacking a group of Scouts.
For more atrocities read Jim Hoft, who was on a bus attacked from above when a group of protesters dropped sand bags on to the top of the bus
Now watch this pro Amy Goodman video then come back to the post. Note the producers’ title of the report and try to tell me these are not vile people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMSNkI5lPA&NR=1
Amy Goodman was arrested for good reason. Given the destruction and violence that was taking place the police would have been derelict in their duty had they not set a containment line not to be crossed. Ms. Goodman forced her way thru that line, thus interfering with the maintenance of civil order in the midst of a riotous event.
As the video shows she presented no apparent justification for breaking a riot control line. Amy Goodman is not universally recognized as a journalist with special privileges to break thru an anti riot police line. The midst of mayhem is not time for checking credentials.
Some have inferred that this Goodman incident reflects badly on Republicans because there were no such conflicts at the DNC convention. To them may I suggest the reason is that there is less difference between the rioters and the Democratic Party than between the rioters and the Republican Party. It’s the Democrats who should be ashamed of this element among their constituency. It’s the Democrats who should pause to think what is there about Democratic Party policies that these anarchists see as common ground.
And as far as Amy is concerned the lady is a journalist in the same sense that Rev Al Sharpton is a Christian minister. Amy and Al are activists, pure and simple.