Friday, September 03, 2004

Police State, part deux

I blurted out a half-baked semi-rant yesterday about how the police have been handling protesters at the RNC.

The Washington Post has now made my blood even boil-ier than before:

Several dozen of those detained said that they had not taken part in protests. Police apparently swept up the CEO of a puppet theater as he and a friend walked out of the subway to celebrate his birthday; handcuffed two middle-aged women who had been shopping at the Gap, and arrested a young woman as she returned from her job at a New York publishing house.

The story has many more examples of our bravest or finest or drinkingest, or whatever the hell they are, in action.

Boy, am I glad I didn't do something stupid like just swinging by MSG to see what was going on.

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