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• Sunday, August 31, 2008 08:23 AM

  Che Pasa is right: the coming lawsuits won't accomplish a damn thing.

  "The Upshot: We can expect those who were arrested to be released and charges dropped. SOP. . . . The Authorities will have accomplished their mission, and nothing at all will interfere with carrying out whatever new mission of suppression they decide on in the future."

  Agreed. New York City just paid several million dollars in damages resulting from their police's Gestapo tactics during the 2004 Republican Party Convention. So what? Citizens were still arrested and prevented from protesting. Millions of dollars that should have gone to worthy institutions in dire need of funds -- food banks or public schools or animal shelters, etc. -- were spent instead on the lawsuit and subsequent damage awards. Meanwhile, the wealthy elite of New York continue to eat at the finest restaurants and go to fancy hotels with their $1000/night hookers. Nothing has changed except that the poor and vulnerable suffer more, the middle class are suckers, and the wealthy could not care less.

  This reminds me of what the gun nuts and death penalty fetishists of this country will never understand: rather than control guns, they are satisfied with executing murderers. But by then, the damage has been done, and innocent people have been killed by criminals. Rather than prevent murder, the Right would rather punish people after the fact.

  Did the Greatest Generation really fight and die in World War Two so that Governor Tim Pawlenty could act like a nazi?

  —DurianJoe Read DurianJoe's other letters
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