...no allegation of being thrown to the floor here at least ..

-- susan sunflower

Susan, she says that in the video linked below that was taken just after her release. But, yeah, quite the trivial waste of a discussion.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=29751

Glenn Greenwald:

I'm starting to suspect you're working with the authorities to distract attention from the anthrax investigation. Very suspicious.

I'm pretty sure that if it weren't for Amy Goodman, 9/11 would never have happened, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq, and George Bush would have had only one term in office. - GlennGreenwald

This must be a joke. Look through my past records of posting - I've never said anything like that.

Perhaps Glenn could be civil and answer just a few questions:

1) Why didn't Amy Goodman cover the RNC in any detail in the leadup, while giving a lot of negative coverage to the Democratic convention in the leadup?

2) Why is it that the only mention of Iraq in recent Amy Goodman coverage is an interview with a soldier who blames the Democrats for the war?

3) Why did Amy Goodman take $150,000 from the Ford Foundation in 2004, the same year that the ACLU turned down $1.5 million in Ford Funding due to "anti-terrorism" restrictions?

4) Why doesn't Amy Goodman allow comments on her news shows? Lots of people have plenty to add, after all - isn't that what a pro-democracy show would naturally do?

Don't try and say I'm some kind of psychotic person who believes Amy Goodman carried out 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, please. That's just a dishonest smear tactic.

Yours, Ike Solem

"Cargo Cult Economics: If you build it they will come."

And tell me again - why did Amy Goodman get a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in 2004, the same year the ACLU turned down Ford funding because of their "anti-terrorism" restrictions?

-- CargoCult

Please don't bother to reply to me about my subject title.

Since I'm too lazy to write this to the Salon editors I'll make it an open letter to the editors.

At what point does repeated verbatim posting qualify as Spamming?

www.julescrittenden.com post and comment

http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/09/02/rnc-views/#comment-75961

Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, made the following statement:

"We condemn the arrest and harassment of journalists before and during the Republican National Convention. We call on the mayor, district attorney and police chief to rein in the overly aggressive -- and even violent -- tactics of law enforcement. Arresting and detaining journalists for doing their jobs is a gross violation of free speech and freedom of the press. We call for the immediate release of any journalists being held in the Twin Cities and for all charges to be dropped immediately. Reporting by independent journalists is the only way for the American public to learn the full story, and they must be free to do their jobs without intimidation."

http://www.freepress.net/node/43929

- as I said before - you are right - and if I have disputes with some of my American friends (the bad ones) - I fight like hell to have them realize - what you just have stated and what has been done to this constitution I learned by heart –

But doing this - I found out - that I am much more successful if I don’t use words like ‘Police State’ or ‘Fascism’ because these words seem to be associated with 'partisan lunatics' and 'idiots' and I try not to be one of these – and the other - and much more important point is – again – If you are in a foreign country and you are American – and -or - German – and mixed race you don’t discriminate and you stay far far away from generalizations and stereotypes.

So if you sit in a classroom with some people who have the tendency to do that - you have to teach them a lesson - that they have to stick to some kind of truth and if it is only not to call a ‘Democracy’ (even a wild one) a “Police State’!

What were seeing in St. Paul is Bush's version of Democracy in action; and clearly shows why most of the World doesn't want any part of Bush's effort to spread "Democracy" to the rest of the World. Fortunately, there will be a huge rejection of Bush and his policies in November when Obama wins in a land-slide.

However, it is an interesting question, isn't it?

So are the other three. However, if you want I'll drop that one - but why do you think that she took the cash?

More to the point, considering that the main issues in most people's minds are 1) the economy, and 2) the war and 3) government corruption and 4) destruction of the environment and us along with it, why is the U.S media coverage so sloppy?

Glenn Greenwald and Democracy Now and Alternet and others are not covering the two main protest at the RNC related to this.

First was the homeless anti-poverty protest encampment on Harriet Island that was broken up by police around the same time as the much-publicised raids were.

No coverage of that, and if my notion is correct, the reason that there was no coverage by the private foundation media is that it would remind everyone of the tanking economy.

Second was the large anti-war march led by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Again, zero coverage of that by Glenn Greenwald & friends.

I'm sorry if people are offended, but I do believe these are legitimate questions.

Yours, Ike Solem.

I just got back from a few days' "vacation" from reading Salon, and was listening to Thom Hartmann's interview with Amy Goodman, when I read your article. ARRGGH! I'm so mad I can hardly stand it! The Minneapolis-St.Paul Police Dept. made a HUGE mistake in arresting Amy Goodman and her two producers, the latter having been charged with felony "incitement to riot." I hope that Democracy Now! has the good sense to hire a top-notch lawyer to sue the hell out of the M.St.Paul P.D. for interference with the legitimate right of the press to report.