Remember all the talk of "free speech zones" and arrests for political t-shirts during the 2004 Republican campaign for President? As far as I know, this didn't happen on the Democratic side (I could be wrong--let me know if I was). It always seemed a little more than un-American to me, and it's heartening to see that others are starting to agree.
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Secrets of the Police
Published: August 8, 2007
The city of New York is waging a losing and ill-conceived battle for overzealous secrecy surrounding nearly 2,000 arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Yesterday, for the second time in three months, a federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of pages of documents that detail the Police Department’s covert surveillance leading to the convention. People who were detained, some for days and without explanation, may finally begin to get some answers.
If the decision by Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV stands, the documents may figure in scores of lawsuits challenging police tactics that included the heavy-handed: rounding up suspects on the streets, fingerprinting them and putting them in holding pens until the convention was all but over. That such a police action happened in New York, and during the large, democratic show of a political nominating convention, was troubling.
Read more at: NewYorkTimes.com
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