One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

2004 was bad. And this year when I saw the news from the DNC that protesters were being arrested and incarcerated in makeshift jails it didn’t look like it was gonna get much better. But this year’s RNC seems to be trying to set some sort of crazy new record with regard to abuse of protesters. It’s sad but not particularly surprising. Especially given the fact that the Republican party has been thoroughly co-opted by people who call themselves conservative but don’t even remotely meet that definition (see “hacker”), as so eloquently described by Lew Rockwell.

This video is particularly striking.

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The person doing the reporting, Marta Costello, flat-out panicks at one point during the video, but snaps quickly back into news mode, describing a particularly chilling scene: you’re at a protest, without warning cops start gassing your group, and as you’re running through the streets trying to get away from them, at every turn there are more cops who continue to gas you.

Hey, you’re free to say whatever you want, just so long as it’s not something somebody else doesn’t like.

Fuck this shit, I’m going to Nine Inch Nails.