Outrage in Boston
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A protester outside a military recruiting center dressed as the Abu Ghraib prisoner who was told if he stepped off a platform he would be electrocuted was arrested and charged with the felony making a false bomb threat and using a hoax device. Supposedly, he was charged because he could have been mistaken for a terrorist. But since life was continuing normally all around him until the police showed up (except for when someone came out of the recruiting center and threatened him), that's spurious. He was either charged to justify all the person-hours the police had put into the situation or (as Kos claims and I think most likely) to intimidate other possible protesters. The district attorney asked for $10,000 bail, but the judge refused.
Is District Attorney an elected position in Massachusetts? Is there an opponent to support? Are a barrage of outraged phone calls to the Police Department's non-emergency number possible?
It seems important to me, to show that these intimidation tactics won't work, that there be a much large protest in front of that recruiting center within the next few weeks -- permit or no permit.
The indymedia server is very slow now, because the story has many pictures and Daily Kos has linked to this story, generating lots of traffic. There's a summary at Daily Kos with fewer pictures (the pics are still coming from the indymedia server) at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/6/3/346/33728, but you've already read most of what's in that summary.
A protester outside a military recruiting center dressed as the Abu Ghraib prisoner who was told if he stepped off a platform he would be electrocuted was arrested and charged with the felony making a false bomb threat and using a hoax device. Supposedly, he was charged because he could have been mistaken for a terrorist. But since life was continuing normally all around him until the police showed up (except for when someone came out of the recruiting center and threatened him), that's spurious. He was either charged to justify all the person-hours the police had put into the situation or (as Kos claims and I think most likely) to intimidate other possible protesters. The district attorney asked for $10,000 bail, but the judge refused.
Is District Attorney an elected position in Massachusetts? Is there an opponent to support? Are a barrage of outraged phone calls to the Police Department's non-emergency number possible?
It seems important to me, to show that these intimidation tactics won't work, that there be a much large protest in front of that recruiting center within the next few weeks -- permit or no permit.
The indymedia server is very slow now, because the story has many pictures and Daily Kos has linked to this story, generating lots of traffic. There's a summary at Daily Kos with fewer pictures (the pics are still coming from the indymedia server) at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/6/3/346/33728, but you've already read most of what's in that summary.
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Date: 2004-06-03 07:56 am (UTC)Yes, he's elected. And the current state AG is a Democrat. (Is the state or county AG responsible?) Won't be up for election for two years, though.
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Date: 2004-06-03 08:11 am (UTC)