I see actions on both sides I disagree with. I think there are legitimate reasons, like trying to prevent assassinations, for a perimeter around a building with a bunch of heads of state in it. So while ok, I suppose free speech is everywhere, I think protesters were pushing by trying to get to that building and *had* to expect to be stopped. That's bogus. Don't stage police brutality. It happens enough on its own. I see nothing about that livestreamer from Occupy Chicago anywhere else btw but possibly he is being mentioned by name in some of the alerts I just retweeted. I also think some of the Occupy people need lessons in tactics -- ok so it isn't cool to impound cars of journalists, but journalists should know that Chicago is not California and not have passengers with joints in their pockets.
Did not know that about IAVW, will keep it in mind. I follow someone associated with it on twitter and was just looking at his pictures of that medal event. On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:11 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > I much prefer British journalism to our own. Which is funny considering my > opinion on their government, but I digress. This seems like a better story > for the most part. > > I have big problems with the IAVW. They have major reliability and > verification problems. Several times members of theirs have been found to > have never even served, some even being charged under the Stolen Valor > Act. I have a friend that I served with (The Sniper/Vets for Freedom) that > went to Winter Soldier to report (blogger). Initially the anti-war > security kept him out, even though he was invited and given press > credentials. Even after he got that squared away they kept a circle of > people around him. Finally he was unable to verify deployment locations > and dates on several of the key speakers, usually those with the most > outrageous claims of war crimes and atrocities. > > I have no doubt that there were at least a few valor stealing shit bags in > that crowd in Chicago. It's their MO. > > I don't know if anyone here reads Vice magazine. I really liked their edgy > style of reporting on stories that much of the main stream media were > missing. That is until they wrote a report from a "soldier in the 82nd > Airborne" about his short tour in 2004 in support of the election in > Afghanistan. He made note of all kinds of atrocities and garbage, the only > problem being that I was there, and they didn't happen. I wrote them > multiple times both on their contact form and by snail mail and they never > answered me, deleted my comments from their site, and kept the story up as > written. Damn shame too because they write about some cool stuff. > > I end up having to school friends on social media and forums and stuff all > the time for using f'd up sources. I'm by no means perfect but I take > almost nothing at face value, and try to drill down to find the original > source. > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/may/21/nato-summit-protesters-police-chicago-video?CMP=twt_gu > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351086 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
