Ivan Stamenkovic — This is Why the Media Is Silent — Award Winning Journalist To Be Jailed For Covering Dakota Pipeline

More news blackout. Another attempt at suppression of a free press.

It’s not the first time that award-winning journalist Amy Goodman has been arrested, and it might not be the last, but the mainstream media correspondent will present herself to the Morton County–Mandan Combined Law Enforcement and Corrections Center at 8:15 a.m. local time (CDT) on Monday for processing.

Goodman is the host of her own television show Democracy Now, and according to the show’s website, Goodman has been charged with criminal trespassing for “filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline protesters” at what is now known as the Dakota Access pipeline.…

Goodman was present on 9/3 and documented the attack, which according to one source, left, “six people, including one child, were injured after being bitten by the security dogs.” According to Steve Sitting Bear, an eyewitness to the attacks, at least 30 people were also pepper-sprayed.

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This is Why the Media Is Silent — Award Winning Journalist To Be Jailed For Covering Dakota Pipeline
Ivan Stamenkovic

More:

A North Dakota prosecutor is seeking to charge Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman for the more serious offense of "rioting" over her filming of Native American protests against the North Dakota pipeline when a number of people were attacked by private security attack dogs.

Originally Goodman said she was charged with trespassing over the incident from September. Now North Dakota State Attorney Ladd Ronald Erickson has filednew "riot" charges.
Goodman said that the charges were changed because they authorities realized they couldn't make the trespassing "stick."…

teleSUR
North Dakota Prosecutor Charges Amy Goodman with Rioting

Henry Giroux on State Terrorism and the Ideological Weapons of Neoliberalism — Leslie Thatcher Interview

Public intellectual Henry Giroux discusses his new book, America's Addiction to Terrorism, and the terror that "is now such a central part of the political nervous system in the United States that it's become the major organizing principle of society."

Truthout
Henry Giroux on State Terrorism and the Ideological Weapons of Neoliberalism
Leslie Thatcher, Truthout | Interview

Henry A. Giroux is the founder-animator of Truthout's Public Intellectual Project, a member of Truthout's board of directors and a frequent contributor - currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Chair in Critical Pedagogy at the McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He is also a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University.

David Rosen — Has the NYPD Become a Paramilitary Force?

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh largest army in the world," former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg boasted back in 2011.

Since that time, the New York Police Department has become even more militarized, practiced in command-and-control practices that Brooklyn College sociologist Alex Vitale describes as "paramilitary policing."

The federalization and militarization of the NYPD following 9/11 created the model of paramilitary policing that's reshaping law enforcement throughout the country.
Vitale identifies these seven qualities as the principal aspects of the increasingly popular framework of paramilitary policing:

• Surveillance and infiltration of nonviolent political organizations.

• Denial of protest permits and tight restrictions on demonstration locations.

• Heavy deployment and use of defensive equipment, such as body armor.

• The use of 'less lethal' weapons on non-violent protestors.

• Deployment of highly trained specialized police units to control demonstrations.

• Preemptive arrests and targeting of protest leaders.

• Coordination between local and federal law enforcement officials.

• Other practices often accompanying paramilitary policing include the use of sophisticated cyber technologies, video surveillance and agents provocateurs.

Truthout

Has the NYPD Become a Paramilitary Force?

David Rosen

Not to be outdone:

Nor are any booking records generated at Homan Square, as confirmed by a sworn deposition of a police researcher in late September, further preventing relatives or attorneys from finding someone taken there.

“The reality is, no one knows where that person is at Homan Square,” said Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who studies policing. “They’re disappeared at that point.”

Welcome to Amerika. This is Gestapo tactics, plain and simple.

The Guardian

Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Spencer Ackerman

NBC News
Jon Burge Case: Police Torture Scandal Still Casts Long Shadow Over ChicagoJon Schuppe

Bill Black — The Libertarian Plea to Bring Back Jim Crow: An Oxymoron by a Regular Moron

That this is seriously being broached in premier media of the United States and espoused by politicians who are candidates for high office is concerning, to say the least. How did America get to this point?

New Economic Perspectives
The Libertarian Plea to Bring Back Jim Crow: An Oxymoron by a Regular Moron
William K. Black | Associate Professor of Economics and Law, UMKC

Nicole Flatow — The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson

This is pretty consistent with the tactics used against protestors in the anti-war movement in the Seventies, although some of the technology is different and the police were not a militarized as they are now. And this was against predominantly white affluent people or their children in the nation's capital. In some ways it was worse in DC than in Ferguson with respect to violation of civil rights and constitutional liberties, and it was on a far larger scale, with hundreds of thousands or protestors involved and battalions of police and military.

Think Progress
The Most Outrageous Police Tactics In Ferguson
Nicole Flatow

See also, Emily Tess Katz, Marc Lamont Hill Reports From Ferguson: National Guard 'Feels Like More Repression', HuffPost Live

Eric Dolan — Illinois Republican: Same-sex marriage debate should be about the Bible, not human rights (via Raw Story )

Illinois Republican: Same-sex marriage debate should be about the Bible, not human rights (via Raw Story )

Illinois state Rep. Dwight Kay (R-Glen Carbon) on Tuesday complained that supporters of same-sex marriage frequently spoke about human rights but neglected the Biblical scriptures. “The other thing I didn’t hear today was the fact that this nation…

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Gaius Publius — Rep. Holt to introduce bill to repeal Patriot Act & 2008 FISA Act

While the rest of the country was celebrating our independence, House Dem. Rush Holt (NJ-12) was doing something about it — drafting legislation to repeal both thePatriot Act of 2001 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

America Blog
Rep. Holt to introduce bill to repeal Patriot Act & 2008 FISA Act
Gaius Publius

(h/t Kevin Fathi)