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Amy Goodman: Waarom wij verkeerd werden gearresteerd

Donderdag, 4 September, 2008

Door Amy Goodman | ST. PAUL, Minn. - De hardhandig optreden van de overheid op journalisten zijn een ware bedreiging voor democratie. Aangezien de Republikeinse Nationale Overeenkomst in St. samenkomt Paul, Minn., deze week, politie richt systematisch journalisten. Ik werd nu gearresteerd met mijn twee collega's, „Democratie!“ producenten Sharif Abdel Kouddous en Nicole Salazar, terwijl rapportering op de eerste dag van RNC. Ik ben verkeerd belast met een misdrijf. Mijn medewerkers, die eenvoudig rapporteerden, kunnen met misdrijfrel worden belast.

De democratische en Republikeinse nationale overeenkomsten zijn zeer dure en voortgezette handelingen van politiek theater, hoofdzakelijk vier-dag-lange reclame voor de belangrijkste presidentiële kandidaten geworden. Buiten de omheiningen, zijn zij het belangrijke verzamelen zich voor basis beweging-voor mensen om, in het midden van de banners, bunting, vlaggen geworden te komen en confetti, om de rechten uit te drukken die in het Eerste Amendement van de Grondwet worden opgesomd: Het „congres zal geen wet maken die een onderneming van godsdienst eerbiedigt, of de vrije oefening daarvan belemmert; of verkortend de vrijheid van toespraak, of van de pers, of het recht van de mensen peaceably, de Overheid voor een herstel van grieven te assembleren en te petitioneren.“

Achter al patriotic hyperbool die de overeenkomsten, en duizenden journalisten en media arbeiders begeleidt die aankomen om de opgevoerde gebeurtenissen te behandelen, zijn er ernstige schendingen van de fundamentele rechten van vrijheid van de pers. Hier op de straten van St. Paul, de pers kan over de officiële werkzaamheden van RNC rapporteren, maar om over het de politiegeweld en massa te rapporteren niet de arrestaties bij te protesteren zij die hun overheid zijn komen petitioneren, leidden.

Het was de Dag van de Arbeid, en er was anti-war maart, met reusachtige turnout, met lokale families, studenten, veteranen en mensen van rond het land dat zich wordt verzameld om de oorlog te verzetten. Protesters overtroffen zeer de Republikeinse afgevaardigden in aantal.

Er was een positief, feestelijk gevoel, dat aan een groeiende bezorgdheid over de weg wordt gekoppeld die de Orkaan Gustav koos, en of New Orleans opnieuw worden verwoest. Later in de dag, was er een splinter maart. Politie-bekleed in volledig lichaamspantser, met helmen, nevel-spray-charged gezichtsschilden, batons en bussen van peper. Zij dwongen marchers, toeschouwers en werkende journalisten in een nabijgelegen parkerenpartij, dan omringden de mensen en begonnen de handboeien omdoend hen.

Nicole videotaping. Haar band van haar eigen hevige arrestatie is koelend. Police in riot gear charged her, yelling, “Get down on your face.” You hear her voice, clearly and repeatedly announcing “Press! Press! Where are we supposed to go?” She was trapped between parked cars. The camera drops to the pavement amidst Nicole’s screams of pain. Her face was smashed into the pavement, and she was bleeding from the nose, with the heavy officer with a boot or knee on her back. Another officer was pulling on her leg. Sharif was thrown up against the wall and kicked in the chest, and he was bleeding from his arm.

I was at the Xcel Center on the convention floor, interviewing delegates. I had just made it to the Minnesota delegation when I got a call on my cell phone with news that Sharif and Nicole were being bloody arrested, in every sense. Filmmaker Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films and I raced on foot to the scene. Out of breath, we arrived at the parking lot. I went up to the line of riot police and asked to speak to a commanding officer, saying that they had arrested accredited journalists.

Within seconds, they grabbed me, pulled me behind the police line and forcibly twisted my arms behind my back and handcuffed me, the rigid plastic cuffs digging into my wrists. I saw Sharif, his arm bloody, his credentials hanging from his neck. I repeated we were accredited journalists, whereupon a Secret Service agent came over and ripped my convention credential from my neck. I was taken to the St. Paul police garage where cages were set up for protesters. I was charged with obstruction of a peace officer. Nicole and Sharif were taken to jail, facing riot charges.

The attack on and arrest of me and the “Democracy Now!” producers was not an isolated event. A video group called I-Witness Video was raided two days earlier. Another video documentary group, the Glass Bead Collective, was detained, with its computers and video cameras confiscated. On Wednesday, I-Witness Video was again raided, forced out of its office location. When I asked St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington how reporters are to operate in this atmosphere, he suggested, “By embedding reporters in our mobile field force.”

On Monday night, hours after we were arrested, after much public outcry, Nicole, Sharif and I were released. That was our Labor Day. It’s all in a day’s work.

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 700 stations in North America.


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