They got that right. What has happened to our right to peaceful dissent? I hope your injuries are healing, Reverend Yearwood.

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This is all so hard to believe. I hope we'll be hearing more from the Rev. There's a big march in DC this weekend. I'm sure he'll be there. No comments yet from the people who assualted this man. I can't imagine what they could possibly have to say for themselves. Thanks, ANNA

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God.
Bless.
Lennox.
Yearwood.

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You listen to this horrific account, and still hear the wishes to be heard and get us out of the crisis, let the truth be heard, and then you listen to that BS President speak this evening and lie, lie, lie all over again - what sense is there anywhere with our country? what is wrong with us? what is right with us that we allow this to continue? we are now all accountable? history will judge all of us, and one day so will the world. Just like Nazis of world war 2, so too will we be judged and caused to pay for the holocaust we creat in Iraq and the middle east. This is no joke, this is reality and this is our life and our country in a time warp. We are the new Nazis of the world.

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The anger we see in Yearwood should be in all of us today. Marches to arrest Bush should be gathering in the millions, all over the country. The media should take this and turn it around but they won't because they are the corporate media and the alternate news-sites are not enough to spread the message and our leaders know this. The principle, the issue behind Yearwood's story is big but it will fizzle for a while then get lost in the busy three-ring circus that is American politics. The democratic majority in Congress has not fought to have essential parts of Patriot or the Military Commissions Act that stole the essence of our democracy rescinded. They are only the lackeys controlled by a more powerful outer circle. It's a shame. Our leaders reacted beyond Osma's and the terrorist's wildest dreams. Instead of chasing down the perpetrators using basic policework, our leaders confiscated our freedoms, attacked and destroyed a country killing hundreds of thousands, led our soldiers into a death trap or life-long suffering as maimed and crippled citizens, and continue to lie and deceive. But the anger in the majority of Americans is not there because they were brainwashed long ago by our government and media. They continue to live in a world full of fluff and unconstructive self-gratification and have created their own prison. It will take servere shock treatment to wake us up and then it could be too late.

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We do have to stand up and resist the complacency which exists in this country. There are not enough people who are impacted by what is happening in Iraq and there are not enough people who are aware of what is happening in the world, not because the information is not available but because our main stream media is owned by the corporations who are at the root of the problem. It is time to take back this country - peacefully. Which of the candidates will lead us toward peace in the world as President? Not only do our rights in this country need to be restored, we need to stop using poor and disadvantaged people in other countries for the corporate advantage as well. Who will do that? John Edwards did great with his time on MSNBC after Bush's speech! We do need to ask the candidates the tough questions and listen to what they are saying. I, for one, am sick of the rhetoric.

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... first they break his legs...

bastards...

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“Petraeus ex machina”: Propaganda Works, that's why it costs so much: General Petraeus' Iraq Report Sept. 2007

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TAKE THE FIGHT FORWARD REV! Keep goin! Get those crackers off your arms and get the old white men out of office!

Yearwood for Congress!

Just watch the video! They stomp him, they beat him, they spit on him all while it's being taped.

What's the MESSAGE THEY"RE TRYING TO SEND US!?!?!

I think it's: CAPITOL HILL: WHITES ONLY!!!!!
They did it to Cynthia McKinney too!!!!

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You Bastards!

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i agree with the whole but why does he have to exagerate so much? I saw the video and i have to say he wasn't "..brutally attacked by the police". he was just jumped by a bunch of typical dumb ass normal american cops that think there a little more special than the rest because they are on capitol hill. It wasn't like he was getting the rodney king treatment or something. If he would just stick to the real details and facts then his standpoint would carry more empathy and seriousness.i think the video is shocking enough,or?!? why don't we know why the cops really acted the way they did? that would interest me! those filthy lousy f%$kin' cops. ACAB

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. . . your chosen screen name says it all.

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I agree with the post above that says that the Rev. was not severely beaten. From the video, it is hard to tell what is being done to Yearwood, because the cops are crowded around him. But these cops did not seem brutal, and I see no real "attack" in the video. On the contrary, it looks as if at least one of the cops was particularly trying NOT to hurt the Rev. There were no nightsticks, pepper spray, fists, or Tasers used on him by the cops, as far as I can tell from the video. So I hope this forum thread doesn't just turn into police-bashing.
All that said, it is still outragous. He should simply have been allowed to go inside with the others. For some reason, perhaps it was his button, he was singled out and when he refused to leave the cops took him down. He may have broken his leg and suffered other injuries, but so far I haven't seen confirmation of that.
Don't get me wrong. I am completely against Bush and his obscene warmongering. I'm incensed and terribly saddened at the same time at the inaction of the congress we elected to stop the war. I believe Bush, Cheney and others should be charged with treason and put on trial by an international court. If ever we had a "president" that needed to be "stopped before he kills again" (in effect), it is now. I have so little respect for Bush that I almost wish Dick Nixon was back from the grave to take Bush's place in the Oval Office, because in comparison to Bush, Nixon seems almost (but not quite) like a real statesman.
To stop this war juggernaut, it is going to take more and more protests and arrests such as this. So far, it's nowhere near as dramatic as during Vietnam, when, as we know, there was real police brutality in Chicago and many other cities and towns, and people were hurt in all kinds of ways- beatings, tear gas, fire hoses, and other various so-called riot control techniques. And then there was the Kent State massacre, not by the cops but by our citizen-soldiers, the National Guard. And that was nothing short of first-degree murder. The message was "Don't protest the war, students, or we will shoot you dead." Those of us who remember those times know what our government can, and will, do to stifle and suppress dissent.
What happened to Reverend Yearwood was unnecessary, disgusting, and an abuse of power by the Capitol Police, but disgusting as that may be, it's mild compared to what could, and probably will, happen if the citizens of this country are serious enough about ending the war to continue to speak out and practice acts of civil disobedience. Hopefully the war can end if enough people do that. God help us in this nation, if CIVIL disobdience is not enough to stop the evil perpetrated by our government in our name and with our dollars.
Of course, these days, it's not necessary to break a law to get arrested. Exercising free speech in a nonviolent manner is enough, as the video of Reverend shows.

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Being held up by his "brothers" with the matching t-shirts. The chants. The yelling. The melodrama...All very staged and dated. Does this guy think he's the next MLK?

Do you think progressive causes will ever have more than a chance in hell by repeating the same outdated cliches we all saw a million times back in our student activist days, or on one of those cheesy PBS documentaries? I think a lot of Alterneters are past this type of stuff.

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For all you people who are saying this man was not attacked heres a link to the video.

video

If you tackle a man so hard you break his leg, what else would you call what happened to him?

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