Republican National Convention Anniversary

It's been a year since the Republican National Convention came to town, providing fun for Republicans and protest for many others. Many of the lawsuits brought against protestor and innocent bystanders have been thrown out, but memories of being locked up in the NYPD's makeshift Guatanamo on the Hudson haven't left.

And relive that week in our archives.

Photo above by Rion Nakaya for rion.nu

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By Jen Chung in News on August 30, 2005 10:32 AM

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mark

I was one of several hundred people arrested before the RNC at the August Critical Mass for riding a bicycle on a public street. I wrote about the experience here: http://blog.underafter.com/archives/2005/08/a_year_ago_toda.html

There's also a lot of interesting developments regarding the RNC arrests. The justice dept is investigating them and the NYCLU just issued a report that concludes: "the right to protest was severely undermined by the mass arrests of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators and bystanders, the pervasive surveillance of lawful demonstrators, and the illegal fingerprinting and prolonged detention of nearly 1,500 people charged with mostly minor offenses." More info here:

http://blog.underafter.com/archives/2005/08/reviewing_the_r.html

mike

nola, I think Kerry lost the election, not we who peacefully demonstrated. So, can you can explain why you paint all RNC protesters as "idiots" and "dummies"?

The larger issue is, of course, that our society is starting to reach the point where protest and dissent itself is actively being repressed.

So, thank you left-wing couch potatoes, for doing nothing but whining about Bush, and then whining about those doing something about him.

nola

Those idiot protesters sure turned off voters in Ohio. Thank you, left wing dummies, for helping us win again.

script

pesky republicans.

http://script.blogs.com

nick-o

I can only imagine what it's like to be wrongly arrested in a legal protest and then held for three days. But to compare that to "Guatanamo" kinda diminishes the abuses going on down there, don't ya think?

-n

td

Whether you're for the right or left, you cannot ignore the fact that hundreds of cases were thrown out, due to the arrests of innocent bystanders who happened to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is careless police procedure by the NYPD. And the mayor fully supported it. We need to hold the mayor accountable.