I've been out of the loop so long I didn't even notice this article. Good article, but what ever came of the case? I may have heard but don't remember. Any word?

The militarization of our police officers, it needs to come to
an end.

Last week at Durango High School in Colorado, juniors and seniors overheard an Army recruiter using a "gay slur and an expletive" while taking a military-supervised aptitude test. The incident has irked students, faculty and parents alike, leading to an apology from the Army's Denver Recruiting Battalion for the lack of professional conduct.
"It's inappropriate to speak that way in a public forum, whether you're in a school or anywhere else," remarked school Principal Diane Lashinsky. "It's especially egregious to be speaking that way within hearing distance of young people

wouldn't react any differently to a cop right now," said
Winfield, 29. "But those three? They are just bad at their job. I
don't want to see someone lose their job, but they did a poor job
of policing. That's the bottom line."

It was early Sunday morning at 1:45 a.m. during the World Series
in Denver when a fight erupted outside of the now-defunct La Rouge
Nightclub, at 14th and Market Streets downtown.

Winfield - quipped with his 24-by-36-inch canvas painting - and
two friends bypassed the incident en route from his sister's apartment
to the car.

On Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, just after noon, about 60 activists were arrested at the White House for failing to obey a police order. The nonviolent “Civil Resistance” action was the largest such antiwar demonstration at this particular site, since President Barack Obama took office. Hundreds more participated in the event, but chose not to get arrested. Some of those arrested wore orange jump suits and black hoods. A few had chained themselves to the White House fence. “Peace Mom,” Cindy Sheehan was one of those arrested. According to the press release of the sponsoring groups the action was carried out in order to focus attention on ending the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the U.S. occupation of Iraq; stopping the U.S. drone bombings in Pakistan;woeld economy and to demand the closing, as a moral and legal issue, of the Gitmo and Bagram prisons. The activists also want the culpable members of the Bush-Cheney Gang brought to the Bar of Justice for their role in sanctioning and carrying out the illegal policy of torture

don't forget that there are also other smaller ICE offices everywhere, like the ICE office in Colorado Springs.

Captain May;  You seem to offer all kinds of reasons why government agencies or companies like Haliburton would not be above sabotaging an oil rig, though you offer no evidence that they did.  As for your statement of agreement with Mr. Limbaugh that  "environmentalist wackos" might be responsible, you offer no evidence to support that claim, either.  Indeed, it seems unlikely that environmentalists of any description would commit such an act, in violation of their most deeply held values.

Much of your article seems to be about you.  Did you blow up the rig?  If you don't want to answer, that's fine.  You have the right to remain silent.   

I can't help but second Tina's thoughts here. I marvel at how people can be tricked into working against their own self interest. I want to marvel at that because if it is not true (if these people, this writer, really knows better and is not just a fool( then they are just evil. Are these people evil or misguided? I don't know but I have to ask.

Many have made other arguments. Ward Churchill makes a strong case that the British where driven out despite and not because of Ghandi's non violence stance. Peter Gelderloos book makes a strong case that non violence helps the state. The book is called How Nonviolence Helps the State.

I do not make here the case that this event should be violent and am not advocating it. I do make this point because I am not a supporter of pacifism as an effective means of stopping the state.

We are working hard to resolve this issue in a way that will work for all. It is my hope that we can do it quickly. I do know that this is a tough situation for the collective.

We will have a meeting soon and I know Nathan is doing all he can to find a solution to the issue. Last night we for several hours where receiving spam at a rate of several per minute. We have captcha but the spamers have automated ways to solve the ones we have. These spams where being posted in all areas, events, stories, and comments and the moderation que had over 1,000 spams. I have been wading through hundreds a day to insure that comments and posts that are real can be posted in a timely way. Last night I spent 4 hours deleting spam before the site crashed under the weight of the attack.

for the sake of comrades who use this site to post anonymous communiques, our position would be that the ability to post anonymous stories should be prioritized over anonymous comments.

not knowing what spam attacks have looked like, that might not be possible without a new capcha system... have you looked into capcha software used by, say, the anarchist news site?

It is a pile of crap and you could not have used a better choice of words!!! Having said that this right wing Tea party BS is good for us to see on occasion. The arguments used by these tea Party people are flawed, as you point out, but in reading them people see how flawed there rhetoric is and it stimulates thought and debate.

I find that the philosophy of Freedman and his free market ideologist is at beast offensive and discredited. I wish we did a better job of discrediting these people. I thought your points where spot on Tina.