Just One More Thing...

Here's one more article on the whole thing, which just so happens to feature a decent picture of Nathan Weber's face, sans black eye. And here are some photos of the actual event, courtesy of Jonathan D. Woods. Please visit his website. He's a damn fine photographer who was very generous to let me use these pictures for my blog.

Here we see Nathan in handcuffs as Batman goes through Nathan's backpack.


And here he is being taken into custody.


And here we see Jim Winn being taken in as well. Jim has a photo blog with some more pictures from the RNC. Check it out here.


And last, but not least, a nice shot of police officers in riot gear.



Fin.

More Bullshit and Mace In America

I know I promised not to get political again, but (in the words of The Big Lebowski) some new shit has come to light. Yeah. So it turns out that a few days prior to the events in my last post, another friend of mine was maced in the face while taking pictures of protesters outside the Democratic National Convention. Now, I know Christian, and in all fairness, of all the people I know, he's probably the person most likely to be mistaken for an anarchist, but not when he has a camera in his hands and a big bright and shiny press pass displayed for all to see. Looks like the Democrats are just as threatened by the truth as the Republicans are. Hmm.

For more information on the incident mentioned in my last blog, here's an article in which Nathan Weber explains how he was beaten by the police. Let's have a closer look at Nathan's face, shall we?

Could be worse, right? I mean Nathan just kind of looks like that normally, but he's clearly been beaten in the face with a blunt object as well. Also this picture is out of focus. Sorry, I didn't take it.

One more thing and then I'll go. Just so you know, a lot of what Governor Palin said last night wasn't exactly the truth. Here's Fact Check's take on what she had to say. Remember, she hates the polar bear, an animal that looks more cuddly than Nathan Weber, but is, in fact, far more dangerous.


For real, once my friends stop getting the shit beaten out of them for doing their jobs and exercising their Constitutional rights, I'll get off my soap box. Until then, God bless America.

Who's Afraid of a Few Photographers?

The Republican National Convention, apparently. Check this out. Apparently censorship is as easy as claiming that photographing a protest is a breach of national security. What's there to be afraid of? I mean, nobody's trying to get polar bears taken off the endangered species list to drill for oil or anything...

In all fairness, polar bears are the number one threat to school children in this country, as this image clearly shows.

Listen, I'm not trying to get political or anything, but when people I know get maced and then spend the night in jail, and someone decides that money is more important than life on earth, I get pissed off.


I promise to have a more friendly, bipartisan post up in the next few days. Sorry for the delay, it's been a busy couple of weeks.