[quote]lixy wrote:
jawara wrote:
My internet connection here is slow so I’m waiting for the vid to load. Amy Goodman has no credibility with
Her credibility isn’t in question here. She’s a journalist who had every right to report on the protests outside the RNC, and she got roughed up and arrested by the cops. There’s footage of her crew being brutalized and there are witnesses by the boatload.
Her show doesn’t take a dime from either the government or any corporation. That’s genuine grassroots independent journalism. That you disagree with her editorial line is no reason to call her a liar here.
because there have been to many times were she says troops in Iraq are murdering people and cant back it up.
I watch her show quite regularly and I can’t think of an instance where she just made shit up. When there are witnesses who say a murder took place, she reports it. Some troops were jailed, some weren’t. She just reports allegations as such and facts as such.
What you should do is realize that there may be different points of view than your own. What you call “casualties”, others might call “murder”.
The last time I listened to FreeSpeechradio she said a woman was killed in Sadr City by US troops at traffic control point. Was I there? No.
Was the woman killed? Yes.
But I know the procedure. You put out orange cones and signs in Arabic that say “don’t cross here or you will be fired on”. We also have somthing called Escalation of Force. Basiclly it’s shout, show (your intent to shoot), shove (or throw somthing), then shoot. I’f your in a area where there are women strapped with bombs (and they KNOW we arent allowed to search them) I would have done the same. Amy Goodman didnt mention that part. She just made it sound like they just shot the chick for no reason.
And what exactly would you say is the reason she got shot. Self defense? Sorry to break your bubble, but most people in this world would not buy the idea that an unarmed woman represents any danger whatsoever to a lot of soldiers in full gear.
Granting the benefit of the doubt to the killer is not a good sign.
Secondly I heard a sound clip from the outside protests of the RNC. It was a rapper using curse words. I’m sorry but anyone who does that isnt trying to hold a “peaceful” demenstration.
Yay for freedom of speech![/quote]
I remember an episode of FreeSpeech TV where they said an American fighter plane blew up an innocent civillians house. There was no roof on the house and there was a hole in the middle of it. Anyone who knows anything about American weaponry knows that if that were true the house would be almost completly detroyed. But most who watch FreeSpeech dont know the differencr between a .44 and a .45.
If she has no credibility her reporting is worthless. Is there any actual footage of her getting roughed up.
The woman got shot probably because she crossed a line with signs in front of it that say “dont cross or you will be shot”, and since you wont acknowledge the fact that JAI,JAM and al-Queada are recruiting and using women as suicide bombers I’m gonna remind you.
Sitting outside and having somthing intellegent to say is one thing, maybe when you grow and have kids of your own you could understand not wanting them to hear curse words over a load speaker.