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Robocops Come to Pittsburgh...and Bring the Latest Weaponry with Them

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In Pittsburgh last week, an enormously expensive show of police and weaponry, intended for "security" of the G20 delegates, simultaneously shut workers out of downtown jobs for two days, forced gasping students and residents back into their dormitories and homes, and turned journalists' press passes into quaint, obsolete reminders of a bygone time.

Most significant of all, however, was what Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, told the Associated Press: "It's not just intimidation, it's disruption and in some cases outright prevention of peaceful protesters being able to get their message out."

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Dumb Dora wanted to know by hommedespoir on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:01:03 PM
The same thing happened to Native Americans. by Joe Vignolo on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:45:22 PM
Killing Crowds by Steven G. Erickson on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:41:11 PM
Dumb Dora wanted to know by hommedespoir on Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:11:13 PM