09-04-2008, 02:20 AM
I don't believe she—or any other journalist in the fiasco—was ever honestly confused with the rioters. The police corralled her coworkers, and then someone came and stripped one of them of their press credentials while the arresting officer looked on and refused to document the action. The right of the press is simply not being respected here, neither is the right of peaceable assembly. What's up with the "free speech" zones and cages? Cages?! Something is many shades of wrong in our country, and it appears intentionally so; the only question left is "who is accountable for this"?