Protesters Arrested For Public Mic Check

In These Times:

Around 150 people turned out to several Midtown locations yesterday for Occupy Wall Street's January 3 (#J3) event. This time, protesters were hitting the streets in opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act, the military spending bill recently signed by President Obama.

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Comments

[Tom Hn]

10:48 AM on 01/08/2012

Good job NYPD. I was with OWS last September and couldn't be more disgusted by what was going on INSIDE OWS, theft, robbery, public defecating, etc. And they do it in the name of constitutional rights.
I am glad NYPD stepped in this time early to prevent the same from happening again.

[mateoconifer]

08:32 AM on 01/08/2012

Bloomberg's Army. He's stepped over the line with two feet now. As has the head of the NYPD. They both have to go

[Matthew Cooke]

12:14 AM on 01/08/2012

Agreed. This story should be front page. First amendment rights violated.

[Tom Hn]

11:27 AM on 01/08/2012

The constitutional rights are such abused. Unless the federal government took action, it is 100% irrelevant.
In this case, the NY state took action, so NY state constitution should be invoked for protection of freedom of speech, if it offers any.
Apparently, a lot of OWS people don't understand the laws in this country very well.

[Tom Hn]

11:31 AM on 01/08/2012

By the way, http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Constitution-For-Dummies-ebook/dp/B000SF3T6O
Don't forget to fan me.

[camanokat]

08:33 PM on 01/07/2012

This is an important story and should be on the front page.

[BDinJoburg]

08:50 AM on 01/07/2012

This is worthy of only two short sentences?

Perhaps T.S. Elliot was correct: "This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper".

[laughocrasy]

08:35 AM on 01/07/2012

These protesters should get off easy. A good lawyer will demand that they're protected by the 1st amendment in saying what they wish.

[dcb64]

11:30 AM on 01/07/2012

these protesters should not have been arrested, period.

[camanokat]

08:20 PM on 01/07/2012

Of course they'll get off. The cops acts are unconstitutional. But that's not the point. The point is to stop all protesting.

[cadawa]

10:05 PM on 01/06/2012

Every time entrenched power over-reaches, they just highlight the reasons for the existence of "Occupy" and why we need to support them. Young people shouldn't be the only ones going to jail for all our freedoms.
The 1% can't win this one and they are not going to.

[laughocrasy]

08:35 AM on 01/07/2012

FANNED.

[oldguru]

07:46 PM on 01/06/2012

So, the SCOTUS decides that NOTHING must curb the sacred right or free speech for Corporations, but CITIZENS do not have that right. Can revolution be far away?

[Amorifera]

01:13 PM on 01/06/2012

Don't the 1% and their attack dogs see that their attempts are futile? We are far more powerful than they are. There are far more of us and justice will prevail. They're scared, and know their time in power is going to be very short. Things are changing and the people who have been used and abused for too long by corporate power and their politician lapdogs are not going to play the game any more. Time for a completely new government of, by, and for the real people.

[citizenlegisators]

01:32 PM on 01/06/2012

the 1% like The founder of this site , and Tom Hanks and Oprah and Speilberg and Pelosi and Reid and Michelle Antionette ?

[Tommygun264]

04:38 PM on 01/06/2012

"Michelle Antionette"

You baggers just can't help yourselves, can you.

[TheCommons]

11:13 PM on 01/06/2012

The Republicans and their money men are playing the role of the French aristocracy in this play.

[daultman463]

01:50 PM on 01/07/2012

Although as a conservative i share part of your feelings about the rich and powerful i look at washington and not wall street as the probelm my friend. But this change of govt. is where i think you will be very dissappointed with. Most people are not progressive and a new govt would be smaller and less powerful. For the people will not be do all for the people.

[drumz]

04:38 PM on 01/07/2012

"Most people are not progressiv­e"
You're a conservative, how do you know what a progressive wants, by what cons tell you? I have yet to meet an intelligent conservative because you all live in bubbles of your own making, pathetic!

[camanokat]

08:32 PM on 01/07/2012

I know very few conservatives and would never be friends with one.

[RightRealDeal]

11:24 AM on 01/06/2012

Good, things usualy do work out.

[Tommygun264]

04:39 PM on 01/06/2012

Your opposition to the Constitutional right to freedom of speech is noted.

[RightRealDeal]

04:56 PM on 01/06/2012

well now, Mr. Gun264, we have the right also to oppose f ilth, st ench and those who choose to not work and live off the dole. thank you, nice weekend

[Tom Hn]

10:58 AM on 01/06/2012

The job report is good, what the heck is OWS still do out there?

[Ppossom]

11:06 AM on 01/06/2012

To stop the whoring of Congress and erosion of civil liberties, like freedom of speech.

[Tom Hn]

11:25 AM on 01/06/2012

When job is scarce, you can be a bum and whine. Now there are jobs around and start being a productive member of the society.

[Elyriaohio]

06:34 AM on 01/07/2012

Um, protesting the selling of our Democracy to the highest corporate bidder? You need to get out more.

[Tom Hn]

10:56 AM on 01/06/2012

Good, just the way I wanted.

[JWerner]

06:51 AM on 01/08/2012

Of course. You would gladly sell out the principles of our society to satisfy your masters.

You are contemptible.

[KarmaPatrol]

09:56 AM on 01/06/2012

Habeas corpus R.I.P. 1697 - 2012... interesting graphic on the linked article.

When there's no free speech in Grand Central Station, you know something is wrong. Time to sue and at least cause Mayor Moneybags to use more of his own money to get re-elected

[aFtersootdamP]

03:51 AM on 01/06/2012

public mic check makes people look retarded. There could be nothing more infantile and less productive. There's a great video on youtube showing a southern mic check refusing to allow a black civil rights hero a chance to speak. It took them a half an hour parrotting other peoples' word to come to that decision. These are the anarchists that the obama regime wants to run our Country. As Jean Paul Sartre would say: "C'est l'absurd".

[CenaW]

11:14 AM on 01/06/2012

Sure, it is much better to have the country run by the people with their misspelled signs of hate, anger at imaginary acts, fear and and carrying around nooses.

[Limpbaugh]

07:29 PM on 01/07/2012

...all while wearing a Timothy McVeigh tee shirt.

[Tommygun264]

04:41 PM on 01/06/2012

A Bush devotee questioning the mental capacity of others. Now THAT'S funny!

[WI Patriot]

02:26 AM on 01/06/2012

Once sentence on the "issue" and 3 pages of confrontation with police.

Bravo, and they wonder why no one supports them.

[sherlockhemlock]

04:39 AM on 01/06/2012

America loves OWS!

[RightRealDeal]

11:25 AM on 01/06/2012

maybe you and two others

[PostCapitalist]

10:35 AM on 01/06/2012

sockpuppet