Yeah, I heard about that. I'm still kinda awestruck over the video capture of the officer slamming the Code Pink protestor into the pavement. I'm not one to automatically jump on the police brutality bandwagon, but from everything I've read and seen about it, it seemed rather unjustifiable really.

Edit: There was *certainly* no excuse for calling her a bitch.
That doesn't seem like very...Professional officer-ish language.

I believe this comes down to a mentality of "We have to prevent a Chicago 1968".  Not saying that their methods are correct; this is way excessive and they didn't even compare to the lack of crackdown in Denver this year.  Hell, in Denver there was all sorts of craziness allowed as long as it away from the actual convention hall.   This... smacks of Republican knee-jerk mentality, which is sadder with the possibility the whole damn thing could possibly be cancelled due to Hurricane Gustav.  As much as I usually try to be devil's advocate for most things, even this I can't see as healthy for anything.  I just think it's ironic that we diss Beijing just two months ago for this sort of crap and then go ahead and do it ourselves.  I really hope things will change after Bush and his "permanent war powers" crap gets booted out in January.

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

(Warning: Leftist website on other side of link.)

I realized there may be some folks who have no idea which incident I was referring to, this is the brief Youtube clip:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KfISlq1gzK8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/KfISlq1gzK8</a>

The guy who filmed it, actually put up an extended cut, with commentary on what he saw/was doing, to help ease any cries of subversive editing. Granted, that still doesn't mean there may or may not be more to the story, but, well, you judge for yourselves:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hzrBYF99QKI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/hzrBYF99QKI</a>