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January 27, 2012
Alex presents newly exposed footage filmed at LAX airport in Los Angeles confirming a ‘rendition hub’ capable of processing thousands of people per hour from straight off the tarmac and other transportation points.
Further, Alex dredges up video clips of other facilities used in the past for mass containment of dissenters- from Pier 57 in New York City used to detain those rounded-up during mass arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention to the former Mueller Airport facility in Austin which news clips exposed had been converted to hold mass arrestees to the
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by 1825114
Even while his ignorance shows clearly (about mid-way, the "story" about "Pier 57" has the tagline title "Marshall Plan" captioned at the bottom. He and his staff look like uneducated buffoons.
He assembled a barrage of various local TV News clips, taken out of context, and concocts this fantasy claim, yet again.
Police tactics and Pier 57
Concerns have been raised about police tactics in arresting nonviolent protesters with many apparently innocent people being swept up in mass arrests.
Guantanamo on the Hudson was a term coined during the Republican National Convention by a lawyer who, amongst 1000 other people, was detained in a facility by the New York City Police, in such conditions that he said that the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on the Hudson" (an allusion to the tortures reported in prisoners camps in Guantanamo).
The City police closed a street adjoining Union Square where protesters were marching, arresting protesters and bystanders alike. People were required to show identification cards or face arrest; the arrested people were not immediately informed of charges against them.
The facility was the then-recently closed Hudson Pier Depot at Pier 57 on the Hudson River in Manhattan, a three-story, block-long pier that has been converted into a temporary holding facility, though unfit for detention of prisoners. Arrested protesters have complained about extremely poor conditions describing it as overcrowded, dirty, and contaminated with oil and asbestos. People reported having suffered from smell, bad ventilation, and even chemical burns and rashes.
Numerous troubling cases were reported, notably:
- A 15-year-old diabetic girl on her way to a movie was arrested.[42]
- A former vice president of Morgan Stanley was arrested while riding her bicycle.[42]
- A 16-year-old protestor was lost to her mother for two days, even though her mother knew about and supported her daughter's participation.[43]
- Small pens were used to contain "30 to 40 people" at once.
- Many people were detained longer than 24 hours on relatively trivial charges. One was a 23-year-old Montreal student arrested for disorderly conduct and released three days later. "He says he spent a total of 57 hours between the pier and Central Booking, during which time he says he was moved 14 times and repeatedly handcuffed and shackled to other protesters as young as 15."
The City reportedly refused to release the prisoners until a judge threatened to fine it for every extra hour every prisoner would spend in prison. The victims of the arrests have filed lawsuits against the City of New York.
One of the most prominent personalities arrested was Eric Corley "Emmanuel Goldstein", an important advocate of public rights and independent media, and editor of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The complete report of 2600 is available at www.2600.com...
Several cases have since gone to court, and it has come out that the charges of resisting arrest in those cases were completely fabricated. Video evidence was shown of defendants complying peaceably with police demands. Many of the cases have since been summarily dismissed. Some of them, as of 2011, however, remain open and are expected to proceed to trial.
The New York Times has reported on two occasions that the police videotaped and infiltrated protests, as well as acting as agents provocateurs during the protests.
In addition, the New York Times reported that prior to the protests, NYPD officers traveled as far away as Europe and spied on people there who planned to protest at the RNC.
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by 1825114
The Wiki source makes my case for me, brilliantly!!
The "Pier 57" incident occurred in....>drum roll please
Are you saying he misrepresented the dates?
On July 30, 2009, the Hudson River Park Trust’s Board of Directors conditionally designated Youngwoo & Associates, LLC as developer of the historic Pier 57. The YWA team was one of three to seek the right to redevelop the pier, following a request for proposals issued by HRPT in June of 2008.
AtG, ProudBird, and everyone else here that goes onto threads constantly, all day, everyday simply to "debunk".
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by 1825114
Sorry to spoil the "fun", but that's just AJ being his typical fear-mongering con-artist self.
Even while his ignorance shows clearly (about mid-way, the "story" about "Pier 57" has the tagline title "MarshallPlan...er, Law" captioned at the bottom. He and his staff look like uneducated buffoons.
He assembled a barrage of various local TV News clips, taken out of context, and concocts this fantasy claim, yet again.
Heck one of the clips even had the female reporter on location talking about the "Y2K" revelers!!! How hilarious!! A clip from 1999 being used to "scare" people.
Humorous, but pathetic at the same time.......because people buy into his hogwash.edit on Fri 27 January 2012 by ProudBird because: (no reason given)