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By Bonnie Kristian at 8:36PM
Sep 29, 2009

Report from Pittsburgh: "State Terrorism"

Writes YAL blog reade Troy Heagy:

I am a resident in Pittsburgh and work at the University of Pittsburgh.  I was not a protester during G-20, but living and working in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, I happened to be caught in what amounted to riot police assaulting the entire Oakland area indiscriminately with pepper gas, LRAD, rubber bullets and billy clubs.   I wasn't sure if you were aware of the situation, but I wanted to let as many people know what happened here in Pittsburgh as I can...

I very strongly feel that Oakland was a victim of malicious and un-checked State Terrorism over the course of the last few days and the world needs to know about what happened here...

Heagy provides links to:

  • An entire site devoted to chronicling police brutality at the G20 summit.
  • A video where armed police take over a college dorm.  As the policeman puts it: "It's almost like if the government came in and declared martial law...but it's not."  Right, because we can't even be bothered with such pitiful formalities.
  • And two local stories covering the protests.
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By Matt Cockerill at 5:30PM
Sep 25, 2009

Should Mahmoud Kowtow To Obama?

As awful as politicians are, I still hope Iran obeys the demands of Sarkozy, Brown, and Obama, and explicitly promises not to develop a nuclear weapon. Yes, the evidence for such a program's existence is already contested, and either way, the notion that Iran is nuke a western city is patently ridiculous.

But the likelihood of "war" (meaning the mass murder of innocents, as well as economic catastrophe) greatly increases should Iran develop -- or fail to rule out the development of -- an intrinsically evil nuclear device. Thus, I pray Iran's creepy president kowtows to the politicized demands of Obama and co.

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