DO NOT PASS GO, GO DIRECTLY TO CROOKSANDLIARS NOW!!!

(unless this is old news, in which case, I am salivating at the thought of Christy’s next post).

The following is a statement that is being circulated
regarding an incident at the military recruiting
station on Orange Street in New Haven on Wednesday,
June 28. A baseball bat-wielding Marine recruiter
engaged in an unprovoked assault on two demonstrators
outside the recruiting center and then seized the
cellphone belonging to another demonstrator who had
witnessed and photographed the assault. There are
plans for a rally and press conference outside the
recruiting center for July 5 at 5PM.

The National Lawyers Guild was contacted immediately
after the incident by organizers who were looking for
legal assistance because, among other things, the New
Haven police were trying to discourage the victims
from making a complaint against the recruiter %u2014
apparently at least one officer expressed the opinion
that having an anti-war demonstration outside a
military recruiting center was a “provocation.”

The question that this incident must raise is this: if
a US Marine recruiter, while safely ensconced behind a
desk in an air-conditioned office in New Haven,
working in a position that plainly keeps him in the
public eye, feels free to use a baseball bat to beat a
protester . . . then how much restraint do we imagine
that his compatriots use against Iraqis?

I would strongly urge people to participate in the
rally on July 5. The movement needs to respond in a
strong and clear voice to violence against
demonstrators, and all the more so when it comes from
government personnel and is calculated to discourage
political opposition.

Peter Goselin
NLG-CT

that’s snarkastic!

chris bowers has a what-should-we-call-the-media post at mydd. the winner, by acclimation of chris bowers, is:
establishment med

who died and made chris bowers markos moulitsas?

personally, we at skippy have taken to calling it the m m m…the multi-millionaire media.

because that’s what they are. a media of the millionaires, by the millionaires, and for the millionaires.

and, for our contribution to this week’s face the snark (aside from a new word, combination of sarcastic, snark, and fantastic…that’s snarkactic!):

a joke we don’t even get, and we wrote it:

seven of nine sings ben folds five

google “Casey at the Bat.” You wouldn’t believe…

Please send. :)

Hey cbl, Stephen Parrish, Jane — left you each something in the EPU zone last thread.