yesthattom | You voted for THIS? (part 1 in a series)

You voted for this? YOU VOTED FOR THIS? FOR THESE PEOPLE?

Don't give me that bullshit "That's the party, not the candidate!" There's no difference! Your vote validates a group of people that do this kind of bullshit, and it ruins the country, devalues life, and hurts us all.

I hate when people say, "people that voted for Bush are stupid" because they aren't stupid. Stupid people don't vote. I hate it that I got comments to my blog with statements like, "both parties are the same" and "I wanted smaller government" or "I want lower taxes." Both parties aren't the same, Bush makes the government more invasive into your lives, and cuts taxes for people so rich you'll never meet them.

You did this. YOU. Look in a fucking mirror and blame the person you see. Don't cry, bitch, ya got what you asked for.

Dennis Kyne put up such a fight at a political protest last summer, the arresting officer recalled, it took four police officers to haul him down the steps of the New York Public Library and across Fifth Avenue.

"We picked him up and we carried him while he squirmed and screamed," the officer, Matthew Wohl, testified in December. "I had one of his legs because he was kicking and refusing to walk on his own."

Accused of inciting a riot and resisting arrest, Mr. Kyne was the first of the 1,806 people arrested in New York last summer during the Republican National Convention to take his case to a jury. But one day after Officer Wohl testified, and before the defense called a single witness, the prosecutor abruptly dropped all charges.

During a recess, the defense had brought new information to the prosecutor. A videotape shot by a documentary filmmaker showed Mr. Kyne agitated but plainly walking under his own power down the library steps, contradicting the vivid account of Officer Wohl, who was nowhere to be seen in the pictures. Nor was the officer seen taking part in the arrests of four other people at the library against whom he signed complaints.

A sprawling body of visual evidence, made possible by inexpensive, lightweight cameras in the hands of private citizens, volunteer observers and the police themselves, has shifted the debate over precisely what happened on the streets during the week of the convention.

For Mr. Kyne and 400 others arrested that week, video recordings provided evidence that they had not committed a crime or that the charges against them could not be proved, according to defense lawyers and prosecutors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12video.html?hp&ex=1113364800&en=034b59d6aece5085&ei=5094&partner=homepage