RNC PROTESTS
Kersten's column spreads disinformation
Katherine Kersten, in her Sept. 28 column, "RNC anarchists had friends in 'peaceful' protest groups" (Sept. 28), takes false information and reports it as fact.
St. Paul Police Chief Bob Fletcher and his crew found nothing that could be used for bombs during preemptive raids on houses of journalists and people who were organizing to cook food for others. He found two buckets of gray water (bath water that environmentalists keep and use to flush their toilets) and household items like jars, rags and peanut butter.
As to the incidents of property damage, our organization -- Communities United Against Police Brutality -- has two witnesses who state that the individual who broke the Macy's window stepped from behind the police line, broke the window and then returned behind that line. And, even if the individual is not associated with the police, a significant number of police officers watched the incident and did absolutely nothing to stop it.
Kersten is upset because we refuse to throw other activists under the bus for the benefit of the brutal cops whose grotesque overreaction to a few minor incidents resulted in hundreds of injuries and the crushing of the rights of thousands. I'm proud that we won't do it. We're clear who the real enemy is -- and it isn't "the anarchists" who only want a world without the kind of sick and twisted power dynamics that have us in a "war without end" and have brought our economy to near-implosion.
MICHELLE GROSS,
MINNEAPOLIS
Letters to the editor for Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 |