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PETRUS

(3,678 posts) Sat Feb 9, 2013, 10:13 AM Feb 2013

Charges against Occupy Boston have been dropped. So why aren’t we celebrating?

Five activists from Occupy Boston were scheduled to begin trial this Monday. But today, without warning, the Suffolk County District Attorney dropped the charges against them and 22 others who refused to take the deals offered by prosecutors.

When I heard this, I thought it was time to celebrate...

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...But this dropping of charges isn’t being done to exonerate the activists involved. It’s being done to avoid giving the arrestees and their attorneys a platform.

Read more: http://ninetyninepercentboston.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/charges-against-occupy-boston-have-been-dropped-so-why-arent-we-celebrating/

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Charges against Occupy Boston have been dropped. So why aren’t we celebrating? (Original Post) PETRUS Feb 2013 OP

Do you expect them to admit they have zero case? MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #1

"Napoleon . . . said that it wasn't necessary to completely suppress the news; . . . snot Feb 2013 #2

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

1. Do you expect them to admit they have zero case?

Reply to PETRUS (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 10:18 AM

Feb 2013

Glad they retreated.

snot

(11,848 posts)

2. "Napoleon . . . said that it wasn't necessary to completely suppress the news; . . .

Reply to PETRUS (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 12:12 PM

Feb 2013

. . . it was sufficient to delay the news until it no longer mattered.
– attributed by PRWatch to Martin A. Lee & Norman Solomon, Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1991), p. xvii.

Ditto regarding other exercises of First Amendment rights.

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