November 2011
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Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American... →
wilwheaton:
The Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield — even people in the United States itself.
Senators need to hear...
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: "What I'm looking at is... →
Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies,…
Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. She cites the advice of the late Catholic nun and activist Jackie Hudson to “take one more step out of your comfort zone” as an inspiration, saying, “It would be so easy...
n a Special Comment, Keith contextualizes Mayor Bloomberg’s actions against Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park and how they have – unintentionally – vaulted the movement from a local nuisance to a global platform for the disenfranchised.
This footage was recorded a few minutes ago. It shows the NYPD violently swinging batons, making arrest, shoving peaceful protesters to the group and it appears like one protester was being choked.
NYPD are clearing Zuccotti Park right now →
wilwheaton:
The whole world is watching, NYPD.
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Freestyle Rap Battle: Harris Wittels, Hank Williams Jr (Seth Morris), Jon Heder, Scott Aukerman CBB #128
I’ve been away on a trip for 2 weeks and was itching to do this video the whole time. I’m back now and the images in my head can stop spinning.
A Video-ization of an excerpt from the podcast, Comedy Bang! Bang!: episode 128 “Coach? Coach? Coach?”. Impromptu Freestyle...