Denver Takes A Page Out of ICE’s Playbook
Put forth on August 18, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Elections, Elections 2008, Human Rights, YouTube, democracy
Last week, a Denver CBS affiliate, CBS4 News reporter Rick Sallinger, exposed the detention camps built for the DNC protesters. The city was hoping to keep this facility a secret, however, Rick Sallinger not only revealed but provided footage of the warehouse filled with metal cages made of chain-link fence material, topped off with barbed wire and with signs on the wall that reads “‘Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility.’”
Now that the public knows what is in store for them if they get out line, the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has decided to stay on top of this. In a recent letter to RAW Story, the ACLU of Colorado, they plan to “raise some questions and to ask for a meeting about Denver’s plans for handling and processing arrestees.”
If I were a gambling man, the first ones to be picked up will occur after the Rage Against the Machine protest concert. Let’s just hope the Denver PD did not take a page out of ICE’s playbook, we know how they treat their detainees.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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First off, thanks for putting me in the Freedom Fighters section of your blog. Duly noted. Secondly, this earnestly reminds me of NYC’s RNC when we “hosted” them and greeted them with thousands of people pissed off at Bush and Co. Some protestors were taken to the docks and kept there without food or water for like 48 hours. I’m sure you’ve heard of it; Denver’s just making things more blatant. Good post.
Thanks. When I blogrolled, I did it really fast and didn’t realize the default was set for community.
I have heard about the RNC thing, I know Nez mentioned before. I guess if you there or where living in NYC at the time, it is still fresh. The sad thing, you know the folks in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib are still getting it ten times worse.
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