Judith Miller defends NYPD @ RNC - WSJ "When Activist are Terrorist"

First let me say this woman is a traitor and I despise her. I am so pissed
right now that I am having a hard time telling this story, so I will allow
some others do it for me.

NYPD Lets Judith Miller Peek at "Still-Secret" RNC-Spying Documents? No Surprise: Miller Is Mum.
May 3, 2007 by Sean Gardiner


In a motion made public Thursday, May 3, city attorneys are demanding that the lawyers representing the 1,800 people who claim they were falsely arrested at the Republican National Convention swear under oath that they didn't leak confidential police documents — documents that the New York Times obtained to write a March story about the NYPD spying on political groups in the run-up to the 2004 convention.

Meanwhile, May 3's Wall Street Journal, reporter Judith Miller defends the NYPD after describing the same documents. And now the NYCLU has ripped off a letter to the judge overseeing the RNC-related lawsuits, claiming that the NYPD provided Miller the very documents the city is fighting so hard to keep secret.

NYCLU Associate Legal Director Christopher Dunn asked Judge James C. Francis to deny the city's motion to keep 600-plus pages of RNC-related documents secret and make the information public immediately.

In Miller's piece, titled “When Activists are Terrorists” (subscription required), she states that “stung by the criticism” of the spying allegations, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence David Cohen and NYPD chief spokesman Paul Browne "outlined in interviews last week the nature of the police's concerns, its conduct, and the goals of its intelligence surveillance effort" before and during the convention. Miller writes that she personally reviewed the "still-secret intelligence documents.">>>snip


http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runninscared/archives/2007/05/in_a_motion_mad.php


Judith Miller defends New York police repression of antiwar “terrorists”

Judith Miller, the former senior correspondent of the New York Times who played a key role as a conduit for the fabricated intelligence about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” used to drag the American public into the Iraq war, has found her way back into print—this time as a mouthpiece for selective and self-serving intelligence released by the New York City Police Department.

Miller left the Times with a hefty severance package a year and a half ago, posing as a martyr for the First Amendment and—as she wrote in her parting statement—a hapless victim of “public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war.”

Her dubious claim to First Amendment credentials stems from her spending 85 days in jail for defying a court order to divulge a confidential source. While the principle of press freedom from judicial coercion is no doubt important, in Miller’s case the source she was protecting was the since-convicted chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, I. Lewis Libby. By all appearances Libby was collaborating with the New York Times reporter in the scheme to punish Joseph Wilson—who blew the whistle on the Bush administration’s false claims about Iraq seeking to buy uranium in Niger—by exposing his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative.

In the Wall Street Journal editorial title: "When Activist are Terrorist"

The article amounts to a defense brief for the NYPD brass as it faces multiple lawsuits in relation to the police-state crackdown unleashed against peaceful demonstrators during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Nearly 2,000 people were rounded up during the convention, including people who were not even demonstrating but merely happened to be on city blocks where cops carried out mass arrests using plastic nets to corral everyone in the area.

Many of those arrested were taken to a makeshift detention facility set up in a filthy and contaminated depot on the Hudson River where they were held under inhuman conditions for days before being released. The aim was to keep them off the streets for the duration of the convention based on charges that were—in all but handful of cases—subsequently dismissed.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/mill-m05.shtml

Read both articles ...... and then..........:argh: :banghead: :grr: :grr: :grr:

for the BushCo cabal. She is Tokyo Rose without the charm.

She worked so closely with Libby on the Niger forgery story
that she was willing to go to jail for her
"first amendment rights".

Movie about South Africa and the Truth and Reconciliation hearings?

Anyway, one character, a white South African, kept referring to those who opposed the oppressive and brutal white rule as "terrorists"...he said he tortured and murdered because those who opposed the white status quo and demanded justice threatened their way of life and were "terrorists"


Stop me when this sounds familiar...

I saw reviews and commentary on it.


first lines of the movie read by
Nelson Mandela:

Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land
will again experience the oppression of one by another.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349260/

and just listening to that one character and his exchange with Samuel L Jackson...you will hear all the same things you have heard from the right over the last 6 years.

Chilling

that is a MASSIVE threat to us, the opposition.

Outright calling us Terrorists.

IMO, every liberal blog and activist needs to contact the Wall Street Journal and demand they either retract her entire article and/or apologise.

On The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/02/mansfield/index.html

It was indeed titled as you wrote, or something close to it. We get the WSJ at work, I don't subscribe.

I wondered why this media whore was give the space--the article was close to a page long on the fascist editorial pages.

She called herself a reporter, and defended locking people up, having cops spy on meetings, etc.

Judy Miller?

:wow:

We must hold Miller accountable.

William J. 'Bill' Bratton is currently the 54th Chief of the LAPD,
and was formerly Commissioner of the New York City Police Department,
the only man to hold both positions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bratton

She's a proven liar. I just do not understand. She has been so thoroughly discredited.

This just boggles the mind.

in this story it is her continued access
to the secret records of government to smear and lie the left..
It is not a question of "time of day"

In February, 2007, the NYPD published new regulations attacking freedom of assembly in New York City, unilaterally amending the definition of a "parade." ANY public gathering of 50 or more people - whether on foot, bicycle, or rollerskates - now requires a "permit" from the NYPD. And, just as the police have the power to grant permits, they also have the power to deny them.

http://www.actupny.org/20th-year-anniversary/new_police_rule.html

:grr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLMQOu0o6TA

I love this video
This is who Judith Miller really IS

trying to defend the neocons from being accountable for police-state repression.

Their rhetoric is dangerous. When one paints their legitimate and patriotic opponents as terrorists and traitors, one forces the opposition to radicalize. That might be advatangeous when your opponent is in the minority, but it is outright dangerous to do when your opponents are in the majority and already pissed off.

There was a person on the Smirking Chimp (dag, I believe was the screenname) who was arrested in this manner at the RNC convntion and kept on a pier. He even took pictures and describes conditions exactly as the article above states. I do believe he was given legal papers where he found out that the pier they were held in was rented by the RNC. So basically, the RNC was running the detention facility. Now THAT is outright police state fascism. I suspect a lot of these documents will show that.

Someone who is a member of the SmirkingChimp should get this article over there. Perhaps dag still has the papers. I have long since been purged from their membership for inactivity.

She has a special place in hell waiting for her, I hope.

Gee Judith, do you pick up your paycheck in twenties off the dresser, or is it delivered in little bags of 30 dimes each? Tell us, please.

n/t

"When Activist are Terrorist" Who the heck is she calling a terrorist? Interesting that Judith Miller as far as I'm concerned a traitor. She is just as guilty with the lies leading up to the Iraq war and not to forget Plamegate. Miller has zero credibility.