Thread: Is This America?

What really amazed me with this story is "We NEVER found out WHO was in the Meeting"...
Also, the comments are simply Amazing. I personally am DISGUSTED!!!
If paparazzi can photograph Movie Stars... What makes these people ANY Different?
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventio ... 622&page=1

ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors
Asa Eslocker Was Investigating the Role of Lobbyists and Top Donors at the Convention
By BRIAN ROSS
Aug. 27, 2008—


DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.


Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.


(Click here to watch video of the arrest.)
A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's neck, then twisted the producer's arm behind him to put on handcuffs.


A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel.


Eslocker was put in handcuffs and loaded in the back of a police van which headed for a nearby police station.


Video taken at the scene shows a man, wearing the uniform of a Boulder County sheriff, ordering Eslocker off the sidewalk in front of the hotel, to the side of the entrance.


The sheriff's officer is seen telling Eslocker the sidewalk is owned by the hotel. Later, he is seen pushing Eslocker off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic, forcing him to the other side of the street.


It was two hours later when Denver police arrived to place Eslocker under arrest, apparently based on a complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel, a central location for Democratic officials.


During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."


Eslocker was released late today after posting $500 bond.


Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson."


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"We NEVER found out WHO was in the Meeting"...

From what they said on the radio it was an elite and special group of Senators and other powers that be. I heard this story and it reminded me of a trip to Atlantic City. I was there during the first grand opening of the first new casino....way back when. Being a typical tourist and seeing no signs indicating otherwise....I went in with my camera. I'd never been in a casino before....never knew any of the "rules".......but boy, a couple flashes from my camera and you would have thought I was a fully loaded terriorist. They want no-one to have proof of anyone being there. Luckily they just roughed me up a tad and took my camera and nothing else was done.......but these elites have a totally different set of rules for themselves and any rules can be changed to accomodate them.

From what they said on the radio, he did nothing illegal and wouldn't stand up in court.....but for the most part, I don't think they really care about that, just as long as he was stopped and the pictures or video under wraps.

It goes to PROVE a point.
It doesnt matter WHO we vote into Office to Represent THE PEOPLE.
They will only listen to the people with the MONEY. THE POWER.

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I bet Senator Reid of Nevada was one of them.