A nation of shut up
Excellent account of a man arrested at last week's Critical Mass/RNC protest:
They loaded us up on a city bus with our bikes and took us to a facility on the Chelsea piers that was, as we were told, specifically for the convention week to hold protestors. We also learned that we were being arrested and detained as a "messsage to all the other protestors this week."
Talk about your "chilling effect" on speech. Dissent has another meaning on the street that those of us blathering safely away here would do well to remember.