District Attorney dropping 4 students' charges, will review others with Pitt police
By Liz Navratil / News Editor
published: Tue, 29 Sep, 2009
The district attorney's office is dropping the charges against four Pitt students who were arrested during G-20 demonstrations last week, and Pitt police plan to meet with others.
Pitt police Chief Tim Delaney said he'll meet with students who were arrested for failure to disperse or disorderly conduct in Oakland last Thursday or Friday night. Delaney said he doesn't have the power to dismiss students' charges, but that he can recommend District Attorney Stephen Zappala drop them; Delaney said he met with Zappala today and has "been working hard to get this resolved."
"If you think about it, I'm not doing a very popular thing in law enforcement, but what's right is right," Delaney said.
He will not meet with students who were arrested outside of Oakland, arrested more than once or who were charged with offenses other than failure to disperse or disorderly conduct, according to a University news release.
Delaney said he's still cross-checking the list of people arrested last week with Pitt's databases, so he's not sure how many students were arrested. So far, he said, it looks like about a quarter of the 188 people who were arrested during G-20 demonstrations were Pitt students.
So far, at least six of those students had extenuating circumstances, Delaney said. He mentioned one student who had a hearing impairment; Delaney asked the student to get a note from their doctor. He said he knew of at least one student who had swiped out of Benedum Hall and was on his way home.
"The good news is something is shaking here," he said.
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Not about Wall St.
This isn't about Wall Street or being anti-capitalism; it's about doing the right thing for a bunch of Pitt students who were royally screwed over by circumstances they could not control.
Is that what passes for
Is that what passes for “logic” on today’s university campus?
The IMF announced today that it anticipates global banking losses to amount to $2.8 trillion. So far, only $1.3 trillion of those have been written off, almost the entire tab being picked up either by 1) taxpayers, via direct government gifts to the banks or massive near-zero-percent government loans to the banks; or 2) consumers and businesses, via higher interest rates and other fees on, for example, credit cards, so that the banks can “earn” their way out of the hole they dug for themselves.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125427067994651171.html?mod=djemalertNEWS
It should be pointed out that, before the crisis hit, tier 1 capital of the top 1000 banks in the world was only $4 trillion, so that $2.8 trillion represents pretty much a wipeout.
Luke Johnson, writing today in the Financial Times, observed that: “Meanwhile, in the UK, our largest industry is financial services: what reputation does that profession have among the public? I would think it ranks alongside grave-robbing and arson in general esteem.”
To which I can only say, “Man, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”
The "lords of property and their paid liars and bumsuckers" (Orwell) responded to the financial crisis by moving the losses of the financial sector over to the balance sheet of the public and, as we saw on the University of Pittsburgh last Friday night, by substituting violence for their waning power, authority and legitimacy. But, as Nicolas Taleb said this month, this has solved nothing, the risks that caused the global crisis are “still with us.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ajnBClVe3IrM
While we may be able to tread water here for a while, that lead anchor tied to our ankle called excessive debt will eventually drag us under. Amongst independent economists, Taleb is far from being alone in his belief that the IMF is overly optimistic in its projection of bank losses. If the situation continues to deteriorate, TPTB will certainly respond by turning up the violence even further, but, as Hannah Arendt so aptly pointed out: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world." The end result will be that those in the financial sector and their lackeys in Washington will be lucky to get out with their skins intact. And when this happens, everyone, including not only those good actors in the financial sector but the public in general, will lose.
How it is that so few of “the lords of property and their paid liars and bumsuckers” are, and historically always have been, unable to see the consequences of their actions is beyond comprehension. Has it never occurred to them that this time around they might not hit the lottery and have brilliant operatives like FDR and John Maynard Keynes surface to snatch their sorry necks from the guillotine? In politics, abuse begets abuse, and they put a tremendous amount of faith in the ability of our institutions to quell violent backlashes against their own abuse of violence.
And it is mindboggling that someone like yourself could believe that they operate in some sort of a bubble, completely disconnected from and unaffected by what is happening in the world.
Fight Back: Make Wall St. Pay!!
I am very proud of the PITT students!
Tim Buzzard was tear-gassed and less than 5 minutes later articulately told the real story of how he and about 10 mostly freshman or sophomore girls were trapped and gassed IN their DORM building.
If people really want to do something, consider a proposal by Robert Kuttner to FIGHT BACK: The students of PITT were invaded and, frankly, attacked on the flimsy pretext of "invasion of anarchists who came in our city" as the Chief of Police is quoted.
"THEY" are out to silence you. "THEY" trespassed on your rights to peacefully assemble and express your grievances.
Who is "THEY"? Why, Wall St., of course, Wall St. that has caused the World Depression and Wall St. whose bubble has burst. What are the srudent grievances? Is the BANKER BAILOUT among those grievances! Indeed it is. Doesn't take a genius to know what these young people don't like: The BANKER BAILOUT of $800,000,000,000 to offshore accounts and foreign banks [Bank of Switzerland received $5 Billion of US taxpayer largesse, e.g.] and the bill for that handed to THEIR MIDDLE CLASS parents.
SO HOW DO YOU FIGHT BACK, PITT STUDENTS???
Here is an interesting proposal by Robert Kuttner on how to TAX WALL ST. for the World Depression it has caused by its Casino Economy Derivatives Bubbles:
http://pumasunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/robert-kuttner-supports-t...
THE PITT NEWS Editorial Board? You represent a college of kids attacked by Bankers' Goons. Why don't you consider that idea of a TOBIN TAX on WALL ST. for the US Treasury, and write an editiorial envouraging the Middle Class student body to organize for a TOBIN TAX!
It was Wall St. that struck at you; not just a PD gone crazy. So fight back!! MAKE WALL St. PAY FOR THE DEPRESSION THEY CAUSED! Wall St. is terrified that the Middle Class can organize and fight back! That is why the PITT campus was attacked. To intimidate you.
And don't think such a thing can't succeed - last September 29, the US House of Representatives actually voted the bailout down by 23 votes, first time around. That says something important about the USA - the will of the Middle Class is powerful. Yes, the Bailout ultimately passed, but the will to beat it exists, and it's powerful.
Kuttner's proposal for a Tobin Tax is not the "Tobin Tax" in which the proceeds would fall into the IMF and World Bank coffers as the GLOBALISTS are proposing; Robert Kuttner's is a proposal to tax Wall St. speculative activity 1% for the US Treasury. A mere 1% Tobin Tax would realize about $3 TRILLION into the Treasury. 1/2 could be diverted to the states, solving the bankruptcies. Not-For-Profit Universal Medicare and so much more could be funded.
It's time to FIGHT BACK. ORGANIZE FOR A TOBIN TAX ON WALL ST. and FILL THE US TREASURY.
The Bankers attacked PITT. THe Bankers want to intimidate you. The Bankers Loathe We the Middle Class. More important: The Bankers Fear We the Middle Class. They Fear you, oh students of PITT. That's why this occured.
So realize that you have the power to fight back at the class of people who have caused the World Depression AND sent your parents the bill.
Don't just protest, or go to court, FIGHT BACK! Hit Wall St. where it hurts. Make Wall St. pay for the Depression. Not your parents! Organize for a TOBIN TAX. The AFL-CIO also proposed this just prior to Robert Kuttner. TOBIN TAX won it's creator the Nobel Prize in the early 70s after Nixon killed the US economy.
Stupid
You fight everything and nothing. A rant that says nothing by someone who will change nothing.
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