Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:01:15 -0500
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Rehnquist -- who is he?


At 05:27 AM 12/4/00 +0000, you wrote:
>  At one weeklong demonstration -- Mayday 1971 -- Rehnquist
>(if memory holds), along with US Attorney General John Mitchell, ordered
>mass arrests.

I was there at the Justice Building.  I'll never forget that asshole, 
Mitchell, coming out on the balcony and pointing at people he wanted 
arrested.   I remember this poor sailor in his Navy uniform and tthe 
porkers draggin him off at Mitchell's insistence.

>More than 13,000 were beaten and arrested (I was arrested
>there on two of those days) and held in stadiums and prisons; many were not
>even protesters.

I didn't get arrested, but I got maced, clubbed and gassed to beat all 
hell.   I was scared shitless.  That was my first run-in with cops who were 
rioting.  I never went back to a big march, not over v-nam, not over 
Irak.   Marching is pointless.

>On one of those days, Rehnquist ordered arrests on the
>steps of the Capitol Building. All charges were eventually dismissed,
>protesters countersued (and won) charging false arrest and violation of
>their Constitutional Rights, and won $10,000 each in settlement. (Alas, I
>was arrested on the wrong days, although charges against us, too, were
>eventually dismissed!).

I wished I had got arrested after the settlement.  But wasn't it more like 
$100 an arrest?



carp