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BOSTON--District Court recently dismissed trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against a MIM Notes distributor/reporter arrested at the Democratic National Convention that nominated John Kerry for president.
The Boston Phoenix also reported on charges against four others arrested at the Democratic National Convention--all of Asian ethnicity. One of those arrested complained of racial profiling. MIM will report further on that in the future as we learn the details of the conclusions Boston reaches.
While the MIM Notes reporter was in court, two Black men filed for restraining orders against wimmin. A Black male senior citizen with socks that did not match and looking very frail was one of the applicants. Although MIM finds it disgraceful for the Black nation to have to go through the u.$. court system, because we continue to back the original Black Panther Party demand for Black national courts, we would like to comment on the gender aspect of the restraining orders. Again, because of the imprisonment rate of Black men and the poor health care given to Black men, there is a vast shortage of eligible Black men for heterosexual Black wimmin. The discontent of Black heterosexual wimmin and the stereotyped gender roles and images of domestic violence should not add up to an attack on Black men any more than Black wimmin should put up with domestic violence by Black men. What we saw in court is only a concrete confirmation of what we know from statistics on domestic violence generally.
Police thuggery
The arrest of the MIM Notes distributor started as a matter with the Roxbury Community College administrator who has in the past specifically prevented distribution of MIM Notes while permitting other publications distributed in the Reggie Lewis Center, where the DNC held a forum for Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich. However, Boston police involved themselves and even upped the ante by physically taking away the MIM Notes reporter's digital recorder on which there were numerous interviews with Democratic Party convention delegates and other official attendees.
We can now report that those interviews will never see the light of day, because Boston Police maliciously destroyed the recorder by breaking it in half before returning it by order of the judge. We apologize to the various delegates and members of the Utah Progressive Democrats Caucus we interviewed that day.