Guantanamo at Republican National Convention?

This is pretty crazy. At the RNC in New York this summer, there were swarms of protesters taking to the street to voice their opposition and approximately 2,000 of them were arrested. But unlike the usual procedure of letting those arrested contact lawyers or family, the police basically detained them for a number of days without any way of contacting the outside world. A lawsuit on behalf of the protestors has been filed.

The federal lawsuit claims protesters and bystanders alike were rounded up in mass arrests without cause; were kept without access to their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary detention center; and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman conditions.

Although the police are denying it, if the allegations turn out to be true, this would be a huge tragedy and more evidence of our civil liberties being supressed. Personally though, I am not sure that the greater population will ever show their true outrage over acts like this one, even though some people on the right agree with how terrible things have become.

More at Yahoo News.