{"id":14714,"date":"2009-09-29T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14714"},"modified":"2009-09-29T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:47:42","slug":"it-is-to-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14714","title":{"rendered":"It is to laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was perfectly happy to leave Jeff Bartos and IVAW alone after Bartos, the co-founder of the Connecticut Chapter of IVAW, was arrested at the G-20 protest<\/a> in Pittsburgh last week. But I could hardly let this pass from another blog<\/a>;<\/p>\n

…Jeff Bartos was arrested last week at G20 protests while attending to the medical needs of a reporter that had been teargassed by police. After hearing of this arrest, the antiwar movement managed to flood the Allegheny County Jail with enough phone calls to engineer his release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, I’m pretty sure he was arrested for rendering medical attention – the police have nothing better to do than arrest people for stuff like that. I imagine he got mouthy with a cop and found himself unceremoniously tossed in the back of the paddy wagon.<\/p>\n

Secondly, the anti-war movement flooded the jailhouse with calls, but not money. The IVAW put out a call for money Saturday night to bail Jeff out – and they were able to tap their 1700 members’ pockets for over half of his $200 bail. TSO and I were joking about it the other night. Their 1700 members must’ve given over $.06 per person to get the more than $100 together. We’re so proud of them.<\/p>\n

In fact, if all of those people who called the police station had sent the cost of the phone call instead, they might have covered his whole bail. Phone calls don’t get people out of jail – money does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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