1.) I didn't purchase the paper on this particular day
2.) As with the sex crimes and violence at protests, it is the AUTHORITIES who are the WORST OFFENDERS!
3.) The hypocritical tolerance of the media pertaining to official state vandalism as they actually make excuses for the cops-turned-criminals.
Now if you or I had done the same thing to a Globe stand due to its continually atrocious "news coverage" what do you think the reaction would have been?
"MIT suspends 2 police officers; Newspaper copies with arrest story were dumped" by Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | March 28, 2009
Two MIT police officers, apparently unhappy with the student newspaper's coverage of a fellow officer's recent arrest for drug trafficking, did the only thing they could think of to block the bad news: They trashed it.
Under the cover of darkness last Tuesday, the officers emptied several hundred copies of The Tech from its campus newsstands. The twice-weekly paper, which was published earlier that day, featured a large mug shot of Officer Joseph D'Amelio on the front page, above the fold. D'Amelio was arrested in a sting earlier this month, accused of distributing prescription painkillers.
See: MIT Drug Ring
A passerby observed two campus police officers throwing out the papers and alerted the student newspaper staff shortly before midnight, said Michael McGraw-Herdeg, executive editor of The Tech, who was at the paper that night.
McGraw-Herdeg discovered about 300 copies of the paper in a recycling bin behind the student center. A staff photographer found another 100 copies elsewhere on campus. "They put it in paper recycling," McGraw-Herdeg said. "They were kind. It seems pretty polite."
He reported the incident to campus police, fished the papers out of recycling, and put them back on the stands. The officers, whose names have not been released, came forward the following day through their union....
Truly a garbage paper, just like all of AmeriKa's newspapers these days.
McGraw-Herdeg said he does not think the officers' actions should end their careers at MIT.
"I think it would be unfortunate if these folks ended up being fired for this," he said. "In this environment especially, the career prospects for a campus police officer who violated someone's First Amendment rights is not good."
And he wouldn't want a former cop with a vindictive streak after him, either!!!
Globe better be careful, too, although this was only a one-day wonder so maybe all is forgiven: The Boston Globe Reporters' Hang-Out
Of course, I would normally be out purchasing a Boston Globe right now, BUUUUUUTTTTTT......
April 9, 2009: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
