Here’s some raw video I shot on Tuesday night with a shit-camera, minutes before writer Naomi Wolf was arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest against Governor Cuomo. Read more »
Huffington Post Writer Naomi Wolf Arrested in Front of Huffington Post Event
A little after 9PM, academic and feminist writer Naomi Wolf joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in front of Skylight Soho, a space that was hosting an event she attended for the Huffington Post, a website she contributes to. They were protesting Governor Cuomo’s refusal to extend NY’s “Millionaires Tax.” Noticing the crowd that had assembled across the street, she challenged the NYPD’s claim that people can’t march in front. After numerous warnings by police that she would be arrested for obstructing the sidewalk, she ignored them and was promptly apprehended. (Photo: Mike Shane/ANIMALNewYork) UPDATE: Video of arrest below. Read more »
In an eye-popping essay, author Naomi Wolf accuses George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice of running an “organized sex-crime ring” at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, “in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.” According to Wolf, the use of sex as a torture device was promoted by the administration, and according to Guantánamo Bay Staff Judge Advocate Diane Beaver, during sex torture brainstorming sessions among officials, “You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas.” Sex torture techniques included the smearing of menstrual blood on the faces of prisoners, forcing prisoners to engage in simulated sex acts, and, ultimately, anal sodomy. By denying that the US government oversaw the sexual torture of detainees, Wolf writes, “Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.” In an Op-Ed piece, porn scribe Mark Kernes points out the hypocrisy of a government that indicts pornographers for making adult videos as it perpetrates “sexual assaults committed on helpless captives.”
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