Crackdown begins: Food Not Bombs house among Saturday raids

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Have “Minneapolis Food Not Bombs” committed “thought” crimes??? Too bad the authorities couldn't raid Osama's 19 patsies before they perpetrated 9/11!!! Or was that one deliberately allowed to happen???

The irony of law enforcement and the RNC trying to turn an organization called “Food not Bombs” into a terrorist organization is not lost on this observer.

This is unbelievable!!! Is this what our country has come to? It's the right-wing conflating of 9/11 terrorism with liberal/left activism that the Bush administration has invented, the mainstream media has pushed, and the public has, unfortunately, swallowed. The result? A completely unconstitutional attack on lawful protest! I am from NYC, and this is even worse than what the NYPD did to the RNC protesters then, because this is completely preemptive.

Horrifying!!!!

Nothing like a little fascism in the morning.

Food Not Bombs is always and everywhere the target of establishment suspicion and police harassment. They love an excuse to bust a FNB group. It was founded by the heir to a munitions fortune, to make amends to the world for his family’s contribution to the war economy. You can see how suspicious that is!!

Adams said law enforcement took photos of maps of St. Paul which were present in the house, as well as house plants.

Houseplants?

This is your first taste of FISA, what do you think about your vote for Obama/Mccain now? It would be interesting to find out how the FBI obtained the so called evidence for the raid. Were they spying domestically via the telecoms without a warrant again? The government cannot be allowed to operate with impunity. There are constitutional laws that need to be protected and Ameicans have the right to assemble politically without having their homes spied on and raided.

We have been trying to make America aware of our increasing police state for the pat 8yrs now and this illustrates the seriousness of the situation..Brings to mind the story of”…and when the nazis came for the social democrats I said nothing…and when they finally came for me there was no one left to say anything” which demonstrates that we become a fascist dictatorship police state by them removing one freedom at a time…slowly until suddenly we look around and wonder how conditions ever got this bad.

Would this have happened if these people were extremely wealthy. Who do the police represent…who do they work for when they can subvert the law for political gain???

Photos of maps of Saint Paul???…like what comes in the phone books???…street maps???…so you can figure out where things are located???…how sinister. Were the house plants handcuffed.

Did they really have to taser a wandering jew plant??? Why were they wearing masks??? Police can't refuse an order so I'm glad some authoritarian fanatic didn't order “fire” like at Kent State.

Instead of an “underground”, there is a political “overground” operating here

No democracy in Minnesota. This is an outrage! Any public official involved should be removed immediately from public service. The community should take up arms against this egregious violation of the citizenry. So what if they're “dirty filthy hippies…” They're AMERICANS!!! Republicans are fascists….

Police were searching for “urine and feces.” Siiiick.

Welcome to the new fascist america. Check your civil liberties at the door please. Americans are now being treated exactly as the Iraqi people have been by our contracters and military. The next step is for the govt. to start contracting these raids out to NGO's like Blackwater. They will of course have sweeping powers far beyond our police forces and when deaths occur (and they will) the whole establishment media and pundit class will rally around the killers blaming the victims for having the audacity to challenge the STATE.

But really this article is so blase about these abuses of power even going so far as to praise a police man for his kindness as his collegues pointed guns at his parents and broke into their house.

And so it goes, what we as a country dish out to others will always come back to haunt us. I truly wonder if america can wake up in time.

Jackboots.

I have been calling the Minneapolis police weekly for the last thirty years, you see we have had this ongoing problem with drug dealers and street prostitution here at 4th and 32nd south. The dealers are across the street as I type this. My question is this, they, the Minneapolis finest, are targeting citizens at 11th lake near by, but can not, or will not clean up “Crack Avenue” (named this twenty years ago}. My question is to the chief, Doland, who I was a high school classmate with, why do you not protect and serve, rather than your current attempt at illegal suppression of political speech. Why are you wasting your limited resources, evident in your departments lack of law enforcement in my area of the city.

It's evident by the names on the warrants that the feds are using the same old tactics, snitches.

This is terrible!

How do we combat this?

American law enforcement: The best in the world. We can show those stupid Red Chinese a thing or two!

THE POLICE STATE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN AMERICA COURTESY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AND 8 YEARS OF HIS FASCIST REGIME.

WHAT WILL AMERICA LOOK LIKE AFTER A McCAIN/PALIN presidency?

wtf !! the police are telling us they want war

The American tragedy.

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

The last thing heard from the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, Gregore Sambor, by the Philadelphia political non-conformist group MOVE in 1985 before the police fired 10,000 rounds into the home killing 11 including 5 children and then burning down 61 urban homes to cover their actions.

Don't ever forget, because this is America:

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

“This is America, come out with your hands up”

The Democrats have been ardent participants in the ever growing authoritarianism in America so don't put this just on the Republicans. the authoritarian America that we live in today is the product of nearly four decades of bi-partisan collusion in using the war on drugs as the para-military face of Reich-wing, Jim Crow authoritarianism in America.

I have been watching this grow since the 1960's. Police can make these raids because they know that the Democrats and Republicans in office will pay the hush money settlements to protesters who sue for having their rights abused.

For years in my writings I have been rebuked for using terms such as “Amerikkka” and “Busch” and “Fourth Reich”. Nazism in the Land of the Free! ~ Laughed at, ridiculed, patronized, I now have the right to say, “I told you so, but you would not listen until recently as the prison gates slam shut behind us.” But I cannot feel smug because this was an agenda I wanted and prayed to lose. Truly I believed enough of us wuold wake up in time but now I see it is happening.

The Internet is becoming censored so soon they will come for “thought crimes” based on one's browsing habits. Soon enough those FEMA camps near all of us will begin to fill up with any brave enough to speak out by peaceful protest. Do not look to your current political hopefuls for help, whatever their posturing. I think Obama would look just as spiffy in a dictator's uniform as his predecessors.

The noose is being tightened on us all, Amerikkkans and soon KKKAnadians as well. Take legal action and speak to your local representatives and from the bottom up make them accountable for these actions. Keep moving up the ladder until you are heard and action is taken.

North Americans, must finally see tasers as no more than cattle prod for chattel, because we common citizens are no more than stock that must be pruned and reduced, cleansed of all who do not live and breathe the corporate/political agenda imposed upon us by the Masters.

Welcome to the 21st C. The USA has internalized its foreign policy and is now about repressing regular citizens who believe in a bankrupt democarcy. But perhaps the most insulting example is the attitude towards a pacifist organization taken by the US police agencies.

As a neighbour of the US, I happen to be reading Naomi Klein's book outlining the steps that political dictators have taken since basically Hitler to shock, manipulate and then seize the freedoms that our forefathers had fought so hard for to constitutionalize. It is the greatest shame possible for the great state of Minnesota to overtly take such steps and it is the greatest shame possible for the FBI to participate in such a step as this one, barging into private houses and basing those type of flak jacket, riot gear and masks attacks on private citizens whose only wrong is that they stand up for what is right – the right of free speech and the right to assemble and the right to privacy. The only person who should be arrested this fine Labour Day weekend is the local sherrif who wants to augment his little fiefdom of police corps. Of course the question too is what the FBI is wasting the taxpayers money on – such a fine weekend and such an overt step trying to march toward some kind of locally organized gangster police state. Shame on you and may your children never have to suffer such bullshit.

If you insist on cheapening this, by making it nothing more than yet another tired ol' Republican v Democrat spat then you're nothing but part of the problem.

This is FISA in action. FISA was overwhelmingly supported by both parties, and this is why. Both sides want power over the people.

This is about country, not party. Please don't divide us.

Hold police accountable.

Demand, in the courts, police policies that respect civil liberties, human rights and constitutional values.

Demand police policies that require that any officer or commander who has been found in any administrative, civil or criminal process to have abused the rights of protesters will never be able to hold a rank above street patrol officer.

There is much more to this Amendment than simply its first clause.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Made tee-shirts for protesters with the First Amendment on front and back so that when the police stomp the people down, and they will, they will have to literally stomp on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The search warrant is interesting, and the possession of caltrops is certainly damning, and the police are doing a good job if they're finding such items.

And, some of the other items, while not illegal per se by themselves, do indicate that wrongdoing is intended.

That being said, why are they looking for X-box gaming systems and hollowed out puppets (aren't all puppets hollow?)

The new Amerika.

This is what we've become, people.

Wake the f*ck up.

hope they checked the bathroom so they could find the urine and feces. The Dems did none of this gestapo style actions, just goes to show which party really is for We the People and the Constitution. Guess these guys never understood what the first amendment says about Congress shall pass no law.

You must have one of the sickest police and sheriff's departments in the nation. Nazi tactics from the Nazi Republican Party. Poor suckers must be afraid of their own shadows.

the problem is Rich this can be brought to your neighborhood-WHEREVER you live.

Welcome to Amerika. War is peace, terrorism is national security, lies are truth. Wake up sheeple!!!

The police were looking for feces and urine?! Flush these incriminating substances quickly. Wipe your ass later.

police state… — email the mayor!

I guess the police caught all of the real criminals already.
Nope, they are all in Washington, DC and Crawford, TX.

FISA stands for FOREIGN Intelligence Surveilance Act. This is domestic and has nothing to do with FISA.

People like the RNC welcoming committee give a bad name to protesters trying to voice productive dissent. Why do we protect and harbor them? A group like Food for Bombs is supporting a group that advocates violence on their web site? what's up with that?

If this group intended no harm to others and no destruction of personal or public property, then this is Democracy at it's rock bottom!

Desent in a Democracy must be organized, targetted, effectively aggressive, but non-destructive!

This is just fueling the fire. These kind of intimidation techniques just prove that our concerns are not only true, but possibly worsening.

In Amerika, it is no longer difficult to tell who the real terrorists are. They wear black uniforms and masks, carry assault rifles, operate in packs and will very eagerly kill or injure you if you resist. They refer to themselves as law enforcement. They very definately brought terror to the above mentioned protest group FNB.

On a tiny-teeny-weeny scale, isn't this a “preemptive war”?

This is a prior restraint issue. I didn't know the donkeys could still by trumped by the elephants, at least in terms of suppression of potential dissent (which used to be a First Amendment right). Guess I was wrong.

That one was made to happen.

you're kidding, right? What Constitutional Laws? Are there any left?

You've missed something. Democrats are fascists too. Consider Biden….

It doesn't matter who 'wins'. I has never mattered. The 'Agenda' will continue. Elections are simply part of the 'Circus'. And your Big Mac or Whopper …. the bread.

Welcome to the Soviet States of America. No longer the USA we have become the Soviet Socialist States of America, the SSSA. We are not becoming a police state, WE ARE ONE!

The great neocondie …. a fat little boy sitting at his computer watching scat flicks.

To Ray Herdegen: This is the new police philosophy. Why go out and attempt to arrest drug pushers who may be armed. We may get hurt. You have to ask yourself this Ray, do the police PREVENT any crime? My answer is: NO! After the victims are either murdered, raped, robbed or beaten the cops show up to ask questions for their reports; then they go out and round up the “usual suspects” and coerce one or more of them into giving a false confession and that is another case solved. In the meantime the real criminals are still on the street and these thugs are probably related to someone in law enforcement or they are actual law enforcers. There is no justice in this country anymore!

The next time you want to call the police about the drug dealers. It might be best to refer to them as a “bunch of antiwar tree huggers” and tell them they are trying to recruit some of the rich kids in your neighborhood.

this is Amerika under fascist/nazi control. Everyone needs to read “the fourth reich” by Jim Marrs.
What's the celebration about? the loss of our freedoms?
Wake up America.

They hate us for our freedoms.

This is utterly ridiculous. These thugs had no warrant and no probable cause. SUE THE PANTS OFF THEM!

Fascistjoe,
I Was at KENT State! There is a huge amount of information the public has never been prevy to. Basically, the shootings was a CIA operation to shut down the student protests. The shootings were planned well in advance, and yes there was someone who orderd the firing from within the guardsmen. There is much more but I cannot go into that here. A geology professor created the first forensics geology course at Kent as he tried to discover what REALLY happened. He wrote an unpublished manuscript that contains the PROOF it was an operation.

We are in a fascist state and have lost our liberties…it's too bad the majority of Americans haven't figured that out yet. I doubt they ever will. It is the Fourth Reich as Jim Marrs has written about: National Socialism – Nazism. Only a Miracle will save this country as the people are too stupid.

In my opinion this was extremely lenient treatment. If I were in charge these terrorist radicals would get what they deserve. They will destroy St. Paul just like they destroy every other city where they “protest”. They are naught more than vermin, and we all know what you do with vermin.

Steve, what planet do you live on? Have you been watching the DNC?

The police threw a CodePink woman to the ground for no reason, they kicked Amy Goodman out of the stadium for no real reason (she was interviewing several black celebrities), and they corraled protesters into fenced-off areas better known now as “freedom cages.” They even chased an ABC producer covering the convention into a street with busy traffic!

Are you blind, or just longingly hopeful?

Sorry, Rich, I believe that we here in Maricopa Co. hold the title currently. Dems have Don Sabin running against Joe Arpaio, who used to be a Repub who lost to Joe in the primary. Even some Greens are thinking of voting for Sabin, that's how bad it is here!

But I will admit that St. Paul is a close runner-up, and may soon surpass Arpaio as Amerika's biggest law enforcement embarrassment. I hope that doesn't happen /too/ soon, though; we don't want locals to start thinking that Joe isn't that bad since it might be worse elsewhere. We must get rid of this idiot FAST!!!

Support and vote for Greens in 2012!!! We can take back our planet.

That's all right Kimber. You give the rest of us bloggers a bad name for being uninformed and blind to reason.

Tell us Draco, what should we do with vermin like yourself ??

They seem to have a script….right down to the city inspector. Why would you need a city inspector if you have probable cause to get a search warrant for weapons and bombs?

From the county Dog Catcher to Homeland Sec. They ALL have a “US” against “them” attitude.
I think it's time we change “OUR” perspective, they realize they are out numbered so they must turn up the fascism to retain control. That raid was a Fear Tactic, to remind the rest of the cowards to get your ass to work and pay your taxes, they need more weapons to control us.

It's time to water the Tree of Liberty people.

Please don”t destroy my prison city. LOL Draco your Opinion is shit!

This is true. They did the same exact thing in Denver. They even had a secret prison in a closed private warehouse. Go to the wearechange.org and infowars.com websites to see the videos of the DNC nazism in Denver.

Yawn, same old whining. Get mad, get outraged, whatever, youll all do nothing about this or anything else for that matter. I read about outraged people all the time but I never see any.
The thugs with badges have us and thats that. The time to be outraged was a long time ago, now we should just shut up and take it.

Didn't Jesse Ventura move away to Mexico? That ought to tell you something…

IT'S COMING…

So I wonder, Was this part of the War on Terrorism? or the Call to National Service? Perhaps this was a recruitment effort of the Republican Party? I'm stunned and saddened to hear and read about this. Food Not Bombs is a dangerous group? Shame! I'm ALMOST afraid to leave this comment for fear of reprisals…..

That is fucking obscene

You must be a member of the conSTABulary, that believes your government wants to protect you.
9-11 was an inside job

Next up, the thought police! I feel much safer now.

The terrorists have won. They are no longer jealous of our freedoms since most have been removed. Been to the airport recently?

GESTAPO, operating against persons suspectedof disloyalty. aka people standing against the government. more and more these crimes will increase against the people.

THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN A POLICE STATE FOR 50 FREAKING YEARS AND MORE. Go study the small towns in Amerika…..that is where the police state has been…..people of color, and poor white trash have been targets forever…SEE THE MOVIE “EXECUTIVE ACTION” iT ACTUALLY EXPLAINS WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHY…

This is all part of the RNC's “freedom agenda”

THIS IS THE MOST DISGUSTING ASSAULT ON UNITED STATES CITIZENS. PROTESTING IS ONE OF THE GREAT RIGHTS OF THE UNITED STATES. TO PREVENT PROTESTERS IS TAKING AWAY OUR BASIC RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE. WHY CNN DOESNT FOCUS ON THIS IS LUDACRIS AND ONLY PROVES CNN HAS NO BACKBONE. ARE YOU REPORTING FOR THE PEOPLE OR JUST ABOUT THE PEOPLE? SUSAN KULKOWITZ RN

F…n' police state! Amazing how willingly the police do their master's bidding. Where is their conscience?

Hey hey, everything's ok. Just don't fuck with the RNC or your gonna end up history!

It was my five year old son that was in the house. He was also in the convergence space that was raided the night before. He's really messed up mentally and emotionally from the events. The joke that he asked the police while he was detained was: “What's the difference between a police car and a porcupine?” “The porcupine has all the pricks on the outside!!!”

I think it's very important to note that the name of the house is the “food NOT bombs house” not the “food AND bombs house”. Keep reading about the results of the raids and following lawsuits to see how wrong these raids and arrests really are.

1_Will people please stop asking questions like: Is this what America has come to? Can this really be happening? Wake up! It is happening. Has all the concern we have expressed about Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, Mukasey, Rove, just been empty rhetoric? This is where this administration has been headed–a crackdown on the people. They “administer” the ruling class system for the benefit of their corporate masters. And IF they turn it over to the Democrats, they are turning over to the other half of the two party ruling class consensus. This IS what America has come to.

2_Only one of 17 young people arrested in Spokane, Washington on 7-4-07 during an “independence day” picnic/protest challenged his arrest. When in May 2008 the case finally got to court, 10 minutes before the trial began, Spokane Police came running into court with video evidence they had withheld. The judge immediately through the case against the young man, Michael Lyons, out of court. The police have no entered into a phase of what essentially passes for a 21 century version of “shoot first, ask questions later”, i.e., “arrest now, ask questions later”. The only pretext they need to arrest you is they don't like what you look like, they don't like your attitude, they don't like your sign, they just want to arrest you. We are one step away from people being disappear in death squad type fashion.

Ahh, read the story, they had a warrant.

I would LIKE to see all the PROOF the POLICE claimed to exist as well as the INFORMATION used or the AFFIDAVITS employed to get the WARRANTS. In this day and age VIDEO PHONES are everywhere along with DVD cameras, PLEASE collect the best EVIDENCE you can and SHARE with us.

Universal Liberty and Freedom Coalition
Utah

Judson Witham

What your article forgot to mention is that this group committed property damage and vandalism and smashed police cars.

What this supposed to mean ? The country of free speach and individual thinking is over, finished, gone ? We should never ever talk about other countries what their goverment is doing ! First we should take a look here in our front yard ! :O( sends chills down an my spine wher we arrived at this point and time of our daily life ! TOTAL CONTROL on the US citizens ?

This is, however, entirely different from entering peoples homes.

kinda makes you wanna join an insurgency

Bull! It's the Republican jackbooted thugs and their attempt to turn this country into their own little banana republic! Get your head out of your butt and pay attention! Your future is at stake!

What are you, a Republican plant? Democrats aren't acting like fascists, Republicans are! Maybe you need to look it up, 'cause you got it all wrong!

I've got a tin-foil hat you might like to wear …

Which group? Several were unlawful detained … Also, you are wrong. Why are you making shit up? Does the truth hurt you that much? If it does, maybe you need to reconsider your life.

Plus, you fail to appreciate the fact that the Denver police are at the beck and call of the RNC, not the DNC. They didn't want Democrats in their Republican city, so they made every effort to make them unwelcome.

hmmmm…… I am staunchly conservative in many ways, and shed my blood on the battlefields of Viet Nam so that people could have a difference of opinion, with respect for one another. However, I detect an odor of Stalinist Russia's “Gulag Archipelago” developing in our good old USA. Detention for having an opinion is outrageous! Our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves. Responsible non-violent dissent is a challenge that our nation CAN TOLERATE, and needs to keep us from falling asleep at the wheel!

I agree, everyone knows the way to be taken seriously in todays world is to throw urine on cops and slash tires. The republicans need to get with the times. All the important countries should do business like this. It could be the new world way.

You obviouslly can't wear it, because you've got your head in the sand. Or up your…

“But what rights have been taken away from us?”

America, I miss you.

Please vote third candidate.

Wow, what wit you have! I feel dirty now …