Reports of additional pre-RNC raids in St. Paul still arriving

Does anyone else think that maybe the reason for these raids, this ridiculous turn-around-on-a-dime-into-thousands-of-other-protestors-walking-the-other-direction protest march route, and the generally paranoid cloud that has descended on the Twin Cities… does anyone else think that maybe this is all to ensure that a riot does happen. This will legitimize the “security threats,” the millions of wasted government dollars, and the candidate to boot… frankly the pieces seem to be falling just right for a massive anti-free speech media blitz, to which I hardly look forward.

Welcome to the fascist police state home land

in the sense that the po will be brutal and the news will barely cover it?

i hope they fuck up a recruitment center

In honor of the Republican Convention, did someone repeal the 1st Amendment? I thought not. So are Minneapolis and St. Paul, and Ramsey County, prepared to ante up the millions of dollars that they will undoubtedly have to pay, in due course, for these constitutional violations and false arrests? Ah, I thought not.

Oh my Toto….

It is amazing that the RNC GOP Stormtroopers, the local County Mounty Sheriff and the Bush Good Old DHS Boys CAN FIND find a bunch of potentially LAWFUL RNC protestors and vidiographers in 60 seconds flat but this same GANG of reTHUGlicans are UNABLE to locate the criminal Osama bin Laden in 6 YEARS.

It would appear from the thoroughness of these raid, the Cheney people that done several things; (1) placed moles in these groups to keep tabs on people they believe are a danger to the administation, (2) did face recognition at previous protests and matched faces at the airports, train and bus stations, and last kept long term survalence on some of these folks.

good. its about time someone bring you stupid people down. this is america if you cant protest peacifully then face the consequences. if you still want to protest like a martyr then you should be treated like osama bin laden and shot in public for the world to see.

you are the first person to make sense on this board. good call

To Yo Daddy and Minn Man…

You two are just jack booted fascist brown shirts and do not deserve the freedoms that this country has to offer, if you are so willing to wipe your ass with the constitution, Who made you Judge Jury and Executioner? So in your little statements there, you would be perfectly happy with a government like China. Why don't you go live there, rather than trying to make America in China's image? I am pretty sure you are supporting China by buying cheap shit at stores like Wal-Mart. Your words speak volumes of how un-American your world view is.

They are breaking down down the doors of Indy-reporters, supressing stories about the protests. Very Nazi, very Stalin-istic, very China-like. Just because they are telling a story that you do not want to hear, does not mean that they deserve to be shot in the face for it. Is that what you would have done to the participants in the Boston Tea Party?