Seeing that all of this action was controlled by Dem polititicans, you are right, if Obama is elected, this just might be a portnet of things to come. It is the dems who want to shut down down the conservative talkers by making them give free air time to Al Franken and other Air Americans who couldn't hold an audience with a bucket.

It is also the dems who are the ones found on video shouting down conservatives on campuses across the US.

When the message is one that the Dems don't want to hear, they usually go on the attack.

What's also interesting is that when one yahoo would get close to the police there is video showing 6-12 photogs getting in close and egging him on. If the press wasn't so damn intent in publicizing the sad, illegal, destructivbe actions of a bunch of marxist stoners, then the idiots wouldn't be wreaking the havoc that they did.

Oh, and Councialman Thune, you are a FU***** PU***

The mayors, law enforcement, rioters, anarchists, innocent bystanders, etc. experienced more than they thought they would or signed up for. Did the police do their best job? Probably not. Am I a police supporter? No! But, how do they know which person or group of persons has a molotov cocktail and who is just trying to get to their car? Imagine yourself in their shoes. First of all, they're not the brightest bulbs on the tree. You go through a bunch of riot training and are given this cool riot gear and strict orders from your commanding officers, hear about all the protestors coming from every corner of the country. So, you're stoked up into this frenzy and then see hundreds of strange looking people marching towards you carrying signs and yelling. What would you do? Be honest.

The whole thing was ripe for problems to occur and that is what happened. Was it all bad? No! Was it all good? No!! Did anyone get killed? No!!! So, now, we're going to spend thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to investigate what happened, so we can point fingers about an event that will not happen again in this town for decades.

You can argue my comment all you want. But, it's the way it is and you know it.

Cheers!

I felt as if I were in some other country. Or maybe that this was the dress rehearsal for what is soon to come.

We KNOW that the Mayors did not have direct control of everything done by law enforcement. However, if the Mayors can't make the review process fair and transparent, if the appointees have a conflict of interest with the rights of the citizenry, then the politically engaged Democratic citizens of Minneapolis and St. Paul will have to find Mayors who will act more effectively to protect our civil liberties concerns.