Rounding up Protesters In Minnesota

[rp2813]

Today's paper has an article on this. Geez, what country are we living in? It hasn't seemed like the U.S. for going on 8 years now.

 

[mattl]

Article indicates the Fed Gvt. is involved in arresting protesters before the R convention.

Was there a similar action in Denver? Anyone from Denver here?

Here is a second link:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html
and an excerpt from the story:

"Just review what happened yesterday and today. Homes of college-aid protesters were raided by rifle-wielding police forces. Journalists were forcibly detained at gun point. Lawyers on the scene to represent the detainees were handcuffed. Computers, laptops, journals, diaries, and political pamphlets were seized from people's homes. And all of this occurred against U.S. citizens, without a single act of violence having taken place, and nothing more serious than traffic blockage even alleged by authorities to have been planned."

Welcome to Amerika 2008

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/rnc-protests-police-raid_n_122787.html

 

[danemodsandy]

Yikes!

Shades of 1968:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/31/politics/p095313D30.DTL&tsp=1

 

[andrewinorlando]

One word: BUSH!

 

[mattl]

Amy Goodman Democracy Now host arrested

Amy Goodman the host of PBS's Democracy Now was arrested trying to block the arrest of her camera/production crew. Youtube video in link.

As of 12:30Am 9-2-08 they have been released with "Pending complaints".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-dantoni/amy-goodman-violently-arr_b_123062.html

 

[gyrafoam]

And just where is the National "Media"? Shirking their responsibilities to inform us citizens-----again------ do you suppose? (Eyes to ceiling).

Yes, Darth Cheney has done a wonderful job hasn't he!

 

[gansky1]

A little GITMO vacation for dissention?

No surprises there, raiding homes, arrests and detainments without any or very little cause... Welcome to Big Brother's world.

I wish there didn't have to be the violence and destruction as that detracts from the message but the root cause of the anger will obviously, again, fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.

Can you imagine having your home raided and property seized for being anti-anything? Freedom is certainly defined a lot differently in the eyes of the GOP, just shows how pathetic and scared they really are. John McCain is supposed to deliver "the speech of his career" on Thursday night, will anyone tune in? Will anyone believe what he says? Does he have any credibility to deliver it? Another Replicant yammering the party line - no need to watch it, we know the drill.

 

[runematic]

Let's see, According to the USA Today (of which I think is a tad more reputable than the HuffPost), the people referred to as being raided, the "RNC welcoming committee" had buckets of urine, axes, sledgehammers, & throwing knives confiscated. Wonder what those were for? The memebers of the Connecticut delegation were roughed up and to quote the article "About 100 protesters approached the delegates shouting anti-war rhetoric before starting to shove, spit, and throw liquid on the group. Test confirmed that about 15 of the delegates were splashed with BLEACH". Also, "Roving groups dressed in black and wearing masks smashed windows of stores and police cruisers, shut down intersections, and lit small fires in downtown St. Paul". So please spare me about the "crackdown." Do I think that police sometimes overreact? No doubt about it. They are under intense pressure to control this situation. The protesters would be better recieved if they didn't resort to this type of crap.

 

[panthera]

Violence begets violence

I am so disgusted by these 'protesters' I could scream. All they are doing is helping the republicans.
Probably they were set up to do this by the republicans, it smells to the heavens of a typical Rovian tactic, no?