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RNC Lockdown of St Paul- A Resident's Report

by: Louise

Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 19:36:08 PM EDT


(When does the Tasing begin? - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

A dear online friend of mine, a 17 year vet who did tours in Iraq, has just posted the following LJ post- her eyewitness account of security in St Paul:

Driving around, we passed just amazing amounts of cops, sheriffs, and Guardsmen. The bridges contained at least two guys in various uniforms and yellow vests.

Police cars parked on medians, on sidewalks, and plainclothes vehicles stuffed with cops, SWAT members, and another group--more later---zoomed around in convoys or six or seven. Barriers surrounded the Capital.

Except for the fact that the vehicles didn't have M-16 muzzles poking out the window, the amount of personnel on display gave a vivid sensation of being an Iraqi, watching occupiers.

Amongst the law enforcement figures I saw, one group was noticeably unbadged and unidentified. These were mostly white guys with brush cuts, black shirts and armor vests, semi automatic weapons, and khaki pants.

No insignia, no badges. Blackwater's here.

Let's hope they don't murder any civilians.

Someone linked this as a comment:

Louise :: RNC Lockdown of St Paul- A Resident's Report
Dear gawd. This is an extremely chilling account, especially in light of earlier reported examples of jackbooted thuggery in St Paul.

Here are more reports of the repression.

BTW, there seems to be NO available images posted online for the past 2 days of St Paul's RNC occupation.

Coincidence?

She also linked a few days ago the following:

At around 9:45 that morning, John, 20, was walking home from the bank a few blocks away when he spotted what he thought was a police riot club -- a ubiquitous weapon on the streets here. "It was right off of West 7th Street in, like, a planter; I checked it out but it ended up being a broomstick." He put it down and kept walking, when suddenly he was surrounded by police officers -- "three squad for sure, maybe four" -- one of whom was a woman. "She was like, 'Get on your stomach or I'm gonna tase you!'" He asked them what he had done, but they wouldn't say. Instead, they asked him leading questions about other people they'd just arrested. "They said, 'so, who was in the white van you were associated with?" "I was like, white van? I don't know what you're talking about."

John said he hasn't done any anti-war organizing -- "I'd like to" -- but since the arrival of the RNC and the protesters against it, he has been checking out the scene around town. "Yesterday I was just cruising around. I was in the Funk the War march -- they had this huge Gandhi statue and a globe ..." But despite the mostly peaceful protests, when it comes to security, "it's been crazy." He showed me videos he'd taken on his phone while he skated around, lines of cops in riot gear -- "There was a bunch of people getting maced over there" -- and shots of the buses and unmarked minivans the police have used to detain people and take them away.

I asked him if he had been read his rights. "No, they didn't read me my Miranda rights at all. ... They cuffed me, and when I complained to one one guy about the cuffs being too tight, he was like, 'Oh yeah? Well, let me tighten that up for you.'"

While he kept asking why they were arresting him, John did not resist -- "I was really cooperative; I didn't want to be held" -- but he did remember something he had been given at one of the marches. "Finally I pulled this out," he said, showing me a slip of paper that read, "ACLU Important Contact Information." "Yeah, you should hold onto that," one of the cops told him.

"They held me right down over there," he said, pointing north. "It's, like, the St. Paul police station." They confiscated and searched his belongings but forgot his cell phone in his pocket. "They put me in a cell that had snot and blood all over the wall," he told me, pulling out his phone and showing me footage of the stained white walls. He was given no phone call.

There will be more of these stories... and they  MUST be promoted, shared and heard by as many people as possible when they come to light.

Otherwise, we could well be living in even more of a police state than we already are.

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This is carefully designed so the security voting crowd will be impressed. While I'm happy that the tradmed has found a target in Palin, this deserves far more attention than it's getting.

And we are teaching Iraq to behave???


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Links roundup here
Making Light has started discussing whether agents provacateurs can be IDed from press & citizen photos.

They've also got a long post about Police, at the RNC.

I posted at DailyKos about one young arrestee's story, and pictures from the street.

Glenn Greenwald has had a lot, including covering the arrest of Amy Goodman.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports Taxpayers off the hook for GOP convention lawsuits:

The deal required the Republican Party's host committee to buy insurance covering up to $10 million in damages and unlimited legal costs for law enforcement officials accused of brutality, violating civil rights and other misconduct.

FireDogLake has been doing great coverage, to the point where they have server problems.


Re: Tasers
Found varying reports- that at first, St Paul PD requested 230 Tasers for the RNC, and then this item, where the number was increased to 370.

Either way, they are armed for bear in St Paul this week...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


Fucking mindblowing.
We whose grandfathers went to war against fascism are now living in it.

You're right; this has to be shown as far and wide as we can reach.

Well, I say that work is hell--o, boss!


Pam, is there qualitatively more police/security presence
in St. Paul than there was in Denver. I read that that the Iraq Veternans Agaisnt the War in Denver had a demonstraton of about ten thousand or so that was isolated and roughly handled by the DPD.

Maybe the next go around in 2012 we'll wake up to a story that Blackwater will be handling security and is stocking up on plastic bullets, nerve agents and tasers.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  


If we vote correctly between now and then
and keep talking about stories like this, chances are we WON'T HAVE to face what you describe in 2012.

And if we don't?

Well, how many heard about the Beijing police telling everyone who wanted to protest that they had to file for permits first- they got 70 some-odd responses, arrested people IN THEIR OWN HOMES, and issued NOT A SINGLE PERMIT.

Instead, the Beijing police issued a statement declaring that all of the issues to be protested "had been dealt with" so no permits were necessary.

"Move along peacefully, people- nothing to see here!!"

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


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Civil Liberties vs. Mass Murder...
Louise, do you agree with the millions angry Americans about the threat posed by Obama and McCain to civil liberties? Is it clear to you that Obama and McCain's support for FISA is not just another example of their craven sellouts to telecom giants and big business? After all both of them are dues paying members of the world's second oldest profession so sellouts are expected. But Obama's support for FISA, like McCain's, is a little more serious. It takes a hatchet to the Bill of Rights, particularly the Fourth Amendment. Which of them would you prefer violating your civil liberties, Louise, McCain or Obama? Which is the more 'progressive' sellout?  

Louise, did you know that Obama and McCain both voted to extend the anti-constitutional Paytriot Act expanding the surveillance state, setting up concentration camps like Guantanamo, and trampling civil liberties? Which of their votes was more 'progressive vote'?

I thought that by now everyone knew why the White House campaigns incessantly about Chinese Stalinist violations of civil liberties. It's to cover their asses for their mass murder in Iraq. Clinton did the same to deflect attention from his administrations murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children when he viciously cut off their access to food and medicines.

Both McCain and Obama have promised to continue the war, and dementedly, Obama wants to extend it to Pakistan and McCain to Iran. Given that, someone who supports either of them should forget partisanship and criticize the genocide in Iraq before repeating the White House line on China. To do otherwise might be considered hypocritical.

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  


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Mission Accomplished


watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

donal
At first I got mad when I read your comment a few days ago, because to be accused (as I first interpreted) of standing with Bush was repulsive to me. So gave myself a few days to think over a response...

I watched Chris Dodd speak regarding FISA, when he knew it was doomed to fail, and was spluttering mad at everyone who voted to, as you said and I agree, "sell out" our country.

I have read and agreed with Kucinich's "35 impeachment articles". Why Karl Rove and so many others aren't rotting in jail cells and probably never will is absolutely infuriating to me.

We will never know how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed or injured in this illegal war. And in a right-headed world the POTUS, our atheletes and media would have boycotted the Olympics in Beijing.

In alot of ways, I feel like we're watching our country slowly tip and fall off a cliff, and I just don't know what's going to happen next. I worry for our country and for a world we're destroying with our polititians and their policies.

I strongly wish there were greater support in America for the civil liberties that have already been erased or may be next. So many people seem comfortable to bury their heads in the sand, put their trust in platitudes and then wonder where their jobs went, how they lost their homes... the list is endless.

Am I disappointed in what I'm seeing in our candidates? Frankly, YES. But I also see some potential to bring things around. Which one of us is right, I can't say- but I'm not willing to throw away my hopes yet.  

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


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