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Title: Police Prepared To Arrest 3,000 At '08 RNC
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WCCO4
URL Source: http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_108094059.html
Published: Apr 18, 2007
Author: AP
Post Date: 2007-04-18 18:58:59 by Eoghan
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Views: 187
Comments: 15
(AP) St. Paul The Ramsey County sheriff has prepared a $4.4 million budget for security during the 2008 Republican National Convention, with a plan to handle the arrests of as many as 3,000 protesters. Sheriff Bob Fletcher's proposal includes money for a possible open-air, fenced detention facility next to the county workhouse, riot equipment and Tasers, and $1.7 million for officers' overtime. Boston and New York City, which hosted the national political conventions in 2004, prepared for similar numbers of arrests but wound up arresting fewer. Fletcher said things could be different in 2008. "The tenor of the country's feelings about the war in Iraq is different than it was four years ago," Fletcher said. Planning for 3,000 arrests drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union in Minnesota. Charles Samuelson, the group's executive director, said he was concerned that the number might be a self-fulfilling prophecy. St. Paul police Commander Joe Neuberger rejected that. Ramsey County simply needed a number to start with, he said. "Our goal is to arrest no one," he said. St. Paul police are primarily responsible for arrests, with the sheriff's office responsible for handling prisoners. Fletcher said the proposed expenses were to make sure "we treat the detainees with dignity and respect." Fletcher said he hoped the county's security costs would be covered through a $50 million federal convention security appropriation pending in Congress. His proposal may go to the county board by late summer. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department hasn't yet been asked to develop a convention budget, Sheriff Rich Stanek said. He said he didn't know of any estimates of protest arrests in Minneapolis.
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#1. To: Eoghan (#0)
Oh, I'm sure they're already preparing spacious and comfortable "Free Speech Zones" several blocks from the convention, on blacktop parking lots inside of cyclone fencing topped with razor wire, with no bathroom facilities or drinking water or shade or shelter. Meanwhile, the Republican conventioneers will be safely protected from any dissenting views inside of their luxury accomidations, provided with the best pampering money can buy. Welcome to America, land of the fee, home of the slave.
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#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)
You really can't expect the ruling class to expose themselves to the diseased riffraff. It's tough enough on them just having to breath the same air as the worthless masses. Richard W.
#3. To: Eoghan (#0)
Wish I lived close enough to protest it. I'd love to spend a night in jail for freedom.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
#4. To: Eoghan (#0)
Feel the Luv.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
#5. To: Eoghan (#0)
And just like that, the standard has become: convention good, protestors bad. We are no longer a country that values free speech and the right to redress grievances. We once led the world in audacious protests. Now, even totalitarian regimes have more protests and better ones than we do.
#6. To: Paul Revere (#5)
I think, due to the internet..we'll see the lowest voter turnout in history (per population figures). I stopped voting before 2000. Nothing left but handcuffs and and hand grenades.
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#7. To: Eoghan (#6)
having Ron Paul in the race puts a chink in it for us. we expunged our voting cards in 2001 wanting no part of the charade. now what do we do?
we'll see the lowest voter turnout in history (per population figures).
#8. To: christine (#7)
Don't take part in the charade...I bet Hillary would win. In the end, would anyone be shocked?
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#9. To: Eoghan (#6)
I'm done too. And re "Arrests" - I don't have a record. Maybe it's time to get started.
Gloria est pro petroleo mori.
#10. To: Eoghan (#6)
Why would you think that, given the record turnout of 2004? I can't see voters staying home in 2008. The public is so sick of Bush, the chance to get someone new gives Americans some hope that this neverending suckiness might end. If anything, the internet has enhanced interest in politics and opened it up to people who have been outside the process in the past.
I think, due to the internet..we'll see the lowest voter turnout in history (per population figures).
#11. To: Eoghan (#8)
I don't think Hillary has a snowballs' chance in hell of winning. I don't even think she will get the nomination. If she does, she'll lose in a record landslide. In fact, she's the only person Dems can nominate who will lose.
bet Hillary would win. In the end, would anyone be shocked?
#12. To: Paul Revere (#11)
I know...but the "Bride of Marx" is next "logical conclusion." She's drawing all the Jewish tentacles with major dollar signs...she leads all in this catagory. NYTimes... Clinton Campaign Shows An Early Fund-Raising Edge April 2, 2007, Monday DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday that it had raised $26 million during the first quarter of this year, about three times as much as the previous record at this stage of a presidential race. Officials from several other Democratic primary campaigns voluntarily ...
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#13. To: Eoghan (#12)
She's hardly the Bride of Marx. More like the concubine of Machiavelli.
know...but the "Bride of Marx" is next "logical conclusion." She's drawing all the Jewish tentacles with major dollar signs...she leads all in this catagory.
#14. To: Paul Revere (#13)
http://www.30giorni.it/us/brevi.asp?id=268 Benigni, the Talmud and Machiavelli Under the heading Benigni reveals: here are all the poets who wrote my Tiger, la Repubblica of 23 May, printed the introduction to the film script of The tiger and the snow, written by Benigni himself and now in the bookshops. This the opening of the text: «The Talmud begins on page 2 precisely to tell the reader that even when he has finished reading it he still hasn’t begun. And Machiavelli says: there are people who know everything, but that is all they know. And so why read? But there may yet perhaps be someone in the world, as in fairytales, who does something that was taught us when we were very little and that we’ve all forgotten. May God bless you, dear reader! But who are you? Where are you? Show yourself! You are perhaps reading thus, tranquilly, without being aware of your uniqueness».
The chicken or the egg...
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#15. To: Eoghan (#0)
ok, so here's the plan - we monitor this and as soon as they've arrested 3000, we descend on the city and wreak havoc! who's in?
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