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Republican Party Responsible For Police State Tactics Surrounding St. Paul Convention?
As the city of St. Paul heads into one last day of convention hoopla -- and one final day of protests -- state civil liberties leaders have accused St. Paul police of making many improper arrests and in some cases, provoking more problems.
"I think some of the police on the street have been very aggressive physically," said Charles Samuelson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota. "The phrase is 'spoiling for a fight.'"
Um, in LA, even under police chief William (Guiliani man) Bratton, the official term ended up as "police riot" (the city actually adopted that name for the action of officers in MacArthur Park on May 1 2007 which were initially identified as having sufficient cause) Then again maybe the intense coordination of what is happening around the protests in St. Paul. negates the actual 'riot' name. I guess we'll have to call it police state.
Thank the Republicans, folks.
A Denver Police spokesman says in the report linked immediately above that no 'felony riot' charges were file in Denver. We know from Democracy Now's September 2nd show that felony riot charges were passed out like kleenex, in at least in the demonstration held on Monday.
If you listened to or read the transcript from the September 2nd "Democracy Now" you know that their experienced journalists with press passes weighing down their necks and camera at hand (for one of them) were charged with felony riot for no more than not being able to move out of the way fast enough.
This is Republican control and it's telling.
The reason that democracies don't need police state tactics is that they must keep the electorate reasonably happy. They might have demonstrations or even riots, but when a nation starts with police tactics you know which way they are going. They can declare any economic problems for the middle class as a 'mental recession' and say the people have become 'a nation of whiners' and problems are solved, because, as in China, demonstrations bring heavy repercussions.
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