I’ll be on vacation in Montana during the August meeting of the mental midgets in Denver, CO (aka: The Democratic National Convention). With Denver being so accomodating, it likes like the disagreeables will simply have a riot of a time there.
Protesters will not be confined to “cages” during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and the city wants to get away from the long lines of shoulder-to-shoulder, riot-gear-clad police that typified security at the national conventions in Boston and New York, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown said today. “We don’t want to provoke violence,” Brown said.
Brown said he talked with Mayor John Hickenlooper on Wednesday and that the two discussed “trying to get away from having lines of police officers.”
Brown later asserted: “We aren’t going to cage protesters.”
The councilman made his comments before a group of about 50 students and others at the University of Denver law school, where local law groups are sponsoring a four-day series of workshops and discussions that offer training and tips for activists and protesters planning to demonstrate in and around convention week.
Yes, show the “revolution” seekers your hand early and maybe they won’t get all worked up and bring things like Tasers with them like some have planned to do at the RNC.
The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC), an anarchist and anti-authoritarian organizing body based in the Twin Cities, announced today that it has ordered tasers for each of its members and friends. The announcement comes on the heels of last month’s St. Paul City Council approval of a St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) request for 234 tasers. Due to a unique corporate-anarchist confidentiality agreement, the exact number of tasers or documentable evidence of this new order will not be disclosed.
Once the RNC-WC order is finalized, the St. Paul Police Department will no longer have a monopoly on the weapons that have been implicated in hundreds of deaths nationwide.
Or maybe, if you show your hand this early, they’ll just have multiple staging areas and back up plans ready for your city’s constabulary.
Remember, if it looks like a gun, you are justified to defend yourself.
OK, I think I’d better start stocking up on beer.
Or something.
A TASER can be used to immobilize a cop, take his weapon, and kill or kidnap him with it.
Anyone pointing a TASER at a cop is likely to get shot to pieces … hell, anyone pointing a TASER at me might as well.