Dagmar wrote:
As if you didn't already have the looming vision of the KGB relocating to the US in your mind, here's a great example of why if McCain is elected, America will likely cease to be.

Apparently, as a means to prevent any dissenting opinions from being expressed anywhere near the Republican National Convention, St. Paul and Minneapolis police have engaged in a number of raids upon private homes and public meeting spaces, confiscating computers, putting hippies on the floor and in handcuffs, refusing to show warrants, pointing machine guns at people and just generally acting like Nazi stormtroopers from some old movie gone wrong.

Just click on the link.

Fuck McCain.

I don't know...

I saw that story and they do have free speech zones and areas for the protesters to set up so it doesn't sound like they are trying to stop them. Some of the people they raided had a bunch of weird things like large stockpiles of human fecal matter and some weapons(don't know what kind specifically). It was my understanding that there were tips for the past few weeks indicating an attack from protesters which is somewhat correlated with the findings of the raids.

Not sure the whole deal but this sounds like a case of bad PR more than it does a real attack on civil liberties. Its just really easy to confuse the two especially when the republicans are being talked about as they are a really easy target.

RE: More reasons to say f**k McCain and f**k the Repulicans