lonew0lf wrote:

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.

I've seen nothing about anyone in the Twin Cities having anything like that and I think you're getting confused by spin. Would you care to cite some URLs substantiating these claims?

By the way, "Free Speech Zones" are and always have been, complete bullshit. Sometimes they're even surrounded by barbed wire fences and guys with machine guns.

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.

Considering this is the city that got into a big mess in 2004 when their police officers tried to arrest a bunch of people and then make up charges against them which were rather immediately proven to be crap by lots and lots of video cameras guess what it looks like when the search warrants specifically mention digital cameras, cellphones, and laptops as items to be confiscated.

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