Posted on 06/25/2008 7:51:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Elaborate plans are underway to encircle and "shut down" the Republican National Convention at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center in September. The strategies and tactics involved could come straight from a guerrilla warfare manual.
Anarchist groups with ominous names -- the RNC Welcoming Committee, Unconventional Action -- have announced a "three-tier strategy" to cut off the Xcel Center. The steps include "blockading" streets and freeways, "immobilizing" delegates' transportation and "blocking" bridges to impede delegates' access to the center.
The plan also features a "swarm, seize, stay" strategy. After dividing the city into "sectors," protesters propose to "seize space" through both "hard technical blockades" and "softer, more mobile blockades" such as congestion, according to anarchist websites.
Some demonstrators may chain themselves together in public thoroughfares, while others operate in "waves" designed to "spread out police both geographically and tactically."
Last week, St. Paul city attorneys described these threats in documents filed in a federal lawsuit involving a permit for a march planned for Sept. 1, the convention's first day. Between 50,000 and 100,000 demonstrators are expected to participate.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
After about a hundred deaths, the problem should dissapate.
Might backfire. I for one would be asking whether this is really the kind of America that we want the liberal nutcases to create.
Let them do it..let people see how oppressive the left is. I want this on TV 24/7.
At least their mamma’s will be happy to get them out of their basement for a day or two. I think they will be lucky to get a few hundred kooks to show up for this.
kristallnacht was merely an exercise in free speech
coming soon to a city near you
They have no idea how many “thumpers” the St. Paul PD has on the payroll...
Anarchy is right. This is Communism in every way and these people are downright dangerous. I haven’t owned a gun since I was pregnanat with my daughter but I will be arming myself beofre this summer is through. I cannot believe I’m seeing the kinds of things in my country that Eastern Europe got rid of twenty years ago.
And George Soros has contributed how much to these groups?
This is Bolshevism, plain and simple. The Democratic Party has become the Bolshevik Party. They are never wrong; all means are acceptable; no one else has any rights—speech, assembly, etc.; win at all costs; words never mean what they seem; etc.
All the conservatives ought to get together and do this at the Democrat convention. No, wait. That won’t work. We have jobs.
Free speech, man....You know...like....
Reports are that the home fumigation business is already booked up for those days!
"Bush-Hitler-Republicans are like taking our speech away and we got to wake up man..."
Those morons are why the USA should have mandatory military service.
As Joe Soucheray remarked, “This is St. Paul’s protest community.”
Community? Foghorn?
;-)
Precisely. And I hope the disrupters are all wearing their OBAMA buttons when they catch their ugly mugs on the 6 o’clock news.
Uhhhhh, sure.
Right.
Uhuh.
No problem.
Oh yeah.
Ah, the leftists and free speech. It is only free for them.
Be sure to check out the comments after the article. The moonbats are well organized.....
Free speech for me, but not for thee
All attendees to the convention are hereby authorized to carry AND USE a taser.
Every GOPer attending should stop off at their local Indian food store and pick up a 1-Kg bag of ground red pepper powder. Just for culinary purposes, of course.
Anarchist groups have taxpayer funded grants.
The Republicans could make a fortune filming it and selling the DVDs on eBay.
ROFLMAO !!!
Yeah, and maybe she can change the locks before it comes back too!!
50,000 to 100,000? BWAAAHHHH! More like 500 to 1000 tops, all refugees from the freak show.
During the conventions in NYC the city leaders kept the protesters in cages far from the site. This despite the fact the city is run by a bunch of leftists.
The St. Paul city council is also run by a bunch of leftists, but they have no experience with large protests. In legal briefs regarding convention security they are siding with the ACLU against the Secret Service. They have no idea what kind of havoc they are going to unleash on their city. The St. Paul Police are throwing their hands up in despair.
Remember the riots in Seattle? It’s going to be like that, only worse.
I hope you’re right...but from what I have been able to ascertain...this is going to be huge.
The two mayors and the city councils have welcomed the protesters with open arms. But, you already knew that.....
Coleman and Rybak are being played by these “peaceful 1st ammendment adherants”....
Close enough to drive by for some fun.
Blocking hiways? I wonder if these morons are also invited to the Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast afterwards.
Don’t these people realize that the President will be there and along with that the full force of the secret service? I have no doubt that they would have no problem with shooting to kill if they felt he was threatened.
Sounds like these socialists plan to violate the constitutional protection of the right to public assembly by the RNC.
They seek to disrupt the peaceful and necessary presidential activity.
They deny Republicans their basic rights.
The GOP should donate to these groups and give them wide access to the convention area. Let America see on primetime TV signs like “We support our troops when they shoot their officers” and “I love NY more without the 2 towers”. Get the entire freakshow left out in front.
Yeah, oh well...I’m sure they won’t feel bad about a couple of martyrs for the cause.....
They are engaging in a war.
Too many activist judges and DAs drop the charges against their riots after the dust settles.
Republicans attending the convention should remind people of the racists who led to the National Guard providing protection in the past...
Just show the Communist Manifesto copies they are selling at their bookstands.
The media has blacked out all Communist involvment in the so called “peace” protests.
Ergo the media is pro-Communist.
“They deny Republicans their basic rights.”
The Republicans aren’t going to say anything.
However, when your basic, uninvolved citizen of the Twin Cities is inconvenienced by this crap....
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money.......
You aren't kidding there. The CBS footage of the 1968 DNC riot is among the most expensive footage out there.
Yup. Looks like they want to provoke some "enforcement action", and get some good selectively-edited video for propaganda purposes.
Wonder how many rioters coming to America are coming into the country for this from Canada, England, Germany, France, etc. They should be denied their travel visas. But the shadow government encourages such rioting.
“This is Bolshevism, plain and simple...”
BINGO!!
The anarchists are now discussing their plans on the radio...just saw it this morning on FOX news...
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