Florida Civil Unrest PING.
The RNC Convention has been declared a Significant National Event, warranting the highest alert level of DHS assets.
Estimates are that as many as 10,000 protesters will descend upon Tampa. LEO’s anticipate up to 8,000 arrests. Leftist websites have published instructions on how to construct, and deploy, incendiary explosives - essentially, IED’s.
According to Internet traffic, no less than six OWS chapters are organizing to be present in Tampa during the convention. The list of Leftist outfits who are pledging to be present reads like a Who’s Who from the Bush years: A.N.S.W.E.R, CodePink, Moveon.org, and Rainbow PUSH, among others.
Your answer is simple, Bandit: they’ve known for months what the threat is at the convention. They’ve been preparing for at least as long. The release of this article, with less than four weeks to go, is for the consumption of the Left.
And the local liberal politicians have been doing their utmost over the past year to try to get the Governor to restrict convention goer’s gun rights.
(It’s easier to hold a riot if the people you plan to throw rocks and bottles at are disarmed.)