[neverdem]

Now it's protester intimidation, poor baby.

[Prime Choice]

Considering the violent nature of many Leftist protesters, I'd say the FBI has good cause.

Whenever you have violent people sympathizing with terrorists, you have potential terrorist recruits. Anyone with a lick of sense understands this. (Which is probably why the FBI visits leave the Leftists so surprised.)   ; )

[GeronL]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York.

Thank God.

[vpintheak]

They are treading a fine line, and you know this will stir up a hornets nest for the lefties. And by that I mean the media. Personally I think it is a good thing that the FBI is letting these wing-nuts know they are watching.

[swilhelm73]

"The message I took from it," said Sarah Bardwell, 21, an intern at a Denver antiwar group who was visited by six investigators a few weeks ago, "was that they were trying to intimidate us into not going to any protests committing any violent crimes and to let us know that, 'hey, we're watching you.' ''

[ladyinred]

But some people contacted by the F.B.I. say they are mystified by the bureau's interest and felt harassed by questions about their political plans.

These people love to play the victim. Read any of their web sites, read the posters they wave, and then ask why the FBI might want to check them out!!!!

[doug from upland]

When we protest, we do not break windows. We do not turn over police cars. We do not thrown rocks. We do not urinate or defecate in the streets. We do not use foul language. We do not set anything on fire (other than those who smoke cigarettes and set those on fire). We do not shut down merchants' businesses. We do not throw Molotov cocktails.

We are reasonable. They are crazy. That is why the FBI is doing what it is doing and why some of them might have to have their heads busted up a little.

[steveegg]

Could it be because almost all of the goons are lefties?

[Dolphy]

Interrogations have generally covered the same three questions, according to some of those questioned and their lawyers: were demonstrators planning violence or other disruptions, did they know anyone who was, and did they realize it was a crime to withhold such information.

They have earned the questions by deed and by rhetoric. After running into some less hardcore versions at both Bush and Kerry rallies I decided they were simply mentally ill.

[pete anderson]

It is good to have an FBI that is on Our Side!

Go get them!!!

[anymouse]

Time to R.I.C.O. the limosine liberals in Hollywood, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and NYC that fund these violent "protesters." Cut off their funding and see how motivated these pukes are to spend their own dough to travel around the country (and World in some cases) to "exercise their first Ammendment rights" as us Conservatives have to do.

[ApesForEvolution]

"The message I took from it," said Sarah Bardwell, 21, an intern at a Denver antiwar group who was visited by six investigators a few weeks ago, "was that they were trying to intimidate us into not going to any protests and to let us know that, 'hey, we're watching you.'"

Hahahahaha. No silly little girl (no doubt a knee-pad wearing communist), WE are watching you! That's far worse.

[ApesForEvolution]

I can't even read all of this tonight without having an aneurysm...needless to say, the enemies, both foreign and domestic, are working out of the same play book.

[Watery Tart]

It may have its side benefits--we might not have images like these televised:

Are they hauling anyone in who has really bad taste??

[VaBthang4]

""The message I took from it," said Sarah Bardwell, 21, an intern at a Denver antiwar group..."

I stopped right there.

[Indie]

Good job FBI. [Even though I will never forgive you for Waco and Ruby Ridge..and I will never trust you..not for a single minute. You are above the law.]

[AnimalLover]

READY FOR THIS?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39976

Will Republican convention be a Chicago '68 madhouse?

Activist Tom Hayden pledges disruptions 'bigger by a thousand fold' for GOP event

Tom Hayden, one of the central organizers of sometimes violent, civil disobedience protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, is pledging to disrupt this month's Republican convention with demonstrations "1,000 times bigger than Chicago," according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, WND's premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter.

Hayden, the co-founder of Students for Democratic Society, a left-wing group that splintered in the late '60s and early '70s, with one faction resorting to terrorism, is predicting between 100,000 and 1 million protesters will be in New York for the convention beginning Aug. 30.

Hayden said there were at most 6,000 on hand in Chicago in 1968.

This time, he predicted, it will be "bigger by a thousand fold," he told a foreign journalist.

Check WND site for the rest of the article!

[John Lenin]

These morons put up web sites on how to cause trouble at the convention and than say, duh, why are you questioning me ? If they had brains they would really be dangerous.

[Calpernia]

2004 Republican National Convention in NYC

Thesus ^ | May 10, 2004 | Joshua Kinberg

Posted on 05/10/2004 11:31:22 PM EDT by Calpernia

Crashing the Party Technology for Direct Action Protest Against the 2004 Republican National Convention

Joshua Kinberg

Fall Thesis Instructor: Dave KanterFall Writing Instructor: Mark Stafford“Crashing the Party” seeks to develop a tactical media performance tool thatmerges activism online (cyberactivism) with direct action protest in real spacein an effort to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC.

Thechallenge of this project is to create meaningful dialogue in popular culturethrough tactical mappings of messages and locations in relation to the politicalevent.My intention is to mesh two concepts—Yury Gitman’s wireless bicycle,“MagicBike” (2003), and “GraffitiWriter” (2000), a robot built by the Institutefor Applied Autonomy—by constructing an Internet-enabled bicycle attachmentthat prints messages on streets and sidewalks as it rides by. Thiswireless/writer bike will contain an array of spray-chalk aerosol cans and willprint dot-matrix text and simple graphics. Since the bicycle will also have apersistent Net connection, it will enable user interaction via the web and/oremail/SMS. A website for the project will provide live documentation of theperformances via streaming web cam and real-time updates of the bicycle’sGPS location.

In preparation for this thesis, I researched the history of Civil Disobedience,Direct Action, and Cyberactivism. I investigated the expanding role oftechnology in the context of activism—from Video Activism and IndyMedia toSmartmobs and Flashmobs. I studied the culture of activism and the specificcontext surrounding this particular political event. I participated in organizingmeetings for Anti-RNC protests, as well as bicycle culture events such asCritical Mass. I have been involved with the development of Magicbike withYury Gitman, and also participated in the HelloWorld project, which allowedusers to submit statements through the Web to be laser-projected on thefaçade of the United Nations building (as well as locations in Bombay, Geneva,Rio De Janeiro).In terms of the technological implementation, I have researched mobilewireless networking, physical computing and hardware hacking, GPS, and PerlAPI’s for automated data transfers and web publishing.One Sentence Description:“Crashing the Party” seeks to develop a tactical media performance tool thatmerges activism online (cyberactivism) with direct action protest in real spacein an effort to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC.

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