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Legal challenge is in line with plans to disrupt GOP convention
StarTribune ^ | 6/24/08 | Katherine Kersten

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; achillwind; anarchists; brownshirts; convention; dncbrownshirts; electionviolence; gop; howtostealanelection; invasion; lawsuit; mccain; radicalleft; rnc; rncriot; streetwarfare
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1 posted on 06/25/2008 7:51:19 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

After about a hundred deaths, the problem should dissapate.


2 posted on 06/25/2008 7:53:06 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Might backfire. I for one would be asking whether this is really the kind of America that we want the liberal nutcases to create.


3 posted on 06/25/2008 7:53:50 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Let them do it..let people see how oppressive the left is. I want this on TV 24/7.


4 posted on 06/25/2008 7:54:27 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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.


5 posted on 06/25/2008 7:54:56 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

kristallnacht was merely an exercise in free speech

coming soon to a city near you


6 posted on 06/25/2008 7:55:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Have they stated a purpose for this? Or is that "like too much work to think about... dude..."
7 posted on 06/25/2008 7:55:06 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Brilliant

They have no idea how many “thumpers” the St. Paul PD has on the payroll...


8 posted on 06/25/2008 7:55:41 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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.


9 posted on 06/25/2008 7:56:46 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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.


10 posted on 06/25/2008 7:56:52 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

All the conservatives ought to get together and do this at the Democrat convention. No, wait. That won’t work. We have jobs.


11 posted on 06/25/2008 7:56:53 AM PDT by Jaxter (Everything I needed to know about Obama I learned by Googling "Black Liberation Theology".)
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To: avacado

Free speech, man....You know...like....


12 posted on 06/25/2008 7:57:20 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: Always Right
At least their mamma’s will be happy to get them out of their basement for a day or two.

Reports are that the home fumigation business is already booked up for those days!

13 posted on 06/25/2008 7:58:21 AM PDT by keepitreal
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Free speech, man....You know...like...."

"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.

14 posted on 06/25/2008 8:01:00 AM PDT by avacado
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

As Joe Soucheray remarked, “This is St. Paul’s protest community.”


15 posted on 06/25/2008 8:08:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Community? Foghorn?

;-)


16 posted on 06/25/2008 8:20:40 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: Jaxter

Precisely. And I hope the disrupters are all wearing their OBAMA buttons when they catch their ugly mugs on the 6 o’clock news.


17 posted on 06/25/2008 8:21:18 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: avacado
Those morons are why the USA should have mandatory military service.

These people want to overthrow the U.S. Government and you have the idea to give them training in military operations and tactics.

Uhhhhh, sure.

Right.

Uhuh.

No problem.

Oh yeah.

18 posted on 06/25/2008 8:23:05 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground: Ever wonder where all those who took the brown acid at Woodstock wound up?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Ah, the leftists and free speech. It is only free for them.


19 posted on 06/25/2008 8:25:43 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: doug from upland

Be sure to check out the comments after the article. The moonbats are well organized.....


20 posted on 06/25/2008 8:30:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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