Posted on 08/11/2008 3:14:32 PM PDT by granite
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Except this story's AP...
The AP ban was lifted some time ago........
We’re allowed “fair use”.
It is an AP article.
I did not know that the ban was lifted.
“ST. PAUL - People planning protests during the Republican National Convention are suing in state court in an attempt to overturn restrictions on where they can assemble.
Two newly filed lawsuits in Ramsey County District Court claim that St. Paul city and police officials are restricting free speech rights by confining demonstrators to a designated assembly area. The lawsuits cover the same ground, with one calling the public viewing area near the Xcel Energy Center “inadequate and unacceptably small.”
Among the people behind the lawsuits is Coleen Rowley, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress in 2006 who gained attention as an FBI agent-turned-whistleblower after the 9/11 attacks. Also involved are members of a group called Impeach for Peace, the Twin Cities Peace Campaign and the Welfare Rights Committee.
Previous legal challenges to GOP convention-related restrictions have been turned back in federal court.
St. Paul City Attorney John Choi didn’t immediately return a call for comment on the new cases.”
My first ever FReep was in 2006 when Fat Jack Murtha came to town to campaign for the same Coleen Rowley mentioned in this article. She was running against incumbent John Kline in my district and was ultimately smoked in the election.
The Dems attending the rally we’re prepared for the opposition that showed up (Kline supporters, college republicans, FReepers and “Mr. Bullhorn”).
Their rhetoric devolved into screaming, swearing and obscene gestures.
This is going to be a convention for the history books......
S/B....”The Dems attending the rally weren’t prepared for the opposition.......”
I’d love to see a bunch of guys from Rolling Thunder standing watch over the protesters.
RT would be outlawed by the same St. Paul city council an mayor that have been tripping over themselves to welcome the anarchist protesters to town. At least one of the city council members will be on the streets with the unwashed professional trouble makers.
The closest thing you will find in St. Paul resembling a “bike” during the convention is groups of militant bicyclists claiming that they own the roads and automobile owners are fascist nazi bush-hitlers.
No, I’m not kidding.
There’s some funny comments going on at the Strib for this article. Some libtards talking about 1st amendment rights to free speech, and planning to go down there. They seem to have no idea that the people coming to town are planning riots and as much property damage as they can inflict, a scene just like the G8.
Even though I disagree with the locals who feel a need to “speak truth to power” and head down there with their little signs with visions of chanting slogans for hours on end hoping to get on CNN, I hope they are able to avoid getting injured in the fracas, and I further hope they pay attention to the people around them, “protesting”.
They have no idea at all what’s being planned by the “protesters” flying in from all over the country, and elsewhere, to make a scene in St Paul.
But it seems the Police of St Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota State Troopers, and Police departments from all over the state are aware of what to expect, since this is a Large Media Event similar to the G8 in Scotland 2007.
One of the successful strategies used to deal with the anarchists there was a security cordon, which caged up the rioters, and all were processed as criminals whether they were individually doing violence or not.
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