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Final day of protests goes out with a flash bang
Pioneer Press ^ | 09/04/2008 | John Brewer, Richard Chin, Jason Hoppin, Michael Marchio, Elizabeth Mohr, Dave Orrick and Tad Vezner

Posted on 09/04/2008 9:33:46 PM PDT by PeteePie

By the time Sen. John McCain finished his speech and delegates let out of the Xcel Energy Center, downtown was so devoid of activists that a large diverse crowd gathered in Rice Park couldn't even muster a unified cheer, despite many signs indicating anti- Republican sentiments.

In short, a stranger might not know this is a democratic town.

The end came after protestors who had rallied at the Capitol grounds made several unsuccessful attempts Thursday night to reach the X, site of the Republican National Convention.

Large rows of armed law enforcement officials, many on bicycle or horseback, stopped them at multiple highway bridges and prevented them from crossing.

Full read: http://www.twincities.com/ci_10382016

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; brownshirts; codepink; commieagitators; election; gop; lefties; protesters; rnc; rncconvention; usefulidiots

1 posted on 09/04/2008 9:33:46 PM PDT by PeteePie
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To: PeteePie
Oh the moonbats. A Code Pink Commie made it inside the Excel Energy Center earlier this evening. They're just so respectful of other people's rights!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 09/04/2008 9:37:26 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

It’s fascism, really - trying to shout people down you disagree with so they cannot be heard. It looked like that one miserable lady was trying to do a striptease but couldn’t figure out how.


3 posted on 09/04/2008 9:41:33 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: goldstategop
I would love to know how she got it. I bet she got a pass through the msm.
4 posted on 09/04/2008 9:41:55 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: goldstategop
The left are cowards, and lack any military training.

Had I wanted to cause a ruckus with my friends in Denver, most third world countries lack our capability.

5 posted on 09/04/2008 9:44:58 PM PDT by highpockets
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To: PeteePie
” large diverse crowd gathered in Rice Park couldn't even muster a unified cheer, despite many signs indicating anti- Republican sentiments.”

The Panama Red must have been flowing pretty good about that time.

6 posted on 09/04/2008 9:46:44 PM PDT by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: goldstategop

They threw out one last night, too... In fact, he was one of Obama’s top campaign financiers. Not just “any old protester”...

You can see the thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074263/posts


7 posted on 09/04/2008 9:47:31 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Parley Baer

No doubt... The one tonight, AND Obama’s fundraiser last night. How in the world DID they get in? Would be interesting to find out, that’s for sure...


8 posted on 09/04/2008 9:48:34 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: PeteePie

Didn’t we learn not long ago that the moonbats from the media networks were giving these freaks credentials to get in to these things? I think that was happening at the Iraq hearings.


9 posted on 09/04/2008 9:53:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: LibertyRocks; Parley Baer; FlingWingFlyer

Posted on the LIVE thread tonight...

Protester in the rafters was part of Ron Paul’s counter rally.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=153587

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=153580

They are bragging, Ron Paul delegates got him in.

They are bragging about disrupting..
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=153356


10 posted on 09/04/2008 10:06:18 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: toldyou

Interesting... Thanks for the info. ~ Just goes to show that these particular Ron Paul supporters were WAY more like the Democrats on the outside of the convention than the Republicans on the inside. A bunch of sore losers, IMHO.


11 posted on 09/04/2008 10:08:44 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com ~ Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: toldyou

You mean that guy in the pink tutu was a Ron Paul supporter? I should have known. I guess the pink kind of threw me off.


12 posted on 09/04/2008 10:09:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: toldyou

SOBs


13 posted on 09/04/2008 10:31:14 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: PeteePie


Reavers!!!


 I'm probably being unfair to the Reavers.
14 posted on 09/04/2008 10:43:34 PM PDT by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: toldyou

can I get away with this ?
Piss on Ron Paul and all of his diseased lemming followers


15 posted on 09/04/2008 10:46:58 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

I think so. I commented a few days ago that I wouldn’t pi$$ on him if he were on fire and it stayed up. I am with you, I am really sick of Paul and his loons. I mean, he ran in the primaries, he lost, it is time to unite and fight against the communist. I am tired of giving him a pass. There is no discernible difference in he and the moonbats, where foreign policy is concerned, as far as I can see.


16 posted on 09/04/2008 11:26:50 PM PDT by WildcatClan (The world is full of fatheads; so I invented Diet Shampoo)
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To: PeteePie
My favorite part of the article:

"At about 8 p.m., some 200 protestors walked across the Capitol grounds and onto Marion Street, where police used smoke and flash bangs to deter them from turning onto University Avenue. Panicked protestors fled between cars in the parking lot of the Sears building, and some were met by police with nightsticks and pepper spray."

17 posted on 09/05/2008 12:13:57 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: PeteePie
In short, a stranger might not know this is a democratic town.

When the one police thug pushed the ABC reporter into the street because "the sidewalk was private" (then threatened to arrest him for blocking traffic) and then a cigar-chomping cop was in on the arrest, is it any surprise that Denver is a "democratic" town?

18 posted on 09/05/2008 5:27:33 AM PDT by torchthemummy (The Democrat Media Wears No Clothes)
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To: PeteePie
I've got the solutions to the moonbat whordes

Apply liberally to the moonbats.

19 posted on 09/05/2008 2:36:42 PM PDT by Thunder90
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