Posted on 09/06/2008 9:00:20 AM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
Day 4
Day: Thursday
Location: Capitol
Arrests: 400
Percussion grenades, tear gas and nearly 400 arrests marked the final anti-war march during the Republican National Convention. More than 800 arrests were reported during a week of sometimes peaceful, sometimes violent dissent.
Anti-war protesters rallied Thursday at the state Capitol and then planned to march to Xcel Energy Center, where Sen. John McCain was due to accept the GOP presidential nomination. But their permit had expired, and police -- in riot gear and using horses, snow plows and dump trucks -- blocked their way.
For hours, police let the protesters amble from one blocked intersection to another. But then the arrests began in earnest. At least 19 journalists, including two reporters from The Associated Press, were among those held by police.
Two Texas men were charged in federal court in Minneapolis Friday with illegally possessing Molotov cocktails...
(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...
These are domestic terrorists not anti anything but maybe soap!
Can you LEGALLY possess them?
Twenty-two-year-old David Guy McKay and 23-year-old Bradley Neil Crowder are each charged with one count of possession of firearms that were not registered to them."
Actually, the charge is "26 U.S.C. §§ 5841, 5861(d) -- Possession of an Unregistered Destructive Device."
They're in for quite a shock at the Federal penalties they face if these anarchists were only thinking that they were in possession of glass bottles and some gasoline as if they were only violating city fireworks ordinances.
They're probably going to prison for several years with a quarter million dollar fine on top of it unless these guys were licensed C2-C7/SOTs who filed a Form 5320.20 with the BATFE for transporting NFA items for the expressed purpose of demonstrating Molotov Cocktails to a gathering of MN law enforcement officials with the Chief LEO's permission.
Boy, are they hosed. Lots of readers on various Internet machine gun collectors' forums are watching to see what becomes of these screwballs.
The scourge of society came out to cause trouble and anyone who watched from a tube never knew they were there.
They spent their “precious” time, money and energy only to end up being ignored, arrested and facing court time at a later date. What a success.
Odds are the perps will get a slap on the wrist and admonished not to engage in such behavior with unregistered Molotov cocktails in the future.
I personally think they're boned. BATFE has them cold unless their lawyer can find some way to prove illegal seizure or that there is reasonable doubt they were in possession of them.
... and good bloody luck with that.
Only if it has an umbrella sticking out of the bottle, and you drink it. ;-)
Has anyone figured out if the Code Pink protesters who interrupted John McCain’s speech got in with the help of MSNBC or with the help of Ron Paul delegates? Those were the two theories being advanced.
As much as it would tickle many of us to see you get ten years in the Federal penitentiary and a $250,000 fine for just *making* a Molotov Cocktail, I'm here to warn you away from doing such a damn fool thing. You may be a young person who will regret your one silly moment as an anarchist screwball for the rest of your life if you're caught making improvised explosives. The penalty is way worse than you think it is, even if you already know it's probably 'bad'.
God help you if you actually throw one at a cop, never mind if anyone is hurt or worse or any property is damaged by even a nickel's worth of value.
There is practically zero defense to charges like these. Whatever the BATFE charges you with, you're going to be found guilty of, and that's that. ATF makes no distinction between a homemade Molotov Cocktail and a genuine hand grenade or a bazooka rocket or a 10,000-pound fertilizer bomb. Mere illicit possession is the same charge in all cases, but actually using one means going to prison for the long, long stretch. Making, transporting, using, using with intent to harm... they're all separate compounding charges. You'll go up the river forever and not even President Chelsea Clinton in the year 2044 will commute your sentence.
Min 5 years hard time, no “good behavior.” And not in a Club Fed.
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