Breaking: Downtown Palo Alto California sealed off by Police as Black Clothed Gang Rampages

eyewitness | may 20, 2005 | beebuster2000

[beebuster2000]

Just leaving the movies in downtown Palo Alto. Cops are all over, sealing off the two main streets. Gang of black dressed punks just tore thru breaking stuff up. Still on the rampage. Every cop in Palo alto and Menlo seems to be on the streets. All traffic diverted. Developing.

[onyx]

WOW! Absolutely agree. That's awesome.

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IndyMedia

Doesn't Soros own that? And wasn't that the same one the FBI raided and took their computers during the presidential race?

[RandallFlagg]

Excellent ideas, however...

Add a colored dye to the water, give em 30 seconds to disperse or be dyed.

Their lawyers'd probably call this, "Entrapment."
It IS California, ya know.

[Lancey Howard]

these seem to be really bad people, destruction and chaos. the cops look pretty serious and are loaded up big time.

Are cops in California still allowed to arrest people and stuff?

[NY Attitude]

Probably be a case for the ACLU for police abuse by forcing them to take vigorous baths trying to rid the dye off of their skin.

[Squantos]

Probably is waaaaaaaaaay out on limb but I understand what yer saying. Thus the 30 second rule we used. Cease and depart or you dye (sic).......make their ass red, their day blue and their spines yellow as the piss running down their legs when someone really stands up to them and stops em with a shovel full of hurt. Time to get medevil IMO.....

[onyx]

I can't get your comments out of my mind.

The dye tactic must not pass PC muster, huh?

I mean, it's such an effective method of dealing with all thugs, punks and anarchists.

[I_like_good_things_too]

I loved watching Maurice Chevalier there. Thanks for the reminder!

[D-fendr]

Man, if the organized anarchists ever join up with the militant apathists, we're in big trouble...

[Squantos]

Actually it was our response for demonstrations and protests at the AF gates during the 70's and 80's....never saw too many protests at the gates in the 90's. It "was" a standard operating procedure aka SOP for the Security Police Riot Controls. They still used stomp and drag with a 36 inch riot baton last I can remember. When I first went in I was a puppy pusher K9, before I retrained into EOD. We used bayonets on the ends of M16's that had been modified with a small metal stop between the grip and receiver to preclude the use of it full auto feature. Trouble with bayonets was that back row of bad guys didn't care what happened to front row of bad guys and would shove them onto the point of our bayonets.

The thing I didn't like was the short bayonets that would only hold two protesters at once...dang it !........:o)

The dye was used......saw it , did it , laughed my ass off.

[wildcatf4f3]

very good

[nw_arizona_granny]

There was nothing at 10 PM, but then I turned them off.

Have KGO back on, will check the 11 PM news.

Strange that KGO has not picked up on the traffic report.

But then Dr. Bill was filling in, they wouldn't want him to comment on the commies actions. LOL

[BillF]

I don't think that Soros owns it, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was contributing to various of the IndyMedia sites.

IndyMedia was started by leftists after they felt shortchanged by the press reporting of the Seattle anti-globalization riots of 1999. Those riots were widely believed to have been spear-headed by the Ruckus Society (anarchists funded by another rich person, a woman millionare, forget her name) and planned by Medea Benjamin (Commie trust fund baby who used her bucks to start Global Exchange, and later founded Code Pink, Iraqi Occupation Watch, and numerous other front groups).

It's quite possible that Benjamin was a force in starting IndyMedia, but I don't know that for sure.

DC Chapter has had numerous encounters with Medea Benjamin including in Fayetteville, NC this spring when NC FReepers organized a great counter-protest to an "antiwar" rally. More recently, counter-protesting Code Pink's obscene blood dance outside Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC, we had a lengthy upclose series of debates with her per below linked thread. Also, see photo below. When I saw her bring the only flag that the leftists had, I thought she wanted to borrow some matches.

You can read of our upclose encounter with Benjamin, including photos and sound files by clicking here.

BufordP poses with Medea Benjamin.

[SmithL]

I was in Palo Alto today. I'm especially glad to be back on this side of the Bay.

[onyx]

LOL! Short bayonettes only held two punks simultaneously. LOL.

I remain impressed (awed really) by the dye tactic. It must be the PC element that prohibits its use. It's too darn effective otherwise.

[Pro-Bush]

Check out KCBS 740 - "all news all the time". I am in Sacramento area, can't get it.

[Bogey78O]

Live ammunition. Give them a taste of anarchy.

[Squantos]

Actually the LAPD and other LEO agencies use the paintball guns to "mark" the leadership or "directors" of the street theater for arrest to this very day I believe. A surgical use of the dye from vantage points above so their apprehension teams can wade in and remove the head from the snake per se....

Better to just mark little Bill and Betty than wash down the entire downtown street front in dye IMHO.....

Stay safe !

[nw_arizona_granny]

I am in NW Arizona, and also have trouble getting KCBS.

[KneelBeforeZod]

do you live in Paly? I live near California Ave...

I saw a sheriff and paly cop zooming off somwhere about 920pm...

looked like some kind of event at stanfUrd tonight.

I've been expecting things to blow up one day. Unlike a few years ago, downtown is full of idiots blasting theire radios up and down University Ave on weekends.

Miyake used to be a fun place, now its full of punks on the weekend.