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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Police State Shows Its Face in Minneapolis
By Host @ 5:29 PM :: 149 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Front Page, Minnesota Area News
 

An article from 911Truth.org:  

We encourage readers to pay close attention to this next week's events in Minneapolis, site of the upcoming Republican National Convention, and be prepared to help activists who may need assistance. Already, activists who have spent two years preparing to express the will of the People during the convention, are being rounded up, personal belongings seized, doors broken down with guns drawn, food from Food Not Bombs taken ... Glenn Greenwald is blogging this at Salon (partial entry below): "[B]oth journalists and lawyers -- in addition to protesters -- have been detained and arrested even though not a single violent or criminal act has occurred. We direct your attention also to Twin Cities Indymedia for moment to moment updates and Indymedia.us and the i-Witness Video Blog for more. As always, we must BE the MEDIA right now. Please pass along this information so that others will be informed, and able to help as it's needed. Information will be posted at these Indymedia sites to clarify what's useful. We are grateful to know that the National Lawyers Guild has sent legal observers, as they have for most actions of dissent in the last many years. (Thanks, NLG!!) At this point, i-Witness has requested, "We are asking the public to contact the office of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman at 651-266-8510 to stop this house arrest, this gross intimidation by police officers, and the detention of media activists and reporters."

 

It is imperative that we let the powers that be know, without any doubt, that the nation's eyes are upon them--both in Minneapolis, and as events begin unfolding in Mississippi and Louisiana with Hurricane Gustav approaching. Already Blackwater has put out a call for security personnel to respond to the POTENTIAL disaster, and Bush has issued federal emergencies for both states. In light of what happened just three years ago, we must be alert, watchful, and ready to respond in whatever ways become needed. I'm sure legal funds will be needed in Minneapolis, and we've seen many examples of court systems make the right decisions when they start getting thousands of calls from around the nation. Please keep an eye on watch Indymedia and Glenn Greenwald for more.

To read the entire article click:   http://911truth.org/article.php?story=2008083133051598

 

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