This weekend, the news was marred with protests in St. Paul Minnesota. Rather, police raids on "suspected protesters." I don't understand how you can suspect someone of protesting, it's not that hard to figure it out. Either they are protesting, violently protesting, or gathered together in the privacy of their home and not protesting.
Dennis I think summed it up well.
I was outraged when I read this. Who trained these officers? Certainly not Oceania's finest. How do they not know the proper ways to arrest suspected protesters? Where's the tear gas, the dogs? Where are the fire hoses?
At least bring along your M-16 rifles so you can smack the hippies when they get smart and open their mouths about their first amendment rights.
You know, the first amendment, the one that says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.Or that pesky fourteenth amendment that extends these restrictions of government to the state and local governments:
... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.That's what the rifle butt is for. Just smash the god-hating commie's teeth in, that'll shut him up.
Update: It's not just the local law enforcement, it seems the Feds are getting in on the fun too.
2 comments:
oh how I love that most versatile of amendments, the 1st! Good for use against everything from repression of protesters to the establishment of theocracy!
Apparently not. The press is getting arrested, and brutally so, the city seems to be under martial law, and it's getting no coverage from mainstream media whatsoever. People are content with innane conversation over Palin's daughter, that's all that's in the news this weekend.
What was it that was recently on the Governor's lips?
"If it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me?"
Let's rehash that one a bit, with a little less idiocy, and little more regard for history and what we as a nation stand for.
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