The repression in the Twin Cities begins!

It happens every 4 years, peeps!

In whichever city the Republicans happen to hold their little brownshirt gathering, they always deputize the entire city government to carry out their dirty work. The whole city seems to be deeded out to them.

Without fail, the result is always unconstitutional suppression of dissent. Always. At least in this decade. It happened in New York in 2004 and Philadelphia in 2000.

Promises to the contrary notwithstanding, America is about to be treated to a big, stinky, wafto-like repeat. In preparation (H) for this year's looming Republican National Convention, police in St. Paul raided a rental hall used by protesters.

Nobody was arrested, but an army of about 30 cops temporarily detained at gunpoint and photographed over 50 people in the building.

The police claim they were executing a search warrant. For what??? Because BushAmerica is a dictatorship, they refuse to say for what. In other words, folks were detained without even being told why.

They had 30 cops with their guns drawn just to photograph 50 people who weren't even doing anything wrong!

If I was one of the people who was detained, I would be hounding the authorities until I got answers as to why. Someone said it was a fire code violation, but that's bunk gas. A rental hall would surely hold 50 without violating the fire code. If it was a fire code violation, wouldn't you try to get people out of the building instead of bringing in 30 officers and detaining everyone?

All this after the city said they'd leave protesters alone (which turned out to be a lie).

How many more examples do we need to show America has become an authoritarian command state?

(Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/30/rnc.protest)