They Say / We Say: Not A Good Welcoming Committee For The RNC

The Founders Warned Us About Some One Some Time...Could Be Right About Now.

"The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
It serves always to distract the public councils and feeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves with in their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

…George Washington’s Farewell Address…

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Aug 31, 2008

Not A Good Welcoming Committee For The RNC

Posted by TS/WS at 12:11 AM

This group of protesters from the Twin Cities area, have been headed off at the pass. The Sheriff of Ramsey County, the FBI, Hennepin County, and Minneapolis Police raided a building, and residential homes of these protesters.
Spikes for flattening tires of the buses, the delegates would be riding to the convention, blocking the bridges between ST. Paul and Minneapolis, were some of their plans.
Here is a video of the groups propaganda.

This act of violence by the police, may only be a hint of violence to come Monday and beyond, supposedly said by the group.
Is this a preemptive strike against free speech?
Did the Authorities have enough to head these protester off at the pass?