Observations from GOP Convention & Ron Paul Liberty event
Part 1 of 3
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
By Devvy Kidd
NewsWithViews.com
Day One: September 1, 2008
Traffic in and out of St. Paul was a night mare to put it mildly. Never have
I seen so many cops decked out in full battle gear with "big, bad
attitude" rounding out their presence. After finding a parking
garage not too far from the Xcel Energy Center, I proceeded to walk
around to get the feel of the area. Rice Park, in close proximity to
the Xcel Center, seemed to draw the most people on a consistent basis
throughout the four days. MSNBC had their tent set up for live broadcasting.
From there it was three blocks to the area where demonstrators would
be allowed to exercise their First Amendment right "of the people
peaceably to assemble."
This pdf file contains lots of
pictures; sequence begins with the "Anarchists" and then
on to the big herd. As I was waiting for the "Anarchists,"
I watched the groups of police. It was very hot and humid that day;
their uniforms and gear must have weighed 50 pounds. One thing I observed
was most of these police units were young men, only the "commanders"
appeared to be over 40. Without exception, all of them were stone faced.
No smiles. They refused to answer even a question about directions.
Dead eyes, just like Comrade Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro,
aka Barry Obama, aka Barack Dunham, and aka Barry Dunham. A few of the
cops giving traffic assistance over near Rice Park did respond and every
one of them were imported; Texas, Ohio, Illinois and other states.
Yes, one can understand, based on past behavior, that some of these protester
groups were there to deliberately cause trouble, but it was the 'deadness'
of the cops that bothered me. Almost zombie like, no courtesy was extended
to anyone. All were considered domestic terrorists. They stood there
holding massive fire power (rifles) and if you tried to turn the street
on the sidewalk to get away from the protesters, this big, 6'5"
hulk with that black rifle looked you in the eye, said get back and
he meant it. I'm sure at 5'3" and 115 pounds I represented a huge
threat to him. I know how local law enforcement have been trained since
OKC. The indoctrination propaganda (guerilla mentality) courtesy of
the big rip off organization known as the Southern
"Poverty" Law Center and the ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
who spy on Americans.
Local law enforcement across this country are being paramilitarized
and it's a damn dangerous direction that must stop.
Just before these idiots who bill themselves as "the Anarchists"
arrived, all the hyped up, battle ready police began an intimidation
exercise. They formed lines, took out their batons and snapped them
this way and that. I guess to limber up for heads to crack. What appeared
to be the big chief directed "Delta Company" to "get
ready." Very military like formations. You could hear the Anarchists
long before they got to the block where I was standing. When they finally
did go by, their music was so loud and obnoxious, it would blow your
ear drums off. Lots of the F word, lots of yelling, mostly profanity,
scarves over their faces. Most looked like they needed a good meal.
These foolish individuals - no doubt some of them on the FBI's payroll
- were there to cause trouble, not assemble peacefully. They reminded
me of a bunch of snotty, spoiled teens just itching to see how far they
could break the rules before getting grounded.
Once that bunch did their thing and disappeared around the corner, the cops
went into stand down mode. I know there were riots and a lot of arrests,
but I was not in the area at that time. Who needs the misery? As I waited
for the next bunch to make their way from the Capitol area, I walked
down the block and spotted a couple of civilians standing with cops.
I walked up to them and asked the one man if he worked for Blackwater
who are little better than paid mercenaries running amok. This man
was tall, wearing Docker type pants and a golf shirt with the logo,
Defense Technology. He looked me in the eye and again that day, I looked
into dead eyes. He refused to answer, so I told him that was fine, I'd
look up his company on the Internet. Defense
Technology ("We go in first.") is a company that provides
chemicals to spray on protesters, gas masks (you'll see them in the
photos I took) and "specialty impact" crowd control weapons.
Stoneface was obviously there as a field man to see how his company's
products worked.
The next load of protesters came up the street --- about eight thousand
five hundred of them. Wave after wave of, well, mostly end the war folks
mixed with loons. It appeared that the City of St. Paul simply forced
all the groups with permits to march at the same time. One group carried
signs (see the pictures) to end the war because Somali's need food.
Oh, good. Another large group were illegals with what appeared to be
lawyers marching and shouting with them. Their very large banner was
"Equality for all workers!" (Translated: those who sneak across
the border and steal jobs that rightfully and legally belong to Americans)
and at the bottom it read: Welfarerights.org.
If you go over to that site, you'll see they link to the Communist Party's
web site as well as their sister organizations, Progressive Democrats
of America and United for Peace and Social Justice.
Another group walked along shouting and chanting "This is what democracy
looks like," declaring to the world they're too stupid to know
our legal form of government. This ignorant bunch carried signs sponsored
by Socialists of America. About 1,000 bodies later came a serious looking
group carrying a huge banner: Military families against the war. The
entire theme was to get America out of the war in Iraq with lots of
other issues sandwiched in between: "we" demand health care,
free Palestine and so forth. I know that in their hearts, thousands
of these protesters sincerely want America out of these unconstitutional,
immoral invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. So do I.
But, it appeared that many of these protesters really have no clue about
the U.S. Constitution and what they were chanting about. The cops were
spread out in full array, but didn't seem much disturbed by this massive
train of protesters as they were with the Anarchists. One copper rode
by on his bike slowly and said to his fellow officer, "Hey, what
can we do? They have a permit." They both started laughing.
Since I was wearing a media tag around my neck, people were more than willing
to give me their opinion and I'm very good at listening. One couple,
a man in his early 60s with the big stomach and a woman who let herself
run to fat, were holding a sign in support of Juan McCain. I asked the
man if I could ask him a question, but if he didn't want to answer,
that would be okay. He replied go ahead. I asked him if he voted for
McCain in the primary; his response was no. I then asked him why would
he support McCain now if he didn't want him as president when he voted
for another candidate in his primary? "Because he's the party's
choice and a good one." This man is part of the voices of America's
destruction.
Blind loyalty to a political party. I titled my booklet on vote fraud, Blind
Loyalty, back in 1996 and this cancer has only spread over the past
12 years. This fellow got the feeling that I didn't not support McCain
and came straight out and asked me. I replied that when I am working
as a journalist, I do not offer up my personal opinions, I'm here to
gather yours and from other Americans. He didn't like that and his attitude
was saturated in the crowds: If you didn't support McCain, go to Hell.
Anger, boiling, waiting. You could feel it in the air.
The stars were also out and about. While waiting for the second group of
protesters, actor John Voight walked by and I exchanged a hello with
him. A bit later, I let Jon Stewart get close enough walking by to say
a hello to him; I've never watched his show, but I understand he has
a large following. I walked by just about every anchor on cable networks.
Big whoop. Bill Hemmer, part of the stable of fact challenged anchors
on FAUX News surprised me by being very short - just slightly taller
than me. I said hello to him, but he just looked at me and my friend
(an alternate delegate), kind of snorted and continued on his way. Guess
I didn't have the right pedigree. I wanted to ask him why FAUX refuses
to cover
Obama's communist roots and McCain's
sell out of our POW/MIAs, but it would have been a waste of time.
Just one big party and social extravaganza at a cost of $100 MILLION dollars
slapped on the backs of the American people for security. Congress allocated
$100 MILLION dollars that doesn't exist and has to be borrowed to protect
these private parties (DNC and RNC conventions). The
treasury is overdrawn $9.6 TRILLION dollars, yet these irresponsible
maniacs in Congress -BOTH parties - once again steal the fruits of your
labor to fund events held by private organizations. Let the RNC and
DNC foot the bill for their parties. How would you like it if I decided
to put on a big shindig at the Houston Astrodome and you were forced
to pay for security for my event? Same thing. It doesn't matter if those
two events had lots of big shots and members of Congress, Americans
should not be forced to pay expenses for these conventions. Both Obama
and McCain have MILLIONS on their coffers as do the RNC and DNC. Let
them pay for security, not the families out in America struggling to
put food on the table, provide clothing, shelter and things like dental
work for their children.
I mingled for hours and it was disheartening to listen to all of these
potential voters express their opinions about health care when they
know nothing about the restrictions placed upon Congress regarding such
legislation and that Congress
ruined the finest health care system in the world. People have no
idea the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic.
They know nothing about our monetary system, but believe mother government
is there to bail out their bacon when they default on their mortgage.
I did what I could, handing out my card and asking some well meaning
and concerned folks to go to my site and read my columns on these various
issues. The Federal Department of Education's goal to dumb down America
has been a resounding success.
There were a lot of Ron Paul supporters both at the protest site and nearer
to the Xcel Center. I suppose the protesters felt they got their day,
but the routes they were forced to take took them so far away from the
convention site, only delegates who wanted to see them were exposed
to their chanting and signs. Those delegates who stayed in St. Paul
would approach the Xcel Center straight up the street to Rice Park and
into the secure zone. I took the shuttle from my hotel and it drops
you on the "back side" away from all the action; it's really
the main entrance for other events.
When I finished up, it was time to head back to my hotel, about 15 miles
south of the city and away from the madding crowd before my next appointments.
Well, that was beyond a challenge since the police had all the streets
blocked off and sent you literally in circles for an hour. Keystone
is a word that comes to mind.
Later I went to meet with one of the Texas delegates, picked up an alternate
Washington State delegate and headed to the Target Center in Minneapolis,
site of the Ron Paul Liberty event to be held the next day. There I
met up with Jeff Lowrance, publisher of the USA Tomorrow. And, was I
blown away! Jeff and his volunteers were completing putting a copy of
the special convention edition of USA
Tomorrow along with the first issue on every seat in the Target
Center! Ten thousand of them. The set up was well underway getting ready
for Tuesday and it was really wonderful to stand there and watch the
preparations and feel the excitement.
By the time I finished up for the day and got back to my hotel - it was
lights out! For part two click below.
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Learning Links:<
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- Paid
mercenaries in Iraq
2 - The
Militarization of the American Police
3 - Real
Homeland Security
4 - America
is NOT a democracy
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Over
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2, Ron
Paul Supporters Mistreated During RNC Convention
Devvy left the Republican
Party in 1996 and has been an independent voter ever since. She isn't
left, right or in the middle; she is a constitutionalist who believes
in the supreme law of the land, not some political party. Her web site
(www.devvy.com) contains a tremendous
amount of information, solutions and a vast Reading Room.
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