Olympia, Washington officials have plenty of experience in dealing with the young antiwar liberals. (Tony Overman/The Olympian)
The Denver police are preparing themselves for the Democratic onslaught in August.
Rocky Mountain News and Drudge reported:
Denver police are stocking up on guns that fire a pepper spray-like substance instead of bullets - a less-lethal weapon used to disperse crowds - in advance of the Democratic National Convention.Slapstick Politics, who has been following the protest news, noted that the liberal group Re-Create 68 said that if confronted with violence by police, members will defend themselves.
The department recently ordered 88 Mark IV launchers and projectiles at a cost "in the low six figures," the company that makes the weapons stated in a news release Monday.
The request was for delivery in advance of the DNC, according to Louisville- based Security With Advanced Technology Inc.
The convention, scheduled for Aug. 25 to 28 at the Pepsi Center, is expected to draw thousands of protesters to sites throughout Denver.
The city received a $50 million federal grant for security. A senior adviser to Mayor John Hickenlooper has said the city plans to spend up to half that amount on equipment, with the rest going to pay officers.
But the city has refused to disclose how it is spending the money, prompting the American Civil Liberties Union last month to file a civil lawsuit.
Recreate 68 has promised demonstrations that will rival those of the Democratic convention in Chicago held in 1968, which was accompanied by street battles between police and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.
The Drunkablog reported that there are rumors that peaceful events are going to be be infiltrated by agent provocateurs who operate under the umbrella of black-ops. There are also reports that Recreate 68 members are threatening to take over the park in downtown Denver.
And, then there is this:
Oh, and apparently there may be a huge surge in child prostitution in the area.What's that about?
The city of Denver is getting ready for the Democrats:
Military choppers fly over Denver in training for the war on terror? (RMN)
Democracy Project wonders if Democrats are cursing the ACLU about now?
Here we go...Domestic Terorism
ReplyDeleteIt's my understanding that a portion of protesters during the Vietnam War were actually paid for their efforts (presumably by the Democratic Party). Paid protesters. Very weird. I'm sure it still gets done today.
ReplyDeleteThat information brought to you by my Uncle; Vietnam veteran, comes home and gets called "murderer" and "baby-killer" by the same people as pictured above. Terrible.
Kristopher Kahn,
ReplyDeleteThe "protesters" at the 2004 Republican convention were bought and paid for in a large part by none other then the "wife" of the Democratic party nominee Teresa Heinz-Kerry. If you read interviews with the actual protesters at that convention you will find that alot of them really did not "know" what they were specifically protesting, they were just told to go to where they were by the protest organizers.
The people who organized those protests is a group called United For Peace and Justice.
Here is a bit of background on them...
UFPJ was officially created on October 25, 2002 in the Washington, DC offices of People For the American Way. Its initial membership consisted of approximately 70 organizations. Prior to UFPJ's founding, the anti-war movement had earned a reputation as a hodgepodge of radical elements. All the large-scale peace demonstrations to that point had been held under the auspices of International ANSWER, an organization aligned with the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party; Global Exchange, headed by the longtime pro-Castro communist Medea Benjamin; and Not In Our Name, a project organized by Ramsey Clark and fellow leaders of the Revolutionary Communist Party. United For Peace and Justice was created explicitly to put a milder face on the anti-war movement, although from its inception UFPJ shared with the aforementioned groups a passionate hatred for the United States and for capitalism.
The Co-Chair and principal leader of UFPJ is Leslie Cagan, an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence (a remnant organization created by the American Communist Party upon going out of business) and a strong supporter of Fidel Castro since the 1960s; Cagan proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba.
The breadth of UFPJ's agendas extends well beyond anti-war activism. Passionately anti-American, this group condemns virtually every aspect of U.S. foreign policy and domestic life. It impugns America's "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled, and so many others." It asserts that "the government treats all immigrants as potential terrorist threats until proven innocent, in violation of the Constitution," thereby "expanding the scope and depth of racial injustice within the U.S."
UFPJ was a co-sponsoring organization of the April 25, 2004 "March for Women's Lives" held in Washington, D.C., a rally that advocated unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
In July 2005, UFPJ joined a coalition including individuals and organizations such as Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem, Code Pink, Not In Our Name, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Culture Project -- who together demanded the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp and an "immediate independent investigation into the widespread allegations of abuse taking place there." On January 11, 2008, UFPJ helped lead a Washington, DC rally again calling for the prison camp's closure. Among the co-sponsors and endorsers were Action LA, After Downing Street, the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Code Pink, Global Exchange, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Peace Majority Report, Progressive Democrats of America, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Veterans For Peace, the War Resisters League, Women Against War, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and World Can't Wait.
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UFPJ has received financial support from the Colombe Foundation, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, the Shefa Fund, the Tides Foundation, and the Town Creek Foundation.
The Tides Foundation is a Teresa Heinz-Kerry/George Soros run operations to launder money and funnel it to radical leftist/anti American organizations.
The Tides Foundation promotes a multitude of leftist agendas, as evidenced by its assertion: "We strengthen community-based organizations and the progressive movement by providing an innovative and cost-effective framework for your philanthropy." Among the crusades to which Tides contributes are: radical environmentalism; the "exclusion of humans from public and private wildlands"; the anti-war movement; anti-free trade campaigns; the banning of firearms ownership; abolition of the death penalty; access to government-funded abortion-on-demand; and radical gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender advocacy. The Foundation is also a member organization of the International Human Rights Funders Group, a network of more than six-dozen grantmakers dedicated to finaning leftwing groups and causes.
Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Tides formed a "9/11 Fund" to advocate a "peaceful national response." Tides later replaced the 9/11 Fund with the "Democratic Justice Fund," which was financed in large measure by the Open Society Institute of George Soros, who has donated more than $7 million to Tides over the years. Reciprocally, the Tides Foundation is a major funder of the Shadow Party, a George Soros-conceived nationwide network of several dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, and which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats.
Tides also set up a Peace Strategies Fund and an Iraq Peace Fund, the latter of which has granted money to such groups as MoveOn.org, the National Council of Churches, the Arab-American Action Network, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the pro-Castro groups United for Peace and Justice and Center for Constitutional Rights. In addition, Tides funds “A Better Way Project,” which coordinates the activities of United for Peace and Justice and the Win Without War Coalition/Keep America Safe Campaign.
"That information brought to you by my Uncle; Vietnam veteran, comes home and gets called "murderer" and "baby-killer" by the same people as pictured above. Terrible."
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry too much about this time around, Kris. We are proud of our friends, relatives and neighbors who are serving, and we won't be bullied by the media and a bunch of moronic actors. Hopefully the first hippie that spits on a veteran, or yells out "baby killer" will get a beat down so fierce, that it will ruin their dope stash, and require them to eat their vegetarian meals through a straw for quite some time. I know that down here in Texas, doing such a thing will be taking ones life in ones hands. Praise the Lord, and pass the ammo.
Nahanni:
ReplyDeleteGet the hell out of here! That's crazy, this is some great information!
Anon:
Damn right.
Remember the U.S. Supreme Court decision...TAKE NO PRISONERS ! Kill 'em all!
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