09.02.2008 9:39 am
Missouri conventioneers encounter protesters
Special to the Post-Dispatch
ST. PAUL — While the Republican presidential convention got underway Monday inside the Xcel Center, police and protesters tangled outside.
Some accounts reported estimates of up to 10,000 protesters, most of them against the war in Iraq, who took to St. Paul’s streets. Some got violent, with reports of bricks tossed into buses containing delegates from Connecticut and Florida.
Protesters had been a presence in the city since Saturday, but generally those earlier encounters were noisy but peaceful.
St. Louis Election Board chairwoman Carol Wilson relates the encounter that she and several Missouri delegates had on Sunday with a protester.
Freaking idiots.
Not a word published about the bleach thrown at delegates, the sandbags thrown onto buses. Or the CT delegation that had two people go to the hospital after being attacked.
Last week the nuts on the right prayed for rain. This week the left is attacking people. The Post deemed the prayers newsworthy…
Also not reported was that PD’s left wing columnist Ellen Goodman was one of the anti-war protestors arrested yesterday. These people are disgraceful.
Anybody else just waiting for D. Walker, CLARK, Timothy E. Hogan to blame the Obama Anarchists on Karl Rove ??
http://www.nypost.com/photos/galleries/news/nationalnews/pp_20080902_rnc_protest/photo08.htm
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Amy Goodman was arrested.
There’s been some confusion out there — it was Amy and not Ellen.
Amy is 6 degrees kookier than Ellen.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/democracy_now_host_and_produce.html
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The police need to put away the mace and bring out the tasers or even some lead.
Yeah, I went to the McCain/Palin rally on Sunday. I thanked the Secret Service man who was working Security. He told me he really liked Saint Louis and it was much nicer than Denver where he had been. He said those nuts were mean.
Yes…there is no excuse for throwing anything at anyone, but, more importantly, it’s simply disgusting to demonstrate against a party and regime that has presided over the Iraq debacle, the failure to capture Osama Bin Laden or do what was necessary to emasculate Al Qaeda, the failed “No Child Left Behind,” a partisan Justice Dept., total failure to act on our energy impotence, failure to protect Americans through oversight of imported items, total emasculation of environmental regulations, the worst economy in years…yes, what were those people thinking of??