Protesting in Denver at the DNC

[Thunderbroom]

DENVER -- To the uninformed visitor, it has become difficult to tell whether Denver is preparing for a Democratic National Convention or the institution of martial law. Helicopters filled with armed commandos swooped over downtown in a training exercise earlier this summer. A warehouse was converted into a temporary jail with chain-link fences and signs threatening the use of electric stun devices. Travel agents sold getaway packages to locals, with one company imploring residents to "escape town while you still can."

 

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So who exactly is expected to be protesting at the DNC? What is it that they are protesting? Are these pro-life groups? Is it the "I LUV GWB Fanclub"?

[NoirAbattoir]

The Democratic party has been hijacked by corporate interests over the past 30 years. It no longer represents the working-class, it's serving corporate greed now. Most garden-variety democrats have no clue about this, and don't really even care. Hardcore liberals, however, are pissed off and getting more and more sick of the two-party system and what it's done to our country.

 

Don't let all the barbed wire and chain link make you assume people will be violent. On the contrary, most hardcore liberals who will be there protesting abhor violence. All of this is a ruse to justify caging protestors as a preventive measure, when in fact it's just corralling them away from where all the cameras will be for the faux news coverage the DNC will receive.

[ezstep]

It is interesting that Hillary's name will be added to the candidates to be considered...even though it is meant to show respect to Hilary, it might just the catalyst that some need to disrupt the convention.

 

And, yes, usually Dem party protests are from within the Dem party itself.

 

It doesn't affect me one way or the other...as I won't be watching neither the Dem nor the Rep Conventions.

[ec437]

I wanna see some serious drama go down. That would make me happy.

[J.]

There are a few groups that are rumored to already be planning for violent protests. One of those is "Recreate '68," named of course for what went down at the Democratic National Convention that year. Strangely enough, a lot of the groups are radical leftists, dissastifed with the Democrat's lack of progress on its key issues (pulling out of Iraq, national healthcare, etc).

 

The RNC will have no shortage of wacky protest groups. There's one here in Saint Paul that wants to protest and call for "treason" and "war crimes" trials for Bush/Cheney and other members of the administration. They applied for a parade/protest route and were granted one, but sued the city because they didn't think it was good enough. They lost the lawsuit in short order and were basically told "use the route we gave you." The very next day they said they were going to storm the Xcel Center (where the RNC is being held this year) regardless if they had a permit or not.

[RIC N BACKER]

 

DENVER -- To the uninformed visitor, it has become difficult to tell whether Denver is preparing for a Democratic National Convention or the institution of martial law. Helicopters filled with armed commandos swooped over downtown in a training exercise earlier this summer. A warehouse was converted into a temporary jail with chain-link fences and signs threatening the use of electric stun devices. Travel agents sold getaway packages to locals, with one company imploring residents to "escape town while you still can." Full story So who exactly is expected to be protesting at the DNC? What is it that they are protesting? Are these pro-life groups? Is it the "I LUV GWB Fanclub"?

 

 

 

 

I am pretty sure Bobby Kennedy would have liked a bit of tighter security.....

 

you never know when a nut or a CIA plant is lurking around a corner

[Crescent Seven]

I don't expect the "mainstream" protest groups (Recreate 68, Tent State, etc.) to be the ones causing violence.

 

Remember, it wasn't the moms that dressed their kids up as turtles at the WTC in Seattle in 99 that rioted. It was the {censored}heads from Portland that marched into town mixed in with them. That's who they're expecting violence from.

 

ALSO, in case the mainstream media didn't tell you, a week or so ago, they found a Somali muslim from Ottawa dead in a downtown Denver hotel with A POUND AND A HALF of powdered cyanide, $2500 cash, and a pre-paid cellphone. He had an open ended reservation, and they haven't disclosed who made it or who paid for it...

 

If you go out my street to Colfax Ave, and turn left, it's about 6 miles to downtown Denver. THANK GOD.

C7

[NeonVomit]

I'm sure the sideshow will be interesting. Sort of like the stalls you get around a festival.

 

Politics here are so boring. That's why we all follow US stuff

[Crescent Seven]

I'm sure the sideshow will be interesting. Sort of like the stalls you get around a festival. Politics here are so boring. That's why we all follow US stuff

 

{censored} the DNC. It's actually going to cost me money for them to be here this week, through lost work and time.

It was made about 10x worse when Obama decided to move his {censored}ing Cult of Personality show to Mile High Stadium; now they're going to close the interstate 3 or 4 times this week while they shuttle Obama's underqualified punk ass back and forth from the Pepsi Center.

 

Then you have the protest groups, and the city of Denver has drop kicked that hornet's nest a few dozen times now, so there's already tension for the cops to deal with, very few local businesses got contracts with the DNCC because they were treating it like a {censored}ing charity case and asking business owners to donate goods and services, the DNCC has tried to get Denver to bring in more limousines because there apparently aren't enough in Denver for all their delegates to ride around in on borrowed money...I could go on and on about this {censored}ing abomination.

 

It would be better if the dems weren't trying to celebrity-prop a total {censored}ing hackjob as a candidate...

C7

[ThudMaker]

The protesters are just upset that Hugo Chavez isn't available for the DNC. If you saw footage from the little protest yesterday, when given the opportunity to discuss what they were protesting, they simply cursed or flipped the cameraman off.

[Crescent Seven]

The protesters are just upset that Hugo Chavez isn't available for the DNC. If you saw footage from the little protest yesterday, when given the opportunity to discuss what they were protesting, they simply cursed or flipped the cameraman off.

 

That's why I can't stand protesters. Half of them can't elucidate what the {censored} it is they're protesting against, they just want to be there, be "part of something".

Then you have the Badge of Honor protesters, the ones that, if the cops don't arrest them, they go tip over a portapotty so they'll get arrested, and can tell all their protester buddies that their First Amendment rights were violated by The Man.

 

I wanna see firehoses and tear gas canisters used on these clowns as much as the next guy, but even more than that, I'd love to see them get totally, completely ignored, so they start throwing temper tantrums, and THEN get the firehose.

C7

[1tallbassguy]

There will also be a group protesting the US government hijacking by the globalists. The fact that Obama, his top advisor, Zbignew Brezinski and J. Biden are all members of CFR, is a point that they take issue with.

They are resolved to be peaceful though, and will be in a permitted area.

 

There is fear that provocateurs will be placed in among the protestors is also a concern, and is to be expected. These folks pose as protestors, and then start up the violence. Then the news media reports that the groups are responsible for the violence. Anything the establishment can do to silence the dissenters.

[Perfessor]

Hill-a-ry! Hill-a-ry!

[T. Alan Smith]

Hill-a-ry! Hill-a-ry!

 

[ThudMaker]

Lots of Dems feel that way. We'll see if the convention heals the big divide or not. If not, McCain will win the election in November.

[Sonic1]

Why does everyone keep suggesting that the Democrats are trying to shove Obama down everyone's throats? I'm pretty sure that every democrat who wanted to run for president (9 people), were given the same oppertunity during initial debates and state caucuses and elections. We CHOSE Obama from all 9! Us! Of course now that we chose him, the Democratic machine is gonna kick in and push our/their guy... WTF???

[ThudMaker]

Why does everyone keep suggesting that the Democrats are trying to shove Obama down everyone's throats? I'm pretty sure that every democrat who wanted to run for president (9 people), were given the same oppertunity during initial debates and state caucuses and elections. We CHOSE Obama from all 9! Us! Of course now that we chose him, the Democratic machine is gonna kick in and push our/their guy... WTF???

Well you need to look at it like the last few POTUS elections. Even though there was a winner, it was so close, it's hard to say there was a "mandate" or anything like "He's our guy." Hillary gave him a close run and has almost 50% of the delegates. That's huge. A lot of those Hillary voters aren't interested in Obama's candidacy. If you take a look at the Hillary voter demographics vs. the Obama voter demographics, you would see it's not as simple as you're making it out to be.

[hawkhuff]

What is it that they are protesting? Are these pro-life groups? Is it the "I LUV GWB Fanclub"?

 

They are protesting everything. They are nothing more than rent-a-mobs who stand for not much of anything.

 

Really, why would anyone want to watch either convention?

 

It will be a bunch of government employees on the loose having drunken parties while performing lewd acts and generally carrying on like circus freaks that they are.

 

The purpose of the convention was to select the nominee and the running mate for the next election while putting together a 'new' platform. And why would we watch something that has already been decided and continuously expressed? Why would we watch something that will be another re-run of some bad movie that sucked the first twenty times shown?

 

The press is trying to gin up interest and drama among the electorate by reporting the big showdown at the convention between Hitlery and Obiden. Please, it is nothing more than another dem party sham. :bor:

 

The rep convention will be the same if not worse as they will be putting forth their own 'new' liberal agenda. :blah:

 

Perhaps I've witnessed far too many conventions.

[hawkhuff]

 

There will also be a group protesting the US government hijacking by the globalists. The fact that Obama, his top advisor, Zbignew Brezinski and J. Biden are all members of CFR, is a point that they take issue with. They are resolved to be peaceful though, and will be in a permitted area. There is fear that provocateurs will be placed in among the protestors is also a concern, and is to be expected. These folks pose as protestors, and then start up the violence. Then the news media reports that the groups are responsible for the violence. Anything the establishment can do to silence the dissenters.

 

 

Absolutely none of this is news.

 

Heard it all before except this time the 'provocateurs' will be, of course, reps planted to foment the disgruntled. This will be reported by the lib media.

[~Abstract~]

Both party's are bowing to corporate greed.

 

Vote NOTA.

[Dave Campbell]

I wonder if NOTA was an option of the ballot, wouldn't it be something if NOTA won?!

 

It would be a vote of non-confidence.

[hawkhuff]

Both party's are bowing to corporate greed. Vote NOTA.

 

You've got it bass ackwards.

 

The government attendees at these conventions (government) ARE the epitome of naked unbridled greed. In fact, they are far worse than the corporations.

 

The true definition of wind fall profit IS government. They call them taxes, fees, licensing, administrative costs...... yadda..yadda...yadda. Wind fall by any other name.

 

Let's face it. The conventions which we pay for are not about us, they are about the government types and their press ass buddies. Literally and figuratively.

 

I hope the place gets torn apart THEN the entertainment would begin. More riots the better. Politics is a blood sport, so they say, so let's have some.

[TheBurkMan]

Ward Churchill the pride of liberal academia is there. I'm sorry he wasn't the nominee.

 

I wonder if Obamas brother (George Hussein Onyango Obama) will speak at the convention. He has the living wage of a dollar a day income as he lives in a shanty town in Nairobi. Perhaps the protesters will set up a shanty town to commemorate the "hope" his brother brought him. You'd think Obama could at least come up with 12$ to double the guys income. He only made 4.5 million last year.

[King Kashue]

 

Ward Churchill the pride of liberal academia is there.

 

 

In five years in Academia, I've met plenty of people who will defend the necessity of protecting a professor's controversial speech (most would), but I've yet to find anyone who doesn't think Churchill is a gigantic asshole who should learn that just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

[Crescent Seven]

I hope the place gets torn apart THEN the entertainment would begin. More riots the better. Politics is a blood sport, so they say, so let's have some.

 

I love my city, I don't want to see ANYTHING get torn apart. Obama is going to lose the election, we don't need to add destruction of property to my town to the list of casualties, because I have to pay for it.

 

C7