Paranoia stalks Bush rally

[Nambe]

Guardian Newspapers Limited

Never mind the police searches, traffic jams, low-flying helicopters and closed bridges. This week New York's biggest challenge seems to be hysteria.

Delegates to the Republican convention, which begins in Madison Square Garden on Monday, will face opponents releasing swarms of mice, posing as volunteers to send old ladies in the wrong direction and hiring sex workers with Aids to seduce them, according to a columnist on the New Hampshire Sunday News, Bernadette Malone.

Meanwhile Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is warning that "people trained in kidnapping techniques, bombmaking and improvised munitions" will orchestrate operations.

It adds: "A number of extremists with ties to the 1970s radical Weather Underground are preparing to wreak havoc." ..

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I have a great feeling of dread about all this.

Tonight's events have only crystallized them. I have read this book before.

[smiley_glad_hands]

5. What happened tonight? eom

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Mass Arrests in NYC...

At the "Critical Mass" bike demonstration. 10,000 cyclists attended. Sounds like the cops were lying in wait.

[al bupp]

16. A Couple of Indymedia Links

From the NYC Indymedia homepage:

• 11:08PM Police are now reporting at least 250 cyclists arrested.
  
  
• 11:03PM The show at St. Mark's Church is starting up. There is reportedly a band starting up and a crowd of people in the church courtyard. The buses carrying arrestees and many but not all police have withdrawn from the area.
  
  
• 10:57PM IMC reporters near St. Mark's Church on 2nd Ave. report police loading arrestees into buses and clearing the streets.
  
  
• 10:45PM Police report at least 54 arrests.

More at http://nyc.indymedia.org/

Live and archived radio reports are available at:
http://criticalmassradio.net/

[bluestateguy]

2. Stupid, pampered white people

These people are such cowards and chickenhawks once they leave the comfort of their Stepford Suburbia. They wouldn't last 15 minutes in an inner city.

And the Weathermen? They are almost all either dead or in jail. Jeez.

[American liberal]

29. the Weatherman

>And the Weatherman? They are almost all either dead or in jail. >Jeez.

not quite. At least two of them are alive and well and work in Chicago. In fact, Bernardine Dohrn teaches at Northwestern last I heard and runs a legal aid clinic for disenfranchised women and children. She and her husband, Bill Ayers, also a former Weatherman leader, have kids and live in Hyde Park.

Other former Weatherman members are scattered around the country, including NYC.

I believe only one of the former Weather Underground is serving jail time. And it's for a botched bank robbery undertaken while with a fringe group. and dead...I'm not sure. There is an interesting documentary called "The Weather Underground" available at your local blockbuster that would dispel your statement.

At least a few former Weatherman members work hard for peace and justice--within the bounds of the law.

[The Traveler]

3. Beware The Weather Underground!

ROFLMFAO!

They're really afraid of the Weather Underground?

It must really suck to live in so much fear. Pity the Repukes, who shake so when we raise our voices.

[Cocoa]

8. it's bizarre

it's like saying the protestors have ties to the Haymarket Eight. Or do they? :scared:

[lolly]

36. Even Worse

I hear the instigators of The Whiskey Rebellion are planning something big . . .

[Noodleboy13]

39. They're conspiring with the ghost of Nat Turner

:bounce:

[tabasco]

50. Yaaahahahahahahahahaha!!! Baaaahahahahahaha!!!!

LMAO :yourock:

[skrunch]

59. And Tony Blair better watch out for...

...the descendants of Guy Fawkes.

[salvorhardin]

12. I like the sex workers with AIDS myself

The fact that they're afraid of this possibility would seem to suggest that many of them frequent prostitutes. Nothing like good old Republican family values.

[The Traveler]

20. Me too

Poetic justice, 'twould be.

[mrbassman03]

62. Well hey, my two favorite sites combined!

If this is the same robg, it gives both sites much more credibility in my book! A computer guy that likes the Democratic Underground...

[The Traveler]

21. BTW ... that's a REAL COOL HANDLE!!!!!

Good on ya, Mayor.

[salvorhardin]

22. Thanks! :-)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

...and man, oh man, are these wingjobs incompetent!

[lfairban]

53. Is that why . . .

. . . our government has the biggest military in the world?

[ClintonTyree]

4. Utter Bullshit.......................

devised to keep their own terrorized and worship at the feet of George the lesser to keep them safe in such a troubling world.

It would be funny to see the mice released though! :-)

[warrior1]

6. Good dog

how stupid. Well this does sound like fun to me.

[Maeve]

25. They won't really be mice--witches will turn the children to mice!

Won't someone think of the children?!

(Roald Dahl story/movie reference)

[nodehopper]

32. no mice will be released.

There will be lots of people dressed as mice, though.

[existentialist]

56. release of . . .

doves! Doves ought to be released!

[Lithos]

9. Paranoia, Bush

The language of the Nixon era keeps re-appearing.

L-

[BlueCollar]

10. I have it on good authority

that the Tolpuddle Martyrs will be in attendance to demand justice,,,

[salvorhardin]

14. Yep, marching alongside Ned Ludd!

[number6]

11. I'm sending Aliens and Predators

boo .... :evilgrin:

[jeff30997]

13. "Weather Underground are preparing to wreak havoc"

Holly diarrhea,Batman ! Gotham City is really in trouble this time !

[aquart]

49. More like a problem for Depends.

The Weather Underground is of an age for special underwear.

[despairing optimist]

15. Lions and tigers and bears. Oh, my!

Golly, Toto. I don't think we're in Houston anymore.

[Memekiller]

17. GOP already told Adam Nagourney...

...of the New York Times that they were preparing to blame all sorts of protest havoc as coordinated by the Democrats. So they have somehow assured there will be plenty of havoc to report.

And what's this about bombs and kidnapping?

[RC]

18. The Weather Underground?

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=58103



Ah, hail, must have something to do with global warming.

[eurolefty]

35. No, this one.

Weather Underground

[TahitiNut]

19. Mice to scare the elephants?

That's hilarious. Shit, throw those simpleton lard-asses some peanuts and watch 'em pee their pants.

[salvorhardin]

23. Hee hee.

Now I have some vague memory of a scene from Disney's Dumbo playing in my head.

[nodehopper]

33. that's the idea behind the Mouse Bloc call

"what are elephants afraid of?"

[dbt]

24. Crank up dat Buffalo Springfield!

It starts when you're always afraid.

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[0007]

26. Give me a fucking break, 'eh?

These clowns are going down in there own fear, I love it! The thing they hate worse are big time protest marches and demonstrations against 'em.

One caller on c-span said this morning, that if he was a millionaire he would give the cops a thousand dollars for splitting open each head of those demonstrating in NYC.

[Born Free]

27. GOP thrives on hysteria.

Their entire platform is based on "BE Afraid"

[Ediacara]

28. Bullshit!

This was lifted almost word for word from newsmax!

[Bo]

30. I'm really happy about violent protest against murderous thieves

[nodehopper]

31. OMG, it's not REAL mice

it's protesters DRESSED as mice who will be engaging in direct action and civil disobedience.

Bur you gotta love the Republican paranoid fantasies about New York. Prostitures with AIDS...sheesh.

[mrbassman03]

61. Yep, I could see the interview process for that job...

Questioning prostitutes about STDs... I bet Weather Underground has some top people working on that...

[HereSince1628]

34. HAHAHAH Rodents against BUSH!

Oh ROVE is really searching for something so he can claim Democrats not only support terrorists, but are terrorists.

He thinks if he succeeds the Democratic party will be forced to disband leaving the pResidency open to Georgie.

Personally, I have had conversations with _RATS_, WEASELS, SQUIRRELS, and SKUNKS, and they all feel that comparisons of their members to BUSH is defamatory to their race.

[Bongo Prophet]

37. People choose Fear or Love

as the core of their being.

This then affects one's view of the world and hence their politics.
We know what they live by.

scene/
King Rat rises from a platform beneath the stage.
Worshipful crowd adores Him.

Outside another arrest, another truncheon in slow-mo poetry, fogged in tear gas.
cue music/
" ..paranoia strikes deep...into your lives it will creep..."

[jayctravis]

41. fear or love...

"George has an important convention to attend, where he is worried about people protesting. He decides to spend as little actual time on the ground as possible."

Place a mark on the line between Love and Fear.

"Vice President Cheney told me to forcibly insert the Lifeline Activity card into my anus!!!"

[Bozita]

38. People say that booze sold to NYC caterers has been poisoned by terrorists

SHHHHH!

Don't tell anyone.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

40. Hotel terrorists have been discovered with literature describing

how to short sheet a bed.

[Citizen Daryl]

42. GOP: YOU'RE ALL DOOMED!

[Green Lantern]

43. Coxey's Army is coming!

The old vets want to get theirs at last!

[5thGenDemocrat]

45. Luddites

Does anyone know what the Luddites are doing next week?
John
I hear they're going to be in the Big Apple even if they have to walk.

[monobrau]

44. COINTELPRO, anyone?

Those who forget the past - well, you know.
Except in the case of COINTELPRO, I'm amazed at how many people still have never heard of it or dismiss it as tinfoil hat material even though it has been acknowledged and documented by the FBI.

[struggle4progress]

46. Many terrorists will pretend to be Republicans. eom

[The_Casual_Observer]

47. Sounds like a fireman at a BBQ

There could be sparks!
A minimum of 50' safety circle needed.
Where is you fire extinguisher?
are those utesniles fireproof?
Is anyone here CPR trained?

This convention should have been held in Barstow or someplace else so remote that they could clear out the entire town and block all the roads coming and going. Urban legends abound.

[Shallah Kali]

48. Malone used to work for Regnery

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2003-07-22-right_x.htm

[AgadorSparticus]

51. who needs mice when there's a whole convention of RATS!!

...sorry, couldn't resist. :evilgrin: I like the Hillary Kaizer Soza fear. That's pretty funny.

[Rex]

52. Notice how repukes label liberals as "tree hugging" "peace-niks"

from a safe distance. Of course when we are within shouting distance, we become radical terrorists. Just goes to prove what total CHICKENSHIT COWARDS repukes are.

[mbperrin]

54. Wonder how often Bernadette goes national?

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=42692

Bernadette Malone:
NYC errs in playing nice with protesters
By BERNADETTE MALONE

<blah blah blah>

"Protestors are complaining already that the FBI is visiting them and sowing intimidation. Who cares? As long as they’re not planning to break the law, protestors should have no reason to fear inquiries from law enforcement officials."

<more>


So let me get this straight - FBI intimidation with guns, etc - Good.
Protesters with mice? - Lock 'em up!!!
(The Weather Underground has come down to mice?)

I don't write 'em folks, I just read 'em.

Bernadette can come out to West Texas anytime she wants to hear someone express themselves clearly. And I promise I won't use mice.

[Kimber Scott]

55. Who needs terrorists? These people scare themselves to death.

nt

[demgrrrll]

57. Remember the scene in Fight Club where Brad Pitt was a guerrilla

banquet waiter who farted on the souffle and urinated in the soup?
Well there ya go!

[mrbassman03]

63. Well, that's not what Fox News said!

I heard today that NYPD arrested a Pakistani man on a subway for talking about bombs with another man. They said also to watch out for people with coats or hands in their pockets... KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED!!!!

[bvar22]

58. Some people are saying that:

Phone cams and miniature spy cams have been issued to all NYC hookers and there is a $10,000 bounty for pics of Republican Party officials and delegates in compromising positions!

[renotyme]

60. paranoia will destroy ya

cya ya dumbya.
dont let the screen door hit ya on your way out.