"If it's announced DNC protesters won't be searched...isn't an invitation to do something naughty?"

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"Not to touch on politics or anything," Gardengirl wrote... From a reply on Denver Post's blog,

DNC Convention protesters won't be searched

(provided they stay within the confines of the fenced-in free speech zone)

In other news, so-called liberals (SCL's) and the SCLM (we'll call them skells for short)

in Denver are ramping up attacks on the "damn dirty anarchists"
they accuse all DNC protesters of being:

Anarchists' deal: No DNC protests if Denver pays community

as if it's somehow OK to be a liberal supporter of mass murder
in the Middle East in the name of oil or revenge, or as in Obama's case
securing existing territorial gains made by Bush, or a liberal supporter
of warrantless search and seizure, but it's somehow not OK for people to
call themselves radicals or anarchists and ask that SKELLS (so-called liberal
opponents of the Constitution, we all know 'em, they're the social liberals
security moms and other hypocrites who support the latest attacks on the
Bill of Rights) and neo-cons (of course) follow their own laws?
fairly to all people and not on the basis of an unspoken double standard?

This will be the election where Democrats and the voters consolidate and
institutionalize all the neo-con gains made by Bush. There will be no
institutional realignment. Obama's landslide victory will be accompanied
by a landslide victory for anti-affirmative action laws, Bush attack on
Iran which will be agressively pursued by the next administration, an
end to Amtrak and other last-ditch efforts by the Dems to prop up the
oil economy which has been disastrous for the US (witness the Post series
on "so-called liberal" solutions to peak oil which mentions "peak oil"
ONCE in a multi-page spread). We are entering a CONSERVATIVE realignment
period where the discredited Republicans will be eclipsed by a far-right
party, exactly as Bush and his think tank gurus may have envisioned.
Mark my words... Overton predicted this with his hypothesis for the
conservative movement. The Dems, running away from Bush's Weimar America,
will embrace Hendenbergian politics of triangulation with the far right
in a vain effort to "consolidate Obama's future legacy" and somehow
ensure a return to institutional Democratic majorities assumed to be the
norm based on locking in numbers, not fighting for principles.

In other news, another commenter on the Denver post website asked
why protesters didn't spend more time being "good Americans".

Denver police propose law to take dangerous tools out of protesters' hands

Interestingly, the law would be another institutionalized double-standard law
designed to allow police to arrest anyone at any time on their own discretion,
since it would criminalize the possession of pipes, chains, bottles and other
objects. The Legalists of ancient China invented this method of governance
which allows the state to take control of all facets of life by selectively
targeting unspoken minorities to set an example for the majority who are
forced to violate one restrictive statute or another, creating a philosophy
of law that is at odds with the tradition of the Founders, one in which
everyone is a potential ward of the state and privilege is awarded on the
basis of loyalty and unspoken standards. Much like other similar laws that
"you don't need to worry about unless you are looking for trouble", like the
unenforced 65 mph speed limit, the unenforced laws against major drug
trafficking that are used to lock up poor black men, or the laws against
pedestrians (or drivers, now) without a purpose for being in an area.

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1. Comments?

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2. Complete apathy, it seems

These days to be the norm.

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3. ...

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4. gratuitous bump