The Star-Tribune reports that the police are being pro-active at the site of the Republican National Convention;
In a statement Saturday morning, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said the St. Paul raid targeted the RNC Welcoming Committee, a group he described as “a criminal enterprise made up of 35 self-described anarchists…intent on committing criminal acts before and during the Republican National Convention.”
“These acts include tactics to blockade and disable delegate buses, breaching venue security and injuring police officers,” Fletcher said. Deputies seized a variety of items that they believed were tools of civil disobedience: a gas mask, bolt cutters, axes, slingshots, homemade “caltrops” for disabling buses, even buckets of urine.
And of course, this didn’t sit well with their buddies;
But the raids drew immediate condemnation from activists and St. Paul City Councilman Dave Thune, whose district includes the former theater at 627 Smith Avenue South, which was rented by activists as a gathering space.
“This is not the way to start things off,” Thune said Saturday morning. “This is sending the wrong message. Regardless of how you feel about these people…they had a right to be there.”
They also had the right to slingshots, caltrops and buckets of urine? They ought to run that urine through a lab and start tossing them in jail for whatever the lab finds in the urine, too. Little creeps.
There’s also a video of the Code Pink arts and crafts projects at the S-T website about half-way down the page.
UPDATED: More at Gateway Pundit and the Founding Bloggers
tree, rope, anarchists some assemble requried.
Slingshots, just like Army Sergeant’s friend Scott “The Assasin” Camil suggested oh so long ago. I seem to recall he got arrested for having a bunch of those.
He also suggested using “fried marbles” which looking at Camil would make you think he’s talking about his own marbles.
Of course the Immaculate Deception will come back with the Sgt Schuiltz reply, “I see nothing,…nooothing!”