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These raids are abominable and hideous, but c'mon! The RNC Welcoming Committee is stupid enough to advertise on its website:
Tier One: Establish 15-20 blockades, utilizing a diversity of tactics, creating an inner and outer ring around St. Paul’s Excel Center, where the RNC is to take place.
Tier Two: Immobilize the delegates’ transportation infrastructure, including the busses that are to convey them.
Tier Three: Block the five western bridges connecting the Twin Cities.
If you do these things, or if you announce that you are going to do these things, the police are going to take action. That's all there is to it.
These fake revolutionaries need to get a clue.
The goal in this instance is just to block off the convention, but there is no way that is going to happen without violent action. The goals of this supposedly nonviolent group inevitably require violent action for them to succeed.
Would you want every bridge going in and out of your city to be blocked off?
It doesn't justify the cops' behavior. Fuck those cops. But when you advertise shit like that on your website, and then groups form who admit to being part of the RNC Welcoming Committee, the consequences are just fucking self-evident in a post-9/11 country.
Idiots.
