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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.
Your assumption that everyone targeted and arrested with this group is baseless and wrong. They are targeting all sorts of advocacy groups, police-watchdog groups and assorted protesters. Only the raid last night was aimed at the "RNC Welcoming Committee."
And, as you acknowledge, what the police are doing is completely excessive and wrong even if every single one of the people targeted where planning some form of non-violent civil disobedience. You can just wait until someone blocks traffic and then easily arrest them. Mass preventive detentions, rifle-toting SWAT teams, and home invasions are repulsive.
