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Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:00 AM

Massive police raids on suspected protesters in Minneapolis

Several "hippie homes" are raided this morning by semi-automatic-weapon-wielding police squads.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, August 30, 2008 03:59 PM

    @shooter242

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    "Isn't this conspiracy to riot writ large? Waiting to confront a large mob that has violence in mind is the height of stupidity and dangerous to all involved. Which I think is what you have in mind. Tsk."

    I'm sure the British felt that the colonists who eventually tired of their oppression considered the colonists who grouped to dissent "unruly mobs ........ common peasants incapable of understanding the sovereignty of the British Crown" ..... and their leaders ??? Traitors who should be hanged.

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