Minnesota Public Radio has this decidedly different take on the matter, but what is important is that they confirm federal involvement:

The searches were led by the Ramsey County Sheriff's office. Deputies coordinated searches with the Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/30/more_raids/?refid=0

to see about the dire conspiracy, and quotes from the professor who wrote the federal conspiracy law (is he any relation to Victoria Toensig?).

Preemptive war for peace. Gutting the due process and ban on illegal searches and seizures clauses supposedly to protect the Constitution. The Senate caucus of the party of God and Family joyously applauding the sexual prostitution habitue Sen. Vitter. Now we have political violence to prevent political violence. The Christ remains once coming only, the Hidden Imam remains hidden, and the Jewish Messiah is as absent as the Christian one.

But truly the Golden Age of Hypocrisy is here, with a record of deceit and malfeasance leading to the highest unemployment rate in 25 years and the worst inflation in 17 years to distract people from the dance of the hypocrites becomes more manic by the day. Perhaps Fox News viewers will get to see Rupert Murdoch actually froth at the mouth.

And I don't mean "nonwealthy":

Meanwhile, regarding the Supremes ruling that the KKK spouting off is protected, perhaps you can tell us why burning a cross isn't.

http://tampa.fbi.gov/dojpressrel /2006/crossburning081606.htm

Possibly you're not telling the whole story? Hmmmm?

Crossburning is terrorism. Remember terrorism?

All Decent, Law-Abiding Folks Understand If people weren't doing something wrong in the first place, the nice policemen wouldn't be arresting them! -- Little Brother

Now if only the trigger-happy police officers would understand they aren't supposed to shoot first and ask questions later, and that the motto "To Serve and Protect" refers to the public first and not just to their fraternal brotherhood.

Shooter wrote:

So now you say inciting people to riot is protected speech? That's good to know. Then I guess we'll see if it comes to pass.

And you replied: In order: yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes, we will.

Not quite so. One is perfectly free, per SCOTUS and the First Am, to advocate violence in the abstract as a necessary measure to counter whatever one thinks is wrong with the nation. But one may not directly incite others to violence -- that is a crime.

But that I know of, none of the parties arrested in Minnesota's Twin Cities were inciting anyone to violence (as opposed to civil disobedience, such as occupying streets, and per some reports, disabling buses of RNC attendees.) I've seen no evidence any of these protesters argued for riots and harming human beings physically.

Shooter is an authoritarian, proto-fascist. Why does anyone engage him?

There's somethin' happenin' here

What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Tellin' me I got to beware

(I think it's time we)

Stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's goin' down

There's battle lines bein' drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people speakin' their minds

Gettin' so much resistance from behind

(It's time we)

Stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's goin' down.

[...]

-- Buffalo Springfield [Stephen Stills, 1967]

-I'm looking forward to seeing some rock throwers tasered.-

I am glad to hear that you enjoy seeing your country's citizens writhe in pain and die. That's really encouraging.

People die from being shocked by tasers. Perhaps you hadn't heard, or perhaps you had and you are simply a pathetic sadist.

is to conduct them.

The desired effect is to intimidate the DFHs, to make it difficult or impossible for them to organize their demonstrations, to make it difficult for them to communicate with one another and with the public, and to demonstrate to everyone that the Authorities know who you are, know where you are, and know what you are doing, DFH or not, and to let everyone know that if they choose to, they're gonna fuck your shit up. And they want you to think there is nothing you can do about it.

In the course of the raids, there's not a lot nonviolent protesters can do except passive resistance. For whatever reason, the targets of these raids chose to submit to the police without any known resistance. Of course the heavy armament carried by the Authorities may have had something to do with their decision. What anyone does in a situation such as they faced is a matter for individuals to sort out, but training in passive resistance can be useful.

It appears that a blanket warrant was issued, or rather a single warrant was written and applied to a multitude of addresses.

While the targets of the raids cannot do a whole lot to stop them while the raids are happening, stopping these raids and ensuring there are no more of them should be the immediate objective of the Opposition, as it were. Signs are that these raids were authorized and conducted lawlessly and that arrests were made lawlessly as well. Actions should have been taken immdediately (ie: last night and into this morning) to have the raids called off through injunction, through action by civic bodies such as city councils and county commissioners, and through direct contact with law enforcement agencies. Assuming all these efforts would prove unsuccessful, immediate civil disobedience actions, such as surrounding houses where raids were being conducted, defying street closures to mount protests, etc. were indicated. Simultaneously, an extensive public education campaign is needed to inform people how these lawless actions by the Authorities can affect ordinary people and calling for the immediate cessation of these raids and prohibition of further raids on innocent, patriotic Americans.

Bruce Nestor might become a hero, but he is not one yet. At this point he seems stunned (which I can certainly understand) and not at all prepared to take action to stop these raids and sanction their perpetrators. It appears he will post bail for and defend those who were arrested, and perhaps he will file civil suit on behalf of others. But that doesn't stop the raids. In effect, it feeds them by accepting the premises of the raids as valid, even though he disagrees with them and the twisted application of "law." But his disagreement now and action in the future is not enough to stop the lawlessness of the Authorities in the present.

This is what the Congressional Democrats have been doing for years, and it is what has enabled the Busheviks to transform the government and the very idea of "law" in this country during their time in office. It's simply not enough to disagree now, and to think about or even to promise possible future action to correct these matters. Actions to correct should have been happening all along, but they were absent. And now in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we see they may be absent in the case of the lawless raids on citizens.