pameladean

So that I can vote against Chris Coleman. He defended the raids. All of them, not just the one on the outfit that had the inflammatory website. I'm pretty sure that even that raid did not need to be carried out the way it was, but he defended all of them. Apparently his mother-in-law wants to protest during the convention. Well! We can't have her walking with scary people who travel around in a bus with a bunch of chickens teaching people how to live sustainably. We can't have her walking with scary people who cook vegan food and give it away for free. That would be so terrible.

One of the houses raided was 3500 Harriet Avenue. I walk past there all the time. But this hits home even more strongly.

I wonder how much in damages Ramsey County and the other entities involved are going to be paying for these raids five years from now.

The current leadership, policies, and practices of the Republican Party are very well calculated to bring out the worst authoritarianism and paranoia in the human psyche, and to elevate the worst and suppress the best in the party. September 11 was like a test that they failed once, and they enjoyed failing it so much that they studied assiduously how to get more and more questions wrong so that they could fail it even better. I wish to God I could vote against them as many times as they have voted for torture and murder and wrecking the environment. I wish I thought that would even help.

P.