pameladean

So, despite all the pre-emptive raids and harrassment and warrantless searches of people who were very unlikely to do anything violent, the combined forces of the FBI, the Ramsey County Sheriff's office, and the police they got to assist them did not, in fact, actually stop the people who actually did commit violence. Possibly there was no way that they could have found and stopped those people. But I fail to see how intimidating Food Not Bombs helped in today's events at all, unless it either distracted the forces of whatever from the real problem groups, or inflamed those groups into actions they had not planned beforehand and might not otherwise have taken. Given the general track record of the Bush Administration, I guess I'd have to go with the first.

This is all depressingly familiar.

So is my suspicion that some of those violent protesters were not ordinary people or Democrats at all. This is another grand part of Bush's legacy. Every time I think, "Oh, they wouldn't do THAT," they do it. I wouldn't put anything past them. To quote Teresa Nielsen Hayden, with much less pleasure than I would ordinarily have quoted her, "I deeply resent the way this Administration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist.”

Here's a link so you know what I'm babbling about.

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