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Radical Protest Group Purchasing Tasers

I’ve known for a while that Minnesota has its fair share of Moonbats, maybe even more than its fair share of them. I can tell this by the occasional person practicing “Minnesota Nice” by flipping me off on the road because they don’t like the bumper stickers on the back of my truck.

In September, when the RNC holds its national convention in St. Paul, I’ll be able to see first hand just how many Loons there are in this state. Of course, we’ll have to figure in a percentage for imported Moonbats, but that’s another story.

Various groups have been organizing protests to coincide with the GOP convention, pushing their pro-terrorist positions. (Okay, they call themselves anti-war, but any group pushing the surrender of Iraq to terrorists is pro-terrorist.) Probably the scariest group is the Twin Cities Anarchists who have announced on their website that they are purchasing tasers for their members and friends. If you want to see a protest turn violent, all you have to do is hand weapons to a bunch of drugged-out wacko’s and see what happens. Sparks will fly. Literally. I guess I should count myself lucky that I am not a national delegate.

From their website (I will not link to it directly, but you can cut and paste the URL: www.rncwelcomingcommittee.org/2008/03/14/ rnc-welcoming-committee-orders-tasers-for-every-protestor/#more-355)

The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC), an anarchist and anti-authoritarian organizing body based in the Twin Cities, announced today that it has ordered tasers for each of its members and friends. The announcement comes on the heels of last month’s St. Paul City Council approval of a St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) request for 234 tasers. Due to a unique corporate-anarchist confidentiality agreement, the exact number of tasers or documentable evidence of this new order will not be disclosed.

Both the SPPD and RNC-WC taser orders are scheduled to arrive before the September 1 so-called Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul. However, “The RNC Welcoming Committee’s order of tasers has absolutely nothing to do with the upcoming Republican convention,” said Ann O’ Nymmity of the RNC-WC. “These deadly, yet humane, weapons are needed simply to protect the safety of members of our community on a day-to-day basis. The timing is purely a coincidence.”

The group is not disclosing the number of weapons being purchased; further, the people behind the organization are cloaked in secrecy using pseudonyms to hide their identities. For instance, the contact name given for the domain registration is “twin cities” with a street address of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is the street address of the White House. Hmm…isn’t it against the hosting services policy to give false information when registering a domain or setting up a hosting account? And they are buying tasers.

The lead Moonbat of this group shows a distinct level of ignorance:

The Welcoming Committee has no plans to purchase machine guns, rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, concussion grenades, batons, water cannons or helicopters, all of which will be at the disposal of local police and federal agents in September.

Thank God for little miracles. they aren’t planning on buying machineguns (which they can’t do legally to begin with, especially in Minnesota), grenades of any kind 9also illegal for home users), water canons (would be interesting to see them with that one), or helicopters (I doubt they know how to fly one of these puppies). Of course they didn’t say anything about not buying knives, handguns, or other weapons. Arming them with tasers is bad enough. The St. Paul Police and the FBI should take serious note of this: do you really want a bunch of nuts armed with tasers anywhere near the Republican National Convention?

O’ Nymmity concluded, “Convention delegates and attendees should feel free to enjoy their five-star hotels, three-course meals, and “gentleman’s clubs” without fear of protest or disruption. After all, if they follow the law and don’t start any illegal wars or anything, what should they have to worry about?”

Actually, hotels use these events to make good bucks so that they can offer more discounted rates during the rest of the year in order to keep the hotel profitable and booked up. Three-course meals? Soup or salad; pasta with marinara sauce; and a hot fudge sundae. That’s a typical three course meal, What’s wrong with that? “Gentleman’s clubs”? I seriously doubt Bill Clinton will be attending RepubliCon 2008, so no worries there. I didn’t even know they had “those kinds of clubs” in Minnesota.

What’s really interesting is looking at the write-up of their guiding principles. One of them concerns the “prison-industrial complex.” What the heck is that? (URL is: http://www.rncwelcomingcommittee.org/73)

Prison-Industrial Complex: A modern partnership between the State and Capital. Prisons punish rather than heal. The Prison-Industrial Complex imprisons the most rebellious and oppressed communities in our country, and then holds them in for-profit prisons, both public and private, that taxpayers are forced to financially support. The prisoners are then forced to labor (for free or literally pennies an hour) to create commodities for sale by the capitalists. See also, “Prison Blues” Jeans.

Partnership between State and Capital? What is that supposed to mean? “Prisons punish rather than heal.” What, criminals aren’t supposed to be punished for committing murder, rape, armed robbery, burglary, or terrorism? We’re supposed to treat them as if they had the flu? “The Prison-Industrial Complex imprisons the most rebellious and oppressed communities in our country…” This makes our prison system sound like Soviet Gulags or Chinese Reeducation Camps rather than places where we send murders and rapists. Are they actually claiming that someone who kidnaps, rapes, then kills a 12-year old as being simply “rebellious and oppressed,” like he is some kind of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (who truly was oppressed and imprisoned for being a political dissident). Then there is their final point on forcing prisoners to perform work while incarcerated. Actually, they are given a choice: work and earn time off for good behavior, or don’t work and forget about early release. Also, they should be working while in prison; convicts should not be able to treat their time behind bars as if they were at an extended stay at Club Med at taxpayer expense. They are convicted felons and are there for very good reasons. And they should be required to pay the costs of their stay, either from their own bank accounts or through working a prison job. The terrorist Kathleen Soliah has been doing that in California; so can Bubba the bank robber.

I don’t know if the private ownership of tasers is against the law, either at the Federal level or under Minnesota law. Still, having a bunch of armed Moonbats at what will likely be the biggest protest since the Vietnam War is a bit disconcerting to say the least.

Maybe it really is a good thing that I will not be a national delegate after all.

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