Posted on 12/10/2007 5:44:44 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Assistant St. Paul Police Chief Matt Bostrom on Monday assured state lawmakers that demonstrators outside the Republican National Convention won't be confined to fenced-in areas.
Bostrom said the city might erect barricades but he doesn't envision enclosures where protesters would be relegated. He told a legislative panel that demonstrators will be granted "sight and sound" access to the Xcel Energy Center, where the main convention business will be conducted next September.
At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, that city set up a "free-speech zone" outside the FleetCenter surrounded by fences, barricades and razor wire. Protesters complained that the controlled area was too restrictive.
Applications for convention protest permits will be accepted beginning in March.
Meanwhile, convention planning is moving ahead on a couple of fronts.
Matt Burns, a Republican convention spokesman, said organizers are finalizing an agreement with a transportation management company. St. Paul officials have deemed that to be a critical step because convention traffic flow will help shape the broader security planning.
Also on Monday, planners began accepting applications for media credentials. Some 15,000 journalists are expected for the convention, which runs Sept. 1-4.
Newspapers, magazines and broadcast reporters have until April 15 to apply. Independent bloggers can also seek "Special Press" credentials.
Convention officials say the number of credentials granted to bloggers will depend on "interest; space available; the reach and influence of a particular blog; the amount of original content the blog typically generates; and other factors."
If they're caged, I can't get at 'em....
;-)
Not just a mistake -- a BIG mistake.
It will be freezing cold in March in St. Paul. Just throw water balloons at them.
I hope they don’t put them in cages, I’m a proponent of
“Fair Chase”. What sport is it if they are penned up?
The RNC isn’t in March...
I'm just sayin...
WARNING: The above post was for information or educational purposes only. Please do not try this at home, unless you happen to have a punk teenage who is a RAT protester, then go ahead. /s
In liberal Boston in’04 for the DEMOCRATIC national Convention, they shut down the whole damn city and closed off major Boston/Cape Cod Highway connections. This whole place was a mess and everyone was penned in, poked at, plucked and f*****.
You get the idea.
These were Lieberals protecting fellow Lieberals!!
Oh! The humanity!
Fine. Dump them in the river then.
Expect a split screen during MSM coverage. One for the convention, the other for the demonstrators.
Who thought this was a good idea? Hillary? I'm so sick of losers on my team.
Great. So the police have made the decision to permit the anarchists the “right” to prevent the peaceful assembly by the Republicans.
All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.
Pray for rain. I hear Pope Al Gore Junior can make it rain. He thinks he can control the weather.
“Expect a split screen during MSM coverage.”
Expect to see my smiling face on national TV.
;-)
I’m tore on this one. My initial instinct would be this is going to end up in a riot. My political instinct is; let them show themselves to be the fools they are. Then the MSM won’t be able to hide the true Democratic Party. And to boot, Taxachussets will have to pay the clean up bill. Maybe some Bostoners will vote Pub after this debacle.
Since it’s in Minneapolis, they should require all protests to be located on an interstate bridge over the Mississippi.
A cage is exactly where they should be. A zoo keeper could then put their DU screen name on each cage
It’s in St. Paul....
But, they’ve got rivers there, too.
Is the Assistant Chief a leftie Rat?
It’s St. Paul.....
Go figure.
Why exactly did our leaders select a horse$hit liberal city in a crappy liberal state for a convention?
Enjoyed the sight on TV of LAPD kicking Commie’s butts when they stormed from the “free speech zone”. LAPD outmaneuvered the attempted pincer movement of rioters marching in from the north, rounded them all into one frothing mob of losers and drove them clean under the freeway and out of history.
Let these clowns loose on the streets and you’ll get another mess like they had in Seattle — only on a larger scale.
That’s the question, isn’t it?
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