Saint Paul City Council prez Dave Thune, writing in a Saint Paul politics email discussion forum (emphasis added) about the city’s preparations for the 2008 Republican National Convention – specifically, the planning that’ll allow demonstrators within earshot of the convo itself:
> We have an assembly permit ordinance but our city
> attorney says it would be unconstitutional if
> challenged. I’d like to get that out of the way
> before we run into trouble with it. it was enacted
> to attempt to protect planned parenthood from
> demonstrators.
Wow.
So the Saint Paul City Council…:
- Came up with a law to bar protesters from the front of the Planned Parenthood clinic on Ford Parkway, which…
- …the City Attorney now, it just happens, notes is probably unconstitutional, just in time to welcome thousands of white, upper-middle-class liberal demonstrators to the city next year.
Show of hands from everyone who had that whole “constitutionality” thing figured out years ago?
Saint Paul – where your freedom is inversely proportional to your political distance from the Gang of Four.
Before some addlepated wackjob chimes in; I fully support demonstrators’ rights to protest at the convention. I do plan on both counterprotesting and reporting from amid the patchouli-reeking masses of BDS victims.
I only wish the likes of Dave Thune would give people who have equally-strong beliefs about the systematic murder of the unborn (or other beliefs that the city’s single-party majority finds outre) the same consideration.
Please, Minnesota GOP…call the National Committee and change the site. This convention is turning into a fiasco….over ONE YEAR AWAY. Move the convention to a city where the elected officials are not stark-raving nuts (see: Coleman/Thune)…a place where they are more SANE than OUR St. Paul Council…like San Francisco.
Thune and his fellow nutjobs said they want to have all of Kellogg Ave for their use so then can “engage and debate” the delegates as they come and go.
GREAT. I will be at every Planned Parenthood mill so I can “engage and debate” the employees as they come and go each day. This will be fun.
Mitch, I will be there with you and Protest Warrior to counter protest. Bring camera (including video…meaning sound) so we can expose the bigots.
Predictions, MSM will not show the nasty anti-Semitic ones that always come to these events. They’ll show the old ladies who look like your grandma and the hot young babes (what few there are at these protests).
This should be lots of free adverstising for Repulicans.
With video phones and You Tube, this might really back-fire on the nutjobs. The media won’t be able to control the images this time. We should all plan to spend some time filming the hateful left and then use our blogs to highlight the worse of them.
Read the linky referenced above. It’s kind of sad actually. St Paul riverfront is actually quite nice. Normally the delegates and volunteers could spend some time along Kellegg Park overlooking the river, or stroll across the Wabasha bridge to attend events in Raspberry and Harriet Islands. But Thune and his fellow bigots want all of those areas for their hatefest.
Now, what was St Paul saying they needed from the state government? Yeah, good luck getting free money. You are taking a chance for St Paul to look good to international audiences, and turning it into a prison.
*pulls out credit card to purchase a video camera*
I’ll dive into the moonbat melange with ya, Mitch.
How do I file for a license to set up a tin-foil hat concession?
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Your point is valid of course, but there is much, much more to Thune’s comments than the hypocrisy he shows regarding the permit.
http://restraininorder.blogspot.com/2007/08/city-of-saint-paul-prepares-to-welcome.html
Of course, I’ll be out there in force as well. But I work better as a force of one.
Don’t think you mentioned it yet, Mitch, but the state is funding an anti-abortion group that is planning to buy (or has already purchased) a property adjacent to the PP building in Highland.
“I’ll be out there in force as well. But I work better as a force of one.”
That’s what everyone wants you to believe Swiftee. The truth is, most people find the combined stench of body odor, Aquavelva and stale Budweiser farts difficult to tolerate so they give you a wide berth.
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