David Brauer: Club-Toting Guard In The Intellectual Gulag
By Mitch Berg
If there’s one thing I’m looking forward to having past us this political season, it is the leftymedia’s relentless comparison of every inconvenience thrown in the way of people who break the law en masse at the Denver and Saint Paul conventions as some sort of “Guantanamo” or another.
Pan over to David Brauer, doing his best to delegitimize regional law enforcement in a hack-job entitled “Gitmo on the Mississippi?”
Fox9’s Tom Lyden has a look at the St. Paul parking garage where Republican National Convention misdemeanor arrestees will be held.
Well, an exterior look anyway; officials wouldn’t let Lyden inside. Fox9’s camera shows a new air-conditioning unit and ductwork at the ramp’s street level.
I’d like to ask Brauer to put aside his tut-tutting for a moment to ask – what do he and the rest of this city’s bleeding hearts propose the city do with people who break the law, after over a year of committing to break the law? Put them up at the Saint Paul Hotel until room opens up at the Ramco Jail?
Perhaps with a mint on their pillow?
Convention-site holding facilities have become an extremely hot topic since a Denver warehouse’s chain-link-laden…
wait for it……..wait for it……..
… “Gitmo on the Platte” was revealed.
Lyden says the garage is underneath the Ramsey County Emergency Operations Center. In the report, he notes, “If all goes well, those who have identification on them will be in and out with a ticket within four hours.”
So, bleeding hearts – where should they be held? Or should the cops justs not arrest anyone at all, no matter what they do?
My original suggestion was to hold ’em in a couple of barges down by the Lafayette Bridge. But if an underground garage isn’t good enough for them, I’m sure there’ll be plenty of volunteers to jam them, tokyo subway-style, into the existing holding cells.
Seriously, bleeding hearts – do you have an actual suggestion (beyond cutesy renamings?) Or is deligitimizing law enforcement your only goal?
Discuss.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Well,
There is the “old” RamCo jail sitting vacant with nice “river-view” cells. Just a couple blocks from the “action”
But I actually had thought that a chain-link and razor wire encampment across the river on Harriet Island would be good. The detainees could at least still see the Excel from there.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Aaargh. “Gitmo” isn’t even “Gitmo”. Can they ever just stop already?!
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
With the frequency of the Gitmo moniker thrown about to mis-label every perceived wrong against liberal causes, someone should coin a “Godwin’s law”-style statement.