{"id":3195,"date":"2008-08-31T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2008-08-31T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T13:13:19","slug":"and-now-shes-a-weapons-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3195","title":{"rendered":"And Now She’s A Weapons Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Molly “Is It White In Here” Priesmeyer on the cops’ haul<\/a> in yesterday’s anarchist\/protester raids:<\/p>\n

A look over the inventory receipt for the raid at 3240 17th Avenue (hat tip TC Indy Media<\/a>) reveals that most of the items the police seized out of the the home this morning as \u201cevidence to riot\u201d are things that could be found in nearly any home: They confiscated a pack of staples, laptop computers, bike locks, cell phones, a storage device, a computer hard drive, curtain rods, a checkbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Priesmeyer doesn’t see fit to mention the things found in various raids that are less likely to be found in the “typical” home, according to my colleague JRoosh <\/a>and the Pioneer Press<\/a> (or, for that matter, to tell us who “Nestor” is and what he or she’s significance to the story is; “Nestor” is a disembodied last name Priesmeyer’s piece; perhaps it’s really a secret government program?:<\/p>\n

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  • materials to creating “sleeping dragons” (PVC pipe, chicken wire, duct tape), which is when protesters lock themselves together<\/li>\n
  • large amounts of urine, including three to five gallon buckets of urine<\/li>\n
  • wrist rockets<\/li>\n
  • machete, hatchet and several throwing knives<\/li>\n
  • a gas mask and filter<\/li>\n
  • empty glass bottles<\/li>\n
  • rags<\/li>\n
  • flammable liquids<\/li>\n
  • homemade caltrops (devises used to disable buses in roads)<\/li>\n
  • metal pipes<\/li>\n
  • axes<\/li>\n
  • bolt cutters<\/li>\n
  • sledge hammers<\/li>\n
  • repelling equipment<\/li>\n
  • Kryptonite locks<\/li>\n
  • empty plastic buckets cut and made into shields<\/li>\n
  • material for protective padding<\/li>\n
  • an Army helmet.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    A typical house? Perhaps; other than the buckets of urine and the caltrops (medieval stop strips – think jumping jacks designed to blow out tires), who doesn’t have all the above?<\/p>\n

    I mean, really<\/em>?<\/p>\n

    The 37 caltrops found in the garage of the home, tiny nail-like devices used to stop traffic or puncture wheels, are also not evidence or conspiracy to commit a riot, Nestor says. For one thing, there were only 37 of them, hardly enough to stop much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Hello?<\/p>\n

    It takes ONE to stop a bus.<\/p>\n

    It takes half a dozen, maybe ten, to make a street fairly impassable, and to tie up traffic pretty badly even at a best case.<\/p>\n

    \u201cDid they have some devices to try to block traffic? Maybe so,\u201d Nestor assert. \u201cBut does that mean they should be arrested on conspiracy charges? Not at all. This was intended to halt the protests.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Intended to halt protests intended to douse people with urine and shred their tires?<\/p>\n

    This free speech absolutist is having a hard time ginning up much sympathy.<\/p>\n

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