Post in Republican Convention: Who is paying the bills?

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From: Mitch Berg <email obscured>]
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 10:51 AM
To: St. Paul Issues Forum
Subject: Re: [SPIF] Republican Convention: Who is paying the bills?

Dunno, David.  The *real* fascists are coming from the
other side.

Note that I didn't say "your" side, because I just
KNOW that nobody on this list would EVER countenance
violence and repression against Republicans who are in
town to exercise their rights to participate in the
democratic process, nosireebob.

But I and my fellow conservative bloggers have been
documenting instances of people who plan on being
involved in the "protests" who plan on committing
mayhem.

In April, I appeared on MPR's "In The Loop"; my
co-panelist, a shrill little cookie from some anti-war
group (there are so many, and their names are so
similar it reminds me of the "People's Front of Judea"
scene from "Life of Brian") declared that their goal
is to "shut down Saint Paul so that people get an idea
of what life is like in Iraq", and to "shut down the
convention".

Idle big talk by arrested adolescents?  She sure
didn't think so.

And of course, the bulletin boards, mailing lists and
blogs of people associated with the "Black Bloc" of
professional "protesters" ("rioters" is a better term)
and other such groups are abuzz with talk with the
mayhem they want to commit.  Yeah, we've got our eye
on 'em.

So I went looking for signs of DFLers and left-leaning
"protesters" who not only condemn this sort of fascist
thuggery, but are taking active measures to make sure
the thugs know the local, responsible,
peacefully-dissenting left doesn't welcome them
(because talk is indeed cheap).

Here are my results:

{{{crickets}}}

Is it because of:
* "Major Renault Syndrome?" - "I'm shocked, Shocked
   to see that there are people on my side of the
   issue who really only want to throw bricks!"
* "Ostrich Syndrome" - y'all don't WANT to know, and
   figure that if you can plausibly deny knowledge
   you'll be absolved of complicity,
* "Ben and Jerry Syndrome" - you secretly pine for
   the days of your youth (or your parents' youth)
   (or grandparents' youth), carping endlessly about
   the good ol' days and hoping for another
   Chicago?

Whatever.

Just know this, whatever syndrome you suffer from:
while the mainstream media ALWAYS cuts you people
(both the mainstream left and the thugs who ride along
on your extreme fringe) a break, since they're
fundamentally sympathetic with your goals, there will
be an alternative center-right media presence in this
town that will be primed, ready and friggin' EAGER to
show the world, in video, audio, photo and print, who
the REAL fascists are.

Tossing a brick?  Smile for the camera, Muffy.  Before
your daddy can put your bail on his Amex card, your
face is going to be famous worldwide.  And when you
get OR'ed because the Saint Paul establishment gets
queasy about holding spoiled little leftists in jail,
we'll be documenting that, too.

Of course, the whole problem could be avoided if the
Twin Cities' left were to rise as one and say with one
big unified voice "hey, morons - quit talking
violence, quit planning violence, quit prancing about
and giggling about all the havoc you want to strew; we
don't want you, your type, or your practices messing
up OUR good name".  If the local left ACTIVELY made
the fascist thugs that travel from demonstration to
demonstration unwelcome - PROACTIVELY went out and
said "keep your crap out in San Francisco and New York
where it belongs" - then maybe it wouldn't happen.

But there's no such uprising, and I sincerely doubt
there ever will be.

The only real question is "why".

Mitch Berg
Have Camera, Will Be Right Here
The Midway


--- David Shove <email obscured>> wrote:

> Please! let Tampa have the R convention! We don't
> need weeks of fascist
> cops here.
>
> --David Shove
>
>
>
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Charley Underwood wrote:
>
> > Last time I heard anything, George Bush had vetoed
> the legislation authorizing the $50 million to pay
> for security during the September 2008 Republican
> National Convention in St Paul (because the same
> bill contained benchmarks for the Iraq war).  And we
> just heard last week that Tim Pawlenty had vetoed
> the $39 of Minnesota taxpayer money that would
> guarantee the convention, in case the private
> fundraising fell short.
> >
> > As I understand the situation right now, that
> means that there is currently no subsidy for
> security (and lawsuits, which have been the most
> expensive item in political conventions since 2000)
> and no guarantee by the state for any shortfall.  So
> can anybody tell me how the convention will be paid
> for?  Has some funding appeared that I somehow
> missed in reading the paper?
> >
> > The St Paul official convention website keeps
> insisting that everybody is going to get rich and
> that the convention will spread good will among all
> the Chambers of Commerce in the world, but I can't
> even figure out how they are going to pay for it.
> >
> > Meanwhile, while I was doing a google search
> trying to get some answers, I read that Tampa,
> Florida, is once again hoping to get the convention,
> since Minnesota can't come up with the money.
> >
> > Charley Underwood
> > Longfellow (SD 62 A), Minneapolis
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