The land of the "free" and the home of the "brave"
I was thoroughly sickened this morning when I checked my friends' pages and found a link to the The Daily Kos with eye witness reports and video footage from the streets around the republican party convention in St. Paul. While it makes me profoundly grateful that I don't live in the US, the sight of police teargassing a man in a wheelchair is
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It's because we have a lot of free-thinkers and free-speakers here.
(Littleblackbow on IJ - check your comment over there. I've got you in if you still want portraits)
Yeah, it was horrible. And just try getting from one place to another... They pulled the plug on a Rage Against the Machine outdoor concert. They instilled a 7pm curfew, they had police gather from six different states. And all of downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis had paddywagons all over the place.
A couple of my friends were arrested in the "poor man's parade", and they're still waiting to be seen/heard. I called the county courthouse, and the phone lines were still busy. At least the places they work are understanding. One of them works in a print shop, and the other in a department store with a really cool manager.
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