Video: RNC 8 Case Concludes

Way to go RNC 8, Welcoming Committee, RNC 8 Defense Committee, TCIMC, CIMC, and everyone else along side of you.  So proud of everyone...what a great video and article!  Thank you for standing up and facing the enemy and for showing us who the enemy is.  Throughout the past 2+ years, you have taken everything they have thrown at you, and at every turn, you have given it right back at them!  And in the end...YOU ARE STILL STRONG!

Yes, what a lovely,proud specktacle you've created. Early plea deals that broke solidarity and rape admissions from within the group. We will now hold you up as the gods you surely must be. Our children will read about your vast accomplishments as you disruped the convention and brought it to a screeching halt. Let us now proudly stand up and continue the fight by covering our faces with masks that surely will hide our shame.

I just posted this on the Minneapolis and Minnesota Issues e-democracy lists.

Yours, In Solidarity

Ok, so one has to wonder. Does the Minneapolis Star Tribune,
located on Portland Ave in Minneapolis wish to loose all of it's 
credibility?

Just as I read an article in the Strib about the Emmer supporter 
protests at the Obama rally that seemed to miss the much larger 
and noisier peace activists rally targeted by the FBI, so  I must
comment on another event that I attended and I wondered, yet again
if the Strib had attended the same event that I had.

Star Trib "journalist" Pat Pheifer wrote an article Oct 19th, 2010
on the last of the RNC 8 pleading guilty and so "ending the story 
of the RNC." In the article she wrote about what an "angry speech"
Garret gave at the Press Conference after the trial. In fact to
someone who was there, the entire article was a thinly hidden smear
of the last remaining RNC 8 and all that they stood for.

During the trial, the judge continued to claim that the trial was 
"not political" which is patently false. The defendants were continually
told that they could not speak. In fact I remember Bob "Tumble" said
"Just get on with this, I can't speak anyway" at the sentencing section.

When the judge mentioned "Tumble's" Constitutional Rights to him, he 
laughed and said "Your kidding, right?"

In the "angry speech" Garret pointed out that they expected and got no
justice in the "Halls of Justice." He then quoted "90's Pop sensation
Pat Benatar in her song Invincible.

For the record, anyone wishing to see Garret's "angry" speech, you can go 
visit the Twin Cities Indy Media site. It is there in all of it's "angry" 
glory and you can see for yourself just how the reporter at the Star Tribune,
in my own studied opinion, let us just say misrepresented the truth and the 
facts.

The real story is that what happened to the RNC 8 just found the police,
the "justice" (or just-us) system, the media and the vast majority of
elected officials guilty.

I intend to write an article on this very topic very soon.

I wonder if I will get it published, inside or outside of any "Free Speech 
Zones."

Which is a story, all by itself.

So if the Minneapolis Star Tribune can give again, in my opinion a rather skewed
version of events in the Metro area, then can they be trusted to tell the truth
about anything, anywhere?

Curious minds seek to know.


Michael Cavlan RN
Powderhorn

so now the the * welcoming committee members are no longer tied up with the trial, will there be some sort of accountability process for Nathanel Secor and the Sexual Rape(s) he committed????? I just feel this was swept under the rug, because to the criminal charges and trial for the RNC. I personally don't feel like our community has done what its was supposed to as it relates to people feeling safe... I hope we can not take something of this nature lightly :(

freedomfghtr2008

Now that the smoke has cleared, now that the damage is done, death by a thousand paper cuts, but blood is still blood.

Now that we are all older, now that we have drunk the hemlock of a mediocre mediation, what is left, what containers can we fill with our abundant disappointment?

Can we hear the news and remember to always start with a hard cold morning peer into that mirror...can we say that we would have done different, that we would have resisted the temptation to not believe, to find pragmatism and then realize pragmatism is prison.

Still the crows gather murderously by the river waiting for the cadavers of our youth to be tossed out with the bricks of buildings we built day by day, walking streets that we condemned yet that rose to meet our feet. 

After the conferences, the pressing out of our words into stasis, like butterflies on the page,

feel the wind,

it's howling out a silent promise. 

I am honest. 

I will never forsake you. 

I will blow these walls down.

And then, when we are naked and vulnerable and forlorn, we will have to answer that riddle of how a path inevitably becomes a street, pounded out by the replecation and rhythms and the tired sighs of middle age and the dulling of our teeth,

and taking flight, we gyre awkwardly towards some new concept of home on broken wings,

in red,

wet

and ever fading

light.

Ciampski

Either a cop or just some sad, pathetic right wing fruit loop.

Also, since "wasted" has chosen to remain anonymous, I guess we can assume that s/he has no <ensert gender neutral  term for genitalia>

Right wasted but anonymous?

I know who I am..