Have we become a silent democracy? I wonder, as I read blogs and news on the Internet, written by bystanders to the process. Usually, I can take it in stride, but tonight as I read about the fascist flavored raid on rally organizers in Minneapolis, preparing to make an organized fuss at the Republican National Convention this week, I felt outrage.
The Minneapolis Police Department, with help from the Feds, used Gestapo-like intimidation techniques to terrorize and detain organizers for seemingly no other reason than the;y were organizing a protest. Here is the story. Black clad and masked gunmen, with weapons, stormed houses of suspected organizers and searched for laptops, maps and other subversive materials. Everyone in the houses were detained, questioned and photographed. The only charges made were trumped up and little used fire code violations.
However, what angers me the most is that there is no outrage at this preemptive, unprovoked violation of basic civil rights. I’m not sure what I can do from here, but anyone concerned with these abuses of civil liberties should be doing whatever they can to ensure there is proper hue and cry.
