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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:28
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Originally posted by Ned
I'm sorry, Che, but the article seem to suggest the commies were trespassing. |
They owned the building. See the part where it says they bought the building from the city last year?  The police brought a building inspector with them, who condemned the building, so the police could enter without a warrent, arrest the activists, and confiscate their belongings. The police seized, among other things, 55 bikes. The activists have recovered some of the bikes, all of which tires have been slashed.
Listen here.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:28
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st louis dispatch, edited for length
St. Louis police search a home Friday in the 3000 block of Cherokee Street. Police say the raid was to enforce housing laws, but activists who were staying there said it was to clamp down on protests at the World Agricultural Forum here this weekend.
It was good fortune, St. Louis police said, when raids Friday to enforce housing laws yielded "weapons" like rocks and nails from homes of some people planning to protest the World Agricultural Forum here this weekend.
But the activists said it was just an excuse to get in and snoop.
More than a dozen people were arrested - none on weapons violations - and most remained in jail into Friday night.
"This is political repression. We're being targeted," said Molly Dupre, glassy-eyed as she emerged on bail from police headquarters after about seven hours in custody on a charge of occupying a condemned building.
DuPre, 23, of St. Charles, described herself as an anarchist and six weeks pregnant.
Joe Mokwa, chief of a police department clearly edgy about what the coming days will bring, told reporters, "We are very concerned. We can certainly draw conclusions and expectations after we found these items."
Some of those things - a bag of rocks and a bucket of nails - seem fairly common to a home under rehabilitation, as some of those raided were. But they appeared more sinister when paired on a display table with a sling shot, whips and torches.
Similar devices were used as weapons in large-scale demonstrations at international conferences in Seattle and Washington, D.C., officials said.
These were seized from a condemned building at 3309 Illinois Avenue and a building at 3022 Cherokee Street. Mokwa said no weapons charges were filed because nothing could be linked to specific people.
Police said neighbors' complaints spurred the raids; names of those complaining were not revealed. The building on Illinois had been condemned.
"The timing is coincidental because these people just got here," Mokwa said. "We have an obligation to investigate complaints. We are not going to allow people to reside in abandoned buildings."
Activists said police circled the buildings for days, questioning anyone on foot or bicycle.
"It's definitely systematic harassment of protesters," said Art Friedrich, who lives at 3022 Cherokee.
Fifteen people arrested at the home on Illinois were cited for a city ordinance violation of occupying a condemned building, Mokwa said. It had no occupancy permit, according to building inspectors.
Some of those staying there insisted it was not condemned. Three people, who bought it from the city for $800, have been staying there for a year, they said.
LOTM - lets see, they had no occupany permit. they did , however, have rocks, nail, slingshots, whips, and torches. the very kinds of things that have been used as weapons at "protests" in Seattle and Washington.
McCarthyism my foot.
And of course it was covered in the mainstream media. It was covered, as it should have been, in the St Louis Post Dispatch. It was NOT picked up by the national media - as there was no reason to - there was no mccarthyism. Just law enforcement.
And we're supposed to get upset.
based on that, im not going to bother looking up the other 2.
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
time: 00:28
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quote:
Originally posted by chegitz guevara
If the police showed up at your house with a building inspector, who declared your home condemned so the police could enter right then and there, would you be a tresspasser?
LotM, you don't need a permit to occupy your own building. |
so did they have a deed? or would holding that violate anarchist principles? If i lived in what had been an abandoned house, which i had paid $800 for, and for which i had no written title, and which i kept in such a state as to illicit complaints from the neighbors and to be condemned, I would expect something to happen.
If illinois law allows me a fixed period of time from condemnation to when im expected to vacate a residence, and the police did not allow me that time i would file suit for wrongful arrest. If Illinois had no such fixed period, id have no case.
I guess im just a law focused liberal, i dont have the superior insight to be a true leftist.
I'm also curious why your sources didnt mention the weapons found. The St. Louis Post Dispatch managed to give BOTH sides of the story, while DemocracyNow only gave the spins of one side. Perhaps that gives you a clue why some of us like to see things from the oft derided "corporate media"
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000
time: 00:28
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Notice what LotM chose not to include, "for legth."
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Matt LeMieux, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri, said, "I think if the police are going to conduct searches and arrest people, it ought to be based on the conduct of what a person is doing now. But what they're doing is pre-emptively trying to arrest people. It's a bad and unconstitutional policy."
He called the housing inspections "a trick" to get in without a warrant and suggested police should have worked with protesters instead of antagonizing them. |
[url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/CA79873CDD7A926886256D29001A8078?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2Canarchist%2Cpolice%2Craid& headline=Arrests+and+weapons+allegations+spark+act
ivists'+anger]Arrests and weapons allegations spark activists' anger[/url]
City officials went into a tizzy over mere anarchists
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22-05-2003 02:48
And I get along with her well... 
You know how I am.
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