Oh yeah, the worms in the permaculture on the bus might have little bitty machine guns and be terrorists. So let’s dump all the people and animals on the highway and tow the bus away for a bogus “inspection”.

Not only is the Ramsey County Sheriff a thug deliberately trying to intimidate political protesters, it’s also clear he is incompetent. Look at the facts. He’s been raiding those dangerous granola-eating pacficists at Food Not Bombs and now the New Agey Starhawk. So I can’t imagine he’s been investigating anyone who might actually have serious disruption plans for the RNC. Nor, I’m guessing, would he know how to find them if he was. Talk about looking for things in all the wrong places…

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The FBI used informants inside the groups, yet the charges are bogus. Thus the raids were clearly coming from the federal government and were meant as political intimidation.

So here we have a massive assault led by Federal Government law enforcement agencies on left-wing dissidents and protesters who have committed no acts of violence or illegality whatsoever, preceded by months-long espionage efforts to track what they do.

Twincities Indymedia has been doing a stellar job of reporting what’s happening with their Live Wire instantaneous news on the home page.

PS “Those in Twin Cities still going ahead with plans to stage massive civil disobedience on the 1st”, they say.

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Maybe Republicans are assuming the governmental response to Gustav will be another disaster else why the cancellation of much of day one of the RNC? If they thought the government would respond competently then, seems to me, they could hold a dignified session while pointing out how much better a Republican administration is doing now.

But they aren’t, and they want George Bush nowhere near any of them as Gustav hits. I’m not buying the McCain excuse that he doesn’t want delegates in party hats tooting noisemakers as Nola floods. The Republican cadre tends to be quite disciplined and could simply be told not to do that, with a ban on funny hats and noisemakers on the floor.

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Calculated Risk reports on the imminent bankruptcy of Jefferson County, Alabama, due to their totally clever and complex series of bond transactions that was supposed to save them big bucks, but exploded in their faces instead.

barkingtribe writes in the comments:

Lived there for a number of years. Inept, provincial, small-time crooks. Doin’ ok when no-one was lookin’. Went downtown with the playa’s. Came home in hoc. Rut-ro.

Now they’re whining we just po’ country boys who got flimflammed by those city slickers. Right. Takes two to tango, last time I checked.

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LastNightinVegas took the photo, and titled the post “This is the end, my only friend the end.”

Mish

WaMu is paying 5% on CDs at a time the Fed Funds Rate is 2.0% and the discount rate is 2.25%. Where can WaMu invest money safely and return 5%? The answer is nowhere.

It is a moral hazard that WaMu can even offer CDs at 5% with FDIC guarantees. Money is increasingly flowing to such endeavors, at taxpayer risk.

Losing money on CD deposits when your bank is imploding and advertising it with hand-lettered signs is the sign of an institution in desperation and near-collapse. That the Fed allows this is near-criminal.

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A lot of big name Republicans are, y’know, busy and stuff, and just can’t quite free up time from their hectic schedules or being indicted to make it to the RNC. Plus, I’m guessing, many of them would rather run screaming from the room than be seen anywhere near Bush whom, no doubt, the party faithful hopes will stay away from the convention because he needs to tend to Gustav. Or at least pretend to.

And the Polizeros Political Cretin Award of the Month goes to …

… Former DNC chair Don Fowler and Michael Moore (who usually rocks) for saying that Gustav shows that God is now on the Democrat’s side. I’m sure all the folks who will lose homes and family in the next few days will find that to be especially rib-tickling.

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Police grabbing people at random off the streets, as reported happening yesterday in Minneapolis, is not a new tactic.

It happened at the FTAA protests in Miami in 2003 too, and we blogged it then.

PS. In the process of finding that post from 2003, I realized that images and photos from 2002-2005 weren’t online. They are now.

(Polizeros started on the Radio UserLand platform in 2002, then switched to Wordpress in mid-2005. The Radio UserLand images were in a different folder from where Wordpress puts them, and I forgot to upload that folder when we changed hosts a few weeks back. However, all 13MB of them are now online.)

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