Rules on tools could handcuff DNC protesters

[Mugu]

rockymountainnews.com

The prospect of protesters linking themselves with devices that bolt cutters can't sever or throwing buckets of feces on police has Denver considering putting a new law on the books before the Democratic National Convention.

Demonstrators would be banned from having items such as chains, quick-setting cement, homemade locking devices that are resistant to bolt cutters and "any noxious substance," City Council members said Monday.

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"In other cities, they're not just handcuffing themselves to each other," he said. "They put their handcuffs inside PVC tubes, which are inside concrete. They've figured out ways that keep the police from just using bolt cutters to cut them apart. They also use buckets of urine and feces and various noxious substances to pour on themselves or the police."

Denver's proposed ordinance would make it illegal to carry any "tool, object, instrument or other article" that can be used to obstruct streets, sidewalks and entry or exits from buildings or for hindering emergency equipment.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/15/ban-on-protest-tools-mulled/">Complete article

[loveable liberal]

1. Repukes covering themselves in poop?? Haaahhahahahaaa

OOOOOooohhh nelly are they dumb.

[Donnachaidh]

2. uhh -- WHEN did protestors throw buckets of feces at the cops?

I know it may seem like a dumb question, but this *attribute* they are giving to potential protestors is frigging outrageous.

What a way to set up the Convention grounds for a showdown. :eyes:

[MindPilot]

5. Denver cops do have kind of a shitty attitude...

[Warpy]

3. In what "other cities" are those?

Damn, these right wingers sure have interesting fantasy lives, all of them nasty.

[elehhhhna]

4. Imaginationland.

[SoCalDem]

6. Hey.. I have an idea!!

Why not just let them protest...let them carry their signs and chant and yell...y'know..like the constitution used to say was OK..

Segregating them into 1st amendment pens and denying then permits to march is what pisses them off and MAKES them resort to "extreme" measures..

The obvious disruptors need to be arrested, but the majority of people who show up to protest, just want to be heard..they wnat their numbers accurately noted, and they want the people they are protesting AGAINST, to SEE and HEAR them...

[High Plains]

7. Let's not encourage Denver to go totalitarian.

Democrats don't need a police state to protect them.