(Youtube) – Listen close. Great info on where Ben sees things moving forward as a result of the obvious corruption in both parties displayed at the RNC and the DNC. This was really encouraging to listen to. Ben and Jerry are a great team on the air Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyBell) – A voter at the RNC details how he and other voters were informed by party bosses that they had voted for Mitt Romney even though they never did. Read the rest of this entry »
“All they do is read scripture and have giant, giant pictures of dead fetuses”
(PaulWatson) – Time Magazine’s Joel Stein courted controversy during a KLBJ 97.3 radio interview this morning when he joked that the number of placards he had seen at the RNC by people protesting against abortion made him want to stage a beauty pageant for dead fetuses. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailyPaul) – Ben Swann takes a look at the illegitimate rules changes GOP party bosses put in place to seize candidate nomination power from the voters.
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at how the most controversial rule change in party history was not legitimately passed.
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Posted: Aug 30, 2012 6:49 PM Updated: Aug 30, 2012 6:49 PM
By Ben Swann
(FOX19) – Mitt Romney accepts the Republican nomination tonight. While that should be the highlight of the convention, it is quickly being overshadowed by the shocking steps taken by Republican leadership.
We told you earlier this week about rule changes that would strip Republican grassroots from having a say in the future.
Tonight, evidence that the outcome of the vote on those rules was scripted and Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner may have played right along.
Is a civil war now breaking out in the Republican party?
Tonight, a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.
(Infowars) – On Saturday, the Tampa Bay Times reported that federal officialdom would not unleash drones in the skies above the RNC to surveil citizens exercising the First Amendment. Read the rest of this entry »
See Also: (HuffPost) Video: Ron Paul Delegates Cause Mayhem At Republican Convention – View More Here
^Streets of Tampa, Fl – August 28th, 2012
(NYTimes) – Mitt Romney’s tightly choreographed nomination here was disrupted on Tuesday when a contingent of Ron Paul delegates from several states protested what they said were new rules by the Republican leadership to squelch their movement’s rise within the party. Read the rest of this entry »
Screeners inspect hundreds of journalists and not one reports on it
(PaulWatson) – Illustrating once again how the federal agency’s role is being expanded well outside anything related to transport, TSA screeners are conducting bag searches at this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – Jacob Crawford has produced a video for Indybay.org documenting the brazen scare tactics and fear-mongering used by the establishment media in the days and weeks before the RNC dog and pony show now underway in Tampa, Florida. Read the rest of this entry »
(Reason) – Ron Paul rallied 8,000 or so of his supporters from around the country to Tampa’s Sundome the day before the planned official start of the Republican National Convention. Read the rest of this entry »
(HigginsBlog) – Ben Swann of Fox News with his latest Reality Check reports on GOP’s last ditch efforts to try to keep Ron Paul out of the RNC he has rightfully earned. Read the rest of this entry »
(DailySheeple) – It looks as if the Republican National Committee and the Mitt Romney campaign have officially taken a stand to oust Ron Paul supporters in Massachusetts. Read the rest of this entry »
(PolicyMic) – With the Republican National Committee finally conceding the fact that Congressman Ron Paul’s name will indeed be on the ballot at the GOP convention in Tampa this August, the RNC is beginning to warm up to the Paul campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – It’s not over for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). Not only is the congressman still in the race for the Republican nomination for president, but the longtime libertarian favorite is following through with his big plans for the upcoming GOP convention. Read the rest of this entry »
Terrorist in training video depicted as young white woman
(PaulWatson) – Garbage collectors are being trained by police to be on the lookout for terrorists in the run-up to this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. The terrorist depicted in the role playing scenario used to train garbage workers is a young white woman while her victim is a Middle Eastern man. Read the rest of this entry »
(KurtNimmo) – In Tampa on Wednesday, spectators watched as black helicopters and Special Operations Forces conducted a military drill in preparation for the RNC in August. Read the rest of this entry »
Turning a right into a privilege that can be revoked by bureaucrats
(PaulWatson) – Tampa’s City Council wants Governor Rick Scott to pass an executive order banning concealed carry rights to coincide with protests at the Republican National Convention later this year.
“The thousands of protesters expected at the Democratic and Republican national conventions can come armed with a lot more than signs and slogans: State law in Florida and North Carolina allows concealed weapons, including guns,” reports the Sacramento Bee.
“The Tampa City Council wants Scott to issue an executive order, preventing people with concealed weapons permits from carrying guns.” Read the rest of this entry »
(RawStory) - Caroline Hunter, a Bush-appointed Federal Election Commissioner who remains in office, provided misleading statements under oath in an effort to conceal Republican National Committee involvement in vote suppression activities during the 2004 presidential election, a Raw Story investigation has found. Read the rest of this entry »
(RussiaToday) – For the first time in recent history, the lobbying, grassroots and advertising budget of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has surpassed the spending of both the RNC and DNC. Does this mean corporate money is going to even further weaken the power of political parties and candidates? Will political parties cease to be important? How will this affect issues? Remember that six of the largest health insurers in the US funded TV ads that attacked the healthcare reform bills in Congress –and the ads were reportedly placed by the US Chamber of Commerce. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California issued a press release demanding the Department of Defense stop teaching employees that dissent is a form of low-level terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »
With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a leaked planning document “Special Event Planning: 2008 Republican National Convention,” a dense schematic used by repressors who targeted activists, journalists and concerned citizens during the far-right conclave.
With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a leaked planning document “Special Event Planning: 2008 Republican National Convention,” a dense schematic used by repressors who targeted activists, journalists and concerned citizens during the far-right conclave.
Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a pretty good cross section of the activities and coverage of the events in Minnesota. If you can find the videos of Howard Phillips, Doug Wead, Grover Norquist, John Tate, or any other RP Nation Celebration performers, please post them in comments and I will add them to the list. We have the official videos from all of these events and will be editing them and releasing them in the coming weeks. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota — a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM). Read the rest of this entry »
“Elliot Hughes recounts allegations of torture while being detained in Ramsey County Jail. Hughes was detained during an RNC08 protest after reportedly colliding with a police bicycle on accident. He was sent to Regions Hospital for treatment and later released without charges. We are actively investigating these claims. Stay tuned for more.”
This “tribute” which served to only throw fear into the political discourse and frighten voters was shown at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Keith Olbermann spoke for many of us at the sickening images used for political gain.
Delegate Dennis Rothacker from FL opened this story when he sent the
following urgent text message:
“We just had a group shot of all the RP delegates and alternates, the
secret service came and started searching everyone and took anything RP
related. We got it on video though…” Read the rest of this entry »
Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Max Spector, face up to 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty. Read the rest of this entry »
What is wrecking America is the Democratic Party, which was put in control of the House and Senate in the 2006 congressional elections to stop the gratuitous wars and gestapo police, but, instead, has continued to cooperate with the Cheney/Bush regime in behalf of war and police repression, such as we witnessed at the Republican National Convention. Read the rest of this entry »
In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May 21, the Minneapolis City Pages ran a recruiting story called “Moles Wanted.” Law enforcement sought to preempt lawful protest against the policies of the Bush administration during the convention. Read the rest of this entry »
There were arrests of demonstrators in Denver also. Some of the same heavy-handed techniques were used there. Since when do peaceful protesters deserve this kind of treatment? What’s happening in this country? When did we lose the right to dissent? Read the rest of this entry »
About $5 million will be spent on supplies that include $1.9 million for chemical irritant, $308,500 for fuel and $1 million for chemical masks. Read the rest of this entry »
The hosts of Fox & Friends were predictably irate on Tuesday about the alleged anarchists who have been witnessed causing disruptions during the Republican National Convention, while ignoring questionable police tactics and seemingly indiscriminate arrests directed against peaceful protesters and journalists. Read the rest of this entry »
