While we sit here worrying about trash upon our streets,
another great city is about to be trashed at the command of the
unelected president of these United States.
I can hear the list manager groaning about now clear up on
the Northside. Shortly after the fireworks begin over Bagdad
concerned citizens will gather at the new Federal Courthouse.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration will switch to code red, and
sharpshooters with fully automatic weapons will take positions on the
roof of same Federal Courthouse. Hopefully we'll be lucky and the
peaceful demonstration will be over after the 6 pm news.
We might not be so lucky. After an afternoon of protests
surprise the administration, the administration labels protesters
"terrorists" and bans them. By evening, Minneapolis police find
themselves taking orders from federal authorities. They lob tear gas
into the crowd, and as a few protesters try to escape the CS gas
cloud by entering the Federal Courts building the sharpshooters open
fire. The media are driven away, but not before a few clips of the
mayhem are shot.
With little news but these snippets, rumors run rampant
throughout the city. Thousands of enraged citizens come downtown to
join what is now a moving protest making it's way through the
streets. As the bars close, further blood is shed as the peaceniks
fight with a mob of self appointed patriots on 1st Avenue North.
Every squad in the city that wasn't already on this detail is brought
downtown to restore "order".
The mob that jams Old Colony every weekend night sees
opportunity and makes it's move. As dawn breaks Old Colony lies
smoldering and West Broadway has been looted all the way to Emerson.
In a scene reminiscent of the 1930s Teamster strike but with greater
lethality an army of police, feds, and national guard occupy downtown.
And this is a scenario for just the first day of Dubya's invasion...
from Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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