RNC Eve: Police Seize Sustainable Living Bus

[L. Coyote]

Run time: 03:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4iv3k1feU   Posted on YouTube: August 31, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 01, 2008 By DU Member: L. Coyote Views on DU: 1252

 
Added: August 31, 2008
More at http://www.theuptake.org. Delyla Wilson tours the country with her family in the "PermiBus," a mobile permaculture demonstration. The group is in the Twin Cities to teach people about sustainable living practices.

On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 the bus was pulled over in what police eventually described as a routine traffic stop. After detaining the bus occupants, the police decided the bus was a commercial vehicle and impounded it for inspection, leaving the family and their guests stranded and homeless.

The police allowed the Wilsons to remove their dogs and chickens, but were not allowed to retrieve their computers or any other belongings, including their daughter's shoes.

This incident ended a day that saw multiple pre-RNC raids, which some legal observers believe is a coordinated pre-emptive effort by local and national law enforcement agencies to chill RNC protest action. Video by Chuck Olsen of The UpTake: http://theuptake.org Photos by Tony Webster, used with permission: http://www.tonywebster.com/

[madeline_con]

1. I hope the ACLU fries these guys.

The paranoia is amazing!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. AUTHORITIES ARE TERRORIFIED THAT FREDOM WILL RING

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. I am sending small check to National Lawyers Guild.

Don't have much money, but it is the only way I can support fighting back.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Fucking piece of shit cops.

[silverweb]

3. Unbelievable!

:grr:

[lligrd]

4. Impounded For Inspection??

And they couldn't even get their personal property out? This is not the America I knew and loved.

[Muttocracy]

5. I used to live in the Twin Cities and it's not the MN I knew either :(

[bjobotts]

7. There are cnsequences to these actions.We'll see who gets the last laugh.

[bjobotts]

8. Watch these officers' personal lives start going down hill through instant karma.

Lente, lente, currite noctus equii. Like a reflection of light in the mirror, their actions will reflect back on their lives, hic et nunc.Aand they will know why.

[Canuckistanian]

9. Is it normal to seize items in a "commercial vehicle" infraction??

I mean, the "commercial vehicle" charge is bogus and they know it.

But to SEIZE PROPERTY?

THAT move will have to be explained to a judge.

[jph wacheski]

10. impounded for LATER inspection ?

The charges are not stated, and the bus (home) is impounded for LATER inspection ?!?
Purely an act of malicious state harassment by MEN WITH GUNS in the name of state power.

Once again, as in the home raids, this is terrorism from the re-pugs and their death-eater minions,.
they don't need the charges to stick, the intent is to damage and impair peoples rights and will to oppose the authority of the corporate military that rules over us.

[nc4bo]

11. In China they would have been thrown in jail or forced into labor camps...

but this IS the United States and we haven't sunk to that level - yet.

[trthnd4jstc]

13. These Pre-emptive Raids are Unamerican, and Fascist.

The National Media needs to report this stuff.

[avaistheone1]

17. What do you want to bet that the equipment and training for these unlawful raids on citizens comes

from Homeland Security. Out tax dollars used as weapons against us.

[LindyHope]

14. 18 U.S.C. § 241

18 U.S.C. § 241 -- Conspiracy to Deprive Constitutional Rights -



If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States..., they shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results, they shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life.


.

[onethatcares]

15. OMG, we've become the commies

n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

16. So who else is expecting the police to break out the rubber bullets and tear gas...

To provoke a repeat of Seattle during the RNC?

[glitch]

18. K & R grrrrrrrr nt

[happydreams]

19. I want to K&R this a thousand times!! ......

Just loook at this!! While we have a megalomaniacal psychopath turning hurricane Gustav into a prop for more oil drilling in the Gulf we have our fucking "Public Servants" attacking people who are trying to make this world a more livable place.

Out of all the recent topics this one infuriates me the most.

I am now researching "permaculture" and want to learn all I can. What I am finding is fascinating and IMHO a real solution to a whole host of socio-economic ills. But it also threatens monopoly agribusiness and along with natural healing Big Pharma as well.