Free Darfur - Free Tibet --- Free Denver !?!?!?

[Intolerantbobj]

Man , am I glad we live in Amerika !


Coming soon to a Town near You ...


City defends 'secret jail' built for DNC



DENVER - Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention.


"The public was never going to view this place, it was just found out," Spagnuolo said. "They got caught with this place. They told our lawyers in negotiations that this place didn't even exist."
The makeshift holding center, dubbed "Gitmo on the Platte" by activists, is located on city-owned property near Steele Street and 38th Avenue. Newly-installed security cameras guard the exterior, chain-link fences and barbed wire form cells inside.
"We feel the city should be ashamed of this secret prison they've set up," said Re-create '68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo.
Spagnuolo and other activists gathered outside the formerly-secret facility on Friday to protest the city's plan to use it as a processing center for all those arrested outside the DNC.
"The public was never going to view this place, it was just found out," Spagnuolo said. "They got caught with this place. They told our lawyers in negotiations that this place didn't even exist."
"This was never a secret site," said Undersheriff Bill Lovingier, the city's director of corrections.
Lovingier said the city had long planned to build a new holding facility for the DNC, which triples the processing speed of the city jail. Lovingier said the Steele Street warehouse will be able to process 60 arrestees an hour.
"This center is designed as an arrest processing site," Lovinger said. "There will be no housing or long-term detentions."
Activists said that claim was doubtful.
"What's going to happen here is police are going to detain people for an inordinate amount of time," said Unconventional Denver organizer Ben Yager. "They're going to use this as an excuse to keep people out of the courts and off of the streets."
Protest groups questioned whether the makeshift facility would be suitable for inhabitation after years as a storage facility.
Lovinger said air-conditioning has been installed and the Denver Fire Department has certified it meets fire codes.
"We've provided for restroom facilities, water, medical assistance," Lovingier said. "We tried to mirror in this facility what we do every day in our city jail."
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Makes me feel much more comfortable knowing that the " Tribe of Happiness " feels so insecure !

One would hope that the L E O's don't carry weaponry for the D N C Convention , in order that the D N C may utilize the Denver Circus for Propaganda ..

... ' This is a Happy Gun Free Environment ... even the Officers need not be Armed .... we incarcerated all the
folks who don't share our view , just like Stalin would '


.... ' Vote for us ... your clouds can turn Pink too ' !

[Mr_Tom]

Wow. With liberals/socialist in charge, Git-mo would be a country club compared to the Gulag they would build for us citizens.

tom

[Kenshin]

Does this kinda stuff happen at the Republican convention or is it only at the DNC???

[bloomautomatic]

When an organization takes the name "Re-create '68" I can only assume that their goal is to completely disrupt the convention. If that's the case, why wouldn't you prepare for lawlessness in the streets?

"it's not fair, we're coming there to break the law, and they built a jail for us."

yeah, i know there's peaceable assembly, etc, but if they really wanna recreate what happened at the 1968 DNC, there's gonna be some shady sh1t.

vince

[Intolerantbobj]

Sure seems that way Mr. Tom ... beginnin' to wonder where I live ... Ruskee Land ?

[Intolerantbobj]

Kenshin,

I don't recall a " Secret Prison " being built in Philly for the R N C Convention a few years ago , perhaps one was built and it didn't make the Scandal Sheet ... I believe protesters showed up, but was reasonably orderly affair if I'm not mistaken.

I'm certain had the R N C Convention in Philly gotten rowdy, we'd have heard about it.

[Eugene V. Debs]

Originally Posted by Kenshin

Does this kinda stuff happen at the Republican convention or is it only at the DNC???

They did some pretty foul stuff at the RNC convention here in Philly-- mass "pre-emptive" arrests and detentions without charge. And the DNC/RNC have both been using "free speech zones" (metal cages for protesters surrounded by hundreds of riot police, snipers and SWAT and infiltrated by undercovers of various gov't orgs) for the last several conventions. The Republicans and Dems are on the same page in terms of controlling and restricting mass protest/popular resistance. The only acceptable form of political activity in this country is voting, didn't cha know?

[Eugene V. Debs]

Originally Posted by Mr_Tom

Wow. With liberals/socialist in charge, Git-mo would be a country club compared to the Gulag they would build for us citizens.

tom

And you think the conservatives/reactionaries are any better? Both parties are authoritarian.

[Swarner793]

It meets fire code, what is the problem?

Be safe (and don't be a dickhead!).

Scott

[pex]

After the Denver-decriminalization-of-pot-referendum, everyone ought to be too mellowed out to cause any trouble.

I'd say Freeing America is at the top of the list before some of this other stuff.