The chaos anticipated at the GOP convention in New York is made possible in part by the $4,000,000 Teresa Heinz-Kerry has provided to the Tides Foundation. Canada Free Press reports :
A week ago the New York Daily News reported that Fringe elements are hoping to spark major disruptions at the Republican National Convention using tactics that will endanger the public including fooling bomb-sniffing dogs on trains:The Tides Foundation funds the Ruckus Society, a notorious group of anarchists who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots.
This summer, the Ruckus Society has been training protesters for the GOP Convention. Included in their how-to Book for Dummies are mass sit-ins, blockades and pie throwing at high-level officials enroute to Madison Square Gardens.
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Rhetoric aside, with tactics like dog decoys intended to deliberately miscue bomb sniffing dogs in their bag of dirty tricks, tossing marbles under the hooves of police horses and using homemade slingshots to pelt the noble beasts, radical protesters should be prepared to wear the unreasonable shoe that best fits them.
While some 600,000 passengers travel to Penn Station on regular working days, protesters are hoping that their handiwork will see the necessity of having to evacuate Madison Square Garden.
All lessons being taught to willing protestors at the Ruckus knee are ones to make it less easy for the New York Police Department to maintain public safety.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney calls radical protesters what they are, "criminal conspirators".
In the face of the anarchists' plans for creating chaos the New York Civil Liberties Union is more concerned that the city could overreact than the threat to public safety:Internet-using anarchists are telling would-be troublemakers to decoy specially trained Labrador retrievers with gunpowder or ammonium nitrate-laced tablets in a bid to halt trains or even spur the evacuation of Madison Square Garden.
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"Where is the legitimate protest in trying to endanger the public?" an angry Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told The News.
"It is the height of irresponsibility," he added. "These hard-core groups are looking to take us on. ... They have increased their level of sophistication and violence."
So in addition to guarding against the most vile, organized and destructive of terrorists, Kelly and company have to combat a shadowy, loose-knit band of traveling troublemakers who spread their guides to disruption over the Internet.
The dog decoy ploy is the among most insidious in the fringe groups' bag of tricks - which includes throwing marbles under the hooves of police horses and using slingshots to pelt the animals.
Referring to the anarchists, Paul at Blogs for Bush posts "I just call them what they really are, Democrats. The adopted sons and daughters of John and Teresa Kerry.""We're concerned that any reports about a small number of people, possibly engaging in illegal activity, not be exaggerated and not be used as a pretext to restrain peaceful protest," said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman.

Teresa could be a real star and a big boost to the Democrats.
A lot of people love her outspoken image and will vote for her husband just to watch her & hear her sassy her way through the White House and Washington
A real live soap and a lot more exciting than politics.
Posted by: max wolfe | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 05:33 PM