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Originally posted by Not Bob
Are you serious? That is such a classic case of attempted intimidation. The message -- we know who you are, we are watching you, and we don't like what you are doing. What else could it be? And the fact that Podunkville PD takes my picture at a union picket line, but not if I'm at the county commissioner's Blockbuster blockade tells me that some political speech is considered by the people who can arrest me as acceptable, while other speech is not. Jesus.
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Funny you should mention this (pictures of protestors/crowds etc). In Chicago, groups of local democrats are being organized go to Wisconsin for campaigning. Every saturday morning, a bunch of guys show up and get on busses and they go to Wisconsin.
Some people I know in Chicago were thinking of going and filing
["filming"? -- t.s.] these guys, their cars, and the busses at the departure point. Speculation is that some of these people may be campaigning on city or county time. Its happened before, numerous times. The thinking is more along the lines of, hey, this would make great evidence if these people are actually doing something wrong as we suspect.
Similarly, lawbreaking has been known to occur disproportionately at union picket lines, but who wants to keep the riot squad permanently deployed? Much easier to just keep a film to document the evidence. Its not like the strikers are wearing hoodies.
OTOH, I can't remember too many times hearing about politial speeches by politicians ending in violence. Except for that West Virginia republican whose kids keep getting mugged by democratic union worker supporters when they hold up protest signs.
Anyhoo, sure there's a rational justification for this. Its easier to take movies of groups of known and suspected would-be criminals before they commit a crime, than to keep the riot squads on them 24/7. This is efficient government at its best.
Do they film democratic politicians when they are speaking?
