The New Denver Zoo Will Have Clowns

Submitted by Tully on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 12:25pm

'Gitmo On The Platte' Set As Holding Cell For DNC

CBS4 News has learned if mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver. Investigator Rick Sallinger discovered the location and managed to get inside for a look.

The newly created lockup is on the northeast side of Denver. Protesters have already given this place a name: "Gitmo on the Platte."

Inside are dozens are metal cages. They are made out of chain link fence material and topped by rolls of barbed wire.

...Each of the fenced areas is about 5 yards by 5 yards and there is a lock on the door. A sign on the wall reads "Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility."

Get the cattle prods ready, and do watch the video found at the article for some serious chuckles. Yes, yes. Gather 'round like cattle and ye shall be herd! ZAP. ZAPZAPZAPZAPZAP. Mooooooo!

What's amusing to me is that DPD seems to think that the facility's lack of amenities will be a deterrent when to this crowd it's a feature attraction. Nothin' oozes potential street activist cred like a stay at the Gitmo!

In other DNC/Denver news, one of the featured stars of the above-referenced video is Adam Jung, local leader of "Tent State University*" who has his own proposal for solving the Tent City/City Park permit denial problem. To avoid being involuntarily de-grunged in mass sprinkler-showers before being tossed en masse into the Gitmo on the Platte they plan to make a nightly trek to The Cage at the Convention Center, where they will continue their 24/7 protests by feigning sleep. (Really, you can't just make this stuff up. Well, you could, but the reality is even funnier and more original.)

Also of recent note is the finding of a potential terrorist dead in a Denver hotel with a large stock of an as-yet-unidentified white powder. One would think that would get more press. (UPDATE: The substance has been identified as a pound of sodium cyanide. The dead man has been identified as Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, who is thought to have entered the US from Canada.)

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[*--which really is all about the tents and is in no way, shape, or form meant to refer to the events Kent State University many years ago. Psst! Wanna buy a watch?]

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is there some reason why

Submitted by bucyrus on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 1:16pm.

Is there some reason why its the democratic convention that seems to be attracting zealots convinced of the efficacy of symbolic protest? Are they going where they think the eyeballs will be? Or is the GOP convention attracting the same sort of stuff and generating the same sort of public policy responses?

I ask because you seem to be paying close attention to it. You're currently providing 100% of my coverage of zealous convention protestors. :-) I get my fill of young, eager naive activists sporting petitions and pamphlets every day I walk through Copley Square. So you can understand my low tolerance.
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole

The parties are better @ the

Submitted by c3 on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 4:30pm.

The parties are better @ the Dem convention.

Chris

I'm told the Republicans

Submitted by Tully on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 8:32pm.

I'm told the Republicans have steaks and better liquor, but the Democrats have sushi and better weed.

Just sayin' what I've heard.

It's that Sixties thing....

Submitted by Tully on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 8:37pm.

Is there some reason why its the democratic convention that seems to be attracting zealots convinced of the efficacy of symbolic protest?

They wanna re-live the legendary Glory Days, and "recreate '68." But the Dems generally have more amusing protesters anyway, simply because the obsessive far left is younger, more surreal, more naive, and (IMHO) more amusing than the far right. My two cents, anyway. IMH Experience, the obsessive far-righters are older and downright grimly tedious. No sensayuma. (Bonus points for getting the literary reference.)

I guess I was assuming

Submitted by bucyrus on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 6:57am.

I guess I was assuming that the partisans were more prone to protesting the other team's convention than to trying to get their own team to see things EVEN MORE their way.

See I just expected, from all the bitching that liberals around here do, that they'd be far more eager to go to the GOP convention and play turd in the punchbowl there.

I get the steaks and weed thing. Maybe the smart thing to do is go to the dem convention. If you bring your own steaks, the smell from the grill will ward off the sanctimonious food nazi and attract stoners interested in exchanges of ideas and other things.

Although I know that Patton Oswalt claims that every time you cook a steak, a hippies hacky-sack rolls into the gutter. :-)
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole

I used to think that too...

Submitted by Tully on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 8:43am.

I guess I was assuming that the partisans were more prone to protesting the other team's convention than to trying to get their own team to see things EVEN MORE their way.

I used to think that too, but it really all depends on the specific circumstances. No hard and fast rule I've ever found, though when the anger/hysteria level is really high in one far wing of the overall populace, they tend to protest their own side.

If you cooked the steaks over the weed, would the vegans come running to scream at you...and take many deep breaths? Ah, the cognitive dissonance of it all...

I was thinking more in terms

Submitted by bucyrus on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 11:30am.

I was thinking more in terms of providing steaks for the main course to attract the stoners that would provide some reciprocal after-dinner refreshment to go with the whiskey.

The vegans? You know that if the smell of steaks kept them away, they'd show up later on when the coals have burned down, after they finished getting drunk on wine coolers that they stole from their mothers. That's why you have to save some raw hamburger to throw at them. Oh, the trauma!
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole

Can we use slingshots?

Submitted by Tully on Thu, 08/14/2008 - 2:01pm.

That's why you have to save some raw hamburger to throw at them...

ROFLMAO. You are cruelly imaginative. I like it. Can we use slingshots?

and then

Submitted by bucyrus on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 8:50am.

And then you can say "Hmm, maybe meat IS murder!"

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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole

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