Minneapolis-St. Paul Radicals plan to have tasers just in time for Republican National Convention

In its own words:

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL – The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC), an anarchist and anti-authoritarian organizing body based in the Twin Cities, announced today that it has ordered tasers for each of its members and friends. The announcement comes on the heels of last month’s St. Paul City Council approval of a St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) request for 234 tasers. Due to a unique corporate-anarchist confidentiality agreement, the exact number of tasers or documentable evidence of this new order will not be disclosed.

Both the SPPD and RNC-WC taser orders are scheduled to arrive before the September 1 so-called Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul.

Of course they claim the timing is coincidental. Wink wink. Right… To add to the winking, jocular tone of the press announcement, the RNC-WC adds:

Once the RNC-WC order is finalized, the St. Paul Police Department will no longer have a monopoly on the weapons that have been implicated in hundreds of deaths nationwide, including the killing of a Fridley man by Minnesota State Troopers in January.

The Welcoming Committee has no plans to purchase machine guns, rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, concussion grenades, batons, water cannons or helicopters, all of which will be at the disposal of local police and federal agents in September.

Aren’t violent anarchists tres amusing?

h/t: Pat Dollard

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5 responses to “Minneapolis-St. Paul Radicals plan to have tasers just in time for Republican National Convention

  1. Actually…no. I find them revolting. They are actually out to hurt, maybe kill, people. Why? Because they disagree with the way these twirps think? THANK GOD THEY DON’T THINK THAT WAY~ *sigh*

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  3. These people must be joking. They’re not using violence, they’re using intimidation.

    Two different worlds of separation.

    Real violence doesn’t need an “attachment” like the tazer, especially when it is non-lethal.

  4. I understand. I’d rephrase it to say that when they go up against the police they are taking a taser to a gunfight.