Jeez. This is worse--FAR worse--than Seattle '99. Tailed, stopped and forced by the police state to answer for your views and your future actions of assembly and petitioning your government!
Democratic president, democratic mayor, in Seattle, too. There, they just bashed your head or hosed your face with CS gas and declared the entirety of downtown Seattle a "no free speech zone" (and arrested thousands of people and kept them in police buses with no water and no toilets for 17 hours, and beat up city councilmen and so on).
I'll bet the Chicago police and their federal masters didn't tail, stop and question their agents provocateur--the ones who are really making "Molotov cocktails." They won't arrest them, either, when they start kicking in Starbuck's windows.
Seems to be a deliberate provocation to hold a NATO meeting in Chicago. They should have held it, in, oh, Qatar? (Which sheikdom did they take the WTO meeting to, after Seattle and Cancun? Can't recall. One of those places where they bury errant women in the sand up to their heads and stone them to death. Typical U.S. ally.)
Note: Lifelong Democrat, here. And I am well aware of how our Corporate Masters set things up, and time things, so that the fallout from their enormous war and economic crimes makes "moderate" Democrats "radioactive." It's all part of the 'narrative' they can now so easily unfold, given the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines all over the U.S. (now owned and largely controlled by one, private, far rightwing-connected corporation--ES&S, which bought out Diebold). The Democratic "moderates" then, instead of exposing privatization of our voting system, go further to the right, because how can anybody but the already-compromised get (s)elected in this system? Thus, tailing, stopping and questioning potential protestors becomes okay to our Democratic Party leaders; torture is okay (if it's kept kind of quiet); murdering people all over the world with predator drones is okay (what Constitution?), and "saving" (i.e., killing) Social Security and the U.S. Postal Service become a Democratic Party endeavor. This is a very difficult dilemma for loyal members of the Democratic Party. If we don't support our compromised, pushed-to-the-right leaders--if we mess up their meetings with protests and petitioning our government, if we refuse to vote because the system is so very, very rigged--our Corporate Masters have far worse they can do to us. Indeed, it is likely their purpose--and part of their pre-written 'narrative'--to force "the people" out of the election system entirely. My decision is that I will NEVER EVER give up my right to vote, or throw my vote away. I bitterly regret the one time I did the latter (1968, Vietnam War--the result of disaffected anti-war Democrats that year was Nixon--and more war). The other thing I can do is warn people about ES&S. We must restore our voting system to the PUBLIC VENUE. We must! It is THE essential first step that we need to take back toward democracy.)
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