Update: Officials revealed that at least two of the “suspects” being held were undercover police, while three people were charged as “terrorists” for possession of beer-making material, on the assumption that they could theoretically fill empty beer bottles with gasoline and use their bandanas to light them on fire.
With an upcoming NATO summit in the next few days, Chicago police are taking the opportunity to kick down doors and arrest “suspected protesters” in a bizarre series of night raids that appeared to occur entirely without warrant.
The National Lawyers Guild reported that police attacked an apartment complex in Bridgeport late Wednesday night, smashing down the doors, tackling tenants and berating one suspected of planning to participate in a public protest against the summit, describing him as a “Commie faggot.”
The captive “suspects” were eventually led off in chains, and the guild says search warrant for the apartment, which wasn’t even written until several hours after they broke the doors down, was never signed by a judge.
The “suspects” were marched out to a police station where they remained, for over 30 hours, shackled at the hands and feet. Police initially responded to inquiries about the raid by denying that it had ever happened, and saying that they weren’t holding anybody. Later, they eventually admitted that they had captured the “suspects,” and said four of them were later released without charges. The other captives are being held pending a bond hearing, though it is still not clear what, if anything, they have been charged with.
Incredibly, Chicago officials are still refusing to comment on the details of the raid, and the States Attorney declined to say what the charges would be, saying that it was “still developing.”
The Obama Administration was seen as extremely keen on crushing any visible dissent at the Chicago summit, and at one point Illinois was even said to be considering opening a special prison for all the detainees they planned to capture.
The poetic justice in the whole tragedy is that Americans are more and more receiving what they permitted their government to do to peoples around the world, except that the bad guys in government are concentrating on those Americans protesting what their government does to peoples around the world. Soon all Americans will feel the tyranny, but they will all be comforted by the fact that they are safe.
How hypocritical of Obama and his corrupt cronies. It would seem that dissent in far off lands can be "assisted" or instigated by his hand through bombs and bullets but to allow his own peasants to voice their displeasure is met with jack booted thugs and a stint in a cold cell. So does anybody think this SOB is worth re-electing?
Obama, the white man's boy, was never worth being elected in the first place. NEITHER OF THE TWO EVILS.
These the suspects who are now being charged with making molotov cocktails?
Yep. They've already been charged with "domestic terrorism" by the international terrorists.
What the police really recovered was beer making equipment – not bombs!
Yep. And today, they've already been charged with "domestic terrorism" – the NDAA at work. It didn't take them long, did it? Let's give three cheers to illustrious Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The guy is brilliant. What BushCo couldn't do, he got done in a slam dunk and more so much more.
One more step in the path toward the police state. And the governement feels encouraged because the populace basically cowers
Obama is not in charge.