“While the crowd was focused on the stage, and while all 20,000 were filled with the delusion of hope and the possibility of change, 30,000 heavily weaponized civilian law enforcement officers, and 5,000 vehicles, all outfitted with the brightest lights man had ever conceived, had completely ensnared the most active and vocal domestic belligerents who were left in the country. All were trapped, and none were allowed to leave…from what had officially, in that instant become the very first FEMA temporary adjustment camp in the former United States of America.”
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20,000 Political Prisoners Arrested in Tampa, Florida
Author: Matthew D. Weidner, Esq.
Like the other 19,999 prisoners that were rounded up and taken away, I had no idea what hit me until the moment the trap was sprung and I certainly had no idea that I had unwillingly participated in helping the government round up thousands of my fellow Domestic Belligerents…until it was too late.
I was assigned Prisoner Number 19176 immediately upon entry into the makeshift camp that had been established at the Tampa Fairgrounds. At the time I of course had no idea I had just been assigned a prisoner number and I had zero idea that my prisoner number singled me out as a particularly dangerous member of the dissident class, a leader, an organizer, a rabble-rouser, an especially dangerous troublemaker. I thought I was entering the Tampa Fairgrounds in the days leading up to the August 2012 Republican National Convention to participate in a rally for peace, love and support of the Ron Paul 2012 campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination.
I remember the day I first learned that the Tampa Fairgrounds, set immediately adjacent to the 1-800-AskGary Amphitheater, had been reserved for the Ron Paul Love Fest. It was a Sunday morning, May 27 2012 to be exact. I was reading my home delivered copy of the Tampa Bay Times with a headline that screamed, DEMOCRACY LIVES! and really made it sound like the event would be an exciting and invigorating expression of political debate and discussion.
Of course this story was juxtaposed with the much larger story with the headline that blared, RIOTS EXPECTED AT RNC CONVETION 15,000 LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL BE ON HAND, but that was a little detail missed by everyone.
The Tampa Times story came at a time when fools all across this country still believed that anything could be done to wrest control of America from the corporate statists that had carefully engineered the collapse of the world as we knew it and were working feverishly to execute their plan. I can personally attest to this because I was one of those fools. I still bought in the delusion of democracy in the United States, I was still stoned by the illusion of any choice.
Be sure to check out the rest here…
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It’s not all that unlikely that this situation will actually occur in the not-so-distant future. Just look around: our constitutional rights are gradually being taken away. Slowly at first, but ever increasing. It started with the Patriot Act. It continued with NDAA and indefinite detention – even of person’s who are acquitted of their crimes. Under NDAA “terrorist sympathizers” are allowed to be indefinitely detained and tortured by our military in these FEMA camps. But what is a terrorist sympathizer? The term is very loosely defined and can include anyone who openly speaks out against the government. Obama also recently passed legislature that you can be charged with a felony for exercising your 1st amendment right to peacefully gather (protest). Now, the 6th amendment is gone, and the 1st amendment is almost gone. Still don’t believe that martial law could ever happen here? Look at Martial Law USA and see the proof for yourself. You can’t ignore it forever.
The phrases that means the same thing as marshall law in the country are “National Emergency” and Curfews. The Consitutiuon has pretty much been shreaded. The government however still hides behind the Constitution when the Citizens try to prosecute them but when they want to prosecute us, its a developing document.
There is no difference in the RNC and the DNC . They and the national news media, are owned by the United Nations..
It figures people would be arrested attending a Ron Paul rally, since he has introduced legislation to fully audit the Federal Reserve Bank and even end the Federal Reserve Bank.
That must be a pretty dangerous thought to the puppets in Washington.
What a sham that the tank has the words, “Rescue 2”. Rescue whom? The 1% when they encounter trouble with the ‘rabble’ 99%? Why are OUR tax dollars used for financing tanks to police departments?
Just like the Patriot Act and Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention, Consumer Protection Act and Homeland Security – the names are the opposite of the intent – the totalitarian’s idea of a ‘joke’ on the American people. We’re running out of time to turn the tables, folks.
Matt, history should have told you that there are only two means of creating real change; passive resistance and physical rebellion, the later which I highly discourage because it only puts off the efforts for conducting the prior. Going to a Ron Paul rally or even voting only encourages the participation in the flawed system of politics and government. Harry Browns “Why Government Doesn’t Work”, book is amongst the hundreds of others that show Government as a Power Brokerage Cartel with fatal flaws that do not allow the ethical alteration of the institution of government. We need to wake up. We have had thousands of years to figure this out the 7%, the 1% + their 6% psychopthic employees/aristocrats/minions can’t be beat using the system they control from the top down. You should know that only free market solutions can truly solve the problems of our world. We can start by creating a free market justice system that I’ve prosposed at http://rsjexperiment.wordpress.com – The final product or system can only be created by us all working together to implement a system superior to what we have. You do not even have to have a polical system, if you can somehow achieve a good justice system since all good laws exist to protect our individual rights. All others create conflict and need to be seen as usupations of inalienable rights. The current system will not abolish them if we all continue to acquiese through continuing to believe that Ron Oaul or some of libertarian can’t get elected and save our world. You always have the other choice of getting into a big crowd and getting rounded up by fascist oligarchs and their police state minions.
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Too much personal revenge in your piece. The bummbling fools that run the RNC deserve whatever opprobrium you can manufacture, even for the undeserved damage done to Don, but the DNC does not need their help. Obama’s handlers alone can pull it off and are, presently, by controlling the county governments across the nation. This is where the ballots are counted. This is where the locally pertinent parts of the missing Clinton era FBI files are stored, available as necessary to eliminate or control any “uneducated” candidate or winner. Even admitting the antiquity of that data, the new social internet media is and has been compiling factual or implied constraints on future candidates to forge fetters on all those able to discern the looming horror through the present fog of babelizing gibberish. Remaniscent of African village initiations or native american powwows rather than the staid councils of the early founding fathers, today’s constituents are mesmerized by trifles conditioned by boob tube commercials and pretend reality. I see Obama’s handlers defy defeat and in late October clandestinally produce a nationwide health panic of ebola type exposure or mad cow like symptoms but claimed to be transmitted by dogs or cats or other common candidate with the necessary endemicity. No guns. No strobe lights. Ensnare the public in their own viceral fear. Let them lock themselves up as they choose to postpone elections. There are far too many yankee toters and returned vets not seduced by the Paulista crap to try the forcible farce you describe.