We have a eye witness of tanks in L.A.

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/118865_comment.php#118868

video
http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/tanks-on-la-streets.mov

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2659372#2663085

ElementaryPenguin
70. I live in LA! That IS Westwood - in front of the Federal Building

Those ARE army tanks - there's an Army Rotc building just a few blocks down the street on Wilshire. Last year I was at an anti-war rally and some soldiers pointed machine guns right at me - and I was doing nothing to provoke them. I just ignored them - but I thought, man this could make Kent State look like nothing!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. don't expect to see this on the meduia

by the way, I will sound crass but it may take soemthing like that for the country to be jolted out, I no longer know what it will take

[seraph]

2. Tiananmen Square? WTF is happening here???

:wtf::grr:

[Liberal Mommy]

5. I called ANSWER..

who was in charge of the protest and talked to Frank. He was there last night and did confirm that the "tanks" were there. Here is the link to their website with a phone number you can call.

[seemslikeadream]

3. Tin Soldiers

Four Dead In Ohio. May 4, 1970
author: andrea pdx
The following is exerpted from an article appearing on the Cleveland Indy Media site. It is a narrative of someone who was wounded at Kent State in May of 1970. Four students were killed and nine other students were wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen sent suppress an anti war demonstation protesting the expansion of the Vietnam war into Cambodia which had occured days before.

more
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/05/264100.shtml

[DrWeird]

4. What will we see at the inauguration?

Altough with Bush I doubt they'd even slow down.

[Cleita]

7. Can we stick Bush in place of the man standing in front of the tanks?

:evilgrin:

[sherilocks]

6. Has anyone contacted the LA Police chief

and asked why the army is using a public thoroughfare to intimidate peaceful protesters?

[Cleita]

9. I think there is an overeaction here in the aftermath

of the incident at the Mexican Consulate. A man tried to kidnap an employee of the consulate yesterday to take her hostage. The police shot him and were able to foil the kidnapping. So I think it's probably a case of raw nerves playing out. At least I hope there isn't anything more sinister going on.

[shance]

8. I called Senator Boxer and Feinstein to ask if they knew anything..

I have no idea. I have heard nothing about this other than these threads.

Edited twice: I hadnt read the other thread until now.

[nostamj]

10. RED Square?

how appropriate!

NB: * will never make another public appearance. NEVER. even with loyalty oaths. he could care less about the 'public' now that he has collected his 'capital'

[AnIndependentTexan]

11. Remember this link? Bush has his mandate and this is ok

http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=405

Now that Bush has his “mandate” from the American people, those who oppose his policies can expect increased surveillance, harrassment, and maybe even arrest and detention. Recall Bush’s attitude toward those who disagreed with him when he was the governor of Texas—he told peaceful environmental protesters demonstrating outside the governor’s mansion in 1999, that “the rules have changed” and ordered them arrested. “The governor seems to think he can, by fiat, simply hack away ‘the right of the people to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,’ to quote a portion of the First Amendment,” commented Charles Levendosky of the Casper Star-Tribune. Indeed. As we now know, Bush believes the Bill of Rights itself should be changed.