WTF? "patrol SWAT vehicle stationed across Third Street from the (OH) Statehouse

[mod mom]

" With a patrol SWAT vehicle stationed across Third Street from the Statehouse and heavy security across the grounds, the patrol allowed only about 750 inside the Capitol."

-snip

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/22/statehouse-protest-collective-bargaining.html

Trying to intimidate folks?

[madmax]

1. Getting more like the middle east little by little.

The Governor is getting paranoid?

[Glassunion]

2. What's wrong with that?

Those are the kind, gentle men and women that we hire for our collective safety. They are there to keep us safe. They hold nothing but an individual's safety, dignity and rights above all else. That's why we make special laws to protect them from the evils of our society, those same evils that we hire them to protecting us from. They are truly and always a class above and deserve our respect.
:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

3. That's why we call them "peace officers"

And nothing's better for teaching the true meaning of peace than sighting down the barrel of a gun at some dirty fucking hippie, even if he looks like a grandma in tennis shoes.

[Glassunion]

4. Yes... Some I hear work for the "Ministry of Love"

Just try to avoid room 101.

[Ignis]

7. +1

:spray:

[roguevalley]

5. the gov thinks he's god. tiny penis wonder bunny. google him and

singing. he was a 'singer' with a group that had 'let the eagle soar' ashcroft. MY EARS! THEY BLEED!

[suffragette]

6. Locking the protesters out of the statehouse

then stations SWAT outside.

Clearly trying to intimidate.

I wonder if those police have seen the video of him in which he says a cop was an "idiot" for writing him a ticket?