Heart-ache: Democratic convention protesters to be held in mini-Gitmo
posted at 8:10 pm on August 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“Very bare bones and very reminiscent of a political prisoner camp or a concentration camp,” says one Code Pink member after viewing the footage; subtract the crematoria, starvation, back-breaking labor, and any real possibility of being locked up for longer than a few hours and you’ll see the harrowing truth in her words. What makes a small cell with bars and a metal toilet any more or less dehumanizing than this makeshift holding pen? Nothing, except (a) here you have to make do with a common cell, like animals on a farm, instead of your own individual cage, like animals in a shelter, and (b) it’s romantic and flattering to the collective ego of the heroes of the revolution to think they might be getting the same treatment as political dissidents or Al Qaeda. They’re dangerous, man; would the city be building this if they weren’t? Which is to say, they’d be disappointed if the city hadn’t. Click the image to watch.
Update: Speaking of Denver and Al Qaeda, you’ll be relieved to know that the police don’t suspect terrorism in the case of that guy caught with … enough cyanide to kill hundreds of people.
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Wow! Shades of Grant Park in 1968 all over again! What a wonderful way to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Left taking over the Democrat party.
coldwarrior on August 13, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Lefties won’t be happy unless they get Guantanamo Orange jumpsuits. Maybe they’ll all wear them and save the sheriff some money.
Wethal on August 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Is this the singularity? Democrats locking up democrats in gitmo? Waterboarding all around!
lorien1973 on August 13, 2008 at 8:17 PM
I don’t treat cattle this way — cows are much more intelligent than these freaks.
rbj on August 13, 2008 at 8:18 PM
And this is only if they’re arrested…
Good lord these people are nuts.
jimmy the notable on August 13, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Are they getting ready for the anti-Russian-war-on-Georgia protestors? Cool!
Oh, it’s not for that? Dammit.
Tony737 on August 13, 2008 at 8:19 PM
Will the pens have a sign to point the direction to Mecca?
Cicero43 on August 13, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Actually, we probably treat Gitmo detainees better.
It's Vintage, Duh on August 13, 2008 at 8:20 PM
LOL you can actually see the woman smile when she says “political prisoner camp.” She can’t wait!
jimmy the notable on August 13, 2008 at 8:21 PM
I think they should go whole hog and give them the true ‘Fascist’ regime treatment…
Stop short of billing the family for the ammo…
BigWyo on August 13, 2008 at 8:22 PM
More considerate, too. Cows just poop and move on; they don’t throw it at anyone.
Wethal on August 13, 2008 at 8:25 PM
WHAT THE HELL???
Just like Boston. What are they thinking???
This pisses me off…
JetBoy on August 13, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Nevermind cattle…we should NEVER treat free speech this way!
I’m so friggin’ pissed like no has ever seen me over this.
I have to step away from the keyboard a while….
JetBoy on August 13, 2008 at 8:31 PM
“It’s a meat processing plant.”
Whaaaaaa! Whhhaaaaaaa!!
If ya don’t wanna go there, DON’T DO ANYTHING THAT’LL RESULT IN YOUR ARREST!
Tony737 on August 13, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Don’t panic folks. What we’ll all be witnessing in Denver’s DNC Convention, is a prelude of coming attractions, of the DemOrats introduction of the Fairness Doctrine. I’m surprised P.E.T.A. hasn’t planned a protest, for the Dems testing on the protesting caged animals!
byteshredder on August 13, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Will they be caged in the garage? Or, will the cages be moved out to the open so we can laugh at them?
Will they put fresh water and kibble in the cage for them?
Will the men and women be in separate cages, or will they be allowed to mingle and do the nasty? (I think it was in Italy where some terrorists started boinking during the trial. They let them finish and then re-examined their policy of putting the men and woman together. Duh.)
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Come on now. The protesters promised not to throw poo.
lorien1973 on August 13, 2008 at 8:33 PM
In honor of Speaker Pelosi’s vast wine vineyard acreage, how about a little chardonnayboarding?
MB007 on August 13, 2008 at 8:34 PM
They slander the memory of the hundreds of millions murdered in the name of leftist totalitarianism by comparing temporary holding quarters for whiny protesters to concentration camps.
Considering Code Skank’s head honcho lived large in Havana for several years, it’s obvious she doesn’t care about those dead.
JammieWearingFool on August 13, 2008 at 8:36 PM
The DNC could recoup some of their losses on this convention by selling tickets to see the Caged Sideshow Freaks. The media sure won’t be showing them. They always do what they can to try to help the Dems hide their most embarrassing elements (while digging up every toothless backwater old-school racist they can find to make the Republicans look bad).
aero on August 13, 2008 at 8:36 PM
That place will be bent up, stomped down and thoroughly enfecalized within a day.
eeyore on August 13, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Just when you think it can’t get any better! This could be a sitcom on Fox.
Oldnuke on August 13, 2008 at 8:40 PM
I knew I recognized that guy. He’s the same guy from “Tent State University.” Remember that?
The guy likes media attention.
terryannonline on August 13, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Mmm-hmmm. And I’m sure Saleman Abdirahman Dirie is a common name in Ottawa. And I’m equally sure there was no Qu’ran in his luggage.
aero on August 13, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Eh, if only the geeks would be locked-up and forgotten.
“What’s that smell”?
“OMG, we forgot to unlock the cages from the convention”.
“That was three months ago”!
“Yeah…too bad”.
Bishop on August 13, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Here is where Allah wrote about it.
terryannonline on August 13, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Get over yourself! These are holding cells for people who have broken the law and are being detained before their arraignment.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 8:46 PM
And frankly, as holding cells they look a lot better than the holding cells you would see in many jails.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 8:46 PM –
The people who constantly harp about free speech are usually the same who try to shout down those with whom they do not agree. You are correct. The intended “inmates” of the Mile High Gitmo will be taken there for violations of established law…not for merely exercising “free speech.”
coldwarrior on August 13, 2008 at 8:54 PM
These people want to be treated this way. They crave the attention and the sense of being oppressed. But none of them are worthy of carrying Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s jock strap.
rbj on August 13, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Let’s not get John Edwards involved.
MB007 on August 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM
on the walls of one cell “Its a cooooookkkk BOooookkkk”
William Amos on August 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Seriously screwed up if the prison movie is “Soleint Green”
But that does go with Denver “Keep it green” theme.
William Amos on August 13, 2008 at 9:02 PM
LOL. Though Elliot Spitzer has already shown up.
rbj on August 13, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Jet is right if Denver arrests people just for protesting and locks them up that is an abuse of free speech.
Its when protestors cros the line and become violent and threaten others does it move from free speech to threats against free speech.
You have the right to say what you want. You dont have the right to threaten those that you disagree with or try and prevent them from having free speech.
William Amos on August 13, 2008 at 9:10 PM
I think Berkely bending over and taking up the wazoo from these people has spoiled them into thinking their actions have no consequences.
SouthernGent on August 13, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Don’t they always dress up as the victims of teh evil boosh and ’self torture’ themselves by taking turns waterboarding for the news cameras to tell everyone how horrible it is ….. by doing it. To themselves.
?
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
ACLU is worried about access to toilets?
I’m sure they plan to wet and crap themselves even if a toilet is handy, simply to have somthing to complain about.
TexasDan on August 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM
If Denver locks them up, they better be ready to serve the prisoners they better be ready to follow the official DNC convention rules:
– No fried foods;
– No liquid served in individual plastic containers;
– No non-resuable/recyclable plates;
– No non-local food;
– No non-organic food;
– No food without at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white.
Anything less would be considered concentration camp-like living facilities.
jon1979 on August 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Boston was hilarious, the protesters were restricted to these little protest cages that were blocks away from the convention so no one even heard them.
They had to wait turns to go into the pen to protest. They would get dressed up in their protest costumes, show their permission slip to use the cage, file in, shout at the overpass, leave and the next group of kooks would file in and do the same thing; it was like a freak zoo.
They would file in like kids getting in a bumper bouncer, shout at no one, chant some slogans, and because they were so close to the expressway it just sounded like one big mess. After a while they’d get frustrated and leave the cage, pout and stomp home in their costume.
Alden Pyle on August 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM
These fools better not venture south of Denver.
mram on August 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Heh, you beat me to it. Not just the police, the FBI also doesn’t believe there is a link to terrorism. Simply amazing.
4shoes on August 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM
In Boston they utilized free speech areas with fencing they could not crawl over. These were challenged in court by the aclu and found to be legal.
The picture above are of temporary holding cells for those arrested. They have to be detained somewhere while they are being processed and taken to court for arraignment. Since, the moonbats intend to instigate mass arrests by breaking the law, they are not all going to fit in the local jails holding cells.
Jetboy needs to take a chill pill.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 9:42 PM
It’s a sickness, they want to be lead around by chains and collars, tied up to a post, put some chaps on them and nothing else except the ball in the mouth, waiting for the next offering ……… as long as they are doing it for the cause, because in the long run………….. they have nothing. No faith, no belief, only hate and propaganda…….. and when faced with the “true” events of the world, it is like sunlight to a vampire.
The venue of stark surroundings, barbed wire, and harshness is fine……….. If they broadcast FOX news on TV’s they could not change, then Amnesty International would definitely be on the scene…………..
Seven Percent Solution on August 13, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Not to worry; dead somali in a hotel room with a pound of cyanide after posting death threats online, nothing to see here, move along.
Alden Pyle on August 13, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Those cages will only be used if the protesters go Full Retard.
BDavis on August 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM
How do detaines get access to food and bathroom? Simple. Feedbags and a hose.
pedestrian on August 13, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Hope they ordered lots of Febreze to cover up the hippie stench.
The Ugly American on August 13, 2008 at 10:55 PM
SHEER IRONY!
They Dems send Denver’s homeless to the zoo for the convention and then the worst of their own will end up in a pen that could best be labeled by anthropologists as “Feral Liberal Americanum.” Maybe they Denver PD will allow safari tours!
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Food and bathroom? Those freaks drink their own urine as a health practice. Drink up, morons.
From National Lampoon “Lemmings” – “And remember, the brother standing next to you…is your dinner!”
Coronagold on August 13, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Once the PUMAs and the Homies start rumbling in the streets, the Denver constabulary will be locking themselves in these cages for protection.It’ll be hilarious when Barry can’t have his coronation rally in Mile-High because the stadium will be being used as the maximum security holding area.
GeneSmith on August 13, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Can I have the peanut selling franchise?
OldEnglish on August 14, 2008 at 12:05 AM
The lefties seem surprised by any difference between jail accommodations and a suite at the Ritz.
snaggletoothie on August 14, 2008 at 12:46 AM
Guys, I sooooooo hope this Convention melts down in Chernobyl fashion. I wanna see the moonbats out
ranting and ravingburning and destorying and the city on fire.Tim Burton on August 14, 2008 at 1:00 AM
Tim Burton
Your sick hatefulness would fit better on a leftie site. Please take your troll ass somewhere else.
snaggletoothie on August 14, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Amateurs! Where are the cattle prods? Where are the whips and chains (got folks coming from San Francisco ya know). Where are the waterboards? Come on guys, try harder!
GarandFan on August 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM
There is a limo shortage in Denver for the Dem convention: http://tinyurl.com/58p5fc
I wonder if they run on solar power, or wind energy? Hypocrites!
electric-rascal on August 14, 2008 at 5:11 AM
I hope they try to throw me in their Gitmo because of my waterboarding kiosk I’m going to set up outside their “Green Zone”. Ah, sweet martyrdom!
Will milk be made available?
Laserjock on August 14, 2008 at 7:19 AM
And of course the option of skipping it completely, and staying home with a nice bag of Cheetos.
Tanya on August 14, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Actions have consequences, obviously something these protesters have never learned.
Wade on August 14, 2008 at 8:28 AM
These protestors and potential protestors complaining about the Gitmo in Denver should be happy that Denver has adopted the Gitmo model and not the Teinamen model.
Even with this warehouse jail being put together, the folks/protestors attending the convention and the counter-conventions have far far more “free speech” and “right to peaceful assembly” than any nation on earth.
[I still think this is an appropriate way, a wonderfully ironic way, the protests and counter protests and of course the arrests and "Lil Gitmo", a very appropriate way of recognizing and celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Left taking over the Democrat Party.]
coldwarrior on August 14, 2008 at 8:42 AM
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