Police Harass WTO protesters

any pictures of pre-actions by the cops in the streets of sac?

Pictures of the dawn raid in which the seedballs were seized can be found here:  http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266757.shtml

welcome to the police state of sacramento california, just like denver colorado where you came from. want laws? we've got trillions of 'em. those grubby kids look like protestors? the cops can just find a law, apply it, search them, intimidate them, run them for warrants, demand id . . . fine them. if jaywalking don't work, vagrancy or disturbing the peace will do the trick . . . and even if they're just walking from the bus station, the cops can always just confront them and lie about it later. what are you gonna do about it? move to sacramento for 2 years to pursue a civil rights case? and how can you prove anything when it's your word vs. the cops? check it out:

"A favorite ploy of modern-day statists is to make so many laws that virtually any person can be arrested at any time." - David Smith, a technology professional and writer for anti-state.com

oh yeah, and thanks to that pig SCALIA for this:

"Petitioners urge as an extraordinary factor in this case that the "multitude of applicable traffic and equipment regulations" is so large and so difficult to obey perfectly that virtually everyone is guilty of violation, permitting the police to single out almost whomever they wish for a stop. But we are aware of no principle that would allow us to decide at what point a code of law becomes so expansive and so commonly violated that infraction itself can no longer be the ordinary measure of the lawfulness of enforcement. And even if we could identify such exorbitant codes, we do not know by what standard (or what right) we would decide, as petitioners would have us do, which particular provisions are sufficiently important to merit enforcement.

For the run of the mine case, which this surely is, we think there is no realistic alternative to the traditional common law rule that probable cause justifies a search and seizure. "

---Whren et al. v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996)

.....so basically, the state can just overwhelm us with "exorbitant codes" a million pages long, so virtually everyone at all times is guilty of some infraction, and the cops can harass and arrest whoever, whenever they want.... especially when the corporate statist status quo is under attack.


remember, with direct action we're talking about the state: the rulers, and "resistance" and "dissent" threaten the state. this isn't play time. this is war -- for freedom, for free speech, for the constitution. i wasn't gonna go to sacramento, but to hell with that, i'm on my way now. i hope to meet the heroic denver "jaywalkers" and everyone else who opposes the pigs. let the pigs arrest us all and prove to the world that the US ain't the free country the state claims it is.