Slog - Comments on All Along the Watchtower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower You've heard of the parking garage in St. Paul that's been turned into a mass detention center. Looks like there's one in downtown Minneapolis, too. Guards in camouflage stand watch over Second St... ... and hide behind walls when they realize you're taking their picture. (See the bit of orange vest out from behind the pillar?) We played an eerie game of hide and seek for a few minutes. They'd stand, I'd point my camera, they'd scurry away. They'd peek out again, I'd raise my camera, they'd scurry away. They all watched me, some through binoculars, and talked into their... Copyright 2008 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:32:50 -0800 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:08:04 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by nad huffpost says opening night of gop convention is canceled.

]]> nad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118010 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:55:56 -0800 Comment by lostboy Guards in camouflage ...

... and orange visibility vests.  Which leaves me pondering what's your point, and what is theirs?

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118017 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118017 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:08:03 -0800 Comment by PopTart Brendan, the Democrats had similar things in place for their convention. I'm not sure what you are trying to get at by documenting all the "police state" things happening ahead of the convention? Do you feel the Republicans are going overboard?

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118019 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118019 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:10:30 -0800 Comment by Why doesn't The Stranger send a real reporter? Another pointless post from Kiley. Time to grow up...

]]> Why doesn't The Stranger send a real reporter? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118044 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:48:19 -0800 Comment by Why don't you grow a brain? Right! We need more journalism that tells us shit that we don't already know, like "I go to parties!"

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/on_the_radio_22

And "journalists exist!"

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_competition

Lots more of that, plz.

]]> Why don't you grow a brain? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118095 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118095 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:57:56 -0800 Comment by Dan warmonger Savage COMMENT DELETED: OFF-TOPIC


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]]> Dan warmonger Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118149 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118149 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:22:11 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton @6 You'll probably still be around posting that crap when their posting Dan's obit. many years from now.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118167 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118167 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:33:29 -0800 Comment by yucca flower The chief of police was on the news claiming all the anti-GOP protesters they'd arrested were anarchists with bomb-making materials. They just showed the garage of one house with some bits of typical suburban garage detritus and a "suspicious" can of "accelerant". Which looked like Krylon.

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118176 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/all_along_the_watchtower#c1118176 At Large Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:08:04 -0800