The word is that “improvised explosive devices” (IEDs) could be used by “domestic terrorists” at the RNC.
There also will likely be individuals who engage in “black bloc” tactics, cover their face with a mask or bandanna to “conceal their identity” and throw “Molotov cocktails, flaming torches or acid-filled eggs at law enforcement,” according to a joint bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation. And the “anarchists” could come by sea, the Coast Guard reports.
Finally, what the national security state is permitted to use on citizens it reigns over at one so-called national special security event will be reused again.
This means the Occupy movement and others in Tampa can expect stops and searches of people, unreasonable seizures of personal property, obstruction of members of the press intent on covering and reporting on protests, the targeting and temporary detention of live streamers at gunpoint, the swarming of homes and churches where activists are known to be staying or gathering by riot patrol squads, preemptive arrests and the use of infiltrators or agents to separate out those who the state deems can be trusted to exercise their First Amendment right from those who cannot.
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