Meanwhile, in Chicago

From the right-wing Hutaree Militia members to the leftist “Occupy” group, political dissidents are being systematically targeted by our behemoth-like “national security” apparatus.

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Rahm Emanuel runs Chicago like he ran the Obama White House: with an iron fist and a foul mouth – and the NATO summit, being held in the Windy City, is the perfect occasion for him to demonstrate just how “tough” he can be.

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”

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Using a battering ram, Chicago police knocked down the door to an apartment on Chicago’s south side, and arrested 9 individuals, ranging in age from early 20s to a 66-year-old pacifist with a heart condition: all but 3 were later released without charges, although not before being held in chains in an “interrogation” room and denied bathroom facilities. Police claim to have confiscated “Molotov cocktails” made out of “beer bottles and bandanas,” as well as beer-making equipment and such weird items as a shield with a “pointed edge.”

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[T]he real story soon came out, one we are all too familiar with these days: at some point a male and female couple – obviously police informants or federal agents – turned up after ingratiating themselves with the residents, and it was they who actually brought the materials to make a bomb to the apartment, unbidden.

  Justin Raimondo

No doubt a police effort to round up and neutralize any pre-NATO protest trouble.

Occupy Wall Street livestreamers Tim Pool, Luke Rudkowski, and Jeoff Shively, along with two other friends, were driving back to their apartment around midnight on Satuirday, after a long day covering the anti-NATO protests in Chicago when they were suddenly surrounded by twelve police cars and told to come out with their hands raised.

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The police never explained why the men were being detained but handcuffed and interrogated them, searched their car, repeatedly slammed one of their computer hard drives against the car floor, and attempted to delete their footage of the incident before it could be archived at Ustream.

  Raw Story

Tracy Pollock  [credentialed photographer for The UpTake, who was wearing a highly visible press badge,] was attempting to photograph police who had set up barricades and were using their bicycles as weapons to force back a crowd of protesters. As she pressed forward, one police officer first tried to rip her camera away and then pushed her over some bicycles, leaving her bruised but not seriously injured. Protesters helped her to safety.

  Raw Story

And from Glenn Greenwald's Twitter page:

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.