City Hall forum on RNC

Some notable opening speakers failed to show up; First business speaker noted 'Mpls won St. Paul lost', Rivercenter convention speaker mentioned that after all it was a Special National Security event and noted all the positive attention and possible future business for the center and the city. The hospitals representitive noted lack of access, lock downs for unstated reasons, Nancy Brown noted that it not a crime to report on news events in view of the number reporters arrested, and commented on the * attitude of the planners of the RNC and in embedding reporters like it was Irag in St. Paul and where is the rational? The question of who is a reporter and the attitude of planners (* attitude of "Oh there not real reporters") in that regard was questioned. The excess force in number of police to handle event, outsiders policing St. Paul during the RNC. Only a few people had seen the Ramsey County sheriff's warrents signed by Judge Joann Smith. the question was raised why Ramsey county Sheriff was at the Rage Concert in hennipin county. The RNC was noted as the biggest police action in the state of MN and needed to be vetted. Vedeos were shown with some new footage I had not seen on you tube.People not resisting or just observing and people forced in to pens was mentions more then a few times, Free Speech zone and access to convention hall deligates gentile and benign and inaccessable. Mention was made of major media not reporting or ignoring real protest stories, Cheri Honkala spoke of how the poor where hidden and ignored or locked down by Dorothy Day Center, The numbers & size of crowd were stated as 30,000. illegal search of packpacks were noted with no arrests following. Chuck Lentz noted the city got hijacked by outsiders, Only one person called cops by the p word, Coleen Rowley spoke as former FBI agent, Elliot Hughes spoke emotionally for a long time about treatment in jail which was like a gitmo horror story, had a list of items he like in place and presented CD's to chair of the community meeting, Legal eagles noted political literature confiscated in illegal preemtive raids and raids at wrong address. Heffilfinger's withdrawal request due to conflict of interest brought loudest audience response of the evening, A Walker Style investigation was suggested. Rich Neumister spoke to his being a change agent and data recovery and retention issues, Police policy and police searches, warrent and actual proceedure match up and elected officials were on the agenda but none but Thune and he acted as chair and only one or two quiet reminders about protocal for the event There was a Gavel at the beginning of the meeting and a quiet ending. No one was arrested!