Message to the BBC

Here is a short comment I submitted to the BBC regarding the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Since it was announced that the Republican Convention was to be held in St. Paul I have dreaded the day that the city would start going into lock-down. There have been thousands protesting with nearly all doing so peacefully. A few have caused trouble and have been arrested, rightly so, for breaking windows, etc. But the scenes of a police state are becoming more apparent. House raids, arrests of journalists and the tasering of people not resisting arrest is all well documented. Permitted events have been shut down as well. It is rediculous that the republican party needs millions of dollars and thousands of police, troopers and national guard to simply nominate John McCain as the Republican nominee for president."