RNC Eve: Police Seize Sustainable Living Bus

More at http://www.theuptake.org. Delyla Wilson tours the country with her family in the "PermiBus," a mobile permaculture demonstration. The group is in the Twin Cities to teach people about sustainable living practices.

On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 the bus was pulled over in what police eventually described as a routine traffic stop. After detaining the bus occupants, the police decided the bus was a commercial vehicle and impounded it for inspection, leaving the family and their guests stranded and homeless.

The police allowed the Wilsons to remove their dogs and chickens, but were not allowed to retrieve their computers or any other belongings, including their daughter's shoes.

This incident ended a day that saw multiple pre-RNC raids, which some legal observers believe is a coordinated pre-emptive effort by local and national law enforcement agencies to chill RNC protest action. Video by Chuck Olsen of The UpTake: http://theuptake.org Photos by Tony Webster, used with permission: http://www.tonywebster.com/

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[biantai888]

They are the victims of ideological persecution.

[BackToBartering]

i'm more sickened and hurt by this than i am about things that should upset me more//just strikes at the very heart of what it means to be free. "land of the free"..i've lived on a bus and in woods and in deserted warehouses and lots and lots of other places made my home...i now live in a flat but i miss the camp fire, the weed, the booze, the sex, the creativity, the sharing, the swapping (bartering)..no room for individuals in this Novus Ordo Seclorum that was planned longlonglong ago

[SouperSmaret]

@redicculus All I heard was the -perfectly literate and intelligent- reiteration of this tale of Minnesota's blatant political persecution and violation of their rights. Did you even watch the video, you ignorant waste of oxygen?

[crusty21]

Americans can't live like this. They needs to work 6 days a week to pay a mortgage prop up the shopping malls and super-marts buying loads of crap they don't need. All so they can give the impression they don't live in a bus or something.

[redicculus]

I am glad the Minneapolis police department is cracking down on those dippie hippies. I heard them say lots of words, but none of them were intelligent.

[fifthavenuegirl]

WHAT?????? BULLSHIT. Bastards. BULLIES. WE HAVE BULLIES IN POWER.

[djkhaless]

welcome to fascism

[yourroaddog]

Fucking asshole mother fuckers, thats some bullshit , fucking pisses me right the fuck off!!

[haansgruber]

This is xionist run shillery

hegelian dialectic

Burglund run? There always seems to be some xionist at the forefront

naomi kline, naomi wolf, amy goodman, and the list goes on and on and on

peace :)

[quinch1]

thank god they weren't harassing illegal immigrants

[SoloRaven]

Unbelieveable!

[Jai666666666]

But they let them live? The NWO is getting sloppy.