Secret Service harrases Paul delegates at RNC

Delegates are being followed by agents and have been searched en masse with all Ron Paul signs, buttons, etc being seized without explanation.

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From the article:

Today at the Republican National Convention, as the Ron Paul Delegates were taking a picture in front of the model White House inside the Convention Center, they were surrounded by Secret Service which proceeded to search the bags of all the delegates. They took any and everything related to Ron Paul including signs, buttons, videos, slim jims, cards, even books.

Alternate Delegate Dennis Rothacker from Florida said “We were done taking the picture when Secret Service started walking into the room and surrounded us. There were about 30 of them. When they searched my bags they took my Ron Paul sign and turned a deaf ear to my complains, they just walked away.”

Delegate Ron Warner from Fairbanks Alaska added that as he was walking into the convention center today with about 15 Revolution Manifesto books, 20 DVD’s for Delegates, 20 Ron Paul buttons and a handful of other things, we was stopped by security which called on an obviously important higher up, who directed all the materials to be confiscated. She told him, and I quote “You can’t bring that in here, this is Mc Cain territory”

Dennis, Ron and the other delegates report being openly followed by secret service. He says that they had been monitored from the beginning of the convention, but that now they are being shadowed constantly.

There are also reports of delegates being approached by security and told that they will be summarily thrown out if they leave their assigned chair.

19:07 PM - EST St. Paul, MN

The alarm was sounded at 6:07 PM - EST when a text message was hurriedly sent by Republican delegate Dennis Rothacker to ‘Boris in Miami’ from the convention floor.

“We just had a group shot of all the RP delegates and alternates, the secret service came and started searching everyone and took anything RP related. We got it on video though…”

Updated @ 8:18 PM - EST

Ron Paul delegates report that they have been shadowed by Secret Service since the beginning of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Center, following the confiscation of their political materials they are now being surveilled openly with an agent assigned to each delegate. When one of the delegates asked if they could retrieve their property after the convention they were told, “No.” not satisfied with that answer the delegate tried to follow the agent to make additional inquiries, he was told this action was causing a disturbance and a security agent was told to stay with him for the rest of the evening. For their safety the Ron Paul delegation have decided to stick together as a group while approaching the media with their story.

Updated @ 9:32 PM - EST

McCain delegates at large have approached Ron Paul delegates throughout the day in attempts to seperate them from their all important delegate credentials. Adam Weigold, delegate from Minnesota, reported he has been approached at least five times by other Republican delegates supporting McCain-Palin who asked him to borrow his pass to go the bathroom. Nathan Hanson (MN) delegate and attorney suspects this is an organized effort by the GOP establishment.

Is this really considered "OK" by people who support McCain? I don't believe any campaign's delegates should be treated in this manner in America, period.

I'm disgusted but not surprised. This is just the next instance of the Republican-Nazi Party stomping all over the Constitution and precepts of this country. They clearly have NO regard for the representation of the citizenry.

Where is Jamie83 and the rest of the Stepford-Republican to defend and explain these actions? No doubt being fitted for their armbands. Wake-up people. We're in deep poo and it's getting worse by the day.

Well, Palin tried to ban books and even fired the libraian when she was mayor of a small town in Alaska. That's what Hitler did.

Next she'll be making gays get pieces of flair so we can identify them.