Secret Jail Built in Denver

With the Democratic Convention only a week away, Denver is gearing up to keep law and order during it. First they have gotten rid of all their homeless and now preparing for the hundreds if not thousands who might be arrested during the convention.

Activist groups say the converted warehouse poses a threat to civil liberties. The city maintains the facility is needed in case of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention.

The makeshift holding center, dubbed "Gitmo on the Platte" by activists, is located on city-owned property near Steele Street and 38th Avenue. Newly-installed security cameras guard the exterior, chain-link fences and barbed wire form cells inside.

"We feel the city should be ashamed of this secret prison they've set up," said Re-create '68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo.

"The public was never going to view this place, it was just found out," Spagnuolo said. "They got caught with this place. They told our lawyers in negotiations that this place didn't even exist."

"This was never a secret site," said Undersheriff Bill Lovingier, the city's director of corrections.

Lovingier said the city had long planned to build a new holding facility for the DNC, which triples the processing speed of the city jail. Lovingier said the Steele Street warehouse will be able to process 60 arrestees an hour.

"This center is designed as an arrest processing site," Lovinger said. "There will be no housing or long-term detentions."

Barbed-wire cells, security cameras, chain link fences, what are they planning for? This is more like the arrangements that the Chinese government has done for the Olympics than a major city planning for an upcoming Political Convention.

Then again Denver might have been asked by Barack Hussein Obama to build it. It would be the perfect place for him to stash the PUMAs until after the election.

Either way you look at it. The Democratic Convention might be fun to watch. Especially if riots happen both outside and inside the convention hall.

Black National Anthem

I am appalled and in shock today. In an American City (Denver), for an official function (the Mayor's annual State of the City address), an African-American singer who was suppose to sing the Star Spangled Banner and instead sang The Black National Anthem.

Rene Marie was asked to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the lyrics of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" — a hymn commonly referred to as the "Black National Anthem" — to the tune of the national anthem, MyFOXColorado.com reported.

"If anyone has got a right to be angry it's probably me," Hickenlooper told the station. "I guess what I feel most is just deeply disappointed."

Correction Mayor Hickenlooper, every American citizen is angry at her. This is an outrage at our nation and its people. Who the heck does she think she is?




I guess that when the Democrats have their convention in Denver later this Summer, they will sing this song instead of our national anthem. And G-d forbid if Obama ever gets elected, this will replace the words of Francis Scott Key that inspired this nation for so many generations.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?