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What appeared in the Glen Greenwald Slate blog on Saturday:

Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff’s department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than “fire code violations,” and early this morning, the Sheriff’s department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying.

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President George W. Bush is insisting that “the sovereign and territorial integrity of Georgia be respected.” The statement by the American president came after Russian President Dimitri A. Medvedev said Thursday that Russia would act as an international guarantor of the two pro-Russian enclaves at the center of the crisis with Georgia.

It’s tough to take Bush seriously. There are sovereign lands across the globe able to make the same statement against many of Bush’s actions on the world stage since 2000. Or has George forgotten Iraq?

Alvaro F. Fernandez