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Welcome, RNC Convention Protesters!

Written by Nancy LaRoche on 18 April 2007.

The St. Paul Police and Visitors Bureau has negotiated special group rates for 3,000 next fall at the open-air Chainlink Suites™ — an all-inclusive five-star pole resort. Chill 24/7 in an 8x10!

ImageAmenities include:

  • Ground transportation
  • Sleep Number beds (permanently set at 0)
  • "Adequate amounts of food"
  • Temporary air conditioning units
  • One phone call
  • A court-appointed attorney
  • Porta johns
  • Medical services and supplies 
  • One hour of exercise daily 
  • Lively cell cage mates 

Local activists are raving about Chainlink Suites™!

"I hope it is a nice warm, dry day," (Charles, Executive Director of ACLU Minnesota) Samuelson said. "Otherwise, because of the lawsuits, this could be the most expensive thing they do, if it doesn't work right."

Told about the possible open-air detention facility, Mary Beaudoin, director of Women Against Military Madness, a local protest group, said, "It's hideous, it's terrifying. Are they going to have us wear orange jumpsuits and hoods, too? It sounds like Guantanamo Bay."

Get yer black bandana and pink boa on, then get down and assume the position! We'll leave the Coleman lantern on for you.