Posted on 08/17/2004 10:36:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone
A leader of one of the major protest groups planning to disrupt the GOP convention said Monday she will not instruct her members to refrain from violent attacks against New York City police, delegates or city residents during a planned 250,000 person march on the night before the convention.
Referring to planned protests as "a battle," Tanya Mayo, national coordinator for the protest group "Not in Our Name," told radio host Sean Hannity that her group alone has 30,000 members, but that other groups could swell that number by hundreds of thousands during a planned march up 7th Ave. to the area around Madison Square Garden.
Contending that there's "a real hatred" for President Bush's agenda, Mayo said protesters have a right to assemble in Central Park after leaving the Garden area, a plan that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned.
Asked if her group would "follow the rule of law" if Bloomberg's ban stays in force, Mayo told Hannity, "I think it's ironic that you would ask that question when we've got a president that actually has sacked the rule of law."
"Look, we've got a gang in the White House right now that are rounding up immigrants, putting people in detention," she insisted. "Trust me, [Bush] is a bad guy."
The rest of the exchange went like this:
HANNITY: Will you be non-violent with the police?
MAYO: I'm gonna answer that in the best way that I can. I can't answer it as a yes or no answer. What I can say, is . . . .
HANNITY: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You can. Will you encourage people in your protest not to be violent with the police - yes or no?
MAYO: People are concerned with the fate of the people of the world . . .
HANNITY: Yes or no? Answer the question, Tanya.
MAYO: If you want to do this interview and you want to hear what I have to say, then allow me to answer the question. . . . If people are concerned about safety and disruption in the streets, then we need to actually look at who will be held responsible for something like that. And that's Mayor Bloomberg and his administration for refusing the right of people to assemble.
HANNITY: Now I'll ask the question again. Will you encourage your members to be non-violent?
MAYO: I think our members are a very diverse group of people and individuals will have to make a decision what lines they choose to cross at any given point.
HANNITY: But as a paid leader of the group "Not In Our Name," as a leader of the peace movement, will you encourage members in your group not to be violent?
MAYO: Like I said, those things will unfold as the days come and we'll definitely give you a call back if we have any other answers. . . . We have respected everything up to this point. The only people who have sacked the rule of law are the gang in the White House.
Editor's note:
Actually, it seems to me New Yorkers will tolerate just about anything, including terrorists flying airplanes into skyscrapers. That's the only conclusion I can come to given the fact that New Yorkers will vote overwhelmingly for Kerry-Edwards in November.
We see yet another significant difference in conservatives and liberals. During the Democratic Natl Convention protestors were basically well behaved and did not threaten violence. They showed complete respect for the Convention goers and the city of Boston. Now you have the Liberals, a group of people who have no respect whatsoever for anyone or anything. And if they do something wrong, of course it is someone else's fault. These people are self-absorbed, ignorant fools.
Dennis Prager has David Horowitz on his show. Horowitz was saying that he thinks violence is a pretty fair bet depending on security. But he also says that violence will only help the republicans.
I think a lot of former "centrists" allowed themselves to be dragged off to the left. Now that they're there they aren't comfortable. I think violence at the convention will send a lot of those uncomfortable leftists running for the center.
BLOAT
Aim small, miss small.
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New York is going to be a lot dirtier than normal when all these smelly, dirty, unkept hippies come to town.
But I agree with you on the NYPD. They are the best.
They should throw these hippie-war mongering law breakers in the tombs for a while and lose the key in the bureaucratic process. That will teach them for not following the law.
Isaiah 3:12 ping.
sedition: Language or conduct directed against public order and the safely of the state
Now why in the world can't they all be arrested for this? The First Amendment does not protect sedition.
I gotta agree with you there.
NYPD are the best cops in the world and I feel safe with them there but I am afraid for them. Last time the protesters even attacked the horses that the cops were riding on. I am hoping my fellow NYers will not stand for this and do a little bit to help the NYPD.
NY is alot dirtier already with Bloomberg in charge. More and more homeless people are on the streets stinking up the place and the rats (I mean the furry kind) are taking over.
In other words, they will be violent.
It kills me when these people talk about how much they are for peace and put down violence as "violence promotes violence" yet she cannot answer plainly if they will be non-violent! Isn't that why they are against President Bush? Because he's for war and thus, promotes violence? Yet they will be violent.
Unbelievable!
If these a$$holes want to play...well, they may get a wee more out of me than they planned on.
A friend suggested using flail tanks as riot control vehicles.
I can't even imagine the unholy beatdown that will befall the first "anarchist" that they see aiming his slingshot at a police horse. There will not be an inch of skin left on their body without a purple nightstick welt.
The police know who will be messing with them, but I'm not sure the trustafarians are as informed as to the nature of their enemy.
RATS? RATS?? Oh dear.........
LOL thanks for the laugh. I am sooo pissed off at these jerks right now!
I am ALLLLLLL for a
good old fashioned,
open-the-can-of-WHUPASS,
NYPD ASS-kicking.
I'll bring the pop-corn.
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