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Posted on 04/25/2005 10:18:11 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out.
It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly four years now, this has been Preckshot’s life from about 4:15 to about 5:45 in the afternoon once a week. She started her solo troop-support effort to counteract the peace protesters who stand a couple of blocks away at the intersection of Providence and Broadway. The peaceniks hold signs that say things such as "honk for peace" and "end the occupation."
They outnumber Preckshot every Wednesday, but she stands out there just the same, sometimes drawing another supporter or two to help her effort.
On this particular Wednesday - it was March 16 - her effort seemed to annoy a couple of the protesters. Not satisfied with their own peace protest, a pair of peaceniks grabbed their signs and made their way to Preckshot, who normally stands outside the Bloomers flower shop near Locust Street.
"Two of the guys from the corner walked down with a big sign that read ‘End the occupation,’ " she remembers. One of them started taking pictures of a Preckshot supporter across the street, she says. "At some point, the other guy starts coming toward me."
For a diminutive woman, Preckshot can handle herself. She’s a former police officer, and she isn’t easily intimidated. Still, a young man coming at her waving a sign in her face seemed a little aggressive, particularly from somebody supposedly advocating peace.
(Excerpt) Read more at columbiatribune.com ...
Ping.
These idiots have no interest in peace. They are rabblerousers and that is all. Their morality is based on what is 'cool' and whatever provides an opportunity to be an idiot. I have to excercise self-control when driving past idiots like this. They aren't worth the gas it would take to veer out of the way and end their idiotic show of stupidity very quickly.
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She should be nicknamed Rita "double-ought" Preckshot.
A. Islamist cowards who set of bombs at schools and hijack passenger airliners.
B. Peacniks who attack people expressing their free speech rights.
...........birds of a feather flock together.
Ping to make sure that you see this. Thanks for all your fine efforts.
Yeah, bluesage rocks! Make sure you ping the Columbia crowd, Sage!
What a bunch of hypocrites!
ping! to a truly classic story of our American times.
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