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Peace Activist Faces Trial After Crossing The Line Of Civility (Punching For Peace)
The Columbia Daily Tribune ^ | April 24, 2005 | Tony Messenger

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: antiwar; brownshirts; brownshirtsforpeace; leftwing; liberals; peaceactivist; protester; violence; whackos
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To: BillF

Ping.


21 posted on 04/25/2005 11:11:53 AM PDT by BufordP ("I wish we lived in the day when you could challenge a person to a duel!"--Zell Miller)
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To: MD_Willington_1976

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.


22 posted on 04/25/2005 11:15:09 AM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: boofus; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; Happy2BMe; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Travis McGee




23 posted on 04/25/2005 11:20:31 AM PDT by devolve (My WWII Tribute: http://pro.lookingat.us/WhiteCliffsOfDover.html - more traffic than DU-Koz-LDot -)
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To: MisterRepublican

She should be nicknamed Rita "double-ought" Preckshot.


24 posted on 04/25/2005 11:43:32 AM PDT by Disambiguator (This tagline should only be taken under the advice of your doctor.)
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To: MisterRepublican

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.


25 posted on 04/25/2005 11:51:02 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: bluesagewoman

Ping to make sure that you see this. Thanks for all your fine efforts.


26 posted on 04/25/2005 11:56:14 AM PDT by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: BillF; bluesagewoman

Yeah, bluesage rocks! Make sure you ping the Columbia crowd, Sage!


27 posted on 04/25/2005 1:11:08 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("Slippery slope? Try cliffdiving."--Freeper Crazieman comments on the post-Terri world.)
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To: MisterRepublican
"We hold to a strict code of nonviolence," he says. I asked him whether Allaire would be welcome at future protests. He said the issue hasn’t come up."

What a bunch of hypocrites!

28 posted on 04/25/2005 1:17:15 PM PDT by airborne (Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
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To: ariamne; Former Dodger; jan in Colorado

ping! to a truly classic story of our American times.


29 posted on 04/25/2005 5:36:25 PM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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