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Soldier Defends His Home (in Seattle !)
KOMO TV (Seattle) ^ | 10/3/05

Posted on 10/04/2005 5:09:03 PM PDT by llevrok

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1 posted on 10/04/2005 5:09:04 PM PDT by llevrok
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To: sionnsar

Ping


2 posted on 10/04/2005 5:09:43 PM PDT by llevrok (Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote)
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To: llevrok
Big surprise...Seattle.

(sarc)
3 posted on 10/04/2005 5:11:56 PM PDT by ryan71 (Speak softly and carry a BIG STICK)
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To: llevrok

Local police should do a 24hr surveillance - motion activated video camera.


4 posted on 10/04/2005 5:12:16 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: llevrok

what do you expect from a lieberal, they have no respect for country, or property


5 posted on 10/04/2005 5:13:03 PM PDT by stevengrant98 (its not liberals, its lieberals)
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To: ryan71

The man must be a modern saint - I would have long since terminated somebody with extreme prejudice.


6 posted on 10/04/2005 5:13:11 PM PDT by xcamel (No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
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To: llevrok

Tolerance, Seattle style.

7 posted on 10/04/2005 5:13:42 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (<---and it's BUSH'S FAULT!)
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To: 2LT Radix jr; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; 80 Square Miles; A Ruckus of Dogs; acad1228; AirForceMom; ..

Check blood pressure before reading what scum are doing to this Airborne Trooper's Home


8 posted on 10/04/2005 5:15:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: They'reGone2000
'Tlooks like Seattle increasingly is becoming a no-go zone for American troops and veterans. Almost like a Fallujah Americana...gosh, I wonder how many terrorists hide and plot in the Drizzly City.
9 posted on 10/04/2005 5:17:01 PM PDT by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [D] comprises fewer than the minority [R])
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To: SandRat

Two soldiers got beat up in front of a nightclub a while back there too.


10 posted on 10/04/2005 5:17:04 PM PDT by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: llevrok
Here's the article:

SHORELINE - Ken Potts calls himself a patriot. That's what his front yard tells you too.

Metal American flags are staked in the ivy beside the driveway. A red, white, and blue pinwheel spins near the front sidewalk. One flagpole flies the American flag. A second flagpole carries the banner of the Army's 101st Airborne.

Even his mailbox on North 185th Street in Shoreline sports the image of the Airborne's screaming eagle.

But he says that in the last year the mailbox has been blown up twice with fireworks. The house has been egged. Paint has been thrown on the house too. The flags have been torn down and ripped up more than once.

And the 101st Airborne flag has had the word "murder" and a swastika written on it with a permanent marker.

"It's really difficult for me to see something like this and not feel sad," Potts told us of the vandalism that started around election day last year. Especially, he says, since the 101st led the charge in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany.

But the biggest insult to this house with a permanent Bush-Cheney placard attached to the second story and a collection of mostly Republican election signs in the side yard, is the spray paint someone left on his vinyl siding this past weekend.

In two-foot tall letters on the side of his house facing Meridian someone painted "Bush Nazis."

"Where do they get off calling the President of the United States a Nazi," he said.

This former soldier with three tours of Vietnam says he feels like his own freedom of speech is under attack.

"When you have someone or a group of people who want to take that away from you, who probably didn't do a thing to defend them in the first place, it's really sad." But to fight back he always puts new flags back on those front yard flagpoles.

He installed a security camera that keeps watch over his front yard. And for his own political jab he put an electronic readerboard in a front window. 24 hours a day it says: "Liberalism - is a mental disorder."

"I want to make sure that they know I can't be pushed around."

And he says he'll leave the spray painted "Bush Nazis" on the side of his house for a while to show people on this busy corner what tolerance "doesn't" look like.

He also says he's turned the other cheek and doesn't want prosecution or revenge. He says he'd like to meet the vandal or vandals and have a friendly American debate instead.

"If we want to have disagreements in this country there's ways to have disagreements and there's ways to have a dialogue. If you've got a problem with me come up and talk about it. We may not even agree but we can agree to disagree."

11 posted on 10/04/2005 5:18:36 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: llevrok
The DU mentality on display. It's just the kind of filthy activity that causes the membership of that scummy little cesspool to swoon with ecstasy and do online high fives.
12 posted on 10/04/2005 5:18:43 PM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: llevrok
Just libs showing how they "support the troops". Nothing to see here. Move along.

I wonder if this story will even be mentioned on the DUmp.
13 posted on 10/04/2005 5:20:13 PM PDT by varyouga (Reformed Kerry voter (I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
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To: cyborg
Two soldiers got beat up in front of a nightclub a while back there too.

Seattle is leftist hell. I personally hate this city.

14 posted on 10/04/2005 5:20:47 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: varyouga
To any DUmmies who stumble in to this thread:


15 posted on 10/04/2005 5:24:09 PM PDT by They'reGone2000 (<---and it's BUSH'S FAULT!)
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To: Paul_Denton

I went to the school at UW in the late 80s...right before the guy was thrown out for questioning the womens studies teacher and was featured on Rush Limbaugh...I cant believe how far left it has swung.


16 posted on 10/04/2005 5:25:07 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

I may have grown up here but I will move out if I can afford it.


17 posted on 10/04/2005 5:26:15 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Stom ta jora UN)
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To: llevrok

Set some (plausibly deniable) man traps on the property and off some of them. Kill a Liberal, kill a Commie; it's all the same!


18 posted on 10/04/2005 5:26:27 PM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: llevrok

I do not see why this man , and his buddies , do not ambush these vandals with fully automatic paintball carbines .
His own yard ? What an easy ambush .....


19 posted on 10/04/2005 5:30:22 PM PDT by injin
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To: Mr. Mojo

Yeah..sounds like what the Nazis did to Jewish homes and businesses 60 yrs ago......


20 posted on 10/04/2005 5:35:59 PM PDT by joesnuffy
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