Posted on 11/12/2005 1:28:26 PM PST by radar101
Five veterans were arrested and taken to jail Thursday night after ignoring police orders not to touch flags planted by an anti-war group.
The five were charged with criminal trespass after they attempted to pull up the 2,000 white flags in Waterville, Maine's Veterans Memorial Park. The flags represented the 2,000 U.S. soldiers killed in the war in Iraq.
The group Waterville Area Bridges for Peace and Justice called the display an important visual reminder of the lives lost.
Waterville Police Chief John Morris, who is a Vietnam veteran himself, said the group had a legal permit to place the flags in the public park.
The veterans said the flags were planted in "sacred ground."
Morris said, "I spoke to them as a veteran and suggested that legitimate veterans' organizations do not resort to civil disobedience to make their point. I warned them, very carefully, that they were not allowed to do destructive behavior on these flags. If they did, we would have to ask them to leave the park. If they refused to leave the park then we'd have to arrest them, and that's what happened."
The five veterans were booked at police headquarters and released after paying $40 to the bail commissioner.
BTTT
What is the story on this so called Chief!
"Waterville Police Chief John Morris, who is a Vietnam veteran himself, said the group had a legal permit to place the flags in the public park."
Hmmm!
IIRC, neither did the flag in the Supreme Court "flag burning case" belong to the burner.
"What is the story on this so called Chief?"
(Waterville Police Chief John Morris)
I dunno! I guess we'll just have to convert all cemetaries to private use, and tell those ingrate "Peacifiers" to go take a hike.
BTW, what's with the white flags??? That is the flag of surrender, not "peace"--- Am I correct? Jeesh.
Those Waterville, Maine peacifiers were part of some group with "Peace & Justice" in the title. I could be wrong, but, there is a commie front group, "United For Peace & Justice" which is not only national (US) but international.
The people in it, in Maine, may not even be aware of who is fronting/organizing them; also alied with them, believe it or not, are some American Friends (Quakers)!
If you do an advanced search on "Peace & Justice" and also on all the words, "communist front", you will see, among the choices, David Horowitz' www.frontpagemag.com where he goes into it (again). He also dealt with that group at length in his latest book.
french canadians? Probably, illegal welfare drawing french canadaians down here working under the table and voting leftist liberal snowe/collins democrats.
Had some come to my place wanting to cut trees for me, told them they needed to go north fast.
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