Posted on 02/01/2006 4:48:15 AM PST by Rebelbase
I'd like to see the specifics on those concealed weapons charges, too. Any bets they were jack knives, or something similar? If so, I'd begin to smell a distinct odor of bull--it about the whole thing.
Photographing lawful protesters is pretty objectionable.
Thanks for a ping for a great article.
Photographing objectors is objectionable? How so?
Two of the arrested peace protestors charged with illegally carrying concealed weapons.
All were attacking a plain-clothes officer for simply taking their photo.
I wonder how many FReepers have been assaulted for simply taking photos of leftists. tgslTakoma must hold the record for number of times attacked.
Peace Rioters Unhinged.
Stop the Left Wing Violence.
People (that includes objectors) have the Right to go about their business without government interference or monitoring, so long as they're not breaking the law. How would you have felt if, during the Clinton years, police had routinely photographed people attending conservative churches?
I love it when freedom-loving progressives act like Brownshirts.
Yeah, it rates right up there with not sorting your recyclables.
There oughta be a law...
If they didn't want anyone photographing them, why did they stage their protest out on a public street?
If they wanted privacy they should have held their protest in their mom's basement.
I don't think protesters can claim an expectation of privacy while banging pots and pans and yelling what some people might consider objectionable words, on a public throughway.
Leni
When Hitler started rolling a hundred miles a day toward Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Soviets had been captured, the communists sent out directives to get the US involved. The communists (leftists, progressives, fellow travelers) turned from devout pacifists to raging warmongers over night. However, their loyalty was never to the United States.
Overlooked by many, yes, but not by me. This is a point I'm always fond of making - a "good war" is one where we were doing Uncle Joe's, the friendly Bolshevik's, bidding.
Another delicious irony. The great Woody Guthrie was famous for having the inscription "This machine kills fascists" prominently displayed on his guitar.
That is until the day the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed. Then the inscription quickly disappeared.
Lenin was not kidding around when he coined the phrase "useful idiots" - he hit the nail right on the hairy, smelly head!
First, there is a difference between participating in a public protest on a public street or park, and going into a church for a service.
I don't recall anyone taking my photo as I entered a church, but I do recall having cameras trained on me as I participated in RKBA events in public places. I never felt the need to go slug the photographer, no matter who he was. Some were Maryland LEOs, but I had no expectation of privacy while out on a public street or park.
The purpose of a protest demonstration is to be noticed. And to get your picture taken and hopefully shown on the local and/or national news.
I was thinking the same thing. These "peace" protestors are idiots but there is just something completely wrong about being charged with assaulting an officer if the officer was dressed in plain clothes.
It happened at virtually every SF counter-protest before the invasion of Iraq. One dummy just jumped right at one of our guys who had a video camera, and there were like three cops fifteen feet away. They dragged him away real quick.
These people have less sense than a rabid dog.
Protesters Clash With Police In Greensboro
The group "World Can't Wait" was protesting President Bush and the State of the Union.
Greensboro, NC -- A group protesting President Bush and the State of the Union address clashed with police Tuesday night in Greensboro.
The group 'World Can't Wait' planned a peaceful rally and protest in downtown Greensboro. 130 people turned out for the event.
But things got out of control when some protestors saw people they believed were undercover police officers taking pictures of their license plates. Police say a small group broke away from the main procession and assaulted a plain-clothes officer as he tried to photograph them. Other officers were called to the scene to make sure no other violence occurred.
Police arrested seven protesters. They charged five of them with assault on a government official. The two others were charged with public disturbance.
Some protesters say they were asking police questions when police used pepper spray on them. One person was taken to the hospital after getting sprayed with pepper spray.
oh... I see. the world can twait?
The RCP's symbols are a flag with RCP on it flying from a rifle and bayonet and their "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades" use an upraised arem with a cleched fist, not exactly a "peace symbol".....and oh yeah, the cleched fist cleches an AK-47 Assaulyt Weapon.
How about liberals banning their participation in rallies run by those who have assault weapons as their symbol? That's an "assault weapons ban" I could support.
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