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Anti-war protesters spray paint Capitol building
The Hill ^ | January 28, 2007 | Jackie Kucinich

Posted on 01/28/2007 4:09:17 PM PST by RDTF

Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of thewest front steps of the United States Capitol building after police wereordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources toldThe Hill.

According to the sources, police officers were livid when theywere told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse andDeputy Chief Daniel Nichols. "They were the commanders on the scene," one source said,who requested anonymity. "It was disgusting."

After police ceded the stairs, located on the lower west frontof the Capitol, the building was locked down, the source added.

A second source who witnessed the incident said that the policehad the crowd stopped at Third Street, but were told to bring the policeline in front of the Capitol.

Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps andbegan to spray paint "anarchist symbols" and phrase such as "Ourcapitol building" and "you can’t stop us" around the area, thesource said.

Morse responded to these claims in an e-mail Sunday afternoon,explaining that the protesters were seeking confrontation with the police.

"While there were minor instances of spray painting ofpavement by a splinter group of Anarchists who were seeking a confrontationwith the police, their attempts to breach into secure areas and rush thedoors of the Capitol were thwarted," Morse said. "The graffiti waseasily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area."

He added, "It is the USCP's duty and responsibility to protectthe Capitol complex, staff and public while allowing the public to exercisetheir First Amendment rights … at the end of the day, both occurredwithout injury to protestors or officers."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anarchistidiots; awhiffofgrapeshot; beautifyamerica; dims; dumbocrats; grapeshot; ratcrime; rats; shootahippie; vandals; visigoths; youthagainstsoap
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To: gruntSGT; All

Did you all see FNC when Brian Wilson said a Fox News truck was vandalized by the protestors?


81 posted on 01/28/2007 5:11:36 PM PST by Lovergirl (Once a SnowFlake always a SnowFlake.)
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To: Enosh
I agree that this was not a shooting offense.

But, Is there no pepper-spray in DC? No Mace(tm)?

Fire-hoses anyone?

These punks could have been discouraged and run off in any number of non-lethal and less-than-than lethal ways.

82 posted on 01/28/2007 5:11:48 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: libill

No idea, not a terribly common name though...


83 posted on 01/28/2007 5:12:24 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: null and void

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_openers/archives/print119957.html says she is his daughter


84 posted on 01/28/2007 5:14:29 PM PST by Heavy Fuel
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To: kristinn
Excuse me while I chuckle at all of the outrage on this thread. NONE OF YOU WERE THERE WITH US YESTERDAY WHEN THESE LEFTIES MARCHED ON THE CAPITOL...WHERE WERE YOU?

Are you channeling Barbara Boxer? If we don't pay a personal price, we're not entitled to have principles? To call wrong, wrong?

85 posted on 01/28/2007 5:15:47 PM PST by Graymatter ( ...)
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To: Heavy Fuel

That rotten apple didn't even bounce when it fell from the tree did it?


86 posted on 01/28/2007 5:15:59 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
The principle of "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile" is foremost in these situations.

Seems to be the order of the day. From the Iraq, to Israel to the border.

87 posted on 01/28/2007 5:16:50 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: LibKill
Ammendum

(/rant off)

88 posted on 01/28/2007 5:16:55 PM PST by Enosh
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To: Enosh
Armed political oppression? "Kent State!?"

I wasn't there, and I suspect not many of us were.

I have heard lots from the 1960's retreads that support you, but I have also heard that the students got out of hand and spooked the cops into firing.

89 posted on 01/28/2007 5:17:18 PM PST by libill (Socialism is communism with a happy face.)
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To: kristinn

to post#51 You are correct. If I lived close I would have been there. I live in NJ so it isn't always possible to leave my kids and drive down. I guess my only efforts were to promote the counter protest to my email groups and ask friends to post it on their sites. I have only respect for the continual battle the DC Freepers fight each week and at every rally.But the bottom line is law enforcement didn't do their job...with or with out counter protesters.


90 posted on 01/28/2007 5:19:07 PM PST by zoomie81 ( the nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten)
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To: RDTF
never should have happened...

They should have been shot as the vandals that they are.

Peace Protesters my Aunt Sally.

91 posted on 01/28/2007 5:19:17 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: null and void

at least she didnt hit the ugly tree on the way


92 posted on 01/28/2007 5:19:34 PM PST by Heavy Fuel
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To: RDTF

WTF?!?!?!


93 posted on 01/28/2007 5:20:44 PM PST by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: DrGunsforHands

Water cannon would work well, failing that a fire hose.


94 posted on 01/28/2007 5:22:32 PM PST by 1066AD
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To: bmwcyle

... four dead in Ohio ... That's what the protesters want. They want another Kent State. They are trying to relive (or recreate) the so-called glory days of the Vietnam war era. Incredible.


95 posted on 01/28/2007 5:22:36 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Lijahsbubbe

No surer evidence of the weakening effects of leftist brainwashing than the inability to defend oneself.


96 posted on 01/28/2007 5:22:58 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth ("I'll build the g--d---- fence if they want it." -- John McCain, A Modern Profile In Courage)
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To: RDTF
Who is going to stop them? Nancy Pelosi is in favor of all this stuff going on. The worst thing people who wanted to punish the reps for this spending stuff and Bush for spent ing too much ,did ,was stay home on election day. Now we are in it up to our ears. Face it: this will go on until we take back the congress and elect decent people who want to defend America , not destroy it.
97 posted on 01/28/2007 5:23:16 PM PST by betsyross1776
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To: RDTF

Time to sart busting some damn heads.


98 posted on 01/28/2007 5:23:43 PM PST by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: plain talk
*shrug* It was their most stunning 'victory'



Kerry Lied


Millions Died

99 posted on 01/28/2007 5:24:49 PM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: Lovergirl
Did you all see FNC when Brian Wilson said a Fox News truck was vandalized by the protestors?

Now I *know* they should have been shot, by FNC security guards.

100 posted on 01/28/2007 5:27:40 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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