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Evict the military recruitment station, cage the recruiters!
Pittsburgh Organizing Group ^ | 12 March 2008 | Pittsburgh Organizng Group

Posted on 03/12/2008 12:28:06 PM PDT by concretebob

On Wednesday, March 19, POG will be holding a torch-lit march to a modern day castle of abominations—our local military recruiting station. If the station remains open, we intend to evict it and everything inside of it, occupy the location, and transform it into something useful for the community. We'll also be bringing a movable cage in which to confine military recruiters until they no longer pose a danger to our friends and neighbors. Of course, the station may be closed and recruiters may flee or hide behind the police apparatus that enables the war to continue. That is often the case, and we've seen in the past the overwhelming resources the state directs against these anniversary events because of their importance as a symbol of dissent. We believe in acting effectively, in confronting the war, at times and places of our choosing. When the state brings the resources necessary to suppress direct action against the war, it makes sense to hold a symbolic protest, and we still consider that a success, as it exposes the reality that it is ultimately on the local level that our countries war policy will be decided.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: army; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; recruiting
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To: taxcontrol

You took the thought right out of my mind.


21 posted on 03/12/2008 12:45:06 PM PDT by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: concretebob

The only problem with that approach is that you really only get locals involved. It becomes a trespassing / vandalism case, not a federal kidnapping of an officer during the performance of their duties federal offense.


22 posted on 03/12/2008 12:45:10 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Captain Rhino
Wonder if the FBI will be around when this thing goes down.

No. They're too busy protecting mosques.

23 posted on 03/12/2008 12:45:51 PM PDT by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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To: concretebob

They are going to war...to stop war.


24 posted on 03/12/2008 12:46:05 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: taxcontrol

Commies.


25 posted on 03/12/2008 12:46:22 PM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
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To: concretebob

Somebody should propose the solution of Walter Reuther, ex-president of the United Auto Workers and a good Democrat.

When communists tried to infiltrate the UAW, he issued out ax handles to the rank and file. After a brief and pleasant discussion of the issues, the communists left, never to return.

In his youth, Walter Reuther had been a socialist, and went so far as to work on an assembly line in Russia. After that time, he knew one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt: he did not like communists.

It is a good man that can learn from his mistakes, and it is a better man who can send communists packing.


26 posted on 03/12/2008 12:47:30 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: jpl; lowbridge
POG will be holding a torch-lit march to...

Yeah, don't question their patriotism.

A modern day Brownshirt torch march.

27 posted on 03/12/2008 12:47:32 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: taxcontrol

conspiracy carriers a pretty hefty sentence


28 posted on 03/12/2008 12:47:35 PM PDT by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: concretebob
Oh, please, PLEASE let them try this. I want to see them try to put Marines in a cage. Like THAT would really happen. If they DO attempt this, I predict the roles will be reversed with the Marines cramming them in the cages instead where they can nurse their broken noses and swollen eyelids.

*sigh* Why didn't these nutjobs try this when I was stationed at Marine Corps Recruiting Station Little Rock during the Gulf War? It would have been so much fun...
29 posted on 03/12/2008 12:51:19 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (No better friend, no worse enemy)
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To: taxcontrol

I sincerely doubt that you will see either the FBI or the local PD assigned in sufficient force to prevent the trashing of the recruting office or to appreehend the perpetrators.

The city is run by D’s, led by our boy mayor, who are probably sympathetic to the POG.


30 posted on 03/12/2008 12:52:52 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: SargeK

The city is run by D’s, led by our boy mayor, who are probably sympathetic to the POG.

The city is run by D’s, led by our boy mayor, who are probably sympathetic to the POS. there we go all fixed


31 posted on 03/12/2008 12:55:08 PM PDT by Billg64 (LOL ROFL Senator Mccain for what????)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick; All

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

“Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.”
Ned Dolan

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

“I’ve always been proud of being a Marine. I won’t hesitate to defend the Corps.”
Jonathan Winters, comic and Marine


32 posted on 03/12/2008 12:55:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (http://www.fourfriedchickensandacoke.blogspot.com)
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To: taxcontrol
How about let them go in as already stated and then call in uniformed reinforcements first and then the Feds to clean up afterwards.

If the commies tried something like that here in the middle of SC, it wouldn't last but a few minutes. Way too many veterans (myself included) and Fort Jackson are here. The commies would be lucky to be in shape to be put in a cage to be hauled away.

33 posted on 03/12/2008 12:55:26 PM PDT by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: SeraphimApprentice; Interesting Times; zot

ping


34 posted on 03/12/2008 12:55:50 PM PDT by GreyFriar ( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
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To: concretebob

Tie anyone who breaks into the recruiting center to a telephone pole and bullwhip him till he dies.


35 posted on 03/12/2008 12:56:27 PM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: SargeK
Ok, Send one FBI agent along with a platoon of MPs
36 posted on 03/12/2008 12:58:14 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: wally_bert

I can remember during the Vietnam war there was a group of construction workers in one city that surrported the war. They would show up in Hard Hats with axe handles to confront these characters. Wonder where they are now?


37 posted on 03/12/2008 12:59:07 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: concretebob

For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction.

In other words you’re not in Berkeley, baby.


38 posted on 03/12/2008 1:00:26 PM PDT by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: concretebob

If they put recruiters in a cage, then they are guilty of kidnapping. FBI should show up to arrest the guilty parties.


39 posted on 03/12/2008 1:02:17 PM PDT by DallasDeb ((a.k.a. USAFA2006Mom!))
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To: taxcontrol

The station is military property. Just beat the sh*t out of them.


40 posted on 03/12/2008 1:03:59 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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