Posted on 10/12/2008 1:03:56 PM PDT by Bell407Pilot
PORTLAND, Ore. - Authorities have arrested two men after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a 4-foot by 8-foot campaign sign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a southeast Portland yard.
Karen Scrutton said she was asleep inside her home at 7956 S.E. 17th Ave. in the Sellwood neighborhood when she saw her sign go up in flames after 1 a.m.
"I screamed upstairs to my husband, 'Jean! Jean!" she said.
A neighbor heard a crash and chased off one of the suspects. Jean Scrutton said his son-in-law found another suspect not far away.
Not long after, investigators picked up Leslie Brockette Leudtke and Kevin Carl Robinson, both 23. After interviewing them, the pair was charged with four counts each of manufacturing and possession of a destructive device. In addition, Leudtke was charged with a single count of reckless burning.
Witnesses said the suspects threw a Molotov cocktail at the sign and used another as a torch.
The Scruttons worried that their home could have caught on fire.
"Our whole house could have burnt down," Karen Scrutton said while thanking her neighbor for intervening.
Despite the ordeal, she said they won't take the sign down. It suffered only minor damage from the fire.
What act of violence? Nothing happened.
I think this should be prosecuted as a “hate” crime.
I’m not feeling the love from the tolerant Left.
But I though it was the McCain supporters who were the angry mob?
The Left once again shows its notion of Free Speech...
I had to resurrect a neighbor’s McCain-Palin sign last week after it was “free speechified” by a Leftist punk.
The one on the right is another Leftist unibrow, it appears...
Leslie won’t even have to be assigned a “prison” name.
Domestic terrorists for Obama. Why is it not the lead news story this weekend ? Oh, what, it’s just against Republicans, nothing to see... move along.
Yeah --- they didn't violently throw the Molotov Cocktail.
They just lobbed it like a basketball.
Vandalized signs should be left exactly as they are. Decent people will see them and realize the scumbaggery involved, and will be repulsed. That will do more to help the Republican candidates than an unmolested sign ever could.
I can only hope these 2 are sent to prison where they get to meet lots of new friends... who rape and murder them.
THIS IS A HATE CRIME!
Leslie won’t even have to be assigned a “prison” name.
Shucks. I was hoping for something floral, like Buttercup or Pansy.
You have to realize that you’re talking about people who think that a few million near-term babies violently killed is a fair price to pay in order to keep any moral baggage from being assigned to acts of abortion.
We're going to get some more and set up the hunt cam.
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