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Where Are the Arrests Over the World War II Memorial Protest?
The Washington Post ^
| Monday, October 14, 2013
| Colbert I. King
Posted on 10/14/2013 5:09:44 PM PDT by kristinn
A crowd of demonstrators converge upon U.S. government property closed to the public. The demonstrators know that they are prohibited from entering the property. Nonetheless, they push through the metal barricades, chanting, “Tear down these walls.”
That incident occurred yesterday at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.
Not confining their protest to the World War II Memorial, some of the protesters then picked up the government’s metal barricades and carried them blocks away to the White House, where the barricades were deposited outside the gates.
Television recorded police struggling to keep the protesters away from the White House fence. No arrests were made.
Now, let’s see if I have this straight: If a group of people decide they don’t like the closing of facilities under the federal government shutdown, they are now empowered to take wire cutters to the locks, push aside barriers and go in and about on their merry way without fear of arrest?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: govtshutdown; handwringers; lefties; millionvetmarch; shutdown; whiners; ww2memorial; wwiimemorial
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To: kristinn
Did he ask the same when the WI State Cap. bldg was ‘occupied’? I didn’t think so.
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posted on
10/14/2013 5:30:05 PM PDT
by
Patriotic1
(Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
To: Hegemony Cricket
Perhaps if they arrested someone they would need to justify their own closure of the memorials. If the park service just made up a law that did not exist and closed the memorials just to “make it hurt” perhaps it would be the park service in trouble? If I were a defense lawyer (I am not a lawyer) it would be something I might explore....
To: kristinn
I think even traitorous kenyan usurper knows better than to try to arrest the Vets.
43
posted on
10/14/2013 5:30:27 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
To: kristinn
This oped writer is stupid. The optics of a veteran arrested would seriously harm the Regime.
44
posted on
10/14/2013 5:30:37 PM PDT
by
RginTN
To: kristinn
The writer is a moron. The parks and monuments belong to the citizens not the government. It’s the thugs who are setting up the barricades that should be arrested.
45
posted on
10/14/2013 5:31:38 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Got news for you Colbert. Blacks fought very well in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. They should NEVER be barred from any war memorial, nor should any other American servicemen or women. This also included the many foreign citizens who joined our Armed Services to fight and earn their US citizenship.
The great progressive hero Woodrow Wilson used the KKK as his version of Organizing for America. Republican Calvin Coolidge personally undertook a purge to get klansmen out of our government. Wilson also increased the existing segregation of blacks "for their own good". Coolidge got nasty letters from lots of democrats over his desegregation moves and the purge of Klansmen but his one response was perfect.
During the war 500,000 colored men and boys were called up under the draft, not one of whom sought to evade it. [As president, I am] one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution
46
posted on
10/14/2013 5:32:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: kristinn
Dear Colbert,
Do you REALLY want a shooting, civil war?
Love,
Laz
47
posted on
10/14/2013 5:33:04 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: kristinn
Lefties complaining of cops not arresting people?
We truly are living in the Bizzaro world;)
48
posted on
10/14/2013 5:34:57 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: kristinn
To: kristinn
The last time I visited DC they arrested 13,000 of us and put thousands of us in internment camps for days without food or blankets or beds and showers, and no sex segregation, they can do it when they want to.
50
posted on
10/14/2013 5:39:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: null and void
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Judgement Cometh,
51
posted on
10/14/2013 5:41:42 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
( - William Diamonds Drum - can You Hear it G man?)
To: kristinn
Colbert King = Brownshirt
52
posted on
10/14/2013 5:45:45 PM PDT
by
magellan
To: kristinn
Seriously. Hitler had Brownshirts. Mussolini had Blackshirts. What do we call these fascist Obama minions?
53
posted on
10/14/2013 5:46:41 PM PDT
by
magellan
To: Hegemony Cricket
WashPosties agitating for veteran arrests? Figures...
...go right ahead... and see what happens.
54
posted on
10/14/2013 5:48:02 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: magellan
To #53> Look at what color shirt the head of the US National (Nazi) Park Service is wearing, and then ask that question again.
To: kristinn
"some of the protesters then picked up the government’s metal barricades and carried them blocks away to the White House"The "government's" barricades???
To: Hegemony Cricket
Dang WaPo...
Leave the DC chapter alone...
FR/DC & The Million Vet March went to the SpiteHouse...
Surely TRIED their best to ARREST A DICTATOR...
These uppity lefty-journos never give credit when due...
One of these fine days... :-)
57
posted on
10/14/2013 5:52:56 PM PDT
by
Wings-n-Wind
(The main things are the plain things!)
To: kristinn
Ignore illegal aliens, arrest war heros. There’s something even Obama & Co. aren’t stoopid enough to do. The Compost? Yeah.
58
posted on
10/14/2013 5:53:32 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: magellan
What do we call these fascist Obama minions?The Federal Bureaucracy. The Fourth Estate. EBT Cardholders.
Take yer pick.
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posted on
10/14/2013 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: kristinn
Arresting them would have disrupted the cone of silence put over the event by the post and other media outlets. Moreover the nation would have rallied to the cause even more.
The agit prop of cong dem leaders arrested at illegal immigrant march was part of the preferred theater.
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posted on
10/14/2013 6:00:53 PM PDT
by
lonestar67
(I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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