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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?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: govtshutdown; handwringers; lefties; millionvetmarch; shutdown; whiners; ww2memorial; wwiimemorial
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1 posted on 10/14/2013 5:09:44 PM PDT by kristinn
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WashPosties agitating for veteran arrests? Figures...


2 posted on 10/14/2013 5:12:15 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor < still > has no pedigree.)
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To: kristinn
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?

They didn't damage anything but pieces of wire (that we paid for) and they took the barrycades (that we paid for) to another location (that we paid for)
3 posted on 10/14/2013 5:13:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kristinn

No particular reason why we should fear our government more than our sworn enemies do, I guess?


4 posted on 10/14/2013 5:13:12 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: kristinn

Bump


5 posted on 10/14/2013 5:14:07 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Let’s start at the top, here Posties....

Where are the 8 million illegal immigrant arrests????

Answer that and we’ll discuss a few rowdy vets

- The Establishment.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 5:14:22 PM PDT by llevrok (Democrats are LAW-LESS because the GOP is Ball-Less)
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To: kristinn

The WaPo can’t tell the difference between an enclosed building or zoo and an open air memorial to WWII and Viet Nam Veterans? Nobody breached any building(s). They just went into open air areas that cost more to close and put up fences than to keep open.


7 posted on 10/14/2013 5:14:54 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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The Obamatollah Regime was manufactured by optics.

Thus, ‘non optimal’ optics can collapse the Regime. For example, arresting war heroes while ARMING AL-QAEDA and covering up the abandonment of 36 Americans at BENGHAZI.

In the end, Marxists are cowards. That’s why their regimes cannot survive determined opposition.

As for the Islamist component of the Obamatollah Regime, if moslems were intelligent the entire Middle East wouldn’t be stuck in the 7th Century.


8 posted on 10/14/2013 5:15:17 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: kristinn

...where was this ColBERT when this was going on?

9 posted on 10/14/2013 5:15:35 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: kristinn

Didn’t WaPo cheer on the Occupoopers?


10 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:21 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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Texas Republican bad boy Sen. Ted Cruz

Freep U Colbert King

11 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:23 PM PDT by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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I confess.

I gave them permission.


12 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: kristinn
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?

Yes. Because the Executive Order is unavailable to them.

I guess liberals don't think civil disobedience is so noble anymore.

13 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:30 PM PDT by skeeter
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This guy is a flaming commie...his previous nonsensical, hysterical column compared the TEA Party to the Confederacy.


14 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:39 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kristinn

This liberal reporter apparently wanted to see some conservative skulls cracked. That is what we have come to and I say “we” because, if the tables were turned, I’d feel the same way. (Although the wanton destruction of property the author was intending to highlight bears no resemblance to leftist anarchism)


15 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:52 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Now, let’s see if I have this straight: If a group of alien invaders decide they don’t like the closing of a national border, they are now empowered to push aside barriers and go in and about on their merry way without fear of arrest, while gathering benefits formerly reserved for citizens of the invaded nation?


16 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:58 PM PDT by Zuse
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To: Hegemony Cricket

-——WashPosties agitating for veteran arrests?-—

I would argue the writer is calling the President a coward.

He won’t face up to Iran. He Want face up to the vets.

Obama is a pacifist coward


17 posted on 10/14/2013 5:18:09 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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Go to Hell Colby!


18 posted on 10/14/2013 5:18:26 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 13 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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The arrests were because a few grandstanding lefties - including a couple of Congressmen - sat down in the middle of the street and blocked the road.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 5:18:43 PM PDT by livius
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I almost believe some of these lefties are just waiting to break out the astroglide at the first televised arrests/shootings of people like those who protested at the memorial.

But what I really think somewhere in the back of their reptilian skulls is a faint voice saying "oh s**t....."

20 posted on 10/14/2013 5:18:51 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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