Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial!(blood pressure riser)

Wittier Dlily news ^ | 3-11-03 | OXENinFLA

[OXENinFLA]

LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since.

However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

[A CA Guy]

It's pretty much gone now, the lot is empty as well. I guess the city got the owner of the business eventually for drawing this kind of attention.

[A CA Guy]

The lot is empty, only a few dixie cups in the fence making a flag remain today.

[A CA Guy]

The lot is empty and only a few dixie cups remain in the fence. The memorial is no more.

[doug from upland]

Some are forgetting what happened. When our guard is down, we will be hit again. They are planning every day how they are going to kill us.

[A CA Guy]

Bet we'll hear nothing in a report about that the memorial being gone... as is the business that was under pressure by the city after the attention.

[A CA Guy]

Remember how this memorial as poor as it was became national news.
A year later, we have forgotten.
The business that was there who came under pressure by the city of La Habra is gone.
The lot is completely empty and I too thing this reminds me of our people's short attention span or interests.

When this was up and desecrated, this was national news.
A year later, it could have been ripped out of that businesses and communities hands and nobody much cares...
Except for that one dear person who still now has a flag of dixie cups on that fence today.

We'll God Bless the person or people who are still doing that.

I live a few miles form there, but I would love to hear from Freeper neighbors what had happened since last year...

[A CA Guy]

Yep, it's not that difficult to kill many at least once of you don't mind trying.
Of course these folks tend to pop up in porn bars the night before, so I think all porn bars should be cased for Middle Eastern types to weed out the terrorists.

These thugs are about as ethical as Hitler.

[doug from upland]

It sounds like you are volunteering to be the one to check out the porn establishments. :)

[A CA Guy]

LOL, not my style, but I do bet the government has people watching places like that since those 9-11 terrorists and others ended up in that kind of place.