Soldiers’ journey halts for protest (Anti-Americans block troop convoy)

Traverse City Record Eagle ^ | 3-18-03 | Bill Echlin

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

All these protesters have a problem with their parents or some other deep seated psychological issue. They don't love these men who are going off to defend freedom, they love themselves and protesting is a way to gain attention and fill their empty lives. Pity them. Then run them over if they get in the way.

[What Is Ain't]

They should have run over them and squashed their guts all over the street. End of problem.

[ohioman]

It is time to start kicking the crap out of these protestors.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

They should have run over them and squashed their guts all over the street. End of problem.

That sounds like a mess. Who gets to clean it up? I ain't raising my hand to volunteer.

[RabidBartender]

How soon before these hateful protesters begin pestering and harassing the families of our service members sent overseas?

I'd imagine there'd be quite a few inclined to take the law into their own hands in situations like that.

[skeeter]

"We love you, too" one veteran countered while applying a left hook and a finishing straight right.

[Gator MP Veteran]

If this had happened to me when I got called up for the last gulf war there would have been a serious ass-kicking. The last thing you need in a situation like that is to be harangued by some semi-literate tie-dyed punk while you are trying to deal with leaving your family and prepare for war.

[Sam Cree]

I think your assessment of the protestors is correct.

It seems like the "anti war" movement (actually pro socialist movement) is huge, but I believe it is really not, only seems huge because of the attention the sympathetic press gives it. Seems like it may be having the most success in university settings, where socialist professors are entrenched. However, I believe its success is quite limited even there.

But I worry that public perception, as in the stock market, counts for alot.

[Rodney King]

They don't love these men who are going off to defend freedom, they love themselves and protesting is a way to gain attention and fill their empty lives.

Excellent observation.

[valkyrieanne]

Isn't there some kind of law against impeding the movement of troops or something like that? I know that those who interfere with the local or state police in the performance of their duties face arrest. Seems it should work this way too.

[hope]

hmmmm, sounds like human shield material...

[tenthirteen]

Try this stunt in Florida. They would have spent some time in jail until their sorry-ass family who begot them came and bailed them out. That's if the crowd there didn't beat their asses first.

[sport]

The driver should have run the sob over.

[sport]

Let the buzzards eat them.

[Green Knight]

I can easily imagine just that sort of scenario. Just look at the wife of Officer Daniel Faulkner. It seems that she's been repeatedly harassed by people who support Mumia. And the type of people who support Mumia are against the war, too, so I can definitely see harassment of the families of military personnel. Depends on if any specific family members attract the attention of anyone willing to go that far, though. Easy to harass Officer Faulkner's wife cause she's the only target available. But there're literally millions of people to choose from. Who do you harass?

[sport]

I believe that it has already happened in Maine and has been covered up.

[Green Knight]

D'OH! That's right! The teachers who told their students what bad people their parents were for fighting this war. Nothing short of grotesque, that. Little children who're already hanging by a thread in fear of what could happen to their parents and loved ones, to say those kinds of things to them.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

I think the military should have full ordinance to do whatever is necessary to clear people from blocking them. I'm certainly not encouraging murder, but if these people need to be hogtied and placed in prison, so be it. If they need to have their cars smashed by armored cars so they can be walked across like road turtles, so be it.

This needs to stop.

[green team 1999]

"They should have run over them and squashed their guts all over the street. End of problem.
i agree 100%.