Current Los Angeles Protests Turning Ugly (Thursday night)

FR | March 20, 2003 | self

[lainie]

Gathered information from KFI radio, local television, and police scanner:

The idiots at the corner of Wilshire & Veteran are growing in number, cops are starting to fight back (hear a lot of "double time" and "need it yesterday"), and reports are that the crowd is starting to burn flags.

Before its newscast ended, KABC-TV showed riot-geared police pushing folks out of streets and onto sidewalks. The poor reporter was obviously shaken and quake-voiced. Looked ugly and sounds like it's getting worse as of 19:02.

[lainie]

You couldn't be more correct. Their whole purpose in life is to hate President Bush.

[Humidston]

THANKS! Listening to the PACIFIST Berkley station now!

PRISSY guy talking, LOL!

[A CA Guy]

Correct, they are usually Libertarians who dig the vices as a regular life style, or at least they debate in favor of that stuff as if they live that way.

[zeaal]

"Vomit" in? Oh, please, please don't let any of those attending the Oscars here about this idea .....

[FirstTomato]

What I've learned about the peace-protestors:

They aren't peaceful, and they aren't passive, and they don't care about people, and they aren't reasonable.

Instead, they are filled with seething hatred, they are intolerant, they like to smash things, they like to injure police horses, and they like to attack police and firefighters both verbally and physically.

Oh, and from Thursday's protestors, I've learned they like to make themselves barf. Somehow, that seems very appropriate.

[T Lady]

In a word: Nah!

...I was actually referring to something I posted on another thread concerning Ms. Maines; I noted that at the rate she's going, she'll probably switch over to rock and pose semi-nude, like Christina Aguilera did last October or November.

Anything to re-start her career when it starts taking a nosedive.

-Regards, T.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"A young New Hampshire man was arrested today in Massachusetts after his mother called police to report that he had explosives in the car and had uttered threats against President Bush. Police did indeed find explosive devices in the car."

Good for mama, but bless her heart. I know it's probably breaking.

[lainie]

Scanner: cops appear to be discussing the crowd's dispersement. They are telling each other they'll hang around for awhile. In the past, the crowd has broken up only to regroup on the fly.

[pave palestine]

I read one account of Kent State which said that communist agents provacateur specifically incited the Guardsmen to shoot and/or shot the students themselves. I believe it was posted on FR a couple of years ago.

[Cinnamon Girl]

They're talking to a girl now who says she just showed up 15 minutes ago. It's 10:15pm!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Well, better late than never!

JUST KIDDING!

[gcruse]

Put me down as the latter. I haven't done any of that in many years, but I fight for the right of any adult to make the decision for himself.

[Joy Angela]

The Support Our Troops
Rally at the Academy Awards
should be fun.

Liberate Oscar!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/865229/posts

[Joe Hadenuf]

No bigge this is common place in La La Land ... hell they win a NBA Championship and they riot in the streets ... just give these mental midgets a reason to gather and it turns into a riot

You need to take a breath and look at the big picture.

Given the fact that there are 12 *million* people in LA and Orange counties, a few hundred showing up on Wilshire Blvd to protest the war actually makes Southern California look pretty damn good. More people attend high school football games than showed up to this event......Hehehe...

[Joy Angela]

War in the Gulf, Riot in LA...major early 90's flashback.

These War Protestors are trying to get the police to use force!

Then the Media will show any "abuse" over and over, and then this group-HATE will turn on the Men in Uniform (Police) eventually transfering to the Men in Uniform (the Military!!)

(Major Vietnam Era Flashback as well.)

Any one who can mobilize Thousands of our Youth at a moments notice,
can also bend them into any shape desired.

[InShanghai]

Any one who can mobilize Thousands of our Youth at a moments notice, can also bend them into any shape desired.

That is a scary thought. I wonder if they arranged busses from the campus to the protest site, like the Chinese did in Beijing when we accidently bombed their embassy in Yugoslavia...

[lonewacko_dot_com]

I went to today's peace protest at Olvera Street in downtown L.A. In stark contrast to the Westwood protest it was peaceful. Here's a report with pics:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/000355.html

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I say if they chain themselves to something.. leave them chained.

Build little wire fences around them, and tell them it is because they can't respect the freedoms and rights of the rest of the community, so they just lost theirs!!

Stopping Commerce, harming innocent people..is not a right
!!!

Get over it!!

Then, go home, get your jammies on and READ UP "International A.N.S.W.E.R.", Workers World Part, etc.

[FreedomPoster]

Nice tag line, very appropriate. Devo reference, I assume? Those guys were geniuses. I think one of them, who was one of the main writers, has gone on to write a lot of commercials.