1 posted on
03/25/2003 7:55:51 PM PST by
fivetoes
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC; softengine; RMrattlesnake; Trteamer; John R. (Bob) Locke; ...
I guess we are too much for them on Saturday or they have nothing better to do.
2 posted on
03/25/2003 7:57:02 PM PST by
fivetoes
(God Bless our Troops)
To: fivetoes
Isn't there some law against this? I never understand how they get away so easily with downright unlawful acts! We get the police called on us at the rallys for standing out on the pedestrian strip, and they get away with this?
4 posted on
03/25/2003 8:00:30 PM PST by
ladyinred
To: fivetoes
New title.........
Anti-War protesters were disrupted by traffic on Prospector Road, Ft. Collins, CO.
Yes, much better.
LVM
To: fivetoes
Collect your urine and place it in a high pressure hydrant-type device. If traffic is block, utilize urine squirter. Add sugar for a better coating/tacky effect.
11 posted on
03/25/2003 9:03:12 PM PST by
giznort
To: fivetoes
Oh, man!! I wish I had been told of this before it was all over. I work near there and would have headed over with my signs and my voice! It kinda ticks me off that the Ft. Collins police let them off with no consequences for blocking a major road for over 2 hours (from sometime before 8AM until 10AM). Grrr!!
To: fivetoes
50,000 Conservatives rallied in Ft. Collins and not one disruption or arrest and the police Dept. said the next day, it was cleaner than before we came.
13 posted on
03/25/2003 10:05:18 PM PST by
Hildy
To: fivetoes
BREAKING:
Several casualties are now reported in the protests, including truth, sensibility and reason.
To: fivetoes
I called the office of the Ft. Collins Chief of Police to tell them I was really PO-ed about the fact they let these people block this major street for 2 hours and get away scot free. (I know people who were driving by around 8:05AM who got stuck for a long time, so it didn't just start at 8:30 like the paper said) The Chief himself called me back a few minutes later to give me his side of the story. They had a group of police up at the CSU Oval - 3/4 mi. north of there - monitoring a larger gathering. This was the only gathering the police had been told about. They were expecting that group to head north towards Old Town and perhaps even for some rumored civil disobedience.
Meanwhile the protestors had secretly planned all along to send a smaller group of 30 to 50 down to Prospect. After the police found out about the second group blocking the street, it took a long time to get their men redeployed. And because of the proximity of a number of small businesses - including especially restaurants - next to the protestors, they decided to not use tear gas because of the disruption to the businesses, food contamination, etc. The ruling out of teargas meant they had to have more officers in order to do a large number of "one on one" arrests. By the time they got all these in place and were ready to give the ultimatum (don't know what time this was), the protestors negotiated a ceasefire and agreed to leave by 10AM.
He said there will be followup action. They videotaped all of the actual "C.D." people and will be taking the tapes to the DA to see if they can ID people and issue them tickets for blocking the street. And they'll share them with the CSU Police Dept and urge them to take some kind of disciplinary action with those students who can be positively ID-ed. Also, there has been a meeting set up between the police chief and the more radical leaders of the protestors, and he will make it clear to them that they can't get away with this and that there definitely will be arrests if they keep pulling this. (He also mentioned that some of the disruptors said they WANTED to be arrested, and he said he'll be happy to accomodate them next time).
To: fivetoes
“There was no damage, there were no injuries, there were no arrests,” Davis said. “All there was was a disruption and blocking traffic on Prospect.” So I can go block streets in Ft. Collins for an hour and a half, and I won't be arrested?
22 posted on
03/26/2003 11:23:35 AM PST by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, Zoolander)
To: fivetoes
The peace-niks are really lucky they weren't blocking Prospect when I have to make deliveries there. If they interupt my ability to make a living I might not be to nice to them. I am a regular driver of Prospect and thank God for them I wasn't in Fort Collins on Tuesday.
The Fort Collins police should be ashamed. They failed to enforce the law and heads should roll. You do not negotiate with criminals. PERIOD!!!
If I was a citizen of Fort Collins I would be at the next city council meeting demanding a full accounting of the inaction and failure to do the duty of the police dept.
Yes, I'm pissed off. Anyone else?
27 posted on
03/26/2003 6:18:36 PM PST by
Trteamer
(Drill A.N.W.R., Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Drive an S.U.V., Own Guns, Vote, FReep Leftists.)
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28 posted on
03/26/2003 6:18:53 PM PST by
Bob J
To: All
29 posted on
03/26/2003 6:18:54 PM PST by
Bob J
To: fivetoes
33 posted on
03/27/2003 6:43:51 AM PST by
logic101.net
(ALASKA FOR ALASKANS!)
To: fivetoes
They do make effective speed bumps!
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