When antiwar speech turns seditious (Michelle Malkin)

townhall ^ | April 9, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

[maranatha]

I don't want to miss one MM. Please ping me

[P-Marlowe]

You're right, it isn't funny to see that little welt on her face. It would have been much funnier if it had put out an eye.

[Reagan Man]

>>> ... local police arrested dozens of antiwar activists who flouted their free-speech rights in a treacherous attempt to shut down a port involved in shipping military supplies to soldiers during wartime.

"[T]he right of the people peaceably to assemble ".
These people abused their constitutional right. This was insurrection against lawful authority. If they want to assemble peacefully and to demonstrate their antiwar views, that's fine. This type of public behavior is sedition.

[Burkeman1]

Fine - mow them down. I am sure you would pull the trigger. But somehow I don't think the law would protect you (or anyone in this administration) in that you were executing "traitors".

[Burkeman1]

Ah- nice.

[Ben Bolt]

Have you thought this post out to some degree after you wrote it Burke ?

[Lx]

OUCH, was that from a rubber bullet? As much as I despise these nitwits, what happens if they get hit in the eye or something?

Was she peaceably protesting or was she throwing rocks at the cops? Once they turn violent, then all bets are off. I refuse to believe that the cops would just shoot at someone peaceably protesting. Man, don't they use tear gas anymore?

I sure hope they took her to the hospital before jail.

Is that a tattoo on the side of her nose or is it a piercing? I wonder if she has a broken jaw or worse as well.

[SAJ]

Try to understand the very simple concept that 'sabotage' and 'treason' are two entirely different crimes.

I know ya can do it if ya try.

[Petruchio]

But to laugh and chuckle at some dopey woman protestor who got whoppled in the chin and is in pain- is a little over the top in my view.

The stupid bitch deserved more than a little welt on the chin. Attemppting to block needed supplies from getting to our troops is aiding and abeting the enemy. She deserves to be shot on sight as an enemy agent.

[Burkeman1]

Huh?

[TLBSHOW]

bump

[SENTINEL]

I do not delight in the shedding of blood, but do delight in boxing. We marines were always whacking each other and getting little bumps and bruises like the one pictured above. Does this make me a sadist ?

Withholding the justified urge to thump peace protesters requires much more emotional effort for me than not. I believe that freedom is greater than peace, and only feel inner peace when defending freedom to the moral limit. It is not wrong to rejoice when the long guilty are finally punished. If you don't have the stomache for it, don't look.

[Burkeman1]

You know what. Your right. It is treason and or sabotage and should be treated accordingly by the law and if that means summary execution or execution after a trial then so be it. I am wrong. Goodnight.

[JoJo Gunn]

That "dopey woman protester" went there with more than the intention to stand idle on the sidelines and screech like Leftist chimps usually do. When Collaborators start blocking traffic and try to keep decent people from their jobs, when they cost cities (ultimately the taxpayer) millions of dollars, when they interfere with military shipments, and target police officers with projectiles, they have crossed the line.

Those Collaborators got off too easy, in my opinion.

[SENTINEL]

This injury looks bad, but is nothing. I am a trained combat medic and EMT. The bump will go away in 24 hours and she'll just have a scrape. This type of swelling is caused by an impact though thin tissue onto bone. I've seen a few of these on shins, and one on an elbow. If the bone had broken, there would be a lot of bruising as well. This was probably no more painful than the last time your kid fell off his bike.

[Contra]

If a few of these a$$holes were shot and killed by police or National Guard (like at Kent State) a lot of this crap would stop. And shooting them is justified due to the fact that melees are riots and civil order must be restored by whatever means necessary. Nixon put down the riots with force, even Democrat Mayor Daley of Chicago had a shoot to kill order, and that crap stopped cold. This is not about the free speech of the few, it's about protecting the lives and freedom of the many. Those "few" that are anarchists, communists and the like and need to be done away with because they are actively working to undermine the system.

[Ben Bolt]

Most people feel the head they have upon there shoulders slamming against the walls of a dark hallway they journey into .

Good luck . Please stay in Boston . It does a society good .

[chuckles]

I keep hearing on the Discovery Channel about a new microwave truck that fries the skin of protesters. I was hoping to see it used here or Iraq during this perfect opertunity for human testing. It's supposed to be non permanent, but you will definately drop everything and go home. It comes on a Humvee roof mount and is about 5ft across the dish.

[thedugal]

given a couple of hours in the local jail which is like a badge of honor to them

Actually it's worse than that. They rarely even step foot in jail. They are simply picked up and "arrested" for the camera, and then released. They aren't even processed in the police station nonetheless prosecuted for sedition.

[tubebender]

This melee was exactly what these marxist wanted and have been building up to. They turned a Oakland City Council meeting into a screamfest today. I watched part of it on KTVU out of Oakland and it was a ugly as it gets They want anarchy and then martial law to disrupt our Republic.

Don't rule out the longshoremen in this clash. The SF Bay union was organized by Harry Bridges in the 30s. Bridges was a well know high up communist of that period and continued till he died.