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Idiot Protester Alert: Man Chains Himself To Wrong Building
The Olympian ^ | 3/19/2003 | SCOTT GUTIERREZ

Posted on 03/19/2003 8:53:12 AM PST by poindexter

Edited on 05/07/2004 9:33:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Jody Mason of Olympia is locked to the Washington State Grange office building Tuesday to protest war. He intended to chain himself to a federal Department of Energy office building, but discovered he was at the wrong location.

OLYMPIA -- A man spent hours chained to the wrong building Tuesday in an ill-planned effort to protest war with Iraq, police said. Jody Mason padlocked himself to an entrance of the Washington State Grange building at 924 Capitol Way S., thinking it was a sub-office of the U.S. Department of Energy.


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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: freemason; grangelist; olympia; protest
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To: Drango
~SNORT...I just blew coffee all over my computer screen.

That story does qualify as worth of a "Danny Thomas Coffee Spit".

41 posted on 03/19/2003 9:09:24 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: poindexter
Thanks!

Instead of cutting him loose, they should have used their own hand cuffs and leg restraints. Then left him there for the duration.
42 posted on 03/19/2003 9:09:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
I wonder if the police would have let him go if he had been chained to an abortion clinic?
43 posted on 03/19/2003 9:09:47 AM PST by Ingtar
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To: farmfriend
A Grange bump!:)
44 posted on 03/19/2003 9:10:25 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: Ingtar
No. He'd have been arrested as a 'Domestic Terrorist'...
45 posted on 03/19/2003 9:10:41 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (FREE THE ARMADILLO FIVE!)
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To: SquirrelKing
Nope, not me. Third time I've been asked that. I have to change it...right after I get finished laughing from your post.
46 posted on 03/19/2003 9:12:22 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 (If you like France raise your left hand, if you ARE French raise both hands!!!!!!!!!)
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To: poindexter
Police officers used heavy-duty bolt cutters to free Mason. "He asked for help because he didn't have the key," Olympia police Cmdr. Steve Nelson said.

This was their mistake. They should be letting these numbskulls get themselves out of their own messes.

47 posted on 03/19/2003 9:12:41 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: Ingtar
I wonder if the police would have let him go if he had been chained to an abortion clinic?

Only if he had chained himself to a Chiropractor's clinic by mistake...

48 posted on 03/19/2003 9:13:01 AM PST by Ramius
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To: FrdmLvr
Let them chew their arms off LOL... "but... but... I don't eat meat!"
49 posted on 03/19/2003 9:13:24 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (FREE THE ARMADILLO FIVE!)
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To: Eva
I figured that you would ask this question:I wonder if this guy was another student from Evergreen?
50 posted on 03/19/2003 9:13:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
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To: poindexter
Chains,chains

Pullin' me down

Chain of laughter

Turns your world around

51 posted on 03/19/2003 9:13:49 AM PST by Destructor
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To: Owl_Eagle
Boy, that idiot protester sure looks a lot like the actor Chris Eliot. Except that the actor tended to play characters with a bit more intelligence.
52 posted on 03/19/2003 9:14:48 AM PST by Fudd
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To: poindexter
Olympia seems to produce some real winners lately. First the bulldozer-sitter flag-burning twit who got flattened, now this...something in the water?
53 posted on 03/19/2003 9:15:25 AM PST by Sender (-A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. -WOPR-)
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To: Sender
Olympia seems to produce some real winners lately.

Oh, sadly, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Olympia has become a mecca for fruits and nuts from all over.

54 posted on 03/19/2003 9:17:09 AM PST by Ramius
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To: poindexter

55 posted on 03/19/2003 9:17:23 AM PST by wasp69 (The time has come.......)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Um, we shouldn't reduce the deficit???
56 posted on 03/19/2003 9:17:57 AM PST by EBUCK (FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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To: poindexter
After the HAHAHA, seriously, why wasn't he charged. He caused disruption, diverted the police, etc. He should be charged and fined. When the Feds rescue hikers and climbers in the parks, they now bill them for the rescue. These people are innocent, except they didn't plan well. Why let some idiot who actually planned to cause trouble get off scott free?
57 posted on 03/19/2003 9:19:03 AM PST by Truth29
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To: poindexter
This guy sounds like a potential bulldozer blocker
58 posted on 03/19/2003 9:19:24 AM PST by Mister Baredog ((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
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To: wasp69

59 posted on 03/19/2003 9:21:33 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 (If you like France raise your left hand, if you ARE French raise both hands!!!!!!!!!)
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To: prairiebreeze
"Mason, who identified himself to a photographer... "

He didn't have his camera, apparently, either. What a nutcase.

60 posted on 03/19/2003 9:21:34 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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