This little Trotskyite was not standing innocently in a park with a basket of flowers and an peace sign. She was in a group of avowed communists who refused several lawful orders to disperse from a plainly seditious act of sabotage.
In case you don't realize it, sir, the way military action works, when supplies are scheduled, they must be where they're expected. A single delayed shipment could, yes indeed, get American soldiers in the field, very killed.
So boo hoo. A little girl got stingballed and a two-week welt/bruise, instead of shot dead, or thrown into prison on a high federal charge. And the Left, in their own self-righteous self-absorption, considers this the moral equivalent of what Saddam did to untold tens and hundreds of thousands of provable innocents. This doesn't even rise remotely close to a Kent State, but you'd never gather as much to read their rhetoric.
Tell you what - if I ever have a notion to interfere with a military convoy during a Democratic administration, can I just go ahead and get guaranteed just a stingball to the face, and no jail time? Even if I get people killed? Sounds like a sweet deal to me.