Seditious anti-war protesters use kids as human shields
Update: I found another photo of the kiddie human shields, whose parent/guardian endangered them by dragging them right up to one of the trucks…
The Olympian has more on the aftermath:
Olympia Mayor Mark Foutch released a written statement Sunday that said any reports of excessive police force that are filed with the city will be “thoroughly and impartially” investigated. But he said police reported that some demonstrators have acted in ways that exceeded their rights to use public roads for political expression. And he said demonstrators need to “express their opinions in ways that do not block the public rights-of-way for unreasonable periods and to respond promptly to lawful requests and orders of police officers on the scene.”
Between 30 and 40 officers worked Sunday as a result of the protests, said Dick Machlan, Olympia police administrative services manager.
Olympia police got additional support from Lacey, Tumwater and Thurston County law enforcement agencies. The additional staffing needed for such protests can cost the city of Olympia between $2,000 and $15,000, Machlan said. “It’s so dependent on the individual event,” he said.
The latest port protest could end up being on the more expensive end if additional police are needed to work today because it’s the observed Veterans Day holiday, Machlan said. That means working staff members earn one-and-a-half times their typical wage.
Sunday’s events
The confrontations Sunday began after about 8:45 a.m., when protesters began marching back and forth across Franklin Street at the Market Street intersection. As 18-wheelers towing cargo began rolling down Market Street about five minutes later, two protesters lay down in the road, creating a human blockade. Police officers sprayed both with pepper spray. Another caravan of vehicles began leaving the port about 9:45 a.m., prompting protesters to run out ahead of the vehicles. Police arrested at least one man who witnesses said was in the road and later arrested two others. Those arrested on suspicion of violating the city’s pedestrian interference ordinance were Joshua Elliott, Montgomery Gondolfi and Luke Noble, according to Olympia City Jail.
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Sondra K has been blogging from the moonbat protests in Olympia, Washington, where the far Left is showing its support for the troops by…blocking military shipments from the troops. Seditiously interfering with military shipments is nothing new, of course. They’ve been doing it since the invasion of Iraq. What does seem to be new is this–using children as human shields in their quest to prevent vital equipment from getting to and from the battlefield (click for full pic at Sondra K’s):
Port and military officials are justifiably angry at the police for the lack of support they have received during the obstructionist demonstrations. The presence of the kiddie human shields complicated the response:
Protesters declared victory after port activity ended Friday night with the unsuccessful attempt to drive out two trucks, one carrying a Stryker vehicle and the other carrying two cargo containers.
“We’re a little disappointed that we didn’t get some police support, but we understand that with the resources they expended the other night, they had problems pulling all the necessary officers together,” Port of Olympia Commission President Paul Telford said. “But they did a great job the other night.”
He also noted that by the time the protesters stopped the two trucks from leaving about 4 p.m., the day’s operations at the port were almost complete anyway.
Two nights earlier, on Wednesday, police clashed with protesters, moving groups and arresting two people who were attempting to block convoys from the port. The protests were organized by Olympia Port Militarization Resistance in opposition to the use of the port for what members say is an illegal, immoral war in Iraq. There were no convoys Thursday.
The problems the protesters are causing at the port “aren’t winning them any friends,” Telford said Friday. Added port spokeswoman Patti Grant, relaying a comment by port Executive Director Ed Galligan, “it’s unfortunate that the protests can’t be peaceful and nonobstructionist.”
For most of the day Friday, trucks were able to leave unimpeded. Friday’s standoff started after 3 p.m.
Olympia Police Commander Tor Bjornstad acknowledged the department’s difficulty in pulling together the resources needed to remove protesters who stood or sat in the path of the trucks.
“We understand that the port and the military are disappointed about this evening,” he said.
Bjornstad added that police didn’t anticipate protesters blocking trucks Friday afternoon. Police also didn’t anticipate that small children would be among them, he said.
Two grade-school-age boys and a toddler were among the people in the path of the trucks Friday, a development that Bjornstad said was “quite disturbing” and “quite appalling, in my opinion.” Police want to ensure the safety of the protesters, should they have to be removed, and police were not prepared for safely removing children Friday, he said.
“We’re going to have to figure out how to address that issue,” Bjornstad said.
In addition to protest arrests, the anti-war thugs have also targeted local churches for vandalism:
Over the weekend vandals smashed windows at the New Apostolic Church in west Olympia and at the Flood the Sound Church just a few miles away and spray-painted anarchist graffiti along the path between the two churches.
“That kind of made us suspicious,” Lt. Chris Mealy with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said.
Graffiti left on a nearby store said “No Port Militarization—Oly unite.”
According to detectives, they are wondering if the attacks on the church are somehow a twisted effort to protest war.
“We’re most definitely going to be looking into it,” Mealy said.
The vandalism took place just before the arrival of the U.S. Naval ship Brittin, which is carrying Fort Lewis military hardware back from the war in Iraq.
Patriotic, huh?
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Ironic that both terrorists and the seditious anti-American left both exploit children.
I genuinely do not understand the response to this. This is not “borderline” conduct and there is no gray area here, these people are committing treason. I mean, if blocking military supplies doesn’t count as providing aid to the enemy then what the hell does?
It’s past time we started prosecuting these people, capital punishment as called for.
Wow, they are using tried-and-true, cowardly jihadi tactics against our own troops. Funny how libs mimic the enemy in so many ways.
These creatures are beyond contempt.
Wow. There’s nothing more patriotic then vandalizing churches and putting small children in potentially dangerous situations. Talk about illegal and immoral.
i say try the seditious fools for treason.
call child services as these parents are willfully placing their children in harms way.
try them on child negligence and abuse as well as treason.
Why isn’t Child Protective Services taking these kids away from their criminal parents?
Sounds like a case can be made for child endangerment. Add that to the “HATE SPEECH” at the churches and you have a real PATRIOTIC(sarc) situation. Human shields and religious suppression seem to be the preferred methods of terrorists everywhere.
#3 #4 and #6 Y’all got your comments in while I was typing.
Even to the most fevered anti-war zealot, how in the world do they think breaking chuch windows could have any possible bearing on furthering their cause? Anarchist graffiti? Fine, I guess, if what they’re demanding is really a lack of government, but why would that have anything to do with churches either … wouldn’t that complaint need to be targeted at government buildings to have the desired effect?
These people claim to be taking a position of some sort, and yet there is simply no basis in any type of rational thought, no attempt made to connect one idea to the next or to connect action in any logical way to those ideas.
W.T.F.?
I would remind these folks of the fate of one of their hometown “heroes”, Rachel Corrie.
There must be too much flouride in Olympia’s water or something. Or perhaps they played with Chinese manufactured toys in their former years.
At a far lower level this is akin to the muslim mother who proudly sent off several of her children to be homicide bombers. There were thankfully no deaths this time, but the potential is definitely there. Do we have secular Jihadis in training here?
It really does “take a village” full of idiots to train the secular anarchists of tomorrow.
These parents can place their children in harm’s way yet they remove children from Christian homes citing the dangers of teaching them that homosexuality is a sin.
Additionally, these people are free to show their hatred towards the Military and vandalize churches. Who is removing the children from their homes. I won’t even go there regarding the Folsom Street fair couple who brought their little ones to the festivities with men engaging in lewd behavior for the world to see. Lat I checked the children were still in their home.
Talk about ass backward double-standards.
The stryker is capable of withstanding IED blasts. Troops that are in these vehicles get to fight another day which is one more day closer to coming home. They are hindering crucial supplies from reaching those who need them the most. How do these people sleep at night.
My apologies for the grammatical errors.
All,
How many of those anti war protestors, are “transplants” not native Washingtonians? I have family in Tacoma, Renton, Gig Harbor, my folks are not anti war or anti military. There is Ft Lewis, near Olympia Washington.
It would seem a call to the Washington CPS authorities would be in order…
Contributing to the delinquency…
Endangering a child…
Negligent supervision…
Child abuse…
I have known people to face these charges for a whole lot less than this.
No surprises here. Break out the children. Shameless cowards
These people need to be careful what they wish for. If the anarchists get what they want, the “non-violent” are going to go down first.
Sometimes a good old fashioned butt kicking is in order.
And these are the very same people who’d pretty much have a snit-fit if you dared to have more than their “acceptable” number of 1.5 children per family. Or who would classify taking children to chuch as “child abuse”, or who define exposing children to the Folsom Street Fair as “culture.”
They are hypocrites and do not deserve to be parents.
anyone hear more on the hunger strike at columbia? how many days is it now 3-4?
Sighm in Russia, China, or any of the “Uncivilized” Non western Nations these people would have been delt with. As to what Mr. Galligan said about the Protest. I’ve yet to see one that didn’t block a highway or cause trouble.
As for the Human shield, a soldier should have just grabed a kid, say he’s drafted and throw him on the boat. Just let him off when they go, though it might be far better for the Kid to be raised up by them. Might bring them to thier sense’s or more likely in this nation end in a massive Lawsuit. As to the stupid BS about the war in Iraq being “Illegal” it was voted on by the Senate many of the members who are still in office.
These sabatores should be happy that our soldiers arn’t the baby killers they are professed to be. Under the Geneva Convention they love to sprout off about they could be classified as Spies and shot on sight, without Trial.
I’ve always said Anarchist are the biggest threat to Human survival and civilization. Be it western or Eastern. Far more than anything else. Saddly most of this has streamed from our “civilized”, though immoral Western European “allies”.
Michelle, why hasn’t someone with Child Safety been brought in? These kids need to be removed from the care of parents who would do such a thing…to put children in harm’s way is nothing short of child abuse!
Personnaly I don’t think in this instance the Police did their job. How do you remove kid’s from a seditious protest in which their parent’s are involved, simple arrest the parent’s as should have happened in this case and the children will follow along just as they did when mom told them to get in the car at home. Am I advocating taking the children to jail with the parent’s, a resounding YES let them experience what happen’s when you break the law and the next time mom and dad want to take them to one of their left wing protest’s maybe the kid’s will have their own protest’s about being forced to participate.
Mom: Get in the car Billy
(Billy’s arms and legs outstrechted holding himself out of the car as mom tries to cram him into the car.)
Billy: But Mom I don’t want to go back to jail today, that was scary.
Mom: Shut up and get in, letting an unjust war go on is what is scary.
Billy: But Mom I thought breaking the law was wrong?
Mom: It is, but when you really believe in something you have to stand up and fight for it regardless if it’s against the rules or not.
Billy: But Mom is’nt it still breaking the law and is’nt that wrong?
Mom: Shut up! let go of the tire and get in the car, your going to make us miss donut’s and coffee.
Billy: You told me I’m 5 and to young to drink coffee and I’d rather have some coco puffs instead of donut’s.
Mom: We’re are having donut’s and coffee for breakfast and you can drink juice.
Billy: No thank’s, I’ll have some coffee.
Mom: No you’ll have juice, now get in the car or I’m grounding you.
Billy: But I really believe that I should have coffee regardless.
Mom: Billy just do as I say get in the car!
Billy: You did’nt do what that police officer said when he told us to get up and move because you were breaking the law.
Mom: That’s different, GET IN THE CAR!
Billy: How’s it different Mom?
Mom: Uhhhhh…..
Probably for the same reason NOTHING could be done about the two-year-olds at the Folsom Street Fair. CPS require a name and address be provided, and – as I said above – is more likely to classify religious practices as abuse than political human shield activism.
Unfortunately, we already set the precedent that treason will never be appropriately punished in the United States. The Left has succeeded in making it perfectly legal to commit treason. Though the law is on the books, it is treated like laws against selling dirty books on Sunday, or spitting on the sidewalk. Outdated, useless.
John Walker Lindh took up arms against his country, and was involved in the combat theater deaths of two (?) CIA officers. To this country’s everlasting shame, he didn’t hang inside the walls of a military prison. He has people trying to get him released! “He’s such a good boy!”, says the traitor’s Daddy! Jane Fonda sent supplies to the NVA/VC. She lives in mansions and flies around in private jets. She has probably never gone a day without getting a massage. Star or not, she and many of her friends should have faced a military tribunal, and been executed. There are still Veterans walking around with devastating injuries inflicted by people who were materially aided by lefitists in this country. I don’t know how they can bear the fact that that woman is still allowed to breathe the same air as they do.
Our current crop of traitors will receive the same treatment as those in the 1960’s. I’m sure that after this conflict we will discover that aid was sent to AQI by some hollywood film types or a Soros-funded group. The media will yawn. The Congress will do nothing, and Hillary will pardon anyone who becomes legally entangled as a result. After all, like Vietnam, this is an “illegal, immoral” war.
@Blind_Mule
Brilliant.
While I respect the protesters right to free speech I have 2 issues with this protest
1. Involving children in the blockade for me is grounds for a child abuse inquiry.
2. Blocking a military supply convoy is not a right granted under “free speech”. Protesting their beliefs on the side of the road is.
Being from Washington, I am continually embarassed by the sorry antics of Washingtonians. This is a case in point. On a good note, I read the following in the Stars and Stripes, today: One protester, Andrew Yankey, told “The Olympian” newspaper that officers removed protester’s goggles and sprayed them directly in the face with mace. “My goggles were ripped off my face and stolen,” he said. That puts a smile on my face. there is an awesome picture of the cops with a knee in the back of one face-down punk as they roll him up. Priceless!
The only reason the protestors protest here is because they can. Imagine if they tried this in Iran, Cuba, or North Korea.
I also note that if these protestors get what they want, and the women are then caught without their burqas they will be stoned to death.
To these liberals, children are nothing more than inferior humans to be used as cannon fodder and experimentation for the benefit of Hollywood stars.
#29 CAV – you shoulda’ seen some of the news video!
On a related note, I drove through there yesterday, on the way back from the Veteran’s Day ceremonies at the capitol and the day before as well – caught me unawares on Saturday, as I hadn’t known there were protests at the port… (although the moonbats are commonly protesting elsewhere in Oly).
They were not blocking the roads when we came through, and there was a strong law enforcement presence. Protestors were grouped on one side of the road, opposite the port entryway, and the “anti-protestors” (don’t know what else to call them) were on the port-side along with the police.
Lot’s of American flags over there… didn’t see any on the moonbat side of the road.
Wonder if Watada was down there someplace…
OH yeah! and as noted elsewhere, I believe there’s a lot of imported protestors for this – unfortunately they’ve got some local support though.
G-d Bless America!!
How many of those anti war protestors, are “transplants” not native Washingtonians? I have family in Tacoma, Renton, Gig Harbor, my folks are not anti war or anti military.
Laree: This is the home of the “People’s Republic of Washington.” There are liberals galore. Sure there are retirees and active-duty military all around, but the region is solidly liberal. I used to have to drive past the occasional protest at the gate just to get on Ft Lewis in the morning. There were actually races to see whether the pro- or anti-military crowd could get to the bridges over I-5 to rally or protest as applicable. This is where LIEutenant Watade (a despicable coward) is welcomed with open arms.
Regards,
If they want to stand on the side of the road and wave signs and yell obscenities at the soldiers, that’s free speech in a nutshell. But as soon as they obstruct the movement of military supplies and equipment, they become enemy combatants out of uniform and should be arrested and sent to GITMO, for interrogation. Find out who is running the show, where the funding is coming from, etc. And with these wimps, I don’t think water boarding would get beyond the mention stage before they start spilling their guts.
And CPS should be hauling those kids to a safe place. Obviously their parents are more concerned with politics than their children’s safety. Even allowing for peaceful protest factors, these things get out of control real easy, and someone on either side makes a mistake and innocent children get hurt. Shameful.
I live near Olympia, and these idiots always get front page coverage in the Daily Olympian newspaper, the local far left rag. They even have an Olympia city councilman that regularly attends these protests, and has even been arrested. Let me tell you, the Seattle/Olympia area is racing to catch up with San Francisco to be the liberal capitol of the country. The police need to do their job and arrest these criminals who continually try to keep our troops from getting supplies and vandalizing the area.
#24 and #29, thank you! I needed that laugh!!!
Invasion of the Bay Area night of the living dead, children do not matter, Olympia was always supportive of our military until they were invaded by the Kalifornians
Butt Kickin’ in order – then off to jail to be bound over for trial for child abuse and treason
#37 edge – you mean T.J. Johnson?!
Here’s a link of the city councilman encouraging protestors to lodge complaints against the police THAT NIGHT!
*the bastid*
T.J. Johnson’s remarks in council…
I’m still trying to figure out why the truck driver just doesn’t keep driving. If I walk in front of a car on the highway, who’s fault is it? Not that I’d want to be the driver – but I’m pretty sure for the good of the many, the few get sacrificed. Isn’t the democrats way?
some of those sound bites make me sick…
Glad to see so many Washingtonians on the site! I sure miss it. Too many years go by between trips back home.
Regards,
#43 and thank you for your service to country!
“Get some!!”
With all due respect (I am European) all the PC nonsense that we have in Europe stemmed originally from liberals in the US (California, New York etc. Just one example: overly harsh anti-smoking laws which have unfortunately made their way across the Atlantic came from those places).
Thankfully political correctness is on the wane here and I hope it will do so in the US too. Just as a comparaison, many police forces (or anti-riot police) would have forcibly taken those kids out of harm’s way over here. It’s being done on a regular basis with illegal immigrant families, who are subsequently repatriated – using their kids as protection no longer works.
They sleep upside down, hanging from the rafters by their talons. It’s how all moonbats sleep.
I lived in Olympia for a couple of years. These “protesters” smell like they came from The Evergreen State College located nearby (which was also where Rachel Corrie hailed from when she went to Israel to play chicken with a bulldozer).
Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz have nothing on The Evergreen State College when it comes to moonbattery.
On a related note, the use of children as prospective speed bumps is in keeping with the true meaning of liberals’ regard for “The Children”(TM): They don’t give a hoot about kids for their own sake, but see them as tools to be used to get what they want.
Thanks PP! Lest I forget. Lowest of the low, these people.
Shouldn’t these id10t’s be wearing leather? Where is Miller’s sponsorship?
Gad, what is the world coming to when a protestor can’t get a bear and a whipping with the kiddies watching and learning?
I agree with the comments on child endangerment. These demented idiots fail to realize the impact they are having on their children. They also fail to realize the dangerous situation they are placing their children in. Child services should be investigating.
As to their spineless terror attacks on religion, they should all be buggy whipped in public. After that, they should receive a thorough indoctrination on facism, treason and tolerence. As they absolutely fail to see that they are the treasonous facists that are incapable of tolerating anyone with social values they disagree with.
As to the lack of police support. The solution is simple. You send one truck driver out to smack one protester and I guarantee the entire Seattle Police Force will show up siren blaring to protect the protestors.
Calfornia socialists are steadily moving into, and changing, conservative areas. The basic reason for this migration is simple. They soiled thier nests to the point the can no longer stand living under the socialist, high tax, high crime, lack of service, etc.. governments they created. So they move into a conservative area with good schools, low crime, honest government and immediately begin to challenge and change society norms. Like misguided children incapable of growth, or personal responsibility, they force their socialist agenda on the new population. Result, the anarchy we have in Seattle and other places.
While there are many solutions to the problem, they all result in confrontation. It is time conservatives level the playing field, demand the ‘fair and equal’ treatment we are supposed to have under the law. We can no longer accept that they are simply expressing thier rights, when they are placing others in danger, aiding and abetting our enemies, wasting public tax dollars, attacking and destroying our institutions and denying the rights of others.
Christ opposed war.
They never grew out of it. It works, dude. Like, let’s have a sit-in or hunger strike.
Here we go again.
I G N O R E
H I M
Those children should be taken away from their parents and pout in foster care. What prevents the parents from strapping bombs on them in the future? They are using children as tools and weapons which is dehumanizing.
Daniel 9:26: “…until the end (end of times) there will be war.”
Dr. Bob Jones of Bob Jones University said “Well, the Lord met a centurion once, a Roman centurion in his earthly ministry, and he never rebuked the centurion at all for being a warrior. The Lord said that the world will always know wars and the rumors of wars right up until the end times. The Lord knows that there’s war in the world because there’s war in men’s hearts and hearts that are full of sin are always going to be full of war. The Bible says, “You lust and you have not. You kill and desire to have because you have not and you ask not.”
I think Jesus Christ would protest war.
30,
Great reference as Christ said HE had not seen anybody with as much faith as this warrior.
Christ never said to use you children as shields. As a matter of fact, I think Christ said something like:
That which you do to the least of these, you do unto me.
I G N O R E
H I M
Soapie:
Your dilligence is commendable!
Really? And since you’re speaking for him where exactly did he say that?
BTW: Too bad the radical Islamofascist pigs don’t ‘oppose war’.
I’d wager that some of these creatures were hoping that if the trucks got through, a child would be hurt in the process so they could claim police brutality or some other convenient excuse.
For those that think it is harsh to say this, ask yourself this: Why bring children to an event where, historically, scuffles can happen in the process of enforcing the law even if the police try to treat the protesters with kid gloves? To have brought a child to this, they must have counted that as a possibility. If so, that’s endangerment at the very least. If not, that is criminal incompetence with the end result being endangerment. There is no excuse for it, really. They chose to place these kids in harm’s way to make a point.
Oh yeah, they are also seditionists regardless of what they were doing to the kids.
What a bunch of stupid idiots. They are as bad as the Islamofascists.
See here to understand. Please take a minute and watch this video
Ah, you beat me to it. I was going to say they both have alot in common, including the exploitation of kids for their terrorist methods.
sfcmac, he has now adjusted it to the following:
So glad he prefaced it with “I think.” We may be making hedgeway yet…
That is like calling cow-pie fertilizer.
IJD’s
Improvised Juvenile Devices
I don’t understand what was so difficult to get those people out of the way. All they needed was a couple cans of tear gas and the trucks would have been on their way. It’s not like they actually prepared for a confrontation.
Doesn’t anybody have access to good old fashioned tear gas anymore?
Help me here … what is the difference in these people bringing kids, the Folsom Street Fair people bringing kids, and the Westboro Church protestors bringing kids …
in my book they were all guilty of endangerment, child abuse and if you have read some of the signs there would have to be racist and hate speech encouragement …
many of the kids are holding up signs that they have no idea what the words on those signs mean … same goes for the verbage on shirts and such …
CPS and the federal government all need to be enforcing the laws in this area … these people are a lot more abusive to there children than anything else going on out there right now …
You all need to remember that, due to the way they’re wired, these people are focused only on their own personal, stunted world views, and are incapable of looking at the bigger picture. Free condoms, “anything goes” sex education for grade school kids, birth control and abortions for kids without parental notification, drugs are okay, no guns for self-defense, illegals are entitled to the same rights, privileges and protections as legal citizens, it’s our fault the world hates us, President Bush brought down the WTC buildings, “if we leave them alone, they’ll leave us alone”, college is for protests (not actual education), etc., etc., etc.
Nothing will ever change their minds…they are incapable of seeing the danger they bring to the rest of us, and the succor they provide the Islamo-fascists with their stunted, stuck-in-the-60’s point of view.
Where is CPS?
So where are our resident trolls? you know the ones…they couldn’t respond to my commenting on how Liberals haven’t an ounce of patriotism in their beings and instead are nothing but seditious traitors. Where are they to defend these actions? i would like to hear from these “people” and have them explain why they think this is accepable, and why they would want to associate themselves with the likes of these traitorous scum. Come on Rusty. You are always around, trying to make yourself seem and sound important and knowledgeable (and failing most miserably I might add), where are you now? You guys are always painfully missing when there is an article of this nature. Could it be that you are embarrassed and cannot stand up with your convictions? Can it be that you are in full knowledge that the lowliest person serving in our nations military is still many levels above the highest Liberal? Is it because you know that Liberals are unpatiotic, seditious, racist, bigotted, Socialist losers who have nothing good to say about anything and are trying to rewrite the definitions of patriotism so that their guilt is diminished? Or is it because you believe whole heartedly in what these scum are doing to our country and our men and women and just can’t get yourselves to appear and be shown how very, very wrong you are and how your spitting on the very things and people that give you your freedoms shows just what hypocrites and hate-filled you are?
Dying to hear your take on this. After all, these are your peeps. these are the people who vote with you, hold the same beliefs, want what you want.
And nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus was against war. Stop showing what an stupid idiot you are and shut up.
Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is a life-long affliction. These people need to be quarantined for the good of all humanity.
mom:Stop your whining Billy, I should have aborted you like the others!
and
A fantastic masters or doctoral thesis could add up the municipal costs of these liberal protests and quantify (through a cost/benefit analysis) exactly what they are costing the US taxpayer.
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.– Matthew 10:34
#53 at 12:46 pm, On-my-soap-box said:
Here we go again.
I G N O R E
H I M
Right you are!
LOL!
The remarks sound like phrases and utterances from Polly the Parrot!
‘Course, one cannot have an actual conversation with a parrot; so your advice to ignore The Parrot is dead-on.
I am an MSW (don’t hate me… I am the most conservative one there ever has been!)
Yes, CPS absolutely needs to be involved from this point forward. The next time police are called to a scene like this they need to call CPS and have a social worker sent out to assess the situation. The children are being placed in a potentially dangerous situation and are being put at risk. The argument of this being a religious practice should not prevent CPS from acting. The actions of CPS are supposed to be based on the welfare and safety needs of the child — regardless of reason. I have seen children removed from homes of those who practice religions that left the child greatly at risk (snake handlers and those who refuse to seek medical attention for a sick child, for example).
I do not advocate lightly for the removal of children from parental custody. Parental rights are constitutionally protected,and they should never be taken lightly — even in this case. I am all for protecting children who are being placed in dangerous situations by parents who lack common sense. In this case it is obvious that the children present have a parent who lacks either the self-control or the intelligence to keep the child out of harms way. These protests can get violent, and I have heard first hand the hate filled messages that are often spewed from the protesters. This can be frightening to be around as an adult — a child has no business being any where near it.
If CPS were to show up they could take children into custody or make the parent sign a safety agreement right on the spot forcing them to leave with the child and not return with the child. If the parent breaks the safety agreement then that would give them grounds for immediate removal — usually a pretty swift and sure way to get a judge to give the social worker what she asks for directly from the bench.
One other point… last time this happened was when my son’s brigade were loading their Strykers at the Port of Tacoma to go over to Iraq earlier this year. You know Strykers are awesome machines that have kept many of our Infantrymen safe during battle. They simply can not be “foot soldiers” in Iraq — so they protested vital equipment that is needed to keep soldiers alive, but the support the troops? They hate the military and all of those who work within it — actions speak louder than words.
I read that Ft. Lewis was billed by the Port of Tacoma to cover the costs of these idiots. So, do any of these moonbats think that money that is being diverted will stop the war? No, it’s going to be pulled from budgets where non-essential things are covered … probably recreational and morale building extras. Nice. Thanks.
So, I hope that the Port of Olympia will do the right thing and bill every single protester that they can identify for the added costs. They want to wreak havoc? Let them pay for it. If they want to break the law then punish them accordingly. If they want to protest peacefully then leave them be to exercise their rights.
OUR CPS?! They can’t even keep kids from being tortured by foster parents (do I recall correctly something about a foster parent sticking needles in one child’s eye, recently?)
What is the id10t with the guitar playing?
Thanks granite. He will soon go away if nobody wants to play “Guess what Christ would do today”.
Hey! maybe we should send them a pizza.
Oops, wrong protest.
Budgetary concerns should not have been a problem. An overtime budget should exist to cover exigent circumstances which always appear in law enforcement.
If the police were called, why didn’t they respond. That makes no sense to me. We always responded and we were always neutral. Could it be that the law enforcement powers are showing favoritism? I certainly hope not.
If someone else mentioned this earlier, I apologize, but you have to think these nutjobs knew exactly what they were doing when they brought their kids along for the ride/protest. They’re smart enough to know that things have the potential to get out of hand, and reasoned that the odds of them not getting their heads (deservedly) bashed in were greater if their kids were present. At a minimum, I would’ve arrested them and put them in front of a judge to explain exactly why they thought exposing their kids to a potentially volatile situation was a smart thing to do.
New candidates for the Annual Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast and Frisbee Toss. I’m going to enter the Caterpillar 973C Races to see who can scoop up the most protesters before breakfast.
Par for the course for the moonbats of Olympia.
During my tenure in the Navy, I served on board the attack sub USS Olympia and was there when we made a visit to Olympia during our homeport change post-construction/shakedown. And as you would expect, there were dozens of moonbats on the pier protesting us when we got there, with picket signs saying things such as “Take Back The Death Ship” and all sorts of other nonsense (think I still have the newspaper clippings from this, will have to dig them up and reminisce). I think a majority of them were college students from Evergreen State, but I’m not sure.
Fortunately, there were plenty of people there who were appreciative as well, so the iceholes that protested us didn’t ruin the visit.
This was back in 1986, btw. The more things change …
While the local government officials express “shock and dismay” at these so-called “protestors”, behind closed doors they are all smiles and patting each other on the back. That’s why no one is punished and no kids are taken away.
Antaradus
I don’t know how old you are, but I distinctly remember a Sikh suing successfully for the right not to wear a crash helmet on a motor bike, due to his
turban getting in the way of said helmet. Meanwhile all non-sikhs still had to wear helmets by law, this was at least 25 years ago,which was the last time I lived in England. A prime example of PC.
In many, or maybe most, or possibly every jurisdiction, teachers and public safety officers (police) are mandated reporters. That means they have to report any possible case of child abuse or neglect. Let’s turn the sacred monster of government careing loose on these people. Just like calling Internal Revenue on your evil boss is chickenfeed compared to unleashing Occupational Safety and Health with a tip about an unsafe ladder, so it is that the real uncontrolled beuracracy to respond to this outrage is not a federal prosecutor with a sedition charge but the state child welfare agency. These people will be amazed by what falls on them.
Wonder what the anticipation of Schadenfreude is called?
or at least neutered.
Just applying the principle of their hero (Darwin) to ensure survival of the human race.
Who would Jesus bomb?
They are the enemy. We should simply do what we do to an enemy.
Sung to the tune of “Don’t Eat the Daisys”
Please, please, don’t feed the trollies,
Plesee, please, don’t feed the trollies,
Please, please, don’t feed the trollies,
Don’t feed the trollies today!
Blessed are the peacemakers.
P L E A S E
I G N O R E
H I M
OT
I don’t wish to feed… I just have to wonder. Who is this southernboy person? It sounds like he’s just reciting anti-war bumper stickers or something.
Not to worry Soap. It’s like he/she is not even here…
Sorry Soap