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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#158 ArmywifeArmyMom: The moonbat demonstrators think they accomplished something. Perception being reality to them, they actually think they won! Isn’t it wonderful to live in a self created and perfect liberal world?
Christ never preached against war, but then again, neither did he preach for war. He did say “turn the other cheek” in Matthew 5. This can be seen in the broader concept of loving your enemies (give him your cloak, etc).
That being said, as a 19 year AF member, I serve God and my country. In that order. I don’t see that as a contradiction, either. This is the greatest country on the planet precisely because of our freedoms and our military. And, our ‘just wars’ - Augustine or Luther anyone? - have run the gamut of conflicts.
That being said, I just wanted to chime because it seemed southernboy was taking a beating. In a perfect world, the one to come, there will be no war. But, ours is an imperfect world.
One of my favorite verses? Psalm 144:1
Kevlaur
#198 RetFireman Ignorance may be curable, but stupidity is fatal. Willful ignorance is calling for the last rights.
Willful trollishness gets you the BEAR! which is just fatal to a libtard troll’s ego.
The question Soouthertard should be asking is not “Who would Jesus bomb”, but “What is next to be bombed by the followers of Allah, and what are you willing to do to make sure it doesn’t happen”?
You show a basic inability to know the difference between good and bad, right and wrong and who the enemy is and who started this war. I suggest, yet another thing. Go and get an education for yourself, and get educated in geo-political goings on, who Islam is, and what a Dhimmi is. here’s a clue…you would have your head cut off or stoned in the public square for spouting off your spam. You are fighting the wrong war on the wrong side kid. Read the book yourself and stop trying to convert those that are already converted and actually know of which they speak. You sound like a 3rd grader trying to tell a college professor what to teach and how. All it does is make you the fool. now, while it seems you are good with looking the fool, I must entrust you aren’t. So just stop and get educated first. Maybe go troll some of your Liberal sites and see what happens when you spout off your stuff and nonsense.
Yup, and Jesus, if anyone, sure had the opportunity to rail against capital punishment.
That’s more the contemporary Western world concept, Kevlaur. The context in which Jesus offered “turn the other cheek” brings a different - or additonal meaning.
Here’s a clip from one page that explains it as well as I could:
“When someone strikes you on the RIGHT cheek (5:39) — as a master would backhand a slave to publicly shame them — turn the other cheek. That is, invite them to hit you again AS AN EQUAL, because your oppressor can’t backhand you on the left cheek with the right hand, and the left hand is not used for food or human contact in Eastern cultures. That is: you are challenging your oppressor to treat you as a person and not a possession.
When someone tries to sue you even to the point of taking your coat (5:40), give them your undercoat/shirt as well! That is, challenge them to strip you naked, which in Jewish culture at least, would publicly shame both them and you! Again, this forces your oppressor to take account of what they are doing to you!”
Turn the other cheek!?
The emphasis isn’t on being a doormat, but to help “educate” the wrong-doer.
Purplepeep.
That was the best explanation of that principle that I ever heard. Great job.
Well, Tim, it wasn’t my explanation, I just knew the pasaage - like many others - has deeper meaning with which we might not be familiar without some temporal and cultural context.
Like Jesus asking Peter “Do you love me more than these?” 3 times in John chapter 21; if a person isn’t familiar with some basic Greek terms they miss something there. (And maybe think Christ had an issue with repeating himself!
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I was just too lazy to compose and type it out the “turn the other cheek thing” myself, I need some verses about sloth, lol. I better observe the ants for awhile.
Hey, SouthernBoy,
I asked this on another thread, but I guess you didn’t see it. Could you tell us what denomination you belong to? Is it Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox, Reformed, Anabaptist, Charismatic, or Evangelical? What do you think about the relationship of the Old Testament to the New?
Michelle, I know I’m a tattle tale, but AP and Bryan broke Hot Air.
Anyone know if HotAir is down? Can’t open it…
abinitio,
Again?!
BiscuitBunny:
Turn the other cheek does not equal bend over.
Jesus would call down the fiery sword of the angel Gabriel.
Nuf sed.
OT: Soap, aj- thanks for the Birthday wishes since I stepped out.
Grey fox #210. I know that might be an interesting thing for Southern to reveal…however, to be honest, I’d rather not know. I’d much rather the Christians amongst us would be commended as was the church at Berea for searching to see whether what is proclaimed is indeed so. Acts 17:10-12 and then once that was done, …..Be ready to give an answer… (a little bit out of context although the application applies -1 Peter 3:15)
CR,
I can see your point. Southernboy at times sounds an awfully lot like someone trying to imitate a Christian - the one-liners, constant references to what his pastor tells him, and, indeed, the fact that he constatntly mentions his faith even when not really relevant to the subject- all sound a little odd. He could quite possibly be real, but something smells a little fishy, and this is a way of verifying without being confrontational. Also, knowing something of his theological background gives us a better understanding of how to argue effectively…
Great add on’s. LOL
People through out history have called God’s children worse than moonbat’s. I think God is up there laughing and saying Moonbat’s , Neocon’s those crazy people come up with some funnie words to describe each other, hahahahahahahah.
Are’nt we proud of ourselves, so since you go to church every Sunday you must have more knowlege than any of us.
BTW: Pride is a sin.
Your source is not Christ it’s your pastor, If your pastor was to tell you that the bible says the sky is yellow would you change your perception of color. A pastor is not the sole source of knowlege, the Bible state’s that you should seek the truth through knowlege and to me getting your knowlege from one source IE: your pastore is not reavealling the whole truth just the truth according to your pastor. Do you remember Jim Jones or David Koresh they where the pastor’s of their church’s and the people following them believed what they said and died.
Just like the political arena you can’t watch one source and get the whole truth you must go to many sources even the one’s you disagree with that will bring you knowlege in turn bringing you to a logical conclusion of the truth.
Christ is my source. He is goodness.
Such half-hearted attempts to stop the “evil, illegal” war! Using children as human shields is too far too passive an approach to be deserving of praise.
As long as they’re emulating their islamicist heroes, who at least have the backbone to stand up to those they designate the epitome of evil, the protesters should go the whole hog and put bomb vests on their children and send them off to blow up military targets and associated little eichmanns. At least then they wouldn’t be hypocrits.
Tactically at least, its easy for muslims, atheists and other non-Christians to resist the evil US government and its evil war. Not so for real fundamentalist Christians.
Would Christ protest an “evil” war? Would he resist evil of any kind? Remember, before he died on the cross, he instructed his flock:
“Resist not evil” (Matthew 5:39)?
So if you’re really a Christian and you really believe that the War on Terror is evil, perhaps you shouldn’t even open your mouth on the matter, except to pray to God that His will be done.
Oh, and then you should sell your computer and give the money to a veteran’s organization.
Then you should wash a soldier’s feet.
Purplepeep,
Nice exegesis (nice pun, huh?). But, remember, just before this passage, He refutes (and then fulfills?) the OT ‘eye for an eye.’
I’m thinking also that this is to blend with “as far as it is possible for you, live in peace with your neighbor.”
Good stuff.
Kevlaur
Where does the concept of endangering a minor come into play here?
Libs always hype risky behaviors, and using children as human shields just like Iraqi terrorists seems reasonable cause to put the children in the hands of the DFC (or whatever they call it on the left coast. Or do they?)
Southernboy,
What would Jesus do when faced with an evil cult like islam gaining nuclear weapons? While turning the other cheek is a very good thing in day to day life, is that the best strategy when millions of innocent lives are at stake?
Yes.