Sedition in Olympia continues
Update 3:25pm Eastern. Rock-throwing. Concrete-pouring. Window-breaking. Shipment-obstructing. And now, you can add photographer-bullying to the list of “peaceful,” “non-violent” actions by the Olympia thugs (hat tip - reader Joe S.):
Let me make something perfectly clear: The Olympian’s newsroom staff did not get attacked by police when they were at the scene covering the recent port protests.
However, photographer Tony Overman was threatened by protesters and felt endangered to the point of calling 9-1-1 for assistance…Tony, who is not easily intimidated, was angry. You don’t mess with a photographer’s equipment. But it was more than that. The young demonstrators surrounding and taunting him were being egged on by adults, men in positions of influence in this community. They should have behaved more responsibly.
Update 2:34pm Eastern. Video of an FNC discussion of the protests.
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I said it wasn’t over last night. I was right. The latest wire dispatch on the anti-war thuggery at the Port of Olympia reports today: “At least three semi-trucks have left the port carrying Stryker vehicles used in Iraq back to Fort Lewis. Anti-war protest leaders say they’re mobilizing again, and a squad of police in riot gear is at the scene.” Even the Olympian newspaper editorial board, which opposes the war in Iraq, is fed up:
While we fully agree with the protesters that the war should end immediately and the troops should be reunited with their families directly, protesters have crossed the line of peaceful protest and deserve to be punished for their regrettable behavior.
“Regrettable?” Try reprehensible.
When protesters resorted to blocking roads, dragging debris into the middle of downtown streets, breaking windows, destroying public property, damaging police cars and hurling rocks at police, they clearly crossed the line. Their peaceful assembly evolved into lawbreaking and they must be held individually accountable…Sunday night, Olympia Councilman TJ Johnson added fuel to the fire when he held a community meeting at City Hall where protesters whined about their treatment at the hands of police.
What did they expect?
Surely protesters understand that when they put themselves in harm’s way they put themselves at risk. They cannot expect to be treated gently by police. Videos from the scene show armed police officers repeatedly warning protesters to clear the streets and stop blocking traffic or face arrests. Protesters didn’t budge until doused with pepper spray, pushed back on the sidewalks with batons, or arrested and carried away to a police vehicle.
But they asked for it.
Vigilant Sondra K, who has organized counter-protests at the port, continues to keep watch.
This is not going to be limited to Olympia:
Anti-war protestors plan their next move this morning. This time they’re planning to march outside a local military recruiting station, and it comes as Congress once again makes a statement about military spending. The protest and rally begins at 3:00 p.m. Thursday at the Tacoma Mall…organizers of these war protests are planning yet more protests Friday in Seattle, Olympia and Chehalis…
The “progressives” want their minions to follow suit and obstruct other ports:
Hopefully, the militancy, courage, tactics, spirit, of these very strong actions will inspire others throughout the United States to stand up and not be complicit with the torture and occupation being carried out in our name.
It is very likely the military will not use the Port of Olympia again for military shipments during the duration of the occupation of Iraq. This is a victory.
Take a good look at your fellow Americans…
Punks:
Whiners:
Thugs:
Counter-protesters wanted and needed. Tell them: “Not in our name.”
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Are they out of their minds? They honestly believe that no more military shipments will come through Olympia? Nutrootery has reached a new low.
I don’t want to sound too personal but I’ve seen better heads on an iodine bottle! Take a bath, punks!
I would like to see some of the longshoremen take this attack on their income and demonstrate their displeasure with the protesters. Actions have consequences, esp. stupid ones.
How can this sort of thing get started? It seems like civil unrest is a real threat, particularly if it isn’t nipped in the bud.
Hey the guy in the red sweatshirt, it’s got to be Southernboy. We found our troll.
Nope — nuh uh. Not my fellow Americans. True Americans would not be a part of this disaster. I can’t say what they really are without getting banned, so I’ll leave it at that.
Maybe we should just offer these thugs up to Islam as a sacrifice. If they get their way it’ll happen anyway, so we might as well just expediate the process for them.
ammo john
Those “L’s” obviously stand for Loons, Losers and Lawbreakers
The ones they arrest need to be held the maximum time before being officially charged and then slapped with a large enough cash bail to get their attention followed by actually having to go to trial for any and all charges they can managed to level against these morons …
The problem is they take them away and in a matter of hours release them and never press any charges …
….where activist Cindy Sheehan will begin another fast as a form of protest with a hearty meal at Orange Julius.
Why aren’t they being arrested? These people wouldn’t know what “peace” looked like if it came up and bit them on the rear.
Where’s the Love?
Where’s the Peace?
Where’s the Happiness?
Where’s Code Pink when you need em’?…there’s a group out in Oympia who wishes for you to try out your waterboarding technique on them…stat!
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I wish there were a way to reason with these people. I understand that they may believe what they are spouting but they are going about it the wrong way. They end up harming those they claim to care about - the troops.
They are the ones who are being dealt blow after blow. I wish I lived nearby. oh how I wish.
Why do I wish for a jugde to when giving sentance to this morons give them an option
Either spend 10 years in jail or join the US military.
Heh. No wonder they do it. The police are just letting it happen like a bunch of coddling parents.
They don’t care about the troops. If they did, they wouldn’t be engaging in sabotage.
All they care about is their image. Being anti-war is the new grunge/teen angst. You don’t accomplish anything, to the majority of people you look like a jagoff, but you think you’re cool and and that’s all that matters.
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly was reporting on this story and said what the suckheads were doing was treason. Finally a major news media said the T word.
Only technically…
flmom (#6)
HA! That’s good. His pastor told him that Bush doesn’t really follow Christ. Would his pastor lie to him?
The whiners video is a classic. These brain donors cant even form sentences it’s painful to watch them try, oh, our pain……wah. Instead of getting wasted everyday they should take up fishing or something. Good Lord.
It must be nice to have all this free time to proetst and stuff. Here I waste my time working, earning a living, contributing….
The protesters seem to think that just because they are punching people, that makes them peaceful protesters. Is that how that phrase works?
I love the Olympian article. Their language is a little soft, but it’s good to see that people aren’t blindly supporting the criminals just because they like the cause.
swj719AWG
Does that make them AINT’S … Americans In Name - Technically Speaking …
Let’s end war by fighting! Our idea is more deserving than your idea! Illegal acts are justified by an illegal war!
Put these bastards on trial for treason, sedition and child abuse. Punish them to the maximum extent of the law.
Regrettable? More appropriate would be illegal and moronic. It should be changed to:
and
I think only a liberal could say that with a straight face.
Has everyone checked out Ace’s site on the Olympia protests? The protesters apparently put a calender up where anyone could fill in events. Well, Ace’s commenters helped out, as only they could.
Not even in the Civil Rights protest did I ever see babies used as props. You really have to question the mental capacity of these morons.
Yeah, that’s what I’m doing to…..
*closes all the internet browser windows*
I think, and I may be wrong, Michelle was refering to the id10t in the comment above. Michelle would not ever lump Americans if with this tripe (my apologies to tripe).
On November 15th, 2007 at 1:38 pm, William Amos said:
Why do I wish for a jugde to when giving sentance to this morons give them an option
Either spend 10 years in jail or join the US military.
NOT! The Military only wants Real Americans.
I question their patriotism.
taylork, yes, I know.
They are using the “we support the troops” as shields from the law. And it’s working. They claim to peacably assemble - what’s peaceful in anything that they do these days?
As I stated previously they claim to support the troops we can clearly see that this isn’t the case. I just wish they had the
gumballs to say what they really mean. But hiding behind things is what they do best. I came across a bumper sticker that read “If you can’t stand behind them, stand in front of them.” Is it wrong to wish that this were actually an option?Olympia needs to call in some police with testicular fortitude to actually do the job the Olympian police won’t do. Maybe illegal alien police lol
You think the base closure commission that they had a a year or so ago took the proximity of clusters of morons into it’s report?
If there were a presidential candidate that would walk up to these fools and bunch them in the face, they would have my vote instantly.
I’ve gone to http://www.ci.olympia.wa.us/contactus.htm
and sent a disapproving, shame on you, email.
Honestly I dont think I single one would chose service in the Military. Im sure they think Jail is far too cool
This seems like a good time to do what the U.N. would do and write them a harshly worded letter telling them to stop. When they don’t, I wonder if they’ll understand the irony? Of course, if they had any gray matter between the ears, they wouldn’t be brining their children.
But don’t question their patriotism, right?
I mean, liberals are all about pacifism, peace, and dove-ish behavior…until they realize that neutrality gets no results.
And they expect us to apply the same diluted logic to our foreign affairs. What do they think will happen if we link arms and sing “Kumbaya” to the jihadists? I know…it starts with “ka” and ends with “boom.”
whiner #3 (necklace-puller” “I am so sorry that people in this world exist that…”
niiiice…
I would support them in the military, but ONLY IF, they were taking place in Operation Human Shield.
swj719AWG
Does that make them AINT’S … Americans In Name - Technically Speaking …
i think maybe “AINO’s” — Americans in Name Only…
it’s got a nice ring to it…as in…
“shut the f up you f’n AINO!”
I prefer:
Speaking Technically, Americans In Name
STAIN
The police force needs Duct Tape.
When the anti-American moonbats are detained, their irritable whinny screams should be silenced. Imagine the first video with Simon and Garfunkel “Sounds of Silence” quietly playing in the background.
“Duct Tape — priceless”
Dumb whiners! They ran toward the line being pepper sprayed! WHAAAAAA. WHAAAAAAAA. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
I wonder if they learned anything?
Can somebody explain to me how shouting at the police, “No force is necessary” or, “These are peaceful protesters” makes any sense at all? These morons were endangering themselves and others by lying down in the middle of a public thoroughfare, at night, trying to stop traffic. Besides their complete ignorance of the laws of physics, (F = ma as discussed yesterday), they also don’t seem to understand basic civics. The election is over. You have representatives who were elected by the majority of the people who turned out to vote. You don’t get your way by whining, and shouting down people in authority. You’re entitled to your opinion, but get your arse out of the street before you end up in the slammer as some bad man’s girlfriend.
It reminds me of a paperweight my first XO on my first ship had that said, “Nobody who was home studying for finals was killed at Kent State”.
Hot Air has the story with the tidbit that one witness stated that the Police through a couple of concussion grenades into the crowd….
They should use those explosives with dye packs, as used in bank-bags - and let these ass-hats walk around looking like smurfs for a week so everyone knows who they are wherever they go.
Liberals think all of this showboating and grandstanding and making these pathetic anti war actions, yes congress this means you too, are just fun and games. Unfortunately to the men and women in uniform on the front line in this war it is serious business. Serious as life and death. So whether it is movies like “Redacted” which fuel the Islamic propaganda machine, false reporting using insurgents as sources designed to take soldiers off the battlefield not with bullets but with lawyers, false accusations trumpeted around the world by your elected congress members designed to cripple the effort or simply these punks blocking shipment of equipment, incidentally designed to protect the lives of our servicemembers, they all contribute to aiding the enemy and hurting our service members.
The end result for the men and women in uniform can be fatal. For the liberals they may get a bad headline. Doesn’t sound very fair does it? I think our service members would trade a little pepper spray to the face for an IED.
I recieved a response to my email directed at Olympia…
”
Our police have done an outstanding job under very unpredictable
conditions. Nearly all the military cargo has cleared the Port as of
this morning. I’m attaching the statement I released on Sunday (which
the newspaper did not print. It’s shown as a draft because I got it
from my own Word file just now.)
Mark Foutch
Mayor of Olympia
”
Fair play, and good luck to him and his city…
This is psychologically violence, this is psychologically.. let me guess, this little punk is studying psychology at the University? The majority of these individuals are not taxpayers, and most likely if they pay taxes at the end of the year they get a big refund. Viewed only a few adults (I use that term losely)in the crowd. The mother with the child in the last video should be reported to Child Welfare Services for endangering her child.
This is anarchy, and must not be allowed. Not to mention the waste of tax payers dollars to send out the riot police to bring ‘peace’ to a ‘peaceful’ march. I doubt any of these individuals will be footing the bill. Maybe TJ Johnson can be foot the bill for insighting these people?
This just gets my blood to boiling!!
Does anyone else think most of these protesters are getting a rush out of the warlike aspects of the protest?
Dodging and risking getting hit by rubber bullets, pepper spray, and the other non-lethal measures to get them off the street is their equivalent of playing war without risking permanent damage or death. They have no clue that situations can turn ugly and stampedes and real violence could break out and actually put their lives at risk, and the lives of the small children some of them are idiotic enough to bring with them.
“Look, kiddies, mommy and daddy are going to show you an honest to goodness protest, just like they used to do back in the sixties!”
That’s why they’re not in Iraq or Afghanistan fighting the Islamofascists who’d use real bullets and bombs against them. It’s why none of them would ever have the guts to march down the street holding up a cartoon of Allah.
The last video at around time 4:16 with the female sitting down on the road in front of the truck with a very young child on her lap.
That is child abuse. If not abuse, certainly child endangerment.
Please if anyone is able to provide her personal details, I will certainly lodge a complaint with CPS. That female is clearly not responsible enough to care for a child.
Peaceful protests my ass. Obstructing traffic, intentional and reckless endangerment of life.. and the report of cementing railway tracks.. that is a possible manslaughter charge on top if a train was derailed, with a bare minimum 5 year jail sentence. And they have the audacity to accuse others of being murderers!
I am serious about the CPS report - if anyone knows that woman’s details, please advise. Thank you.
One question. Can anyone explain to me why these people haven’t been arrested? I simply don’t get it.
All of you: Please pay attention to this warning. Before you submit any further comments to this thread, stop and think. If you want to criticize these morons in Olympia, make sure you aren’t thinking, sounding, and acting like one yourself. Make sure you are not going to embarrass yourself–and this site–with irrational, unhinged suggestions and insinuations that will be used against me…and our side.
I don’t have time to single every stupid comment out and notify you of every banned comment/commenter. You will know who you are.
I repeat my comment disclaimer:
Enough said. Thank you.
Thank God I live in Texas.
jrlingreenbay,
That’d be a great idea, except the West Coast being what it is, somebody would complain that the dye packs pollute.
dmartin, you and me both. Can you imagine this kind of thing ever happening at the Ports of Corpus Christi or Houston? Not too likely.
#46 frizzbee
Mayor Foutch is an alright guy. I shook his hand and thanked him (Sunday, at the Veteran’s Day ceremony - where he was honored, BTW) for helping to stop the “Rafah-Olympia Sister City” movement… another story altogether, but it goes to character.
Mayor Foutch’s News Release
I believe he meant that as in “I appreciate the situation our law enforcement have to deal with - and they are doing a great job”
Not something that would earn a rebuke.
Strykers will help save soldiers lives. These people need to be put in Leavanworth.
This is anarchy. Pure and simple.
CPS? Don’t call them. The CPS in this state is incredibly broken. Washington would be better served by not even having a CPS (as long as we get the reduction in taxes that would go to funding it). At least then the government wouldn’t be covering up for child abusers.
It’s so bad here that some police departments have issued press releases asking people to call police to report child abuse rather than CPS.
Every few months there is a major scandal involving a child under the supervision of DSHS being tortured by their parents or foster parents. DSHS then says “Well, the caseworker didn’t see anything wrong. We’re investigating what went wrong.” Then the caseworker doesn’t get fired (or even reprimanded) and the issue is swept under the rug until the next time it happens.
The latest major incident involved a child who was stabbed repeatedly in the eyes with hypodermic needles by her foster mother.
Poor little whimpering punks these anarchists are. The one who was crying about how he was not doing anything when a “cop came out of nowhere” and next he knew he was thrown into the air. He continues to cry about how his lip was bleeding from his face hitting the ground–funny how his lip was miraculously healed by the time of his public crying jag.
The other wimp who claimed that “they” were using concussion grenades against his fellow cadre of seditious low-life’s should be glad they weren’t “fragged”!
None of these losers have ever even been in a pillow fight let alone suffered a busted lip. Concussion grenades? That kid has some serious cred problems (among other ones I’m sure).
When you don’t arrest people who are commiting a smal crime, then you get an every increasing spiral of more violent and destructive crime. Isn’t that the Guiliani message associated with the clean-up of NYC?
Olympia really needs to police this situation before someone gets hurt. The police and the judicial system need to send a strong message that protest is honored but protestors aren’t fee to do whatever they want in violation of existing laws. Anarchy is defined in terms of lawlessness. Is anarchy what Olympia really wants?
You are exactly right, these Stryker vehicles do save lives. American soldiers , Iraqi soldiers, and Iraqi civilians. This is an awesome piece of equipment. From what I’ve read in many places, the commanders love it’s flexibility, and the troops who use it love the way it bridges the gap between the Humvee and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It’s fast, quiet and armed to the teeth. The Iraqi Army is very impressed by the Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, they have named them “The Ghost Riders”.
Another great product from America’s world famous Arsenal of Democracy, AKA Military-Industrial Complex.
These vehicles are great, but more importantly the soldiers that operate them are real heroes. That’s who these idiots are protesting, whether they realize it or not.
I’m going to buy some stock in a tazer-rubber bullet-pepper spray-riot gear company. It seems to be a bull market.
Here is the website of these folks-
http://www.omjp.org/
Oh, looks like there is going to be a protest tomorrow in Sylvester park, Olympia, at 10.00 AM. Locals, take notice…
Speaking of Humvees, I ran across this image. Check it out, it’s really great:)
Concussion grenades? Really? Where’s the video? M-a-y-b-e “flash/bang” grenades, but concussion grenades? I don’t think so…had they been used, there would have been many of the protestors on the receiving end of them in hospitals, and in morgues. Concussion grenades were made to KILL, not to SCARE.
In addition, those responsible for dispensing said grenades would be in custody, and the MSM would be exclaiming the unjustified barbarity of it all.
Is there currently any applicable federal law that could be used to prosecute these seditionous cretins?
They look and sound like the Manson family. What weirdos. I long for the day when people would drive by these losers and throw water balloons at people like them. I have hope that those days will return someday fairly soon.
I just love drum circles, don’t you? It puts such a nice beat to the action. Why don’t we have drum circles?
sarc/off
What I find interesting are the striking parallels to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party:
1. Find a cause you can distort to your liking.
2. Fan the flames of hatred of other like-minded people, gather en masse, have meetings/protests, disrupt everyday life around you as much as possible, then…
3. claim to be persecuted for your beliefs if anyone speaks out against you.
4. Count on figures in positions of authority to try to appease you first and take full advantage of every inch they’re willing to give. Like, say for instance, Poland or Olympia. Claim it as your own and enforce only the rules you choose there. Once entrenched, start looking for the next nearest place you can grab.
5. If Steps 1-4 haven’t worked, resort to mindless, destructive violence. The public in general hates violence and will assume that you’ve got a righteous grievance, or are simply “misunderstood souls in need of state-ordered, publically-funded counseling”.
6. If forced by anyone with a spine to actually attend counseling, revert back to step three and howl that the others are “ganging up on you because you’re in the lead”.
7. Most of all, never admit you’re wrong, even if you’ve done something incredibly stupid like invade your ally Russia, or blockaded a port filled with troops RETURNING home from war (i.e. going home and not fighting any more).
All of the same signs are there, folks. Deal with them now, or deal with them later, but rest assured, we’ll have to deal with them all eventually, and it probably won’t be pretty.
Personally, if I were in charge of bringing the troops home one ship at a time, seeing how crazy the nutroots went in Olympia, I’d ship them ALL home through that port! I’d put so many troops on the ground there at one time that the number of Strykers would make Olympia seem like a Los Angeles freeway at rush hour. Don’t seen any green-loving nutroots protesting against SUVs and Global Warming standing out in the middle of a bunch of tired, hot, angry commuters, do ya?
I also think they need to rig “cow catchers” on the front of those trucks, start them up, and move them right out if the police won’t clear the road (as is their SWORN duty).
As far as I can recall, “freedom of speech” does not extend to roads. I don’t believe you can even gather in mass to have a protest IN A ROAD without some sort of permit from local government. If a permit is required, then there’s a law about it, and if there’s a law, then this is clear, unrefuted evidence of that law being broken.
So why again weren’t these people summarily hauled off the road by the local cops and arrested? Could someone please explain that to me?
I cannot believe the guy who asked the pro -America woman how many 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq or Afghanistan. Then said he couldn’t believe how uninformed these people are.
Hey buddy, ever heard of the Al-Qaeda/Taliban/Afghanistan connection?
This reminds be of the beginning of the anarchy of the 1960s. Had they rioters been arrested and held–not caught and released, our cities would not have burned and our laws would have been respected and enforced. Instead, we are still suffering from those communist inspired, paid insurgents.
OK, so I finally decided to watch the videos posted above. Man…I just can’t express enough how I feel, at least not on a somewhat family friendly site.
I hate to tell the…lady…video taping in the first one, but the minite you start chanting and yelling, you cease being a “non-violen observer and become just another protester. I am in agreement though, why do they always feel the need to yell out, “Don’t use violence, these are peaceful protesters”, and “The whole world is watching”? DO they honestly think that the police care? Do they honestly think that the whole world IS watching? And don’t they think the police are best to judge what constitutes violent protesting and what doesn’t?
Another question: What is it about Liberal gettogethers and protests that makes unwashed smelly long-haired hippie free-thinkers show up and turn the whole thing into a Grateful Dead Crod-esque drum circle? I swear, evcer time you get the mandatory 10-15 throw-backs standing around in a mushroom and pot indiced frenzy, pounding aimlessly away on some Peir One Imports purchased African replica drum. Is there some purpose behind that that I am unaware of? Heck, I’m even a veteran of many Dead shows and I don’t get it.
Video two was no longer working, but in video three…the woman that was telling the police how to do their job and the legalities of “using non-lethal and other…stuff…” on the protesters just killed me. You could almost hear the cops’ thoughts of, “You have got to be kidding lady, the day we listen and take job advice from the likes of you…” just classic.
Then there was the loser who was videotaping the thing, and his painful lament about how “these poor people are so uninformed”. hello Mr. Kettle, meet the pot. He went on to talk to the pretty boy about the alledged use of many, many cuncussion grenades, automatic weapons firing rubber bullets and the gratutitous use of pepper spray following the soldiers becoming nervous after reaching a road block put their by these anti-American thugs. The classic moment came when they seemed to blame the military for allegedly scaring an innocent citizen, as if the entire thing was the military’s fault and not the fact that their anti-American, traitorous actions were what was causing this fracas at the intesection.
Just classic. Always someone else’s fault, never accept responsibility for your own actions. It is their trademark.
Blocking traffic, hindering commerce, creating a public disturbance, threatening a truck driver, endangering children, failure to obey a peace officer, covering your face, the list is long and gets longer.
these are horrible, horrible people. They are deluded and delusional. My hat is off to the truck driver. I do not think i would have been able to show such restraint. I wanted to thump melons just watching the last video, so I can just imagine what that truck driver must have been thinking and wanting to do.
No sir, I have not one kind thing or word to say about these “people”. They are just horrible, horrid people that have no shame, no honor, no conscience, no brains, and not a single shred of common decency, common sense or patriotiism in the least. Shameful, shameful, shameful.
And the same is said to anyone who supports them or their actions. These people and anyone supporting them lack the basic understanding between right and wrong, good and bad, and good and evil. Period.