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If the authorities do not have the testicular fortitude to bill the perpetrators, then the expense rightly falls with the local government – it is their choice, and the taxpayers there can either absorb the expense or get tough on these nitwits.

In no way, shape or form, should the expenses be borne by the Port. That is akin to having the police arrive at your home to arrest someone who just broke into your house and murdered a family member, billing you for their expenses in nabbing the culprit. That is called adding insult to injury.

No different than the trash collection costs after the Christmas parade, or the 4th of July fireworks display.

Wrong!

Many of the protesters are students at Evergreen State College, come from families in the outlying areas of Seattle and Tacoma… their parents own houses. If the port authority is hit with the bill for this they should sue the individuals that can be identified.

In an interview later, he said the complaints mostly have to do with police tactics, including why the city used pepper spray on protesters.

What, he would have prefered tazers and billy-clubs?

I know I would have…

Councilman TJ Johnson, who participated in the protests

ROFL. So the councilman participates in this, runs up the charges and then after the fact decides to bill someone else. The voters of this area are the ones who elect these people and they are the ones who should foot the bill.

I would be willing to bet that once these “people” start having to foot the bill for all the damage and all the man power that they force these municipalities to supply for their seditious love-ins, they will either become a great deal more infrequent, or at the very least, a great deal less violent and less prone to breakage, burning and vandalism. Man, I would love to see this happen and for the life of me now that it has been brought up, can;t understand why it has not been done in the past, especially in Seattle and Sacramento and instead the tax payors had to foot the bill for their violence and stupidity and “First Ammendment Rights”

Political “philosophy” (Can liberalism actually be considered a philosophy? There does not seem to be any real search for any truth involved) be damned, these people are actively destroying supply lines.

There is no free speech violation involved. They can rant and rave and drop their babies on their heads all they want from the side of the road. Block the movement of military equipment to or from a war zone and go to jail.

NOW, if only someone could give G W B the cojones to actually do this!
Holding breath………….turning a pretty shade of blue…………..passing out…………………………………………………………………….

There is another entity that fits all of the above conditions. It’s got infrastructure, controllable access, and service vulnerabilities, among other things. Best of all, it already subsists on the public tit.

I speak of the Evergreen State College, whose degree of involvement is exceeded only by that of TJ Johnson.

1)Many if not most of the protestors attend(ed) there.
2)Campus organizations were heavily involved in the protests.
3)Teaching staff assisted in planning the festivities.

The costs could be added to the already exorbitant tuition paid by the young termites who attend this institution, illustrating the relationship between freedom of speech, civil disobedience, and Responsibility.

Won’t happen.