UPDATE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS At RNC Attacked RNC Busses, Cub Scouts, More Than 280 Arrested, Some Vandalism In Protests At GOP Convention Site - With Video
Police arrest a group of protesters along Shepard Road in St Paul.
Gateway Pundant has an update of all the activities these DOMESTIC TERRORISTS did today.
BUS ATTACK IN ST. PAUL!!… Anarchists Attack RNC Busses! (Video) …Update: Cub Scouts Attacked!
WELCOME TO MINNESOTA!
Anarchists in St. Paul attacked RNC busses today in route to the Excel Center.
The anarchists and Leftists knew when the busses would be heading to the convention and were waiting for them.
They nearly killed us!
The anarchists and antiwar nuts were protesting on top of the interstate overpasses earlier in the day.
THE LEFTISTS ALMOST KILLED US!
Later when the GOP busses started to take delegates from Minneapolis to St. Paul the anarchists started throwing sandbags and cement bags at the busses.
Unreal.
The bus I was riding was hit with cement bags that the anarchists were throwing off the overpasses down on the interstate. The anarchists missed the bus in front of us and nailed our bus with a direct hit.
The police had us slow down and then sent us under the interstate overpass when we were attacked.
There were several women and senior citizens on the bus.
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More than 200 arrested; police wield tear gas, pepper spray
Shouting “our streets, their war,” about 10,000 demonstrators — far fewer than the 50,000 some had predicted — flooded into downtown St. Paul’s narrow streets on the steamy first day of the Republican National Convention.
While block after block of marchers chanted and peacefully waved signs, the carnival atmosphere turned increasingly ugly as Monday wore on. Before the bulk of the demonstrators finished their march, rogue bands of a few hundred protesters splintered off. Some smashed windows at Macy’s and a downtown bank building, others challenged police by blocking roads.
By Monday evening, authorities said 221 people had been arrested, including 104 on felonies. Dozens were pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed. One police officer was punched in the back, another suffered from heat exhaustion and St. Paul hospitals reported nine minor injuries and several heat-related cases in emergency rooms.
Hundreds of cops, sweltering in heavy riot gear, swept in to block streets and protect delegate buses as the St. Paul police requested help from 150 National Guard troops by 3 p.m.
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman praised officers for showing restraint and said a small number of law-breaking demonstrators marred what was an otherwise peaceful day of free speech.
“Their efforts were nothing short of heroic,” Coleman said. “They did not fail. They did not take the bait.”
St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington said the trouble makers came from a half-dozen loosely organized groups totaling up to 180 people, representing a small fraction Monday’s turnout.
A cross-section of dissent
Protesters came from across the state and the country on what was expected to be the largest demonstration of a week filled with protests. They marched after a sun-drenched noontime rally on the state Capitol lawn, snaking down a route negotiated for months and circled in front of the Xcel Energy Center as delegates arrived for a session cut short by Hurricane Gustav.
Cu Nyugen, a Vietnamese native who lives in Minneapolis, brought his 12-year-old daughter, Mai, on the eve of her first day of sixth grade.
“It’s important for the younger generation to see and learn about different points of view,” Nyugen said.
Alberto Arenas, a professor at the University of Arizona, came from Tucson to let people know not all Arizonans support their senator’s presidential bid.
Bill Schuster, a Vietnam War veteran from Blaine, wanted “to do my part because I don’t like what’s going on and I don’t like us being in Iraq.”
Marie Williams, 77, of Minneapolis, carried a “Dissent is Patriotic” placard.
“I started coming to protests with Paul Wellstone and I haven’t stopped,” Williams said. “I can’t count up to 50,000, but this is a lot of people.”
Organizers’ hopes of 50,000 marchers fell short and some were disappointed by the turnout, wondering if the 90-degree heat, aggressive police tactics and President Bush’s cancellation thinned the crowd.
“I’m disappointed – this is far too few people,” said Lennie Major, a teacher from Mounds View. “We needed 10 times this many to make an impact, this will only be a blip.”
But P.J. Goodette, who came from San Jose, Calif., smiled as he waved a turquoise flag with a peace symbol and high-fived a line of Minneapolis police officers standing by their bicycles.
“I can feel it in the air,” he said. “Things are changing and I’m here because I want to be part of it.”
Escalating violence
The peaceful mood started to change after 1:30 p.m., when several groups broke off and began resisting police. At 3 p.m, about 250 people locked arms to block delegate buses near Robert Street and Kellogg Blvd.
In a standout with 100 police officers, authorities warmed them to disperse or they’d start launching tear gas. Minutes later, when the group refused to move, officers tossed in a dozen tear-gas canisters, prompting the crowd to retreat two blocks down.
Some demonstrators then attempted to line the street with obstacles, including newspaper bins, sand bags and trash cans. Witnesses said police also used concussion grenades and smoke bombs.
“Most of [the demonstrators] were pretty good,” said CarolLee Folsom , a bystander who used to work for the Ramsey County sheriff’s office. “But you don’t know what any of these people are going to do. And they warned them, so anybody that wanted to get out could have gotten out.”
Demonstrator Andrew Sigmundik, 18, disagreed and said the police were “aggressive” and went “overboard,” and that he witnessed “one guy in a wheelchair getting Maced and some other people getting hit by those police bats.
“Nobody was trying to cause destruction or violence,” he said. “The idea was to just block the streets. We were just trying to disrupt the delegation, and I think we succeeded.”
Harrington, the police chief, said the first illegal salvo happened about 11 a.m., when a Dumpster was shoved into an occupied squad car down W. 7th St.
“I’m not sure how anyone can say that’s protest,” said Harrington said.
About 2 p.m. protesters dropped bent nails into the intersection at 6th and Wacouta Sts. The group swelled to more than 200 as they turned up 4th St., tossing garbage cans and newspaper kiosks into the road.
Then a few marchers broke off and threw objects, shattering three windows in a bank building at 4th and Minnesota Sts. As sirens screaming in the distance drew closer, drowning out the shouting crowd, a masked marcher threw his bike in front of the lead squad car.
Others continued up 6th, closely pursued by more than a dozen slow-moving police cars. A few officers walked in front of the cars, clearing the barriers the marchers had thrown in the street. By 6th and Cedar, many of the marchers had moved to the sidewalk, and were beginning to disperse. A few smashed out three windows at the Macy’s store.
Many members of the group wore kerchiefs pulled up over their faces and one person jumped up and down a few times on the roof of a parked police car before breaking its windows, starting with the back.
After that, the group broke apart running in several directions. Some hid behind cars in a parking lot on that corner, until the commotion died down and then they calmly walked away.
A St. Paul police officer dragged a protester while directing pepper spray at a crowd nearby in downtown St. Paul. The scene took place prior to the start of the much bigger antiwar protest from the Capitol to the Xcel Center and back again.
TAG UM!The National Guard was called to assist with crowd control downtown.
BREAKING REPORT: Amy Goodman Democracy Now Host and two producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar also arrested.
Democracy Now host Amy Goodman was among more than 100 people reportedly detained outside the Republican National Convention here as police clashed with demonstrators on the streets of St. Paul.
LMFAO
To see the video of the Police confronting these idiots see hereBystanders said police were arresting protesters, all dressed in black with bandanas over their faces, at 6th and Wall after they tried to block streets and fired paint balls at officers.Star Tribune“As of 4 p.m., St. Paul hospitals reported six RNC-related injuries, five at Regions Hospital, all minor injuries, and one at United Hospital, though it released no details on the conditions.”
TAG! Your it!September 1, 2008
Police officers line up against protesters marching against the Republican National Convention today.
A protester smashes a window during an anti-war rally at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
I hope this idiot was arrested…
A protester is arrested by police in St. Paul, Minn., on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Amy Forliti)
Were laughing at you , not with you…
A protester smashes a window of a Macy’s store as a woman looks on during an anti-war rally at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Ah yes…. Dummycrats.
For a pictorial HERE is the link
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Thousands of protesters descended on the city hosting the Republican National Convention Monday, some smashing cars, puncturing tires and throwing bottles in a confrontations with pepper-spray wielding police who arrested at least five people.
Police said the size of the crowd shifted during the day before estimating it in the range of 8,000 to 10,000, many of whom marched peacefully. The arrests occurred in confrontations several blocks from the Xcel Energy Center where the GOP gaveled its convention to order in late afternoon. A handful of people were arrested for lighting a dumpster on fire and pushing it into a police car, said St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh.
Instead of a single coherent march that organizers had hoped for, fringe groups of anarchists and others wrought havoc along the streets between the state Capitol and the convention site. Some anarchists who had started the trash bin fire later tried to block a major intersection. Police quickly dispersed the group, then shot two tear gas canisters at the fleeing anarchists.
Pictures taken by Associated Press photographers showed officers using pepper spray on protesters who appeared to be trying to block streets.
“There are people who are committing violations of law and they’re being arrested,” Walsh said.
About 200 people from a group called Funk the War noisily staged its own separate march. Wearing black clothes, bandanas and gas masks, some of their members smashed windows of cars and stores. They tipped over newspaper boxes, pulled a big trash bin into the street, bent the rear view mirrors on a bus and flipped heavy stone garbage bins on the sidewalks.
One man who seemed to be the leader of the group carried a yellow flag with the motto “Don’t Tread on Me.” The group chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!”
Meanwhile, a group of about 100 anarchists pushed a dumpster filled with trash and threw garbage in the streets and at cars. They also took down orange detour road signs. In hot pursuit were teams of riot officers carrying batons, rifles and guns that could be used to shoot tear gas.
The day’s march was organized by a group called the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, whose leaders said they hoped for a peaceful, family-friendly march. But police were on high alert after months of preparations by a self-described anarchist group called the RNC Welcoming Committee, which wasn’t among the organizers of the march.
At a rally preceding the march, speaker after speaker called for ending the war in Iraq and more spending on domestic needs.
Peace activist Steve Clemens, 47, from Minneapolis said he was disturbed by the number of police.
“But we can’t control that,” said Clemens, who had already been arrested once — for crossing into a restricted area during a march Sunday.
Alan Rybak, a real estate agent from Lakeville, Minn., stood along the protest route carrying a sign that read “Support Our Troops.”
“I’m here to support our troops and to tell (protesters) to get a job and go home,” said Rybak, a Republican Party activist.
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“He hates these windows! Stay away from the windows!”
Actually, he hates brains and logic and being normal. He’s a fucking dick head who should be dismembered and sold as meatmeal…
September 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pmI’d so love to take my tire thumper to the heads of these vandals.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:52 pmArrest? I want them to hospitalize these terrorists.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:52 pmSomebody in MN must have a baseball bat to go deal with these punk ass bitches! Maybe a hockey stick? How ’bout a whiffle ball bat……won’t take much.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:54 pmThe problem is, the police are shooting TEAR GAS CANNISTERS. There would be less rioting, if they shot RIOTERS instead. And second offenders? WTF, they need to outfitted them with shock collars the first time they were arrested. Monkey see, monkey do. I can guarentee that if they were wired in series so that if one got it they all received it, they would soon be whistling a more harmonious melody. Bring on the dogs and water cannons, let’s show them what real rioters can take.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:58 pm“Arrest? I want them to hospitalize these terrorists”
So do I. Or morgue them would even be better…
September 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pmas homes are destroyed by nature some decide it is best to destroy private property on purpose… i just don’t get it???
September 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pmYa, that’s it, kill some stupid kid for breaking a window…
Heh, who gives a shit. Its all insured anyway, and as one of the thing I hate most in the world is insurance companies I say have at it and bust another one!
They are fucking around and breaking some shit up little civil disobedience is all good. Until they start hurting people there is no reason to be anymore of an asshole than you need to be to protect corporate property.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:23 pmThis is how the Democrats plan to win, they have a radical racists President and his wife leading the way.
Going to be a lot bumpy
You have to remember that the Democrats have to win this election or they are destroyed as a political party. These people are fighting for there lives. This is just thestart of bloodshed to come.
I hope the conservative Democrats know that the GOP will always have a place for them. We have the same values and believe America is strong.
moveon owns the the Democratic party.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pmWhy is it that the party that wants “peace” is always the people who are causing so much trouble? Stupid liberals claim Republicans have no tolerance….Lets see..who is it that causes riots and breaks shit outside of the other’s conventions? The “tolerant” liberals are always the violent protesters. Funny isn’t it? How actions speak louder than words. Too bad they are also too blind to see it.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pmPoe
Ya, that’s it, kill some stupid kid for breaking a window…
Heh, who gives a shit. Its all insured anyway, and as one of the thing I hate most in the world is insurance companies I say have at it and bust another one!
They are fucking around and breaking some shit up little civil disobedience is all good. Until they start hurting people there is no reason to be anymore of an asshole than you need to be to protect corporate property.
Unless of course it’s your store, a small Mom And Pop non corporate, and your premiums will go up because some jackass broke your window. So now you have to get plywood to cover the hole so some other little jackass doesn’t steal you blind. Yea, it’s all good huh? You need a good ass whopping.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pmDo they get Geneva Convention rights because they’re DOMESTIC terrorists?
September 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pmYea just let them do whatever they want huh, then next time when “they didn’t get the reaction they wanted” they decide to instead “use arson” to try and get a reaction.
Better to shoot them now and get it over with before some innocent civilian winds up dead by their communist actions.
You wait it’ll escalate into a real nightmare and once someones home is burnt down from one of these punks the citizens will take matters into their own hands.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm@Indy “Yea, it’s all good huh? You need a good ass whopping.”
Funny, you not the first to say that.
Boils down to the simple fact that property, particularly a fucking Macy’s store window is not worth killing, or even fucking someone up over.
@AZ Patriot
Arson would fall into that “hurting people” category I mentioned and is the point when the gloves come off, but until then, while they are just being kids playing Che’ and getting there vandalism on you should not kill them over it. Escalating your response beyond what is rated is a sure fire way to ensure that they will escalate to match. These are just college kids, not the Shining Path or the NPA.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pmHose the MF’ers down good with whatevah they’re using these days - its gotta be some good, really nasty shit.
Pop’a couple of shin’s and knee’s. Its amazing how quickly you can make a new pal - your newest, bestest and reform’d bud.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pmOh by all means, let them destroy whatever they want. We’ll just turn our cheek and let chaos reign for a couple hours. Yah sure, take a giant shit!
JACKASS! Get a clue. Political Correctness and fear of being sued has made us such pacifists. Stomp the flaming bag a shit out and get a little on ya!
September 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Poe is poo. As in shit. Go home you DailyKos freako.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pmYou condone this crap? Perhaps your head should be bashed in asshole.
Shoot to Kill!!!
September 1st, 2008 at 3:17 pmI like to think this stuff doesn’t happen in cities where a large portion of the people have assault rifles to protect their property.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pmanarchist rock band Rage Against the Machine are also in St. Paul, so expect trouble. this band just nearly caused a riot at their recent performace in Chicago. Lead singer dangerous rich boy anarchist Zach de la Rocha stirred up a riot when the band played at the RNC in Los Angeles in 2000.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:34 pmpoe…..heh,
another anti-capitalist/anti-corporatist spewing it’s nonsense.
hey poe, did you make your own computer? or wire your own internet? did you sew your own shoes together? howzabout those pants you’re wearing….did you make those with your own two hands? that’s all eeeeevil corporate shit m’boy. Get rid of it all and prove your committment to the anarchist anti-corporate utopia that you so desire you goddamned hypocrite.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:02 pmPoe is the kind of person who says bust stuff, just as long as it is not my stuff.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pmArson would fall into that “hurting people” category I mentioned and is the point when the gloves come off, but until then, while they are just being kids playing Che’ and getting there vandalism on you should not kill them over it. Escalating your response beyond what is rated is a sure fire way to ensure that they will escalate to match. These are just college kids, not the Shining Path or the NPA.
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Is Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now a college kid? I got a report she was arrested too.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pmI want riot gear. I just wanna walk around Pacific Beach in full riot gear. Riot gear looks bad ass.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:51 pmIm not for killing these dumb asses.. unless they present a threat to a life. But beating thier ass in response to destroying other peoples property (after all many corporations are “owned” by thier stockholders.. translate people) destroying property is not an acceptable act of protest. Never has been Never will be. You have the right to protest and draw attention to your grievances you do not have the right to destroy anothers property and I dont give a rats ass who owns it. And if you did so at the peril of your physical well being.. it might cause these naive turds to think twice.. and certainly they would if they remembered getting thier ass kicked the last time they engaged in such behavior. They are children (or child minded) and as such after using all other avenues of “persuasion” to get them to behave properly, pain compliance is a very acceptable option.
September 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm“A protester smashes a window of a Macy’s store as a woman looks on during an anti-war rally at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Sept. 1, 2008.”
kristallnacht 2008
September 1st, 2008 at 5:44 pmpoe is one of them watch your back
September 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pmst paul cops are some of the best
September 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pmThere is no excuse what so ever for this type of violent destructive behavior. If you have something to say .. then by all means go out and say. That is your right. BUT you do not have the right to destroy property. Yeah Yeah insurance pays for the window. But then insurance cost go up.. and then prices go up to cover that cost.. guess what the little guy joe consumer is paying for the window. You do not have the right to force your views on another by keeping them from entering a recruiting office, business or convention. Or living their lives how they see fit as long as they are not hurting anyone else. You do not have the right to force others to live by a set of morale values you choose. HOWEVER there are certain morale values all man kind must live by. The 10 commandments covers those very well. And no you don’t have to be a Christian to see the value of those. So don’t start the whole church and state crap.
These are not children. These are adults terrorizing under the cloak of protest.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:37 pmRascist cunts.
“Fuck the 27 million human beings liberated from Saddam, they are just brown skinned sand niggers, the only people that count are rich American college kids with mommy and daddies credit card in their wallet”.
Spit.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pmBeat those motherfuckers senseless. Every single one of the miscreants.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pmThis is classic! The same people who complain about political correctness and how they deserve their free speech are denying other people. It’s so hypocritical! why should anyone take them serious. they could be completely right, and no one would take them serious because they are so immature. (not saying they are right). “its ok to say and believe things, as long as its what we think”. And they sit there and try to say the right is doing that! The only thing they are doing is strengthing my belief that they are wrong. They have nothing left so they resort to shit like this. The thing is, that if the war wasnt going on, THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE, would be doing the same protest about something else…because they like the attention. afterwards, they probably talked to eachother about how “totally sweet they were” and how “they totally taught ‘the man’ a lesson they will never forget”, as they drink organic chai tea and smell eachothers farts. they should go to less fortunate countries, and then complain about how “shitty the USA is”.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pmThis is classic! The same people who complain about political correctness and how they deserve their free speech are denying other people. It’s so hypocritical! why should anyone take them serious. they could be completely right, and no one would take them serious because they are so immature. (not saying they are right). “its ok to say and believe things, as long as its what we think”. And they sit there and try to say the right is doing that! The only thing they are doing is strengthing my belief that they are wrong. They have nothing left so they resort to shit like this. The thing is, that if the war wasnt going on, THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE, would be doing the same protest about something else…because they like the attention. afterwards, they probably talked to eachother about how “totally sweet they were” and how “they totally taught ‘the man’ a lesson they will never forget”, as they drink organic chai tea and smell eachothers farts. they should go to less fortunate countries, and then complain about how “shitty the USA is”.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pmby the way. why do they wear mask unless they know what they are doing is wrong.I am pretty sure those store windows have nothing to do with the RNC, but “hey i am in college and do what i want! i am sure breaking this window will prove my point for sure!” but hey, these people are voting for Obama. REMEMBER THAT
September 1st, 2008 at 8:23 pmThese people should be treated as Terrorists. They are committing sedition with violent intent to sway political actions of a major presidential campaign. Their goal is to create a police incident, create fear, and use intimidation tactics to disrupt the political process. These people do not have the interest of the United States, the Constitution, or the the People at heart. They yearn for it’s destruction and they should be considered as such, enemies of freedom.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:12 pmBehold, the democrat base. The same ones who nominated Obama.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:21 pmI don’t want them killed…aim for the spine (para good; quad better). I want these maggots completely helpless to live out the rest of their pathetic lives.
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 amMy blood boils. Those punks better hope I never get a terminal desease. I will take them out in a fucking blaze of glory.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 amObama, Rev Wright, Ayers and Doehr, Peglar, Kerry and the chi-communist, Kennedy advising the USSR against America and Reagan, Murtha attacks Hadith Marines, Harry Reid call the war lost etc etc etc
The Democratic Party has run off decent men like Zell Miller and no longer want decent American loving citizens.
The Democrats have become the party of the Urine Bomb.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 amgotta love the open minded left!
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 amThose cops seam to be handling it like pro’s. They should take the gloves off for those throwing shit onto buses thou. They are not pitching a bottle or rock at it from the sidewalk (which is bad enough) but throwing shit onto them from overpasses, bus full of people wrecks its game fucking over.
I don’t share the blood lust most of you do over what I consider to be trivial civil disobedience shit (blocking traffic, windows, ect), probably comes from “getting some on me” a few to many times already.
And Jaybear I am not sure where you drew that conclusion from; but you are wrong. I just hate insurance companies… Passionately. Having done some work for them and seen the lengths they will go to in order to avoid paying out to people who have paid them for years pisses me of.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 amInsurance companies are just that. Companies, and you don’t make money by handing money out left and right
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am@Rob I understand that part, but there needs to be a line drawn where corporations maintain some humanity and concern for there customers and not just the bottom line.
Having seen folks whose home just burned down and they lost all there shit, or whose loved ones had passed on and the bills were piling up or who were knee deep in hospital debt get told to shove off when they had been paying all along to try to have some preparation for when the worst happens just makes me want to stab someone.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 am1st Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
[peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances].”
These law-breakers are a gang of thug punks and they absolutely should suffer consequences for their UNLAWFUL ACTIONS. Appeasing them will only encourage them in further and worse illegal actions. Is it unloving to allow someone to go out of control and continue in self and public destruction
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 amI agree Humble, I am not saying don’t arrest them, despite what some might think. Snatch em, throw em in the can, make em pay for the damages… That’s all good. But get all Gestapo and bust bones over it? Kill some kid over a window? That’s fucked up.
I just had some sand in my clit when some were all up about fucking them up and laying em down over it. I took it to literal and didn’t latch on that folks were just venting.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 amFor such a tolerant crowd, these pukes sure hate to hear the opposition.
I visited a recruitment office with my son the other day and was hit in the back of the head with a bottle (yes, a glass bottle) as we walked in.
There was a demonstration going on at the time. They stood outside chanting, “Baby killers! No More War! You won’t recruit here anymore!”. When I got hit in the head, I turned around to see a dreadlocked dumbass running toward me to throw red paint at me. I felt as though I had to defend myself, so I charged him, he threw the paint (and missed) and then was completely flabbergasted when I hit him in his mouth. My son then took over on him.
I had about ten of these pukes start hitting me with their protest signs and anything else they could get their hands on. My son took two down and was kicking them in the face, chest, and backs. I started fighting to keep from going to the ground. I never went to the ground. That, I am proud of.
About that time, I had help from about five police officers.
All said and done, I broke a nose, swelled two eyes almost shut, my son messed two of em up pretty good, and dreadlock boy was laying on the ground crying like a little bitch saying he wanted me arrested and was going to press charges.
Know what I got out of the deal? I got five police officers backing me and two recruiting sergeants patting me on the back saying they wish they could have done the same shit. See, in Florida, there is a new law that states any citizen can use whatever means necessary if they feel their life is in danger to counter the threat. No retreat anymore.
All I had to say to the officers is that I thought the dreadlock punk was attacking me with caustic substances at the time, and when I defended myself the others jumped in to attack me. The officers had witnessed the entire thing and backed me up. I love it here…
Just figured I would share MY recent experience with those who would appreciate it as much as the recruiters did. I think that two Marines (the Army and Marine recruitment centers are in the same building) were pulling pukes off of me, but they wouldn’t admit it.
The Sergeant that was talking to my son said that at one point he counted eight people hitting me. He also stated that every time I got hit, I hit the person hitting me and they would go down.
I am a former Ranger, and stand 6′2″ at 275 lb. A touch out of shape, but don’t let it fool you.
We need to fuck these people up and take everything they own, including future means of making a living. If they want to destroy other people’s property, or worse, take a human life to represent their cause, I say they aren’t worthy of living in our society. Had I had my pistol ON me and not in my truck, I am afraid that I would have shot at least two of those who attacked me. I am proud that the St. Paul police have shown as much restraint.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:39 amBy the way Poe,
I can agree to an extent, however, what’s to say that the kid throwing projectiles through a window didn’t take the chance of killing innocent people behind those windows? It takes only a glancing blow from a brick to kill someone. They were throwing street signs, bricks, etc.
I also found it humorous that the weak assed pukes that tried to roll the concrete trash receptacle could get it to do anything but lay there. Too funny. They are big and bad till it requires actually having your object of aggression fight back.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am“I just had some sand in my clit”
= too much information there.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 amBy the way Poe, I can agree with you to an extent, however who is to say that these punks throwing bricks and street sign posts through windows aren’t taking the chance of killing someone simply trying to do business in their shop?
It only takes a glancing blow with a brick to kill someone.
I say they deserve every bit of the beat down they get. Screw em.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 amSorry for the double post, but for some reason things aren’t appearing to refresh properly. I had to close the site and come back, and my first post in response to Poe didn’t appear until my second was sent.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Hardball1911 To you and your son - Job Well Done!
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 amThank you for your service and thank you for taking out the punks!
Heh Hardball, that would have been fun to watch a video of.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Nice work by you and your son.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 amYeah Hardballs, where’s the video! That would be great! Thanks for kicking some butt.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:35 amI had a knot on the back of my head from the bottle, and my eye is still rather red (actual eyeball) where one of them tried to put his thumb in my eye.
I am not proud that I let it get to that, but I didn’t start it. I did, however, see it to the end as that is what we all must do when it comes to fighting terrorists. To me, the crack babies that I fought with are no better than the islamofacists that we are fighting.
I had to get that out there and let everyone know that there are idiots everywhere, not just posting up at the RNC.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm