What gives them the right???

[Linflas]

Protests Underway



WASHINGTON (AP) - Protesters chained themselves together, set tires on fire, and harassed police with false 911 calls Friday in an effort to shut down the nation's capital as financial ministers from around the world began a weekend meeting.

City police, who brought in reinforcements from as far away as Chicago and Lowell, Mass., arrested 21 demonstrators who chained themselves together in a busy downtown intersection, jamming morning commuter traffic, police Capt. Ralph McLean said.

Fire trucks were called to put out tires set ablaze on the outskirts of town, and protesters broke windows at a Citibank office and tossed smoky flares during a clash with police at another intersection. "This is not a police state, we have a right to demonstrate," the protesters chanted.

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What kind of moron ties up emergency services lines to protest? How many true emergencies encountered a busy signal because these idiots decide that this is one way to disrupt the lives of ordinary citizens that just happen to live or work in the Nations Capitol? I am sickened by what these people are doing here today and it in no way reconciles with their rights as enumerated below.

How do they reconcile these actions with this:

Amendment I

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.

 

[Red Dawn]

This is what they invented Pepper Spray for. The Police will rub it into their eyes until the finally uncuff themselves. It works well and is always good for a laugh.

 

Replace "Pepper spray" with "Capsicum"

 

[BooneRebel]

capsicum=pepper spray

 

Replace "Capsicum" with "hydrochloric acid"

 

capsicum=pepper spray

It was a joke that went over your head

Replace "Capsicum" with "hydrochloric acid"

OUCH

 

[db]

Ha, all 911 calls are traced and voices can be matched to calls even if they are made from a pay phone. Making false 911 calls is illegal and I'll be surprised if fines aren't given. A stupid way to protest.

 

[ElFenix]

burning tires. i suppose these are the same enviro-nuts that drive around in the smoke-belching VW minibus?

 

[Viper GTS]

Turn a fire hose on 'em.



Viper GTS

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
burning tires. i suppose these are the same enviro-nuts that drive around in the smoke-belching VW minibus?

Careful! I wouldn't say that with Roger around.

amish

 

[Mandrill]

Scoop up the buring tires in a front end loader and bring em to where they chained them selves. then dump. They'd set themselves free real quick

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: db
Ha, all 911 calls are traced and voices can be matched to calls even if they are made from a pay phone. Making false 911 calls is illegal and I'll be surprised if fines aren't given. A stupid way to protest.

Its a matter of scale. There are supposedly at least 20,000 of these vermin here and if even a fraction of them are engaging in tieing up the 911 system using pay phones I doubt many of them will get caught. They also have threatened to ride bicycles on major interstates to screw with traffic. I can only hope they get their wish of anarchy if this happens as people take the law into their own hands and show them the end result of Ford Excursion VS mountain bike on the beltway.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: db
Ha, all 911 calls are traced and voices can be matched to calls even if they are made from a pay phone. Making false 911 calls is illegal and I'll be surprised if fines aren't given. A stupid way to protest.

Its a matter of scale. There are supposedly at least 20,000 of these vermin here and if even a fraction of them are engaging in tieing up the 911 system using pay phones I doubt many of them will get caught. They also have threatened to ride bicycles on major interstates to screw with traffic. I can only hope they get their wish of anarchy if this happens as people take the law into their own hands and show them the end result of Ford Excursion VS mountain bike on the beltway.

That would really piss off the anti-SUV crowd

 

[ggavinmoss]

They're doing more to hurt their argument using this ridiculous form of protest.

-geoff

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Roger

capsicum=pepper spray

It was a joke that went over your head

Replace "Capsicum" with "hydrochloric acid"

OUCH

Sulfuric for the feisty ones

 

[Goosemaster]

Seriosuly, I hate these fools and what they do to the city every year they protest. Obviously there are other ways to get their message accross.


At one point I agreed with some of them.


Now I agree with the ideas but hate all of them.:|

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Seriosuly, I hate these fools and what they do to the city every year they protest. Obviously there are other ways to get their message accross.


At one point I agreed with some of them.


Now I agree with the ideas but hate all of them.:|

tru dat!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Roger

capsicum=pepper spray

It was a joke that went over your head

Replace "Capsicum" with "hydrochloric acid"

OUCH

Sulfuric for the feisty ones

i like hydroflouric myself. its a weak acid, but it'll kill you more easily than the other two named.

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Roger

capsicum=pepper spray

It was a joke that went over your head

Replace "Capsicum" with "hydrochloric acid"

OUCH

Sulfuric for the feisty ones

i like hydroflouric myself. its a weak acid, but it'll kill you more easily than the other two named.

And it goes through glasses too! What a benefit! Now there's no hiding...

 

[T2T III]

Replace "pepper spray" with "wood shampoo." There's nothing like a good beating to get someone to break the chain.

Since I'm in the D.C. area, our news has been filled with special reports since the protesting started. I have a feeling that it's going to be an interesting weekend in downtown D.C.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: wje
Replace "pepper spray" with "wood shampoo." There's nothing like a good beating to get someone to break the chain.

Since I'm in the D.C. area, our news has been filled with special reports since the protesting started. I have a feeling that it's going to be an interesting weekend in downtown D.C.

The latest I saw said they had arrested 500 of them so far. There were a bunch of them screwing with traffic on 14th street that got arrested and evidently all the Virginia State Troopers at the bridges made them rethink that idea for the morning rush hour.

 

[Shelly21]

That's not right.... a few bullets in them will make it a real emergency.......

What ever happen to non-violent protests?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I wanna see those new sound thingies become better developed. Those that use really low frequencies and can be directed. Point it at the protesters, turn it on, and it "causes abdominal discomfort" is what it says. Really makes you sh!t your pants

 

[Ime]

I agree with some of their views, but not how they are going about to express them.

The idiots should be jailed, and locked up with Bubba.

 

[DeafeningSilence]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Protests Underway

WASHINGTON (AP) - Protesters chained themselves together, set tires on fire, and harassed police with false 911 calls Friday in an effort to shut down the nation's capital as financial ministers from around the world began a weekend meeting.

They should start being real protestors and light themselves on fire. Pansies...