They support the troops...

[bj229r]

It's just the WAR they are against---have been hearing that ad nauseum for years., but none of the following seems worth enough to make the news---an unfortunate gay kid was beaten to death several years ago in CO, and there were even MOVIES about it--a noose hangs from a tree for 15 minutes, and it's a national debate for weeks---the following crap has been goin on unabated for years, and it's nearly all under the radar--had there been a black church near any of these offices, it might have made the news:

March 2003: Antiwar zealots in Ithaca, N.Y., target a recruitment center that had been hit before with Molotov cocktails. On St. Patrick’s Day, wielding cups of their own blood, they entered a Lansing military recruitment office and splashed their blood over recruiter posters, military cutouts and the American flag. Daniel Burns, Peter De Mott, Clare Grady, and Teresa Grady were convicted in 2005 on two misdemeanor counts of trespassing and damaging federal property. All but Burns have been released from prison.

January 20, 2005: At Seattle Central Community College, Army recruiter Sgt. Jeff Due and his colleague Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington were hounded by an angry mob of 500 anti-war students. The recruiters’ table was destroyed; their handouts, torn apart. Protesters threw water bottles and newspapers at the soldiers. The far-left Students Against War had been agitating to kick the recruiters off campus. The college administration refused to punish the radicals.

Jan. 31, 2005: Recruiters in Manhattan reported that a door to their office had been beaten in. Anarchist symbols were scrawled in red paint on the building. On the same day, New York police collared a young Manhattan College junior and charged him with throwing a burning rag into an Army recruiting station and ruining the door locks with super glue.

Feb. 1, 2005: At a South Toledo, Ohio, recruitment center, unhinged protesters hurled manure all over the building. They broke windows and sprayed vulgar graffiti — “War is Sh*t” — on office property.

Mid-Feb. 2005: Twenty-year-old anti-war goon Brendan Walsh is sentenced to five years in federal prison for hurling a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Vestal, N.Y., military recruitment office in 2003.

March 2005: In East Orange, N.J., young anti-military protesters shattered the windows of an Army recruitment station and a neighboring Navy office. At City College in New York, a campus secretary protesting recruiters was charged with second-degree assault, disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration. Police also arrested students Justin Rodriguez and Nicholas Bergreen for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer.

March/April 2005: Anti-war extremists at New York’s Bronx Community College shut down several military recruitment sessions. At UC Santa Cruz, “peace” thugs drove recruiters off campus after an hour-long demonstration of shouting and window banging.

May 2005: Anti-military students swarmed the booths of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the USAF at a San Francisco State University career fair. In Wisconsin, an Air Force ROTC information day was canceled due to threats by the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Stop the War.

April 2006: UC Santa Cruz students ambushed military recruiters. Vandals at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tossed cans of red paint in front of an ROTC office and spray-painted vulgarities all over its doors. University of Minnesota students splattered red paint all over an Army recruiting station.

December 2006: Anarchists in Lawrence, Kan., crippled business at an Army/Navy recruitment center, where workers’ car tires were slashed and bomb-proof glass had to be installed.

an. 2007: Anti-war radicals laid siege to the U.S. Capitol and smashed windows at a downtown Washington recruitment center. Pittsburgh radicals shut down a recruitment station for a day, wielding signs calling recruiters “child predators.”

March 2007: Vandals broke into a Milwaukee recruitment station wielding crowbars.

July 2007: A teenager in Bremerton, Wash., was charged with a felony for slashing 42 government tires of Army recruiting vehicles to protest the Iraq war and because he “hated the military.” In Maryland, anti-recruiter vandals smashed a Rockville Air Force career center. In Lupotato peelin, Texas, Navy recruiters were the targets of vandals who keyed their cars, smashed their windows and shot at their vehicles with “with what appeared to be a high-powered pellet gun.”

August 2007: In Stamford, Conn., Francis Monaghan is arrested on charges that he twice left a fake bomb package at a military recruitment office.

September 2007: The far-left group Iraq Veterans Against the War calls on followers to commit fraud to interfere with military recruiters. Anti-war punks shut down the Times Square recruitment station.

October 2007: Code Pink defaces the Berkeley recruitment office, branding our troops as assassins.

Jan. 2008: The Code Pink/city council siege at the Berkeley recruiting center reaches a boiling point. Protesters chain themselves to the station to shut it down, and vandalize the windows with bloody handprints and signs branding recruiters “death pimps.”

Feb. 2008: Anarchists trash the recruiting station at 14th and L Streets in Washington, D.C., which has been subjected to multiple attacks.

March 2008: The bomb goes off at the Times Square recruitment station.

I had heard a little bit about San Francisco, but not any of this other stuff.....whoa
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGQ3NzA1YWE4Mjc5ZWJhOGVlNGFmZTJhNzFlMWUwMGI=&w=MA==

[zilla]

This is the hate America first crowd at their worst. As long as the media ignores these outrages they will feel emboldened to continue. So tell me Gowan are you going to defend these folks too?

[crockett]

This is the hate America first crowd at their worst. As long as the media ignores these outrages they will feel emboldened to continue. So tell me Gowan are you going to defend these folks too?

If the media doesn't cover them.. then you guys say it's a liberal conspiracy to control the news.. If the media does cover them.. then it's liberal media only showing the bad. It's just the same as the god hates studmuffins group that goes around protesting soldiers funerals. If they didn't give those guys air time then yea think they would continue doing it?

These people do these kinda things because they want the media attention. Don't give them the attention and then they will get bored and move on to something else.

[wrongwayric]

Boy i guess all those people really respect the freedom of choice we have here in the U.S.. If you want to serve then serve, if you don't then don't, it's not like we have a draft. Then again a few of those people might benefit from a little discipline that being drafted would force them to get. When do we get to firebomb the nfl recruiters, nba, nascar, and all the other recruiters? It's a job and a decision by the individual not by a mob.

[zilla]

If the media doesn't cover them.. then you guys say it's a liberal conspiracy to control the news.. If the media does cover them.. then it's liberal media only showing the bad. It's just the same as the god hates studmuffins group that goes around protesting soldiers funerals. If they didn't give those guys air time then yea think they would continue doing it?

These people do these kinda things because they want the media attention. Don't give them the attention and then they will get bored and move on to something else.

You make a good point and I conceed that there is not a media conspiracy to hide these events. What make both of these groups different is that they will continue to protest even with no media coverage, because they really think that way. The cult will contine to protest soldier funerals, because god tells them that they must. Code pink will continue to protest any use of the American military because they are certain that America is the root of all evil in the world, and they feel guilty and ashamed of being American. I suppose what disturbs me is the amount of media coverage that they recieve. The media will all hammer a subject for days, doing specials and lead stories that seem slant the issue to one side or the other. Then when the media spends 15 seconds to give the other side we are asked to accept that as balance. We were all told that there was an active plan by supporters of the war to label anyone who questioned the war as un-patriotic. The media suggested that the plan may have been a policy that was instituted by the white house. There were exposes, lead stories and news specials to support this side of the argument. But we have yet to see the same level of news coverage given to code pink or other radical anti-war groups. A week or two of in-depth reporting on the activities of the radical anti-war movement would probably serve to show people how far from main stream the movement actually is. Ignoring them and hoping that they will just go away causes them to ratchet up their level of hatred until someone takes notice. If you are suggesting that the solution is to not report when bombs are tossed at military recruiting stations in New York, I will have to disagree.  Just my opinion.

[dmf]

Boy i guess all those people really respect the freedom of choice we have here in the U.S.. If you want to serve then serve, if you don't then don't, it's not like we have a draft. Then again a few of those people might benefit from a little discipline that being drafted would force them to get. When do we get to firebomb the nfl recruiters, nba, nascar, and all the other recruiters? It's a job and a decision by the individual not by a mob.

A little discipline?

[Airhead]

This is the hate America first crowd at their worst. As long as the media ignores these outrages they will feel emboldened to continue. So tell me Gowan are you going to defend these folks too?

No, but I will- I'll defend the right to peaceful protest, rather it be at a recruitment center, abortion clinic or Mosque...and I'll also hope those who cross the line from peaceful protest to vandalism are prosecuted for it...and, from your own examples, quite a few of those who crossed the line are in prison today...as it should be.

[nirvana]

Amazing how the do that to do the people who defend their right to commit such heinous actions.  I have no problem with peaceful protests but you might as well consider protesters who do stuff like that extremists.

[Airhead]

Actually I consider most people who take the time to attend protest rallies at abortion clinics, recruiting centers or prisons to be extremist nutjobs.

Sure, Berkeley has more than its share, by far, but the other day I saw a news clip about how the treesitter protestors who have been in the trees for months are losing their resolve...it seems there's a counter protest group of very vocal students who show up to chant and taunt the tree sitters daily, and one student was even selling rocks to throw at the tree sitters....it made me chuckle, anyway.

[BlueJ1]

Boy i guess all those people really respect the freedom of choice we have here in the U.S.. If you want to serve then serve, if you don't then don't, it's not like we have a draft. Then again a few of those people might benefit from a little discipline that being drafted would force them to get. When do we get to firebomb the nfl recruiters, nba, nascar, and all the other recruiters? It's a job and a decision by the individual not by a mob.

We dont want them. I dont want to entrust my life with someone who was forced to be there.

I have no problems with protesters. Ive been called dirty things and had situations arouse because Im military. Its their opinion and their right. Violent actions I do not agree with.

[AquaShrimp]

What soldier hasn't wanted to firebomb his recruiter after his MOS was read? 

"Your going to be working with computers in the Army of tomorrow!"  translates into "Lebowski- 11b INFANTRY!"

[zilla]

What soldier hasn't wanted to firebomb his recruiter after his MOS was read? 

"Your going to be working with computers in the Army of tomorrow!"  translates into "Lebowski- 11b INFANTRY!"

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