Posted on 01/12/2007 7:20:09 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
Nine arrested in protest of Iraq decision
By Joe Killian
Staff Writer
The nine people arrested Thursday. (Nelson Kepley/News & Record)
Nelson Kepley/News & Record
The nine people arrested Thursday. (buy photo)
GREENSBORO — Nine protesters were arrested Thursday during a demonstration downtown against President Bush's decision to increase troop levels in Iraq. One was taken to the ground with a Taser.
The rally began at around 4:30 p.m. with chanting, signs and music from a local drum corps. Drivers in cars honked their support as they passed through Elm and Market streets.
The crowd swelled from a few dozen to about 100 without incident, standing on all sides of the intersection.
But shortly before 6 p.m., a large group of protesters charged into the middle of the street, erecting a sign, refusing to move and holding up traffic. Some danced; others held banners.
Police moved in to break up the crowd, shocking Kristopher Michael Hilbert, 19 , of Raleigh, with a Taser when he refused to move.
Hilbert fell to the ground. Officers surrounded him, placed him in plastic hand restraints and put him in a squad car.
As others refused to move, they were restrained and marched to a nearby sidewalk. There they sat flanked by police until squad cars arrived for them.
Among those arrested were Liz Seymour, 57, and her daughter, Isabell Moore, 27, both of Greensboro. Seymour is an activist and writer who has contributed to The New York Times.
"I've never been arrested before," Seymour said as she stood next to her daughter in plastic hand restraints. "But I decided after a lot of soul searching that we needed to do something to show that this affects all of us. We've gotten so used to this war being a crisis situation that nothing feels like a crisis anymore."
Police identified the others arrested as Jonathan James Henderson, 23, of Greensboro; Timothy Lang Hopkins, 61, of Greensboro; John Anderson Hedlund, 20, of Greensboro; Pamela Theresa Crosson, 32, of Greensboro; Adam Henry More, 18, of Holly Springs; and Catherine Elise Lemaire-Lozielemaire, 23, of Greensboro.
All nine were charged with impeding traffic. Hilbert also was charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Various groups were represented at the protest, including the Greensboro chapter of The World Can't Wait and members of N.C. Anti-Racist Action. Many protesters said they thought the police use of a Taser was unwarranted.
"I was standing right next to (Hilbert), doing the exact same thing that he was doing, and they didn't Taser me," Seymour said. "I guess it's that the scruffy-looking kids get taken to the ground and older women don't."
Officer K.B. Johnson, who administered the Taser, said he gave warning first.
"He was resisting and I told him I would Taser him if he did not move," Johnson said. "He was resisting, and when you have a crowd situation like that, you have to start with someone."
Just as officers cleared the street, a fire engine on an emergency call came through the intersection — a sign to some that demonstrators shouldn't have blocked it.
"I'm here to protest Bush and this war," said Karina Stephens, 20, of Greensboro. "But you have to know when to stop and endangering people by standing in a street isn't going to help anyone."
Hopkins, who was among those arrested, said moving into the street was a shocking act designed to wake people to the dangers of continuing the war.
"I wanted to make a nonviolent statement that this is a state of emergency now," Hopkins said . "Things are getting worse and we have to get people to pay attention."
Liz Seymour even brought a 15 year old foster kid into this nonsense lifestyle:
"Now, faced with the prospect of becoming a 52-year-old single mother to a teenage boy and the challenge of supporting us both, I panicked. Trying to imagine how I could make it work, I found my mind turning to a collective house in Oregon where Isabell, my older daughter, had lived the summer before, and to a group of young anarchist artists and musicians in Greensboro whom I knew through both of my daughters."
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/03/09/1943255&mode=nested&tid=13
You should of put the title of that article Liz Seymour, "Inviting Anarchy Into My Home"
Did you notice that, in general, they were either old enough to be flower children or too young to think clearly yet? I suggest that the young ones go enlist. They'll be better people for it.
And you should of noted that Liz is a free lance writer whose article "Inviting Anarchy Into My Home", was published in the New York Times.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/garden/09anarchist.html?ex=1168750800&en=d247750701d3a6bb&ei=5070
Anyone else noticed how lazy neo-hippies have gotten? At least the paleo-hippies learned to play guitars and sing.
Cartman, fighting the brave fight. God bless him!
Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state.
Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as "murder" in a legalistic sense.
The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons inside city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.
LAZARUS LONG
Liz Seymour, in white, sitting beneath a collection of hitchhiking signs, began an experiment in group living at age 52. Five of her six housemates are pictured; the youngest is Skye Tull, 6. in 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/garden/09anarchist.html?ex=1168750800&en=d247750701d3a6bb&ei=5070
How can you even take these people seriously?
I bet that house is zoned single family residential which means you can't have a rooming house situation. That is exactly what you have when 7 people from 6 different families occupy a house.
More Importantly, How can the Media make the General Public take them serious.
Having separated from my husband of 28 years the day before, I opened our three-bedroom 1927 Colonial Revival house to a group of men and women less than half my age. Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/garden/09anarchist.html?ex=1168750800&en=d247750701d3a6bb&ei=5070
"Liz Seymour, in white, sitting beneath a collection of hitchhiking signs, began an experiment in group living at age 52. Five of her six housemates are pictured; the youngest is Skye Tull, 6. in 2002"
Good lord.
I'm calling my Mom to tell her I love her and she did a great job.
Did they have belly dancers, or baton twirlers?
What it is, though, is fun. It is fun to hear people laughing on the porch; it is fun to dance in the kitchen; it is fun to go out on a Wednesday evening Dumpster run. As messy as it is, to my mind it is a lot more interesting than utopia could ever be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/garden/09anarchist.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=d247750701d3a6bb&ex=1168750800
"Overnight, the home I had lived in for 12 years became a seven-person anarchist collective, run by consensus and fueled by punk music, curse-studded conversation and food scavenged from Dumpsters."
AKA a "drug den".
The Woman Under the Hitchhiking Signs, likes to go Dumpster Diving, it is her Utopia. And now she is arrested for protesting our Troops who put their lives on the line for her right to be a NUT.
"I've never been arrested before," Seymour said as she stood next to her daughter in plastic hand restraints. "But I decided after a lot of soul searching that we needed to do something to show that this affects all of us. We've gotten so used to this war being a crisis situation that nothing feels like a crisis anymore."
To use the words of the gentlelady from California, Senator Boxer, when she attacked Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, "You're not being affected, Mz. Seymour. Your child isn't being forced to fight in Iraq. Your daughter is standing right next to you. There are others who are much braver than you and your daughter, who have volunteered to pay the price for your freedom to be a stupid fool."
I just can not get over that she likes to dive in to Dumpsters for Food.
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