Posted on 08/18/2007 5:13:42 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
While other Americans in Barcelona might be hopping between tapas bars, [American Peter Gelderloos] was hanging out at a squatters' rights protest, lending support to the protesters.
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Gelderloos, 25, of Vienna, Va., says the charges are ridiculous.
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He believes that his political beliefs - he is an anarchist who sometimes dresses the part - caused police to treat him suspiciously.
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The protesters were pushing a shopping cart rigged to look like it had a cannon sticking out of it, said a Spanish police official in Barcelona who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with police policy there.
At one point Gelderloos and several other protesters started to scream "We have a bomb, we have a bomb" and then the firecracker exploded, the police official said. The official said Gelderloos was among those who set off the firecracker.
"People who did not know it was a joke could have had panic attacks," the official said.
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When police broke up the protest, Gelderloos said he did what he would normally do in the United States: follow and monitor the police to document any abuse or see if those arrested need assistance. It was then that he says a police officer asked him a question. Gelderloos responded by saying he didn't understand Spanish very well and showing the officer his passport.
The officer took the passport and walked to the police station, with Gelderloos following.
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Gelderloos' father, Duane Gelderloos, said he's worried that his son will not get a fair hearing, in part because of anti-American sentiment that is swelling across the world.
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Gelderloos' supporters in the United States organized a series of phone-call protests to the Spanish Embassy in Washington in late June, said Tariq Khan, a friend and fellow anti-war activist in northern Virginia.
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At the risk of offending hammers, dumber than a sack of em.
Bet me he worships at the Chapel of St. Rachel the Flat...
why do the smelly hippies always seem to be carrying those Jack Bauer bags?
I mean, I have one too, but mine has a sandwich, a bottle of water and a Glock 19 in it!
I used to like Los Ramblas..the statue of Columbus at the wharf.
now illegal alien Americans are blowing it up..
LOL
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
He looks like that kid from CA who became the American Taliban..
These gelded losers, father and son, are both commies. Let the Spanish have the kid.
The folks who go around calling themselves “anarchists” do not truly have any idea what real anarchy is their notion of anarchy is to engage in their hobby of being major jerks/socialists/pudding stirrers that try to incite riots .
When the local police decide to break up the party the “anarchists “ try to proclaim that the authorities are a bunch of brutes who are violating the rights of these screw ups to run riot in the street .
Real anarchy is when some socialist goof tries to throw a trash can thru the front window of a starbucks coffee house & a couple of the staff charge out the door swinging razor sharp machete’s & hack the anarchist jerk-off to death in front of his friends & then calmly go back into the coffee shop to carry on with the work at hand.
This is also known as the law of the jungle & nobody with two still active brain cells wants that.
Ping.
Humor of the Day
bump!
You are completely wrong about the character of the American Revolution.
"Anarchists" would be the very LAST thing you could characterize the American founders as.
The founders were not calling for dissolution of the rules of society.
Quite the opposite - they objected to the trampling by the King and his ministers of long-agreed rules of English society concerning representative government developed from Magna Carta through the Glorious Revolution and other principles that collectively comprised the English "constitution."
The American Revolution can be fairly called a CONSERVATIVE revolution. Maybe it is the French Revolution you are thinking of.
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