Anti-war demonstrators protest military ship unloading in Olympia

Associated Press ^ | Nov 6, 2007

[george76]

Anti-war protests have returned to the Port of Olympia with the unloading of a military ship bearing Army gear from a Stryker Brigade that recently returned to nearby Fort Lewis from Iraq.

According to an initial news release Sunday from Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, the group at first did not plan to try to block cargo from being sent from the port to the Army post ...

Late Monday, however, after the arrival of 950-foot roll-on, roll-off cargo vessel, group leaders said a series of votes and discussions resulted in a change in strategy.

"As long as the war in Iraq is going on, it's all part of the revolving door," said Andrew Yankey... "They're just shipping it in so they can ship it back out,"...

The Brittin was used to haul the gear of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), which recently completed a 15-month assignment in Iraq.

[sport]

The Stryker driver should have shifterd to a lower gear, floored the accelerator, and kept going.If the bitch was killed, so be it. There is no telling how many deaths of our, well mine anyway, troops she is , by her acts , responsible for.

[sergeantdave]

“Anti-war protests have returned to the Port of Olympia with the unloading of a military ship bearing Army gear...”

Let’s fix the lead so it’s more accurate:

America-hating Democrat protestors have returned to the Port of Olympia with the unloading of a military ship bearing Army gear...

[jazusamo]

Do they get federal funding?

I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure they do. It's got to be one of the most liberal colleges in the country and that's saying something.

[jazusamo]

This tells me all I need to about both him and them.

Your remark reminded me of a letter to the editor at The Olympian some years back.

A lesbian musician complained that people mowing their lawns on Saturday mornings drowned out the sound of birds singing and that she and her partner couldn't hear them when showering in the morning. I kid you not. LOL!

I wrote a reply to the paper but it was never printed.

[Malsua]

Oh, so basically she pulled the ole “race up to the exit in the fast lane then cut folks off and stomp on the brakes to get off” routine?

I saw an ass do that in front of a Tractor trailer once. The truck hit him and must have spun him round a dozen times. Looked straight out of the movies. No one was injured.

[FBD]

what a crock. these 40-60 leftist weasel cowards might brag that they interfered with this ship unloading, but they won’t block diddly squat, now, or ever.

That ship was unloaded without interruption, and the trucks proceeded to Ft. Lewis without incident.

Some of the lefties might have gotten arrested with their stupid signs, for trespassing, etc. , but that was the extent of their big “blockade”. Whoop-de-doo.

[KTM rider]

.......so the "peace" movement has evolved from spitting on returning heroes to standing under 40 ton cargo containers being unloaded

a very positive advancement and further proof of Darwins theory

[GOP Poet]

Yes they get federal funding. It is a state college as well. I also got Pell grants and the sort when I went there so the government helps to put many of these students through college.

Looking back I was ripped off with all my brain washing classes and arm twisting (through covert grade manipulation) of the content that was acceptable in my papers. Such as it did not fly when I was critical in a paper of the labor movement from a ownership perspective. lol. I was a business woman that owned my own business at the time and prior to attending college in my mid twenties. I said to the professor, "I thought this was my paper not yours." I learned to ingest his politics as mine if I was going to get a decent grade. This was over a decade ago. Since then I have learned I should have just handed the paper in, let him grade me down and taken his ass to court or something of the like. The emergence of Fox New Channel and the new media has changed everything for the positive for students. Now we can take our cases to the media, before we were just kinda stuck with sucking it up.

By the way in my recently completed Master's program, I asked one professor going off in class for about 45 minutes of a 2.5 hour class at how screwed up Mel Gibson's film was about Christ if the professor had seen the film. He ordered me to leave the classroom!! (Which I did not as I said this is America and I just asked one question, "Had he seen the film." I also was graded down to a B+ grade at the end of the semester for just that one question and the ensuing comment. I performed as an A student on all levels. This crap starts in the classroom many times. Our young children are brainwashed by these communist wackos all over America. But I don't have to tell any of you this. I am just venting.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - here's our report from the Sport at the Port :~) Hubby and I went down there today to make an appearance for the good guys...

Latest Olympian Coverage... Look for us in the gallery later, I think the Olympian dude filmed us. At least 12 arrested as protests move to downtown, I-5 entrance

Didn't take us long to find the action... look for the cops... :~)

Cops are lining the street... The port entrance is to the left... We just parked here awhile and watched what was going on.

Lovely members of the other side... Olympia has an eclectic mix of protesters... the black clad militant anarchist types...

And the hippies...

I sortof wonder how these two groups even get along... it makes for an interesting group dynamic. "What's our theme song... The Clash or John Lennon?"

So what would happen here is that for a long time nothing would happen, and then a convoy of empty trucks came through... these are, in part, the guys we saw at the truck stop having breakfast.

And then for awhile nothing would happen.

Eventually the corner where those protesters (above) are standing cleared out and some left, I guess to go up to block the freeway... and the rest, either by cop or by choice, moved across the street from where they are now to the opposite corner.

So we moved over there... behind the cops :~) Here's me in the truck...

We were joined by some others... The chick in this truck was really gung ho...

So instead of the protesters, we lined the exit to the port... Here's ecurbh helping to put flags up. The guy in the orange is with the Port, and thanked ecurbh and us for coming out in support.

Cop petting Gidget during a down time... :~) I love the boots. :~)

Convoys coming through...

One guy trying to sit in the street.

Cop on right keeping him out of the street by assuming a calm assertive stance. If he moves... the cop on the right just has to say Psssst! ;~)

So there's our day...Then my camera battery died! :~0 Several other supporters and lots of flags showed up... we sat through another convoy, but then had to leave. By then it was in good hands... :~)

[Hornitos]

An old 2-dimensional still photo of our 52nd President back in 2007

[george76]

Thanks for all the pictures.

the Sport at the Port :~)

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks George,,,,,and Good Show, Hair of the Dog!

In this time of Homeland Security, I'm simply amazed that a group could congregate at a port for anything. Hasn't been tried here in Hilo where the port is next to the airport but routine business is scrutinized rigorously.

We are much to tolerant of stupid in my arrogant opinion.

[freema]

BRAVO!

[Grunthor]

3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team)

My former comrades in arms.

Scouts out!

[Grunthor]

I spend a lot of time (probably too much) downtown Olympia, I love the farmers Market and a lot fo the little restaurants and even have a favorite little coffee shop over on Capital (Avenue?)

Anyways, it is really sad that these leftist types seem so pervasive in what is otherwise a really nice downtown atmosphere.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The place most Americans protest is inside a voting booth. Most of these “protesters” are probably not even registered. They usually say voting is useless because the system is corrupt. If we had any other system these “protesters” would be in a forced labor camp or a mass grave.

[Lockbar]

It should all be taken care of like that idiot up there 15 years ago who tried to block the US military supply train by laying on the tracks. He got both his legs cut off. The same should happen to these freaks. I have ZERO mercy or tolerance.

[Iron Munro]

YES!!!

Will we ever have a President and an Attorney General with the backbone to arrest these idiots and bring charges against them?

There must be accountability and a cost attached to unlawful behavior. As it is now every wingnut and dingbat in the country feels free to aid our enemies.

If action had been taken against traitors and anarchists back in the Vietnam era we wouldn't have such a problem today. But its still not too late.

[stevie_d_64]

Seems like the useful idiots have it all wrong...

You’re supposed to block the stuff on the way out...Not on the way back home...

What a bunch of dunderheads...

Someones going to get a healthy set of noogies for missing that opportunity...

Personally, canister ammunition IS useful in a variety of situations...Including this one...

[george76]