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Antiwar Protesters Trash 9/11 Memorial
The Whittierdailynews ^ | 3-11-03 | Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell

Posted on 03/11/2003 7:29:52 AM PST by BIOMAN

Don't know if this was postested already, but..........


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; antiwar; lahabra; memorialdesecration; protest
Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial American flags burned and slashed By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell, Staff Writer

LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since.

However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.

1 posted on 03/11/2003 7:29:52 AM PST by BIOMAN
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To: BIOMAN
Been posted already. Time for Admin to lock this thread!
2 posted on 03/11/2003 7:31:12 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: BIOMAN
Here.
3 posted on 03/11/2003 7:32:57 AM PST by dighton
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To: BIOMAN
I wish I would of been there. Talk about opening up a can of whoop-ass on them. RRRRRRRRRRRRR.....
4 posted on 03/11/2003 7:33:43 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: goldstategop
Bull sh*t! This kind of response to vandalism by law enforcement officials cannot get too much coverage.

Those who created the memorial were excercising their right of free speech-the mindless, lawless and remorseless idiots who destroyed it were committing a crime.
5 posted on 03/11/2003 8:12:35 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Improve New York City-turn the UN site into a toxic waste dump.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Can we say...deport!!! Deport these bastards!!!!
6 posted on 03/11/2003 8:19:19 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (Liberate Iraq! Lets Roll!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Can we say...deport!!! Deport these bastards!!!!

You better start voting outside of this "Two-Party Cartel" if you want YOUR protective rights. I will NEVER happen under the republicrates.

7 posted on 03/11/2003 11:35:07 AM PST by Digger
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To: BIOMAN

What Every FReeper Needs to Know - The Enemy Within - (A.N.S.W.E.R.) Plans Mass Sabotage

8 posted on 03/11/2003 8:07:54 PM PST by Happy2BMe (HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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