19 protesters arrested for trespassing in Bangor

Bangor Daily News ^ | 3/21/03 | By Tom Groening

[metesky]

Logic is not the long suit of these folks. Hehehe...

[wbill]

Maine ain't the same as it used to be..... I got out about 8 years ago. The libs from Mass are buying the state back, one house lot at a time.

It depressed me to see the locals - particularly the ones that I grew up with - attempt to hang on to their way of life amid the influx of granola-chewing, pot-smoking, 'back-to-the-land' liberals that want to drive out all jobs from Maine to keep it 'pristine'. When 'the mill' (doesn't matter which one...) is the only business in town and it shuts down, there's not much in the way of work. Maine used to have an excellent industrial base - shoes, textiles, wood-products (Forster was the only toothpick mill in the country), and believe it or not, eggs. (DeCoster Egg Farms was a huge company). Now, they're all gone thanks to NAFTA and the incredibly hostile business climate that's fomented in Maine by liberals.

Visited with a couple of friends from back home last month. My wife commented on how industrious they were - my friends works two jobs and dives for scallops to supplement his income. His wife works full time as well. My response was that they weren't industrious by choice.....in Maine, that's known as 'just gettin by'.

Was nice to hear the term 'Granolas' though. Been awhile since I've heard that one.

[Grampa Dave]

It would be really interesting if any of these traitors are teachers or getting some type of government pay check.

[armymarinemom]

They look like graduates of the lower B eyesore crowd at BHS.

[brooklin]

I don't go to Bar Harbor at all. The traffic in the summer is the pits. They all get back to nature with 2 million of their closest friends.

[Morrigan]

Another good term we use up here is "crunchies." A variation on the "granola" name.

There were a bunch of moron protesters last night in Lewiston. They sat down in the middle of the Longley Bridge during rush hour and blocked traffic. The police showed up and arrested some people. I got home right after the protest started, thank God. Otherwise I would probably be in jail right now too, for beating up a protestor that wouldn't get out of my way so I could get home!

[Madame Dufarge]

In a written statement, Collins thanked the protesters for voicing their objections.

But she (and Snowe) won't respond to any of my letters.

Maybe I should use the same tactics.

Nah, doesn't matter - neither of them gets my vote ever again anyway.

The morons were back at the post office today, making fools out of themselves again.

[metesky]

Tomorrow will be our turn when we show 'em what the majority of people really think.

[metesky]

The bride and I are old Cape Codders, so when compared to being stuck in the Hyannis rotary for hours on end, Bar Harbor traffic is a minor irritant.
;O)

[metesky]

Maybe if you chained yourself to your computer and held your breath Collins and Olympia! would pay more attention to you.

[brooklin]

I worked one fall at a boatyard on cape cod. It was beautiful back then. I went back a number of years later and it was just "developed". I remember the rotary at Hyannis, but it was more fun watching the people at the rotary at Buzzards Bay coming on to the cape on a friday night.

[ozone1]

There were about 20 at the Augusta West Side rotary last night, pathetic was the look. Red flag, same signs they have used for 20 years. I called one of them a useful idiot and handed him a human shield application. Was gonna stop and freep them but it wasn't worth it.

[metesky]

but it was more fun watching the people at the rotary at Buzzards Bay coming on to the cape on a friday night.

Funny, but even now that I'm old and tired, I somehow find better things to do on Friday night than watch the traffic.

This is better, isn't it?

Isn't it?

[wbill]

MMMMmmmm. "Crunchy". Another term I haven't heard since I graduated from UMaine.

I decribed one of my wife's friends as 'crunchy' and had to explain it to everyone down here. Haven't used it since.

[Uncle Jaque]

Wouldn't it be interesting to see what happened if a group of "Pro-Life" Demonstrators pulled the same stunt?

Would they have demanded and recieved a special audience with Senator Snowe while Police and Emergency Services personel stood around collecting overtime?

Or would they have been summarily beaten to a pulp while media cameras were all shut down for routine maintainence, locks cut with that LUCAS tool (or similar extrication system), and dragged away to the hoosegow. And do you really think that they would have gotten out on $40 bucks bail, or have their cases suspended or dropped as I have little doubt the Peaceniks' will be?

Any "Pro-Life" activists around Bangor want to experiment?

I will respect your wisdom, however, if you choose not to.

Don't these Usefull Idiots know that the target of their sit-in is essentially one of their own? It's almost laughable!

"Patriots for Peace"... yaaaah; shuuuure!

More like "Traitors for Klinton", wouldn't you say?

Don't these phony peace-freaks want to volunteer as humane sheilds for their Uncle Saddamn? PulEEEEEase!?

[Uncle Jaque]

Re.: " I would probably be in jail right now too, for beating up a protestor that wouldn't get out of my way so I could get home!

Oh, you wouldn't have to "beat up" on them to get yourself a long ride to a short place, Amigo!

Did you hear the caller on Howie CARR yesterday Afternoon?
He was a Selectman in the Town - up around Bath, I think - and he barely bumped one of the thugs who kept jumping in front of his vehicle as he tried to escape, having been intimidated by one of them for getting out to talk to them.

The peacefreaks went right down to the Sheriff's Office to swear out an assault complaint, and the Selectman is now facing FELONY charges that could, and if the Democrats and "crunchies" get their way as they often do here in Maine, land him 5 years in a cage, and strip away his Constitutional firearms rights for LIFE!

Assuming that civil litigation a la ACLU is soon to follow (a safe assumption, don't you think?) he may very well find himself homeless, carless, jobless, destitute and heavily indebted when (and if) he eventually gets out of jail.

About his only hope might come from the "Freedom & Justice Institute" or some such Conservative American Counter-ACLU legal service organization. Or so we can hope.

Of course had one of these peace thugs whupped the snot out of this poor guy and totaled his vehicle with baseball bats and 2X4"s (have you ever noticed a lot of "protest" signs tacked to 2-bys?) they would have been out on $40 bail and partying with their Komrades before their victim cleared the ER, gone back to Providence or wherever they hail from, and vanished.

I would be surprised, frankly, if a warrant was ever put out for their failure to appear for arraignment, such an oversight probably arranged courtesy of Democrat Politicians /"D" County Attorneys, State Atty. General (D) and the likes of ACLU.

What do you want to bet that even the bail would be covered by ANSWER or some other Stalinist support group? Maybe even the bar tab for the party and the bus ticket back to oblivion.

The "Justice" system in these socialist enclaves is generally stacked all in favor of these ANSWER activist types, and don't they ever know it!

So, i guess, if you are going to mess with them (or even attempt to defend yourself in a confrontation with them), try to get your money's worth in while you can. It's going to be expensive. Real expensive.