Posted on 01/28/2007 4:09:17 PM PST by RDTF
Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of thewest front steps of the United States Capitol building after police wereordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources toldThe Hill.
According to the sources, police officers were livid when theywere told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse andDeputy Chief Daniel Nichols. "They were the commanders on the scene," one source said,who requested anonymity. "It was disgusting."
After police ceded the stairs, located on the lower west frontof the Capitol, the building was locked down, the source added.
A second source who witnessed the incident said that the policehad the crowd stopped at Third Street, but were told to bring the policeline in front of the Capitol.
Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps andbegan to spray paint "anarchist symbols" and phrase such as "Ourcapitol building" and "you can’t stop us" around the area, thesource said.
Morse responded to these claims in an e-mail Sunday afternoon,explaining that the protesters were seeking confrontation with the police.
"While there were minor instances of spray painting ofpavement by a splinter group of Anarchists who were seeking a confrontationwith the police, their attempts to breach into secure areas and rush thedoors of the Capitol were thwarted," Morse said. "The graffiti waseasily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area."
He added, "It is the USCP's duty and responsibility to protectthe Capitol complex, staff and public while allowing the public to exercisetheir First Amendment rights … at the end of the day, both occurredwithout injury to protestors or officers."
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It was the national guard that fired. And they were not armed with the Colt/Mattel pop gun either.
The trial of the Chicago Seven uncovered pretty good evidence that the communist agitators were trying to provoke a massacre of their followers during the Demo Convention riots of 1968.
The Chicago cops held fire, though the media response to the mass beating of hippies was almost as bad. There is no evidence that a similar intention was being acted upon at Kent State, but it would not be unreasonable to suppose there was: An insane level of provocation was an imbedded tactic of all leftist demonstrations during that period and this was certainly in evidence just before the Guardsmen opened fire.
Why did it happen at Kent and not at Chicago two years earlier? The Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent did not have the same training or support as the Chicago cops and the local potheads were better fodder for the leftist manipulators, having been whipped into a frenzy by msm distortions of the news from Cambodia.
Looks like the DC police have the same rules of engagement that our troops in Iraq have.
The lefties were probably on welfare and had nothing better to do. Most of us here have jobs.
United States Capitol building - That's in D.C. right?
Does Gonzales get paid? I hope not since Cold-Cash Jefferson got a pass and now this? If Nifong, I mean Fitzgerald needs a real job then maybe he should look into this.
Alberto Gonzales is the Attorney U.S. General and Fitzgerald is on a political witch hunt too.
Doesn't spray paint cause global warming?
What is the chain of command above the Chief of the Capitol Police? Could the order to allow this defacement have come from the political leadership of the House or the Senate?
If we ever reach the sad point where vandalism becomes a First Amendment right, I intend on beating up the next person I see burning an American flag.
After all, I'll only be exercising my First Amendment rights too.
I know it was National Guard, but cops are commonly referenced .
Your tax dollars did not build this... It was the people who fought and strated this country. What these idiots did is a God Damned disgrace...
We're depriving a whole generation of moonbats the opportunity to really earn their counterculture street cred.
Only 63359 inches to go...
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LOL!
That should be written into the Constitution as a duty!
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Right on, kristinn.
I'm in California, but no matter, you are right.
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