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Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial!(blood pressure riser)
Wittier Dlily news ^ | 3-11-03 | OXENinFLA

Posted on 03/11/2003 3:57:59 AM PST by OXENinFLA

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.

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911memorial; antiamerican; antiamericancommies; antibush; antiwarprotest; billofrights; california; commies; communists; florida; freespeech; lahabra; marxists; memorialdesecration; notapeacemovement; protestors; redmenace; riot; socialists; theredmenace; usefulidiots; vandalism
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To: Consort
In large part because the enemy now knows what to expect: police cover, token verbal resistance in the papers, and free publicity for their cause.
61 posted on 03/11/2003 5:09:24 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
Pissed off bump
62 posted on 03/11/2003 5:11:27 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (Which one will lose? Depends on what I choose or maybe which voice...I ignore.)
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To: OXENinFLA
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.

WTF?? Where did this idiot learn to be a cop -- at the police academy depicted in the movie of that name???

63 posted on 03/11/2003 5:12:21 AM PST by steve-b
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To: OXENinFLA; Beck_isright; All
e-mail sent to O'Reilly:

Mr. O'Reilly,

This needs radio and t.v. attention:

Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial
American flags burned and slashed
By Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell, Staff Writer

Antiwar Protesters Trash 9/11 Memorial

My boyfriend, a County Sheriff Officer in central New York, states that in New York State this incident would have been an arrestable offense under Section 145.00 of the New York State Penal Law (criminal mischief in the 4th degree), a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine, a year in jail, or both. He is hard pressed to believe that California Penal Law would not have a similar section for the intentional destruction of another's property, regardless of whether there was "ill-will intent." The fact remains that it was intentional destruction of property that did not belong to the protesters and is against the law in all 50 states. In fact, according to his perusal of California Penal Section 594 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=594-625c), he believes they have violated subsection 2(a). Of course, Deputy Stevens is not a California Penal Law expert, but common sense would dictate that laws exist in California which prohibit vandalism/destruction of property belonging to another.

We regularly watch your program and are happy to see that you get results on important issues which you bring to the public's attention. We realize that freedom to express oneself is important; however, we do not believe that vandalism is freedom of _expression: the protesters could have burned their own flags and/or property, not a memorial to the victims of 9/11. Please do what you can to hold the La Habra Police Department accountable for their inaction.

Sincerely,


64 posted on 03/11/2003 5:13:09 AM PST by nicmarlo (** UNDER GOD **)
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To: My Favorite Headache
You said it......... so if some pro-war citizens decided to do something in this guy's front yard, it would be free speech and not vandalism? What a moron.............
65 posted on 03/11/2003 5:14:30 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: OXENinFLA
Les Howard, a sociology professor at Whittier College, said the incident might be an indication of some confusion among people trying to stop a possible war against Iraq but uncertain how to express their sentiments. However, he said he does not condone the destruction of symbols important to those who erect them.

They asked a sociology professor to explain this???

66 posted on 03/11/2003 5:15:00 AM PST by Mo1 (RALLY FOR AMERICA - VALLEY FORGE,PA MARCH 16, 2003 1:00 PM)
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To: Mo1
They know Iraq = Good, America = Bad. They knew exactly what they were doing and what they did wasn't a half hearted gesture of confused half-assed punks. No, it was a deliberate assault on America's memory by Communist radicals who wanted to send the country a message and its pretty clear from their actions which side they're on. I don't need a sociology professor to have to explain it. What they did speaks for itself.
67 posted on 03/11/2003 5:19:22 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: OXENinFLA
I didn't realize that defacing property that doesn't belong to you was 'free speech'. And destruction of said property IS ill intent!
68 posted on 03/11/2003 5:19:38 AM PST by ET(end tyranny) (Heavenly Father, please embrace, and protect, our Pres., our troops and those of our true allies.)
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To: goldstategop
wonder if they feared an ACLU lawsuit?

These peacenicks, yes have a right to free speech but they don't have a right to destroy property .. public or private and these officers witness this and did nothing??

69 posted on 03/11/2003 5:19:45 AM PST by Mo1 (RALLY FOR AMERICA - VALLEY FORGE,PA MARCH 16, 2003 1:00 PM)
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To: twntaipan
I don't think they hate the USA, but I do think they have very little trust in, or respect for, our government.
70 posted on 03/11/2003 5:20:32 AM PST by Eowyn-of-Rohan
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To: nicmarlo
Good letter. Perhaps O'Reilly will also point out the obvious double standard.
71 posted on 03/11/2003 5:25:47 AM PST by ET(end tyranny) (Heavenly Father, please embrace, and protect, our Pres., our troops and those of our true allies.)
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To: OXENinFLA
Here's MY version of free speech.

Hope this cop understands that when I'm persuading these antiwar protesters to support the troops, I'm just exercising my First Amendment rights.

72 posted on 03/11/2003 5:29:56 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: OXENinFLA
I emailed Boortz and Rush (with the 24/7 email address)
73 posted on 03/11/2003 5:33:23 AM PST by eyespysomething (Freedom and liberty have a price. Who paid yours? Thank someone today!)
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To: OXENinFLA
"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?

74 posted on 03/11/2003 5:38:49 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Khepera
Apparently so, as long as you intend no ill-will.
75 posted on 03/11/2003 5:39:28 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Vigilanteman
... is there any doubt that the perps would be facing a long gaol sentance as a hate crime?

Absolutely. And I'll be willing to bet they'd go to JAIL, too!

76 posted on 03/11/2003 5:40:28 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Angelus Errare
Scum of the Earth "peace" protester bump.
77 posted on 03/11/2003 5:42:58 AM PST by Green Knight ("Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide..." [Osama's Theme Song])
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To: OXENinFLA
Bump to the Top -- and keep it there all day. This one needs BIG circulation.
78 posted on 03/11/2003 5:44:27 AM PST by JennysCool (Give me Liberty ... or the Saturday Evening Post)
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To: dighton
Your post clarified that this was CA, not Fla. When I was much younger, my Dad used to travel Whittier to get to his Ward Cleaver type job. California USED to be like Leave it to Beaver; seriesly. I was a Valley Girl once and still talk like one even though a Fla. transplant.
79 posted on 03/11/2003 5:45:34 AM PST by floriduh voter ("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)
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To: nicmarlo
Let's hope everyone emails these national hosts and drives the message home. The anti-war commies are not just "anti-war" they are pure, hateful, anti-American. Just like that fruitcake that was dressed up in the pink stuff on tv last night.
80 posted on 03/11/2003 5:47:41 AM PST by Beck_isright (going to the war without the french is like duck hunting without your accordian)
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