Posted on 08/29/2010 4:48:14 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.
The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
A man in a Ford-150 pickup truck drove by, extended his arm and sprayed with a large can, police said. His vehicle was stopped a few minutes later.
"Initial indications are he was probably targeting the Westboro Baptist Church" protesters, said officer Michael Pecha, a spokesman for Omaha police.
George Vogel, 62, who lives just north of Omaha, was booked for 16 counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of felony assault on a police officer for the pepper-spray exposure, police said. Vogel also faces one count of child neglect because his child was in the truck, Pecha told CNN.
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jury nullification
Yup, an informed jury would take care of this.
(Snicker)
I would love to be on this jury.
Westboro Baptist Church...
Matt 7
A Tree and Its Fruit
15”Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
16”You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
17”So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18”A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.
19”Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20”So then, you will know them by their fruits.
21”Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
22”Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
23”And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’
I wish I had sprayed them but my truck’s broken.
They’ll probably offer him a deal he can’t refuse, so they can avoid embarrassing themselves in front of a jury.
If black racists can have have it for OJ, then Patriots can have it for other Patriots.
The way things are going, it is becoming Patriotic to disobey the...quote....’laws’....unquote.
Were I on the jury I’d refuse to convict.
I doubt it. Pretty much every member of that cult is a blood-sucking lawyer fully trained in the litigious art. The poor guy will lose his house - literally, to the cult.
A hero. Pepper spray is a good deterrent to criminals and those protesters from that “church” are criminals.
I forgot about that. You are right. I saw these creeps in Hoboken NJ one time, trying to incite violence from some Jewish counter-demonstrators in front of a synagogue. It was clear they were fishing for legal incidents. Wow, I feel sorry for the poor perp. He shouldn’t have done it. He gained nothing and gave these evil snakes exactly what they want.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime
that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
—Ayn Rand
“....”You will know them by their fruits.....”
Those Westboro morons are fruits alright!
The ‘right’ way to do this might be to get a can of the BEAR DETERRENT (larger can) and use an old fashioned ‘church key’ to poke a hole in the bottom of the can. You hold your thumb over the hole til ready, then discretely drop it in the crowd.
Haven’t tried it of course, but we used to do it with shaving cream cans in the dorm. — get the can(s) ready, knock on a door, door opens, toss the cans in, hold door shut. ;-) good clean fun.
i think funeral protests are best reserved for the west bank and gaza.
“I would love to be on this jury.” Me, too. I’d even drop my 2nd Amendment “We are legion” jury pool speech for the opportunity.
Did the little boy forget to hold his breath?
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