Posted on 05/27/2005 4:14:34 PM PDT by LNewman
An activist opposing illegal immigration who drove his van into a crowd of protesters in Garden Grove will not be charged ... prompting anger from detractors.
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Netkin was released after police watched a videotape that showed protesters surrounding the vehicle, banging on it and refusing to move, ... About 300 protesters at the scene were "trying to intimidate him and refused to let him pass," ...
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James Lafferty, director of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles, said he was among those struck by Netkin's van. He said staging protests at Gilchrist's events was necessary, even if it increased his profile.
"I'm glad there were people there saying something [Wednesday night]. We need to have this debate," said Lafferty, who said he was not injured. "We can't just stand and watch this."
Protesters said they arrived at the Garden Grove Women's Club about 6:30 p.m. after receiving an e-mail saying Gilchrist was to speak to the California Coalition for Immigration Reform ...
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The protesters blocked the entrance and tossed soda cans and cans packed with marbles at police and attendees, Handfield said. They kicked, banged and threw rocks at cars; some wore latex gloves and hoods so they wouldn't be identified by police, Handfield said. Some attendees decided not to enter the building because they feared violence.
Some of the protesters paid $5 for admission to the event and alerted protesters outside when attendees were leaving the building.
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Lafferty said the arrests were unfair.
"What's sticking in the craw of the protesters is that they would quickly let a man go without even charging him, whereas the students and protesters for much less serious matters were charged and there is no proof, as far as I can tell, that they did anything anyway," Lafferty said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Shouldn't this read: "...who allegedly drove his van..."?
"(The) LAPD's unconstitutional use of force targets everyone and anyone who dares to speak out about the injustices in our society," said James Lafferty, executive director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, in the release. "Its target is the right to dissent. Its target is constitutional government as we know it."
These people are total scum. NLG has been a Stalinist front since the 1930s, and in the current case it is obvious that many of these lowlifes came prepared to commit criminal acts with masks and gloves, cans filled with marbles to throw (that's a serious weapon), etc. As usual, the issue has nothing to do with protecting the right to 'dissent' and everything to do with stopping depraved violent lawbreakers from harming others, not to mention interfering with OUR constitutional rights.
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ANTIWAR ACTIVISTS RESPOND TO RED-BAITING
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, L.A./O.C. Chapter; Arab American Cultural Center; Danielle Babineau Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas; Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas; James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild; Rev. James Lawson, Jr.; Joe Navidad, BAYAN International/USA; Palestine American Women's Association of Southern California; Jonathan Parfrey; Save the Iraqi Children Committee; Michel Shehadeh Carol Sobel, National Lawyers Guild; Don White; Yong-bin Yuk, Mindallae.
James Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles
Only thing I can see that he did wrong was not driving back and forth a few times.
He was the first person to come to mind when I read this article.
NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD DEFENDS PROF. WARD CHURCHILL’S RIGHT TO SPEAK - Press Release
2/11/2005
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Press Release 12/2/04
Team of Activists and National Lawyers Guild Attorneys Bring City of Portland to its Knees.
The City of Portland and the Portland Police Bureau Concedes Defeat and Agrees to Pay $300,000 plus Attorney Fees and Costs to End Law Suit
18 June 2004
National Lawyers Guild Calls for
Prosecution of President Bush for Role in Torture
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NLG: The Legal Fifth Column
By Jesse Rigsby
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2003
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG, also "the Guild") embraces every anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-Israel, and "anti-imperialist" cause in vogue among the far left and declares itself "dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system." If this strikes the reader as a slight hint that the Guild’s underlying ideology is not exactly laissez-faire capitalism, that is because it is not. While the Guild is not officially communist or Marxist, its membership, leadership, past internal struggles, and adopted stances consistently point to an organization whose underlying convictions could best be described as such.
The Guild’s current organizational structure—forty-two local chapters grouped into nine regions—supports both decentralized operations on the regional level and a cohesive plan of attack on the national level. The Guild supports four national projects—the Center for Democratic Communications (CDC), the National Immigration Project, the National Police Accountability Project, and the Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice—while twenty-one committees provide the Guild in-depth coverage of specific issues, including the death penalty, racism, sexism, Colombia, Cuba, the Middle East, immigration, illicit drugs, military law, prison law, LGBT ("lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender") affairs, "mass defense," labor and employment, and international affairs.
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The National Lawyers Guild was founded during the Great Depression as a pro-New Deal, progressive alternative to the segregated and comparatively conservative American Bar Association (ABA). Although many have alleged that the Communist International (Comintern) spearheaded the Guild’s creation, it is probably mistaken to attribute a sinister purpose to the Guild’s earliest existence. There were elements within the early Guild that were dedicated communist revolutionaries, without a doubt, but these were by no means the only actors within the fledgling organization: future Supreme Court Justices, New Deal supporters, civil libertarians, and other liberals were among its earliest members.
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The Guild’s politics aroused the suspicions of many, including the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which issued its pithily entitled "Report on the National Lawyers Guild: Legal Bulwark of the Communist Party" in 1950. The report noted, among other things, that the Guild consistently opposed anti-communist legislation, and it matter-of-factly accused the Guild of attacking "the Federal Bureau of Investigation [as] part of an overall Communist strategy aimed at weakening our nation’s defenses against the international Communist conspiracy." [2] The report recommended that Guild members be barred from federal employment, and that the ABA consider whether it should permit its members to belong to the Guild in light of the organization’s "subversive" character.
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As the 1960s began, the Guild began to focus much of its efforts on fighting for civil rights for black Americans. Part of the reason for the Guild’s newfound emphasis was pure opportunism: a means of acquiring new membership, both black and white (interestingly, one of the Guild’s black members was elected to Congress in 1964: John Conyers, one of the more liberal Representatives currently serving in the House). The Guild defended rioters and others involved in civil unrest as the 1960s progressed, and "helped" the U.S. war effort in Vietnam by encouraging young men to become draft evaders and then defending them. Guild lawyers were active in defending such "movement" participants as "demonstrators" arrested during the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots and members of the militant Black Panther Party in their many run-ins with law enforcement.
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Prominent Guild member and Rutgers University School of Law Professor Arthur Kinoy argued that the role of the radical lawyer was to facilitate the coming anti-capitalist revolution by weakening the law’s ability to function effectively against law-breaking radicals.
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Guild members represented such "notables" as a prisoner charged with murdering a guard during the 1971 Attica prison uprising as well as terrorists belonging to the Weather Underground, a group that employed the anti-personnel bomb-making talents—or lack thereof—of prominent Guild member Leonard Boudin’s daughter Kathy, who received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks robbery-murders.
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The Guild increasingly promoted "liberation" (i.e. Marxist) movements or groups overseas in the 1970s, including the Palestine Liberation Organization (which the Guild recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people"), the Viet Cong, the African National Congress, pro-Soviet Angolan and Mozambican factions, the Puerto Rican FALN, and the Philippine New People’s Army, "the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines." The Guild also launched an effort to end the U.S. embargo on communist Cuba, a longtime friend of the organization.
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so this is SWARM in action....
where are the rooftop snipers?
The more these Communists and anarchists take the side of the open borders elite, the more support there will be among the patriotic majority of Americans for securing the border.
I thought assaulting a Police Officer was a felony?
STRATEGY: Stand on the brake and floor the gas.
Make a helluva lotta smoke and noise and gets lackadaisical cops off their rusty-dusty butts.
The man said that at least half a dozen LEO's were just standing around watching while his van got mobbed by acrimonious thugs. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on every last one of 'em; cooling their jets while crime is taking place right before their eyes.
If they won't protect and serve, T'ellwiddem!
And those MECHA thugs don't know it, but they're glad it wasn't me driving; I'd have slapped it in "B" for "Boogie" and floored it.
"Your Honor, as the mob was tearing up my van, I began to be in fear for my very life and took immediate action to defend myself by fleeing the scene."
Right. Well, I guess it IS if you're a citizen.
What got me was this paragraph: "The protesters blocked the entrance and tossed soda cans and cans packed with marbles at police and attendees, Handfield said. They kicked, banged and threw rocks at cars; some wore latex gloves and hoods so they wouldn't be identified by police, Handfield said. Some attendees decided not to enter the building because they feared violence."
Followed by this asinine comment:
""What's sticking in the craw of the protesters is that they would quickly let a man go without even charging him, whereas the students and protesters for much less serious matters were charged ..."
Followed further by the Laughable Lafferty's claim that the"arrests were unfair."
"He said staging protests at Gilchrist's events was necessary, even if it increased his profile."
Would imply that he organized the "melee." I think he should be held liable for the violence and the property damage.
I suppose the next step is for these losers to claim they were abused in jail.
Social war comes ever closer. Now mobs are forming in an attempt to prevent any action against the influx of aliens.
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LIBERALS big ass truck or bulldozer get the hell out of its way.
For later.
BTTT
I agree, he was mild.
Thank you very much for the info.
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