Convention protesters try to arrest Condi Rice

[WilliamPitt]

Source: The Seattle Times

Police in Tampa stopped a dozen anti-war protesters from entering an event attended by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the group said it intended to arrest her for war crimes.

The protesters from Code Pink carried handcuffs Tuesday and tried to enter a performing arts center. Rice was attending an event in conjunction with the Republican National Convention. They said they wanted to make a citizen's arrest of Rice. She was George W. Bush's National Security Adviser when the Iraq War started in 2003.

Officers told protesters to leave because they were on private property. They went back to the sidewalk and several lay down under sheets made to look like they were blood-splattered.


Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2019008516_apuscvnconventionprotestersrice.html

[annabanana]

1. And rightfully so. .

Mistress of Torture:

[AlbertCat]

6. And Nat Security advisor....

.... when we were completely paralyzed by terrorists they knew were up to something.... with box cutters....

Arrest the incompetent fool for homicidal negligence and not doing her job.

[Scuba]

2. I love those whacko ladies.

[SoapBox]

3. Oh...how sad...maybe War Criminal Condi will

run off and relax at her new golf club!

She's a disgrace.

[goclark]

8. ditto

[Solly Mack]

4. Somebody needs to arrest her.

Piece of shit.

[calimary]

5. And her "husband," too.

[Solly Mack]

7. The whole 'family'.

[Mnemosyne]

9. Go ladies! nt

[amerciti001]

10. How can you be trespassing on public property?

That Performing Arts Center is Public Property, built with public funds(i.e. taxpayers money), just like the the Times Forum where these sleaze bags are holding their convention.

We need to learn what is Public Property and what is Private Property. Go to the Park downtown, and have the police tell you that must leave because this park is private property is a "lie". Go to the Performing Arts Center downtown, it's a community project in which public funding was used to construct this center makes it a public entity, and public property.

[onenote]

11. The White House was built with public funds

That doesn't mean you can hang out wherever you want in or around the White House.

[NYC Liberal]

22. There's a difference between public property and publicly-owned property.

Try walking into a random military base sometime. Those are built with taxpayer money. They are publicly-owned, but they are not public property. Try walking into the Smithsonian after it's closed.

[Pterodactyl]

12. "Arresting" her is a pretty silly idea.

If she was guilty of war crimes, the Justice Department would already have arrested her.

[Ken Burch]

14. UH, yeah...just like they've arrested all the OTHER Bush War Crime defendants...

(did you mean to have a "sarcasm" smilie in that post?)

[Pterodactyl]

17. No. Seriously, now that Democrats control the Justice Department...

...there should be arrests if there are people truly guilty of war crimes. And not arresting them would make those in power complicit in the injustice.

[Ken Burch]

18. well yeah...there SHOULD be...

[Pterodactyl]

19. We'll just have to accept that they are not guilty.

Or accept that the current administration is also made up of criminals.

[Ken Burch]

20. Oh...I see what you did there...

...good one!...

[Pterodactyl]

21. : )

[Grave Grumbler]

13. How childish.

[Ken Burch]

16. Said the troll from the other side.

n/t.

[Kingofalldems]

23. Another gungeoneer who happens to be a big fan of repubs

Shocking.

[Ken Burch]

15. Mind you, I'm surprised no delegates threw peanuts at Condi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021220816