Police in Riot Gear Fire on (antiBush)Crowd (Use pepper)

[doxieone]

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1097821147133260.xml&storylist=orlocal

Police in riot gear fire on crowd with balls loaded with pepper
10/14/2004, 10:31 p.m. PT
By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) — Police in riot gear fired paintballs filled with cayenne pepper Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance.


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[hang a left]

1. Jeezus.

snip>
Witnesses said Bush supporters were on one side of California Street chanting "Four more years," and supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry were on the other chanting "Three more weeks." Police began moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn, where the president was to arrive for a dinner and to spend the night following his speech.

"We were here to protest Bush and show our support for Kerry," said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk from Ashland. "Nobody was being violent. We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law."

Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter.

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[progressivebydesign]

29. Were the Bush SUPPORTERS moved away? n/t

[UpInArms]

2. I want my country back NOW!

from your link:

Richard Swaney, 65, of Central Point, said had joined in a peaceful protest outside the Jackson County fairgrounds where Bush spoke, and then went to Jacksonville to join the protest there.

He said he was walking with the crowd away from the inn when he was hit in the back with three separate bursts, one of which knocked him down. He felt a stinging sensation he thought was rubber bullets and smelled pepper.

"I don't think I moved fast enough," said Swaney. "I can't believe this happens in the United States. It was very peaceful. I think this is the way tyranny begins."

:argh::nuke::grr:

[bushisanidiot]

4. This is how "insurgency" starts. The people of the united states will NOT

tolerate this type of behavior to continue. The president and the gorverment work FOR the people.. they are NOT in charge OF the people.

The repuke party will fall.. and hard. The funny thing is, it will be a huge shock to them when they find themselves standing alone in a very small minority.

[ezekiel333]

22. Kick

I'm so pissed I can't even find the words to express my outrage right now.

[Catfight]

24. Me too! 17 days can't come fast enough, end fascism NOW!

[underpants]

3. Richard Swaney, 65..."I think this is the way tyranny begins"

Sounds like a radical to me. :eyes:

[htuttle]

7. There's an old saying....

Nothing radicalizes a person like a billy club upside the head.

Being hit with rubber bullets has a very similar effect.

[sniffa]

9. just curious

what's gonna happen the day that the peopLe fight back?

[ilovenicepeople]

43. I guess when the people fight back

We can call it a civil war,without fear of false advertising.To quote Georgie boy "FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH!!" "GO FREEDOM!"

[Blue Gardener]

5. This is horrible

This is what our country has come to?

[jayfish]

6. Is It Time To Start...

shooting back yet?

Jay

[TahitiNut]

21. That was December 12, 2000

How soon we forget.

[Ezlivin]

27. Yes, we need to shoot back, so everyone should come armed...

...with a video camera.

Violence begets violence. But seeing police abuse on the "TV screen" can energize a much wider swatch of people.

See Cop Watch for more information on how this works.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. I doubt seriously that ANYONE pushed the police as the....

...Jacksonville City Administrator Paul Wyntergreen stated.

This is very wrong.

[MyDogSpot]

14. Police are supposed to be PEACE officers

not trigger happy thugs.

[tinanator]

25. they LIE like nobody else

When I went to NYC that was what I saw repeatedly. Police spokesfucks telling lies about peaceful and cooperative protestors that were arrested summarily, without warning or just cause. It is incumbent upon witnesses to speak the facts and most importantly to publicly label the liars by name. Direct PUBLIC confrontation of the liars is absolutely critical, otherwise they win.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Phone number for Jacksonville Chief of Police....

<http://www.usacops.com/or/p97530/>

Jacksonville Police Department
Chief of Police
110 E Main St
Jacksonville, Oregon 97530
[phone]

[Cerridwen]

11. Kick, kick, kick, dammit! n/t

[ezekiel333]

53. Kick

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. Phone number for Jacksonville, OR, City Hall....

<http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&q=government&near=Jacksonville,+OR+97530&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=42254894,-123028097,5009556318217047433>


Jacksonville City of: City Hall
[phone]
110 E Main St
Jacksonville, OR 97530

...ask for Jacksonville City Administrator Paul Wyntergreen.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

13. Where are all of the DU activists now?? Where's the outrage??....

Are we all just going to sit on our thumbs and let police departments around the country get away with this kind of fascist crap???

[schrodinger_I]

15. Eventually people will start fighting back

That will be very interesting indeed.

[livinbella]

42. Maybe sooner than we think

[qanda]

16. This is outrageous!

I just followed a link in GD to this thread or I wouldn't have known about it. Absolutely terrible.

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. If you'll spring for airfare,

I'll be on a plane to Oregon today. 1) Oregon is a beautiful state. I've visited before and 2) that is complete and utter bullshit.

People get ready! If this evil regime is "elected" again, I fear for our country.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. BUSH YOU ARE THE WORST FUCKING PRESIDENT EVER!!!!

I fucking hate what he has done to this country!

[Wind Dancer]

19. This sounds like more of the same

type bullying by police that happened in New York during the convention. We need to bombard with letters and phonecalls immediately, everytime this shit happens we have to respond. I want my country back.

[Jacobin]

20. Fascist Pricks

Fucking StormTroopers.

[soup]

26. Civil Liberties?

Teachers' T-shirts bring Bush speech ouster

From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:24 PM
Reference Code: PR-18712

October 14 - MEDFORD – President Bush taught three Oregon schoolteachers a new lesson in irony – or tragedy – Thursday night when his campaign removed them from a Bush speech and threatened them with arrest simply for wearing t-shirts that said “Protect Our Civil Liberties,” the Democratic Party of Oregon reported.

The women were ticketed to the event, admitted into the event, and were then approached by event officials before the president’s speech. They were asked to leave and to turn over their tickets – two of the three tickets were seized, but the third was saved when one of the teachers put it underneath an article of clothing.

>snip<

>>>The AP reported:

Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Protect our civil liberties." All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford.

The women said they did not intend to protest. "I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president," said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.

“We chose this phrase specifically because we didn't think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene," said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher.

Thursday’s event in Oregon sets a new bar for a Bush/Cheney campaign that has taken extraordinary measures to screen the opinions of those who attend Bush and Cheney speeches. For months, the Bush/Cheney campaign has limited event access to those willing to volunteer in Bush/Cheney campaign offices. In recent weeks, the Bush/Cheney campaign has gone so far as to have those who voice dissenting viewpoints at their events arrested and charged as criminals.<<<
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D18712.htm

[progressivebydesign]

31. T-Shirts are a threat??

So.. how many people have been thrown out of Bush events for wearing "unacceptable" t-shirts??

I just can't get my head around the fact that Bush shows a 4 point LEAD this morning in the polls! WTF are people thinking???

[soup]

32. Apparently, Civil Liberties are a threat -

Both inside the event and out.

I'm with you, Caliphoto. I just don't get it.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

50. I don't think the polls

are real or honest or ethical. If you control the information you could control the agneda and/or the electorate. If you think about it, polls are really kind of dangerous. If a person bases their choice on the polls we are in real trouble.......
:shrug:

[FightingIrish]

35. This is what the "obscene" shirts looked like

[arikara]

45. Whoa...

Those are some pretty scary looking insurgents!!!

[study_war_no_more]

47. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I recommend Che t shirts from now on

[Zak]

54. Obscene?

I think the one in the glasses is wearing a suicide bombers belt under her t-shirt./sarcasm

[BiggJawn]

23. "How was your day, Dear?"

"Oh, pretty good, Hun...Pepper-balled 'bout a thousand of them Commie Liberal faggot PERPS who were protestin' agin the President (geez, louise, some people got NO respect!). Gotta keep that shit in line, y'know, we at WAHR! Gittme a beer, and when's dinner gonna be ready? you KNOW I've told you about that before! where's the remote?"

I don't know why I get upset over examples of our "public servants" acting like the private army of the Rich and Powerful. It's ALWAYS been that way. Couldn't get a response to a "shots fired" call at 21st and Meridian, but they go rattle doorknobs in William's Creek....

[depakid]

28. This is very disturbing

Southern Oregon is not the kind of place where one expects this. Portland, Eugene, yes. The Rogue Valley? That's news- and I fear, there's more to come.

[Rose Siding]

30. If BushCo was there, the nat'l media MUST have been there

They are derelict!

"I think this is the way tyranny begins" Sing it, Swaney!

[CottonBear]

33. The Revolution starts now! n/t

[KayLaw]

36. Patriot Act

I don't see how there can be a revolution until " DU'ers " and " Freepers " come together on this sort of thing. This is every freedom-loving person is against - or should be.

[maxsolomon]

37. well conservatives only love THEIR freedom

not anyone else's.

so don't hold your breath. i bet they're applauding both these travesties.

[MADem]

58. That is a very prescient statement

Unfortunately, what they don't realize is that without US, they're NEXT. It's like Berlin in the 30's.

[TolstoyAndy]

57. I agree KayLaw

... there's not so much that divides us from Freepers as the elitist media likes to pretend. We're all losing our freedom, the difference seems to be they like losing it.

Mostly they're just boring there, But they do have some nice pix of anti-Bushistas at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246026/posts
(and I quote)
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keywords to search this thread? DIRTYHIPPIES; PEPPER

"Gives me that warm fuzzy feeling when hippies get clobbered..........

"Whack-a-Hippie" is nearly as fun as "Whack-a-Troll"!

[Cerridwen]

34. kicking again....stay on top!

[choicevoice]

38. This song comes to mind....

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down


I hope we won't be singing Crosby Stills Nash and Young's, "Four Dead in Ohio" next......

[Cerridwen]

51. I almost always have images of Kent State running through my head

when I read these types of things.

Even more so these days with the Patriot Act and the newest regime of terror we have occupying the WH.

Scares the hell out of me before it pisses me off so bad I want to chew nails.




:mad:

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. "For What It's Worth"

Great song.

I always say: "Step out of line, Ashcroft come and take you away."

[Bread and Circus]

39. I hear that the protesters fought back by squirting heinz catchup...

Food Fight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

40. "Four Dead in Ohio"....i will never forget!

[annabanana]

41. "tin soldier's and Ashcroft comin'"...............................

:kick:

[Must_B_Free]

44. Cayenne pepper? Where's Justin Wilson when you need him?

http://www.justinwilson.com/

[choicevoice]

56. Justin Wilson would have........

caught dose cayenne pepper balls and trow dem in a pot and made some Ashcroft gumbo.:silly:

[mongo]

46. Gee... I didn't hear a thing about this on CNN this morning

I wonder why......

[study_war_no_more]

48. protest call them now!

We cant let advertising dollar media rich pick our president.

[MilesColtrane]

49. Maybe this is the reason

BushCo™ is rotating all of those troops from Europe and South Korea back to the U.S.
He'll need them if he tries to steal THIS election.

[HereSince1628]

55. Well, maybe, but

it seems more likely that the planned rotation will stimulate development of housing and business in the communities surrounding the bases.

I see the "bring home the troops" promise as a combination thank-you and promise to keep good things coming if you just follow our Dear Leader.

[roguevalley]

60. This makes me sick in my Rogue Valley and beautiful Jacksonville

Its a gold mining town from way back that is a gorgeous residential and tourist site. The town was used in the Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, a movie about Jesse James.

Its got houses that are historical and the Jacksonville Inn is beautiful. No way they deserved this. I'm from Central Point and I'm proud of them for going there. I would have gone too if I still lived there. Its so sad to hear this stuff. I despair of getting rid of it sometimes.

I tell you, if this can happen in Medford and Jacksonville, there's no place it can't happen.

RogueValley

[MADem]

59. FOR NOW

Next stop, IRAQ--aaaalllllll aBOARD!

[AntiFascist]

61. I remember seeing a very peaceful march the night before the LA riots.....

the police showed up in full riot gear.

[Rjnerd]

62. Something to sing while handcuffed curbside...

Just a snippet here, but great... (heard it at the Takoma Park Folk Festival) Anne Feeney's tune: Have you been to Jail for Justice Scroll down for the words.

Found the full length version

-dp-
Founder, The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society; The NERDS

[stevedeshazer]

63. kick

:kick:

[secretshopper]

64. The Crawford Iconoclast carried a story on *'s attack dog tactics

written by a former Austinite who was there in Jacksonville. Here's the story:
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Guest/guest42a.htm

Here's one excerpt:
"In small town American I witnessed true repression and intimidation
by law enforcement. I saw small children suffering from the effects
of being fired upon by pepper bullets. I felt legitimate fear of
expressing my political opinions: a brand new feeling. Newspaper
accounts state the chaos started when a violent "Protester" shoved a
police officer. No one I talked to witnessed this account.

It is reputed that President Bush and his staff will not allow any
opposition activity to occur within his ear or eye sight. I can
confirm, that in tiny Jacksonville, Oregon, this was true. Physically
violent means were taken to protect the president from verbal
insults. Freedom of speech was stolen."

Secretshopper :dem:

[obreaslan]

65. WANTED!

WANTED!

For Un-American Concern For Others
...And possibly listening to Cat Stevens!


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