Yeah, this isn’t OK with me [courtesy The Hill]:
Anti-war protesters were allowed to spray paint on part of the west front steps of the United States Capitol building after police were ordered to break their security line by their leadership, two sources told The Hill.
According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse and Deputy Chief Daniel Nichols. “They were the commanders on the scene,” one source said, who requested anonymity. “It was disgusting.”
After police ceded the stairs, located on the lower west front of the Capitol, the building was locked down, the source added.
Our nation’s Capitol building. Locked down. In fear of this.
Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint “anarchist symbols” and phrase such as “Our capitol building” and “you can’t stop us” around the area, the source said.
Morse responded to these claims in an e-mail Sunday afternoon, explaining that the protesters were seeking confrontation with the police.
Yes– and the question I have this morning is why didn’t they get it?
What am I paying your taxpayer-funded salary for if not, at a minimum, to deliver “confrontation” to skinny, white, poseur-boy pseudo-anarchists?
“While there were minor instances of spray painting of pavement by a splinter group of Anarchists who were seeking a confrontation with the police, their attempts to breach into secure areas and rush the doors of the Capitol were thwarted,” Morse said. “The graffiti was easily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area.”
Thank you Capitol staff. I suggest we ding the salaries of Police Chief Morse and Deputy Chief Nichols, in order to compensate the hardworking staff for having to come in and clean up the mess it was the police’s job to prevent in the first place.
Chief Morse and Deputy Chief Nichols–not surprisingly, I guess–try to hide from public accountability by not providing any sort of email feedback option on their website.
So we’ll just have to use the one that is provided–for potential recruits.
Let’em know what you think at recruiting@cap-police.senate.gov .
28 Responses to “We’ve been punked”
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January 29th, 2007 at 6:43 am
The right to assemble is more important than a few morons, the right to a cracked skull however is in porportion to the misspelling of cuss words. I mean if you are going to the trouble of spray painting someone elses property at least spell the 4 letter words out F%K, $HT, whats up with that?
January 29th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Of course the police could have arrested them but we are a peaceful people and well until they pose a threat we can’t subject the drug dealers murderers and prostitutes already in DC lockup with thousands of white boys with marxist propaganda - it would be a blood bath
January 29th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Since when does “free speech” include property damage? Are these “patriots” unable to get their message across without costing the taxpayers money to repair what they deface?
It is legal to burn flags. There are protests at funerals for servicemen. And there is spray paint on government (OUR) property.
Can we now cry “fire” in a theater?
January 29th, 2007 at 8:08 am
You have GOT to be kidding me!
January 29th, 2007 at 8:23 am
I think the liberal media have made police officers gun shy about doing their jobs. One touch and it’s “police brutality”. Don’t protect property and the police are not doing their jobs. The police cannot win for trying. No win situations tend to make police ineffective.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Looks like it’s getting to be the “norm” anymore.
The people breaking the law keep pushing the line back a little at a time and keep getting away with it. The Government keeps backing down and they keep pushing, next thing you will see is an occupation. Oh wait; the illegals have already done that.
If I did not see the picture of the Capital in the background I would have thought it was taken in one of the mid-east countries.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:28 am
This seems to be a good place to put the only thing I’ve ever read on HuffPo that is worth more than a a steaming greasy pile of dog doo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-gutfeld/new-trend-on-the-rise-t_b_39594.html
Some people will call that me being “scary”
January 29th, 2007 at 9:28 am
This is unbelievable! Have the heads of the law enforcement there at the Capitol building lost their minds?
January 29th, 2007 at 9:52 am
This is nothing new. A few years ago I was going to reenlist in the Navy on the Capitol steps. We were told to leave or be arrested. The capitol police said “What if a senator looked out the window and saw you?” Since when should I be afraid of a senator seeing a military ceremony? And this was before Iraq. Two weeks later the KKK had a demonstration right where I was standing. In case anyone hasen’t noticed we have been electing a communist government.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am
This country is going to hell in a hand basket
January 29th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Engage the enemy. Picture a wet whipped puppy. No backbone.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Yup;
Getting to be 1969 all over again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/washington/28protest.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1170092724-ycGZ/Lcxe+poC5q3gVAbwQ
but there’s some hope:
January 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
They should consider themselves lucky they didn’t get a taste of Kent State.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
“skinny, white, poseur-boy pseudo-anarchists”
Were all the protesters of the same colorand were they all skinny?
David, this isn’t the first time you have used this reference of “white” as if there is a negative aspect to the word or race.
Sounds like your’ve implying that a skinny white boy as being something less than desirable in addition to being a war protester.
Please explain, if you will, the implication of your statement?
I’m proud of my anglo-saxon heritage. You should be to. Asuming that you are anglo.
Anarchist come in all colors.
rj
January 29th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
rj
You’re right.
He should have said:
“Unwashed, smelly, birkenstock shod, poncho draped, hemp wearing, incense burning, self deluded neo-Marxists and teary eyed 60’s protestors dreaming for the good old days.”
They are even trying to rehabilitate Hanoi Jane.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Linky for the above:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/washington/28protest.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1170092724-ycGZ/Lcxe+poC5q3gVAbwQ
January 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
RJ– all the pseudo-anarchists I knew in college were skinny white boys.
Of the blacks I knew, a few were Afrocentric radicals, but the vast majority had enough sense to appreciate the opportunity they had to get an advanced education, and weren’t about to waste their time on pointless protest-theatrics.
Black Flag anarchism is the only way skinny white boys from the Upper West Side of Manhattan can figure out to feel oppressed and marginalized. (Unless they are gay, I suppose.) Plus you get to break sh!t, which is cool, because you were always uncomfortable with the Mercedes mother and father bought you when you turned 16.
Find me a picture of a black, working-class anarchist. I haven’t seen one, but stand to be corrected.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
DJ: Recieved my package today. Thanks! I only wanted 1 shirt, but will make good use of the others!
January 29th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Darn, wrong thread…/ducks head in shame
January 29th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Exhibit A
http://www.segmentality.com/en/misha_margolis/stage/photos/anarchists.jpg
January 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
What strikes me the most about that pic above is thae only things that are missing:
The kaffiyeh and the bandana with arabic writing on it.
Why does somebody proud of what they are doing have to hide their faces?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I say let them into the congressional chambers and let them spray paint just the congressmen/women. They’re not doing anything anyway and most probably need the time off to go back to the hotel and shower anyway.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
#15, I’ll need to make one more adjustment.
“Unwashed, smelly, birkenstock shod, poncho draped, hemp wearing, incense burning, self deluded neo-Marxists and teary eyed 60’s protestors dreaming for the good old days
who arrived at the protest in the used Volvo
given to them by their parents along with
a gas card to fill it up.”
January 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Has anyone received a response to an e-mail sent to the recruitment e-mail address?
January 29th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
David,
And they all have the right to vote
January 30th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Hey #5…well said and thats why they invented donut shops…hang in the shop and you CAN’T get in trouble…
January 30th, 2007 at 7:06 am
#17;
So I guess the black panthers, for decades have been just a bunch of mis-understood black kids wanting to overthrow our government and create upheaval and terror in their hoods and the entire nation.
With that being the obvious, I’m sure you’ll find an explanation to excuse their actions.
rj
January 30th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Why so much hate for the left? I know this is Texas, but…
It wouldn’t surprise me if some people I knew were part of the Black Block type actions. I know at least ten anarchists that went to DC. As for spelling out letters? Words are shortened for both artistic merit and time constraints when tagging. If you’ve ever wielded a sharpie or can of paint, you would understand very well why. Really, it cheers me up to know that (A)(E) and the like graced our capitol, if for a very short period of time. As for the attack through that wonderful picture? Some anarchists do look like that. Those are crusties, a subgenre of the punk scene. Movement anarchists tend to derided them. Murray Bookchin, belated anarchist author, called them “lifestyle anarchists.”
1968 better come again! And when it does, pick your side wisely. Do you really want to be on the side of the “silent majority,” the people who ignorantly supported Nixon till his fortress of deceit came tumbling down? The choice is yours, and only yours.