Title: Acquitted, peace grannies return to protesting Source:
www.oregonlive.com URL Source:http://www.oregonlive.com/news/ Published:Dec 29, 2007 Author:staff Post Date:2007-12-29 02:39:35 by Ferret Mike Keywords:None Views:342 Comments:36
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Two weeks after being acquitted of criminal mischief charges, the anti-Iraq war group calling itself the Seriously P.O.'d Grannies returned Friday to the same sidewalk outside a Northeast Portland U.S. military recruiting center where they were arrested in April.
On Good Friday, a half a dozen members of the group were busted after using washable red finger paint to leave handprints on a front window. But a Multnomah County jury found no problem with the protest, even though a judge cited them for leaving graffiti.
Joseph Rose of The Oregonian was outside the recruiting station as the grannies -- and a few grandpas -- made their return. Marine and Army recruiters inside the office declined to be interviewed. Portland police were called, but decided not to arrest the grannies this time. Follow this link to read The Oregonian's coverage of the grannies' recent trial.
Two weeks after being acquitted of criminal mischief charges, the anti-Iraq war group calling itself the Seriously P.O.'d Grannies returned Friday to the same sidewalk outside a Northeast Portland U.S. military recruiting center where they were arrested in April.
I guess they have nothing better to do than to waste their time protesting something that is not going to change.
"I guess they have nothing better to do than to waste their time protesting something that is not going to change."
It's no waste of time to protest illegal and immoral wars started by war criminals like Bush and Cheney. I've been at protests with these ladies and I consider a couple of them personal friends.
They are smart, and they really care. We all need to be doing exactly what they are doing. And this war not ony needs ending, but investigations and trials need to take place, and the Hague is where Bush, Cheney, Rumbo and others need to be for war crime trials.
It's no waste of time to protest illegal and immoral wars started by war criminals like Bush and Cheney. I've been at protests with these ladies and I consider a couple of them personal friends.
In this day and age protests don't accomplish anything.
There have been protests all over the world since before the Iraq war began and nothing has changed as a result.
"In this day and age protests don't accomplish anything."
Bullshit. Dissent has given this country a great deal and is a civic responsibility in the face of crimes and injustice.
Your old saw here has been said for hundreds of years, that dissent is old hat. That spin has never stopped people from forfilling their civic duty, and it never will.
In fact, it is precisely because of the fear of dissent that this fascist administration won't try for a draft, because they know that would be gasoline on the fire.
I expect to see the neocon warmaking policies to generate much heat on the streets this election year, and I plan on being right there when it happens.
I do counter-recruiting at high schools for Oregon Peaceworks which I as a veteran of Bush warmaking and a long time local actovist I am quite good at, and I am a volunteer working the phones doing fund raising for them. So your words mean less then nothing to me on this topic.
In fact I plan on doing non-violent civil disobedience this season regarding the war. Something that is my duty to do.