[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon

[David Green]

I think it's telling that when we hold up signs against war, the reactions
are generally positive. There were certainly positive reactions to my
anti-military sign yesterday, but when you bring in the military, that
triggers a certain group of people. Our media propaganda has, for obvious
reasons, managed to separate the military from the crimes of the state. The
profession of military innocence, evidenced by the flyover that apparently
occurred before the football game (about 2:25 when we were already out
there), is a case in point. There were two or three nasty drive-by comments
even before this incident, which is untypical of our demonstrations over
the past couple of years.

DG

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:17 AM C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> And we think that our demonstrations have no effect…
>
> Sorry you had to put up with this, David, but it’s certainly worthwhile.
> Thanks.
>
>
> > On Nov 3, 2018, at 5:02 PM, David Green via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The
> military does not protect my "freedom."
> >
> > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the
> southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me
> and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to
> drop the sign.
> >
> > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate
> the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for
> caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the
> police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down
> Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I
> told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I
> obeyed his orders (I regret doing so).
> >
> > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took
> several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and
> descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including
> even my height and weight.
> >
> > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he
> had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him.
> >
> > David Green
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