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

[Mildred O'brien]

Yeah, I heard the Air Farce (pun intended) asshole bombers take off from Willard Friday (I guess to announce their arrival) and Saturday during the game and I thought about the poor souls in the ME (especially Yemenis) who hear hundreds of those damn planes in their skies day AND night, knowing that they're on a bombing mission to somewhere--maybe on them!  Talk about noise pollution.  Wonder whose idea that was to have make their presence (invasion) on the entire community (maybe the bringback"the"chieftans).
Midge

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From: David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
To: C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2018 10:56 am
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon

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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