Right Wing Thugs Rip Down Anti-War Display Again!

THROW SOME SHIT BACK!!!

The reason freedom of speech is so crucial, is that it is the only way we can address grievances about any other issue. These tresspassing, vandalizing critics have crossed the line. Organizing a picket in front of his home (and display) is the proper response in a free society.

Both the vandalism, and the failure of law enforcement to pursue the perpetrators have marked this case as a warning sign of the erosion of our civil rights to express our views. It is wrong to intimidate or threaten those you disagree with. And censorship has no place in a free society regardless whether its being done by the government, private organizations, or thuggish individuals.

i will fight anyone trying to stop my humanity

You're concerned about private property rights? Really? Tell that to Starbucks, Mc Donalds, and the other property that is vandalized in your "non violent direct action". You're concerned about the right to free expression? Really? Tell that to the Daily Californian writers whose newspapers were stolen by Leftist goons and dumped in the trash. Tell it the Cal Patriot, whose papers are burned in newsracks. Tell it to Netanyahu and other speakers who have been shouted down and physically attacked by ragin mobs in Berkeley. We know who the brownshirts are. Look in the mirror.

I love it.You all scream about your rights. How come you don't give all the amendments the same consideration? What you don't understand is that the second amendment is what guarantee's that nobody can take the first away.

I have to agree, the Left does not really believe in free speech. In addition to stealing newspapers and chasing speakers they don't like out of town, they also shout down people a city council meetings that they don't agree with. Don't believe me? Try and go to a city council meeting and complain about being hassled by beggers. They only believe in free speech for anyone spouting their leftist dogma. That's why I laugh when I hear of "Free Speech Plaza" or "Free Speech Radio".

The comments on here reveal the real agenda of much of the right. They talk about private property and respect for the law but then get very defensive about the destruction of private property of those they disagree with. Being right-wing these days seems to have less to do with law and private property than it has to do with hatred for anyone with different views from their own.

Throwing money at problems for political reasons, corruption, wars with no exit plan, attacks on the right to bear arms... are things that the right-wing always attacked under Clinton but now defend when they are done by Bush. Being left-wing or right-wing unfortunately has less to do with real political belief than it does with supporting ones team right or wrong.

It is interesting to see someone trying to defend an attack on someones home by pointing at some unrelated student at Berkeley throwing away free papers a few years ago... is the argument that there whould be a collective idea of guilt based off political affiliation ... if so can we blame every Republican for any action by neoNazis.... or perhaps blame all supporters of the first Gulf War for any action by the Saudis?

Both the "left" and the "right" has its share of goons and hypocrites. Bullying and censorship is practiced by individuals on both "sides", yet the right seems to be most aggressive in using violence to influence stifling dialogue, especially any critics of the Bush regime. Hypocrisy is also evident on both "sides", regardless of political affiliation since we're all connected by the same power grid that exploits resources for financial gain. In some way we're all hypocrites, an example is i am forced to pay my PG&E bill if i want to cook food on a stove yet i am aware of numerous human rights violations by PG&E (air pollution at Hunter's Point, price gouging with Halliburton's "energy crisis" fabrication, leasing land to SPI for clearcutting, etc..). Since i am not allowed to start cooking fires in my yard (unless i want a visit from officer friendly), i need to pay the PG&E bill or have my power shut off. Since i continue to protest PG&E, that makes me a hypocrite. The same goes for people who depend on petroleum byproducts (gasoline, plastic bags, etc.) and simultaneously protest the Bush regime for their ongoing occupation of Iraq which we know benefits the petroleum corporations by maintaining their petrol-opoly. We accept and live with our hypocrisy and continue to protest for health, harmony, equality and a more peaceful existence on Earth..

We need to discuss US petroleum consumption and the occupation of Iraq as multi-pronged issues from the same root source, not separate issues. When discussing price gouging at the pumps by petrol-opolies, we also need to discuss means to reduce petroleum consumption by increasing affordable and effective public transit, bicycle friendly communities, etc..

Since the US constitution protects freedom of speech, then any interference with said free speech violates the US Constitution. The so-called "patriots" (in fact cowards) who vandalize the homes of peace activists need to reread the Declaration of Independence and maybe they will discover the part about tyranny or despotism in government, that all US citizens have the right and the duty to remove or "throw off" any despots from public office. There is enought evidence that indicates that the GW Bush regime is illegally occupying the Presidency and is acting in the manner of a despot, thus this regime needs to be removed by the people. That is written in the Declaration of Independence. Instead of acting like cowardly bullies throwing corporate trash on peace activists' yards, why not be a real patriot and act to remove the despotic Bush regime from office..

excerpt from Declaration of Independence;

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

http://www.givemeliberty.org/

http://www.hermes-press.com/senate_no.htm

"It's now indisputable that the criminal cabal plans to destroy ALL institutions of democracy in the United States.

Only totally brain-dead spiritual zombies can any longer defend what the criminal cabal is doing through its Bush II puppet junta and the fellow-traveling Democrats."

Open letter to the so-called patriots (in fact bullies) who violently attack the free speech of peace activists;

We are aware that your cowardice stems from either ignorance (less of an option as facts emerge) or malicious apathy. When you realize that you need to act against the despotic Bush regime, you cower and instead act as bullies against those few people who have the courage to inform other people about the crimes of the Bush regime. It is safer to attack the enemies of the despot instead of attacking the despot himself. We do not know your identity yet you know ours. You need to look at yourself in the mirror everyday and live with the results of your actions or lack thereof. It is never too late to change your mind and act to throw off the despotic GW Bush regime, we will always welcome your efforts regardless of past mistakes from ignorance..


Marcus Mueller

To me it seems pretty petty to have such a timid reaction to this relatively minor harassment. There posted statement is pretty inflammatory (although I agree with its essential truth), and they should have expected some degree of reaction from various uneducated hoodlums in their neighborhood. This level of pranks seem pretty insignificant if we consider the level of physical and psychological harrassment parcticed actively by the US government, the torture of protestors in other countries (often with US govt. assistance), firebombing of voter registration offices in the deep South, etc. If we on the left don't grow some backbone, how can we expect our protests to be taken seriously. I guess I'm also kind of shocked that SF Indymedia community put this on the front page - c'mon aren't we in a WAR, a racist corporate sponsired oligarchy is running the county, and these dorks are upset because they got subscribed to Readers Disgest and someone left beer bottles on there lawn?

mypetjawa.mu.nu did an article on the place http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/066922.php months ago and the wackos who read it probably did it.

Of that hottie giving it up to the dork in the picture. Let's see, you make an art piece to gain attention and piss people off. It works, but the attention you get is negative. The cops don't give a fuck, cause the property damage is slight, there are no deaths or injuries. Why should I fucking care about you and your problems? Dumbass.