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     Marc M (Mosi) New Member Username: Mosi Post Number: 25 Registered: 09-2002 |
Okay, so Portland had a pretty large anti-war rally that F*CKED up downtown Portland starting at aboot 4pm. We had a Rover meeting to go to across the river and considered aborting but the protesters didn't look like they were messing traffic up where we were going sooooo...... The exit we needed to take was blocked by ODOT so we had to get on I-84 (the freeway) to take the first exit and!!! We were the first god damn vehicle to get BUM RUSHED and blocked in from going any further! There were literally hundreds of them! Dudes walking around the truck smoking joints asking us if we wanted some! WHAT IN THE F*CK! Excuse my language but WHAT IN THE F*CK! You are doing an anti war demo and asking patrons if they want hits of your doobie? Then I had to watch HELPLESSLY as some F*CKING SHITHEAD sat on my bumper! BAAAAAAH! Then have people come up to my window and tell me "do you know that babies are dying right now so you can have the gas in your truck?" .. why don't these IGNORANT F*CKS understand that we have OUR OWN F*CKING OIL! And that we haven't had oil from Iraq in a lot of years! It took about every ounce of dicipline to not test the bull bar out! Lucky for them that I was a Marine and posess such dicipline unlike them! After about 10 minutes, they let me through only because they wanted my real estate. SEMPER FI! | ||
| Charlie Fok (Verboy) New Member Username: Verboy Post Number: 7 Registered: 03-2003 |
Marc, you are lucky. San Francisco was in chaos the wholeday. You have hundreds of protestors starting at 4pm, It is a 7am-late nite deal for us. Over thousands got taken away. Let's not forget that Berkeley is probably in spring break now. | ||
| Blake Luse (Muddyrover) Senior Member Username: Muddyrover Post Number: 769 Registered: 02-2002 |
I'd have plowed through. Especially if someone set on my bumper. I hate idiots myself. | ||
| John Cinquegrana (Johnc) Senior Member Username: Johnc Post Number: 403 Registered: 07-2002 |
While we are on the subject, do you think we will have any problems with protestors on Mar 30 when we attend the G4 kickoff in Manhattan? Anyone? Marc, I'm glad you controlled yourself and didn't run over the arsehole that sat on your bumper.. I probably wouldn't have been so nice!! | ||
| Peter W. Pfeifer (Pwp) New Member Username: Pwp Post Number: 13 Registered: 10-2002 |
Even here in chicago, I can't say I don't believe in thier right to voice thier opinion. But marching into the streets stopping traffic, banging on peoples cars..? What, did you bother to ask thier opinoin before you started banging on thier car ??? These liberal leftist pinko faggots should go attend a andy warhol exhibit and leave to issues of the world to people who have the inteligence and capacity to deal with it. All i hear is this is blood for oil.....well if it's blood for oil why not protest by not driving your car for a week, or wait how would we get to the warhol exhibit. I think it's more or less like being gay (not that there is anything wrong with that)20% have a legitimate concern or interest and the other 80% don't have anything better to do and think it's the "IN" thing to protest. F**K EM But thats just my opinion ! | ||
| Greg (Gparrish) Senior Member Username: Gparrish Post Number: 1149 Registered: 04-2002 |
Peter......... Where do you store you Peck of Pickeled Peppers? LOL Oops. Guess that was Peter Piper........ LOL  Thought this thread could use a little lightening up before you guys blew your O-Ring. I have to drive through protesters every night on my way home going down the Main Line here in PA. They are still holding up signs that say "Give Peace a Chance" When are they gonna get a clue that we are giving peace a chance by removing those that prohibit it. | ||
| Lawrence Tilly (L_tilly) Member Username: L_tilly Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2002 |
I know if I put my Disco into Low and 1st gear (auto) it crawls pretty slow and makes a nice reving noise. I would imagine that would be slow enough to avoid crushing someone, but still intimidating enough to get through. -Lawrence | ||
| Mike Carino (Mikec) Member Username: Mikec Post Number: 63 Registered: 03-2002 |
I had a thought last night as i watched the protestors on tv. I was wondering how all of these people felt after 9-11? Were they more patriotic afterwards? Did they want to be heard after the towers fell and for the purps to be brought to justice? How a year and six months can change attitudes. I don't think they see that what we are doing is an extension of that. Preventing further terriorist attacks against the US and bring down regimes that threathen us. i believe in taking it to them instead of standing by and waiting again. I was even disappointed to see that several families of the 9-11 tragedy saying they were against the war, because they don't want Iraqi to go through what we went through. How stupid is that. Another quick thought i had was when they showed i think in San Fran, that they had to cut people from things that they had chained themselves to. I think I would have brought out the plasma cutter and made sure I was real close to their body parts!!! Mike | ||
| Corey (Discobro) Member Username: Discobro Post Number: 121 Registered: 12-2002 |
Are we all for the war on Iraq? You bet I am!! I was waching the Portland coverage on the protesters last night down here in Salem. I can't see how these people can say we're doing wrong over there!!! First off, the idiots protesting this war have no idea why we're there in the first place. This isn't a gut reaction by GW and his officials. This is a well thought out plan that has been gathering intelligence for years!! GW has contact with the FBI, CIA, Interpol and NATO on a daily basis and these jack asses who think they know what they're protesting about and think they know what is going on don't have a clue! Leave the war up to our officials and shut up! And if they burn the US flag I say send them to Cuba or Afganistan and let them live as repressed people live in isolation and poverty. It's all about freedom and democracy - not whether or not we make the whole world happy about what we're doing. Look at Hitler... need I say more? PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH! | ||
| Brian Friend (Brianfriend) Senior Member Username: Brianfriend Post Number: 550 Registered: 09-2002 |
These are the same type of people that I went to college with. I had a couple of friends that used to get mad at me for flushing the toilet after only one use. Idiots. | ||
| Greg (Gparrish) Senior Member Username: Gparrish Post Number: 1154 Registered: 04-2002 |
Then your friends would really hate my toilet with high tech modern twin flush technology. | ||
| Marc M (Mosi) New Member Username: Mosi Post Number: 26 Registered: 09-2002 |
One of my co-workers came in this morning and asked "was that you on the news last night" hehe, yup! So my Rover had it's brief minute or two of fame ;) oh and speaking of toilets... http://members.cox.net/marklein/rtype/toilet.shtml | ||
| Paul Schuetz (Schuetz) New Member Username: Schuetz Post Number: 66 Registered: 04-2002 |
I got stuck in the middle of D-town San Francisco last night also. Thought about running a few of them over , but didn't want to be caught on tape in the company truck (logos and all). Did try to get a couple of pic's from the window though. http://www.sendpix.com/albums/03032122/221443000000061205f5f2d5e46b320c296ad4481 5606/ | ||
| Mark & Bev Preston (Markp) Member Username: Markp Post Number: 167 Registered: 02-2002 |
I think all the Peace protesters need to take a trip like this: Peace protesters shocked back to reality UPI | 3/22/03 | rocky88 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872426/posts "A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head." | ||
| Greg French (Gregfrench) Senior Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 278 Registered: 11-2002 |
After watching the war coverage on tv, it seems that the only people who don't want it are the protesters and Sadaam. Have you been watching the reaction that the soldiers are getting from the Iraqi people? They are like celebrities over there. On a lighter note...there was a demonstration here in Charleston today, but it was FOR the war! It was called, "Rally for the troops" or something. Glad to see that not everyone in this country has their head up their asses. How about that one guy banging the picture of Sadaam in the face with his shoe! That was great! I just don't understand how these protesters think. I guess they have never lived under a ruthless dictator, so they don't know what it must be like for the Iraqi people. I like that this is called "Operation Free Iraq" That was a good move. | ||
| Enoch Snyder (Esnyder) New Member Username: Esnyder Post Number: 32 Registered: 10-2002 |
Brace yourselves... What REALLY frosts me about the protesters is that they are the same people protesting globalization, bio-engineering crops, world trade, etc. All on the premise that it restricts the liberties and hurts the "little man", that is the poor of the world. WHAT THE F***K DO YOU THINK SADDAM HAS BEEN DOING SINCE THE 1970S?! Get a grip. The hypocracy sickens me. I have decided that the point of view of the protesters is totally invalid , because they are all spoiled kids from suburbia. They have no idea what the rest of the world actually has to deal with. They have never been told they can't have something, most have never had to even work at a manual labor job, their electricity has never been turned off. Cruel bastards who kill people at whim, starving their own people, that's what the rest of the world has to deal with. And if the US can afford to spend some of its wealth liberating a few of these people, then we should do it. It's an interesting twist on global humanitarian aid, but worth cosidering. If they think diplomacy was the answer with Saddam and others like them, they have absolutely no concept of history. Their (the protesters) lack of true perspective renders their position totally invalid, in my not so humble opinion. Talk to someone who has emigrated here from Kosovo, or central Africa, or elswhere, and ask THEM what they think of the war, and Saddam Hussein. If THEY protest it, I'll shut up forever. But some worthless punk kid from Arlington or Portland, or San Fran or somewhere? Give me a break. Bring on the bulldozers. Portland is considering a law branding these types of protesters as "terrorists". A little bit of a stretch, and perhaps a little close to mimicking some of the tactics we're trying to get rid of. But I'd like to see the cities that are paying overtime to cops, and losing business dollars to sue the protest organizers in civil court for damages! | ||
| Corey (Discobro) Member Username: Discobro Post Number: 136 Registered: 12-2002 |
This just in... The Portland Police bureau will now be spending millions of dollars to contain the protests in and around the city. These funds are being pulled from the overtime account that was setup by the voting people of Oregon in order to have safer streets since a bill did not pass to hire more for the police force. To put a sterotype on the protestors, most probably don't even have jobs or own a home so they aren't paying a dime of it. Makes ya cringe just thinking about it, huh? | ||
| Greg French (Gregfrench) Senior Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 286 Registered: 11-2002 |
Did I hear on the news that Oregon schools were closing a few months early bucause they don't have enough money to stay open? Anybode else hear that? I think it was in the news a few months ago. I know my wife keeps bringing it up....and she is NEVER Wrong. | ||
| Corey (Discobro) Member Username: Discobro Post Number: 137 Registered: 12-2002 |
That is correct. Our legislature went through 4 sessions during last year and one so far this year and still to no avail. They were looking at several different options to present to vote on (special election was held here in January) and all were vetoed by our former governer. It takes 4 sessions to come up with a gas tax? Did they really think Oregon citizens would pass a tax like that with the prices how they've been? Anyway, it's sad to think that Oregon has the worst economy in the states and is considered the #1 liberal state also. Any connection here? Damn protesters.... | ||
| Mark & Bev Preston (Markp) Member Username: Markp Post Number: 176 Registered: 02-2002 |
I've said before -- California, Oregon and Washington are screwed. Social spending pegged to the top of the economic cycle. Worse yet, a late 90's bubble economy. I thought Oregon had a billion dollars slush fund? Did it just disappear! | ||
| Corey (Discobro) Member Username: Discobro Post Number: 139 Registered: 12-2002 |
Actually 2 billion dollars in deficit! Two years ago the projected state budget by state economists was 2 billion dollars under what is current. What's the first place to cut? Education. Seems like we should be educating our govenor on where our tax dollars go instead of vetoing every bill that comes in. |
