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Anti-War Protesters Target Wounded At Army Hospital

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Posted by anymouse 2005-08-25 07:56|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 SCUM.

Posted by Chris W. 2005-08-25 09:32|| 2005-08-25 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully, they'll get a dumbell thrown at them from the PT room.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-25 09:37|| 2005-08-25 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 I am kind of leery of this story. First off Walter Reed is a Military base and a Hospital. You can't just walk in the front door without some credential, ID, or something that says you can be inside. Second, how long do you think the military orderlies would allow such activity to go on? When I was there the military orderlies patrolled the floors like guards in Sing Sing. If this happened there had to be colusion and if that happened charges should be filed.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-08-25 10:14|| 2005-08-25 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 CS, the CNS article explains what the Auntie-war a**holes are doing:
The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Posted by GK 2005-08-25 10:27|| 2005-08-25 10:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Cyber...I happen to be in North DC near Walter Reed. The Hospital is embedded in the neighborhood right at the edge of the District.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-08-25 10:34|| 2005-08-25 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Pardon me, but if you can get a court order telling anti-abortion people to stand a good distance away from clinics, someone should be able to get a similar court order to have these low lifes at least a block away from the entrance to WR.

Posted by Elmemble Ulaitch5567 2005-08-25 10:45|| 2005-08-25 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Once again, I ask the rhetorical question: when is somebody going to wade through a crop of these assholes, leaving in his wake busted arms, broken noses, and welts the size of oranges in under 30 seconds before he leaves?

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-25 10:53|| 2005-08-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=SpecialReportsarchive200508SPE20050825a.html

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-08-25 11:09|| 2005-08-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I know its in the city suburbs but you can't just walk inside and anywhere you want. Makes sense that they are outside the Hospital, I couldn't see how they were inside and protesting. Heck even the wounded would take a swipe at them if they were on the patient floors. I can only imagine that security is even tighter today. If I still lived in DC I would make a field trip and pay a visit the protestors and express my disappointment in them.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-08-25 11:24|| 2005-08-25 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Why in Gods name is the DC police granting them a protest permit there? Time for Congress to step in and provide some oversite on the city.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-08-25 11:27|| 2005-08-25 11:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Cyber...this is the city of Marion Berry, corruption up and down city management, and an educational system that spends nearly $10,000 per student per year to rank as one of the worst school systems in the country...mostly at US taxpayer expense.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-08-25 11:36|| 2005-08-25 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Just sent the following to my Congressman:
Dear Congressman Herger,

I just read an article that made my blood just boil. It seems that a group of protestors have seen fit to target the wounded and recovering war veterans at Walter Reed.
You can read the article here: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=SpecialReportsarchive200508SPE20050825a.html

As an American I can appreciate the protestors right to protest even when I donât agree with them. But as a Veteran it make my blood just boil when they target the weak and wounded and attempt to add to their suffering. I am not asking you to squash their right to protest but does it have to be in front of the Hospital where many are still recovering and most vulnerable? Canât there be a bi-partisan resolution that no protest or demonstrations take place within say three miles of a Military Hospital? They can rant and rave all they want on the mall or at the Capital but leave these Veterans (and others) in peace, because they have earned it.

Thank you for you time,

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-08-25 11:42|| 2005-08-25 11:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Freeeeedom!!!

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-25 11:42|| 2005-08-25 11:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Pardon me, but if you can get a court order telling anti-abortion people to stand a good distance away from clinics, someone should be able to get a similar court order to have these low lifes at least a block away from the entrance to WR.

But that's DIFFERENT, don't ya know. Some speech is more protected than the rest.

*sigh*

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-25 12:04|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-25 12:04|| Front Page Top

#15 CS, I hope you don't mind I used your letter to you congressman and sent it to mine, except I am not A vet. But I changed vet to South Carolinian and of course change senators. Thanks for the GOOD Idea, I suggest others do it as well...

Posted by SCPatriot 2005-08-25 12:06|| 2005-08-25 12:06|| Front Page Top

#16 I just sent a letter to Bill Frist, ny Senator, along the same lines. I started out, "Dear Mr. Frist:
I wonder if you and the other Senators could take time out from debating the use of steroids in Baseball players and whether or not some explicit sex scenes in a video game are destroying America's Youth to attend to a little matter going on in Noth D.C." I pretty much said the same Cyber Sarge did after that. Wonder if I'll get a response.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-25 12:22|| 2005-08-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#17 I waive all rights and everyone feel free to plagiarize my email all you want.

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2005-08-25 12:39|| 2005-08-25 12:39|| Front Page Top

#18 they gonna wunder were yore piroritees at db.

Posted by muck4doo 2005-08-25 12:41|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-08-25 12:41|| Front Page Top

#19 when is somebody going to wade through a crop of these [folks]

I would point out that LTC Kurilla is now stateside. He's wounded in three places and has a broken leg, but it would be kind of interesting to see what he could do with a pair of crutches.

Posted by Matt 2005-08-25 13:11|| 2005-08-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#20 This is truely disgusting. Why isn't the Media covering this?

Its the old...

"Free speech for me! [these slimeballs] but not for thee [anyone who disagrees -- as in pro-lifers]"

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-08-25 13:33|| 2005-08-25 13:33|| Front Page Top

#21 The Free Republic folks go on Fridays to counter-protest on a nearby corner. Check out their site at dcchapter.org for pix.

Posted by eLarson 2005-08-25 17:12|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-08-25 17:12|| Front Page Top

#22

Cindy when her PR people aren't around

Posted by DMFD 2005-08-25 21:38|| 2005-08-25 21:38|| Front Page Top

#23 Oh my Gawd. It's the village people.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-08-25 21:43|| 2005-08-25 21:43|| Front Page Top

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