OK, we get it. Please return to ROADSTER ONLY POSTS.
I appreciate your position and the point you're trying
to make, but this is a car discussion list.
If I want political discussion, I'll sign up for it.
Thank you.
Mark Coffin
68 2000 SRL311-04425
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>From: "James W. Anable, Jr." <anable@halcyon.com>
>To: Waylon Harthun <jackfrost@uswest.net>, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: seattle
>Date: Thu, Dec 2, 1999, 8:45 PM
>
> Waylon Harthun wrote:
>
>> Ok one last comment, I know this whole thing is blown way outta proportion
>> and things are rediculous, like it is now 2:00 am and there are still
>> people on the street.
>> I don't mean any offense but being a native and working in the curfew zone,
>> I just request one thing, PLEASE JUST GO HOME!!!!!!!!!
>
> Well, I went home around 10 p.m., right after I was bum-rushed by goons in
> Darth Vadar outfits (a.k.a. Seattle Police Department). I was out taking
> pictures of the situation.
>
> I can tell you this: The only reason people were outside is because their
> neighborhood was INVADED by National Guard and police. If they would have
> left, everybody else would have.
>
> Again, I was there. There was NO violence or vandalism. The police were the
> problem.
>
> When I got home, I watched the rest of the story on TV. It concluded around 2
> a.m. with a massive onslaught of CS and OC gas, rubber bullets, flash
> grenades...
>
> A few minutes after that, the news reporter interview Brian Derdowski, a King
> County councilman who was present and attempting to negotiate an end to the
> madness. All the group wanted was for the police to take ONE STEP BACK, as a
> symbolic gesture acknowledging that this was their neighborhood. The police
> refused, and chose to gas them instead.
>
> I've got pictures of this. I know it's not Roadster related, but if I get
them
> on my site, I'll post the URL.
>
> One more thing. When I was on Broadway taking pictures, I kept hearing
shotgun
> blasts. I notice a shell on the ground and picked it up. I brought it home
> and did a quick Alta Vista search on it. I found out that this particular
> projectile had caused DEATH in the past. According to a velocity and
potential
> penetration study published in the Journal of the International Wound
> Ballistics Association, "... the ammunition must be treated as capable of
> causing serious bodily injury or death to a person and should only be used
when
> lethal force is warranted."
>
> Folks, I was there. There was NOTHING to warrant anything approaching lethal
> force. The most defiant act I saw was a man who put one knee on the street,
> two feet from the curb, holding up the peace sign. The police responded by
> RUSHING this individual with gas canisters in hand, causing a panic in which
at
> least one person was knocked down. Why didn't they just walk up and arrest
> him? Is the safety of all of those around him totally meaningless?
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