While this IS a roadster list I find the comments from those who are a part
of this roadster community of ours far more credible and believable than
anything from the mass media, they are from real people who we have
someting in common with. As long as it doesn't become a main topic I do
appreciate the comments. This is how the internet changes things.
Ray
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68 2000
At 09:43 PM 12/02/1999 -0500, Mark Coffin wrote:
>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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