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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:44 PM
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PHOTOS: San Diego military recruitment center DEFACED....

The San Diego National City Military Recruitment Center was defaced on March 19th with anti-war graffiti and posters.








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Stand and Fight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:45 PM
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1. Amen. n/t
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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:47 PM
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good for you
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:47 PM
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2. BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:53 AM
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80. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruiting centers SHUT DOWN


HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:48 PM
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3. Nice..... n/t
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:50 PM
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4. PUNT!
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:50 PM
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Yea, whoohooo for vandalism. :(
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:19 PM
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15. Yea ...... whooo ...... that'll win 'em over!
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:00 PM
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21. Let's hope it gives at least one poor kid second thoughts.
You never know - that display may have saved a life.

Graffiti and posters will come off easily. Dead kids aren't so easy to fix.
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:13 PM
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36. That Graffiti cost someone money to remove. How do you think the Police
will treat "peaceful" protests next time????
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Don1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:19 AM
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48. How will the police treat protesters next time??
The same way that fascists have always treated protesters:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x114608

We're talking about tens of thousands of children that are now dead. Are you trying to say that American paint is worth more than Iraqi children's lives?
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:40 PM
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67. What are you talking about? Your link isn't even about Police.
Yawn.
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Don1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 09:41 PM
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70. You're Right.
Campus police officers were not abusing peaceful protesters at City College in the link I provided. Just ask the campus police and they will tell you that the students were the ones who attacked first. So what if all students and college staff tell a different story. So what if most of these witnesses were not even part of the protest and are therefore "unbiased."

I see that you evaded my question:
"We're talking about tens of thousands of children that are now dead. Are you trying to say that American paint is worth more than Iraqi children's lives?"

Are you going to answer it?

or are you going to quibble over the definition of "campus police officers" versus "campus security officers?"

I think that the Iraqi children deserve better than such quibbling. And the soon-to-be-dead Iraqi children deserve a fair fight at life. And if it means that someone has to spray paint a recruiter station, then so what?

Answer the question:
American paint or Iraqi children, which is worth more?
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:10 PM
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71. Big difference between Police and security guards.
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Don1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:27 PM
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73. How Predictable.
If you did further reading on the story, you would see that actual police officers were involved, too.

But who cares?! Regardless of whether it's fascist campus police officers or fascist campus security officers (like there's a difference), you predictably evaded the question. You continually evade the question I asked twice now.

Here's the entire section you evaded:
I see that you evaded my question:
"We're talking about tens of thousands of children that are now dead. Are you trying to say that American paint is worth more than Iraqi children's lives?"

Are you going to answer it?

or are you going to quibble over the definition of "campus police officers" versus "campus security officers?"

I think that the Iraqi children deserve better than such quibbling. And the soon-to-be-dead Iraqi children deserve a fair fight at life. And if it means that someone has to spray paint a recruiter station, then so what?

Answer the question:
American paint or Iraqi children, which is worth more?
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 04:30 PM
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74. Pffft. The answer is obviuos and the question is pointless. You misstated
the article. Since you can not admit it and try changing the subject there is no point in continuing. Enjoy.
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Don1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:14 PM
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77. Yes, the answer is obvious.
Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 12:13 AM by Don1
How could they be charged and arrested by the police for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, if no police officers are present? It's common sense.

Nationalistic phrases like "Support the Troops," "We live in the best country in the world," and worst of all "No grafitti please" trivialize the deaths of fifty freaking thousand Iraqi kids!

Your arguments are sick, twisted and Republican lite. Political activists in this country like Lynne Stewart, Justino Rodriguez, and Steven Kurtz are being abused and/or imprisoned. Worse, innocent people are dying and you're complaining about freaking grafitti!

Screw spray paint. We should all be spilling our blood on the recruiting stations in protest, just like the St. Patrick's Day Four:
http://counterpunch.org/quigley03172005.html
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:25 AM
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87. Lol
"Your arguments are sick, twisted and Republican lite." Lol, yea everyone here that is against vandalism is sick, twisted and a Republican. I can see there is no point to this.

Have fun with your insults and personal attacks on anyone that disagrees with you. Clearly there is no room for rational and civil discussion with you. Enjoy your world...


Peace
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:39 AM
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57. The station is leased, the civilian landlord will have to fix it
He'll send someone over with a can of paint to get rid of the graffitti. Some recruiter will have to get out there and scrape off the window stuff.

Odds are good that the only ones who get a good look at it will be the recruiters, who are NOT volunteers, for the most part--they are top performers in their own speciality who are shoved off to recruit. The brass counts on the work ethic of these top-shelf kids, who have never done a bad job in their lives, to make their goal. And the kids try like hell, a lot of them go nuts trying to succeed in this environment.

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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 01:20 AM
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59. Not so. Most commercial leases require the tenant to do all maintenance.
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 01:22 AM by ultraist
And in with residential leases, the landlord can charge the tenant for damage/repairs of vandalism. (I'm a residential landlord and have partners who own commercial buildings).

The will hire a maintenance company that charges out the nose and effectively bill us.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:13 AM
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61. Could be.
I used to have a bunch of GSA contracts, and we always negotiated for the landlord to do the fixing of the plant property. Window displays were the responsibility of the office tenant, but if a window broke, the landlord repaired it.

They do of course have a right to be reimbursed for the expense, and that's most likely in the contract, but it won't be a recruiter out there doing the painting, as this is not maintenance, it is repair.
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:39 AM
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64. Maybe someone else can chip in a few bucks to help this ..........
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:19 AM
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63. Oh please - talk about mountains into molehills.
This doesn't even approach the ELF vandalism last year of the SUVs - and like that incident, they are insured. If it makes some work for some poor slob, good.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:55 AM
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81. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruitment centers SHUT DOWN

HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:50 PM
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5. You rock, diamond14!
Thank you for all your efforts in sharing all the pictures with us!
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:50 PM
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6. This is what happens when you call yourself a uniter, then divide.
THIS!... People will wake up someday I hope. 9/11 made our country sick. * made it sicker.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:50 PM
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7. kicked and nominated n/t
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indianablue Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 06:51 PM
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8. I used to be in San Diego when I was in the Navy...
Edited on Tue Mar-22-05 06:53 PM by indianablue
National City when I was there 1991-1994 was one of the worst parts of San Diego. It has a very large illegal immigration population and gang violence. It was so bad during my service in San Diego that National City or part of it was 'Off Limits' to U.S. Military personnel from dusk till dawn cause of the drive byes, etc.



My Two cents.

PS

Navy Slang for it was, 'National Shitty', the only redeeming thing about the whole areas was its 'Mile of Cars' named because of the large amounts of Car Dealerships.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:28 PM
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25. We also call it "Nasty City".
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:01 PM
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9. PLEASE help...kick up at least 10 events each time you come to DU


I'm recruiting a DU army to keep this very important NEWs up on the front page...

there's at least 60 PHOTO threads from this weekends PRO-PEACE events that are just sinking under the shiavo chatter...going back at least 15 pages back...

PLEASE kick...kick..kick...
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:09 PM
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10. Also nominated! :)
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SouthernDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:09 PM
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11. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the system setup by DU? If no one
is posting it should drift away. Kicking just puts active threads lower which does not make sense.
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The Kicker Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:08 PM
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32. Kick
:kick: :evilgrin:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:14 PM
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72. and another Kick. Hope it annoys you.
:kick:

RL
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:13 PM
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12. Wish that closed sign was permanent
and take down the Will Return one.
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rocktop15 Donating Member (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:17 PM
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13. kick!!!
ssia
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:18 PM
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14. Nice handiwork!
"Hello, America? Get me THE FUCK out of here!" LOL! We have a budding graphic artist at work here.
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:56 AM
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83. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruitment centers SHUT DOWN
HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:26 PM
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16. Yes, vandalism..
...we should all be so proud.

Is it okay if those on the right start vandalizing anti-war offices because they think those represent unpatriotic organizations bent on the destruction of the American way of life? Do we think it is acceptable for anti-abortion radicals to vandalize and attack abortion clinics, even if the offices are empty of any persons, because they believe the clinics facilitate murder?

Vandalism is lawless, criminal behavoior. Those who did this should be arrested, charged, and if found guilty made the pay the appropriate fines.

Digusting.

Imajika
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TwoHandedLayup Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:35 PM
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17. Vandalism should not be lauded
I would hope that we are above that. I understand the anger, but it really doesn't help the cause.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:41 PM
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19. Deleted message
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
 
Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:56 PM
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20. How very adult of you...
"They should all have their right hands cut off!
That'll teach 'em to express their opinions!"

Did I say that? Didn't I say that whoever vandalized these offices should be arrested, charged, and if found guilty made to pay the appropriate fines? Was that not clear enough? Was that too difficult for you to understand?

Express themselves? I'll ask the question again. Is it acceptable for those on the right to vandalize abortion clinics because they believe such offices facilitate murder? Is it okay for people to vandalize anti-war offices if they believe such organizations harm our troops? If it is not okay for rightwingers to vandalize the offices of groups we might support, how is it somehow acceptable for people we may agree with to vandalize the offices of those we don't?

"Jerkoff."

Now that's intelligent commentary! You really got me there sport.

Vandalism is a crime. Supporting it is unwise. This sort of stuff turns off the average American, it does not make them more sympathetic to the anti-war cause.

Imajika
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:02 PM
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22. I agree
This does NOT help us. The signs are one thing, destruction of property is wrong.
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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:33 AM
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54. Vandalism is juvenile. No need to destroy property to get a message out
There are much more creative and productive ways to do so. We will pay for these repairs through our tax dollars.
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femme.democratique Donating Member (969 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:51 PM
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31. Vandalism is a way to advertise, after all people never see the truth
in the media, thats for sure, and it isn't hurting anyone...as for your "lawless, criminal behavior" - depends on the target IMO. American military imperialism is what was vandalized, not the frikkin MOMA

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Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 09:52 PM
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33. Depends on the target?
Ummm, who gets to decide what an appropriate target for vandalism is? You?

Anti-abortion fanatics believe abortion is murder just as many American's believe Bush's Iraq adventure is murder. So is it okay for religious fanatics to deface womens clinics because they believe the target is appropriate and afterall - it isn't hurting anyone?

Who gets to decide what is appropriate. That is what elected officials do - create laws that apply to everyone. The law is the law. You can't have a law against vandalism and then decide it only applies to the other side. Your walking on a very slippery slope here.

Vandalizing military recruiter offices is wrong. It should be investigated and the perpetrators prosecuted if found. It is not good advertising either - these types of actions just provide fodder to those who say anti-war groups and individuals are radicals, criminals and unAmerican.

Imajika
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:56 AM
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82. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruitment centers SHUT DOWN
HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:44 PM
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39. They have and they do.
So, do you think it was right for the French Resistance fighters to blow up bridges, gas depots, etc. and take pot shoots at NAZI's?
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dhinojosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:45 AM
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58. I'm with Imajika, we should act better than this n/t
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 07:39 PM
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18. another kick
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:57 AM
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84. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruiting centers SHUT DOWN
HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:12 PM
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23. Vandalism is wrong, and I condemn this act
It is one thing to try and educate people through pamphlets, speeches, and news letters, but it's another when it comes to defacement. This is beyond the pale, and I will not support this at all. Vandalism or destruction of property, nevermind the issue of violence, is not the way to get out the message. This is the way of the neo-nazis and the KKK, not the way of conscientious citizens who wish to deliver a message.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:25 PM
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24. Which office is this? Where?
Midway Dr.?
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:29 PM
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26. Duh!! Didnt see "National City" in your post.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:31 PM
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27. Kick!
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CalebHayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:33 PM
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28. I remember when my dad worked at one of those. LOL those were the days.
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Columbia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:36 PM
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29. Yay, more ammo for Rush and O'Reilly!
Rejoice all! :eyes:
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manic expression Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 08:47 PM
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30. I tip my hat to whoever did this
I believe this is the right thing to do. We need to see more vocal and visible opposition to this disgusting war. I very much approve of such actions.

Do not say that just because it is "against the law" that it is wrong. Just look at what the Nuremberg Trials said: There is an undeniable obligation to human rights, which transcends the laws of one's government (paraphrasing, of course).
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:15 PM
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manic expression Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:50 PM
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40. Please point out how
my house is contributing to perhaps the most disgusting actions of our time. Please tell me how my home is sending young kids off to their unjustified deaths.

Equating a household with an establishment actively supporting a base campaign of murder and thievery and oppression is wrong and so are you.

Nice try though.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:52 PM
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41. Looking for an ass beatin'?
That's what you'd get on my property.
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manic expression Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:59 PM
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44. I wouldn't applaud vandalism
on your property, unless you were actively aiding an unjustified war of choice, of course.

An "ass beatin'" (as you so eloquently put it) is of no consequence.

By the way, try not to put things in 'macho' terms.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:29 AM
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50. Just communicating in terms the original poster could understand.
See how it was deleted? Thus, loss of context.

Thanks for the suggstion, although it was unnecessary.
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Big_Mike Donating Member (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:31 PM
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38. If you and your friends wish to make this point
get together some money, rent an office by the recruiting station, and post all your images where their market (young kids) will walk by and see it. It will be there for quite a while. Who knows, the owner might just agree with you and will cut some off the rent.

But this is not the way. I suppose that you agree with that kid who set the Hummers on fire as an Earth First! protest. It is simply vandalism.

Hell, the space rental might just be a good idea...
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manic expression Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:56 PM
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42. Perhaps
but is it really necessary when more effective, efficient and pure forms of expression are readily available. Look, to oppose something as patently horrible as the war in Iraq is justified, and to me it does not matter if this opposition is carried out through one way or another (there are some boundaries that all people should observe, no matter what the laws say...vandalism against an unjustified war is not one of them). I believe this is (it's not the only way of doing it, of course) the right thing to do against the war in Iraq, because it is an individual's duty to oppose such wrongs.

People must not remain silent.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 11:58 PM
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43. self delete
Edited on Tue Mar-22-05 11:59 PM by FlemingsGhost
Flem.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:11 AM
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46. Your free market solution WILL not work here.
Not when a landlord can deny a lease to the group doing so on any basis he likes.

Sorry, but people who trumpet the free market as the solution to things like this also like to turn around and say it's the landlord's right to not lease to such a group- a kind of, "so THERE!" to people who would protest.

So tell me, Mr. Mike, what if the landlord "doesn't want any trouble" in front of his store and thus doesn't rent to the antiwar people?

It's a "free" market, right?

Kind of like other things are "free", eh? ;)

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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:31 AM
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51. The landlord wont pay for that. They will charge US, the taxpayers
Landlords don't pay for vandalism, they charge the tenant and in most commercial leases, the tenant pays ALL maintenance and upfit.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 10:14 PM
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34. Recruiting centers don't have security cameras? Hmmmmmmm ...
Very interesting.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 02:55 PM
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68. Some do. n/t
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:58 AM
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85. PHOTOS: Hundreds of military recruiting centers SHUT DOWN
HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...







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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-05 10:40 PM
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35. .
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:01 AM
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45. I LOVE it! n/t
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:18 AM
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47. Thanks for posting.
:kick:
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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:28 AM
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49. Guess whose money will pay to clean this up?
HAHA! Real fucking funny that our hard earned dollars will go to repaint those columns and clean those windows.

It's so funny to waste our tax dollars. This is NOT a constructive act of civil disobedience.

They could have distributed those flyers on cars or handed them out and it would have made a bigger impact. Just a thought. :eyes:
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:33 AM
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53. If it means less bullets to kill Arabs ... (n/t)
Flem.
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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:35 AM
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55. It wont come out of the bullet budget. It will come out of food stamps
or some other social program. Don't kid yourself. They aren't going to sacrifice their military budget when they can throw poor children to the wolves.
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FlemingsGhost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:38 AM
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56. "A hungry mob, is an angry mob ..."
Edited on Wed Mar-23-05 12:43 AM by FlemingsGhost
"Them Belly Full," Bob Marley.

What folks don't understand, is we can defeat the Neo-Con agenda by adopting their own tactic: Starve the beast.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 02:59 PM
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69. It will come out of the military budget
somewhere...probably the Red Cross outreach, or the program that links young mothers, active duty and spouses, to services like WIC which provide nutrition to their infants. They'll take a chunk out of Family Support/Services, or take it out of MILCON so that soldiers will not get decent barracks....or maybe out of the fund that provides those new, desert friendly boots, and issue the leftover forty pound behemoths instead, leaving the E-1 to have to go out and buy the good set.

They'll cut butter before guns. Been there, seen that.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 04:33 PM
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75. 'It wont come out of the bullet budget'
Funny and true
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 12:32 AM
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52. OOps maybe they should try sidewalk chalk...give the recruiters something
to do besides recruit and doesn't cost anything to remove but water... maybe better rethink that as water is going the way with privitization next.
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 01:30 AM
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60. Maybe they should have broken some windows too
this is so idiotic.
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 03:21 AM
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62. So what half you guys seem to be saying...
Is that you're going to take your country back from these fiendish monsters who have stolen it from you, and who are turning a completely deaf ear to anything you say, who are in fact right at this moment blowing up some poor innocent f**kers on the other side of the world, with YOUR money... you're going to do that, you're going to fight the good fight til' the very first window is broken... and then you're going to say, "OH my GOD! Broken glass! WHAT HAVE WE DONE?" and just give up?
I didn't mean to be so harsh with you earlier, Imajika; maybe the two words I was looking for should have been "Wake up!"
I'm not advocating this, necessarily... but it's perfectly understandable in these terrible times we live in, and to say that such people should be arrested and fined--I just really gotta question your priorities there...
Civil disobedience of this sort is an old and honorable tradition. Wasn't the Boston Tea Party a fine example of this "vandalism" you speak of? Should THOSE guys have been arrested and fined too?
People aren't always perfectly rational... but c'mon, some sins are minor league, especially as measured against the tactics of our neocon enemies, who will obviously stop at NOTHING to advance their agenda...
THEY have the money to buy up ALL the storefronts and sidewalks, not to mention EVERY large-circulation newspaper and radio and television station in the world... we 'lil people' have very few alternatives in terms of getting our voices heard...
And on top of all that, have you been paying ANY attention to the events of the last two weeks? It's a SHIT-STORM out there; we're losing ground daily...
I guess it comes down to just how many giant hero-sized crapola sandwiches YOU feel you can stand to be force-fed before you just can't take one more bite.
The reeps should just pass a "law" outlawing dissent of ANY kind... and then we could embrace W as we should've to begin with, and all get back to trying to 'work within the system to affect positive change'...
We sign petitions: "Please, could you PLEEASE just TRY to stop poisoning us so badly EVERY DAY, Mister Leadership Man? (who is SUPPOSED to work for me, but who I will NEVER ACTUALLY MEET or speak to for five minutes because I'm just too small a fish)... like, could you guys even just TALK about SLOWING DOWN on the poisoning of us all, just a LITTLE? PLEEEASE???"
...and guess what? They're not listening.
Isn't it obvious?
They don't care if you're baby's sick. They don't care if you have something bad happen to you that wipes you out; maybe it WAS through no fault of your own, but too bad. Tough luck. There's a new sheriff in town, and new rules. No falling down. If you fall down on the ratwheel even ONCE, you die. Tough luck. 9/11 Changed Everything! Run!
We go to protests. We have to APPLY FOR A LICENSE to try to get our voices heard. Bush is in NY? They put us in a basement somewhere in New Jersey. We're underground cuz they're BURYING US.
Look, I ain't advocatin' NOTHIN'... do what YOUR conscience tells you to do...
And watch out who you confide in... cuz it seems to me there are a whole lot of people on this site who would rather waste energy condemning some of the dissenters, and bringing THEM to 'justice', than to sit up and take notice that, sad as I am to say it, though we feel ourselves informed and properly horrified at it all, we are ONLY JUST getting into the thick of it... and for many, it is much, MUCH later than you think.
DXS

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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 05:02 PM
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76. I hear ya..
:thumbsup:
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paineinthearse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:44 AM
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65. Defaced?
It is definately an improvement.

(But I liked the center's own "CLOSED" sign).
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-05 11:44 AM
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66. Bet they still made out better than Fallujah
This is so Deja Vu.

The Revolution starts in five minutes....
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SixDollarBurger Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:01 AM
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78. I found this
I was doing a search on this story and found this...careful...

Leftist Jackasses

http://www.hard-talk.com/
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diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:52 AM
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79. PHOTOS: hundreds of military recruiting centers SHUT DOWN
HUNDREDS of U.S. Military Recruiting Centers in strip malls, shopping centers and big city centers were SHUT DOWN this past weekend....and in Peace Actions starting Wednesday, March 16th and continuing through Monday, March 21, 2005...all across America....


thought you'd like to see a few of these Pro-Peace events....there are many many others on the internet...it's very impressive...


Boston SHUTS DOWN military recruitment center with a BLOODBATH
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/34004/index.php


Rochester NY: War-Veterans and Military Families SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



Baltimore, Maryland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Cleveland SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Madison, Wisconsin SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



San Diego SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Brooklyn SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...



NYC Times Square SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center



Harlem SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center..



Washington DC SHUTS DOWN military recruiting center...












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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 02:24 AM
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86. That's just dumb.
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