[tuolumnejim]

GRRRRRR! I'm thinking something along the lines of boot, butt, shoulders, for the chicken-sh*t "protestors" who did this.

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Vandals dump paint on veterans memorial

By JIM HALPIN
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Published: March 19th, 2008 03:31 PM
Last Modified: March 19th, 2008 03:32 PM

Vandals dumped a bucket of red paint on a downtown veterans memorial this morning, the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in what police suspect was a symbolic act of protest. Passers-by spotted the blood-toned paint on the Anchorage Veterans Memorial, in the Delaney Park Strip off I Street, during the morning commute and reported it to police. The soldier's helmet was blood red, with the paint dripping down to the ground below.

"There's a movement across the country, since it's the fifth anniversary of the war, to protest," police Lt. Paul Honeman said.

Police say they are investigating the vandalism as a crime, and the responsible party could be facing charges of malicious destruction of property or felony criminal mischief, depending on what it cost to clean up the paint, he said.

"You have the right to express your opinion, but not if it destroys other people's property," Honeman said.

The statue was cleaned off by early afternoon, with only a hint of a reddish hue staining the greening copper shaped into a soldier holding a carbine. The blood-colored paint stained the snow beneath a placard that is part of the monument: "To those Alaska veterans whose eyes have seen what the protected will never know."

 

[Trutu]

Makes the blood boil.. that asshat(s) just dumped on the soldiers who protect the precious freedom he spits on! If he'd have lived in nazi germany i'd imagine the storm troopers would have rounded him up and showed him what freedom means.

 

[Rory]

keep in mind that the ass hat dumped paint on a rock.
not on any person or their memory or even their contribution.
those memorialized by that rock did so to said ass hat cold do
such a thing without fear of death. hefty cleanup fines sure
just not pain or torture or death


r

 

[Trutu]

keep in mind that the ass hat dumped paint on a rock.
not on any person or their memory or even their contribution.
those memorialized by that rock..

Doesn't make it any better, to keep that in mind. Still makes him an asshat
I might be confused but you said that it didn't dump on their memory, yet you say those memorialized by that rock? or were you talking as to a specific person's memory? anyways I hope they catch em.

 

[patriotpa]

Check ALL the security cams in the area. ONE of them caught a pic of SOMEONE.
When they find them, have a parade with them in front. At the finish, chain them to a tree at dusk, then walk off. Natural selection will take care of the rest.

Force feed them the paint, then duct tape their mouths shut.

 

[Pvt.Joker]

keep in mind that the ass hat dumped paint on a rock.
not on any person or their memory or even their contribution.
those memorialized by that rock did so to said ass hat cold do
such a thing without fear of death. hefty cleanup fines sure
just not pain or torture or death


r

Sure, no problem. And while we're at it, let's bulldoze Auchwitz and put up a Wal-Mart. After all, it's only a bunch of old buildings, right? Not like those silly memorials MEAN anything to anybody, right? Yeah...

Sorry Rory, but I gotta call bullshit on this one. Maybe not torture per se, and certainly not death, granted, but a good dose of pain might be in order. There ARE other ways to protest and to express one's disagreement with the war than to disrespect those who fought for ALL of us to keep the freedom, even the freedom to disagree.

 

[Rory]

oh he broke the law. needs punished. no doubt. was a stupid thing to do. and honestly pretty abhorrent. i just keep reading about what has been happening to protesters in china recently and makes me like this little rock a little bit more.

r

 

[DOUBLE8]

WOW, never amazes me anymore. So we should just ASK them to clean it up and charge them $25?? Im with a ass beatin that they will wake up every mornin for the rest of their life remmemberin. But, thats just me and why i have been in jail and paid fines before. Maybe i should go to college to learn the ways of the wise and perhaps change my mind on everything.

 

[BAinMO]

Victimless crime

Yes it’s a victimless crime. Then again if I burn down some ones house I don't like when no one is there………they can always just rebuild. They can always just buy new stuff. It wasn’t my stuff and maybe the house was owned by somebody that’s dead.
Come to think of it I bet I can blame the easy access to matches and gas as the root cause of the aforementioned crime. Yea that’s it….I had a bad childhood and grew up “on the wrong side of the tracks”.
IF I get caught I'll say how bad I feel about it now too.
BAinMO

 

[2ndShooter]

"To those Alaska veterans whose eyes have seen what the protected will never know."




The vandals should have done more reading and less painting.

 

[blackrifles]

IF the cops find who did it, I hope the some of the cops are ex-mil, they'll do the rest.

 

[alamosaddles]

keep in mind that the ass hat dumped paint on a rock.
not on any person or their memory or even their contribution.
those memorialized by that rock did so to said ass hat cold do
such a thing without fear of death. hefty cleanup fines sure
just not pain or torture or death


r

That's a noble stance..however, I wonder if someone who really stands by that would still stand by that type of statement if some jackass went and pissed all over their family members grave?

 

[Chad G]

WOW, never amazes me anymore. So we should just ASK them to clean it up and charge them $25?? Im with a ass beatin that they will wake up every mornin for the rest of their life remmemberin. But, thats just me and why i have been in jail and paid fines before. Maybe i should go to college to learn the ways of the wise and perhaps change my mind on everything.

Now, why would go and do something like that, you don't need a brainwashing course.

 

[Rory]

That's a noble stance..however, I wonder if someone who really stands by that would still stand by that type of statement if some jackass went and pissed all over their family members grave?

i have a pretty pragmatic stance on stuff like that so probably. no doubt i would get to the bottom of what the issue was but yeah, i would most likely have the same stance. i see symbols as just that. and paint can be cleaned off. it sucks and i would not welcome this action as it is rude and and pretty childish.

r

 

[AaronHorrocks]

In the Soviet Union, they would be deported to Siberia.

 

[quizkid]

If we continue to dumb ourselves down by saying "It's only a symbol" or "No big deal, it can be cleaned up", we have planted seeds of passivism. If these seeds are allowed to germinate in our fellow citizens, we will have truly lost our country.

 

[slowfire]

If these seeds are allowed to germinate in our fellow citizens, we will have truly lost our country.

we already lost our country, by being bamboozled into going into a useless and costly war.

 

[alamosaddles]

we already lost our country, by being bamboozled into going into a useless and costly war.

so...should we just pull out all of our troops and throw in the towel?

 

[slowfire]

so...should we just pull out all of our troops and throw in the towel?

it isn't a matter of throwing in the towel.........in the past 5 years, we have did more to supply, abd trained their forces, and gave a good portion of our fighting men lives for that country........., and so far their elected gov't haven't done squat, except to fill their pockets with taxpayers money, and hide in the green zone. I say enough is enough, if they aren't as committed to securing their own country, then why should we continue to prop up a corrupt regime, and have our soldiers and marines continue to be fodder for them? no one can say that we didn't give them the money, arms, and training to have them fight for their own country, even after being lied to and deceive what the prupose of that war was.

 

[Pvt.Joker]

it isn't a matter of throwing in the towel.........in the past 5 years, we have did more to supply, abd trained their forces, and gave a good portion of our fighting men lives for that country........., and so far their elected gov't haven't done squat, except to fill their pockets with taxpayers money, and hide in the green zone. I say enough is enough, if they aren't as committed to securing their own country, then why should we continue to prop up a corrupt regime, and have our soldiers and marines continue to be fodder for them? no one can say that we didn't give them the money, arms, and training to have them fight for their own country, even after being lied to and deceive what the prupose of that war was.

I got a better idea- Let's pull out of the cities and establish security perimeters around the oil fields and pumping stations, and basically let's secure ourselves a solid flow of cheap (free?) oil, and let them ALL go back to doing what they were best at doing- killing each other off like cattle to the slaughter over whether their true prophet was Moe, Larry, or Curly (or whatever other excuse they want to use this week to rationalize killing each other). We did our part; they are free of Saddam. Free to settle OLD scores that go back LONG before we ever got there, and WILL go on LONG after we eventually do leave anyway. So let's take our cheap oil, lock it up tight, keep enough forces in the area to make the point to the Iranians that they didn't "win" by chasing us out, and just focus on what WE need- another instant means of driving down oil prices to try and salvage what's left of our economy, and bring the rest of our troops back home, to deploy along to secure OUR Southern border. Part of our problem with the war is that it is being ran to appease the PC "No War for Oil" crowd, and that is a failed endeavor because no matter what happens, they are NOT going to be satisfied with anything less than complete instant withdrawl, but then they also don't want us to drill off our own coasts or in ANWAR because it may "hurt the enviornment" and they just don't care how many Americans are suffering in the name of their lousy protected wildlife. So then, we either need to refocus our efforts in Iraq to reflect AMERICAN needs first (instead of NeoCon nation-building Imperial wet dreams) and take the oil that WE need, and then let the Arabs make up their own minds about how they choose to govern the remainder of their desert. Unless they attack US there, and then we should make the point to focus the tip of our spears directly onto those who are attacking us, then and there, without all the PC ROE nonsense. And if that is unacceptable to the libs, then let us either drill the oil on our own soil instead, or (GASP!!!) drop all the BS taxes off of fuel and let Uncle Suga adjust... (Just like the rest of us have had to!)