Cage The Recruiters

I've been warning you that things are ratcheting up in the radical whacko community.  This is another in a series and this time we go to Pittsburgh.

A collection of radical nitwits calling themselves the "Pittsburgh Organizing Group", or POG, has this on their website:

On Wednesday, March 19, POG will be holding a torch-lit march to a modern day castle of abominations—our local military recruiting station. If the station remains open, we intend to evict it and everything inside of it, occupy the location, and transform it into something useful for the community. We'll also be bringing a movable cage in which to confine military recruiters until they no longer pose a danger to our friends and neighbors. (Emphasis added)

They plan to raid the office, destroy (and steal) everything in it and cage the recruiters.  Of course, that's what they say they are going to do.  I'm not sure if they are really dumb  enough to ransack the office, kidnap, and imprison the recruiters.  It isn't going to happen.

First, they are going to do this at 6:30 PM.  They already know the recruiters will most likely not be there.  They also more than likely understand that kidnapping and false imprisonment of a government official are federal felonies and if they are convicted of such an offense, they will be very old men and women when they are eventually let out of prison. 

They know that and pretty much admit it as you read on:

Of course, the station may be closed and recruiters may flee or hide behind the police apparatus that enables the war to continue. That is often the case, and we've seen in the past the overwhelming resources the state directs against these anniversary events because of their importance as a symbol of dissent. We believe in acting effectively, in confronting the war, at times and places of our choosing. When the state brings the resources necessary to suppress direct action against the war, it makes sense to hold a symbolic protest, and we still consider that a success, as it exposes the reality that it is ultimately on the local level that our countries war policy will be decided.

They know that if they do carry out such an act, they will go to jail.  So when they rally and the police are there because they, in effect, telling the police what they plan on doing, they still claim victory because after all, its the symbolism that counts.  It's called symbolism over substance.  It's not actually doing the deed, but willingness to carry it out if there is no real danger to themselves.  Loosely translated, they are your typical coward commies.

Starting this week, things are going to get warmer and I don't necessarily mean the weather.

Michelle Malkin and Yankeemom is tracking a a bunch of upcoming protests.  Check in with them often.  I do.

VW

Comments

[GM Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET]

They sound like outstanding candidates for a BLANKET PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe a lasso and a piggin' string. What say you?

[Just another republican]

I like how they think anybody but themselves are hiding behind the police, do they know what would happen if they tried to put a marine in a cage without the police around?

Anyways, threatening a federal employee is a federal offense, these scum should be arrested imemdiately.

Expressing outrage over a war is their constitutional and protected right, threatening to put people in cages and steal federal property is not.

If anything is a danger to family and neighbors its the idea of mob rule, if you don't like what somebody is doing, get some of your best friends and a mobile cage and put them in it. Sounds like perfectly reasonable way to run law and order. Stupid.

[BobF]

It's amazing that these groups always anounce their intentions to make sure police are available to protect them.

Check this out, posted on Michelle Malkin.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/28/look-whos-calling-for-the-marines-now/

“While we were at the protest in Berkeley from 12 to 4 PM a white volvo drove by and a man spat upon code pink. They chased him down the street and got into a verbal altercation. The police were NO WHERE in sight. That’s not the best part, ready for this? Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote “Marines!” she actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car. Lol. I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me “I said Marines” then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine vet) Ironic.