Family Research Council email making the rounds: "Are Left-Wing Vandals Above the Law?"

[Earth_First]

This past weekend anti-Bush protestors marched on Washington. While the few thousand who showed up paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who marched for life earlier in the week, the anti-Bush protestors were given unprecedented access to the U.S. Capitol grounds, and some of them used that access to publicly deface taxpayer's property. According to the local newspaper, The Hill, the protesters were allowed to take the Capitol steps and they began to spray-paint "anarchist symbols" and phrases such as "Our capitol building" and "You can't stop us" around the area.

For any other group, such acts would mean immediate arrest. This time, the Capitol police's hands were tied because they were ordered to stand down by their Chief of Police, who answers to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). To add insult to injury, public employees had to come in on their day off, at taxpayer's expense, to clean up the mess the protestors left behind. (View this video to see evidence of the vandalism.) The vandals clearly broke federal law. According to the U.S. Code, "f the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both . . . When property damage does not exceed $100, the offense is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $100,000, one year imprisonment, or both."

According to the news reports the rank and file police officers were "livid" that they were ordered not to arrest anyone. Since the Capitol police answer to Speaker Pelosi, the question arises, did the Chief of Police give the "no arrest" order or did it come from someone else? Whoever is responsible for the order needs to explain why the physical destruction of taxpayer property is acceptable.

Please e-mail Speaker Pelosi's office and ask her to find out why no attempt was made to halt or arrest these vandals. If the U.S. Capitol has a new policy on such acts, does it apply to everyone - or just to those whose views the majority in Congress favors?


Take Action: Ask Congress - Are Left-Wing Vandals Above the Law?

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

P.S. Please forward this email to at least one friend.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Arrest those guys

that took the "W"s off the WH computer keyboards!

[tularetom]

2. Hey Tony go back to the Bates Motel you asshole

[patrice]

3. TP is a Hate Monger. n/t

[Mind_your_head]

4. Projection......Are the Right Wing vandals/criminals in charge 'ABOVE THE LAW'????

eom

[lvx35]

5. Sorry conservatives...

you can't have your empire and whine about being oppressed at the same time. Can you imagine Marcus Aurelius sitting around with his panties in a wad about the Roman populus???

[AlCzervik]

6. does anyone know is this org is tax exempt?

[Initech]

7. Are crazy right-wing fundamentalist Christians above the law? NO.

But they like to think they are, so that makes it OK. :banghead:

[MSchreader]

8. Whatever

We cleaned up the Mall, so I see it as an even trade.

Martin

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Complete bullshit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=113004&mesg_id=113004