Fri Oct 15 By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Writer JACKSONVILLE, Ore. - Police in riot gear fired pepperballs Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance. Witnesses said Bush supporters were on one side of California Street chanting "Four more years," and supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry were on the other chanting "Three more weeks." Police began moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn, where the president was to arrive for dinner and to spend the night following a speech. "We were here to protest Bush and show our support for Kerry," said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk. "Nobody was being violent. We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law." Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter. Jeff Treadwell, 37, an auto mechanic from Medford who joined the protesters, estimated about 500 people were assembled, counting both Bush and Kerry supporters. Jacksonville City Administrator Paul Wyntergreen said the protest was peaceful until a few people started pushing police. Police reacted by firing pepperballs, which he described as projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Two people were arrested for failing to disperse. There were no reports of injuries. Protester Richard Swaney, 65, of Central Point, said he was walking with the crowd away from the inn when he was hit in the back with three separate bursts, one of which knocked him down. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=23&u=/ap/20041015/ap_on_re_us/bush_protest_1
Bush, Feurher sp? like, must be only shown speaking in front of adoring masses of carefully vetted supporters. He sure swaggers at his appearance in front of those carefully chosen followers that you see in nightly on the news. This is one of the reasons it was so shocking to see him flop so bad in the debates. I think he was shocked and apparently just pissed that someone actually disagreed with him.
yeah i'd say that's a pretty good way to catch a pepperball in the ass. not only does "fire on crowd" sound way worse than this but it makes it sound rash and unprovoked. until otherwise proven, i would just assume pushing police is gonna catch you an asswhoopin' every time.
i don't know but to listen to glynch i'm sure bush and his einsatzgruppen will be marching down my street any time now.
give him a break, Glynch works hard to make the left sound like the lunatic fringe. He should be appreciated for it. I've actually mellowed considerably by coming to this site--and I've learned to respect a LOT of the left's sentiments because of it--much of this completely in spite of Glynch.
