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Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

When the SDS/Funk the War march went to Bechtel, several paint bombs were thrown, scoring direct hits on the war profiteer's windows. The second of two passes on the 14th and L st recruiter also led to direct hit from a paint bomb-as well as several short throws.
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Paint bomb hits on Bechtel
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Paint bomb hit on 14th and L recruiter with small part of crowd showing
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Paint bomb hit on recruiter with sign showing
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Cop hit by short(?) throw
One of the short throws at the recruiter nailed a cop, one landed among the Freepers, and one hit someone's camera. Towels and rags were quickly produced to clean up the collateral damage to the camera, unlike in Iraq where "collateral damage" often consists of irreversable losses like dead children.

Once again, protesters have "gotten on the scoreboard" at a recruiter! This is the third time this particular recruiter has absorbed damage (however slight) at the hands of student protesters.

While the Freepers attracted enough cops to prevent the building from being taken outright, the cops were unable to prevent projectiles from being hurled from the crowd. Although bricks and stones were not used, I'm sure the recruiter did not enjoy being painted either-and this makes the Freeper effort to protect a recruiter from "desecration" a failure.
 
 
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Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

I'm curious as to what it is you have against the recruiters? Why not take issue with the people who are the real bosses - Congress and Senate?
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

They might not be the ones in charge but they are all out liars. Who manipulate children into fighting for a pointless war.
 

Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

They aren't liars and children don't sign up for the military. Don't Bitch about what you don't know anything about and the only info you have on it is what you've read off the anti-militarism of our "youth" websites.
 

Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

Recruits have to pass tests to qualify to join the military. That means they are willingly applying. Recruiters do not lie, because if they bring incompetens into the military they lose thier positions as recruiters. These so-called
peace activists make things up as they go.
 

Re: Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

Hey man, this is Sgt. Kelt with the army, I am a recruiter and I wouldn't lie to your kids, when I said that kid had a manditory apointment with me I wasn't lying. Oh and my friend who let some people pass because they were drug addicts well we won't talk about that. You want money for college well we never said what college so how about a nice community college or a mail in degree. Well anyway come join the army and just don't question anything we might leave out when we are suckeri...errr umm recruiting you!
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

You guys are fucking retards. I hope they call in the ATF if you want to call them paint "bombs". See how you like sitting in a federal penitentiary for a couple of years you useless, clueless, shit-wits.
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

"this makes the Freeper effort to protect a recruiter from "desecration" a failure."

And how, exactly, was this infantile "action" a success?
 

Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

it was just a show of rage you know. They should of been rocks.
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

Anyone who think they can score some kind of political points by hitting police with paint balls is very messed up in the head.
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

That paint is still on the recruiter's window and on the sidewalk as I write this over 24 hours later.

What message do paint bombs send? That this recruiter is a TARGET and shall remain a target until the end of the war. Not all attacks on recruiters are as predictable as the ones that occur during protests!
 

Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

So, nobody protests anymore to make a point or bring light to an issue? It's just mob violence now?

Small wonder more and more people are beginning to see these kinds of people as criminals and vandals.

The peace movement is a sham. You say you want an end to war, yet you foment war like activities on American soil. You're no better than the 19 muslims who crashed jetliners into the towers, the pentagon and the field in shanksville. You are terrorists.
 

Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

Ok so by using your logic the soldiers in Iraq are using mob violence and so are the cops here and so are some of your right wing buddies in groups like Gathering of Eagles and Protest Warrior and Army of God. As for an end to war, war cannot end without the complete and utter destruction of capitalism and all the forms of oppression it has created.
 

Re: Re: Paint bombs hammer Bechtel, Recruiter

You whine and complain about paint bombs hitting windows but not about 4000+ dead soldiers and the almost 90,000 dead Iraqis (who I guess are liberated from life and are free to do what they please as long as it doesn't involve being alive!) Isn't their a large bit of hypocrisy in all of that???
 

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