Oh those crazy leftists!!! They want us welcome criminals and illegal aliens with open arms, but don’t let the military or military equipment return from Iraq!!
At least a dozen people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators rallied to protest military-cargo shipments at Olympia’s port.
Saturday’s actions by police came one day after protesters halted two trucks from removing military equipment that had been unloaded from a ship coming from Iraq. The equipment was bound for Fort Lewis.
Protesters blocked traffic downtown about noon by jumping in front of large trucks with cargo containers.
Olympia police in riot gear moved in quickly, spraying pepper spray in the faces of the protesters, pushing them with their batons and dragging them away.
The protest was part of a weeklong series of demonstrations by the group Olympia Port Militarization Resistance. They have been protesting the use of the port by the USNS Brittin, which arrived Monday.
Wait a minute! I thought the anti-war people WANTED us to withdraw from Iraq? But they don’t want the military equipment returned to the United States. I guess they want the military out of Iraq, they just don’t want them in their neighborhood. Maybe they want us out of Iraq and redeployed to Okinawa?
I think they don’t know what they want. Maybe they just want to protest. Period.
h/t: Jules Crittenden