Pictures and report of hit and run

The Oregon DMV sells a CD-ROM database of license plates and the registered owners. I do not have one, but perhaps someone reading this might, or (more likely) might know someone who would have one.

Once obtained, copies of that CD should be distributed widely. There are reports around the web of Pro-War people using their vehicles against anti-war demonstrators.

This story brings to mind the reports from television of Iraqi military using "pickup trucks" to attack american forces in Iraq...

Clearly the guys in the truck are terrorists, though, since they are attacking American citizens on American soil. They don't look like Muslims, but I understand that certain terrorists have gotten permission to wear GI haircuts in order to "blend in"...

Don't want to jump to conclusions, but the guys in the truck are obviously not Americans, since they seem to have some sort of issue with persons exercising their Constitutional rights.

Has anyone pointed this out to the police? The "hit-and-run" becomes an Act of Terrorism if motive is ascribed to it.

You guys are too funny. "Lets smash the state." Err, wait. "Can somebody call the State's tool: 911. We have an emergency." Hope those streets aren't blocked and the ambulance can get through.

Ah, prejudice. Let's lump all antiwar protestors into one undifferentiated mass. Perhaps we should explain something to you: The peace campers are not from the "smash the state" bloc of Portland antiwar activism. They don't tag and vandalize. They don't occupy bridges. They camp. That's it.

So chill.

Oh, my mistake. I took you at your face value when you spoke of solidarity and marched together. How inconsiderate of me to think that you had something in common.

That is so ridiculous, to assert that a victim of a hit and run shouldn't call 911 because they participated in a anti-WAR march in solidarity with anarchists. Shit, anarchists even have their own medics (the Black Cross), but they'll still call 911 when things get bad enough, if only because they are legally obligated to do so.

I think you're taking the Shut It Down aspect of these protests a little too far. I've never heard anyone even come CLOSE to suggesting that protests should impede emergency services.

I don't know what's up with B or how he claims to represent us Anarchists. I know for a fact that I would never allow anybody to call 911 for me, even if I were lying therebloodied. 911 is a tool of a corrupt State and to use it is to sanction the State.

So. Let me get this straight. The cops will beat people up for sitting in intersections holding candles in a moment of shared helplessness the day the war breaks out. The cops will use chemical weapons on innocent bystanders who happen to be near someone daring to walk in the STREET without a permit. The cops will arrest anyone -- even a MINISTER! -- for JAYWALKING. Jaywalking. People are getting arrested in Portland, for jaywalking.

But some billy bob from the stix can come in and harrass, intimidate, and then actually run into someone in their big mesomorphic pickup truck, and the cops do nothing?

Why am I not surprised.

Smoke another stogie, Marty.

Or maybe just a dumb kid but i'll bet my toast HE is white tool of the state Never have I heard doctors put in with bald white businessmen and cops before. Calling the cops is one thing (though we need a good citezens alternative first- and since were not allowed to organize hmmm) but 911 please. The stae provides police and fire, I would gladly trade that in for some lovely health care. Lets ogranize anarcho#17 AND OPEN UP A FREE CLINIC.

Bill, you need a lawyer. You've got a case agaist this driver. Go for it. If the police won't bring him to justice, you can in civil court. I had to quit protesting in front of the federal building because of drivers like this one. Isn't it sad when you have to worry about your safety because of expressing dissent?

Sadly, the police response to Bill is probably not based on his being a protestor (though their arresting people for jaywalking, not showing id's and such is). Many years ago (1994) I was crossing the street (legally) and just about run over by a driver, who then hopped out and slugged me because I had whacked his car with my hand as I jumped away. I'm knocked over; blood everywhere. Bystanders got the license number and called the police. The police came, shrugged and said (in basically so many words), "well, you should really be more careful. If you want to file charges, go to DMV and look up his license plate number to get his name, mail in a request (no walk-ins) with a check for $10 for a copy of the police report, take a day off work to talk with the DA, and maybe they'll charge him with assault 3. We aren't going to do anything, ourselves."

After several events like that (e.g. "stolen bike? who cares?"), hearing the police talk like fascists at my neighborhood association, seeing the police claim stress disability years after they shoot someone when they are about to be disciplined, and so on, I got to adding up benefits and costs and decided that I'm not going to bother with the police anymore, since I'm as likely to get myself or some other poor bystander (or the perpetrator, who is after all a human even if a dumbass) shot as to have any other result, much less one that is measured, reasonable and effective. The police response to the current protests has only made me more certain that this decision is correct.

Ill buy the driver a beer,,,and never forget "PACIFISTS ARE THE PARASITES OF FREEDOM"