{"id":760,"date":"2007-10-20T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/violence-erupts-in-georgetown\/"},"modified":"2007-10-21T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T01:42:40","slug":"violence-erupts-in-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Violence erupts in Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2073\/1653950938_424ea37ba2_o.jpg\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo from Nikki Kahn and the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/photo\/postphotos\/orb\/metro\/2007-10-20\/2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trendy Georgetown section of Washington, DC was rocked by vandals and Black Bloc thugs last night according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/19\/AR2007101901728.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Violence Erupts at Protest in Georgetown&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wearing black shirts and covering their faces with bandannas, scores of sometimes unruly demonstrators marched through Georgetown last night to protest the international finance and development organizations meeting this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the large contingent of officers on scooters and bicycles who flanked and followed the 200 to 300 protesters, violent incidents broke out. A woman bled after being struck in the face with what police said was a flying brick.<\/p>\n<p>Trash cans were overturned in the rain-dampened streets, objects were thrown, and newspaper boxes were overturned. Two protesters were arrested in connection with an incident in which an officer was pushed from a scooter, Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said.<\/p>\n<p>Many store windows were boarded up in anticipation of the demonstration, which targeted the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, but two unprotected windows were struck near Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. It was not clear whether they were broken.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years, demonstrations had focused on the institutions&#8217; headquarters just west of the White House. But Rusty Shakkleford, 18, said protesters went to Georgetown, in addition to the traditional sites, because it was where the delegates dined and stayed. &#8220;We&#8217;re just here to tell them the American people will not let them exploit the Third World community,&#8221; Shakkleford said.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty sure his name was Rusty Shakkleford &#8211; the <em>nom de guerre<\/em> of King of the Hill character <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/kingofthehill\/bios\/dale.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dale Gribble<\/a>. And I guess by turning the DC neighborhood into a trash-strewn battle zone makes some kind of point. The working people who make Georgetown the attraction that it is are the ones who pay the price and do the cleaning. Who do these thugs think they&#8217;re hurting?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/article\/20071018\/METRO\/110180064\/1004\/METRO02\" target=\"_blank\">Times&#8217; Tom Knott<\/a> did some background on their &#8220;philosophy&#8221; the other day;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Down with capitalism. Down with neoliberalism. Down with the wealthy exploiters of Georgetown and their sycophants who take from the poor and feast on the culinary delights of Nathan&#8217;s Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The supporters of the so-called &#8220;October Rebellion,&#8221; designed to protest the actions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, convene at 9 tomorrow night at Washington Circle in Foggy Bottom before moving to the streets of Georgetown and letting the bourgeoisie pigs there know that the proletariat are wise to their human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>If it were not for the greedy denizens of Georgetown, there would be no homeless people shuffling up and down Wisconsin Avenue. And these homeless people would not be talking to imaginary voices. Instead, these homeless people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at least a few of them anyway \u00e2\u20ac\u201d would be living in the home of George Stephanopoulos and staging keg parties every weekend night.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how many of these peach-fuzzed children (who, by the way, aren&#8217;t brave enough to show their faces while they&#8217;re involved in criminal behavior) have even been to a third world coutry &#8211; or how many are willing to spend a few weeks in a third world country. Spoiled rich kids living in Mom&#8217;s basement. They use complicated problems as an excuse to destroy other people&#8217;s property like juvenile, immature little punk-ass sissies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read stories in local news sources about Metro and transit cops chasing down thirteen-year-old girls and wrestling them to the ground and cuffing them for eating french fries on a subway platform &#8211; yet they can&#8217;t summon the courage to stop these little weasels? Believe me, no one is more pro-cop than me, but DC&#8217;s public safety administration officials are gutless, politically correct incompetents.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Black Bloc punks\u00c2\u00a0got themselves all worked up, today&#8217;s protests at the World Bank building ought to be exciting today. I wonder how the new police chief will handle it.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00c2\u00a0thugs want to save third world countries, join the Army and join the fight for freedom. Or shut up.<\/p>\n<p>This is what a struggle for freedom in a third world country looks like;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.photobucket.com\/albums\/a1\/jlilyea\/270507.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">From the anti-Chavez demonstrations in Venezuela last Spring<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/tank27.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela Llora<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Where were you protesters when the <em>chavistas<\/em> were shooting down protesters in Caracas? Well, they don&#8217;t really care &#8211; these protests are just an excuse for the little punks to break stuff and assault working people.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3-116thsniper.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/priviledged-white-kids-protest-rich.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sniper<\/a>&#8216;s Thus Spoke Ortner wrote about the impending protests\u00c2\u00a0on Thursday, and has the details of the &#8220;organization&#8221; of these punks and misfits. <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2007\/10\/20\/anarchy-in-georgetown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Malkin<\/a> has background on <a href=\"http:\/\/octoberrebellion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">October Rebellion<\/a>, the umbrella group for these retards and misfits. The local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/myfox\/pages\/Home\/Detail;jsessionid=A36F300FF3B2EFCF40612A49870A16CC?contentId=4690404&#038;version=8&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=TSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1&#038;sflg=1\" target=\"_blank\">Fox 5 affiliate<\/a> reports that one working woman was hit wth a brick last night.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Fox 5 reporter Roby Chavez is reporting that one woman who worked in a Georgetown-area store has been injured in the protests. A woman was hit in the head after a protester threw a brick through the window of an Abercrombie and Fitch store and a United Colors of Benetton store near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2288\/1654630764_72490f1d97_o.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Video of the Fox 5\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/myfox\/MyFox\/pages\/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=4691548&#038;version=1&#038;locale=EN-US\" target=\"_blank\">report here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0More video and dead-on commentary from <a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/archives\/189841.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Jawa Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Griff Jenkins of Fox News Channel reports that they took his camera and smashed it. Sounds like it&#8217;s time to start policing these thugs ourselves since the cops can&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Photo from Nikki Kahn and the\u00c2\u00a0Washington Post The trendy Georgetown section of Washington, DC was &hellip; <a title=\"Violence erupts in Georgetown\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=760\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violence erupts in Georgetown<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}