Case of Wrongly Arrested WTO Protesters Settled for $1 million

April 4, 2007

  • April 4, 2007 at 1:45 am
    Gill Fin says:
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    from the city of Seattle. They trashed downtown businesses and stopped normal business and personal activities, now they get a handout? America, please understand, not all Seattlites are selfish idiots, and some of the self-centered civil disobedience occurred because anarchists from Oregon hitchhiked to Seattle looking for, quite typically, a handout. Looks like they got it. How about some government cheese, too?

  • April 4, 2007 at 1:52 am
    Al says:
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    They aren\’t just from OR – they\’re all over the country: they\’re the Democrat Party base!

  • April 4, 2007 at 1:59 am
    Realist says:
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    It\’s a racket for small-brain attorneys, as the Gov\’t (me and you) pay their legal fees if it is a civil rights issue.
    Another way for attys who can\’t make it in private practice to feed at the public trough.

  • April 4, 2007 at 2:16 am
    Country Bumpkin says:
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    Did I miss something? Didn\’t a jury made up of Seattle residents find that civil rights were violated?

  • April 4, 2007 at 2:20 am
    So.... says:
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    Who cares what a jury decided. It\’s BS regardless.

    Was OJ innocent also?

  • April 4, 2007 at 2:42 am
    Witless for the Jerky says:
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    This whole boo hoo you violated my rights is ridiculous — on 7th and Union where the first fateful day occurred lucky me had birds eye view of everything that happened. From my office on Union from the 10th floor I a great view of that corner. So I stood and watched as all these “peaceful” protesters threw cans, bottles, rocks, and anything else they could get their hands on at the police who were only standing a line doing their job. At the time the police weren’t outfitted in their riot gear. Yet they still stood taking all the physical and verbal abuse from these peaceful protesters. The police were only doing their job. Or trying to. Between that and the dumpster that was set on fire and rolled into the police line you cant blame them for not trying to sort out the peaceful from the trouble makers.

    As far as I am concerned the protesters should be made to pay the people that had to work down town. During this mess I had to literally sneak through back alleys, show id to the military to get into work (after the initial mess our office then became located in the red zone), and had to evacuate my office because of the tear gas that was leaking in our lobby, because the police had to use it to subdue these “peaceful” people.

    On the day our office had to leave because of the tear gas, we had to sneak through alleys to get out of downtown- we had no clue we were right behind the worst of the damage. The news crews didn’t even cover one tenth of what we saw, the useless and wanton destruction of everything in the protesters path. Literally we were one block behind them.

    Now I know what it is like to live in a third world country under martial law. And I never want to go there again. So protesters where is my money from you for causing my excess trauma? Hmmm…

  • April 4, 2007 at 3:08 am
    Small Brained Attorney says:
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    Unless I missed something, those \”small brained\” attorneys who got their clients a $1,000,000 settlment have just demonstrated that they are quite competent and are doing quite well at \”making it\” in private practice. This was no easy case to win. Score one for the Constitution.

  • April 4, 2007 at 3:30 am
    Reality Check says:
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    Sure looks like someone has a good handle on what REALLY happened that fateful day. One might lump politicians and attorneys in the same boat………and ship them off somewhere else!

  • April 4, 2007 at 5:45 am
    Mary B. says:
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    Agreed So…. The lawsuit was pure BS and a money shakedown. \”Civil liberties\” being \”violated\” PLEASE, what crap. Those protesters were breaking the law once they started damaging private property and disturbing the peace; that filth deserved more than 3 days in jail. With their \”winnings\” they should have to pay for the damage they caused to all the local businesses and for their loss of business revenue.

  • April 5, 2007 at 7:45 am
    quaker in pa says:
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