Police Fire on Crowd of Bush Protesters

[Kire]

Oregon Police Fire on Crowd of Protesters

JEFF BARNARD

Associated Press


JACKSONVILLE, Ore. - Police in riot gear fired pepperballs Thursday night to disperse a crowd of protesters assembled in this historic gold mining town where President Bush was spending the night after a campaign appearance.

Witnesses said Bush supporters were on one side of California Street chanting "Four more years," and supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry were on the other chanting "Three more weeks." Police began moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn, where the president was to arrive for dinner and to spend the night following a speech.

"We were here to protest Bush and show our support for Kerry," said Cerridewen Bunten, 24, a college student and retail clerk. "Nobody was being violent. We were out of the streets so cars could go by. We were being loud, but I never knew that was against the law."

Bunten said she was pushed by police as she held her 6-year-old daughter.

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[Beaverhausen]

1. I'm speechless

[roguevalley]

2. This is next to my hometown. If you ever saw it, you would be even more

appalled. Jacksonville is the greatest little town ever.

[NEDem]

3. OH SHIT!

Is this America or Nazi Germany?

[tmooses]

4. For those of us who lived through Nixon & Vietnam....

This has a very familiar ring to it. It's the sound of rights being suppressed at the end of a weapon.

[skylarmae]

8. the young ones just don't understand what we had to fight for

back then. They take so much for granted. Maybe now they will get a glimpse of just what they have to lose. I've tried to explain to my daughter what we had to change and how much of a struggle it was to change it. It was a time of them against us, like now. We had to stand up for the truth then and we must not fail to stand up for it today, and tomorrow and forever more.

[pretzel4gore]

10. and now they're even saying protesting the vietnam war

was bad thing 30+ years ago.....

[Free2BMe]

5. We need to do everything in our power to encourage these

young people to vote...they see the subversive tactics being used and they are the hope we have to begin to change American politics..I am safely a senior and have great confidence in this age group.

[Mojambo]

6. Get used to it

It's going to get A LOT worse.

[OutsourceBush]

7. It's the new USA police state, you have the right to work

for minimum wage and shut the F up. First Amendment? HA! Forget that. This is normal everyday occurrence these days unfortunately.

[jimshoes]

9. Let's get this fake emperor

the fuck out of our government. He has effectively turned this country into a police state. His worthless existence has taken on some kind of demigod-like proportion. He does not merit the fawning attention that he has grown accustomed to.