Breach of peace? What the fuck is that?!!!!!!!

Turd!

Don't see anything to laugh about when authorities act like idiots. And then need to charge someone to justify their behavior.

1st degree breach of peace? What inadvertent act couldn't fall under that category? Anything that makes some idiot break into a hysterical fit?

Breach of the peace my ass, they're being charged with "Preventing the local police from looking like complete idiots by being scapegoats."

What is particularly chilling is that under the latest legislation from the Bush administration, they could be held indefinitely, incommunicado.

The parking lot doesn't make a particularly effective delivery vehicle.

It better get thrown out of court.

One wonders what dirt they dug up on Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) to get him to flip-flop on the occupation of Iraq and start spouting Friedman Units after the supervised dog and pony show he was treated to in that poor country?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/28/baird-%e2%80%98verbally-flogged%e2%8...

Just listening to this guy it's clear something doesn't smell right. He can't be that stupid.

Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?

My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.

Wess @ 15:

Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?

My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Wess @ 15:

Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?

My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.

Yeah I know money and greed are completely absent in the rest of the world.

So you say these two are from Hamburg, Germany....

Perfect...

Conneticutt, giving a big international hug all over the world...

The best the US has to offer...

tyree @ 20:

Wess @ 15:

Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?

My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.

well it after all is a country of latterday masterbaters ,

Normally, I'd go ahead and be embarrassed for my fellow Americans, but not this time. No way will I ever be this fucking stupid and cowardly. And on that topic: props to Savid Salchow for riding down there and trying to straighten things out. Ten bucks says this guy is not a republican. A republican would never have the stones or integrity to face the music. He'd be cowering in a bathroom stall, tapping his foot and....

...nevermind...

They were just sprinkling the flower to mark out the running course, because some US Americans in our nation don't have maps...
;-)

I swear, you can't make up this shit....

this twilight zone novella literally writes itself....

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

The sprinkled powder didn't force anybody to do anything. The idiots in authority suits forced the evacuation. Jeez, you can't do anything in America anymore without wondering how it's going to be perceived by some terror-filled idiot with the authority to lock you away.

Mission accomplished, bush.

bush would have snorted it

Exact same thing happened in Chicago a couple years ago.

They blocked off the park and called in all sorts of hazmat and emergency response squads.

Then, a reporter called the cops and said, "Um, a running club marks their trails with chalk there every week."

Nobody was arrested, tho.

In 2002, five blocks in Chicago were closed off and the Lincoln Park Zoo evacuated for an afternoon after a running club marked a trail with flour in that area. A similar incident in Wichita, Kansas, in 1999 shut down the whole downtown area one morning. No charges were brought in those cases.

You'd think they'd be catching on by now.

Stupid as all get out.

Gawd...

Are we turning out to be a nation of Chicken Littles....

The Sky is Falling....The Sky is Falling......

How do you get a day off from work?

Sprinkle flour on the parking lot.

We can't do shit anymore because of chimpy and his warmongering behavior.

the cons have made the sheeple afraid of their own shadows

The U.S. has the most gun nuts.

Guess it happened in Florida in 2004 too...another running club, another flour trail, another panic attack from the authorities. One of the runners posted some interesting observations:

OK, the Daytona hash was interesting tonight. here are a few things I learned.
Park your car as far away from where the hashers gather at the start. ( Just maybe you will not in up inside the police roped off area)
Always bring cash and ID on trail. (You never know when you may need to spend a little more time in a bar waiting for the police to let you in your car or to leave the parking lot.)
Never and I mean never lay trail in a Wal-Mart store.
I did not know that Deland had that many polices cars.
Hazmat teams do not respond that fast. ( I guess to takes a while to put on the suits)
Cops can follow trail, well at least back to the start.
Were the helicopters trying to follow the trail also?
Do we need to die flower again so it will not be mistaken for something else.

http://www.dbh3.us/trash/OldTrash04/trash04feb04.shtml

Next they will be arresting little kids for writing on the sidewalks with sidewalk chalk.

Sometimes I think the police are just as stupid as Bush and his paraonoid war mongers. They get off on the authoritarian crap. Makes them think they are real men.

Give me a break. You mean that if I drop a bag of flour in the parking lot at Winco, I could be charged with a felony? My god, what is happening to this country. What have we become, a nation of hysterics. Thanks Mr. Bush, you have done your job well.

ABC is doing that to Kucinich, too. So we have Ron Paul's people and Dennis Kucinich's people exposing how the corporate controlled mainstream media is controlling our elections by not giving equal coverage of candidates.

At least Boston was frightened by actual Mooninites.
LuLz.

This just in: Poppin Fresh arrested in the parking lot of Home Depot.

The deliberate scare mongering over Anthrax is much more apparent when you start reading about how dangerous it actually is. When ever I see things like this the first question I ask will always be: "was that an appropriate response?" Obviously, you're seeing the severest over reaction to each of these anthrax cases. It kind of scary to know that in the best of cases this is how ill informed the authorities are about what is considered a serious threat. It's even scarier to know how ill informed the authorities are about the threat of a dirty bomb, and the threat of terrorists boarding air planes. That's without considering that this is probably just a mayor and police chief jumping the gun at a chance to be the big heroes in thwarting a terrorist plot. That's without the thought that this may be a more elaborate ruse orchestrated by the Republican party. Not a conspiracy theory about scaring the public. But, whisper in the ear to take every terrorist threat in the most dire light possible. A sick PR campaign to emphasize the perceived true threat to American citizens, and their need for more and more protection.

http://www.gothamgazette.com/commentary/106.szalavitz.shtml

"They talked funny and had white power. I told the children the jump in the Escalade while I called the authorities on my blue tooth"

Stanley Rosenthal @ 60:

broadband connection problems for me, and my dial-up modem only works at like 20kb at best, I'll see ya'll later when I get my broadband problem resolved ...

He talks funny too. Call the authorities!

I'm a hasher, and have been sparring online w/some of my peers who support the hysteria fueling administration. I'm hoping they understand that this is just another example -- that they happen to relate to--- of the way that the administration is teaching us all to be so goddamn afraid of everything so that we'll start reporting on our neighbors so we can feel safer.

Big Dan @ 56:

* Congressman Kucinich was apparently deliberately cropped out of a "Politics Page" photo of the candidates [see photo].

* Sometime Monday afternoon, after Congressman Kucinich took a commanding lead in ABC's own on-line "Who won the Democratic debate" survey, the survey was dropped from prominence on the website.

* ABC News has not officially reported the results of its online survey.

* After the results of that survey showed Congressman Kucinich winning handily, ABC News, sometime Monday afternoon, replaced the original survey with a second survey asking "Who is winning the Democratic debate?"

* During the early voting Monday afternoon and evening, U.S. Senator Barack Obama was in the lead. By sometime late Monday or early Tuesday morning, Congressman Kucinich regained the lead by a wide margin in this second survey.

* Sometime Tuesday morning, ABC News apparently dropped the second survey from prominence or killed it entirely.

* AND, as every viewer of the nationally televised Sunday Presidential forum is aware, Congressman Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program.

The campaign submitted objections and inquiries to ABC News representatives on Monday and Tuesday. ABC News representatives have failed to respond [to] - or even acknowledge - those objections and inquiries.

Thanks for keeping this front and center. We need this succinct list of facts to be spread all over the blogosphere.

the real terrorists in this country are bush/cheney and the current administration.
they think they are above the laws they expect us to uphold and follow.
the entire gop thinks they can do whatever they want, as long as they can cover it up, hide it with misdirection or ask bush to make sure he will cover it up by calling it "executive privilege".

bush has no creditibility. i am fearful his delusions will actually cause the
start of another war and put us in the middle of another lie. i fear mostly bush/cheney are capable of nuking our own country themselves and will blame it on another country. they are that untrustworthy.

hamburger @ 65:

I'm a hasher, and have been sparring online w/some of my peers who support the hysteria fueling administration. I'm hoping they understand that this is just another example -- that they happen to relate to--- of the way that the administration is teaching us all to be so goddamn afraid of everything so that we'll start reporting on our neighbors so we can feel safer.

"Hamburger," huh? There is a Hamberg in Germany, isn't there? Isn't that where the foiled terrorists came from? Expect a knock on the door...
PPI (another Hasher)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0709/p01s05-usec.html

New York - The US economy is now being powered by educators, healthcare workers, front-desk clerks at hotels, and anyone who can ask, "May I help you?"

Demand for workers in the service sector is hard to sate. Online job postings are full of ads looking for hair stylists, legal case assistants, and billing coordinators. Search firms say 80 percent or more of their work is in the service sector. In fact, the economy has now reached the point that the service sector is creating 100 percent of US job growth.

Last month was yet another example of such economic muscle: The Labor Department reported last Friday a net gain of 132,000 jobs - after a gain of 135,000 jobs in services. The unemployment rate remained at 4.5 percent. So far this year, without the benefit of the 815,000 service jobs added, the economy would have had a net loss of 106,000 jobs.

Apparently we are all supposed to make a living pouring coffee for each other. When fuel gets scarce in about ten years, Chinese junk will get too expensive to ship across the Pacific and we'll have to start making our own consumer goods. Too bad nobody will know how to do that nor will the machinery exist to make those goods.

Wess @ 15:

Do you guys in the US ever wonder how the rest of the world sees you when things like this happen?

My apologies because I know there are a lot of decent people here at C&L but you are seen as weak, hysterical and motivated by little else other than money and instant gratification.

I'm embarrassed to travel to another country because of how its citizens will treat me. They'll probably think I'm some moronic Republifuck who has three gas-guzzling SUV's and doesn't give a shit about anyone else but myself. Oh well. When the time comes, I probably just travel incognito and pose as a Canadian. Everyone likes Canadians.

Ruthless People @ 57:

This just in: Poppin Fresh arrested in the parking lot of Home Depot.

Hilarious!

Tequila @ 45:

The U.S. has the most gun nuts.

And WE are going to need them if George Bush and his type stay in office!!!

An armed Citizenry is the only defense against Tyranny. I hate guns as much as the next person, but when you elect a Tyrant as President it may be a good thing to have them. An un-armed citizenry is very easy to control in worst case scenerios.

I just changed my position on guns in society since Sept. 11th and this George Bush Administration came to power. Sorry. But with BlackWater and private militia's like them... And Fema detention camps built in America. And Habeas Corpus.. etc etc. I'm telling you we are moving towards a fascist state and real fast.

Orangutan. @ 81:

Tequila @ 45:

The U.S. has the most gun nuts.

And WE are going to need them if George Bush and his type stay in office!!!

An armed Citizenry is the only defense against Tyranny. I hate guns as much as the next person, but when you elect a Tyrant as President it may be a good thing to have them. An un-armed citizenry is very easy to control in worst case scenerios.

I just changed my position on guns in society since Sept. 11th and this George Bush Administration came to power. Sorry. But with BlackWater and private militia's like them... And Fema detention camps built in America. And Habeas Corpus.. etc etc. I'm telling you we are moving towards a fascist state and real fast.

You know what's really eerie, the right to own guns is the ONLY right they've not trampled on. It got me to thinking a few nights ago, "Why not?" and "What do they have in store?"

I have come to detest my own country.

Those responsible for prosecuting should be publicly mocked and then thrown out of public service as unfit to serve.

Of course they wont be, they will prevail.

Disgusting.

Originally, I was very proud of my country - in spite of its warts it did good things. Now, it would recognize a good thing. Originally, I couldnt imagine living anywhere else. Now, I wouldnt choose the US from a list of 30.

So Rick Larsen and Mark Kirk want to make it easier
for American corporations to outsource, by putting the responsibility for inferior products on China.

Bird feeders will now require a DHS licence.

anon @ 85:

Of course they wont be, they will prevail.

This 'case' will be dropped within weeks, by a 'judge.'

The courts are still open, and justice is indeed occasionally on hand.

I noticed that Bush called Fredo "Judge Gonzales" in his tearful Dear Crony speech.

(LOVE TO.)

(It was actually an insult to GENERAL Gonzales. Fredo can't even have his special day! Boy Wonder's sole resemblance to TR is that he wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral. If ONLY he could!).

UnEasyOne @ 84:

don't tell homeland security, but I have been known to use baby powder to prevent chafing.

You can, if you have a business licence, dump mercury and arsenic into the water supply, and Bushco will just send you a congratulation card.

If you are the federal gov't, you can stack uranium mine tailings next to the Colorado river, or lie to New York and declare the asbestos safe to breathe. You can also send anthrax to Dem lawmakers, and not only won't your FBI find out who did it, but bloggers will forget all about it too.

anon @ 92:

Judges dont generally dismiss credible charges. ...If this is dropped, it will be politically dropped - not judicially.

If it is dropped, it will be dropped by a judge.

We have nothing to fear but flour itself.

Wow.

We're gonna visit your country, like, NEVER.

I blame Clinton.

cheney/bush steal the White House, all Hell brakes loose and these two schmucks drive this country and much of the world crazy with their bullshit. What's even sadder is that many, supposedly intelligent people can't see through the BS brought on by the worthless dipshits in the WH.

Brought to you by the same idiots who re-elected Lieberman. I really don't expect much from the idiots who live in Connecticut. I'm sure it was just another chickenhawk loudmouth who lives in fear. Pathetic.

Oops! Forgot the referencing quote!

“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”

I think it might be time for you to turn in the whole 'leader of the free world' tag.

Strawberry @ 1:

Breach of peace? What the fuck is that?!!!!!!!

Seriously. I've heard of "disturbing the peace", such as playing your stereo too loud, but when that happens, cops don't drag you away in cuffs... they just slap you on the wrist and say "keep the noise down".

janefromhell @ 44:

Hashing, isn't it? Been around for quite a while.

Yeah, my brother in law has been into that for at least 3 or 4 years now.

For those who don't know, it's basically a running club with a drinking problem... or more accurately, a drinking club with a running problem. ;)

In this sense, the terrorists have already won by seeding the fear in the country, with further assistance by the authorities.

My favourite journalist, author and op-ed political commentator now has a website. You can read all of his excellent articles here:

http://williampfaff.com/

Enjoy. I always do!!!!!

America is no longer the "home of the brave," having become the "home of idiots quaking with fear."

This "fear of flour" incident reminds me of the many emergency runs made during the anthrax scare to investigate dangerous sugar from powdered doughnuts, stepped-on aspirins, etc. (Remember? Not one of those thousands of runs turned up one grain of anthrax.)

Home of the brave? Americans act like little girls at a church picnic, running screaming from the thunder.

We have become a nation stupefied by fear.

"It could have been terrorism, or something more serious," Mayorga said.

More serious? Like what?

And this was based on 'someone drawing chalk lines and arrows'? WTF? Hell, when I was a kid, we used to filch chalk from the classroom and draw arrows on the sidewalk, turning it into a giant gameboard. But in our 'post 9/11' world, that would apparently be not only a crime, but a felony.

Suicide bombers have terrorized the Middle East for decades, but none of them have used lite-brites or scattered piles of white powder and drawn chalk arrows. Decades. And their methodology remains consistent. Yet we're presuming that 'they' will 'follow us here' and have no end of dastardly plots to unleash upon an unsuspecting populace.

The response seems to be entirely disproportionate to the evidence. Man and woman seen spreading white powder and drawing chalk arrows. Why? If they were distributing a weaponized pathogen (like anthrax), would they be doing it without face masks and gloves? Aren't there more effective scenarios for distribution, like standing upwind on a busy downtown street?

Can't flour be tested and established as harmless in short order? God forbid someone should spill instant coffee creamer, pulverized Alka-Seltzer tablets, or baking powder ... all of which will react with water and look 'unusual'.

And wait ... if the 'powder' was being distributed in the parking lot, and they evacuated the IKEA ... where did the people go? From the building into the parking lot and closer to a suspected hazard? Was there anything like a HazMat team with an emergency shower setup?

FYI, only the woman is from Germany.

It's been pointed out that Mr. WideStance is full of it. If you're on the can with your trousers down, your stance is constrained by your waistline.

everytime i go to the zoo and they check my backpack, or everytime i go to the fair and they want to pat me down or everytime i go to the ballpark and they check for substances of any kind, these all get me warm and fuzzy knowing that homeland security is at work.

the other day i was walking the dog in the canyon and taking pictures as well. security at the motorola facility located there told me i would have to leave or they would confiscate my camera. i explained that i had been walking my dog in that canyon even before the building had been erected. the young security guard asked me not to argue with her and to just leave. she then indicated that security cameras were trained on me and she was calling backup on her walkie talkie. warm and fuzzy feelings here in the Motherland. SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS.

Innocently enough, I was sitting there getting ready to watch my son's t-ball
game when I noticed his coach, hiding behind the backstop, pouring this
suspicious looking white powder into a metal cylinder (aluminum tube?) and
began dispersing it in a line between home plate and first base. Terrified
by the white powder and this suspicious activity I immediately called 911 to
tell the authorities of a possible terrorist attack at Dodson Elementary
school. I told everyone there to immediately evacuate the area.
Everyone ran screaming, except the coach, who stayed and appeared willing to
die for his cause. I believe I saved a lot of lives that day.

Ironically, New Haven, CT is one of the more liberal places in the country.

MargeAggedon @ 126:

Edwin @ 116:

This is an excerpt from CNN, re: the newest nasty, bad naughty boy:

---> "The senator then tapped his right foot, "a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct," Karsnia wrote, and Craig ran his left hand several times underneath the partition dividing the stalls.

"The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot, which was within my stall area," the officer's report said.

When the police interviewed him later, the senator said that "he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom" and that was why his foot may have touched the officer's, the report said.

Craig also told police that he had reached down to the floor to pick up a piece of paper, the officer wrote."

"It should be noted that there was not a piece of paper on the bathroom floor, nor did Craig pick up a piece of paper," Karsnia wrote.

Ha ha ha. You decide about Mr. Wide-Stance yourself (tee hee, harr harr).

Sounds like terrorist behavior to me. Arrest him.
Seriously though... you have to love the closeted, self-hating, fundie dumbass repugs. They may be the loudest, most obnoxious evil bastards in government but they always implode and end up going down flaming... [get it?] Ok... it was a stretch. :D
There's nothing more amusing than watching a hypocrite being boiled in his own juices.
Schadenfreude is the soup of the day.
Ted haggerd continues to be a source of amusement. I mean the guy was literally drummed out of the state by his xtian jebus hugging pals and he just turns around plants the "cured of teh gay" flag in arizona and immediately starts soliciting funds. Poor ol' ted. Being away from the constant influx of free money from the sea of idiots that followed him must be hard. It's going to take a while to build up that level of income. Religious pyramid schemes are so much harder to get off the ground when everyone already knows you're just a hypocritical piece of shit. However the climate for it certainly is right what with the reich wing 'deliberately dumber than dogshit' base running things. Just keep repeating your lies [they love that repetition=truth] invoke your god a lot and be sure to tell them you're getting personal messages from the almighty. That always keeps 'em interested.

say doesnt haveing a wide stance while setting on a toilet restrict ones anus muscles , sounds like hed be extremlly bound up that way!

i see the useual assholes are on hand to suck off er to great bush in new orleans nagan landrui ect!

It's the insanity of Dumbya's fake terror and scare tactics played out over and over.

Why is CNN censoring pro-democrat comments on its Ticker?

I think what we news junkies are missing in all of this is the most beautiful thing: inky, black humor. The kind of humor Dickens used when writing about starving children. At Cambridge i told a prof., "If you can't laugh at starving children, what can you laugh at?"

So here goes. If you can't laugh at a wrecked nation careening towards fascism, what can you laugh at?

Furthermore, there isn't anything else we can do about it so we might just as well laugh at the march of history. I was a long time expat, and a goodly part of me wishes i was still far away from this...far from the blast zone and the maw of detention camps. But i comfort myself with the knowledge that this is history...and funnier than a three legged dog named troubles. (Troubles was a real dog, and he was a mean little bastard too)

What could be funnier than having a drunk for a president? A drunk with serious anger/emotioinal issues, that's what. What could be funnier than having a tinpot dictator for a vice-president? It doesn't get any better than family values congresspeople being city park/public bathroom kind of gay guys. How much more humor could you ask for than a nation well past it's ears in debt, operating a third world (real) economy and pretending that it is the richest country in the world? What could possibly be funnier than all of our posturing about strength, and then running like 5 year olds from the cooties every time someone drops a bag of flour?

Look around you folks, and smile, because you couldn't script this if you tried. Amerika is a once in a lifetime chance to laugh out loud...

US Ambassador to the UN says Middle East situation may turn into World War 3.

If you folks don't see me for a while, it is because I blogged this, then emailed it to the New Have Mayor's office:

Police Crap Their Pants in New Haven

In New Haven Connecticut, birthplace of President George Bush II, police nearly drowned in their own excrement over arrows marked in flour, designating a running path.

Being unfamiliar with sports and the concept using white powders to mark the lines at sporting events, the New Haven Police officers nearly drowned in their own urine from fear.

I think it is only fitting that the home town of our most paranoid president ever, would be filled with bedwetting pants crappers.

To hide their embarrassment, the couple that marked the running path have been charged with first-degree breach of peace, a first degree felony. Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga while soaking in her own urine and feces, crawled from under her desk, long enough to say that the city would be seeking restitution from these very scary people.

Lets hope that none of these people ever go see a little league baseball game. They'll crap their pants, then die of a heart attack.

Edwin @ 116:

This is an excerpt from CNN, re: the newest nasty, bad naughty boy:

---> "The senator then tapped his right foot, "a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct," Karsnia wrote, and Craig ran his left hand several times underneath the partition dividing the stalls.

"The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot, which was within my stall area," the officer's report said.

When the police interviewed him later, the senator said that "he has a wide stance when going to the bathroom" and that was why his foot may have touched the officer's, the report said.

Craig also told police that he had reached down to the floor to pick up a piece of paper, the officer wrote."

"It should be noted that there was not a piece of paper on the bathroom floor, nor did Craig pick up a piece of paper," Karsnia wrote.

Ha ha ha. You decide about Mr. Wide-Stance yourself (tee hee, harr harr).

He's not Gay! He just gets excited by smells you find in a urinal!

When we're arresting German tourists who don't follow our rules, we must ask ourselves what we've become.

On West Executive Avenue next to the White House at this moment, Karl Rove's Jaguar is covered with Saran Wrap and emblazoned with an 'I (heart) OBAMA' bumper sticker on the passenger-side windshield. It's the handiwork of loving colleagues who say they will miss his puckish humor in meetings.