Is this how the right supports the troops and defends the Constitution?

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Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, stood calmly in front of a police line as tear gas canisters that officers shot into the Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night whizzed past his head.


"He was standing perfectly still, provoking no one," said Raleigh Latham, an Oakland filmmaker shooting footage of the confrontation between police and hundreds of protesters at 14th Street and Broadway.


"If something didn't hit him directly in the face, then it went off close to his head and knocked him down."


The something was a projectile that apparently came from police lines, fractured Olsen's skull and put him in Highland General Hospital. Doctors upgraded his condition Thursday from critical to fair, and said they expect him to make a full recovery.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/27/BAD61LN3LM.DTL#ixzz1cBYu19Oh
 
Because they only call warfighters and veterans heroes when they agree with them?
 
You think that somebody on the right sent San Francisco police officers after protesters in San Francisco?
 
Damocles said:
Why would you ask if it was how "the right" treats them if you didn't believe that somebody on the right sent these police officers after him?
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Why wouldn't I? The purpose of asking questions is to get answers, isn't it?

I notice that none of the purported righwing champions of the Constitution seem disturbed by the treatment this man got for exercising his rights.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
I'm hearing that hundreds of marine vets are quite pissed at the police now.
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Should they be pissed at the conservatives who sent them into harms way for nothing and then offshored American jobs so they wouldn't have anything to come home to?
 
Return of Dune said:
Why does the right have nothing to say about this war hero's injury?
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Whether I am "the right" depends on who you ask. I think we should preserve "the right of the people peaceably to assemble". I think its a damn shame this marine was hurt.

But I also haven't looked to see all the facts on this fiasco, so I have not made rash comments about the event.
 
WinterBorn said:
Whether I am "the right" depends on who you ask. I think we should preserve "the right of the people peaceably to assemble". I think its a damn shame this marine was hurt. But I also haven't looked to see all the facts on this fiasco, so I have not made rash comments about the event.
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Are you claiming that ignorance of the facts stops you from weighing in?

BTW, are you ignoring me? Just wondering.
 
\(\(())/)/ said:
Should you? Looks to me like you already have.

Weren't you going to ignore me?
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I gave my opinion based on what I know. Have you read anything beyond that single article? Was the demonstration on public property? Was there some reason the police were dispersing them? These and other questions I would want answered before I condemn one side or the other.

The marine was a hero for what he did in uniform. I thank him for his service. I will do a little research on what happened and why the events played out as they did before I condemn either side.
 
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