http://www.neravt.com/left/WTC/mosqueda.html

http://academic.evergreen.edu/m/mosqueda/

http://www.olywip.org/site/page/author/larry_mosqueda.html

http://www.poyner.net/worldaction/horrified.html

http://www.omjp.org/ArtLarryDisobey.html

http://www.ilaam.net/Sept11/ProfessorsBlameUS.html

Ask me if I am surprised that this guy is joining in a law suit against the Olympia Police department! There is tons more about this guy by this guy and where he stands on things like Amreica, the military, and so on.

C.

One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.

Thomas Sowell

Did you really think that was going to stop anybody?

I'm not big on frivilous lawsuits but if cases like this enter our court system the truck drivers and companies they represent should be filling as well.

This is one time that I will be on court grounds in favor of the OPD.

University of Texas professor Robert Jensen has written that the terrorists' acts were "no more despicable than the massive acts of terrorism that the U.S. government has committed during my lifetime."

Richard Falk, a professor at Princeton University, has said that the terrorist attacks occurred because "the mass of humanity finds itself under the heels of U.S. economic, military, cultural and diplomatic power."

Professor Elisabeth Weber of the University of California-Santa Barbara wrote, "My concern over the U.S. flags surrounding campus is that they endanger the free exchange that normally characterizes our campus."

Rutgers University professor Barbara Foley wrote that "whatever [the terrorist attacks] proximate cause, its ultimate cause is the fascism of U.S. foreign policy over the past many decades."

Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University wrote, "We need to think about the resentment all over the world felt by people who have been victims of American military action - in Vietnam, in Latin America, in Iraq."

Evergreen State College of Olympia, Wash., professor Larry Mosqueda wrote, "If we multiply by 800-1,000 times the amount of pain, angst, and anger being currently felt by the American public, we might begin to understand how much the rest of the world feels as they are continually victimized [by the U.S.]..."

Professor George Wright of Chico State University in Chico, Calif., alleges that President Bush wants to "kill innocent people," "colonize" the entire Arab world and secure "oil for the Bush family..."

University of Minnesota Professor Ezra Hyland blamed Americans directly for the attacks, claiming that "you can't plant hatred and not expect to reap hatred."

Now, before someone calls me a "terrorist sympathizer", I'll state for the record that I, too, was mad as Hell on 9/11/01, not only at the loss of life taking place, but knowing that my daughter-in-law-to-be was a flight attendent on coast to coast routes for United.  Any one of those four planes could have been hers (luckily it wasn't).

I think if people are willing to read the quotes with open minds and with eyes not covered up by Old Glory, they will see a certain amount of truths.  Without going through each one, I was particularily interested in the U of Minnesota's Ezra Hyland saying "you can't plant hatred and not expect to reap hatred."  That quote is damned near bibical in context.

Whether I agree in total or not, all of these quotes bear some substance and could be topics of discussion within themselves.

It's a frivolous lawsuit that will be thrown out before it ever makes the courts. There's more evidence of them breaking laws than them being brutalized.

It's unfortunate our city felt there wasn't enough time and money to prosecute them all. Should it by some miracle make it to the courts, I'm confident OPD acted accordingly and this lawsuit will be found to have no merit.

Seriously, what constitutes $2.6 million a piece? Where did they come up with this number? Were any of them working and are now out of a job over this? Do any of them have lifetime disabilities now? Do they think a judgment of $2.6 million will make any emotional or mental stress just go away? What rights or inconveniences did they suffer to deserve $2.6 million each?

This is bogus and too many people work too hard to end up handing over that money in the form of compensation for what?

"There's more evidence of them breaking laws than them being brutalized."

Is there evidence of any of the plaintiffs breaking the law?

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. 

My prediction, easy money, the City will have to settle or lose.  Civil rights were violated, that's a payday for attorneys that should cause the Police Chief to enjoy a suspension without pay or termination for cause at some point.