Couldn’t Help But Notice (032608)
It’s about time someone signaled an intention (HT Gateway Pundit) to end what has been, in effect, a catch-and-release program for violent “demonstrators”:
A judge set bond at $25,000 to $30,000 today for six anti-war protestors following an Easter service disruption at Holy Name Cathedral in the Loop Sunday morning.
Three men and three women were arrested at 735 N. State St. at the 11:40 a.m. service.
Cardinal Francis George was leading services at the Parish Center because of construction at the main Cathedral. The protestors discharged packets of fake blood. Some of it splattered parishioners.
Bond was set at $35,000 for Donte D. Smith, 21 and $25,000 for the five others including: Ephran Ramirez, Jr., 22, and Ryane J. Ziemba, 25, Mercedes Phinaih, 18, Regan Maher, 25, and Angela Haban, 20. Smith has served time in a federal prison in Texas for trespassing on a Native American reservation.
All six protestors were charged with two counts of felony criminal damage to property and two counts of simple battery.
The Chicago or Cook County prosecutors will be under tremendous pressure to go light on those arrested. They should resist it.
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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
….. By all indications, Hillary will likely win almost all of the upcoming contests, with just North Carolina as a potential exception.
The same people who dreamed up the superdelegate structure and who made it impossible for the primaries to select between two evenly-matched candidates want to be let off of the hook for the disaster they created.
….. Hillary is the Democratic Party’s very undemocratic primary system’s chickens coming home to roost.
It’s also part of what has made Rush’s Operation Chaos effective.
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The “Emboldenment Effect”: The antiwar crowd is going to hate this, because it’s true (HT Best of the Web) — their tactics motivate our enemies, have more likely than not prolonged hostilities, and caused more soldiers and civilians to die.
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The “Name that Party” game in Old Media continues in the Detroit Mayor story.
This 400-word report from radio station WWJ’s web site doesn’t mention Kwame Kilpatrick’s party even once. Readers do not need to go through the entire article, based on the useful comment I received yesterday from Ben Keeler:
If you have to read more than 3 paragpraphs to figure out what party someone is from, you already know it is a Democrat.
