Some on the LAWSUIT

Alright, kids, this is where the fun REALLY begins!

Gregg and Linda have filed a lawsuit against a number of the protesters aas well as the PETA, IDA and ALF assholes and the city 'leaders'

Naturally, Matty's friends have and are trying their best to spin this to make themselves look like the victims here. After all, they are doing nothing more than looking out for these poor defensless animals, right?

...rrriiiiiiiiight....

Alright, I'm going to be using their very site, portlandindymedia.org (a site that proclaims to be independent but is apparently using some new definition of the word 'independent' I'm not familiar with yet) and more specifically, the thread begun by one Jayson Dunlap. Jayson has posted the complaints by Gregg, Linda and others including their suits on this silly little site and have allowed the 'independent' site to comment on it.

Here is one such post dated April 24, 2007:

After 18 months of weekly (and sometimes daily) anti-fur demonstrations outside of Schumacher Furs and Outerwear in downtown Portland, owners Gregg and Linda Schumacher filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Portland, In Defense of Animals, the Animal Liberation Front, PETA, and several named and unnamed individuals. The Schumachers seek damages for violation of their free speech and equal protection rights, as well as an injunction limiting the "time, place and manner" of demonstrations during the remaining weeks of their canceled lease.
Papers filed in the District Court of Oregon reveal that Portland police officers and elected officials have blamed Gregg and Linda Schumacher for escalating confrontations with the demonstrators. In a March 2006 email to Commissioner Randy Leonard attached as an exhibit to the lawsuit, Portland police Commander Dave Benson wrote that, while "a minority of the protestors have engaged in objectionable behavior", the demonstrators are "well within First Amendment speech right[s]" and are "generally very nice people that have very strong beliefs about selling fur". Benson noted that arrests had been made.

Alright, before I let this little post finish, I HAVE to comment here. A 'monority of the protestors have engaged in objectionable behavior?!' I'm sorry, when did writting vulgar and slanderous language on the sidewalk, walking around in next to NOTHING covering their nasty bodies and allowing 'women' to walk around TOPLESS on a busy sidewalk on a Saturday afternoon become acceptable? This must be the time where we make up new definitions of words we've known for years. Minority must now mean 'most of them.' And 'generally very nice people?' BULLSHIT. These people are some of the most obnoxious, vulgar, foul-mouth ass-hats I've ever seen with my own two eyes! All you have to do is disagree with them and they unleash with a barrage of obscenities that would make any sailor proud! Nice my achin' ass!

After meeting with the Schumachers and protest organizers, Commissioner Leonard concluded that the Schumachers "are an integral part of the problem". Leonard also told the Oregonian newspaper that "they didn't burn bridges — they blew them up".

Ok, let me tell you about this Randy Leonard dipshit. This is the guy who wants to and has been able to BAN SMOKING OUTSIDE. Yes, OUTSIDE where there are no walls or windows to confine the smoke. This rocket scientist is on record saying that they 'righst of smokers end where his nose begins' which I find funny considering how his nose seems to be right up the protestors ASSES!

And let's talk about First Ammendment here. The First Ammendment allows you, me, everyone who is a LEGAL American, the right to say whatever you want. That is a cool thing and I promote it here with every post. Now, what the First Ammendment DOESN'T allow for is the right to be heard. This means that these protesting ASSHOLES have the right to say what they want but they DON'T have the right to be heard or force others to listen to them. If they don't like fur, fine, they have the right to protest against it. IF THAT IS ALL THEY ARE DOING that is fine. However, these people have taken it much further than that with their SCREAMING and SINGING and CHANTING and FOLLOWING CUSTOMERS FROM THE STORE TO THEIR CARS to FOLLOWING FAMILIES FOR BLOCKS. This isn't peaceful protest and this isn't a minority of them. Randy Leonard and the other City Pussies have shown their utter stupidity here and their near total lack of understanding of this situation. Coddle the protestors and allow them to shut down whatever business they don't like is their creedo. That's not a suprise coming from people who go out of their way to prevent Wal*Mart from coming to the city.
In doing what these protestors have been doing, and what I've been chronicling here on this blog, they have shown their desire to override everyone else's First Ammendment rights as long as they are allowed to.

I think it's high time someone starts shining the light of ass-hats like Randy Leonard and Sam Adams and it just so happens my flashlight has fresh batteries.

I voted for Tom Potter and Sam Adams. I admit this and I also admit this was a HUGE mistake. It's also one I'm not going to be making again and I know MANY others who won't either.