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April 25, 2005
Climate of Fear Part 21
A peace activist punched a 49 year old woman who had a support the troops sign. His fellow peace activists seem fine with violence as long as it is against pro-troops people. Here is the account from the Columbia Daily Tribune:
"Two of the guys from the corner walked down with a big sign that read "End the occupation," " she remembers. One of them started taking pictures of a Preckshot supporter across the street, she says. "At some point, the other guy starts coming toward me."For a diminutive woman, Preckshot can handle herself. Shes a former police officer, and she isnt easily intimidated. Still, a young man coming at her waving a sign in her face seemed a little aggressive, particularly from somebody supposedly advocating peace.
The man stepped closer. She backed off a step. He shoved a sign in her face, and she backed off once again.
"Dont touch me!" she told him.
Then, she says, he pushed her.
"He started taunting me and reached out and pushed on my shoulder," Preckshot says. "Each time he pushed, it got a little harder. When I saw his hand come at me again, I grabbed it. I felt fearful."
As Preckshot pushed the mans hand away, "he slugged me right in the face," she says.
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