From the Iowa City Press-Citizen:
A local war protester and University of Iowa student was arrested on Monday after he interfered with another protest.
Monday afternoon, an anti-abortion group was protesting in the Pentacrest on the UI campus. According to police, David Goodner, 27, of 527 N. Dubuque St., grabbed one of the protester’s signs and ran away. The victim chased Goodner and the sign was broken in the pursuit.
Goodner said he joined a group of pro-choice protesters and took exception to some anti-gay and anti-feminism slogans he said the anti-abortion protesters had on their shirts.
“I guess they got under my skin,” he said.
Goodner said taking the sign was meant to be a prank and alleged the sign was broken when members of the group surrounded and attacked him. Goodner said one of the protesters put him in a sleeper hold and another punched him in the ribs.
The victim estimated that the broken sign cost more than $500.
“I don’t think it cost 500 bucks,” said Goodner.
Funny thing how the reporter at the Press-Citizen only quoted Goodner, but none of the protesters. And nobody else was arrested. Imagine that.
Two months ago, Goodner was quoted in the Daily Iowan when it was announced that Karl Rove was going to give a speech at the University of Iowa:
It was Feb. 7, and UI Antiwar Committee member David Goodner had just been informed that President Bush's former deputy chief of staff and aide, Karl Rove, was coming to Iowa City for a Feb. 17 talk.
And he was infuriated.
"I can't remember the last time I was that angry," he said. "I was, like, just seeing red.
Somebody has some anger management issues.
Last July, Goodner was arrested in Cedar Rapids at Chuck Grassley's office. This is from the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
Peace activist David A. Goodner pleaded guilty today to criminal trespass and interference with official acts, but told a judge that he doesn't plan to pay the fines.
He admitted that he deliberately and intentionally broke the law, but still doesn't feel that he did anything wrong.
"I consider it an extension of civil disobedience to refuse to pay any fines," Goodner said...
...Goodner was arrested at about 2 p.m. July 6 when he tried to enter the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids through a non-public door during the protest. The area is posted "restricted" and Goodner did not follow instructions from U.S. Marshals and Cedar Rapids officers, according to Cedar Rapids police...
...Goodner has taken a vow of non-violent pacifism.
Except today!
Goodner was also arrested in 2006 in front of the White House, protesting the Iraq War. He said in the Daily Iowan:
"I would be willing to be arrested again, if I found the right cause and the right time and where I think something good would actually come out of it," Goodner said.
Obviously, Goodner spending today taking away somebody's First Amendment right to protest, as well as stealing and damaging a protest sign is the right cause for him.
This is the same ass clown who once said in his Des Moines Register-sanctioned (owned by Gannett) blog:
What’s the big deal about Ahmadinejad anyway?
... I’m not saying Ahmadinejad is Mother Teresa reincarnate or anything. But let’s face it: Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, even Vladimir Putin, all have less blood on their hands than Bush does.
The international public enemy #1 is the president of the United States of America.
Although nothing compares to the blatantly anti-Semitic column by Goodner that the Press-Citizen (owned by Gannett) ran a couple of years ago.
Why can't Goodner be like typical University of Iowa students?
Followup: Thanks everybody who emailed the story to me. I've never had that many people email me a story before!
There is an awful lot of douche in Racheal Cummings's photostream.
ReplyDeleteShe kinda looks like a future White House intern...
ReplyDeleteYou do not get the title "peaceful protester" when you infringe on other peoples rights to protest.
ReplyDeleteI have no respect for people like that, no matter if I approve of their cause or not.
Seems that UofI students read your blog. She took her pictures down.
ReplyDeleteI can't understand why college kids wouldn't want pictures of themselves in lingerie on the Internet.
We were at the university of iowa on monday 4/21/08. This is why.
ReplyDeleteWhy Do We Show Those Bloody Photographs?
Because people need to see what a child looks like after he or she has been in the hands of an abortionist at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Without the pictures, the words which describe what they do to the preborn lack punch and are easily forgotten.
After 35 years of State-legal baby-murder, it is time for the American people to see who is dying. The media has censored the preborn child from the "abortion debate," and we are simply attempting to bypass that media blackout by going to the streets and showing the American people for themselves exactly what a preborn child murdered by abortion looks like.
We show these photos to inform our nation that it has violated God's Law, and to call it's people to repentance. Our photos stand as a haunting indictment upon our nation.
Some say our photos are disgusting and hurt our Christian witness. Our response: have you ever seen a pretty picture of a murder? Murder is disgusting; abortion is murder; therefore, our pictures are disgusting.
Also, what hurts our Christian witness more - being silent while our neighbor is unjustly killed or exposing the evil works of darkness [Ephesians 5:11] by showing the atrocities being committed against our neighbor? We think the former. What a pathetic people we are if we want to tolerate the oppression of an entire people group, but then become outraged when someone displays the suffering of that people group.
At the end of WW II, our American soldiers marched the citizens of Germany pass the remains of those who died in the death camps. They marched men, women, and children past the remains of those who died in the death camps. Why did they do it? Because those citizens all stood guilty for having tolerated the atrocities that went on in their midst. So it is in America today, we all stand guilty for being silent while this atrocity goes on in our nation.
May people be moved with compassion for the helpless preborn when they see these photographs and act to see this bloodshed outlawed. Otherwise, God will use His sword of justice and bring retribution upon a nation of people whose hands are covered with blood.
Separated unto the Gospel,
Pastor Matt Trewhella www.missionariestopreborn.com
Founder Missionaries to the Preborn P.O. Box 26931 Milwaukee WI 53226 Ph. 414-462-3399
David Goodner's chronically immature and selfish misconduct is symptomatic of a deep underlying mental pathology. His history of invading offices of Grassley, Hillary, and Giuliani (with grandiose tall tales of his imagined heroics in the Des Moines Register blogs) and now his infringing on someone else's protests, are indicative of a serial sociopathic disregard for the rights of others-- along with a highly inflated and fabricated sense of his fanciful entitlements to step on anyone else any time it suits his whim. It appears Goodner needs to be confined to a safe and quiet place, devoid of undue excitement and sharp objects, until such time as he can be certified to be calmed down and ready to join the human race.
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