I have serious issues with this. This is not a pro-war shrine but a pro-america shrine. By tearing down a 9/11 memorial what were these people trying say or prove?

Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial that residents erected on a fence along Whittier Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and have maintained ever since.

However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

I've always been pro-police. How could they stand by and watch that? My human side would've told the scum-bags to move it along. I wouldn't have arrested them, but I would've used my powers of persuasion to stop them.

"They trashed 87 flags, ripped 11 memorial tiles made by myself and my children out of the ground and glued the Bob Dylan song to a sign that said, 'America, land of the brave, home of the free,' ' she said.

The Bob Dylan song she referred to is "With God on Our Side,' an antiwar anthem of the 1960s.

Now I'm a Dylan fan. Do these people think Dylan would approve? I wish someone would ask Mr. Zimmerman and get his reaction. As James Taranto said today:

One Les Howard, a sociology professor at Whittier College, tells the News that, as the paper puts it, "the incident might be an indication of some confusion among people trying to stop a possible war against Iraq but uncertain how to express their sentiments." Leave it to a sociology prof to explain away an act of pure hatred as the work of well-intentioned but mixed-up folks.