Political activist pleads guilty in window-smashing

[alienlovechild 75]

Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer.

He received one year of probation and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for the Aug. 25 incident at the party headquarters at West Eighth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, according to the Denver district attorney's office.

Schwenkler and an accomplice, who was never identified, took a hammer to 11 plate-glass windows. Police caught them in the act, and Schwenkler was arrested.

Anarchist websites across the country raised money for Schwenkler's $5,000 bail, and identified him as "a transgendered anarchist" using the name Ariel Attack. Authorities have consistently identified him as male.

The gay, lesbian and transgender protest group Denver Bash Back characterized Schwenkler as one of its "friends and comrades."

Initially, Democratic Party officials blamed conservative opponents of health care reform for stoking animosity directed at Democrats.

Then it became known that Schwenkler had previously worked for a Democratic candidate. Conservatives characterized the attack as an attempt to frame Republicans with the blame.

Bash Back protested the Republican and Democratic national conventions last year.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14045675#ixzz0aQtuzfOz

[alienlovechild 75]

You know OT has become too jaded when a transgendered anarchist vandalizing the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters can't get a single quip.

[Peikko 1,575]

What's to say? Most politicians jump on any bandwagon to ram their agenda down the throats of the electorate regardless of fact. It's a disgrace, but we the people are getting what we deserve. I'm waiting for a mainstream media outlet that has the guts to change the tide and stop giving prominence to non stories, non entity celebrities and grills politicians in such a way as to demand at least lip service to integrity and intelligence. I am not holding my breath though.

[Danno 1,228]

You know OT has become too jaded when a transgendered anarchist vandalizing the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters can't get a single quip.

I hear ya!

[Ban Hammer 13,399]

You know OT has become too jaded when a transgendered anarchist vandalizing the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters can't get a single quip.

there are just so many to choose from!

[scandal 951]

Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer.

The reason this thread never got any traction is the guy's name is Maurice.

Who the hell cares about a loser called Maurice anyway?

[zqt3344 21]

Too bad he did not fire bomb the place instead!

Activist Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, 24, pleaded guilty Monday to a second-degree misdemeanor for smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer.

He received one year of probation and was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for the Aug. 25 incident at the party headquarters at West Eighth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, according to the Denver district attorney's office.

Schwenkler and an accomplice, who was never identified, took a hammer to 11 plate-glass windows. Police caught them in the act, and Schwenkler was arrested.

Anarchist websites across the country raised money for Schwenkler's $5,000 bail, and identified him as "a transgendered anarchist" using the name Ariel Attack. Authorities have consistently identified him as male.

The gay, lesbian and transgender protest group Denver Bash Back characterized Schwenkler as one of its "friends and comrades."

Initially, Democratic Party officials blamed conservative opponents of health care reform for stoking animosity directed at Democrats.

Then it became known that Schwenkler had previously worked for a Democratic candidate. Conservatives characterized the attack as an attempt to frame Republicans with the blame.

Bash Back protested the Republican and Democratic national conventions last year.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14045675#ixzz0aQtuzfOz