Posted on 11/06/2006 6:41:54 PM PST by george76
I wrote last week that we'd see more outbreaks of anti-military vandalism leading up to Election Day.
In upstate New York on Halloween eve, "(expletive) Bush" and a depiction of a penis were scrawled on the 20-by-40-foot flag and similar pictures in the same shade of green were painted on the American Legion Mohawk Post.
Now there's this despicable act in Boise, Idaho reportedly committed by the sons of a state Democrat legislator:
Police arrested 24-year old Michael Burkett of Boise early Sunday morning after officers with Capitol Mall Security reported spotting him vandalizing two flag polls on the grounds of the Idaho Statehouse.
The flags are memorials to soldiers who lost their lives in the war on terror.
"It's certainly upsetting, not just to officers but for any citizen of this county who knows somebody who lost their lives in Iraq or Afghanistan," Lt. Ron Winegar said of the ongoing investigation.
Burkett was charged with resisting arrest and Malicious Injury to Property.
He and his 22-year-old brother, Tom Burkett, also charged with the vandalism, are the sons of state Sen. Michael Burkett (D) of Idaho's 19th district.
And on college campuses across the country. Remember:
Flashback - An attack on the ROTC at UNC Chapel Hill:
Flashback - Anti-military vandalism at the University of Minnesota:
Flashback - And can't forget Santa Cruz.
Flashback - More attacks on military recruiters.
Another anti-military attack flashback: Indianapolis military memorial defaced with "peace" graffiti and anti-Bush profanities.
It is not a long journey between these people and Dick Durbin and John Kerry and Company.
Who do you want in charge in Washington? Them or us?
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Speaking of unhinged sons of Democrat pols, remember the Milwaukee tire-slashers from the 2004 campaign?
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Just not our Troops.
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Michele is now covering it, too.
Hopefully more will notice this
Don't forget Pappy Boyington's statue getting kicked off of some campus, too.
Don't count on it. But rest assured, we'll be inundated with dire stories of "voter intimidation" if anyone so much as asks for a valid driver's license for ID.
PING
WOW!
Are you questioning their patriotism? They don't have any so there is nothing to question.
"..Quotes: Col. Martin Hessler: Release the boy... Shoot the father!.."
Yes.
The Dems don't support anything, unless they have a hand in it. They're totally untrustworthy as far as the rest of the nation is concerned.
We also know that 9-11 to a DUmocrat is just another day....
I think that was at the University of Washington.
Even then they have a tendency to back off when the going gets rough.
Even Clinton removed his hands when Monicagate became an issue.
This is an enlightened look to the past
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25656-2004Oct11.html
72% of military supported President Bush. There is one place where Republicans are going to get a boost and that is from emailed and faxed votes. No one is talking about the Military vote except the one weasel from NJ Rush Holt who was clearly trying to intimidate military officials into making the process more difficult. They have no shame.
State Senator Burkett is a Democrat.
Look, if Burkett's sons were arrested doing some non-political act of vandalism, I could chalk it up to youthful stupidity. (There's a lot of that.)
If this were a political act of vandalism taken against Republican campaign signs, I wouldn't be happy, but you know, people get carried away at the end of a campaign.
But knocking over flags memorializing our fallen soldiers?
This is moonbattery of the highest order--completely ineffective at changing policy, but rich in symbolism.
Maybe Burkett is part of the adult supervision wing of the Democratic Party--but like Larry Grant and his moonbat son Ron, you have to wonder how much of this irrational hatred of the United States was learned at the dinner table.
http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2006_11_05_archive.html#116282613440243885
Senator Burkett says he thinks his sons are innocent, while the boys’ mother, Sharon Burkett, says the entire event was a “misunderstanding.”
" What did they 'misunderstand?'
That it was a flag?
That it was an American flag on Capitol grounds?
That it was on a flagpole? "
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