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I doubt I'll ever get a straight answer, or a straight believable answer, but whose brilliant idea was it to sick the swat team on a peacable crowd whose only obvious transgression was singing our national anthem off key. I think that one picture of the grannys with the riot gear outfitted swat team menacing them from across the street should be on every anti- incumbent sign this election cycle, Vote for the dims and this is what you get!

Video goes to show that President Barak Obama HAS NOTHING TO FEAR from the Tea Party Movement and Tea Partiers.

Who is this man? He was identified by Dana Loesch (as the person who called the SWAT team on the Tea Party Demonstrators at Quincy, Illinois. http://thedanashow.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/picture-6.png?w=501&h=376 http://www.flickr.com/photos/39436131@N07/4561699425/in/set-72157623953865592/ Apparently the person who made the identification is named Doug Edelman. Thanks to penelopesire for posting the picture on Free Republic.

Riot Police Called Out Against Senior Citizen Tea Party 84rules April 29, 2010

I interviewed several young people in line to hear President Obama speak Wednesday afternoon in Quincy, Illinois. Through those interviews, I discovered they share one thing in common: blissful ignorance.

Efforts to provoke Tea Party activists to violence during President Obama's stop in Quincy, Ill., fell flat, proving that Tea Partiers are not violent!

From the video: Police power in force-A glimpse of America's future under the Obama Administration VIDEO at link.

Tea Party patriots are chanting USA to the riot police and singing God bless America, when the Riot Police turn and march away from the event, the crowd cheers (Video)

The SWAT Team was called in today at the Quincy Tea Party Rally. Obama was speaking at the convention center this afternoon. Unreal.

Shortly after President Obama arrived in Quincy, Ill., this afternoon, a squad of law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear faced off with Tea Partiers.

Redmass Group reports a startling endorsement from the mayor of the seventh largest city in Massachusetts: James Sheets a six term Democratic mayor of Quincy today endorsed Scott Brown for United States Senator. He released the following statement via the Brown campaign: "Despite being a lifelong member of the Democratic Party, I am endorsing Scott Brown for Senate, as I know he will always represent Massachusetts with an independent voice in Washington," Sheets said. "Martha Coakley has repeatedly stated she would cast the critical 60th vote for the current health care proposal that would slash Medicare funding by nearly half-a-trillion...

It was the kind of emergency call every dispatcher dreads. The one about his own house. Quincy Police 911 dispatcher Mike Bowes knew something was wrong Friday when dozens of callers suddenly jammed his lines. “I was talking to an EMT when the call came in, all the lines lit up red,” he said. “That happens when a lot of people call at once. I said ‘This isn’t good.’ ” The 11-year veteran, who has steered help to thousands of emergencies, doesn’t startle easily, but what he heard when he started taking the calls floored him. “The first one said,...

    City Council votes to deny public speaker by Bob Gough, editor, QuincyNews.org Along a party line vote, the Quincy City Council denied a written request to speak by a taxpaying resident of the city. Steve McQueen, one of the organizers of the Quincy Tea Party effort, requested to speak on the recently approved $31.2 million budget and water and sewer rate increases. When it came time to vote to open the floor to allow the speaker, a mixed voice vote took place. A roll call vote ensued and the seven Democrats denied McQueen's opportunity to speak while...

Earthquake strikes northern California: USGS Dec 26 02:57 PM US/Eastern A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck northern California on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, revising an earlier report of a stronger quake. The tremor occurred at 4:19 am (1219 GMT) with the epicenter three kilometers (two miles) northeast of the small town of East Quincy, and 163 kilometers (102 miles) northeast of the state capital Sacramento, according to the USGS. -excerpt-

Last of two parts. The leader of the local Islamic organization preparing to build a major new mosque in Boston is allegedly linked to a network of Muslim companies and charitable groups in Virginia suspected by federal investigators of providing material support to Islamic terrorists. The chairman of the board of trustees of the Islamic Society of Boston, which has city approval to construct a $22 million cultural center and mosque in Roxbury, was also a leader of an Indiana-based Muslim organization known for its anti-Western rhetoric and for providing a platform for radical Islamists, some of whom have been...

The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building

A CHURCH GROUP WITH A HISTORIC TIE TO QUINCY HAS VOTED TO LEAVE ITS DENOMINATION. THE DIOCESE OF QUINCY, FOUNDED IN 1877 AND NOW BASED IN PEORIA, IS HOLDING ITS ANNUAL CONVOCATION AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH ON HAMPSHIRE STREET THIS WEEKEND. IN AN EARLY SESSION, DELEGATES HAVE VOTED TO SEVER THEIR TIES WITH THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. THE NOW-RETIRED BISHOP OF QUINCY SAYS THE NATIONAL CHURCH HAS BEEN UNWILLING TO DEFINE COMMON GROUND WITH THOSE WHO HOLD TO TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN TEACHING AND HAS REJECTED THE AUTHORITY OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION. THE DIOCESE, INCLUDING HISTORIC ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, WILL JOIN ANOTHER PROVINCE...

Professor John Lewis Gaddis’ recent provocative analysis of the origins of “unilateralism” in American foreign policy highlights the pivotal role of John Quincy Adams. With candor and humility, Gaddis further reveals that his own contemporary assessment, “…is not a new interpretation. If you go back and read the famous Samuel Flagg Bemis, the very distinguished Yale diplomatic historian from half a century ago, Bemis was certainly making this argument about the importance of John Quincy Adams. But I think this has been lost somewhat in intervening years. So, to an extent, I am trying to rediscover John Quincy Adams, in...

EAGLE, Colo. - Attorneys for NBA star Kobe Bryant asked the judge to dismiss the sexual assault charge against him, saying prosecutors have refused to turn over details that could suggest he is innocent. Court rules require prosecutors and defense attorneys to exchange evidence and witness opinions before trial, a process called discovery. In a motion made public Wednesday, defense attorneys said a forensics expert whom prosecutors had planned to call as a witness had information that "undermined the accuser's allegations and the prosecution's case, and corroborated Mr. Bryant's defense on a central issue — the cause and significance of...

Quarterback Quincy Carter will be released from the Dallas Cowboys, ESPN.com's Len Pasquarelli has learned, and an official announcement is expected this afternoon. Carter, a four-year veteran out of Georgia, did not practice with the team Wednesday. There was no immediate word as to why the Cowboys planned to cut Carter. Carter, 26, started all 16 games last season, when the Cowboys went 10-6 and got back in the playoffs in head coach Bill Parcells' first year with the club.