AL FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER {Media, Dem, Cruz, Rubio, et al double-standard against Trump}
nypost.com ^ | January 27, 2004 | Vince Morris
Posted on 3/14/2016, 7:39:27 PM by drpix
EXETER, N.H. - Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean.
The tussle left Franken’s trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured.
Franken - who seemed in a state of shock and out of breath after the incident - was helped back to his feet by several people who watched the tussle. Police arrived soon after.
“I got down low and took his legs out,” said Franken afterwards.
Franken said he’s not backing Dean but merely wanted to protect the right of people to speak freely. “I would have done it if he was a Dean supporter at a Kerry rally,” he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409310/posts
Well he has a New York accent, so of course. Never mind that the left has used thugs to riot and attack people for years....lets focus on the people they attack and make wild conspiracy theories...
Holy crap my man your gonna catch hell now. Some will be nasty and rude and a few maybe even threatening, all in an effort to counter these threads that they are in fact, civil. It’s the funniest irony, I, too, had my own turn in the FR barrel recently. Surrealistic. Stranger in a strange land. It’s like some folks have plain lost their minds. (And, to be fair, others, not).
The only act of violence that I am aware of by a Trump supporter at a rally is the nearly 80 year old guy who hit a 20 something year old with his elbow. The guy who got hit by an 80 year old’s elbow was yelling profanities and making obscene gestures. The 80 year old got arrested and is facing the consequences. I have now scene the video at least two dozen times on network TV.
The question I would like answered is what would happen to me if I went to a Black Lives Matter gathering and started sharing my opinion?
Now all of us are “thugs.”
Sorry, Hillary and GOPe, but insulting Trump’s supporters is not going to work any better, than your pathetic claim, blaming Trump for the violence of YOUR thugs.
Where is Hillary in all this?
You know.....the lying, thieving, murdering Hillary Clinton.
LOL. Nice sophomoric psychology 101 attempt. Yes, that’s it, we who support Trump look in the mirror and see Trump. Man, this is flat out hilarious. Well, glad I do not see Cruz, a two-faced coward masquerading as an outsider, using religion as a means to an end. Or, even worse, could be Kasich or Rubio...enough said.
The author knows full well that most of the violence at Trump rallies is perpetrated by radical Leftists, not Trump's supporters.
Refusing to be politically correct is now considered thuggish behavior.
Stopped reading at “who made fun of POWs, mocked the physically handicapped”....he didn’t do this.
There are no Trump following mafia type thugs. Crude rhetoric, yes, but it’s only the Left that’s organizing and acting to induce violence.
No, we are freedom fighters, fighting the fascism of the left and the Republican elites...
This is the same crap they said about the Tea Party.
This article says what I’ve been thinking and trying to say for a long time and says it beautifully.
He is exactly right about Trump and the Trump effect on his followers.
The more they defend him, the more they become him.
No wonder there’s so much punching people out at his rallies, which, by the way, he described as beautiful.
Ah, more SLIME from a Teddy backing “True Conservative” site.
Does he think the Founders played nice with the British until they gave up?
I can’t believe a woman who was upstairs while her hubby was downstairs in his office getting a BJ from a girl his daughter’s age has the nerve to be running for president.
For one thing, the law makes it easier for the government to criminalize protest. Period. It is a federal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison to protest anywhere the Secret Service might be guarding someone. For another, it’s almost impossible to predict what constitutes “disorderly or disruptive conduct” or what sorts of conduct authorities deem to “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”
There is another interesting Code/law that applies the conspiracy/violation of peaceful assembly and free speech.
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; .... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)