Posted on 02/03/2011 7:14:26 PM PST by unseen1
Not only are the media and the left on a full scale attack to take down and destroy Governor Palin, but there is also a coordinated attempt to demoralize her supporters. Every hour of every day Palin supporters have to deal with trash and lies, so it goes without saying that when we do come across something or someone that’s supportive of the Governor we get all excited about it.
On Tuesday night we received a tip in our inbox; an image of a “Vote Palin 2012″ sign displayed outside a local Hometown Restaurant in Pennsylvania. We posted it.
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So what do we have here?
We have an owner of a private business in a small town who wants to express his support for Governor Palin. He didn’t run around town hanging up signs in public places, he didn’t violate anyone’s space. No! All he did was use his own premises to put up a sign in support of someone he admires. He simply exercised his constitutional right of free speech.
But, it didn’t take long for the Palin bashers and the left, who supposedly are proponents of “free speech” to go out on a full scale attack against the owner of the restaurant just for exercising that right. They went as far as calling for a boycott of the restaurant and created a Facebook page inciting visitors to do everything they can to destroy the business.
Those tactics include:
Tying up the phone lines, placing large fake orders, booking the banquet for non existent events, bombarding them with hate mail, threatening them with violence and assault and going around the internet posting bad reviews about the restaurant. Some of them are too vile to even post here. (Read them all and more on the group’s Facebook page).
This comment on the page by Ivan Matthew Libman especially caught my attention. While the writer seems like one sensible liberal, he still calls for a “private” boycott, here’s an excerpt:
My problem with this boycott is that I feel it is more like the tactics of the conservatives trying to control what we can think or express. What we have here is a restaurant owner in some little podunk town back east who feels he wants to express his support of Palin….so what? This is America and he should have the right to express his views whether we agree with them or not. Personally, I don’t feel he is making a wise business decision to mix politics with business but there are no laws against it and it is still his right to do so. Sure we also have the right to protest his decision and If I lived in this town I would not eat at this restaurant, but to try and organize a nationwide telephone protest designed to disrupt this mans business seems to me to be petty and bullying. There are so many real problems going on right now that need our attention is this really where our attention should be focused? Do we really want to present the image to the world that Liberals will start a nationwide effort to destroy a mans little business because we don’t like who he supports politically? This just seems wrong to me and it saddens me to think that Liberals would sink to this level. In another comment Ivan writes:
What I object to is the tactics being used. If you live in the town or are passing through I would recommend by all means voting with your dollars and avoiding this. Well, Ivan as nice as your gesture sounds, although you’re disagree with a public boycott you’re still advocating people privately not eat there. Why, just because he supports someone you don’t like? No, this is not conservative tactics. Conservatives disagree with pretty much everything President Obama stands for, but when we see a business owner displaying a pro Obama sign we will not boycott them. We’ll go in do our business and walk out. Conservatives do not object to people supporting whoever they want, what we object, is people like you who’ll act like you care so much about free speech as long as it’s only used by people you agree with.
Various commentators on the group have expressed how Governor Palin is over, how she can never be elected to any public office again. Really? Than why do they fear her so much? Why the boycotts? Why go after a harmless business owner who’s supporting a “loser”? You really think a small business in a small town is that much of a threat to you? Heaven forbid they express an opinion.
The truth is, this is all an attempt to silence their opponents with the only method they have. Poll after poll says it that when it comes to the issues the majority of Americans agree with Governor Palin. The left can’t argue with her on the merits so their only option is to revert to scare tactics and incite violence; seek and destroy. They hope that by scaring Governor Palin’s supporters they’ll prevent her message from getting out. It won’t work, not this time, because this time we’re on to them.
In his comment Ivan asks: Do we really want to present the image to the world that Liberals will start a nationwide effort to destroy a mans little business because we don’t like who he supports politically?
I hate to break it to you Ivan, but that ship sailed a long time ago.
Note to the owners of the restaurant: If you happen to read this post, contact us if you need any assistance we’ve got your back and we’ll do anything we can to help you and defend you.
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Update: I had the pleasure of talking to the owner of the restaurant who confirmed that they had in fact put up the sign. I was amazed at how after receiving an excessive amount of nuisance calls the guy was strong and just found the entire thing amusing. He noted that the number of support calls exceeded the hate calls by far, which he really appreciated. If you’re ever in Palmyra, PA make a point to visit the place. Visit their website here and be sure to show them your support on the restaurant’s facebook page.
good for you
I Like Palin
Yep! And calmly stand your ground. Let them have their tantrum like a tired 2 year old. And calmly stand your ground.
Identify them, make their anger become an all consuming fire, their souls can be saved, all it takes is the inner strength on our part to identify the flaws of the roots of their anger.
How many grade B movies we have seen in our lives where an invasion force occupies weak minded people and controls them?
It is exactly what we have, many of our fellow Americans, our neighbors and even relatives have succumbed to a malevolent force, their only mistake was adopting a cause that was glorified evil.
This is Satan trying to rule Earth, Satan created communism, Satan created Islam, we should know evil when it approaches us, but we can and have been fooled.
Its time to make a stand, in many ways we are having our Egypt here in America.
Who said I don’t like it here? There’s a-holes everywhere, I don’t let them get to me.
I can barely wait for one of these a**holes to get in my face when I mention my admiration for the mother of five, voice for families with special needs children, oil commission member, outsider candidate and governor, Vice Presidential candidate, double best selling authoress, news commentator, and star of her own TV show. "Destroy" me? Us? Oh, please try. It really will make my day. Maybe my whole year (and it's only February).
Look no further than post forty.
This kind of nonsense is being flung from both ends of the spectrum. It's bullshit no matter what the politics are.
The post was pulled but the poster is still active. And, frankly, I’m surprised that you haven’t ever seen a pro-palin poster(s) try to get a supposed anti-palin poster banned.
“Not for nothing but have you ever seen the vitriol against any freeper who doesn’t support palin? “
No, I haven’t seen that.
I’m sorry to say this, but they’re mean.
They may think it was funny, but deep inside, they’re mean.
I know it’s your family and all, but watch your back.
I predict business here is going to grow exponentially
Here is the phone number :717-838-0877
Oops..sorry - did not read all the posts - did not see the phone number already posted..
Oh, I’ve been watching my back for some time now. I have moved far away. Much happier now.
You folks don’t know how much of a blessing you’ve all been to me. I have survived my family, my schooling, in part because I know that common sense exists out there.
It’s given me a real sense of pleasure turning over a few rocks and finding the conservatives hiding under them.
The book was a gift to me.
I hardly see why using it for kindling was not the best use of the gift.
I suppose that makes me an intolerant Nazi in your eyes. Presumably I do have the ability to do as I wish with what I own? Or would you prefer that I actually spend my precious time here on earth reading the darned thing?
I know what Obama stands for. He supports baby killing. I have no desire to read what baby killers put in their own memoirs.
The left makes every effort to destroy what it is afraid of. I like Palin because she makes them squirm. Any Republican who doesn’t isn’t worth spit.
Here’s the thing though. Nero used Christians as human torches, and the cruelty of it made converts. But it surely sucked for the torches.
There’s no shortage in the world for would-be martyrs. Look at the middle east. There is however a shortage of folks of character, and I define character as doing the right thing, while nobody is watching.
Individually we can each do it, if we have to wait for a leader then we are following a poor and weak path to victory.
Its nice to HAVE a leader should that individual have the “right stuff” but its not an overwhelming reason to to sit on our butts should that hopeful leadership also sit on their butts.
Besides I would suspect that Sarah Palin could conceivably be treatened seriously enough and to a dramatic dgree that she would have no other course that to sit it all out, what if a member of her family was put into a “velvet prison” and held hostage?
Would conservatives just quit, break up, become docile because a leader that they wanted is suddenly un-available?
I would be prepared for that possible eventuality, Sarah Palin is an absolute total threat to the enemies of the state, we may never know, it may have happened before. It may be about to happen, to remove her as a threat because they believe with her either cast again as a loser or just plain GONE they will have removed the last obstacle in their plans for America to be absorbed into IslamoFascism.
I agree with your private boycott. I also am sure to give folks with Obama stickers the, “second class citizen” look. Also known as the WTF look.
Absolutely, you can burn all the books you want and then brag about it all you want.
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