On Monday, April 16, the day after the event, the Globe published two articles: "Dual rallies highlight fracture in Tea Party" devotes two short paragraphs to the "small group of counter-demonstrators" along with a photo of rioters "adding their voices" to the event. Right below that, another article, "Photos prompt review of police handling of Hub protest" describes an incident where police were allegedly "aggressive" with one of the "protesters" at the event.
This is the photo (supplied by a "photo-journalist") that got the Boston Globe so worked up about "aggressive" police action.
Of course, the Globe doesn't mention that he was no ordinary rioter. He was one of the organizers. As our photos and videos show, at one point he put on a lavender wig and mask and signaled to a group to start running through the crowd and start yelling a chant.
This is the same guy minutes before — clearly one of the organizers — signalling to start a new "protest" activity and generally terrorizing the event.
Conservatives need to wake up & see the threat.
When the radical homosexual organizations and the "Occupy" movement team up to brutally stop a Tea Party rally, what else do you need to know? They are clearly natural allies in the effort to destabilize our society.
A vocal minority of Tea Party people in Massachusetts were skittish and upset when the Tea Party Coalition decided to include so-called "social issues" in their repertoire of topics for that event. "It will hurt our brand" or "it will alienate people" or "it's not what the Tea Party is about" were some whines we all heard.
Well, guess what? They rioters see it all as one big movement. They understand that "social issues" and "fiscal issues" are two sides of the same coin that can radically change America. (And of course, that's how every philosopher from Marx to Jefferson saw it, because it is so.) A nation's fiscal policies are merely the product of its overall morality and ideology. To have a solid constitutional government along with a population that can't control its passions or morality is simply a pipe dream.
(In fact, the rioters jeered Carla Howell, a fiscal-issues-only Libertarian speaker — who took pains to inform them she is pro-gay marriage! — just as loudly that day!)
But more importantly, this event should make it clear that as soon as the Tea Party — or anyone — gets in the radicals' way, this is what will happen. These people have no rules except to destroy those who disagree with them. You think you can agree with them on "gay rights" but disagree with them on taxes? Think again. With these people it's all or nothing. And so it should also be with those who are fighting for what's right.