Posted on 10/05/2004 8:57:51 AM PDT by mike182d
Edited on 10/05/2004 10:46:14 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.
The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.
According to Knoxville Police Department (KPD) officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am.
One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors.
There were no witnesses to the shooting. A customer at a nearby dry cleaning store noticed shattered glass on the sidewalk in front of the headquarters and called police.
Volunteers and staffers at the campaign office say they have no clues as to who might have committed the crime. However, they add that the shooting makes them even more enthusiastic and energized about working for their candidates.
"If I have to sleep here (at the campaign office) now, that's what I'll do," says volunteer Suzanne Dewar.
In an unexpected twist, a bank directly across the street from the headquarters was robbed just as KPD officers were busy investigating at the scene of the shooting.
The night of President Bush's acceptance speech, the Bush offices were attacked and windows were shot out. Anything else, such as casualties, are only rumor.
Unless we all have a few thousand different screen names, I'd say they're delusional.
LOL! Oh well, gives me an excuse to reload some.
I would imagine that numerous shop owners who lost everything on Kristalnacht would have, retrospectively, agreed with you. We must realize that under certain scenarios, none of us have any protection other than that we provide on our own. Even in most nominal situations, self protection is the only real effective countermeasure. Ask any beat cop, they will tell you that is the harsh reality.
Would you mind adding me to your CW2 ping list? I would greatly appreciate it.
Regards,
Raven6
I've lost a number of so called friends since November 2001 - or, to put it more correctly, they *lost it!*
They say Free Republic has a dozen or so members. LOL
Unless we all have a few thousand different screen names, I'd say they're delusional.
I personally have 2976 screen names and can type real fast. You should see how many PC's I have in my home. I also have a Unix box running 1024 separate sessions all connected to FR with different screen names that randomly generate responses by mining all past responses by all the other 11 FR members and their thousands of screen names. And I work for Karl Rove.
Ping
LOL. I was taking you serious. I was thinking, WOW!
One group we need to worry about are what I call the "faux right." These are the ones who hate Bush, typically of militia or white supremecist pedigree, and who generally subscribe to the whole "9-11 was a set up" and "we have no business being in the Middle East" etc. It has been suspected that such groups have links to Al Qaida and have been false flag recruited by hostile foreign intelligence agencies and military covert ops. In concert with the angry Marxists, the "faux right" can bring seriously harmful weaponry to the fore. We need to be prepared for just about anything.
: LOL. I was taking you serious. I was thinking, WOW!
You mean they really are more than 11 other members? I thought we all worked for Karl Rove.
Its all Bush's fault.
LOL!!
Here's a good post by a freeper. He got a stupid democrat in very hot water! LOL!
Some of the attacks on Republican offices have occurred in union country (Pennsylvania, West Virginia), and there have been at least two assaults on anti-Kerry protesters at rallies by men wearing shirts or gimme caps with union logos. Consider also that many unions have fallen under the thumb of organized crime. Many local police agencies are unionized. There is likely some pressure on police unions to have their members look the other way in case of union violence.
I don't doubt that many LEOs on the beat have no use for Kerry or union thugs, much less gangsters. However, the police chiefs, commissioners, and chief deputies are often politically liberal, spouting the usual PC cliches to please liberal mayors, city managers, and city councils. With such people in charge of police departments and local governments, political violence and intimidation are the equivalent of hate crime. Only Republican assaults on Democrats are "political violence," just as only white assaults on nonwhites are "hate crime."
The science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote a story that imagined a charismatic religious leader, Nehemiah Scudder, seizing control of the United States through blood at the polls and blood in the streets. The source of the threat Heinlein perceived was wrong, but not the threat per se of elections manipulated by fraud and violence.
Sedition, treason and conspiracy to undertake armed overthrow against the sitting, duly elected and legally appointed government are barely being prosecuted these days. It cracks me up to hear people bitching about the Patriot Act. Patriot Act or no Patriot Act, there is much, much more that could be done, well within the bounds of the Constitution, to crack down on the revolutionaries and to restore order.
Probably a card carrying member of the Brady Bunch.
SKS's are pretty cheap and you can get 700 rds of ammo for 65 bucks.
Agreed. My guns are aimed at any intruder who illegally enters my house and tries to harm me, be he a left wing nutcase, a criminal thug, or an aryan nation-type nutjob. They're all one in the same - criminal intruders who will harm me if they are not stopped, and that's what the gun is for.
Just wait ... first shots, then pipe bombs ... and finally open warfare.
It's coming :(
These whiney sissy tree hugging bloomin' idiots or flower children probably don't know how to do anything except chant "give peace a chance" and carry their anti Bush signs.
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