Posted on 10/06/2004 5:37:05 PM PDT by jmstein7
Knock wood, so far my yard sign (in Howard County, MD) hasn't been touched. Down Rte. 95 in Montgomery County, the local GOP is making folks PAY for signs and won't even place a sign at a dentist's house who lives near my parents (on busy University Blvd. in Silver Spring).
No problem here in Alaska, but I agree the best way to fight this is to buy thousands of Bush/Cheney signs and put them everywhere. Put them on the inside of your front windows if your yard isn't secure. Go get 'em folks. Let the big dawg hunt!
If you click on the NRO link at the top of the page you can purchase signs and things for your own use. I think the idea here is that we don't want the thugs who are defacing our property, taking our signs, storming our headquarters offices, etc, to get the idea that they will stiffle our speech.
In Dane County, Wisconsin, someone was burning 8 ft. swastikas into the lawns of those who had Bush signs up.
Can you imagine a crossbow competition with freepers?
(We'd all be too busy joking about 'stuned', 'beebers', and 'unnngh..' to compete..)
oh... *blush* well that is a relly good idea too! ( Duh to me) Thanks! :]
All's well in my end of the world. Gettin' fatter and fatter, LOL!
Thanks for the ping and take good care of yourself, hear?
With spitballs????? LOLOL!
;)
"I would certainly support Cheney if he ran"
Me too, any chance he'll run, win, and resign immediately?
I've heard about Jeb Bush about 8324 too many times already.
I'm sure all the IslamoNazies say pretty much the same thing. I know the scrotes who took over the Russian school thought that was "for a cause" as well.
Throw the little SOBs in the cooler.
And he has the persona of "everybody's Grandpa". Doesn't' matter to the party of Hate.
Angry Kerry Activists Lay Siege to Bush Office in St. Paul, Intimidate Voters
http://www.mngop.com/info.cfm?x=2&pname=seltype&pval=1&pname2=infoID&pval2=2533
ST. PAUL -- On the same day that someone fired shots into the windows at the Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee, angry Kerry supporters laid siege to the Bush headquarters in St. Paul Minnesota today.
"Today's siege on the Bush/Cheney headquarters in St. Paul was an attempt by Democrats and the Kerry campaign to intimidate voters who were picking up tickets to see the President," said Republican Party of Minnesota State Chair Ron Eibensteiner. "The Minnesota Kerry Campaign and DFL are ruled by an angry mob mentality that has nothing positive to offer Minnesota voters." Today Kerry supporters blocked the entrance to the Bush campaign's Minnesota headquarters with buses and proceeded to rush into the headquarters in a clear attempt to intimidate voters who were picking up tickets to see the President this Saturday.
Eibensteiner called on DFL Chair Mike Erlandson and Kerry's Minnesota campaign to immediately cease these kinds of intimidation tactics.
"Lately, the DFL Party and Kerry Campaign can be best described as Anger Incorporated," said Eibensteiner. "They need to stop their escalation of these intimidation tactics before someone gets hurt."
Eibensteiner pointed out other instances where out-of-control Kerry supporters have intimidated voters. For example, at the Gophers football game last weekend, a Kerry supporter physically assaulted a female College Republican who was handing out flyers supporting the President. In a similar incident, Kerry supporters assaulted College Republicans at the Minnesota State Fair. During the incident, the union members elbowed two College Republicans in the head and threw them to the ground.
Also, DFL Party officials have yet to repudiate a bumper sticker, which was handed out from their party headquarters comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler.
"Anger is no substitute for optimistic leadership," said Eibensteiner. "Through their actions, Democrats have shown themselves incapable of governing themselves, much less our nation, during these challenging times."
That won't stop it. Turning the other cheek, which is what just replacing what they damage so that they can come back the next night and damage that, hardly ever does. Shooting the bastards will at least get their attention. Don't go looking for them, but if you live in a state such as Texas that protects your right to protect yourself and your property, let 'em have it the minute they touch your stuff. If they merely trespass, you probably ought to give them one verbal warning to move it
Youth is given to strong, even violent, emotions. They grow out of it. I did. Contemporary rhetoric is very strong. They are scared.
Sometimes when I get discouraged I go back to what they were saying when the country was being founded. It was really ugly. The rhetoric was just awful.
After the end of the cold war we thought, "well, it will be really easy from here." We were wrong. A whole new battle is now emerging. I wish it weren't so, but it is.
You are clearly much younger than me, and will face this battle long after I am gone. Sorry, I wish it were otherwise. But until I die, I will support you, then it will become your charge.
The battle for freedom never ends. It shifts and moves and goes in places not expected. Today it is my responsibility, tomorrow it is yours, but we are all on the same side.
Polish your skills, write your tush off. You have no idea how much good you can do writing as you do. And then, God willing, (and God ain't too happy with me) it will all be alright in the end. Most of all, don't forget to live for yourself, live your life. Be happy as you can, and if the bomb goes off, be glad you did the best with your life you could.
Ain't no more, hon.
The brown shirts are in full swing this election season.
Think BIG signs on long posts, sticking up above the fence, if there is a fence, such that they'd be visible from the street. Especially useful if your house backs up to a major street. In parts of Plano, (Texas) the houses back up to the parkways, with a paved "alley" between the individual homeowners fence and the fence that attempts to isolate the neighborhood from the traffic on the parkway.
Of course their are. The Constitution authorises the use of the Militia (and the National Guard is a Part of the militia when not wearing their federal reserve hats) to "to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;"
State constitutions generally give the the governor similiar powers to call out the state's militia.
That's probably the safest solution from a criminal liability point of view, as long as the fence charger is of the type that limits the current to a less than lethal dose. Of course if you are home, you could just have a sensor that alerted you to the sign being stolen, then you can take whatever defensive of property measures "allowed" by your state.
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