Attacks and Dirty Tricks Against Bush/Cheney and GOP

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[ProudArmyRetiree]

Is anyone else as furious as am I about the nationwide assaults against Bush/Cheney and GOP headquarters!?

Where is the MSM? Where is the condemnation by Popeye and Opie? Where the hell is the FBI!?

[MEG33]

Your link isn't working for me.

[Poohbah]

Is anyone else as furious as am I about the nationwide assaults against Bush/Cheney and GOP headquarters!?

Perhaps it's time to reactivate Operation Phoenix.

[Soul Seeker]

Yes, I'm angry and would like to know what efforts are being made nation wide to protect our people in B/C headquarters.

I do believe this could and SHOULD backfire against the Dems IF it gets exposure. I don't think we can count on the MSM so it's going to have to be a grassroots word of mouth. Tell your communities, make sure they know what is happening. Contact FOX, and the other networks, contact government officials including Kerry asking what he is going to do about it, make noise on the talk shows.

It wouldn't hurt to recruit volunteers to act as security, either.

I don't tolerate terrorists flying planes into buildings and I do not tolerate terrorists trying to stage a violent overthrow of our republic.

[MarlboroRed]

Here's a catalogue of outrages from the Kerry Spot on National Review Online:

IT'S TIME TO ACT [10/06 03:38 PM]

My friends, it is time for a vital message.

Yesterday we read about some disturbing cases of political violence related to the election. Now we turn our attention to a less directly threatening, but still disturbing trend in American politics.

Every election cycle, there are always reports of campaign workers stealing or defacing signs. Usually it's an overzealous campaign volunteer, or a drunk, or some activist with more anger than brains or knowledge of trespassing laws and respect for others' property. Or all simultaneously.

But something seriously disturbing is going on this year. There's been an exponential number of reports of signs not just stolen, but burned, defaced with swastikas, and torn down by pistol-packing angry teenagers. (An anti-Bush gun-control supporter, perhaps?)

Howard County, Maryland:

The political season has turned ugly in Howard County, with an Ellicott City homeowner reporting a late-night fire that burned two Republican campaign signs in his back yard.

In addition, local Republicans say scores of other campaign signs have been destroyed or vandalized in the past couple of weeks, most of them along major highways.

"It's absolutely outrageous," said Howard Rensin, chairman of the county Republican party. He said about $1,500 worth of GOP signs have been destroyed.

"We're talking about dozens and dozens and dozens of signs. We think we may be looking at a concerted effort here," Rensin said. "If people want to express their political views, they ought to do so at the polls." ...

Over the weekend, county police conducted a surveillance operation prompted by the spate of sign destruction. On Sept. 25, police spotted a man on Route 40 cutting down with a power tool a sign urging voters to re-elect President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Police arrested Corey Robert Cooke, 33, of Ellicott City and charged him with destruction of property.

Pfc. Dave Proulx, a county police spokesman, said Cooke has not been charged in any of the other incidents.

The most dramatic incident so far involved the burning of the 4-foot-by-8-foot Bush-Cheney sign and a smaller sign endorsing U.S. Senate candidate E. J. Pipkin in Ellicott City.

James McQuarrie said he awoke shortly after 1 A.M. Sept. 25 and saw a fire burning in the yard of his home in the 10100 block of Old Frederick Road.

"I saw a big flame outside my window," McQuarrie said. He rushed to fight the fire with a hose, then county firefighters arrived to help. The fire also burned part of his yard fence and a nearby pile of wood, McQuarrie said.

Another case in the same neck of the woods:

Howard County's spate of political sign destruction led to the arrest late Friday of a Randallstown couple accused of using a bayonet to cut the centers out of two Bush/Cheney campaign signs on U.S. 40 near Ridge Road in Ellicott City, according to court files and county police.

Peter Lizon, 30, and his wife, Stephanie Louise Lizon, 34, of the first block of Valdivia Court, were each charged with destruction of private property. Peter Lizon faces weapons charges. He is free on $3,500 bail and Stephanie Lizon on $3,000 bail.

Duluth, Minnesota:

"We did it."

Three Duluth teenagers walked into the Duluth News Tribune on Wednesday afternoon, opening with these three words. The boys said they were responsible for vandalizing Bush campaign signs and painting a swastika and the word "Nazi" at a London Road residence last weekend.

An hour later, the three boys traveled to the Lakeside-Lester Park police station, where Sgt. Scott Campbell was waiting to talk to them.

The teenagers told the News Tribune they meant no harm to Bob James, the homeowner and Bush-Cheney supporter who erected the signs. They said they spray painted the signs and the swastika on James' sidewalk but had nothing to do with the vandalism of two of James' vehicles.

Friends and supporters of James and the Republican Party of Minnesota had offered a $2,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism.

While the teenagers were remorseful for what they did to James, they stood by their contempt for President Bush. They said they left a phone message for James on Wednesday and twice went to his house to apologize, but he wasn't home. They planned to try again later Wednesday.

"It was not an act of hate," said Dustin "Dusty" Dzuck, 17, a senior at Denfeld High School. "My mom called me a terrorist. It wasn't terrorism; it was activism. It was for a cause.... The whole thing is, basically, I just wanted to get the word out there that in my opinion Bush isn't doing this country any good."

Dzuck said his actions bothered him more when he learned James is an Army veteran.

Nashville, Tennessee:

Police said a Nashville teenager and his friends stole 71 Bush-Cheney yard signs because he was mad at President Bush for sending his brother to Iraq.

Andrew Thurman, 18, told police that he and 19-year-old Frederick Stevenson stole the signs from several west Nashville neighborhoods because his brother, a U.S. marine, was sent to Iraq.

"It's not unusual to see the isolated theft of campaign signs in local, state and federal elections," Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said. "However, this is the first time I can recall that someone who admits responsibility for the theft has linked it to the war in Iraq."

Thurman, Stevenson and two other teens were riding in a Honda Accord when they were stopped by police. Officers searched the car and found the signs, along with three pistols.

Thurman and Stevenson were cited for misdemeanor charges of theft and unlawful weapon possession. The other teens, who were both minors, face only the weapon charge.

Officials say this presidential campaign has triggered more reports of stolen campaign signs than in previous elections.

Rapid City, South Dakota:

The battle over political yard signs continued in Rapid City on Friday night, and the Republicans seemed to get the worst of it.

Signs supporting Republican candidates John Thune and Larry Diedrich were spray painted, stolen or destroyed up and down West Boulevard, as well as on several streets nearby. West Boulevard resident Ellen Drabek said Saturday that she lost two signs from her yard during the night.

"Mine weren't painted. Mine were stolen. And there were two large Thune signs up at St. Patrick Street that were broken up. All the rest of them were spray painted," Drabek said. "None of the Democratic signs were touched."

The vandalism and thefts occurred about two weeks after three Rapid City teenagers were caught after they were spotted in the act of stealing a large yard sign for Democrat Stephanie Herseth from a West Boulevard yard. Signs for Democrat Tom Daschle also had been taken.


There are also sporadic reports of Kerry signs being stolen or defaced. If you are a Bush supporter, and you tear down Kerry signs, you are among the lamest human beings on the planet.

But so far, the majority of these cases — and the ones involving the most disturbing details of bayonets, guns, fires, and swastikas — are targeting Bush-Cheney signs.

There is, of course, a way to fight this.

And, coincidentally, it just happens to involve the primary sponsor of the Kerry Spot.

Are those of us — left, right and center — going to let a bunch of bullies push us around? In our homes, front lawns, and neighborhoods?

I quote the football coach in the movie, Rudy: "No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around."

Or, if you prefer the University of Maryland, WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE!

In this case, "this house" means our right to publicly support the candidate of our choice. If somebody stole your sign, they're trying to send you a message — that your voice shouldn't be heard, that their willingness to stroll onto your property break the law can trumps your First Amendment rights. Are you going to let those snot-nosed punks win?

If you have to only put your sign out while you're home, so be it. If you have to take it inside overnight, so be it. Better to make that little extra effort than to concede that their enthusiasm for vandalism can shut you up.

Flag W needs some advance time to get stuff sent to you. They got a slew of stuff to my Bush-supporting friends awfully fast, but we know they're going to get a rush of orders in the closing month of the election. And a sign for your candidate only does good before Election Day, obviously (unless it's for moral support during the recount, I suppose).

I know there are a bunch of you out there who don't usually put signs up. It's gauche. Wearing your heart on your sleeve. Kinda cheesy.

But this isn't a normal year. These aren't normal times. And a bunch of little twerps think they can help their guy win by stealing stuff and painting swastikas. On the property of a veteran. Guy spends years defending his country so some kid who can barely spell "Nazi," much less define "national socialism," can march onto his property and spray paint the symbol of those fascists?

Hands balling into fists yet? Jaw clenched? Getting in that Ben Grimm "It's clobberin' time" mood?

Go here, or click on the ad at the top of the page. Bring the credit card or the checkbook. Buy as much stuff as you like.

And let's show the world what happens when these little sign-defacing reprobates mess with the wrong folks.

[johannes89a]

...but first, another Northwoods.

[TheCrusader]

"Where is the MSM?"

having coffee and laughing, and planning how best to ignore it.

[Bulminator]

I agree. My opinion of this whole matter is it is just a few groups of disorganized people who are trying to sway voters somehow. And friends of the GOP, don't sweat it. They will sway voters. Fact is when people who are in the middle see one side spreading the American dream of freedom all over the world and they see another side burning swastikas into people's lawns, injuring innocent campaign promoters, trespassing in their meeting places and giving underwear away, who do you think they're going to vote for? Stay strong in the face of intimidation. Isn't that idea why we're all here in the first place? When all is said and done, these people will have to REALLY complain about their overtime with all the lawyers fees and fines.

[Poohbah]

Naw, just reactivate OPLAN 34A.

Of course, we could activate the planned, but never executed, Operation Vulture (severely evil grin, cackle with maniacal glee)

[ProudArmyRetiree]

Don't forget your Representative and Senators, especially if Republicans. Call the national Popeye-Opie HQ to protest. Don't forget other blogs like Power Line, INDC, and Captain's Quarters. Call/email talk radio. Email/call the local govt and police where these anti-American (as they are) terrorist attacks occur.

I didn't spend 27+ years on active duty to allow these DNC Nazi thugs to get away with this crap.

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more."

[zeugma]

Bump

Good post. Informative.

[CFC__VRWC]

I would think that such extremism (on the part of the Dems) would tend to turn off those that are still undecided. It could work to the Republicans benefit, so long as no one gets hurt.

This is about more than scoring political points. Just how much longer do you suppose it will be before someone does get hurt, or even killed? The longer these incidents go on without any outcry, the longer the media ignores them or winks and nods at them, the longer that Kerry and McAuliffe give their tacit approval of these Nazi tactics by refusing to condemn them, the bolder these thugs will get, and they will push the envelope harder and harder.

These incidents will only escalate in intensity and frequency until someone puts a stop to them. The media and the democrats have clearly decided that they aren't going to do anything about this, so it is up to us.

[olde north church]

One website I visit, trentonrevolution, is making their homepage a clearinghouse for violence against political volunteers. Considering the vast number are of Republican mind, they will obviously make up the largest number.
I thought it was a great idea, here's a bit
I HAVE WARNED BUT HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD
With the implicit consent of the Democrat National Committee and the State and Local Democrat Parties, violence against Republican Party volunteers and offices is increasing daily. This form of political cancer has metastasized as no "treatment" had been applied, we are forced to employ a more radical treatment if we are to save the body.
When islamic terrorists attack the innocent, we await the reaction from the more moderate elements of the community as proof the terrorists do not represent the views of the mainstream. In all things we must apply the same standard. Since there is no response from the Democrat community at large, we must believe all Democrats approve of this violence. There is also no recognition of responsibility by the Democrat candidates for president and vice-president, we can only presume these actions are by the direction of those at the top. To this end, there is no other option than to hold Senators John F. Kerry and John Edwards than to hold these men, as well as other high-ranking officers, personally responsible for the safety of each Bush/Cheney supporter.
to continue click here

[cricket]

Essentially a 'hate crime'.

[Dolphy]

Yes, I'm furious. But what are we to expect from a campaign that has called us goons and idiots? And they are led by a man who once called hundreds of thousands honorable men war criminals and who now marches into black churches to tell them that we are oppressing their vote and voice.

This much I know, and I know the left very well, they count on our silence, partially by bullying us with trumped up charges and twisted interpretations. They can rip up signs, intimidate Bush supporters and break into Republican offices across the country, without a word. But when the first Dem decides they were intimidated because someone looked cross eyed at them, it will be on 60 minutes.

[cambodia]

I live overseas and there has been no mention of these incidents on the MSM (CNN, MSNBC, etc). Why is the DNC letting this happen and not speaking out?

Reminds me of some of the tactics that have happened here in Cambodia during elections. Is the DNC going to let it's people denigrate the US to the level we see here in Cambodia, a third-world country?

[Dolphy]

Is the DNC going to let it's people denigrate the US to the level we see here in Cambodia, a third-world country?

Yes, the rhetoric from their leaders, from Kerry, to McAuliffe, to Gore promotes this insanity.

[slimer]

The media/DNC is deaf, blind and DUMB!

They're down right evil and they will tear this nation apart in order to gain power.

[taxesareforever]

Where the hell is the FBI!?

Staking out Kerry/Edwards signs in order to arrest someone for violating free speech if they tear up the signs.

[ProudArmyRetiree]

Many of you are probably too young to remember the late 60's and early 70's - I was in Jr. High School (NOT "Middle School"!), High School, and started college then. I learned that extremists on either "end" of the spectrum are more intolerant of opposing ideas the more radical the extremists are (sorry about the bad grammar). No real difference in methods or real beliefs between Communists and Fascists.

It's important to remember that it's ALL of our duty to protect the Nation, specifically the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The only was thugs, like the criminals they are, will continue is if we turn a blind eye. We cannot allow the DNC to steal the election. Get involved. Volunteer for Bush-Cheney. Work phone banks. Do something.

The other side is hoping that we will rant and rave, but not follow-up our words with political involvement.

Now that I am retired from the Army, I have volunteered to work for the President's reelection. I was in NYC on 9-11, and will do whatever I can to make sure that never happens again...including doing what I can to make sure that President Bush is reelected.

Yell? Yes. Scream? You bet! Email everone and their brother and sister? Absolutely. Make sure, however, to follow it up with legal, American political action.

This election is too damn important.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT for your post.