Posted on 05/26/2010 6:27:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs
As you know, last week SEIU staged a protest at the home of an attorney for Bank of America. On a quiet Sunday in the Maryland suburbs of DC, SEIU sent 500 protesters onto the front lawn of the home of Greg Baer, a former Treasury official in the Clinton Administration. Mr. Baer wasn’t at home but, unfortunately, his 14 year old son was. The protesters succeeded in terrorizing the boy.
Let me quickly digress to point out that Bank of America is SEIU’s largest creditor. Under the leadership of Andy Stern, SEIU leveraged itself to the hilt, largely to support Democrat campaign efforts, and now owes the bank around $100 million. The loan payments are likely playing havoc with the union’s finances. (Rich that SEIU thinks it has a credible voice on financial reform, given that their own behavior is a set-piece for much of what went wrong.) Coincidence that the bank is the target of a comprehensive and coordinated protest from the union? (Dear Bank of America, Call the loan. Today.)
There is much to say about this protest, but the most fascinating part to me is the role played by the police. It seems the DC police followed/escorted/shadowed the protesters into Maryland. They may or may not have notified the Maryland police, who may or may not have been on the scene while the protesters stormed private property and terrorized a teenage boy. Yesterday, Megyn Kelly of FoxNews interviewed law enforcement officials from DC and Maryland and asked many specific, hard hitting questions. (Classic Megan Kelly intervew at link)
I’m not going to say the law enforcement officials are lying in this interview. They parse their words expertly. When Ms. Kelly backs them into a corner, they shift the focus to irrelevant parts of the story. But, saying they aren’t lying here is a distinction without a difference.
There are a few points to be made.
First, the DC police official says emphatically that their police officers did not cross into Maryland…except when they did. It seems one of their officers, according to their official, made a wrong turn and didn’t fully understand the DC/Maryland border and may have ‘briefly’ been inside Maryland. A wrong turn and a brief excursion through the Maryland suburbs is hardly worth mentioning if that is all that really happened. No one would notice, nor remark on, an errant 30 second diversion through Maryland streets. This story has the classic feel of a diversion; a pat, simple excuse to cover up any other behavior that comes to light. Any future eyewitness accounts of DC police cars at the scene? Yeah, that was that one cop who didn’t know her jurisdiction’s borders and was ‘lost’.
Second, the Maryland police official says, contrary to other statements made by his department, that they were immediately notified by DC police that the protesters were entering their jurisdiction. According to the official, Maryland police met with DC police at the border to get a situation report and then proceeded to the protest. When they arrived, the official claims, the protesters were already dispersing.
Remember that the official says that the site of the protest is “one or two blocks from the DC border.” Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot…
Fourteen buses start crossing the Maryland border (at which point we’re supposed to believe the Maryland police were immediately notified), they find parking on residential streets, unload their protesters, assemble 500 people on a private lawn, engage in threatening verbal abuse long enough to force a 14 year old boy to lock himself into a bathroom…and the Maryland police get there as they are dispersing? Is their police headquarters in Delaware?
Thankfully, I don’t live in Montgomery County. This is the kind of public safety and police protection for which they pay ridiculously high property taxes? They get a ’situation report’ that 500 protesters are targeting a private citizen’s home and they send 3 police officers? Really? They could only spare 3 officers on a Sunday in Montgomery County?
I hate to say this, and I will no doubt be attacked for it, but stories like this make one feel that the police are not on our side. A few weeks ago, police in Quincy, Illinois deployed a full contingent of riot police to deal with a couple hundred tea party protesters who where singing patriotic songs on public property. In Maryland, 3 police officers police watched as 500 union thugs stormed private property in an act of intimidation and did nothing because, as the police official notes, there weren’t any “no trespassing” signs at the property. (I wonder if he has “no trespassing” signs at his home.)
Sometimes it is the small story that illuminates the overall narrative. Let’s dispense with all the semantics and timelines and legalese. Last week, 500 union thugs descended on a private home and terrorized a teenage boy. They violated someone’s most personal space, their home. And they attacked their most precious gift, their child. The police in two jurisdictions knew about this. They did nothing.
(classic Megan Kelly video link in comment #1)
If I lived in a neighborhood with any kind of SEIU target, I would get together with my neighbors and hire a private security firm because obviously the police in these jurisdictions are either cowards or complicite.
The teenage boy should have been armed.
“Kelly is on to something here. I hope she sticks with it.”
Me too. I emailed her yesterday to ask that she stay with this story. These thugs feel they can do anything cause they have friends in high places.
Imagine what would happen if 14 buses of Tea Party members showed up in front of Jeffrey Immelts home...
I’d venture to guess that the police would immediately show up and no one would be allowed on Mr. Immelts property.
She completely nailed their asses to the wall. Megyn Kelly rocks, she’d be a great WH press secretary.
You hate her don't you?? (rhetorical question, I know you dont.) That would destroy her. Bush made poor Tony Snow go out on talk radio and claim that illegals would vote Republican if we made them citizens, and the previous one got even worse talking points. I would NEVER wish that on her.
Look to the people behind this, the Obama administration, that are close to Andy Stern and SEIU. They are the people pulling the strings. The rest are just liars following orders.
Megyn is not only beatiful, she is the most talented, intelligent member of Fox News. She ought to be the top dog, given time.
Add one U ;-)
The solution to that would be to elect a good president.
Cops are now just UNION THUGS!
You really are a dreamer. For a long time we were told Bush was a ‘good’ president. Some here still claim he was a ‘great’ president. (GAG). I am sure whoever Republicans nominate we will go through a similar ritual at least till he/she is safely re-elected. Not holding my breath waiting for the 'real thing',
I, too, am following this story. It is the perfect example of how we are now living in the 21st century equivalent of 1930’s Germany. Can you imagine how different it would’ve been had the “protesters” been Tea Partiers? I wonder when Zero’s people will start wearing brown shirts . . . . .
very pretty, but very liberal — don’t like her.
The vast majority of cops would cheerfully drag that 14 YOA boy out for the mod to dispose of If They Were Given An Order To Do So.
(Did 20 years in the biz - I know)
The DC police chief needs to lose his job. He knows nothing about the rights he’s supposed to protect and the laws he supposed to enforce.
Megyn just mentioned that Nina Easton is supposed to be on today since she is the new target of SEIU for telling the truth about what she saw. I believie they made a huge mistake this time by doing this with a liberal reporter living across the street. IIRC she is the one who the teen called when he was afraid but I could be mistaken about that?
Well of course you don’t if you’re very liberal.
Mayb police in this country are SEIU members so keep that in mind!
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