Posted on 03/25/2010 5:22:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
Let's not pretend anymore that the Tea Party movement is harmless. The right to protest is one of our cherished American freedoms.
But there is no right to vandalism, no right to threaten our elected officials' lives. Someone is going to get hurt unless those who lead the movement — and those who exploit it — start acting like responsible adults.
What are the chances of that?
It was Sarah Palin, the Eva Peron of the Tea Party crowd, who used Facebook to target 20 Democrats who voted for health care reform, indicating their districts' locations on a map with the cross hairs of a rifle scope. It was Palin who wrote on Twitter: "Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: 'Don't Retreat, Instead — RELOAD!' Pls see my Facebook page."
That anyone still listens to this person is one of the most unfortunate unintended consequences of social networking.
At least 10 House Democrats have had to request additional security following Sunday's health care vote. Someone left a coffin on the lawn of Rep. Russ Carnahan's home in Missouri. Glass doors and windows were broken at the district offices of Reps. Louise Slaughter of New York and Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona. Vandals have damaged Democratic Party offices in Wichita Kan., Rochester, N.Y., and Cincinnati.
And Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, whose last-minute compromise on abortion funding guaranteed final passage of the reform act, has received a flood of abusive phone calls at his office and home. Someone faxed him a drawing of a noose.
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The MSM played repeatedly the guy that threw the shoe at Bush non stop for 5 days and laughed about it. He was the President! does anyone remember that?
Frequently (more than frequently) a Freeper thread will be read more often than the original blog ~ so don’t waste your time at the blog. To the degree people look for the topic on any of the major search engines they’ll come to your answer here.
The point these posters are trying to make is that these are likely phony, staged events done by Dems to frame us.
Was it reported?
Cause of fire investigated and reported?
I don't need to ask why I didn't hear about it on TV news.
That cynical reply of the Newsweek editor to Brent Bozell's question (Bozell had to corner the guy), why didn't they cover the murder of Jesse Dirkhising in Indiana by two gay men, applies here.
"It didn't resonate."
Dirkhising's murder was penecontemporaneous with that of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, about which we heard endlessly for weeks and months and which made the covers of all the newsweeklies.
But Jesse's death-agony didn't count. His story didn't resonate with the gay agenda the media drones were pushing.
I really don’t think the Democrats (politicians or moron voters) quite grasp that we are fine to debate ‘political points”, except when you are attempting to TAKE OUR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS!
They don’t understand that it is not something we will just sit back and discuss and wait for another vote.
No, I will physically refuse for my constitutional rights to be violated. Included the Federal government saying I must give another entity (corporation) money in order to avoid legal punishment.
They are SO STUPID, that all day I have been trying to explain the difference when they say “you pay taxes for services...”
Uh yeah ya moron, that is paying TAXES. This is paying ANOTHER LEGAL ENTITY as a hostage of the government.
By the way, no one, not one single lib has answered my question no matter how much I plead with them to get a yes or no (which tells you that’s it’s a no) if they would be just fine with this bill if George W. Bush and a Republican majority signed it into law saying they must purchase a health insurance policy. Not one has answered. They would be SCREAMING “Greedy Republicans in bed with big corporate, blah blah blah” but since a “D” is beside his name, it’s all okey dokey. Hypocrites.
By the way, I think I intend to delete them. Even though they are my Facebook friends due to another group that is largely liberal dominated, I don’t need their stupid posts.
ALF = Animal Liberation Front.
ELF = Earth Liberation Front.
CSP = Damned if I know, probably some "progressive" liberation group I am unaware of. Communists searching for peace?
I look at this picture and I know people would be intimidated to go in. I don't want to minimize that point. But I wouldn't be. You go up and start talking with them.
"How's it going?"
"Nice day today, great day to vote."
"Who are you voting for?"
"You did vote didn't you?"
"Yea, I was thinking of Obama but I am voting McCain instead."
"Have a great day. Nice to see you here making sure everyone is safe."
What is the guy going to do, start beating on you. Not likely.
"The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008."
This guy was down south witnessing voter supression back in the sixties and IMHO if he thinks this incident was THE WORST he has seen, they must have been behaving like psychos.
Make fun of the pathetic stories and make it a joke.
Why do the GOP leader give serious answers to these phony charges.
The Gop leaders fall for every alinsky tactic.
The dummy Mike Steele is the chief fool.
No promises. If you are not aware of the acronyms (they are not abbreviations) a simple step would be to copy and paste the URLs into a web browser and review the larger articles.
Additionally, if you are not aware that ALF is the common name for the animal liberation front - a group that has attacked research institutions, and that ELF is a common acronym for the earth liberation front - a group that has spiked trees and burned developments in the name of "conservation" then you might want to crawl out from under your rock...
Not trying to be an @$$, just saying the acronyms are not obscure and that simply following the links provided could have answered your questions.
Save the etiquite lessons for someone else...
Best regards.
Coalition to save the preserves.
Oh, I’m to the point that I think we’ll just put folks like Eugene on
THE LIST
and move on. No use wasting emotion over this piece of crap. Just round him up when the time comes.
They are dragging us, our children, and our grandchildren off in chains to serve the “ruling class”,
and they expect us to “be civil about it”.
We get even in November...let them keep saying this...the more they say the madder we will be by November...
Thank you good sir.
March 21, 2003: GOP headquarters in Madison hit with bricks, paint bombs Journal Sentinel
In 2004, Republicans were subject to an aggressive and sometimes violent campaign of harassment and intimidation orchestrated by Kerry supporters. At least three Bush-Cheney offices were shot at during the election season. A swastika was burned into the front yard of a Bush-Cheney supporter in Madison, Wisconsin. Other incidents included offices burglarized, windows smashed, tires slashed and other property damage. The following is a timeline of documented election-related violence and intimidation against the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign and Republicans in 2004.
September 2, 2004: Gun Shot Fired Into Huntington, WV, Republican Headquarters.95
September 3, 2004: Windows Broken, Anti-Bush Messages Scrawled At Gallatin County, MT, Republican Headquarters.96
September 6, 2004: Huntington, WV, Republican Headquarters Egged.97
September 13, 2004: Swastika Drawn On Duluth, MN, Resident’s Lawn, Signs Also Defaced With Words “Nazi” And “Liar.”98
September 16, 2004: Community College Professor In Florida Punched Republican County Chairman In Face.99
September 22, 2004: West Elmira, NY, Resident Found Swastika Drawn On Bush Campaign Sign In His Yard.100
September 23, 2004: Office Ransacked During Break-In At Vilas County, WI, Republican Headquarters, Obscene Words And Graphic Pictures Sprayed On Campaign Signs.101
September 26, 2004: Windows Smashed And Signs Stolen At Oxford, MS, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters.102
October 1, 2004: Laptops Of Executive And Field Director Stolen From Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters In Seattle, WA.103
October 1, 2004: Swastika Burned Into Front Yard Of Bush-Cheney ‘04 Supporter In Madison, WI.104
October 2, 2004: Collinsville, OH, Resident Chains Down Bush-Cheney ‘04 Signs After Several Signs Stolen And One Was Replaced With Kerry Sign.105
October 3, 2004: Burglary At Thousand Oaks, CA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Where Bush-Cheney ‘04 Banner Was Stolen From Outside Premises.106
October 5, 2004: Gun Shots Fired Into Knoxville, TN, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Office, Shattering Office’s Glass Front Doors.107
October 8, 2004: Two Men Were Caught On A Hidden Camera Tearing Down And Urinating On Bush-Cheney ‘04 Sign In Akron, OH.108
October 9, 2004: Oxnard, CA, Supporter Placing Bush-Cheney ‘04 In Yards Verbally Abused, Knocked Down And Had Signs Stolen.109
October 9, 2004: Bush-Cheney Signs Near Vail, CO, Cut In Half And Burned In “Ransacking.”110
October 10, 2004: Office Windows Broken And Field Director’s Laptop Bag and Purse Stolen In Burglary At Canton, OH, Victory Office.111
October 11, 2004: Windows Broken, Petty Cash Stolen And Computers Tampered With In Burglary At Spokane, WA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.112
October 13, 2004: Walls And Windows Of York, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Vandalized With Pro-Kerry Spray-Paint And Signs Outside Destroyed.113
October 13, 2004: Window Smashed At Laconia, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.114
October 13, 2004: Kerry Supporter Caught Stealing Bush Sign In Cape Girardeau, MO, Pulled Knife On Sign’s Owner And Was Arrested.115
October 15, 2004: Someone Destroyed Large Plywood Bush-Cheney ‘04 Sign, Then Tried To Smash Debris Though Glass Door Of Santa Fe, NM, Republican Party Headquarters.116
October 15, 2004: Someone Lined Window Sill With Bullet Casings At Littleton, NH, Republican Headquarters.117
October 16, 2004: Unknown Suspects Vandalized Large Bush-Cheney Campaign Sign In Hollister, CA, With Obscenities.118
October 17, 2004: Stickers Placed Over Windows Of Gettysburg, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.119
October 18, 2004: Eggs Thrown At Keene, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.120
October 18, 2004: 21 Protesters Arrested At Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign Headquarters In Arlington, VA.121
October 20, 2004: Rocks Thrown Through Windows At Multnomah County, OR, Republican Party Headquarters.122
October 21, 2004: Bomb Threat Made Against Lake Havasu, AZ, Republican Party Headquarters.123
October 21, 2004: Windows Smashed At Multnomah County Republican Party Headquarters In Portland, OR.124
October 22, 2004: Break-In Discovered At Cincinnati, OH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.125
October 22, 2004: Break-In Discovered At Flagstaff, AZ, Victory 2004 Headquarters. Perpetrators gained entry by throwing a cinder block through a plate glass window.126
October 22, 2004: Chunk Of Concrete Tossed Through Glass Door Of Republican Headquarters In Santa Cruz, CA.127
October 23, 2004: Two Kerry Supporters Arrested After Stealing Pro-Bush Signs From Activist And Pushing Police Officer At Edwards Rally In St. Petersburg, FL.128
November, 2004: Editors say Yale Free Press stolen Yale Daily News
June 8, 2004: Court sets release of Ryan’s divorce file Chicago Tribune
August, 2005: Reservist suspected of spray painting pro-Bush bumper stickers in Denver - Associated Press
October 26, 2006: A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data. New York Times
October 30, 2006: RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Responds To Today’s Letter From DNC Chairman Howard Dean GOP
October 1, 2008; Vandals destroy Republican candidate signs, PolitickOr.com
October 6, 2008: Laptop stolen from regional GOP headquarters CNET News
October 8, 2008: Tennessee Man Indicted in Hacking of Palin’s E-Mail Account Fox News
October 22, 2008: Minnesota, Senator Coleman campaign: Senator’s garage vandalized Associated Press
September, 2009: The Washington DC Tea Party appears to be a big success, but it’s not for lack of trying among the movement’s more lunatic opponents. Yesterday, the DC Metro police evacuated the offices of Freedomworks after several threats, including a bomb-threat phone call that police considered credible enough to investigate.
March 22, 2010: Bullet shot through window of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor’s Richmond, Virginia campaign Office.
The radical left must be scared.
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