Right, and read about the other close calls here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2494882/posts
I posted this in response to Michelle Malkin soft shoeing this story on that thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2494882/posts?page=126#126
“Malkin ran a story about how the victims were thought to have been wearing Palin pins was false.
Fine and dandy Michelle - but having mob like activity just outside a Republican meeting means somebody (NOPD, the city leaders, etc.) dropped the ball. Not to mention, even if the pair were attacked simply because they were rich and white by anarchist revolutionaries - the only party I know that welcomes such revolutionaries in its midst and seems to actively recruit them, is the party of maobama. And that would be the Democrats.
So forget about the Palin pins...address the real story here - political violence and the reticence for the national RAT press, and political leadership of any sort (including Jindal) to address it.”
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Seriously - where was security that night to prevent this? They MUST have known of the potential for this to happen.
I place pretty high blame on the NOPD and anyone else responsible for security.