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Home Front: Politix
Democratic Party official forced to RESIGN after tweeting death wish
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] ... Allan Brauer himself ultimately offered a mea culpa, barely 90 minutes after he started his tirade.

'I am truly sorry for my tweet,' he wrote to Carpenter. 'I was very upset and lashed out. Your kids are not fair game either. My apologies.'

'Thank you. I appreciate it,' came the reply.

Writing It Right For You, a consultancy where Brauer works, posted a defense of him late Friday, after the two were connected online.

The statement, titled 'Dealing with Irrational People,' wrote of conservative activists that 'for all of their snide comments, it still remains that private citizens can express their opinions on their own Twitter.'

The local Democratic Party of Sacramento County, however, showed Brauer the door an hour later.

Party chairwoman Kerri Asbury said in a statement that 'the comments by our volunteer communications chair are appalling and inexcusable.'

'No matter what our political disagreements may be, wishing harm is never an acceptable response during heated public debate or any other time.'
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He wasn't fired for the threat. He was fired as he let the mask slip of how the liberals feel about their opponents.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/22/2013 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  FU & prpre 2:

wld hve bn m rply
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2013 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  'the comments by our volunteer communications chair are appalling and inexcusable.'

Ah. He's the "communications" guy...
I can see why.

Posted by: tu3031 || 09/22/2013 1:19 Comments || Top||

#4  He was fired as he let the mask slip of how the liberals feel about their opponents.

"what the liberals plan for" Here, fixed it for you, Ani.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/22/2013 5:11 Comments || Top||

#5  He was fired as he let the mask slip of how the liberals feel about their opponents.

Which fell only because of the internet. The Party organs (ie MSM) would never had let the public known, unless the party and individual had a R attached to it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/22/2013 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Allan Brauer is the true face of Progressivism, unmasked: hateful, violent, stupid, bigoted and utterly amoral.
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/22/2013 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Todd Rundgren in the song Heavy Metal Kid:

"I know I could make this world so peaceful and calm,

If I could just get my hands on a hydrogen bomb..."

Leftythink in a nutshell (no pun intended)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2013 10:23 Comments || Top||

#8  He'll be quietly hired back in a few weeks at a higher salary.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/22/2013 11:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Conveniently separating the personal from the official a very nice Democratic double standard here in California. Bill Press (who was chairman of the state Democratic Party) used to host a political radio show as the same time he held his official position - but the two were 'separate' and Mr. Press' regular job was left unmentioned from the start.

But the TV stations couldn't run Ahnuld's movies during election season - those were deemed campaign ads.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/22/2013 12:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Which fell only because of the internet. The Party organs (ie MSM) would never had let the public known, unless the party and individual had a R attached to it.

As of today all my references to MSM (Main Stream Media) will be changed to BRM (Banana Repulic Media).
Posted by: Vernal Noodleman1051 || 09/22/2013 14:15 Comments || Top||

#11  This POS communication director will be working at university, cnn, or the IRS very soon.
Posted by: Airandee || 09/22/2013 17:42 Comments || Top||


Government
Quinn: I'd Consider Using National Guard, State Police To Help Chicago
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] Gov. Pat Quinn says he would consider using state resources to help combat reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
street violence.

Speaking about this week's mass shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Quinn says he's open to talking with Mayor Emanuel about supplementing Chicago law enforcement with state police or the Illinois National Guard.

He said he's had no specific conversations but noted state police are helping patrol in East St. Louis, another city that has its challenges with violent crime.

"I think anyone who saw what happened in Cornell Park the other night was horrified by the violence. I live on the West Side of Chicago. It is an area that has been inflicted with violence, and we've got to protect the people," Quinn told news hounds Saturday.

Emanuel, appearing at St. Sabina's later in the day, did not take news hounds' questions and walked off after making a statement about the event there, a basketball "Peace Tournament" featuring NBA stars.

Talk about using state resources to fight Chicago crime isn't unprecedented. In 2008, then-Gov. Rod Y'gotta pay to play! Blagojevich
Who was tried and eventually convicted on federal corruption charges that he tried to sell or trade Obama's old U.S. Senate seat.
suggested using the state police and National Guard to help Chicago police with "out of control" violence.

The comment was widely interpreted as an insult to then-Mayor Richard Daley, with whom Blagojevich was feuding.

Quinn said potential solutions to crime include community efforts to minimize the impact of gangs and early education.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wrong. Your poor Lawcraft placed a vacuum in security for the Public. Military guard is an admission of failure of a ... AHEM.... Different type.
Posted by: newc || 09/22/2013 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I would consider using napalm.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/22/2013 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Napalm is bad PR. IPCM are where the action is.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2013 0:49 Comments || Top||

#4  HEH!
Posted by: newc || 09/22/2013 1:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Emanuel, appearing at St. Sabina's later in the day, did not take news hounds' questions and walked off after making a statement about the event there, a basketball "Peace Tournament" featuring NBA stars.

This'll work. But they gotta play at Midnight...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/22/2013 1:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Many months ago I proposed to same solution to some friends. And I'm no genius by any means.

How hard is is to deploy the Illinois National Guard to go block by block, cleaning out the vermin, and taking the city back?
Posted by: Mikey Hunt || 09/22/2013 2:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Mike Kunt, this is a very bad plan.
Posted by: newc || 09/22/2013 2:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Quinn is only running on a couple of cylinders. Problem is Pubs keep choosing folks off the rails to run for gov.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/22/2013 2:54 Comments || Top||

#9  cleaning out the vermin

"Are you now, or have you ever been a potential son of Baraq Hussein Obama?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/22/2013 5:23 Comments || Top||

#10  IPCM? Integrated Pest and Creep Management?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/22/2013 8:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Chicago gummint and the gangbangers are joined at the hip. This same story ended so well in Detroit...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2013 8:41 Comments || Top||

#12  ..and they'll pay for the guard with what, script? They're bankrupt. If they use fed dollars, they can't be used via Posse Commitatus short of the Insurrection Act which would be an admission they've lost control [even though they have]. Remember for the Donks, its form over substance. It's a public display of abject failure. Better to save face and let hundreds die ["what difference does it make"] than to admit they are unqualified to hold public trust and power. Looting the sheep taxpayers is what its all about, as it is in any oligarchy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/22/2013 8:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Should be quite interesting when the guard begins to take a few casualties and the ROE [Rules of Engagement] will not permit returning fire without PID [Positive ID].

Wheels..... falling off the urban, 'war on poverty' dream.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2013 9:01 Comments || Top||

#14  The leftist love affair with urbanism is like all leftist love affairs: based on a mirage. The magical urban centers leftists imagine are all gay-run cupcake shoppes and art galleries. There are buskers and mass transit that is not a fiscal black hole smelling of urine. Lots of brown wimmins people working at high paying finance jobs in skyscrapers...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2013 9:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Repeal the minimum wage, cut all welfare and start opening sweat shops. Make these people work for their bread a circuses and then they'll be too tired for gang banging.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/22/2013 10:51 Comments || Top||

#16  No rifles.
Reflective belts
Only patrol leader has mags for small arms.
Reflective belts.
Need permission from panel of lawyers, then a judge in order to engage a situation outside of patroling.
Reflective belts.
Your face plastored all over the news if you engage somebody in a hoodie.

vs.

300lb professional criminals smoking rock and shrugging tasers like so many gnats.

Better define the mission, especially using Military vs. civilians in a pre-determined not natural disaster emergency. Basketball tourny wtf? already have my doubts about the seriousness of leadership. Maybe part of the problem is nobody seems to be doing serious anymore except the bad guys. Unless its disarming good guys, then leaders seem to get serious. No, the problem is leadership or more specific lack there-of. Calling in the troops to make sure ballpark fans make it home is an empty scabbard tell.

I'm not saying it should not be done, but there should be a method for deploying troops against civilians, and State Police is different from National Guard, and don't do it if it does not solve the problem.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/22/2013 10:59 Comments || Top||

#17  You don't try to make a tumor comfortable. Cut it out or let the patient die...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2013 11:39 Comments || Top||

#18  Your poor Lawcraft placed a vacuum in security for the Public

If by "lawcraft" you mean the siphoning of millions of dollars by Chicago pols over the decades. then yes. It's a gang-town; pretty much has been one for over a century.

He said he's had no specific conversations but noted state police are helping patrol in East St. Louis, another city that has its challenges with violent crime

And Hartford, CT, plus on occasion a number of other reliably-blue cities. Some reliably-blue cities in California have a combination of at least two law-enforcement agencies patrolling.

Must be a reason. Darned if I can think of it.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/22/2013 12:27 Comments || Top||

#19  Oooooh! Ooooh! *raises hand*
Posted by: Frank G || 09/22/2013 12:44 Comments || Top||

#20  Chicago police union just won a raise from the city.
Posted by: Vernal Noodleman1051 || 09/22/2013 13:55 Comments || Top||

#21  As has been noted before in this space, (P2K and others) this is the evolution of the Urban-Non-Urban interface, where extortion draws the productive money from outside the urban sumps into the never-ending demand for entitlements and senseless programs/policies. Sadly, this is fed by the learned American aversion to confronting the racial component and consequent acceptance of the tariff by productive society. It is a devolving curve and the current President and administration have accelerated the decline. I cannot find an projected outcome that doesn't have very nasty consequences.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/22/2013 14:16 Comments || Top||

#22  #21 nails it. It's Danegeld all the way down...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2013 17:41 Comments || Top||

#23  Wall up the most crime ridden blocks and send in snake pliscan.
Posted by: airandee || 09/22/2013 20:04 Comments || Top||



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  Death toll in Pakistan church bombing rises to at least 40
Sat 2013-09-21
  Hundreds of Syria rebels pledge loyalty to Qaeda groups
Fri 2013-09-20
  87 Killed in Islamist Rampage in Northeast Nigeria Town
Thu 2013-09-19
  Nigerian Army Claims Raid on Boko Haram Kills 150 Islamists
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  Security forces retake control of Islamist stronghold in Upper Egypt, 45 arrested
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  Qaida Confirms Drone Death of Yemen Leader
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