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Pro-Kerry thugs invade Milwaukee GOP center
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Posted by Fred 2004-10-06 4:31:12 PM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That was mid-day yesterday, which would make it part of the same wave of disturbance which resulted in a similar sack of that campaign office in Orlando. I wonder how many more we haven't heard of yet?
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-10-06 5:12:48 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-10-06 5:12:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's one in Dearborn, MI, about the same time.
Posted by Mitch H.  2004-10-06 5:15:03 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-10-06 5:15:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is starting to seriously look like it was planned at a higher (DNC, KC) level. What are the odds that random crowds of moonbats would so this all around the same time.

Perhaps they are testing the waters. When there is little to no response from the press and the Republicans are too weak to really bring attention to this behavior, they will ramp it up.

Eventually they will get either the intimidation delivered that they want, or they will get sympathetic press attention when the police are called in to put them down.

In fact, both are probably their goals.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2004-10-06 5:18:24 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2004-10-06 5:18:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Coordinated, nation-wide effort to suppress free speech and coerce our political process. Time for the FBI to step in. How soon do the brownshirts become blackshirts?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-10-06 5:19:47 PM||   2004-10-06 5:19:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like it was coordinated by one of the Dems' proxies, like the AFL-CIO.
Does RICO apply here?
Posted by lex 2004-10-06 5:21:45 PM||   2004-10-06 5:21:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Is there good footage? The RNC could always convert film of the thugsters to a campaign commercial and use the RPW Chairman's own language: “Do John Kerry and Wisconsin Democrats really believe this is conduct becoming of a presidential candidate and his campaign?”
Posted by jules 187 2004-10-06 5:25:18 PM||   2004-10-06 5:25:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jimmahs right. We can't have a free election with this kind of violence and coercion going on all around this lawless nation. Another DU success.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-06 5:50:26 PM||   2004-10-06 5:50:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Like I said yesterday this is brownshirts using Nazi tactics to accuse conservatives as Nazis.

And I do think it is a coodinated effort by the AFL-CIO and/or moveon.org. Once is an accident, twice might be coicidencs(sp), but thrice is intentional.

This has been going on for some time. Didn't some moonbats go to some white house offical's home and scare his children? Walking on his lawn and banging on his windows... pointing.... calling names?

And I do think they are 'testing the waters'.
Posted by Whumble Sneth6418 2004-10-06 6:01:00 PM||   2004-10-06 6:01:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Damn lost cookies. I am the above Whumble Sneth6418...
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-10-06 6:03:53 PM||   2004-10-06 6:03:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Conspiracy to commit a crime, any crime inluding misdemeanors, is a felony.

Period.

Using inetrstate means to commit a crime is another federal crime.
Posted by badanov  2004-10-06 6:05:18 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif]  2004-10-06 6:05:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Didn't some moonbats go to some white house offical's home and scare his children? Walking on his lawn and banging on his windows... pointing.... calling names?"

If I remember rightly, that was at Donald Rumsfeld's residence... about a year or so ago.

Whumble Sneth6418, indeed...
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 6:08:10 PM||   2004-10-06 6:08:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Dave D.:

That was Karl Rove's house.
Posted by Secret Master 2004-10-06 6:15:23 PM||   2004-10-06 6:15:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The following quote by local Democratic Chairman Jim Gray appeared in the Knoxville News Sentinel today 10/06/04:

"Gray noted it's a big assumption that 'its a Democrat responsible for the shooting. On the other hand, he said, Republicans could be happy that at least one Democrat supports the Second Amendment.'"
Posted by John (Q. Citizen) 2004-10-06 6:18:53 PM||   2004-10-06 6:18:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah. Yep, that rings a much louder bell than Rumsfeld. Thanks for correcting that.

First, the hair starts thinning; then the teeth go; then finally, the mind starts crapping out...

If it continues to crap out, will I end up being a Democrat again? Shit...
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 6:20:27 PM||   2004-10-06 6:20:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 They will get worse as Kerry sinks farther in the polls. By November 2 they will be in armed rebellion.
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-10-06 6:25:26 PM||   2004-10-06 6:25:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 And so it starts.

Study the downfall of republics like Athens and Rome and it becomes clear the end is brought on by factionalism. A pox on both your houses.
Posted by nomorestupidhandlesplease,fred 2004-10-06 6:31:27 PM||   2004-10-06 6:31:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Remember the days when the AFL-CIO types took on the anti-war crowds? Now they're thuggin' for 'em. Pathetic.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-10-06 6:31:40 PM||   2004-10-06 6:31:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Study the downfall of republics like Athens and Rome and it becomes clear the end is brought on by factionalism. A pox on both your houses.

That makes three houses then, I guess. Splitter!
Posted by Bulldog  2004-10-06 6:35:40 PM||   2004-10-06 6:35:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "They will get worse as Kerry sinks farther in the polls. By November 2 they will be in armed rebellion."

Have you ever tried cornering a really fervent, Bush-hating Democrat and asked him what Bush has actually done to deserve all this hatred? I have.

They say things that start with "Well, Bush thinks..." or "Bush wants..." or "If Bush got the chance, he'd..." or "Bush is the kind of person who..." or something like that. And when you stop them each time and ask, "No, what has he actually DONE?" they eventually go nuts and get really hostile.

I've never, not even once, encountered a Democrat who could actually cite any specific action by Bush that warranted the kind of hatred we're seeing. Never.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 6:42:16 PM||   2004-10-06 6:42:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 


A picture is worth a thousand words. Notice the 'they stole the election' sign in the background... (Click on picture for a close-up)
(Hat tip Drudge...).
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-10-06 7:00:53 PM||   2004-10-06 7:00:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Imagine what it will be like if Kerry wins-- the Triumph Of The Mob.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 7:08:59 PM||   2004-10-06 7:08:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Dave D.---It is this pathological hatred of Bush that may be explained by a eons old fear of death. Many people just want to say "can't we all just geat along?" You know, appeasement. Hope that the problem goes away. Bush wants to go after the terrorists and the source of the threat and doing so will necessarily put us in harm's way. This is a threat to people's balance and comfort in their lives, so like a primordal instinct, they lash out at the thing they perceive as the immediate threat, and that is President Bush. Sociopaths like Kerry recognize those primordial fears in people and are quick to capitalize on them. If enough of the country is divided, then it becomes paralized and becomes wide open to the very threats that caused the primeval fear of death in the first place.

At least that is my take on it. People following their feelings and instincts without standing back and taking a look at them objectively.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-06 7:11:32 PM||   2004-10-06 7:11:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Yeah, I suspect you're right, AP. Whatever it is, it is something primordial and instinctual or they wouldn't be acting like this. On another, less intellectual level, it's another sad example of how easy it is for demagogues to whip up an ignorant mob into a frenzy.

I wonder if the people in that photograph could understand that they are acting out of exactly the same impulses as the mobs who lynched their own ancestors a hundred years ago?

On the subject of Democratic mobbery, Professor Bainbridge (link) has a roundup of eight (!) incidents (so far).
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 7:20:53 PM||   2004-10-06 7:20:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 You got to wonder how many of these incidents are not being reported by the media.....
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-10-06 7:22:48 PM||   2004-10-06 7:22:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 CrazyFool: Nice photo. Is that Flava Flav standing on the table? Did Bush steal his clock or something?
Posted by BH 2004-10-06 7:23:03 PM||   2004-10-06 7:23:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 #19. Ditto here and they stick to 7 minutes like glue.
Posted by crazyhorse  2004-10-06 7:33:42 PM||   2004-10-06 7:33:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 I got the pic from Drudge (this the Hat Tip). Thought everyone here might like to take a gander.

Notice how the one on the table has 'DNC' enblazoned on her shirt.....
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-10-06 7:43:18 PM||   2004-10-06 7:43:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 This kind of thing could get out of hand. Loyal oppposition is one thing - blatant intimidation is another.
Posted by JP 2004-10-06 7:45:05 PM||   2004-10-06 7:45:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 JP, we are no longer "opposition" in these peoples' minds: to them, we have become the enemy.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 7:54:23 PM||   2004-10-06 7:54:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 SADdaM iS NoT tHE EnEMy--bUSH iS thE eNEmY!!!!

We aRe NOt aT wAR wItH iRan. we ArE aT WAr wITH rEPuBLiCANs.
Posted by Mad How 2004-10-06 8:00:11 PM||   2004-10-06 8:00:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Yes, that captures it. That really, truly is what the people in that picture say, think and feel.

Can you believe it's only 36 months and change after 9/11? I find that thought bogglesome. We've come so far. So far down.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 8:06:34 PM||   2004-10-06 8:06:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 BTW, I'm in the middle of reading another one of Bill Whittle's excellent essays, a new one called Deterrance. It's well worth a read.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 8:09:15 PM||   2004-10-06 8:09:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 It's becoming more and more clear to me that as the left gets more and more radical and detached from reality, like the boomers of Allan, the less and less human they become.
Posted by Silentbrick  2004-10-06 8:10:09 PM||   2004-10-06 8:10:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Yeah, that sorta occurred to me as well-- that there's not much daylight between the fanatical Muslim jihadi and one of these thugs: each believes that his malice is righteous.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-10-06 8:20:54 PM||   2004-10-06 8:20:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 apparently axe handles need to be distributed to Bush campaign HQ's
Posted by Frank G  2004-10-06 8:57:14 PM||   2004-10-06 8:57:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 They're welcome to try that shit down here in Texas. This is a concealed carry state. I'd put a Bush sign in my yard, but they got rules about setting out bait for varmits.
Posted by Steve  2004-10-06 9:57:44 PM||   2004-10-06 9:57:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Imagine the explosion in the main stream media if a Republican group did this to a Kerry headquarters. This is the modern expression of the intolerant self-righteous supercilious anti-war Democrats of the 70s, part of the JFKerry Winter Soldier Revival Tour. They think rules are for Republicans and they can do anything they can think of. Should they, God forbid, win, they are going to be very surprised and upset when they call for Republicans to support them in the spirit of bipartisanship. Fuck these fools.
Posted by RWV 2004-10-06 10:40:21 PM||   2004-10-06 10:40:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 we ArE aT WAr wITH rEPuBLiCANs.

Torgo? Is that you?
Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-10-06 10:46:16 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]  2004-10-06 10:46:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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