Comment Rescue Do you think there is selective indignation?
Mar 27th, 2010 by David Anderson
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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.
September 3, 2004: Windows Broken, Anti-Bush Messages Scrawled At Gallatin County, MT, Republican Headquarters.
September 2004: John Kerry supporters and other libs/dems take to the streets of NYC destroying property, beating a NYC detective into a state of unconsciousness and harassing/threatening attendees during the 2004 GOP convention in NYC
September 6, 2004: Huntington, WV, Republican Headquarters Egged.
September 13, 2004: Swastika Drawn On Duluth, MN, Resident’s Lawn, Signs Also Defaced With Words “Nazi” And “Liar.”
September 16, 2004: Community College Professor In Florida Punched Republican County Chairman In Face.
September 22, 2004: West Elmira, NY, Resident Found Swastika Drawn On Bush Campaign Sign In His Yard.
September 23, 2004: Office Ransacked During Break-In At Vilas County, WI, Republican Headquarters, Obscene Words And Graphic Pictures Sprayed On Campaign Signs.
September 26, 2004: Windows Smashed And Signs Stolen At Oxford, MS, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters.
October 1, 2004: Laptops Of Executive And Field Director Stolen From Bush-Cheney ‘04 Headquarters In Seattle, WA.
October 1, 2004: Swastika Burned Into Front Yard Of Bush-Cheney ‘04 Supporter In Madison, WI.
October 2, 2004: Collinsville, OH, Resident Chains Down Bush-Cheney ‘04 Signs After Several Signs Stolen And One Was Replaced With Kerry Sign.
October 3, 2004: Burglary At Thousand Oaks, CA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Where Bush-Cheney ‘04 Banner Was Stolen From Outside Premises.
October 5, 2004: Gun Shots Fired Into Knoxville, TN, Bush-Cheney ‘04 Office, Shattering Office’s Glass Front Doors. October 5, 2004: AFL-CIO ACTIVISTS RANSACK BUSH HEADQUARTERS IN ORLANDO, The Orlando Sentinel . . . part of 20 coordinated union attacks across U.S.
October 8, 2004: Two Men Were Caught On A Hidden Camera Tearing Down And Urinating On Bush-Cheney ‘04 Sign In Akron, OH.
October 9, 2004: Oxnard, CA, Supporter Placing Bush-Cheney ‘04 In Yards Verbally Abused, Knocked Down And Had Signs Stolen.
October 9, 2004: Bush-Cheney Signs Near Vail, CO, Cut In Half And Burned In “Ransacking.”
October 10, 2004: Office Windows Broken And Field Director’s Laptop Bag and Purse Stolen In Burglary At Canton, OH, Victory Office.
October 11, 2004: Windows Broken, Petty Cash Stolen And Computers Tampered With In Burglary At Spokane, WA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 13, 2004: Walls And Windows Of York, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters Vandalized With Pro-Kerry Spray-Paint And Signs Outside Destroyed.
October 13, 2004: Window Smashed At Laconia, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 13, 2004: Kerry Supporter Caught Stealing Bush Sign In Cape Girardeau, MO, Pulled Knife On Sign’s Owner And Was Arrested.
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.
October 15, 2004: Someone Lined Window Sill With Bullet Casings At Littleton, NH, Republican Headquarters.
October 16, 2004: Unknown Suspects Vandalized Large Bush-Cheney Campaign Sign In Hollister, CA, With Obscenities.
October 17, 2004: Stickers Placed Over Windows Of Gettysburg, PA, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 18, 2004: Eggs Thrown At Keene, NH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
October 18, 2004: 21 Protesters Arrested At Bush-Cheney ‘04 Campaign Headquarters In Arlington, VA.
October 20, 2004: Rocks Thrown Through Windows At Multnomah County, OR, Republican Party Headquarters.
October 21, 2004: Bomb Threat Made Against Lake Havasu, AZ, Republican Party Headquarters.
October 21, 2004: Windows Smashed At Multnomah County Republican Party Headquarters In Portland, OR.
October 22, 2004: Break-In Discovered At Cincinnati, OH, Victory 2004 Headquarters.
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.
October 22, 2004: Chunk Of Concrete Tossed Through Glass Door Of Republican Headquarters In Santa Cruz, CA.
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.
October 26, 2004: A Florida man has been charged with attempting to run over controversial Republican congresswoman Katherine Harris with his Cadillac.
November, 2004: Editors say Yale Free Press stolen Yale Daily News
November 2004, Election Day: 30 vans intended for getting out the vote in Milwaukee in 2004 had their tires slashed . . .Of the four men who were arrested, one is the son of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee, and one is the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt.
June 8, 2004: Court sets release of Ryan’s divorce file Chicago Tribune
May 10, 2005: Vladimir Arutyunian, a native Georgian who was born to a family of ethnic Armenians, threw a live hand grenade toward a podium where President George W. Bush was speaking at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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 (?) 2006: Staffers from Chuck Schumer’s office steal the social security number of Michael Steele then run an illegal credit report.
June, 2008: Speaking of inflammatory rhetoric, it was candidate Obama who urged followers in June, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
Sept 17, 2008: Sarah Palin’s E-Mail Hacked
October, 2008: Sarah Palin effigy hanging in someone’s yard
December, 2008: Sarah Palin’s church was set on fire by arsonists while children were inside.
September, 2008: Obama telling is supporters to “get in their faces” when confronting opponents. Columnist Michael Barone wrote at the time, “In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.”
September, 2008: In Orlando Florida, a small group of middle-aged homemakers took their little McCain signs to an approved street corner, carried their small American flags and assembled to do their hour’s vote-for-our-guy walk, when they were accosted by a group of Obama thugs and terrorized.
September, 2008: A videographer at a Tampa, Florida townhall got roughed up by union thugs and had his camera smashed.
September, 2008: A local doctor from Douglasville, Georgia was shouted down by his own Democratic congressman and accused of not being a constituent, a charge that was later shown to be blatantly false.
September, 2008: St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that were “false.”
September, 2008: the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Obama’s ties to Ayers.
September, 2008: Obama’s minions orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago. “The offense: The station hosted National Review’s David Freddoso, author of ‘The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate,’ (Chicago Tribune)
October, 2008: conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program in Chicago to discuss his lack of access to papers about Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago — papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.Obama fans jammed WGN’s phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest emails.
October, 2008: McCain-Palin campaign bus coming under gunfire in New Mexico.
October, 2008: the home of a Republican headquarters manager in central Florida was shot up that same week as the shooting of the McCain-Palin bus in New Mexico. McCain supporters in the area woke to find the brake lines on their cars severed, their telephone and cable television lines cut, and political graffiti scratched into automobile paint and scrawled on their homes.
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 12, 2008: Authorities have arrested two men after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a 4-foot by 8-foot campaign sign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a southeast Portland yard.
Karen Scrutton said she was asleep inside her home at 7956 S.E. 17th Ave. in the Sellwood neighborhood when she saw her sign go up in flames after 1 a.m.
October 17, 2008: an unprovoked assault by an enraged Democrat against a [female] McCain volunteer in midtown Manhattan: “Defendant grabbed the sign the informant was holding, broke the wood stick that was attached to it, and then struck informant in the face.”(from police report)
October 22, 2008: Minnesota, Senator Coleman campaign: Senator’s garage vandalized Associated Press
November, 2008: Black Panther with a billy club threatening voters outside polling place in Philadelphia. Eric Holder let him walk.
January, 2009: Hackers get Republican Senator Norm Coleman’s donors’ credit card info and post it on the internet
August (1st week?) 2009: a black gentleman who was a Tea Party participant named Kenneth Gladney went to a town-hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. While passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, he was viciously attacked by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members. One called him a “nigger.” A woman filming the violence also was accosted. NBC News.
August 4, 2009: a communique was issued from DNC headquarters about mobs of right-wing extremists whose extreme mobbiness threatens to mob ObamaCare with extremism.
Summer (?), 2009: a handicapped woman in a wheelchair was attacked by a protester at an Obama town hall in New Hampshire. Another protester kicked an armed man in the groin, & spit into a camera filming it.
Summer (?) 2009: At a tea party in Milwaukee, a heckler attacked several people and rushed the stage while a speaker was talking, YouTube video shows. Police tackled and removed him
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.
September 3, 2009in Thousand Oaks , California, a nationalized healthcare advocate attacked and bit off the finger of a Tea Partyer who was a healthcare opponent, Associated Press.
November 14, 2009: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida violence broke out between tea party protesters and pro-amnesty protesters who had e-mailed group members calling for “a militant confrontation” with “tea-baggers,” the Christian Science Monitor reported.
November 14, 2009, in Phoenix, tea partyers were attacked by a group of neo-Nazis brandishing a swastika flag and a portrait of Adolf Hitler. Police intervened quickly, and no one was hurt.
March 22, 2010: Bullet shot through window of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor’s Richmond, Virginia campaign Office.
March 24, 2010: Republican Congresswoman Jean Schmidt of Ohio receives telephoned death threats.
March 24, 2010: Republican Congresswoman Jenny Brown of Florida receives telephoned death threats
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Stopped reading there. Although I did scan for links to back up anything in this list. Didn’t find any.
I’d agree that the only incidents that count are the ones with law enforcement reports attached.
’d agree that the only incidents that count are the ones with law enforcement reports attached.
Or clear in-context video.
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They’re off the deep end today over at Delaware Race-Baiting Socialist (Liberal).
It’s astoniishing they can’t comprehend that people opposing government run health care might be even more miffed and mobilized when the shrill mob pushing it on them are shouting “RACISTS!!!!!!!” at them day in and day out.
Clearly this race baiting lynch mob of leftists are showing their true colors. They don’t give a flying turd who they smear anymore than they think they it is not their god given right to control the lives of the very people they malign and denigrate daily.
Seriously how can any rational person believe these people are humanitarians and altruists (with other people’s money) when it comes to health care or anything else when they are such bitter nasty hateful demagogues?
Even if they had a point it is long lost in their dumpster swill of epithets and false accusations.
They are absolutely obsessed with racing to the absolute bottom of “civil” discourse. They are quite simply clueless maniacs baffled that their combination of hate and state isn’t well received.
Selective indignation is what the Liberals do best.
It’s astoniishing they can’t comprehend that people opposing government run health care might be even more miffed and mobilized
Nobody is marching because of health care or limited governmetn. They didn’t march against Medicare Part C or D or the Patriot Act. They are marching now because propagandists are twisting their hate knobs.
You forgot the Left’s anti war protests do prevalent under Bush but non existent under Obama.
I guess war is a not a big f’ng deal anymore?
Mike Protack
Yeah Medicare and Patriot are just like the socialist takeover of everyone’s health care.
Bullshit false analogy that totally ignores the significant numbers of people opposing Obamacare who also opposed Medicare expansion and Patriot.
Yet more selective leftist garbage. Make up allegations to suit your argument and ignore the the truths that don’t.
Also funny how the bleating lefties went limp when their messiah embraced all the Bush era police state powers including and especially the PATRIOT act.
Amazing how these people can argue against themselves out of alternating sides of their two faces.
2 wrongs dont make a right
I agree Anon. What it does show is that a few isolated incidents is not some conspiracy orchestrated by Palin and Boehner to intimidate Democrats. When a lot of people feel very strongly about something, a few will spout off because it gives them a feeling of power where they felt powerless. It is some psychological issue. It knows no ideological affinity. It is not controlled by people turning down the heat. Oddly enough if those people feel like no one is listening they become more radicalized.
My point is seemingly simple. For years this has been happening to conservatives and Republicans. Now when some blow back happens to Democrats, it is some crisis. Democrats didn’t care the last 8 years when they talked about an illegitimate Presidency and Bush lying us into an illegal war while listening into American conversations. It was all a bunch of crap to rile up the base. They can stand shoulder to shoulder with Republicans to show that we should all embrace civility. They cannot stand on some moral high ground and pretend that this shows that Republicans are beneath them.
The country is peculating. The people are at best divided and at worse many are estranged from their government. The wise person reaches out right now. The foolish one would pretend their opposition is all a bunch of hooligans.
I think it is a naked political strategy to gain sympathy. It is the only card they think they have left. The only other one is actually sit down with the opposition like an adult. They can send people to Iran and the PRK but sitting down with Republican is beyond them with the exception of the President.
Republicans didn’t try to demonize Democrats. It would be nice for a return favor.
Patriot act was always a bad idea, and now that these nightmares have control, it’s even worse.
The Patriot Act passed the Senate, which was led by Democrats at the time 98-1. The time to complain, lefties, was when Tom Daschle was pushing it’s passage.
I complained, where were the all the teabaggers then? I’ll tell you where – trying to fit a crown on George’s head.
Short sighted, anti-American retards the lot of them.
The Patriot Act has some good parts to it. We needed to tear down the wall between intel and law enforcement and put up a fence. They needed to be able to share information especially from law enforcement to intel.
We didn’t need the expansive powers of government in the Patriot Act anymore than we need 2700 pages take care of people with preexisting conditions. Government likes to take some popular cause and use it to do a lot more. It is adding honey to the castor oil.
As you know, I do not favor the Patriot Act and never did. We were all part of the minority back then when the nation was in the emotion of 9/11. What I don’t understand is what is the ruling regime’s excuse now?
You ask where are the tea party people on this? Many favor it so why would they protest it. The ones who strongly opposed it funded and supported Ron Paul. That is when the Tea Party movement started. Are you oblivious to the internal debate in the GOP? Maybe so I will let you in on it. If Ron Paul were not so opposed to the War he would have been 3rd in Delegates maybe stronger. The War turning around hurt his campaign and overshadowed the rest. 85% of Republicans in the primary were against withdraw and we were right.