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Saturday, September 06, 2008

CNN: Did Democracy Die In St. Paul?

Check out this video that’s up over at CNN right now. It’s a little long but worth the time.

The left wing moron who narrates it and interviews the “protesters” involved is a real gem. He bemoans the fact that the police actually have the nerve to arrest people for breaking the law, and that this heralds a new dark age of oppression (blah, blah, blah).

Let me tell you what happened this time around.

Anarchist groups like Recreate ‘68 had every intention of smashing these conventions any way they could or, as they would say, by any means necessary. What they didn’t count on is that this isn’t 1968. The police are far better trained and educated than they were back then and well aware of the boundaries from which they have to operate. They’re also very well of where the line is for the other side and when it is crossed, well, they do what they can do.

When the protesters came at them it wasn’t a case of an irresitible force meeting an immoveable object - it was a case of water splashing on an anvil. The demonstrators accomplised absolutely nothing other that getting their tiny little feelings hurt.

By the way, I have one small question: If it is your intent to lawfully protest - which is undeniably your right - why do you have to cover your faces with hoods and bandanas? Just asking.

Anyway, check out this video and then ask yourself if you thing CNN would carry something as far right as this is far left.

Biased? Nah. Not these guys.

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Democracy died when the Marxist lefties took over the Dem Party.  They want to disenfranchise the electorate by legislating through the courts, and by enforcing “bipartisanship”.  This violent terrorism is right out of Marx.  The “oppressed workers” should rise up in bloody revolution and overthrow the bosses.  Just substitute “my pressure group” for “oppressed workers”, and “the elective process” for “the bosses”, and you have the truth about what they want to do to this country.


"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

robert108 on September 6, 2008 at 09:32 am

First, Pil, WELCOME BACK!! Glad to see that Gus didn’t drown out the intratubes that Algore so lovingly crafted with his sweaty little hands and you are back on our freq.

As for this leftarded crap, they have been screeching it all over. Note that they don’t point out such lovely gems as how, on 3 separate occasions, they threw sandbags from over passes into buses carrying people to/from the convention site. Or how they dragged dumpsters from alleys into the streets and set them on fire. No explanation of why they felt it necessary vandalize property and vehicles at random.

Also, no mention of the minor fact that St Paul didn’t have a “freedom cage” such as the one the Dems required in Denver.


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2Hotel9 on September 6, 2008 at 09:47 am

Thanks Hotel,

This is my first completely Gustac free day since the start. YAY!!! Now if Ike will just go away.

Anyway, the media never ceases to amaze. If ANY right wing group were to threaten violence, mask themselves, and try to physically intimidate the media would be all over it like white on rice.

Any act of violence from a right leaning group would be front page, two inch headlines.


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Pilgrim on September 6, 2008 at 10:02 am
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I think we need to remember that in a nation of free citizens like this one it is often difficult to balance our overlapping rights.

For instance, say I’m trying to deliver a political speech.  Now say that some moron with a bullhorn keeps screaming while I’m trying to talk.

Now that moron has a right to free speech, but don’t I have a right to free speech also?  And doesn’t my audience have a right to peacefully assemble and listen to my speech?

When freedoms overlap the law has to step in.  I don’t have a problem with people protesting the Republicans.  They have a right to do that.  But that right doesn’t extend to disrupting the event, or being a nuisance to the public in general.


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Rob on September 6, 2008 at 10:08 am

I don’t have a problem with people protesting the Republicans. They have a right to do that.

I don’t agree with this expanded definition of “protest”.  I don’t think anyone has the right to violently intimidate someone over a difference of opinion.  If their ideas are really better, why not just put them out in a civilized manner?  It seems to me that such “protesters” realize that the only way they can get their stuff accepted is through force.  They seem to be afraid that their ideas won’t stand on their own merits.
While I totally disagree with the Dem agenda for America, I’m confident that conservative ideas are superior, and have no need to use violence to promote my agenda.  Superior ideas survive.


"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

robert108 on September 6, 2008 at 10:38 am

THe left protestors are like a screaming kid.
And no matter what, short of severe punishment, they won’t understand that their actions are out of line.
Seeing the way they acted at the RepCon was like watching heathen kids in a grocery store.


Without an honest exchange of ideas, how can a mind grow?

RebTex on September 6, 2008 at 10:44 am

Protest, legitimate, by the Constitution, protest was not what was going on at either convention. Yes, there were real protesters. A small minority were actually attempting to lodge their complaints with each Party’s “management”. The majority were there for the street party. And another, larger, minority was there to do exactly what happened, random vandalism, physical confrontations with police in front of cameras for propaganda purposes, petty theft, sexual assaults, dealing drugs, selling bootleg CDs and DVDs. The usual concert activities.


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2Hotel9 on September 6, 2008 at 03:33 pm

Two: Don’t forget attempted murder by throwing bags of cement at freeway traffic from overpasses.


"Give the lefties a pile of money, and they’ll spend it buying votes.” - Rush Limbaugh on the “bailout”.

robert108 on September 6, 2008 at 03:40 pm

Covered.


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2Hotel9 on September 6, 2008 at 03:58 pm
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