A must watch for those of you who may have missed Hannity, last night.
Michelle Malkin was poetry in motion as she shot down Juan Williams’ lame and insipid defenses of the occupy movement. Her righteously indignant outrage was absolutely Breitartian by the end of the segment when Williams tried to draw a parallel between “tea party racism” and occupy mayhem.
“There is no, absolutely no parallel, between the peace-loving, tax-paying, hard working people of the Tea Party Movement and the anarchist, POO-FLINGING, Marxist Monkeys of the #Occupy Movement!”
Hard-working, rule of law-respecting, tax-paying, job-generating Tea Party activists are sick and tired of the smears and false equivalency between their movement and the organized, poo-flinging pawns of Occupy Wall Street.
The Tea Party Express has hosted over 300 rallies across the country since it was founded, and Wednesday morning, May 2, they rolled into Grain Valley Missouri for a patriotic, all American rally.
Mike Holler also gave a very good speech on the Constitution.
Polatik did some rapping:
Tabitha Hale told the assembled crowd about her political journey from apolitical college kid to an activist in the conservative movement. Please excuse that pillar that wanted to block all of the speakers, (especially Tabitha!)
Tea Party Express Chief Strategist Sal Russo said, “This tour’s route focuses on some of the key states for 2012 in either the Presidential or Congressional level. We have already endorsed six candidates for the U.S. Senate, including former State Treasurer Sarah Steelman. Our goal will be rallying activists in support of some of the upcoming primary election battles or for the upcoming general election.
“Each stop aims at engaging voters with candidates and policies that promote pro-growth, free-market solutions to ensure the American Dream can be achieved by anyone. The only way to change this current economic path that is leaving us with a weak recovery, at best, is to change the players and policies that got us here. We started in 2010 and that drive will continue through November of 2012,” Russo concluded.
The Tea Party Express bus driver Ray, rattles the tip jar.
Here’s a portion of Hector Maldonado’s speech:
Stay tuned – more videos on the way.
UPDATE:
Sarah Steelman, one of the frontrunners in the Missouri Senate race, gave a very good speech. In it, she slammed the Senate for its failure to produce a budget, and suggested we cut their salaries until they cough one up.
Today, The Tea Party Express“Restoring the American Dream” bus tour kicks-off in Cranberry Township, PA. It is their 6th national bus tour.
Tea Party Express has hosted over 300 rallies across the country. The organization will be traveling with several speakers and entertainers, including Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer; Our Country Deserves Better PAC Chairman Howard Kaloogian; Mike Holler, author of The Constitution Made Easy; Entertainer Lloyd Marcus who wrote The Tea Party Anthem; Diana Nagy who preformed live during the Tea Party Republican Presidential Debate on CNN; conservative youth rapper Polatik; and comedian Jim Labriola who is famous for his role on the popular TV show “Home Improvement.”
Chief Strategist Sal Russo of Tea Party Express said, “This tour’s route focuses on some of the key states for 2012 on either the Presidential or Congressional level. We have already endorsed five candidates for the U.S. Senate, and we will be making more endorsements while on this tour. Our goal will be rallying activists in support of some of the upcoming primary election battles and the general election.
They are scheduled to make a stop in Kansas City, at 11:30 a.m. on May 2. They’ll be in St. Louis at 6:00 p.m. More information on the tour schedule can be found here.
The rain was over by the time hundreds of Kansas Citians made it out to Theis Park near the Plaza, Sunday afternoon, but with wind gusts of up to 45 mpr, the speakers who had their speeches memorized had a much easier time than the ones who were using notes. An estimated 500 people showed up for the rally sponsored by Freedomworksand Americans for Prosperity, featuring guest speakers, Congressman Steve King, (R- IA), Congressman Todd Akin (MO-R), Michelle Moorefrom Smart Girl Politics, Mo Rep. Paul Curtman, and more. Musical entertainment was provided by The Crossroads Revival Band, and the event was MC’ed by KCMO morning show host, Greg Knapp.
Here’s Pastor Broden’s impassioned speech where he implored conservatives to get mobilized to fight the big government immorality and spenders in all parties who have taken over Washington. Broden predicted that Kennedy would sell us out with his decision on Obamacare – like he has before. He said that just voting in conservative candidates is the right strategy. Our challenge is of mobilization…
UPDATE II:
I’m still working on uploading videos, but because of the strong winds, the sound quality on most of the videos I shot are so poor, they’re unusable. Believe it or not, my iphone did a better job than my camera.
In the meantime, here are some pictures I took during a poignant part of the rally, when veterans from all branches of the U.S. military; Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard, were asked to stand up and be recognized while their branch’s service songs were played.
I ran into this young lady promoting an upcoming “Rock the Vote” type event at the Kansas City tea party, today. The event is slated for 4/27, and will feature the conservative rock band, Madison Rising:
VICTORY ROCK/BATTLE OF THE BANDS WE are going to have a huge ROCK THE VOTE EVENT in KC! We have 8 Bands from the Metro area that have signed to compete for the $10,000 Grand Prize of an Advertising Package with Blue Springs Harley Davidson and they will be featured band at their Summer Bike Event on June 16th! Free ADMISSION! This event will both entertain and enlighten with KC’s Talented artists and Young Leaders speaking. We have Alex Shriver from the College Republicans, Joshua Charles co- author of Glenn Beck’s best seller, Paul Curtman, Will Stewart Stark With AFP, Katherine Thonpson a young woman who has started a Conservative Group in her high school and many more impressive YOUNG ADULT Leaders in the community. PLUS MADISON RISING A POPULAR CONSERVATIVE ROCK MESSAGE BAND IS COMING TO KC just to play for the event. So bring your families, lawn chairs and blankets and be prepared to have a great time and ROCK THE VOTE!!! It will take all of us working together to WIN IN 2012!!! Family Atmosphere and Free ADMISSION! Come cheer on your Favorite Bands! Let’s Bring the Young and Old Together and ROCK TO VICTORY!!For more info. please call Theresa Emerson or email blushma@gmail.com Rain or Shine WE ARE ON!
Rules and guidelines if you wish to participate, here.
A decent crowd turned out for a Tax Day Tea Party sponsored by the In God We Trust PAC this morning on the Country Club Plaza, in Kansas City, MO.
Conservative state and federal candidates were on hand, including Republican Congressman from Iowa, Steve King, Republican candidate for US Senate in MO, Todd Akin, Republican candidate for MO Sec. of State, Shane Schoeller, and Republican candidate for US House, Dist.5, Jacob Turk to give speeches and answer questions.
IA Congressman Steve King is in Kansas City this weekend for our two tea parties.
Jacob Turk gave a great speech, as he always does.
Todd Akin is running for the US Senate in Missouri.
Akin posed with supporters.
Republican candidate for MO Sec. of State, Shane Schoeller also gave a great speech.
Jacob Turk, Republican Candidate for US Congress in MO Dist-5 spoke before the tea party crowd on the Plaza, with the JC Nichols Fountain as a backdrop.
More videos soon to come…
UPDATE:
Shane Schoeller’s speech in two parts. He had a little trouble with the PA system, but plowed through his speech, undaunted. This hardcore conservative would make a great Sec. of State.
It will be near the Country Club Plaza, at Theis Park.
Speakers will include Congressmen Steve King (R-IA), Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Pastor Stephen Broden, Joshua Charles, Mason Weaver, Bill Dallas, Jason Jones of Breitbart. com, Dr. Milton Wolf, Ignacio Riverosa, Rep. Paul Curtman, and Jeannie Burlsworth (founder of Secure Arkansas). Gregg Knapp of KCMO 710 AM will be master of ceremonies. Crossroads Revival Band will provide musical entertainment.
It’s that time of year, again – Tax Day is April 17, which means Tax Day Tea Parties have been planned all across the country. (Check local listings for one near you!)
There are two Kansas City tea parties scheduled for this coming weekend.
Our next TEA Party will be on Saturday, April 14th, 2012. Be part of the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party rally in your community. This Tea Party is a “We the People”, let your voices be heard. This will be a sign blitz Tea Party. Bring your conservative candidate signs and flood the grounds! We will have our usual “Tea Party” signs available. Make your own personal “Take Back America” message. We will have conservative state and federal candidates speaking and information on upcoming ballot initiatives. Tell your friends and family to join us. Let your voices be heard we ARE taking America back!
The TEA party rally for K.C. will begin at 10 a.m.
Jacob Turk, District 5 Republican candidate for US Congress will be speaking.
Raffle Drawing for David Barton’s
“American Heritage” 10 DVD Set.
Bring your friends and family and let YOUR voice be heard.
The rally is near the Country Club Plaza, at Theis Park.
The event is free, but click here to pre-register so that organizers can get a good estimate of how big the crowd will be.
Speakers will include Congressmen Steve King (R-IA), Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Pastor Stephen Broden, Joshua Charles, Mason Weaver, Bill Dallas, Jason Jones of Breitbart. com, Dr. Milton Wolf, Ignacio Riverosa, Rep. Paul Curtman, and Jeannie Burlsworth (founder of Secure Arkansas). Gregg Knapp of KCMO 710 AM will be master of ceremonies. Crossroads Revival Band will provide musical entertainment.
Very early on in Obama’s term, March 18, 2009,I wrote a post entitled, Outrage After Outrage After Outrage in an attempt to convey my shock and awe at the dizzying rate in which Obama was enacting his destructive agenda.
How can I take a break from politics, and write about light hearted and interesting stories in the news, if virtually everything the man does is an embarrassment and/or God-awful violation of everything patriotic Americans hold dear?
Well it’s been outrage after outrage after outrage for the past three years, as Obama’s Chicago machine hs usurped congressional and constitutional authority and ineffectual Republicans have done little to stop it.
Via Radio Patriot, here’s a hard hitting essay from former Navy Seal, Benjamin Smith, now, a writer, speaker, political strategist and ardent Constitutionalist. Benjamin is a regular contributor to several news outlets including Breitbart and Fox News.
It is his opinion that everything is coming to a head.
On the heels of NDAA, ObamaCare, Stimulus, Son of Stimulus, Patriot Act, takeover of auto, energy, media and movie industries, and the relentless implementation of Agenda 21… the Obama regime running our country into the ground has issued an updated Executive Order which suggests the probability of impending MARTIAL LAW.
We are left to scratch our heads and ask……… Why now?
America is in fact, right now, in the vicious throes of a Cold Civil War.
Cold as in non-violent and Civil as in nationwide; an attempt to force a new government-controlled ideology upon an unwilling public.
And the forces implementing this agenda are relentless.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order is nothing more than a blatant attempt to stir trouble of the highest intensity. The regime is looking to see who jumps and to see the movement that happens amongst the most vocal defenders of our rights, (you and me). They are poking us to see if we will go over the edge and do something so stupid that there will be a crisis… it will be our fault… and if any of our number are provoked enough to rise to the proverbial bait — they will finally lower the hammer… all in the name of “national security and public safety.”
These are classic Soviet style tactics designed and implemented in an effort to make us react, get us to either flinch and shut up, or overreact and get suppressed. It is also an exercise so they can gather intel on who is who and who has pull.
Many of us are trained. We know this game.
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Keep preparing for rough times ahead. Stock your pantry in preparation for lean days, even as the regime attempts to make such things illegal. Focus your mind on liberty, that it should never die.
I cannot tell you exactly what is coming but I know, as do you, that something unprecedented in American history, perhaps even all human history, is coming soon.
This is the common theme in most of all the conversations that I hear… there is something coming, no one really knows what it is; they just know that whatever it is, it will be momentous.
In a preview of the cover story in the latest issue of Marine Times, The Military Times reported on the anti-Obama sentiment that has taken hold of many Marines, exemplified by Sgt. Gary Stein, who “might be saying things about President Obama that a lot of Marines think, but some are saying he took it too far “.
Stein has come under fire for stating on Facebook that he wouldn’t follow certain orders given by his commander in chief. And Marines say Stein’s not alone in his disapproval. More anti-Obama talk is being heard in the workplace and new Military Times poll data shows declining approval among military service members for the president’s job as commander in chief.
The Marine Corps depends its chain of command structure, especially in a time of war. Some Marines say Stein and other vocal Marines like him are undermining that system.
Now, Fox News is reporting that Stein is facing possible dismissal from the Corps.
SAN DIEGO – A Marine sergeant who started a Facebook group that is openly critical of President Barack Obama and posted comments saying he will not follow the unlawful orders of the commander in chief is facing possible dismissal from the Corps.
The Marines on Wednesday told Sgt. Gary Stein — a Camp Pendleton Marine who started the Facebook page called Armed Forces Tea Party — that he is in violation of Pentagon policy barring troops from political activities.
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”I’m completely shocked that this is happening,” Stein said. “I’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve only stated what our oath states that I will defend the constitution and that I will not follow unlawful orders. If that’s a crime, what is America coming to?”
Stein said he planned to fight the charges. He had applied to extend his service, which was set to expire in a few months.
I guarantee that this isn’t just a Marine Corps issue.
That said, when you sign up, you don’t get to choose which President’s orders you follow and which ones you don’t…you just hope the people at home make a good choice at the polls.
See video of the Military Times’ coverage of the issue at the link.
The President’s porcine and thuggish campaign manager, Jim Messina, has unintentionally afforded me an opportunity to engage in one of my favorite past times- comparing the ragtag collection of confused/violent/radical malcontents who make up the Occupy movement to the benign, patriotic, and genuinely peaceful tea party.
Last night, the President went to Congress and defined in clear terms what we’re going to be fighting for in the months ahead.
That means that right now, it’s on us to get his back and work like hell to build this campaign. If we want to see this President re-elected, it’s time:
We don’t know which Republican is going to be our opponent yet, but here’s what we do know: Whoever wins the Republican nomination will have done so by adopting the extreme Tea Party agenda.
Whatever could he mean by the “extreme” tea party agenda?
Here is Jenny Beth Martin of The Tea Party Patriots, voicing her “extremist” support for fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets in response to Obama’s SOTU speech. . I’ve already posted this, but in case you missed it:
So, wow – yeah – that was pretty scary. God help us all if extreme principles like those are ever adopted by any Republican in government.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
So for the party that is in the process of destroying our capitalist system in the name of “fundamentally transforming” our nation, to be calling people who want to get back to fiscal responsibility and a constitutional form of government, “extremists” is just too rich.
“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina once instructed Obama supporters. I believe in punching back twice as hard, rhetorically.
See – by the 14th, enough was known about the assailant, Jared Loughner, that to the degree he held any political positions at all, we knew, they were on the kook left- emphasis on kook. He didn’t like the government’s grammar! It was obvious that Loughner was not a tea party member/follower/supporter in any capacity what-so-ever, and he probably had no idea who Sarah Palin even was.
So – a whole year ago, I was mocking this cavalcade of cretins for their obtuse slanders – and here we have the leader of the Democrat party today, trying to revive the old smear — because what? It was such a winner for them a year ago? It didn’t make the ones who did it look like bottom feeding slime, at all?
She dares impugn the tea party after we’ve witnessed months of Obama/Pelosi/Wasserman-Shultz endorsed occupiers infesting parks all over the nation, increasing the levels of filth, stench,verminand crime wherever they go? Oh, and I almost forgot – incivility.
When the LA arson suspect was caught on January 2nd, I complimented the right-wing blogosphere for their restraint. The fact of the matter is – I know a lot of us were thinking, “maybe it’s an occupier…” because they’ve been so prone to destructive behavior, especially on the left coast. But nobody went there because it would have been irresponsible to do so – and stupid, because we would have ended up with egg on our faces like the idiot left did after they insisted on blaming ‘tea party incivility’ for the Tucson shooting.
But the shameless left seems to be impervious to eggs…
“We understand their frustration, we applaud their activism and hopefully they’re going to help get the Republicans in Washington’s attention so we shift the Republican’s focus from just Barack Obama’s job, to everyone’s job,” she said of the protesters.
Once again, via The Jawa Report, here’s a side by side comparison of the Tea party vs OWS:
The craven dishonesty and hypocrisy of some people- it’s almost too much to bear.
Tina Dupuy of The Atlantic, having visited eight Occupations in the U.S. and Canada, reports on what can only be called a “gender gap” in the Occupy movement:
During the very first week of the Occupation in LA I noticed that the gender breakdown in its General Assembly (GA) and various committee meetings was roughly the same as the within the U.S. Congress. In other words, about one-fifth of those who were participating in the (small d) democratic part of this Occupy encampment were women. It was the same with the people who slept in the camp.
This is pretty consistent throughout the movement in general.
She notes that this is a point of concern at the camps:
I’m not the only one to notice the Occupy gender gap. This issue is talked about at GAs, I’m told, a lot. Nearly every night at Occupy LA, the question comes up: “What can we do to get more women out here?”
There are probably women who aren’t bothered much by poor hygiene, and there may be women who aren’t bothered by a lack of toilet and bathing facilities. But I think you’ll have a hard time finding women who aren’t bothered by the kind of bad stuff that happens to women when they’re constantly surrounded by a bunch of scummy, predatory cop-haters: Rape, sexual assault, sexual assault, rape, sexual assault, indecent exposure, sexual assault, gang rape . . . You get the picture.
The Occupy movement’s seething hostility toward law enforcement is not coincidental to their seething hostility toward capitalism.
The rationale of these protests is fundamentally anti-social, so the protests attract deviant personalities — including drug addicts, psychotics and sexual predators — who aren’t really keen on the whole “obeying the law” trip. And while the simple-minded lefty punks who are leading the protests might not be violent rapists, neither are they the kind of guys that chicks usually like to hang out with.
“Girls just want to have fun,” as Cyndi Lauper famously sang. Camping out in a park with a bunch of unemployed dropout dudes whining about their student loan debt? Not fun.
Tina Dupuy downplays the “alleged rapes” reported in encampments.
One was in Occupy Baltimore during the first week of their encampment. Police said the victim’s claim lacked credibility and dismissed it. Another was at Occupy Philadelphia and is still being investigated by police. One protester was arrested in New York for rape. There’s this volatile mix of those waiting to pounce on anything to discredit Occupy and an open public space where female protesters are sleeping that absolutely anyone can wander into. There have been no reports of men being raped at Occupations.
So, the #Occupy movement is led by scruffy, whiny, white dudes,who look the other way when women are sexually assaulted at their encampments, but are baffled and embarrassed because more women are not a part of their movement.
The Tea Party, on the other hand, is led by fierce, strong willed women, who are looking out for their children’s futures like “Mama Grizzlies”. One poll indicated that 55% of the Tea Party movement is made up of women.
Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders are women, and a new poll released this week by Quinnipiac University suggests that women might make up a majority of the movement as well.
Generalizations about such a decentralized assortment of local groups are difficult, and the poll’s assistant director, Peter A. Brown, cautioned that its finding that 55 percent of self-identified tea partiers are women has a relatively high margin of error.
But tea party organizers and activists say they’ve seen the influence of women firsthand — personified by the politician most associated with the movement, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the headline speaker Saturday when tea party activists hold a pair of rallies in Nevada, one of them in Searchlight, the home of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
To the extent that it is run by anyone, the Tea Party movement is–like all great social movements–largely run by women.
Many of the movement’s most important political figures, like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, are women. Many of its important writers, bloggers, and commentators–like S.E. Cupp, Dana Loesch, Kathleen McKinley, and Michelle Moore–are women. And you are more likely than not going to see a woman like Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots, Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express, or FreedomWorks’s Tabitha Hale out front leading rallies, organizing activists, and driving the point home that the American people are fed up with the government in Washington. [See who contributes to Bachmann.]
In point of fact, the number of women holding visible, important, leading roles in the Tea Party movement are too numerous to list here or anywhere. But they are all part of an important social movement, one that filmmakers David Bossie and Stephen K. Bannon examine closely in their sure-to-be-controversial documentary Fire From the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman.
Conservative women are about self-empowerment. We are not victims. We will not allow ourselves to be victims. We will not allow our children to be victims. Women on the left don’t want to be victims either. That’s why they stay away from the #Occupy camps.
Same take I had on that, but John goes more into depth.
Any conservative group with such a record toward women would be denounced as misogynistic troglodytes. But because OWS is progressive, Dupuy minimizes the problems at the camps as “a couple of alleged rapes.” She spends more time focusing on how women might be better represented in the general assemblies than the actual record of assault and harassment toward women in the camps.
They’re just like you and me… Except they don’t want to work, they smell, they’re Marxists, they’re filthy, They abuse each other, they want everything you’ve worked for and they’re spoiled brats.
RS McCain was in the thick of the action, last weekend in DC, when the #OccupyDC “hippie horde” mobbed attendees of the Americans For ProsperityDefending the American Dream Summit. His first-hand account of what transpired and his additional thoughts can be read at the American Spectator: The Mob That Came To Dinner.
“WE! ARE! THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT!”
“WE! ARE! THE NINETY-NINE PERCENT!”
The rhythmic chant, kept in time by the accompaniment of a drummer, eventually deteriorated into chaotic shouting as the mob crowded around the entrance to the Washington Convention Center. A young woman held aloft her homemade 11-by-17-inch sign: “OCCUPY” with three red stars, a crude simulation of the District of Columbia flag. Flashes from dozens of digital cameras intermittently illuminated the frenzied scene by the glass doors, which were guarded by Metropolitan Police officers attempting to prevent the Occupy DC protesters from shoving their way inside.
“Peaceful! Peaceful!” some of the mob members shouted, as the self-declared “99 percent” were clearly on the verge of a full-scale riot Friday night outside the venue where the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) Foundation was holding its annual Defending the American Dream Summit. Before the evening was over, elderly women attending the “Tribute to Ronald Reagan” dinner would be shoved to the ground and three Occupiers would be struck by a car, but those incidents transpired later, after the protesters attempted to storm the doors of the Convention Center.
Occupy DC protesters attempted to bust into the Washington DC Convention Center on Friday night, where an Americans for Prosperity dinner was taking place. Protesters aimed their ire at AFP donors Charles and David Koch throughout the night. Interestingly, David walked through the crowd of protesters with friends and associates of his and went completely unnoticed by the Occupy DC crowd. I captured video of a throng of protesters trying to muscle past security at the DC Convention Center to no avail.
Twenty two year oldLaurel Buckleyalso wrote of her struggle to leave the convention center after a long, tiring day of “meeting endless individuals to plead for names, email addresses, and donations to the 501(c)(3) that I work for.”
I’m directed to yet another exit. Picking up my load I follow several terrified elderly women being helped by their senior husbands up stairs, through a corridor, and down another flight of stairs only to face another door full of twenty-somethings blocking the exit.
At this point I was getting a little irritated. An irritation that grew when I was pushed back inside and had fists shaken in my face by men much bigger and physically stronger than me. I know D.C. is not known for its chivalry, but never before in my life have I faced little boys, posing as men, using physical force to intimidate women. Perhaps it was the long workday, perhaps it was the wine from dinner, maybe it was my feet tired from walking all over the D.C. convention center in heels, but this was the point at which I lost it. I screamed in frustration for these little punks to quite protesting and get a job. I yelled for them to just let me go home after doing an honest day’s work. I received the mature response of curses, being flipped off, and the ever so classy, chest exposure. (What does that even mean?)
Finally, I was directed to an open exit. Out the building and on my way home. Past a group of young male protesters, still hurling their insults.
All I could think was what a waste. What did this pathetic protest accomplish? Occupy D.C., was it your mission to terrify elderly women? Was it your goal to make a 22-year-old, unarmed woman fear leaving work and getting home on her own — in her own neighborhood? Was it to entrap hundreds of convention goers inside the convention center so that next time you could burn the place down with them inside?
If I could I would have told them: I hope I’m not the only one-percenter. I will go to bed tonight praying that there are no more that 1% of you in the world. Because if I have to believe that there are more like you, more selfish punks with a complete, criminal disregard for other people, I dread what the future holds in store for our generation — and our country.
“I was about to call ‘show’ and realized that we had a lot of protesters during the middle of program,” Engdahl said in a Saturday afternoon interview. “We realized it had gotten to the point where, even though the convention center had been calling and working with [Metropolitan Police Department], we needed to call them and make sure we had a game plan for people to get out of the building safely and back to their rooms or to their home.”
Engdahl said she called 911 in the middle of the show and told them the protesters appeared organized with a plan of attack as they had all the convention center exits blocked.
“I did mention [on the 911 call] how coordinated I thought the protesters’ effort was, as well as how ill-prepared both MPD and the Convention Center were in communicating together on how best to solve the problem,” she explained.
“I said that I didn’t want it to rise to where we had a confrontation or other problems – and they hung up on me,” Engdahl said, adding that she and other AFP staffers and volunteers had made at least four 911 calls from inside the convention center asking for help.
Remember how we laughed when the left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) kept saying the Tea Party was a “mob”.
Regardless of the incessant MSM scaremongering, the tea party never erupted into violence. Not once. The very idea was mock-worthy and mock we did.
Now, tea partiers, after years of being accused by liberals in the media of being on the verge of mob violence, are treated to the spectacle of the same MSM down-playing the truly grotesque, and scary mob behavior of the #Occupy crowd.
How much MSM play did the #OccupyDC mob violence get over the weekend? I’m guessing what little coverage it got was cushioned with assurances that the #occupy movement is “mostly peaceful”.
In his post about the need for rape shelters at #OWS protests, even Allahpundit is floored by the galling media double standard:
This can’t be repeated enough: With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history.
I’ve been tracking it all atLeft-Wing Institute For Civil Discourse, and trust me, this is not a peaceful, mainstream movement. There’s so much insanity happening on so many fronts, I’ve been struggling to keep up. I’ve added a new feature – Moonbat Headlines which can be seen at the top of the right sidebar. (I’ve also expanded header.)
As RS McCain summed up in his post at The American Spectator, the Occupy movement’s claim to represent the economic grievances of the American majority is belied by their thuggish behavior.
Their convergence at the AFP event only accentuated the contrast between the protest mob’s barbarism and the civilized behavior of their targets. The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream while Occupy DC represents an unpopular radical fringe. Despite their chants, the Occupiers are not the 99 percent, and perhaps not even 9 percent.
Yet a recent online poll of 1,005 American adults reveals that 35 percent still have a positive impression of the Occupy movement, while just 29 percent hold a favorable view of the tea party. A result that sick and twisted does not happen without a lot of help from the MSM.
