All you need to know about the RNC protesters
Same as at the DNC: A bust.
Outside the Xcel Center, police used pepper spray and arrested five protesters among a crowd of about 2,000 participating in an anti-war march. The crowd was far smaller than the 50,000 march organizers had hoped for.
St. Paul police spokesman Tom Walsh said the five were arrested for lighting a trash bin on fire.
Separately, dozens of self-described anarchists wearing black clothing ran through the streets a few blocks from the march site.
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Update: Jim Hoft reports on a sandbag attack on the bus he was riding.
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I guess the lack of esprit de corps and motivation are big issues for those who try to organize slackers for protests.
Funny and pathetic.
It’s funny. The vast majority of protesters at the DMC convention were folks on the Left. The vast majority of protesters at the RNC convention, such as it is, are also on the Left. Why is that?
Oh yeah…. we have jobs.
Maybe someone forgot the “walking around money”…
It’s similar to why the “legalize pot” crowd can never gain momentum as a special interest group: by the time they show up at the polls, it’s Wednesday.
Just tell the cops to back off, I’ll phaser them from orbit.
See, that’s the problem with anarchy, no organization.
It’s pretty impressive that five anarchists had the organizational skills to pull off such a spectacular deed of defiance. I’ll bet all the other anarchists stood around the fire and drooled in amazement.
So … the only protestors at the RNC were anarchists?
Note to protesters:
Oh wait, they’re to dumb to read….
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeevermind.
Did Republicans set up a Gitmo style prison for these protesters as did the DNC? I think not, and that in itself is quite telling.
What RNC? Is that this week? I have been watching tv all day and haven’t heard anything about it. Are you sure there is going to be a convention?
/sarc
I love $4 gas when it keeps the cranky at home and stuck in the Kos Sewer.
I love the smell of MACE in the morning.
LOL! And brains …
And good fashion sense (e.g., no black ski masks or orange jumpsuits).
I almost, sometimes…sorta in a hazy way…remember one semester during my college
dazedays when, in between munchy and cotton-mouth outbreaks, we contemplated voting for Carter. Then we went to the Duck Pond and “set fire to the rope locker” instead.I outgrew it quickly. I wonder what happened to these idiots?
Oh yeah…jobs that have random “Whiz Quizes” pay much better than [and require grown up behavior] the “Do you want fries with that?” jobs. That’s right.
I’m thinking we have ‘The Mouse That Roared’ syndrome at hand here. These insignifcant professional (meaning they don’t have day jobs and are on somebody’s payroll to do their anarchist bidding) protesters are truly a marginal aspect of the whole campaign cycle - whose influence has only been magnified several thousand times by a very gullible media - who only want the worst to happen. Recreate ‘68 was a bust, yet from all of the news (well, so-called news) reports, they were going to be the next big impact in the election cycle. A small band of burn-out dip-sh!t clowns trying to levatate the US Mint. Yeah - maybe Geraldo should see if they know where Al Capone’s fortyne is buried too. My point is that we collectively need to start ignoring these kinds of numb-nuts and concentrate on electing a president.
As for their penchant to want to gain attention by causing disruption and interfering with other peoples rights to peacefully assemble (read legitimate conventioneers) - see if the inside of the county jail would suit thier purpose.
There is a police car burning at the moment.
There’s nothing that says “war protest” like the wanton destruction of private property. They are like street thugs, but without the organization.
I don’t get how “The Mouse That Roared” has meaning to the rest of what you are saying.
I was in that play in high school and have seen the movie. That whole concept was to declare war on the USA so they could lose and get their country rebuilt.
These anarchist aren’t that smart nor do they have anything to rebuild.
Just saying…….
According to local conservative talk show host Jason Lewis:
The “RNC Welcoming Committee” had bags of feces and urine in a recent raid by police. Of course, St. Paul liberal city council member Dave Thune is defending these far-left zealots.
I guess that bags of human waste is just free speech. Reports indicate that they also broke windows on several lots.
Thanks for the laugh.
Can’t you just beam them up? :LOL:
We could just drop them off on Seti Alpha V. I hear Khan is looking for some more recruits.
From the link in the post:
And they see no irony at all in what they do. Idiots the lot of them.
They did levitate the Mint….didn’t they? I mean they SAID they were going to levitate it….
This is stuff you can’t make up! And nearly half the country votes with them. I say we’re in some kinda trouble and it’s going to hurt us.
Is it too much to ask for the MSM use the anarchist. Just once.
oops
Is it too much to ask for the MSM to use the word anarchist. Just once.
I’m watching CSPAN (for lack of any other programming) right now and I see among the protesters, a light blue flag on which a single white star is centered.
Call me crazy, but wouldn;t that flag be the same flag in the other anthem of the Confederacy, “..Hurrah for the bonnie blue flag that bears a single star”????!!!
As we all notice about the MSM though, the top story is the fact there are protesters there, and yet that wasn’t the primary talk when it came to the DNC. Not that I am surprised, but just saying.
I am now viewing a haurange by ANSWER featuring a Mike Prysher, supposedly an Iraq War veteeran. Given the parade of such “veterans”, I wonder if this gentleman is cut from the same cloth, he’s waay too polished.
OK - it was a bad example. I wasn’t thinking of the play or the movie per se - but that a small band of idiots - highly magnified by the media - could seem to be bigger and more influential than they really are.
Maybe a better analogy would have been the real Wizard of Oz behind the curtain.
In order for these idiots to see the irony they would have to understand the concept.
Same as when they call military members “baby killers” but have never met an abortion they did not like.
Truly clueless.
Your wish just came true.
This found on CNN Political Ticker,
Admittedly not on the main web page - but it’s a start.
Is it just me or does it not make sense for anti-war protesters to be violent? Also, where is the justice? Justice would be forcing these scumbag sub-humans to EAT those bags of feces they so happily throw at decent people. However, nothing will happen to them. Maybe they will be detained a couple hours and let go to do it again. Off the subject but there will be no consequences for the slim that started the rumor about Sarah claiming to be the mother of her daughters child. When their lies don’t work they just make something else up but if there was punishment (slander charges) maybe these rumors wouldn’t be flying so freely.
From Wikipedia:
In addition to the national flags, a wide variety of flags and banners were flown by Southerners during the War. Most famously, the “Bonnie Blue Flag” (which actually dated from the short-lived Republic of West Florida in 1810), was used as an early flag of Texas in 1836, and was used as an unofficial flag during the early months of 1861. In addition, many military units had their own regimental flags they would carry into battle.
This has been your history moment from Tennessee Dave.
Is it just me or does anyone find it ironic that folks with peace signs on their bumpers are slashing tires, lighting fires and breaking windows?
Saw some very edifying footage of a protester in St. Paul who failed to obey a police command and received a fountain of pepper spray right in the face. Their reaction was … cartoon-like.
You want to resist authority, no problem, resist this…LOL
“Don’t taze me, bro!!!”
bunch of spineless bastards…tazer ‘em with 45 slugs or 12 gauge shells that outta slow em down…ok, ok don’t shoot em just knock the stupid out of ‘em.
I’ll try again.
Oh the irony: poo-bags hurling poo-bags.
Ah hope ah have offended no doily wave-uhs.
The ignorant can be educated. You can’t fix stupid.
ECS
Oh jeez… what is it with you people from Tennessee wanting to come down to San Antonio and always stir up trouble? We just wanted to mind our own business and grow some cotton, but “Nooooo”, you guys had to go and start a war….
Stay home, thank you, we’ll make our own flags ! lol
just go with it… and we’ll call it artistic license. Since I blended you and ex-expat together, I’ll cut you both in on the royalties
I have seen these loonies on TV breaking windows, tying up traffic, setting fires, etc. and it has disgusted me. But seeing it in my own city is way too up close and personal. It really breaks my heart. It’s as if they had come to my own front yard and thrown rocks through my windows. I want revenge! I want these vandals thrown in jail and kept there! Surely the damage they are doing is enough to warrent a felony conviction, isn’t it? This is NOT free speech, it is criminal, and it’s time for severe penalties. I don’t want them in jail for a few hours, I want them in jail for a few years!
I just got back from downtown St. Paul at the RNC, and it is mostly really boring. Don’t let a few knuckleheads get the attention. Delegates are friendly, the protesters were friendly, cops seem to be in a good mood.
“Separately, dozens of self-described anarchists wearing black clothing ran through the streets a few blocks from the march site.”
Did they cover their faces like I have seen them do at protests in San Fran, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz. That covered-face look is so KKK.
Boy!! That’ll REALLY show them there dirty, rotten, neocons that they just ain’t gonna take it no more!!
The anarchists are no match for the Republican leadership abilities of McCain and Palin.
Obama, All Brag No Bounce
The thugs in black you are watching protest in Minneapolis and Denver are a standard feature of big anti-war protests: black bloc anarchists. They hail from several sources: the SDS, the usual radical lefty groups. A lot of them are stupid high school kids. They were a presence at every big anti-war demonstration in DC.
Mostly they try to make faux stand-offs with the police. Usually after 30-60 minutes their nerves falter and attention wanders and they meander off. Sometimes they run in big packs while the police are distracted by a demonstration and break windows. Now and then, they will encounter a small group of counter-protestors in feeder demonstrations and beat them up.
None of this is ever covered by the MSM because it would discredit the anti-war movement they support.