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catman
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 Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: Tea Party Protests: 'Ni**er,' 'Fa**ot' Shouted At Members Of |
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Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock.
Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.
A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) relayed word to reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-M.D.) had been spit on by a protestor (the protestor was reportedly arrested by Capitol Hill police). Rep. John Lewis (D-G.A.) a hero of the civil rights movement was called a "n----r." And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident.
But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.
"It was absolutely shocking to me," Clyburn said, in response to a question from the Huffington Post. "Last Monday, this past Monday, I stayed home to meet on the campus of Claflin University where fifty years ago as of last Monday... I led the first demonstrations in South Carolina, the sit ins... And quite frankly I heard some things today I have not heard since that day. I heard people saying things that I have not heard since March 15, 1960 when I was marching to try and get off the back of the bus."
"It doesn't make me nervous as all," the congressman said, when asked how the mob-like atmosphere made him feel. "In fact, as I said to one heckler, I am the hardest person in the world to intimidate, so they better go somewhere else."
Asked if he wanted an apology from the group of Republican lawmakers who had addressed the crowd and, in many ways, played on their worst fears of health care legislation, the Democratic Party, and the president, Clyburn replied:
"A lot of us have been saying for a long time that much of this, much of this is not about health care a all. And I think a lot of those people today demonstrated that this is not about health care... it is about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful."
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.38 Special
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Protesters acted unruly... Gasp.
ZZZzzzzz..... |
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thoreau
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Remember that there are numerous documented cases of the FBI putting agents in crowds to provoke violent behavior. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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I was more impressed when the healthy crowd heckled the old man with Parkinson's the other day. That took more guts. Naturally, it was the man who gave money to him that was truly inspiring. 
There's an interview with the man somewhere, but I've forgotten where I saw it. |
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The Happy Warrior
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| .38 Special wrote: |
Protesters acted unruly... Gasp.
ZZZzzzzz..... |
Ditto |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:14 am Post subject: |
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I'm smelling BS on this. We keep on hearing how the T-Party is full of racists but we never have had this story. Then all of a sudden on the eve of the vote we get stories about how its like the 1960s out there. Right. These guys just all of a sudden turned on the switch.
Of course this whole time the 'side of tolerance' has been throwing out the term Tea-Bag which has a vague anti-gay strain to it.
Come on sheeple. |
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kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:16 am Post subject: |
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^Agree.
There's a protest, where's the video anyway? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| but we never have had this story |
Really? You missed the witch doctor with the bone in his nose ad? Where were you?
What % of the birther crap is about racism?
In my view about half the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' is more about race than religion.
As Jon Stewart so astutely pointed out, the word 'li*bert*arian' contains the words 'lie' and 'arian' and we all know what the Aryans are about. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| but we never have had this story |
Really? You missed the witch doctor with the bone in his nose ad? Where were you?
What % of the birther crap is about racism?
In my view about half the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' is more about race than religion.
As Jon Stewart so astutely pointed out, the word 'li*bert*arian' contains the words 'lie' and 'arian' and we all know what the Aryans are about. |
Not only that, but it includes the name of Sesame Street's "Bert" who, together with Ernie, were known to be a Communist plot to seduce our children into a homosexual lifestyle, too.
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Senior
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| but we never have had this story |
Really? You missed the witch doctor with the bone in his nose ad? Where were you?
What % of the birther crap is about racism?
In my view about half the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' is more about race than religion.
As Jon Stewart so astutely pointed out, the word 'li*bert*arian' contains the words 'lie' and 'arian' and we all know what the Aryans are about. |
Good grief. This is scraping the barrel, even for you, Yata. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Of course this whole time the 'side of tolerance' has been throwing out the term Tea-Bag which has a vague anti-gay strain to it.
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Ummm, when this 'movement' (is a knee-jerk a 'movement'?) started, they themselves used the term 'tea bag', as in "Mail tea bags to Congress!" and the iconic picture of the older lady at a rally in her hat with tea bags stapled all around the brim. There were no indignant objections voiced publically until it became known that there was already a meaning to 'tea-bagging'.
Some are even saying now that the tea baggers have shot their wad, so to speak, and are returning to their GOP roots after pekoing too early. |
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mises
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
I'm smelling BS on this. We keep on hearing how the T-Party is full of racists but we never have had this story. Then all of a sudden on the eve of the vote we get stories about how its like the 1960s out there. Right. These guys just all of a sudden turned on the switch.
Of course this whole time the 'side of tolerance' has been throwing out the term Tea-Bag which has a vague anti-gay strain to it.
Come on sheeple. |
I agree. I've been reading their online ramblings. They're very aware that the media and establishment political organizations are scared of them and marginalizing them via pejoratives. They are very careful about it now. I remember the "IRON MY SHIRT" shouts at Clinton which were obviously staged. |
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catman
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So it is all a conspiracy to make the Tea Party look bad?
Someone asked why now? Well the bigots in the movement are getting more hostile.
Tea Party Racism
Neo-Confederates
Obama the Witch Doctor
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visitorq
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:45 am Post subject: |
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So it is all a conspiracy to make the Tea Party look bad?
Someone asked why now? Well the bigots in the movement are getting more hostile. |
Of course it's a conspiracy. The government infiltrates movements all the time and actually sends in agent provocateurs. This is well known. The tea party movement was started by people on the Ron Paul side of the fence, and it has been outright hijacked by the Republican party and fake conservatives like Glenn Beck. It is all a distraction, and meant to be so. Many people will be baited into towing the GOP line and voting for Sarah Palin, but the people who actually know what's going on (Ron Paul supporters) will not be fooled by it. |
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visitorq
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:58 am Post subject: |
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| but we never have had this story |
Really? You missed the witch doctor with the bone in his nose ad? Where were you?
What % of the birther crap is about racism?
In my view about half the 'Obama is a secret Muslim' is more about race than religion.
As Jon Stewart so astutely pointed out, the word 'li*bert*arian' contains the words 'lie' and 'arian' and we all know what the Aryans are about. |
That's Barry Sarturo to you. Irregardless of his skin color (his mother was white and his father was apparently a Kenyan with mostly Arabic blood), he's still an un-American piece of trash, a liar, and a sell-out to Wall Street. That, not his skin color, is what makes him the worst president in recent history (tied with Bush). |
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