October 6, 2004

• CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE REFORM

  
  

   

  
  

  Brown Shirted Thugs Seem to Support Dictatorship in America

  
  

  Ransack GOP Headquarters, assault and vandalize across the country

  
  

   

  
  

  As it seems, this segment (Planet Moronia) has begun the tradition of being a two-parter. This time however, we are leaving the debate of the debate in favor of the debate over whether the US should have free elections or only nominate and support candidates the most violent party approves of (like a quasi-dictatorship). I must preface this and say that I am willing to bet that most Democrats are horrified by these acts of violence aimed specifically against the volunteers of the Republican or any other political party in the United States. However, the Democrat leadership has thus far shown little interest in joining with other Americans in condemning it. 

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Here’s the rundown:

  
  

   

  
  

  Protestors whom we saw earlier this year protesting against Bush and against the Republicans’ right to speak “in public” in New York weren’t finished after Bush’s nomination.

  
  

   

  
  

  Since then we have seen campaign volunteer intimidation, violence and theft across the country using a level of thuggery heretofore unprecedented in a land that depends on free elections between at least two parties to survive.

  
  

   

  
  

  Just today and yesterday protesters stormed Republican Party campaign headquarters in West Allis, WI, Orlando and Miami FL and Westmorland County, PA.

  
  

   

  
  

  I e-mailed Chris Lato, the communications director of the Wisconsin Republican Party about today’s break-in at their West Allis headquarters, where protesters belligerently stormed the offices with bullhorns, intimidating campaign operatives and committing acts of petty vandalism along the way. While he declined to say if charges had been pressed or were planned, he did say that charges had been filed and protesters were arrested in both the Orlando and Pennsylvania incidents. “It is my understanding that protestors were arrested after things turned violent in Florida and Pennsylvania.”

  
  

   

  
  

  No news reports of the Pennsylvania headquarter assault could be found, however I did find a statement at the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania official website by Republican State Committee Chairman Alan Novak who called it “an outrage of the highest order. There is no place for violence, threats or disorderly conduct in campaigns,” exclaimed Novak. “With similar events happening across the nation, it is clear that some think this kind of action is condoned. I demand that Chairman Rooney (of the Pennsylvania DNC) call to a halt any and all threatening protests and that he urge affiliated third party groups to do the same.”

  
  

   

  
  

  The statement also indicated that another assault had occurred in Tennessee when the local Bush-Cheney campaign office was fired upon, shattering several windows and causing property damage. It was too late in the evening to call contacts in the Davidson County Young Republicans for comment. Nor was there any word yet on their website about the incident.  

  
  

   

  
  

  Firing weapons into Republican campaign headquarters is no laughing matter. It takes the threshold beyond petty vandalism and caustic fisticuffs. (And it’s not too smart a thing to begin since most NRA members are Republicans). All joking aside, this is serious business and we must defend our right to freely support the candidate of our choice. Democrats should be standing with Republicans on our side on this one. Instead, the only public statement I could find was in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dated last Saturday by Washington State Democratic Chairman Paul Berendt over the three laptops that were taken earlier this month from Republican campaign offices in Bellevue Washington. The laptops were the only things taken in the offices, which belonged to top staff members. Unrelated businesses and offices in the same building were unmolested. In his comments, Berendt made light of the thefts and said his party was being falsly fingered in the fiasco, “I think Chris is mistaken. I think the Republican National Committee just packed up and left the state in the middle of the night and took all their equipment with them. They seem to have given up on having any chance of carrying this state.” The laptops may have contained highly confidential campaign and possibly volunteer and donor information. Information which could be used to commit fraud or even blackmail against RNC supporters.  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Here are just a few of the Ransacked Republican Regulars in the past month:

  
  

   

  
  

  Huntington, WV – 1.September Shots fired into headquarters

  
  

  And Again – Same location vandalized one week later

  
  

  Medford, OR – September, October Vandalism and theft of personal signs, vehicles with bumper stickers etc.

  
  

  Bellevue, WA – 1.October Three Laptops known to likely contain sensitive information stolen during Watergate-style break-in. Campaign rep says it happened in 2000 as well.

  
  

  Orlando & Miami, FL – 5.October Protesters Storm campaign headquarters, threatening volunteers and committing vandalism

  
  

  West Allis, WI – 6.October More of what happened in Florida

  
  

  Westmorland County, PA – 6.October “a Democrat protest in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, turned threatening and potentially violent when a protestor stormed the Republican Victory Center shouting obscenities and intimidating young female volunteers,” according to the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee website.

  
  

  Tennessee – 6.October More of what happened in West Virginia- shots fired through GOP office windows

  
  

   

  
  

  Some of the more ridiculous: Saybrook Point, CT – 25 November 2003 “The GOP, they lie and cheat! The GOP, they steal our heat!” was chanted as protestors stormed a GOP fundraiser.

  
  

   

  
  

  – 9.September 2000 Fire breaks out at the headquarters of the Monroe County Republican Party Committee in Bloomington, Indiana

  
  

   

  
  

  Not to say Democrat hopeful John Kerry wants to be a dictator. But it would help if his campaign weren’t being so reticent to condemn the 1^st Amendment-suppressing activities of those Kerry supporters actively involved in these attacks. Similar to the Nazi brown shirts in the German 1920’s who rioted and crashed the political offices of their opposition during election years, the radical left Kerry-Gestapo has deployed their storm troopers to silence their constitutionally-protected legitimate major political opposition (and we know they only got worse once they actually gained power in the 1930′s). The only possible intended result of such a strategy of intimidation is to create a situation where one party runs unopposed, its opposition too afraid for life and limb to oppose it.

  
  

   

  
  

  So where is Jimmy Carter on this one, folks? My bet is that just like the idiologically obsessed ACLU, he’s a bit selective.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Related:

  
  

   

  
  

  Vigil Turns Hostile Toward Family Of Killed Soldier

  
  

   

  
  

  A Gentle Tug of the Conscience: Pigtails of Justice and One Anti-Bush Heckler

  
  

   

  
  

  They Hate Competition: Peaceful Conservative Protest Warrior Site Hacked

  
  

   

  
  

  RNC Convention ’04: Terrorists, Traitors and Tea Toddlers

  
  

  The Truth about Teresa’s Pet-Snake Protesters

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  UPDATE:

  
  

  Freepers Have Posted a “Compilation of Dem Attacks” along with Photos Here:

  
  

  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1237215/posts

  
  

   

  
  

  UPDATE:

  
  

  Blogger Aft_Lizard Has Now Posted Some More Links to Related Stories along with Photos.  Here:

  
  

  http://aftlizard.blogspot.com/2004/10/original-site-brown-shirts-rearise.html

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  Aft_Lizard’s blog also found a local TV report about the shots fired at the Tennessee HQ, which occured in Knoxville:

  
  

  http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=20241

  
  

   

  
  

  Related Freeper Thread on the Knoxville Shooting:

  
  

  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1235838/posts

  
  

   

  
  

  More reading:

  
  

  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1237534/posts?page=65

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  (MINI-)UPDATE:

  
  

   

  
  

  Freeper  (post # 106) Says Ann Coulter Took a Top Dem to Task Earlier Tonight about the Attacks

  
  

  According to one freeper, “Ann Coulter confronted the Democrat on Scarborough about it tonight and he snickered while he tried to deny any connection to the Democratic party — he did a terrible job of trying to deny complicity and you could tell Ann and Pat Buchanan both didn’t believe him.” Did anyone else see this exchange? No mention either who that “top dem” might have been. If indeed it did occur, it would be encouraging to see Coulter go after them, while also disturbing if the dems reacted as described in the Freeper post. Pubs need to pull out all the stops to give this trend of violence visibility in the press. According to the Scarborough site for the deeply curious, a transcript should be available later today here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3719710/

  
  

   

  
  

  USEFUL UPDATE:

  
  

   

  
  

  Reports of violence at Republican offices can be made by contacting the Department of Justice. This is, I understand where pressure may also be applied for any possible RICO investigation that would look into DNC, AFL-CIO and other group collaboration in interference with the process of an election via voter and political suppression.
  
  U.S. Department of Justice
  950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20530-0001
  
  E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  MAJOR UPDATE:

  
  

   

  
  

  Republicans taking charge: Click here to see my post 11. October 2004

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

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  CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE REFORM

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