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Connecticut Delegation Attacked By Protestors

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 1st, 2008 at 07:55 PM  | 

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Image descriptionPeace loving Obama supporters have attacked the Connecticut GOP delegation at the convention in a malicious attack.

Covered here, protestors hurled clorox and water at the delegation.

When Chairman Healy’s mother Lila was spat upon by a protester, former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons stepped between the elder Healy and the crowd. He was doused with a liquid substance that was later determined to be a mix of clorox and water. At least 10 other delegates also were hit with liquid.

With police assistance, the delegation managed to break through the crowd and slip inside the security perimeter. The police quickly responded to the altercation and were able to prevent it from escalating further.

These protestors will, when they vote, vote for Obama.

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  • bs

    these stories should cement their opinions.

    By the way, lest anyone think this is an isolated, one-time incident, Jaded posted this story about other Leftist terrorists assaulting a bus filled with delegates en route to the convention.

    Just match up these stories of criminal acts on behalf of the Left with the repulsive postings we’ve seen on RS today, and you get a fine picture of the scum that they are. Stinking, repugnant, disgusting scum that shouldn’t even be allowed to live in this country, much less be elected to public office.

  • randolph

    Anti-war ‘pacifists’ who use violence to undermine democratic process? Unfortunate that this is what we have come to expect from the left…

  • lonebeagle

    Liberals are the most tolerant people on the planet until you disagree with them.

    Great bunch of folks. I hope they let their stripes show during the convention.

  • Jack_Savage

    These Obama supporters are the logical extension of the debasement of discourse by the left. From Keith Olbermann, to Michael Moore, to Kos, to former DNC chairman Fowler – just in last 24 hours -there is not a shred of decency or humanity remaining on the left.

    This will receive little to no coverage by the cooperative media, who are accessories to this behavior. There will be no outrage, no condemnation, no mention. The thug arm of the left can roam freely and do what it wants, with Democrats and the media complicit.

  • txaggies911

    Here’s one lefty that will step up and say this was a repugnant act. But at the same time, don’t make the claim that this is somehow the type of thing that should cement your opinion of “the left.” Fringe groups like this are fringe for a reason…they don’t in any way represent the decent people everywhere else on that side of the aisle.

    There’s a fringe right, too, and I would not be so irresponsible as to assign their traits to the right as a whole.

  • txaggies911

    Here’s one lefty that will step up and say this was a repugnant act. But at the same time, don’t make the claim that this is somehow the type of thing that should cement your opinion of “the left.” Fringe groups like this are fringe for a reason…they don’t in any way represent the decent people everywhere else on that side of the aisle.

    There’s a fringe right, too, and I would not be so irresponsible as to assign their traits to the right as a whole.

  • Jack_Savage

    And tell me what they have done that is similar to this. Maybe you can start with the chaos and violence they caused at the Democrat convention – or maybe not.

    Sorry, pal. The mouth frothers are the rule rather than the exception on your side, and is no end to the examples that we can point out.

    You should pray that the day we decide to return favors such as this one will never come.

  • bs

    who assaulted people in Denver.

    [crickets]

  • EricVLennert

    Nothing more

  • heath

    Thank you all for the support you’ve been showing us today. Thankfully we’re all ok – just a bit shaken up. The entire delegation is anxious to get back to the Convention so we can get John McCain nominated and then elected as the 44th President of the United States.

    Heath Fahle, Executive Director, Connecticut Republican Party

  • The_Rebel

    Your problem is that the so-called “mainstream left” is becoming more of what the “fringe left” represents today.

  • Jack_Savage

    Have him ride the bus with you all, and let him handle the situation in his own special way next time.

    Godspeed to you all.

  • ConservaGeek

    I’ll pray for everyone’s peace of mind and continued safety.

    But… ya might invest in a few containers of pepper spray.

  • txaggies911

    Roughly speaking, 50 million people (give or take) will vote Democratic in this election. Show me some sort of evidence that 1 percent of those people are involved in this sort of violent protest.

    My point is that there are fringe right wing groups (like Westboro Baptist Church for one, or those that engage in murders or arson attacks at abortion clinics) that engage in despicable acts. But I can see the difference between those people and the rest of the right.

    If you can’t do the same on the other side of the aisle, you’re flat ignorant.

  • Jack_Savage

    Given what we have seen just in the past day, the burden of proof is on you, pal.

    The old saw of “extremists on both sides of the aisle” is a pile of crap. I asked you a direct question, and would appreciate if you could offer a direct answer, starting with, if you remember, the chaos and violence the “fringe right” visited on the Democrat convention in Denver.

    We’re waiting.

  • bs

    Where were the right-wing terrorists at the DNC event?

    Where?

    Fact of the matter is that you and your leftist troll colleagues are exactly what they have been spewing all day today – hypocrites. Hypocrites who are unwilling to allow the GOP to have the same “freedom of speech” that your side claims to be championing. The only speech that the Left cares to allow is that of the Left.

    Come back and talk to me when your Messiah denounces the crap that’s going on up there in St. Paul. Until then, you’re talking hollow, meaningless tripe. Don’t even bother to respond, because barely a soul here believes a syllable you speak.

  • Jack_Savage

    Given what we have seen just in the past day, the burden of proof is on you, pal.

    The old saw of “extremists on both sides of the aisle” is a pile of crap. I asked you a direct question, and would appreciate if you could offer a direct answer, starting with, if you remember, the chaos and violence the “fringe right” visited on the Democrat convention in Denver.

    We’re waiting.

  • lonebeagle

    Where were the fringe groups from the “right” that rioted, spit at, and assaulted Democrat party members attending the convention in Denver??!!!

    The left is DEFINED by a coalition of fringe groups: liberal feminists and the Reverend Wright coaltion are just two examples.

    I just watched the Minneapolis Police pepper spraying a bunch of Leftist radical protesters. I don’t recall seeing ANY “right wing” protesters getting pepper sprayed in Denver.

    Go back to you liberal blogs.

  • ConservaGeek

    I just re-read Erick’s original piece three times, and I didn’t see any place where he claimed that this behavior was endemic to the left as a whole.

    Please point out where, specifically, Erick made such a claim and I’ll address it.

  • Jack_Savage

    I did.

  • ConservaGeek

    But the troll’s comment was in response to the original article, not in reply to you.

    In short, he needs to learn how to use “Reply To This,” and I am providing an object lesson.

  • CJB68

       Most democrats that I know of (such as members of the AFL-CIO in my family) are like the zombies in ConservaGreek’s quote.  They just vote Democrat because it gives them an excuse to be lazy for just a little while longer and not care if they’re leaving the bill in the hands of a younger generation to which my nieces and nephew belong.  The radical thugs, on the other hand, have been driving the agenda for the party for the past several years and are effectively serving as mob muscle in hopes of either discouraging people from voting against their sponsors’ side or provoking a violent reaction which they can use to justify escalating violence.

    These protestors will, when they vote, vote for Obama.

       Or they may not vote at all.  I’ve gotten the feeling that the most angry of the anarchists just throw things at people and wait for the world to catch fire.  Voting means nothing to them, unless there was something in it for them and not for everybody else, in which case, they’ll gladly trample on us all to justify their “Sticking it to the Man”.

  • Jack_Savage

    Or is the Google search not yielding the results you had hoped for?

  • bk

    I’m sure Obama would condemn such behavior, and say that anyone working for his campaign who engaged in it would be fired.

    That seems to excuse anything right?

  • ConservaGeek

    Or they may not vote at all.

    I seem to remember Screamin’ Howard Dean’s campaign had all the younger people energized, and then when it came time to vote, they didn’t. (I’m working from memory here, I could be wrong.)

    It’s entirely possible that the same thing will happen to Obama.

  • Moriah

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE-0O3pLbl0&feature=related

    This was at the DNC.

    I can’t say that any of the people in this video were violent. They were all certainly very angry, but they have the right to free speech, just as you and I do.

    This is the description of the video: “This is what happens when a bunch of far-right idiots, far-left idiots, and grouchy police congregate in one place.”

    Even though this does not provide any evidence that the anti-homosexual group that was demonstrating was being violent, I posted this because there’s something else interesting.

    When you watch this video, you may notice that the end of it sounded very, very similar to the dialogue at the beginning of the video with the CodePink protester getting knocked to the ground by a baton. This might actually give some background as to what happened in that particular video. (And if the CodePink protester was upset that the guy got arrested, it was likely not one of the anti-homosexual demonstrators.)

    I support the right to protest and the right to free speech, and very strongly. But free speech does not equal throwing rocks or watered down bleach.

  • Jack_Savage

    But that was not close to what happened to the Connecticut delegation.

    The Code Pink types LIVE for the day they are worth being knocked to the ground by a baton.

  • Moriah

    NewsDay.com

    As I have no problem advertising, I am very liberal, and anti-war.

    I lived for a time in New York — my (now ex) husband and I moved up there so he could start his OB-GYN residency. So I was there during the run-up to the Iraq War.

    While I did not carry a sign, I was involved with the protest movement — as a legal observer for the National Lawyers Guild.

    Legal observers and their video and audiotapes provide an objective record of what happened, at least if the person operating the camera is being objective. Some “law collectives” train “copwatchers” who are only focused on trying to catch police breaking the law. The NLG feels that the only way legal observers will be taken seriously if they are asked to testify in court is if they are taught to watch both sides of a conflict and report objectively.

    For example, one person’s videotape in Denver of the first mass arrest shows a police officer pursuing a protester that was walking backwards, either attempting to hit him or trying to make the protester think he was going to hit him with his baton.

    But before the officer could actually strike the protester, one of his fellow officers ran up, grabbed his buddy by the arm, and yanked him back to the police line.

    I personally believe the officer that restrained his buddy deserves a commendation. Too bad you can’t see his badge number in the video. But video, if it is taken objectively, can protect the 99.99999% of good police officers from untrue accusations of excessive force, as well as protecting a protester from the incredibly rare “bad apples”.

    I firmly believe that this country was founded on the right to peacefully protest and the right to free speech, so I wish to protect it. I even will defend the “GodHates**” people’s right to protest — because if I want the right to peacefully demonstrate, I have to give that right to others who may not agree with me.

    But throwing rocks and breaking windows and throwing watered-down bleach on people has nothing to do with free speech at all. And I’m very ashamed of the people who decided they were entitled to harm people and damage property in the name of free speech.

  • Moriah

    I more thought the background on the very loudly discussed and decried video was interesting, if it in fact was the same day/same place.

    Especially when you hear people on the video chanting “** the police*, that gives you a bit of an idea why that the officer was not amused.

  • ConservaGeek

    I actually agree with a liberal.

    That’s not unheard of, but it’s rather rare in this day and age.

    Blessings to you as well, Moriah.

  • bs

    We do get decent Lefties here on occasion. You seem to be one of them. Congratulations, and thanks for your posting.

  • Trig007

    ooh! ooh! I know this one! Intimidating black people in Ohio like in 2004? Right? Did I get this one?

    Anyone who thinks that the protestors who spit (which you realize, being reasoned, honorable men is not ALL of the protestors) represent the mainstream left will be shocked to learn that I don’t think racists who won’t vote for Obama just because he’s black represent the mainstream right.

    My completely tasteless screenname notwithstanding, let’s all be reasonable here, folks.

  • Knightbrigade

    “You should pray that the day we decide to return favors such as this one will never come.”

    I agree Jack, they can’t even imagine..

  • Jack_Savage

    Looks like the time has passed for that one.

    Again, your side has lowered the bar on any type of behavior to a point where the “everyone does it” and “they don’t represent us!” arguments no longer hold water. This includes your elected officials, former Presidents, former DNC chairs, and bloggers all the way down to protesters.

  • c17wife

    n/t

  • kyle8

    If you mean did you fall for total bullcrap lies by the Democrats who are pulling your strings like a puppet, then yeah, you got it. And you will continue to “get it” from your left wing overlords. Probably with no lubrication.

  • jpers36

    Fred Phelps is a Democrat. He’s run for political office in Kansas many times as a Democrat, and received nearly 31% of the vote in the 1992 Democratic primary for the US Senate seat from Kansas.

  • Raven

    Where are the arrests?

  • Raven

    Powerline has this one:
    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021387.php

    Great people, the Dem base. truly great people.

  • Raven

    After all, they’re all small town rednecks and hillbillies who cling to their guns…

  • Raven

    I do have to wonder, though, why police waited till After certain violent marches to arrest people and didn’t grab them as soon as they started getting violent. The article you linked to had a particularly bad example with the “Funk the War” march.

  • Raven

    Then you need to convince the leaders of your Party to disassociate themselves.

    Too bad your Presidential Nominee seems to love them and be their darling…

  • Moriah

    … I believe it’s quite obvious that the police were overwhelmed, especially when looking at some of the footage from “embedded reporters” in with the protesters (there is a YouTube and web-based left-preferring media outlet that has been using their cellular telephones to upload video to their website).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKsl–kQ2gI

    Pardon the language in many of these videos. The girl who sounds like she’s a bit out of breath who is narrating even apologizes at one point for her language, but some of her language before that was not exactly family-friendly.

    The protests that I observed in New York were not related to the 2004 RNC, but the police had enough officers in every protest I witnessed that no “less lethal weaponry” was needed. Their general tactic, especially if they were planning arrest or were using officers to contain a protest, was to surround the people with a police line — and all of the police had riot shields.

    If they are having to resort to smoke bombs to disrupt lawbreakers (and as much as I support the right to protest, impeding the flow of traffic is against the law), they just don’t have enough officers to deal with the sheer amount of people who have decided to engage in activities other than permitted, peaceful demonstrations that do not block the flow of traffic, and also be able to protect the delegates and citizens of the city from the people who have not just broken laws, but have decided to become violent as well.

    I was very concerned with this year’s protests. I received a call from one of my NLG contacts last week, as a matter of fact, after they saw how bad the DNC was getting and realized they were going to need more legal observers. If they’d called me a month ago I could have scheduled a week off to go up there and help out, but I couldn’t take a week off on such short of notice. And looking at that, I’m glad I didn’t.

    (BTW: the narrator referring to grenades is likely incorrect, I think that the “explosions” that did not generate colored smoke were likely tear gas containers being launched.)

  • Moriah

    Entitled “Brief Act of Vandalism”

    “Even if you viscerally disagree with John McCain, you do not get your message across by breaking private property! For all you know this belongs to an Obama supporter. That parking garage, that car most likely belonged to an Obama supporter. Because I’m telling you, man, Obama supporters got me outnumbered 95% to 5. Think!”

    “You start knocking this stuff over, the dominoes begin falling. This is a beautiful city, don’t ruin it.”

  • Deletefrance