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Molotov cocktails. :pause: I don’t really need to go on, do I?

And may I add in passing that there is no way that this was not premeditated?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 12th, 2008 at 12:49 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Leslie Brockette Leudtke and Kevin Carl Robinson – the two suspects – didn’t just happen to have incendiary devices in their car trunk. They had a plan. Via Protein Wisdom Pub:

Pair arrested after large McCain sign torched in Sellwood yard

PORTLAND, Ore. – Authorities have arrested two men after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a 4-foot by 8-foot campaign sign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in a southeast Portland yard.

Karen Scrutton said she was asleep inside her home at 7956 S.E. 17th Ave. in the Sellwood neighborhood when she saw her sign go up in flames after 1 a.m.

“I screamed upstairs to my husband, ‘Jean! Jean!” she said.

A neighbor heard a crash and chased off one of the suspects. Jean Scrutton said his son-in-law found another suspect not far away.

And yes, “Molotov cocktails.” That’s what it says on the news release.

Moe Lane

PS: If I have to explain, you’re damned to Hell anyway.

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  • RedFox84

    On if I should put that McCain bumper sticker on my car or not. On the one hand I don’t want to get my car keyed or something… but on the other hand, I don’t want to let a pack of nameless, faceless thugs terrorize (yes, lefties, it is terrorism) me into not showing my support for my candidate.

  • Achance

    is a really good deterent to that sort of behavior. I have a particularly nasty looking Ruger Mini-14 with all the tricked out goodies that you could buy before the ban. I think it contributes greatly to a polite society.

    Or, even if you live in one of those places where it isn’t safe to leave a gun on the rack, just having a rack or, if you have a passenger car, an NRA sticker in the window are good too.

    I was going on a trip to CA a few years ago and thinking that I ought to take a pistol with me. On mature reflection, I decided that I had more to fear from CA gun laws and cops than from CA bad guys. So, I went to a local gun store and got some of their bumper stickers that said, “An Armed Society is a Polite Society” and put them on my rental cars. Maybe it was like whistling to keep the tigers away, but I sure didn’t have any troubles.

  • braininahat

    I can empathize with the concern here.

    My wife plastered a McCain/Palin sticker on the back-window and two “Don’t Let Obama Fool You” stickers, one on each of the small triangular passenger windows, on her new Corolla.

    At first, I worried about vandalism or something worse. I still wouldn’t bet the house that something like that won’t happen, but it feels damn good having those stickers on the car. That’s all I can tell you.

  • Leverkuhn

    … while Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd are hyperventilating about Republican “mobs,” Democrats are out there chucking Molotov cocktails, and vandalizing Republican campaign offices, not to mention undermining the electoral process and suppressing freedom of speech in my home state of Missouri.

  • Neil1030

    I have yet to hear Zer0bama call for an end to this kind of intimidation. He has never condemned his Hollywood elitist friends for the hateful things they say. On the contrary, with his “get in your neighbor’s face” comments, he almost seems to be encouraging guys like these scumbags in this story.

    So while McCain is saying we have nothing to fear from an 0bama presidency, 0bama is doing nothing to stop his psycho supporters from engaging in violence. This is what we have to look forward to under his presidency. We are scared, and with good reason.

  • Achance

    I’m not scared of a bunch of panty waist liberals! Not at an individual level anyway. I’m reasonably certain that they are going to take over the Country next month, but then they’ll have the problem of governing it. And, if all else fails, we’ll find peace through superior firepower.

  • buckeye

    That’s what would be plastered all over the press by Rich, Dowd, and the rest if this were an Obama sign and a couple of white guys lobbing the Molotov cocktails.

    Does anyone doubt comparisons to the KKK would be drawn in most all the stories with video clips from Mississippi burning on the evening news?

  • buckeye

    That’s what this incident should be referred to as, Oregon Burning.

  • Rod_Patrick

    If we believe the MSM, we should be the “dangerous” ones… angry and ready to destroy.

    In this election, I feel a strong “injustice” has been made against the republicans and conservatives.

  • bobbymike

    Only government has the ability to legally use “coersive” force. What is today’s vandalism to shut people up is tomorrow’s “fairness doctrine”

  • jimmuy8

    Just how long are we supposed to shut up while they accuse us of hate speech and mob tactics?

    “Memo to John McCain: The Moment We Cease to Be ‘Scared’ of Obama as President of the United States is the moment many of us cease to be particularly interested in getting you elected in his place.”

    And at that moment we will have to do what it takes to protect ourselves–because you darned sure don’t seem interested in fighting for us.

  • davo

    How in the world is this not a terrorist act?

  • dkons05

    My car is either parked on campus where a bunch of liberal immature thugs can have their way with it, or it is parked in my neighborhood which is constantly roamed by minorities who are mostly in poverty, and who are happily supporting socialism.

  • izoneguy

    mine are magnetic, I proudly sport mine while driving
    and can take them off when need be.

    NoBama

    McCain

  • David_Hinz

    each day, I am likewise a little reticent to put bumper stickers on my vehicle.

    The hatred I see demonstrated each and every day in that city is amazing.

  • sagecoach

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?hp

    I used to be a Republican and had high respect for John McCain. I can’t believe what has happened to this party … I can no longer support this campaign because of all the hatred being spewed out. This is wrong and I won’t be a part of it. Read the article by Frank Rich linked above.

  • chemjeff2

    In Portland this is standard fare. This is the same place where, in 2004, the chair of the local Republican party was afraid to put a Bush/Cheney sign on his lawn for fear his house would be vandalized. This is the same place where protestors successfully got a 100-year-old fur store kicked out of downtown Portland – and with the tacit approval of the police since they didn’t lift a finger to stop some of the more egregious abuses of the protestors. The liberal mob runs the city of Portland. Maybe this is what a “community organizer” does.

  • Moe_Lane

    NT

  • bs

    To quote Frank Rich and claim “I used to be a Republican” are profoundly contradictory. Frank Rich is the dictionary definition for “Liberal Ignoramus”. But then again, you seem to have joined that elite team also, so maybe that explains it.

  • Darin_H

    yard sign up. There are 5 Obama signs in the neighborhood, not a single McCain one. The closest thing I have is a flag decal on my truck, since I park outside, I’d rather not it and/or my house be vandalized, thankyouverymuch.