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Does Elizabeth Warren *also* support spitting on our troops?

LITERAL spitting.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 13th, 2011 at 11:30 PM  | 

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I ask this because back at the beginning of October Ms. Warren seemed to be very much in favor of the entire Occupy Wall Street ‘thing.’ As the Boston Globe noted: “All of the candidates expressed support for the controversial protesters who are part of the “Occupy Boston” movement downtown.”

The question then becomes: does that support include the members of Occupy Boston who went after a Coast Guard woman in uniform today?

Occupy Boston protesters spit on Coast Guard member: MyFoxBOSTON.com

If the video doesn’t load, here’s the gist:

The Coast Guard in Boston confirmed that a woman in uniform was harassed and spat upon by Occupy Boston protesters.

The woman was walking to the train and said protesters spit on her twice, called her foul names and even threw a water bottle at her.

The article notes that “the Coast Guard is warning all staff working on Atlantic Avenue to avoid those protesters while in uniform.” It’s a hell of a thing when you can’t walk the streets of an American city while wearing an uniform and not get harassed by a bunch of ignorant, low-rent mouth-breathers whose courage is directly proportional to their numbers, but I guess that this is the sort of thing that we have to expect from that sort. Particularly since obviously there’s not a chance at all that the Boston city government will do anything about the situation.

But it’d be interesting to see whether Elizabeth Warren – who is running for the Democratic nomination for Massachusetts Senate – pushes back on this calculated insult to our troops by Occupy Boston. Assuming that she knows about it. Assuming that she understands why it was bad. Assuming that she even really cares, either way. Hard to tell: after all, it was just a member of the military, right? And a female one, too. That’d make the Coast Guard member a class and gender traitor, in certain Academic Left eyes…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • JX12

    Bring on Neil Young and Buffalo Springfield.

    It didn’t work for them then, and it won’t work in 2012.

  • http://lukos.com Ed54

    Way to stand up against the imperialist search and rescue service! Most of those people in distress in US waters are probably rich anyways, so they don’t deserve to be rescued.

  • http://lukos.com Ed54

    nt

  • trickamsterdam

    I almost look at her as a liberal version of Paul Ryan (in the sense that she not only is a true liberal, but can explain liberalism coherently). But for the first time I’m starting to see a chink in her armor.

    1) She may have peaked to early, and 2) I’m not sure she’s going to be able to break her habit of thinking like the “cool college professor”. She probably looks at the OWS kids as if they were here students, being “passionate” about “issues”.

    But no matter how liberal the elected Democrat, they should not be looked at that way…especially if you’re not only not in a safe seat, you’re not even an incumbent. It’s clear they’re capable of doing something stupid at any time, and an experienced politician would realize that.

    I also don’t know that the Boston city government will do nothing about this sort of thing. Boston, and MA in general, are weird. They vote Democrat, yes, but Sen Brown went around proudly proclaiming his support for water boarding. In many ways people in MA are culturally conservative…

    I’m not sure they’re going to take too well to these hair braided punks huddled in animal skins and screaming about socialism. Rather than remind them of their own children, they may remind many a father of their daughter’s boyfriend who he hates.

    And that’s the time people start demanding the police be sent in.

  • tailfins1959

    These people need public service announcements similar to those reminding youths that what they post on line stays online. If you think of it as living out that Katy Perry song “Last Friday Night” (do it all again), you’ll have a good idea where they are. It seems part of the “experience” includes temporarily losing their mind.

    Someone needs to remind them: “What happens at Occupy Wall Street DOESN’T stay at Occupy Wall Street.

  • tailfins1959

    The feeling is she talks to people with the same posture as a woman who just caught her husband cheating. It wears thin REALLY quick.

  • bonnman

    for plagiarizing speeches. He has been a major disappointment and not running a top rate campaign or staff. He quickly needs to step up his game or he won’t be reelected.

  • yarrb53

    I copied your article and put in on Elizabeth Warren’s web site, and sated that this is what we need in the Senate another wild eyed academic radical, who supports tearing down the very Companies and Corporations that you have invested you 401 K in. Now the “political neophyte” is shucking and jiving that that’s not what she meant. But I think the statement is quite clear, she supports this anarchy and thinks embracing it will help the Democrat’s. The sad thing is, the moron voters in my State will vote for her and she will probably win. As Republican’s are vastly outnumbered by Democrats. And there are more Independents that both Dems and Reps. I identify Independents as folks who have no core values, but wait for the bandwagon the promises them the most to jump on, most Independents are ex Dems, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. Sen. Brown has a tough road to stay in the Senate, as the Dems are targeting him to get back the “Kennedy Seat” and in their minds, it was Kennedy’s seat and the Democrats, not the peoples.