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Exclusive Video: Lauren Valle Before The Head Stomp Vid

By: RedState Insider (Diary)  |  October 27th, 2010 at 12:45 PM  | 

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RedState has obtained exclusive video of the precipitating events prior to the “head stomping incident” at a recent Rand Paul event, which can be viewed below the fold.

Let us begin with what should be obvious and unnecessary to discuss: don’t stomp on anyone’s head. There are no mitigating circumstances to be presented in this article or video. You don’t stomp on a person’s head. Tim Profitt was wrong and should not have resorted to violence. If a police officer subduing a suspect were caught on video doing exactly what Profitt did, that officer would be in hot water. Because you don’t stomp on a person’s head. Head-stomping is not what this article is about.

The question we are addressing here today is the story that Lauren Valle is telling, and which is being retold as “conservatives are violent crazy teabaggers” grist on liberal blogs and in the MSM. The official story is that Valle merely attempted to show Rand Paul a sign, and that his supporters simply attacked her for not being a supporter. Watch this interview from Countdown for the tale:

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Well just before the tape I was identified by the Rand Paul campaign because they’ve seen me around town at these events. And they realized they know me because of my work and they don’t support it. So they actually formed a blockade around me once they realized that I was there. And as Rand’s car pulls up they step in front of me and start to block me so I stepped off the curb to try and get around them and at that point they pursued me around the car, chased me around the car, and what you see in the video is when I’m in the front of the car and that’s when I’m pulled down and then my head is stomped on.


Sounds pretty bad. But is this really how it went down?

Not exactly.

This video was sent to RedState by an anonymous witness at the event. It shows what Valle was doing when the Paul supporters grabbed her. No one chased her around the car. She was never in front of the car. As you can see in the video, Valle reached in the candidate’s window with her “RepubliCorp” sign and shoved it in his face. Several supporters in Paul shirts have her surrounded at that point, and a man in a suit is the first person to actually intervene physically. It’s hard to tell from the video, but it could be that the man in the suit was with Paul’s security staff.

Toward the end of the video, you see several Paul supporters asking a police officer to come intervene. It was Paul supporters who told Profitt to back off. It was Paul supporters who brought the police. Contrary to the growing narrative on the left, this video clearly shows that Valle was not the victim of a conspiracy to “take her out.”

A CBS article this morning has more from Valle:

“I think [Paul supporters] knew who I was from the past two weeks, me being in town. And they didn’t like my message, what I was there to say. And I was simply there to hold a sign,” Valle said. “But, that wasn’t – wasn’t okay with them.”

Again, as the video clearly demonstrates, Valle was there to do more than simply “hold a sign,” and Paul supporters were not reacting to a mere dislike of her message.

As we noted at the beginning of the article, none of that is any excuse, nor even mitigating circumstances, when it comes to Profitt stomping on Valle’s head.

However, what it does demonstrate is that the idea that Valle was the victim of an angry mob who simply “didn’t like her message” is demonstrably false. The idea that Rand Paul’s supporters are a rabid single-minded, conspiratorial crew is also demonstrably false.

So please, condemn head-stomping. Condemn violence. But don’t let the media and the left create a fiction of violent mobs of right-wingers. They’ve been pitching that line since the health care town hall meetings last summer. It has yet to be true.

Update: Mediaite points out that later in the video (:54) you do see Valle in front of the vehicle. To conclude, however, that her version of events gibes with the video is quite a stretch indeed. She claims to have been an innocent bystander. She clearly was not. She was blatantly not the victim of a conspiracy. Indeed, as the later portion shows, she is still incorrect. She was not taken down in front of the vehicle. She actually RETURNED to the vehicle window, right next to Rand Paul as he is exiting, practically running right at him.

As the video demonstrates, she rushed the vehicle and shoved her sign in Rand Paul’s face. That is obviously vastly different from her repeated account.

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  • Darin_H

    I’ll instead condemn shoulder stomping, no one should get their shoulder stomped after they have assaulted another person.

    • speciallist

      5

      • blooch

        wasn’t disconnected by the jawbone.

        • speciallist

          • speciallist

            fencebone

          • blooch

            “Marcia, tell Mike to get the dude’s coat. I can’t stop shakin’.”

            lolololol

  • longwalker

    The original video does not show either a head or shoulder “stomping.” I taught hand-to-hand combat in the service and the video shows that a foot was placed on the woman’s shouilder as a restraint. I would not have taught that particular move but it is not a “stomping.” I have taught “stomping” as it may be the best tatic in certain situations outside the WWW.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Because if she had she’d have gotten within easy range of our candidate.

    So in disguise and tried twice to attack the candidate – and lied about how many times she went after him. Motivations here are … interesting.

    • america1st

      John Hinckley, Jack Ruby, the assailants of Gerald Ford & George Wallace . . . .

      This individual perpetrated an assault on the candidate. At the moment of the attack, who could predict whether she was relatively harmless or someone intent on assassination?

      Despite the leftist meme, she was NOT stomped in the head, but restrained by the shoulder. Look at her interview – not so much as a scratch. If there were any blemishes, these would be front and center as evidence of her “mistreatment.”

      Frankly, I think those intervening showed both restraint and clear heads.

  • msctex

    . . .did the “stomping” achieve her goal and make her happy? I’m guessing yes — that she was in fact thrilled by the results — and she is currently only upset it is not receiving more play in the press, unable to acknowledge the incident’s contrived nature proves its undoing.

    They have realized they can no longer manage the news, and have set out instead to create it.

    • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

      The original plan seems to have been to generate buzz for a MoveOn GOTV project that they just rolled out; only, the story is sufficiently national that linking her to said project will only make it look like MoveOn was deliberately trying to provoke our candidates. Which doesn’t fit that particular narrative.

      • msctex

        I’m happy if she is not.

      • johnhandel

        a deliberate attempt to provoke a response, that is the one conclusion/result they cannot afford to have people realize.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Great work on getting this new video on the web and promoting it to show that this libturd assaulted Rand Paul and may have even battered him. For Keith Overbite to “report” she was “attacked” by Rand Paul supporters without putting that reaction in context with an explanation of the original assault is just another example of the lack of journalistic ethics among the “journalists” in the lamestream media.

    This new video is also a perfect reminder that we all have to get digital video cameras and have them at the ready whenever we are engaging in political activities in public.

    For Liberty,
    ColdWarrior, PC (that?s ?precinct committeeman,? not ?political child!?)
    Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW! (6 days until Nov. 2 — what are YOU DOING to help get out the vote in your precinct?)

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …of unlawful behavior on behalf of left-wing extremist organizations.

    http://thehayride.com/2010/10/rand-paul-protestor-previously-arrested-for-vandalizing-ship-at-fourchon/

  • Jack_Savage

    ‘Cause that is where the little agitator is from. And she has that Rachel Maddow 12 year old boy look rockin’ too.

  • huladeb

    Notice the smile on her face at around 5:10 in the first video when she says her head was stomped on. I think it is because she knows she is exaggerating in her description of what happened and because the violence was provoked – she got exactly what she wanted to get.

    This is why Glenn Beck warned us against any violence, even when we might feel it is justified. Because the mainstream media really wants to highlight anything that veers toward violence from the side of the right. And if there is more than one way to interpret anything, they will always interpret it to favor leftists.

  • blooch

    by professionals from the very top on down. Please don’t let them provoke you.

  • tngal

    Even if the the entire mess were entirely staged it was caught on tape and got aired on the news. Not all this mind you just the bits about a woman on the ground and a foot coming down. The left picked up on this like dogs in heat and ran it around the net through their google bomb or whatever its called. It’ll take a few days to get the real truth out there

    But what about the second event of the night , which apparently occured during the debate.

    “The second occurred after a Conway supporter stepped on the foot of a female Rand supporter, who recently had foot surgery, according to police.
    The woman was wearing a surgical boot, but after the injury, her incision was cut open. Police say she refused medical treatment and also filed an assault report.”

    http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/political/2-fights-break-out-during-paul_conway-debate-_5305909

    Ok three guesses which is getting more airtime right now. Guess which side is the violent side. I said yesterday it doesn’t matter what precipated the “stomp” event it looks bad for us and will take awhile for it to clear up.

    • blooch

      about the Valle incident could cover that one, too:

      “We can disagree on issues, and I don’t know what preceded the incident, but physical violence by a man against a woman must never be tolerated,” Conway said in a statement. “It is my hope that steps have been taken to ensure this kind of thuggish behavior never happens again in this campaign.”

  • senzurichampion

    He didn’t “stomp” on her head he just stepped on it and kind of lost his balance because he has a back problem. So much for the left championing for those with disabilities huh! Where in the Constitution does it say you can’t step on a lady’s head!!!!

    • earlgrey
      • senzurichampion

        what? she was clearly a danger to others in attendance so a good citizen restrained her. Perhaps Mr. Profitt was a bit out of line in his actions but in the heat of the situation (and the obvious premeditation and goading on the part of Mrs. Valle) it’s hard to fault him.

        I’m used to being censured on Daily Kos and stuff but as a longtime RedState reader I was hoping to be a little more welcome now that I’ve finally worked up the nerve to contribute. :(

        • earlgrey

          I thought the comment about where in the Constitution does it say you can’t step on a lady’s head was weird. I wanted a moderator to look at your email history and see if that comment was OK..

          I am just one person on Red State, there may be other that like your comment although I find it strange at best.

          • senzurichampion

            Haha okay look, I’m not running for office, I’m not a staffer on anyone’s campaign, so please pardon me if I’m a little “npc” on this topic that was clearly plotted and blown out of proportion in a last ditch desperate attempt to link all “tea party” backed GOP candidates to violence. In situations like this it seems humor is appropriate. No, Mr. Profitt shouldn’t have taken the actions that he did, but what he is most guilty of is playing into this transparent, premeditated ploy and, perhaps, and most sadly, buying into the very narrative that the MSM has been conveying about his affiliations.

          • earlgrey

            I have had my hand bitten off a few times on the site, so I hope I didn’t give you that feeling.

            You are right about Profitt. I cringed when I saw it. Our emotions are high, but we can’t let the MSM have any more fuel.

            FWIW, I noticed that no matter how civil I think my post on on other forums may be, if it criticizes Obama, than I am automatically called angry.

  • ss396

    At the :53 mark there is a blond in red carrying a sign running around the front of the car. Is that her? Did she take a third shot at him?

  • congressworksforus

    The left said he was accosted; the Miller folks said he was pushing and shoving trying to get at the candidate.

    in light of this video, it’s pretty clear what narrative the left is trying to produce, and what really happened up in Alaska.

    • senzurichampion

      Interesting point. Perhaps Rand would have had some of his own private security that night if he wasn’t worried about their actions being spun by the MSM! Almost an unbelievable coincidence when you think about it…

    • fbks

      was engaged in a similar stunt. The security people were correct in blocking Tony, but they should NOT have cuffed him and given the left the photo op and story they want.
      As much disdain I have for these lefties and their tactics, we can never take our focus off the goal of electing fiscal conservatives. The media is NOT our friend and force must be avoided as much as possible.

  • johnt

    It may have caused an improvement. But are you sure it’s a woman, she looks like someone I saw at a WWF match being thrown from the ring, face first.

  • longwalker

    and comment on it. I hope that other internet sites are referring to Red State’s video and that it gets some attention. However, haaving been a political observer for over sixty years, I doubt it.

  • constitutionalconservative

    And no one has been worse and more dishonest than Conway– and no candidate (except perhaps Angle) has had to deal with more ridiculous MSM attacks than Rand Paul.

    This protester was a potential provocateur recently recipient of a felony indictment for her antics in Louisiana. The Dems and media have worked in concert to desperately attempt to make this a huge election issue. It’s pathetic and offensive.

    We’re going to have lots of great victories on Tuesday, but for me, none will be more satisfying than the one we will have in Kentucky.

  • manyunsoo

    WHY is NO ONE pointing out that the man in the grey shirt and baseball cap with the “Don’t Trend on Me” button (the guy that held her down in the first video) is CLEARLY following Valle from around the driver’s side of the car in this video at the 0:55 mark? He’s right there, CHASING Valle. You can see the colour of his shirt, his cap and the button reflect off the light of the headlamps.

    Secondly, RE: Running around the car: Valle is seen advancing to the passenger window and the crowd pushes her away and TOWARD THE BACK of the car. Moments later, she is on the other side of the car with a man clearly pursuing her (a man who in the first video is responsible for taking her down). If she was pushed toward THE BACK of the car and suddenly appears on the drivers side, that’s still going AROUND the car: i.e. passenger door > back of car > driver’s side > front of car. Furthermore, she is clearly and visibly stopped by a security guard at the 0:57 mark near the passenger side headlamp. If you’d LIKE to nitpick and say that’s not technically the FRONT of the car, fine. But TECHNICALLY speaking, it means you’re an idiot.

    Now, did she rush the car? Yes. But if she wanted a picture of her with Paul and her sign, (which she is visibly trying to rotate) that part of the story is consistant with her actions. Furthermore, one can CLEARLY see Paul supporters mobilize and swarm her the second she moves toward the car and begin to manhandle her BEFORE the men in suits tackle her. So, that part of her story is also consistant.

    Honestly, what is the problem here? Exactly which part of her story don’t make sense? The running around the car which any two year old could figure out? The being chased which anyone with eyes can see right there in this video? The being taken down in front of the car, which was more toward the front right? Or the part that this group of supporters was waiting for her to do something?

    Seriously, you guys trying to discredit Valle are absolutely pathetic. I commend Red State for posting proof of the Valle account! I hope this video clears up any doubt now that it’s FACTUAL EVIDENT that Valle’s story is what actually happened! It’s rare that a Rightwing site will be on the correct side of an argument, but I’m glad RedState posted this video to silence all the idiots trying to discredit Valle. Well done, RedState!

    • tngal

      this post clearly is against any stompings, any violence, anywhere, anytime. But your Valle Girl pushed her limits by being aggressve in an effort to give an (ahem, cough” award. She’s no angel.

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  • Kudzu

    I laugh… his technique was all wrong if he was stomping on her head. He’s still a jackass but oh well. Good job by the guy with her arm pinned to keep her subdued though. I kid but I don’t condone violence at political rallies or events like this but her actions were certainly aggressive and in an environment like today’s you can’t take chances. I would question the sanity of putting the principle in the #2 seat though, his security element needs to reevaluate how they do things.

    The left is doing a very convenient job of forgetting Ken Gladney and his run in with SEIU: http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/04/21/seiu-thugs-plead-not-guilty-in-brutal-beatdown-of-kenneth-gladney/

    or Congressman (D-NC) Bob Etheridge: http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-assaults-student-on-washington-sidewalk/

  • tngal

    We need Linda McMahon to make a ruling here. The WWE can make a fair and accurate determination as to whether this stomp was legit.

    • Kudzu

      As far as the WWE goes that was a legitimate head stomp, complete with acting and all. Notice the placement of the heel as it is not elevated (a toe stomp) or pressed on the skull (a heel stomp). By WWE(F) rules this would be allowed unless a chair was placed on the down wrestler.

      • tngal

        there should be a ref at every one of these debates. Not saying the violence is escalating, but if a ref would’ve made a three count when she went down this might have been avoided. Course if she would have just smacked the pavement with her hand at the beginning it also would’ve stopped the proceedings.

        • Kudzu

          You always gotta sell it. She failed to really sell it.

          P.S. he was a minor ECW act one on TV twice.

  • http://www.2010blog.net jsanzone

    …I’d be afraid for Paul’s safety, at the first sign of a fake-wigged nutball with a convoluted sign ducking and rushing toward the candidate–twice–as he was about to exit his vehicle. It wouldn’t be a stretch, from the video evidence (this video and the prior one) to imagine this Valle character pulling out a dysfunctional pistol of some sort and attempting to assassinate Rand Paul…or maybe that’s just the “everything’s like it is in the movies” in me talking–maybe.

  • smitch61

    I agree… no head stomping….

    Is it just me, or did she not lie down on the pavement like a good little professional activist? She got down on her side so professionally as if she is use to this sort of thing. She got down into ” I am going to be arrested mode”.. she is a professional and probably associated with code pink.

  • heir2freedom

    We should actually all feel a bit sorry for Mz.Valle. As an infant she was obviously dropped on her head… repeatedly.

    Seems to be an epidemic among liberals.

    Is CPS investigating?

    NEW POST:

    AMERICA THE LAWLESS: WHY OBAMA ORDERED A “HIT” ON ARIZONA
    http://heir2freedom.blogspot.com/2010/10/america-lawless-why-obama-ordered-hit.html

  • cam1

    for letting his emotions get the better of him and giving the left what they wanted. He’s one of these wannabes who has to get in the act. If this was a street fight, he’d run up and punch someone from behind.

    The long and short of this is that Profitt did the wrong thing … period. We’ve got to be smarter than this.

  • kaptkane

    the MSM continues to ignore the “facts” and reports what it thinks we should know.
    They all gotta go. Period.
    And at this point, I don’t car how it happens.
    Think about that.

  • southernpatriots

    Oh well, the leftist news media has another distraction from the peril this country is in. A Constitutional crisis, a Constitution that only guarantees “negative rights” and a Congress that is so used to spending our money recklessly and Democrats campaigning like they don’t know Obama or his policies, legislations, laws, decrees, and character and that they don’t like Pelosi and won’t vote the way she wants (though they voted exactly how she wanted from 86 to 100 percent of the time!). We have never voted straight ticket before (voting all Democrat or all Republican), but this time if there is a lever to pull that will exclude any and all Demonrats from office (Blue Dogs included) we will pull it. We will pull it again, if that does any good.

    It is not proper, it is not proper, it is in fact aweful that anyone would step on anyone’s head. That is wrong. It is wrong (and illegal) for Black Panther Party members to intimate white voters at a voting precinct. It is wrong for the President to lie about transparency, discussions on c-span, etc. It is wrong to saddle our children and grandchildren with great taxes and debt. It is wrong for politicians to approve contracts with unions and their pension plans, knowing it will all come due years after they are out of office (or dead). It is wrong for a former governor to advocate that an accused be guilty before he proves himself innocent. All these wrongs, mean we will vote right!

  • georgeflorida

    So if I heard correctly on the Oberdorf interview, she says that she was dressed in a red hooded sweatshirt with a blonde wig on because she was in her “corporate executive” character guise,and I use the word “guise” because it’s definition is the closest to her actions,which is to conceal the true nature of.I’ve been around Corporate America for about 20 years now and I can’t remember once where I saw an individual dressed in an hoodie with a wig in any meetings that I have attended, or even just a hoodie for that matter.Usually they are dressed in suits or at least a shirt and tie w/slacks or at the least a collared shirt.I would have to suspect that the wig and hoodie were used to try and prevent others from knowing her true identity.

    I am in no way saying that violence is a correct form of expression,but let’s consider what these people had to go on at the time. A person who was clearly in a disguise aggressively approached a political candidate and tried to force something through his open window at his face.After being restrained once,which in any case should have been the first and last time it should have been needed,since she should have been restricted from movement under after Rand Paul had exited the scene considering her actions,she then circles around the vehicle (the path of least resistance at the time) in a hurried manner and then again tries to approach Rand Paul, this time from the rear,where he can not see her approaching at all.Not really a great way to get somebody’s attention as she asserts was her cause in the interview she gave.At that point she is taken to the ground and restrained from further movement,as should have been the case after the first time she approached the candidate in the manner she did.The “foot stomp” appeared to be move of a placement of the foot on her shoulder at which point the foot slid off the shoulder (more so due to the placement on the shoulder in the first place,it being a “rounded” body part it is not the best place to try an attempted restraint in the first place) since she was half on/half off a curb,not level ground.I can only hope that if I’m ever in her position,someone places their foot on me in the gingerly fashion that it was applied to her.

    I would have to give a por review to his Security Detail as a previous posted also stated,principal in front seat,not very smart (F),principal’s window open,not very smart(F),not restraining the individual after the first attack againt principal,not very smart (F),not seeing her approach the principal from the rear for a second time in a matter of less then a minute since the first incident,really not very smart at all(F).Had his security detail done their job,it would not have had to be left to random onlookers to take the action that they did.

    Unlikewhat the Security Detai should have beenl,these people at the rally are not trained proffesionals and only did what they thought was correct at the time.Just goes to show you what happens when a campaign tries to cut corners and save costs by hiring friends or off duty policemen who are not properly trained in the art of individaul protection instead of paying for competent,trained people whose only job is such and whose cost is substantially more, for a good reason.

    • MF

      Not to take away from the main points of your posting, but your perspective on a corporate culture doesn’t match everyone else’s. Here where I work (an R&D site with a few hundred employees), a tie is never seen, except by customers coming for a site tour, or someone here for a job interview. In fact, the other day we had someone from our parent company give an all-hands talk, and our CEO (who reports to this HQ guy) made a joke as he introduced the speaker that he was the only one in the room of a few hundred who was wearing a suit. Nary another tie in the entire room. Definitely a few hoodies worn, along with quite a few in shorts, some in flip-flops. We just get the job done, and as long as we aren’t dressing disrespectfully (such as vulgar t-shirts or torn clothing), no one cares how we’re dressed.

      • uselogic

        We do worldwide IPTV, vid streaming and websites. I’m more formally dressed than 90% of our folks… and I wear shorts, Hawaiian shirt & running shoes. VP wears biker garb; most developers wear flip-flops and a ratty t-shirt at best.

        But I do agree with georgeflorida that Valle saying she was in corporate executive garb is mystifying. What a goofball loser she is. BTW- her address listed in her Louisiana arrest appears to be a vacant lot.

        • georgeflorida

          to offend anyone or project a certain style as corporate culture. The company that now employs me is the same company that I worked for 15 years prior. In that amount of time, our dress code has also changed. When i worked for them the first time around, our dress code was a shirt,tie and sport coat and that has now changed to dress slacks and a collared golf type shirt.

          My point was that if they were trying to portray an “evil” corporate culture, which is what their imaginary RepubliCorp campaign is doing, they would be dressed in more of a “conservative” attire, for lack of a better word. I had also viewed a couple video clips where they were mocking some republican politicians by presenting fictional checks to them made out by RepubliCorp and in these videos they were in fact dressed in black suits, white shirts and ties ( I suppose the black was to show their evilness ) and not in blonde wigs w/hoodies.

          I guess what I’m trying to say is that she was there in a disguise to hide her identity and not for the reason she stated of playing a role as a RepubliCorp employee.

  • bus2dc

    Notwithstanding the clearly visible fact that this was a shoulder-press and not a head-stomp, the PROVOKED reaction to this moveon.org plant was too much, and COULD have caused real injury to the girl, simply because mob-mentality takes over — and you really don’t ever know what seriously violent people stand among you in these instances. I think we all knew instantly the media would have a field day with this, and i voice my objection to tea-party heads for STILL being so naive as to be tricked into such a blatant TRAP!!

    Btw, one of the first things I noticed (on different video close-up of the girl’s face) is that she’s not only completely calm, no resistance whatsoever, but SMILING – she knew exactly what she was doing — but we’ll never prove it. Perception, perception, perception.

  • rightwingmom52

    butt whippin’ on November 2. Can’t wait to see the media spin about that.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/david.dlpe daviddlpe

    Forget political associations, and let’s just look at the facts:

    A person in a hoodie, wearing a disguise (complete with wig) rushes towards a candidate, twice, and this person is the victim?

    Also, I have watched the video many times, and there was no head stomp. The foot is on the shoulder. It may have slightly slipped off when he pushed down on the shoulder with his foot, and there may have been very light contact with the head, but there never was a stomp, and most especially not on the head.

    I will agree with you that a police officer would get reprimanded for these actions, but hot water? Doubtful. However, there is a difference between police officers and regular citizens. Police officers are trained for such events.

    Profitt’s actions were reasonable for an untrained person engaging in the act of protecting another person – in this case, a political candidate – from an apparent assailant. As others have commented, had Ms. Valle had grander intentions of ill will, this story could have turned out much, much worse.

    I agree with the intentions of RS to preach restraint, but let us not buy in to the liberal spin on the facts of this story. Any person who thinks they can approach in this manner any candidate for public office, let alone at a Congressional level, without some form of physical repercussion is simply not in touch with reality.

    • johnhandel

      Picked many of the points I was going to make myself.

      1. She is obviously in disguise.

      2. She clearly (and repeatedly) assaulted and attempted to assault the candidate. (Which, being a candidate, any unwelcomed approach, especially with a rush up to them with unclear intentions, qualifies pretty much automatically as an assault.)

      3. She is a professional agitator. She KNEW what she was doing. By her own admission, she knew there were going to be cameras on her. (And she knew that the media would not carry her attack, only the response.)

      Break a moment: Had a similar incident happened with the party in the car being the President (or a Presidential candidate), the person rushing the car would have been lucky to only be detained by the Secret Service (who would not have been as gentle as this crowd was), and not simply shot. Further, there would have been serious legal charges involved, especially with repeated attempts.

      4. I mentioned above that she repeatedly assaulted. Being pulled away the first time (which obviously included the activity of a security individual), she continued to attempt to rush (not calmly walk to, she was trying to run through the crowd) the candidate for a still undisclosed purpose.

      5. She only ceased her efforts to target the candidate when physically restrained to the ground. (At which point, I don’t care if it was crowd members or security staff that restrained her, they were doing the right thing to imobilize her.) Further, the people that restrained her (even in the MEDIA’S biased video) were calling out for the police. (Interesting, she was being restrained by people calling for police assistance. She was not the one calling for the police.)

      6. Having just re-watched one of the other videos used to condemn the Paul supporters but NOT carried by the media, I noted something else. Just before she was finally detained by the crowd (while she was trying to run through to get to the candidate), she was pointed out by a person who appeared to be a security individual in what I can only conclude was an effort to draw attention to the apparent threat.

      See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuM5571nf1I&feature=player_embedded
      about 0:54 in the video. The clothing says upper level security (suit/tie), and the behavior indicates pointing out a threat with built-in coordination of protection against that threat.

      7. The stomping incident (with which I generally disagree) was NOT on her head, and it bothers me (but does not surprise me) that both the media and the instigator openly and blatantly lie about this. Once she was on the ground, she had ceased to present a threat. (Indeed, she curled up in a position designed to minimize most possible injuries resulting from responses to her actions.) As she was detained and not struggling, the action of placing the foot upon her was not needed (though at least moderately understandable in the heat of the moment, since she obviously HAD instigated the whole matter and was posing an obvious threat to the candidate.

      8. I love the injury claims. I have yet to see any claims for injuries that are actually supportable by independant medical diagnostic practices. (I also have yet to see any claims of injuries that could not be fully explained by the fact that she had to be TACKLED to detain her from assaulting the candidate.) During her media interviews she shows NO signs of concussion OR shoulder injuries. (I have had both more than once. I know a few things about them. They are also convenient claims to make, because it is impossible to DISPROVE concussion or certain kinds of shoulder injuries.)

      Now that is a lot of things to think through, but let me point out one more thing. ALL of her defenses are self-defeating in a world where political assassination is not only unheard of, but is (by some political pundits/opponents in extreme groups like DailyKOS and sometimes less extreme groups) endorsed for a candidate or politician you actively hate.

      She knew she was staging an incident. A combination of past experience and her own admission to the presence of cameras (she was, after all, admittedly going after a photo op) proves this beyond a reasonable doubt.

      She claims to have been there several days and that people should have recognized that she was harmless, but she shows up in an obvious disguise. At that point, it does not matter if she is recognized or not. A blatant disguise including a bad wig and a hoodie more than suggests the potential for political assassination, especially if she was scoping the place out several days in advance. (Now I ask if you had been able to intercept and detain any of the past assassins and attempted assassins in history, would you not have been tempted, especially in the heat of the moment, to shoulder-stomp them, especially if the restraint only happened after their second or third attempt to get close enough to the candidate to act?)

      The truth is that once you cross a certain line where there is a reasonable belief that you are assaulting or are a threat to a candidate or a political office holder, the burden of proof falls to YOU to demonstrate how it would be impossible for any reasonable person to conclude you posed a threat. In this situation, with the video evidence, she cannot prove that.

      • johnhandel

        At the point that she ceased to stand in the crowd holding her sign and chose to, without warning or invitation, approach the candidate in an potentially hostile manner, the incident ceased to be about her political stance and her sign, and it became about a potential threat. That changes the ball game entirely.

    • eiseman

      I’m Tea Party, HATE progressives but what Tim Profitt did was degrading to a human being and clearly an assault. It is disgusting to watch and the fact that you are trying to soft sell it makes me wretch.

      You need to find what is left of your humanity while you can.

      If she had been a big burly thug then tackling and manhandling might have been appropriate but she was clearly not resisting and all she was doing was trying to put a sign in Rands face.

      If you watch it again you’ll see she was rather inept and had the wrong side facing Rand and had to flip it in order to have the sign face him. During this the edge of the sign edges closer to the window opening but then the sign returns to flush with the outside of the car.

      I don’t see that she was trying to do anything other than get the sign in his face OUTSIDE the car and I think the only thing she is guilty of is drinking progressive Kool Aid and being a willful TOOL.

      As far as her lies after the fact she is to be despised. I HATE Keith Sloberman, Madcow, media matters, MoveOn.org (anything Soros) and the lamestream media but we need to keep our side of the street clean no matter what they do.

  • dambama

    A “boot on the neck” is worth two points in the obama world. It is their thing.

    The democrats have been sitting in wait for any sign of violence or aggressive behavior from anyone on the right. Even a mean look will cause them to shiver like a old lady’s purse chihuahua.

    They hope to demonize us so obama can “crack down” and get his “boot on our necks”.

    Obama started this whole “boot on the neck” movement in the first place.

  • burntcreek

    I feel physically ill. Do you all seriously condone what was done to this girl? It is a wonder Tim Profitt didn’t break Lauren Valle’s neck. Somebody says “I figure she got off easy,” and somebody else says “she has that Rachel Maddow 12 year old boy look rockin? too.” Don’t any of you have a daughter? If you do, is she aware and active and involved in the political process? And if she is, is it beyond you to imagine your girl holding a Tea Party sign and pushing it against the window of a car carrying a Democratic candidate, where she’d be sure he would see it, and consequently being tackled and wrestled to the ground by a bunch of dastardly Democrats, one of whom then places his foot firmly on her neck and gives a good, firm, crunching stomp (face it, we all can see it, he STOMPED). If that were your daughter, what would you be doing right now? Saying you figure she got off easy? Saying she looks pretty butch with that Rachel Maddow hairdo?

    • speciallist

      get a life..

    • Jack_Savage

      I have three daughters, all of whom are intelligent and involved, none of whom feel they need to be jackass provocateurs or members of some bizarre organization to make a point.

      She is who she is, and she got what she wanted. If she had done that to Barack Obama she likely would have been shot dead. Anyone who attacks a public figure in this day and age should expect to at least have the hell beaten out of them, and is taking a serious gamble that much worse will not happen. Paul’s security took it much easier on her than she deserved in light of her videotaped, documented actions, in my view.

      If she cultivates the look of a twelve year old boy, then she (like Maddow) should not be surprised if someone says she looks like a twelve year old boy. Deal with it.

      Go make excuses for your violent, provoking leftists somewhere else, and leave us alone. It’s not our fault your little goon tactics don’t work anymore.

    • meg_m

      Yes, I do have a daughter that is politically aware but she has been raised to respect those that disagree with her. She would never rush a vehicle and attempt to shove a sign in a candidate’s face. While the shoulder press was a bit over the top, Ms. Valle certainly deserved to be shoved to the ground and subdued. The moment she rushed the vehicle is the moment she went from being an innocent protester to a threat to Dr. Paul.

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