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May 17, 2013
Their buses can park and they can all hop out and take their 'properly transported' guns from under the bus with baggage. They want a circus in the middle of hundreds of thousands, they can do it. I doubt D.C. police can search every tour bus in the capitol. If it does, it'll be blown out of proportion by alternative and media, screaming 'martial law' and 'police state'.
They can bring in a bus load of Infowars 'journalists' with them, as they travel in groups. They are not poor, some are ex-service, others have money from IT jobs. They can afford to play soldier.
Any crowd control will be on the news immediately to give legitimacy to them. Libertarians will make a mockery of law and order like Paulites and CTers do to feed rightwingnut fantasies.
Someone from D.C. tell me exactly why I'm wrong, after having watched these wingnuts getting away with everything for years, from shutting down town halls over the ACA, threatening our representatives, and the like. From what I see online, they'll love anything that happens and twist it, bad or good, to blame the 'evil government'.
Tell me just how wrong I am, if you have seen these people put under control successfully. I've been watching these goons since the Brooks Brothers Riot in FL. There were ACA intimidations in 2010, then last year going to shut down planning meetings in small towns over Agenda 21, and this year going to citizens' meetings on gun control and intimidating women by open carry and shouting them down.
They have an unbroken track record of getting away with it.
They've got hundreds, maybe close to 2K signed up. Kokesh with him and his daddy's money,
can afford buses, possibly nice ones, at that. They can enter any part of the district as tourists. D.C. won't be shut down on the country's birthday celebration. These guys are parasites on civil society and will take every advantage of the good will and forbearance of citizens to disrupt and inflame.Their buses can park and they can all hop out and take their 'properly transported' guns from under the bus with baggage. They want a circus in the middle of hundreds of thousands, they can do it. I doubt D.C. police can search every tour bus in the capitol. If it does, it'll be blown out of proportion by alternative and media, screaming 'martial law' and 'police state'.
They can bring in a bus load of Infowars 'journalists' with them, as they travel in groups. They are not poor, some are ex-service, others have money from IT jobs. They can afford to play soldier.
Any crowd control will be on the news immediately to give legitimacy to them. Libertarians will make a mockery of law and order like Paulites and CTers do to feed rightwingnut fantasies.
Someone from D.C. tell me exactly why I'm wrong, after having watched these wingnuts getting away with everything for years, from shutting down town halls over the ACA, threatening our representatives, and the like. From what I see online, they'll love anything that happens and twist it, bad or good, to blame the 'evil government'.
Tell me just how wrong I am, if you have seen these people put under control successfully. I've been watching these goons since the Brooks Brothers Riot in FL. There were ACA intimidations in 2010, then last year going to shut down planning meetings in small towns over Agenda 21, and this year going to citizens' meetings on gun control and intimidating women by open carry and shouting them down.
They have an unbroken track record of getting away with it.
May 17, 2013
They gave the baggers faux legitimacy and will play this up just the same as they did in 2010. Just is the lead in to 2014.
+1. But I disagree with the OP saying they'll be portrayed in a negative light. They'll treat them
with as much adoration as they have always treated teabaggers. After all, these are both puke media created movements.They gave the baggers faux legitimacy and will play this up just the same as they did in 2010. Just is the lead in to 2014.
May 16, 2013
Thanks, babylonsister. Replying to make place in my Journal. All true, not covered in media.
May 15, 2013
I don't miss his crude shows of bravado. My idea of leadership doesn't include wasting time to answer a pack of hounds paid to lie. Who've been answered, then caught editing and lying more.
The calls for 'balls' and 'a pair' require an authoritarian figure. Shows of bravado are for those who don't realize they are the source of democratic power and are crying for rescue.
I didn't vote for that, I'm tired of the game by media who want a 'strong man' to make a show. Screw that.
Cha, some are missing this hero showing his package, or the beloved 'pair':
I don't miss his crude shows of bravado. My idea of leadership doesn't include wasting time to answer a pack of hounds paid to lie. Who've been answered, then caught editing and lying more.
The calls for 'balls' and 'a pair' require an authoritarian figure. Shows of bravado are for those who don't realize they are the source of democratic power and are crying for rescue.
I didn't vote for that, I'm tired of the game by media who want a 'strong man' to make a show. Screw that.
May 13, 2013
But look but look at these attacks on U.S. interest spanning Republican and Democratic administrations including President Bushs administration. Why is there not more of an effort to beef up security after these attacks happen and even, you you know, even before this happened in Benghazi? (Oh, God, do not go to the Republican defunding of security, David, or else all is lost for Issa .)
REP. ISSA:
David
GREGORY:
And isnt this Congresss job to spend the money to beef up security? (BOOM goes the dynamite.)
REP. ISSA:
David, I well, first of all, money is spent by the the secretary of state and her people. We appropriate the money. (Apparently Issa, who listed other areas of great security concern, does not understand the word appropriations as in, you have X amount, and you must make it work all over the world. Good luck. Oh, and by the way, were decreasing your funding and then were going to blame you for not being able to see into the future.)
BOOM! SHAKALAKA!!!! BOOM!
Cha, I always go to the link. Check this out, it's hilarious, italic and bold from PoliticusUSA:
GREGORY:But look but look at these attacks on U.S. interest spanning Republican and Democratic administrations including President Bushs administration. Why is there not more of an effort to beef up security after these attacks happen and even, you you know, even before this happened in Benghazi? (Oh, God, do not go to the Republican defunding of security, David, or else all is lost for Issa .)
REP. ISSA:
David
GREGORY:
And isnt this Congresss job to spend the money to beef up security? (BOOM goes the dynamite.)
REP. ISSA:
David, I well, first of all, money is spent by the the secretary of state and her people. We appropriate the money. (Apparently Issa, who listed other areas of great security concern, does not understand the word appropriations as in, you have X amount, and you must make it work all over the world. Good luck. Oh, and by the way, were decreasing your funding and then were going to blame you for not being able to see into the future.)
BOOM! SHAKALAKA!!!! BOOM!
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