Movie Goer Assaulted at Fahrenheit 9/11 Showing

[Kathy in Cambridge]

How much do you want to bet that this was a freeper set up? :eyes:

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1970759&nav=168XODtA

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After viewing the film, he was greeted outside the theatre by members of the Las Vegas MoveOn.org.

The group was handing out leaflets on the importance of the film. Streeter voiced his view on the movie, "I made the comment, apples and oranges -- Kerry, Bush -- one's no better than the other. You really ain't got much of a choice. This guy comes up to me and says, 'Oh yeah?' " Streeter was then spat on by the same man.

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[datasuspect]

1. well . . .

you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.

i guess their thuggery is begetting thuggery.

kinda sucks to get repaid in like coin.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. As someone said here yesterday, the first shots of a new Civil War

have been fired this week.

Cheney's nastiness toward Patrick Leahey and Fahrenheit 9/11.

[nodictators]

11. Cheney ought to be driving a truck for Halliburton...

...In Iraq

[piece sine]

16. Jesus H. Christ!

Move-on.org operatives assaulted someone had already attended the movie because the guy was ambivilent?! I fully expected the article to show how Freepers-en-masse mugged one of us, not that democratic operatives trying to build support are mugging folks on the fence.

They guy had a right to the police; I would. When I saw the film last night, everything was pretty cool...no hecklers (in downtown D.C.) but no signs anything approaching violence was in the air. Instead of denying or making excuses, mabe DUers should be advocating restraint and FREE SPEECH. We can and will win on merits, we don't need to be mugging people. Violence just hands the opposition new talking-points that could resonant with undecided voters. Think about it!

[NashVegas]

25. It Doesn't Say That at All

This guy comes up to me and says, 'Oh yeah?' " Streeter was then spat on by the same man.

No where does the article say the guy who spat on him was a member of the MoveOn group. It doesn't state at all the preference of the assailant.

Deceptive or incomplete reporting? Take your pick.

[Kinkistyle]

27. Sounds like huge setup or major exaggeration to make F9/11 like "Passion"

No names, sketchy details. Do you know liberals who just come out and physically assault people for claiming Kerry and Bush are no different (the Skull and Bones controversy for example). Think story sounds like pure unadulterated bullshit geared to make he movie seem like "Passion of the Christ"

[Vickers]

2. Ya sow, ya reap.

:shrug:

Better spit than MOABs.

[Cocoa]

3. this guy got his cliche backwards

"apples and oranges" means the things are different from each other.

[dweller]

17. 'freeper logic'

ouch, those two words don't belong beside each other...
dp

[NMDemDist2]

4. if it's true, this is not good

we need to be cool and let the movie speak for it's self

[Kathy in Cambridge]

9. Well, if a freeper disrupts F 9/11, the audience has every right

to kick his ass. I hate to say it, but they reap what they sow.

[NashVegas]

26. The Article Doesn't Say It Was a MoveOn Guy Who Assaulted Him.

read it again, it fails to identify the assailant or his politics.

[Cannikin]

5. LOL...NOW Rush and the rest have somethng to talk about when they come bak

[TrueAmerican]

7. One guy's story and no witnessesses to back him up

Looks to me like he is fabricating the whole story. I'm sure the moveon.org people did speak to him, I doubt the rest of the story is true.

[latebloomer]

8. I guess my husband would have been assaulted too

He hates Bush, but thinks Kerry is corrupt to the bone as well (and I'm not so sure he's wrong, though I'm voting for Kerry.)

This is fucked up.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Kerry's not corrupt...I'm from his state

corrupt like he accepts bribes? What leads your husband to that conclusion? I'm curious...

[latebloomer]

33. corrupt like

voted for Patriot Act, voted for Iraq war, Skull and Bones, vetted by the powers that be so he can fulfill the corporate masters' agenda-- but in a "lite way". . .

Husband's theory is-- Repugs come in and destroy social progress, get us into wars, Dems come in and don't do much to reverse it, Repugs come in and make it worse, etc, etc in a downward cycle.

He believes anyone well-connected enough to be electable must be corrupt.

He voted for Kucinich.

[GreenArrow]

34. husband is a sharp guy

.

[GreenArrow]

12. guy doesn't sound like a freeper to me

but just some poor disillusioned slob who understands that niether party is really working for poor average slobs like himself. One party, two wings.

[prodigal_green]

13. Not cool

under no circumstances is that cool.

But I agree--I want DNA evidence from the blue dress, er, I mean blue jeans that the guy was wearing.

[Octafish]

14. Old BFEE trick - Agent Provocateur

The Oswald-Vallee confrontation helped establish
a right-winger as a lefty. Oswald figured
himself to be the patsy on 22 November 1963.

http://www.assassinationweb.com/shack3g.htm

http://www.jfk-online.com/mitrokhin.html

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Bob Novak spits on people all the time!

And he's rabid!

[xchrom]

18. this is going to happen

there is incredible and justifiable anger out there from dems, lefties, radicals and all sorts because of the 00 election, the phony war, civil rights, etc.
if our side does get embroiled -- be magnanimous -- they are hurt, pissed, and simmering.
if the dark side does it -- hold them upside down over the coals because not only did they start it -- they rubbed everyones face in it for far too long. and payback is a bitch -- and this bitch is getting bigger and meaner every day.

[DeaconBlues]

19. I may be stereotyping

but this doesn't sound like the actions of the average MoveOn activist.

I have handed out pamphlets and went to other MoveOn sponsored events (peace rallies), and the members of MoveOn don't strike me as being exactly Teamsters. I have a hard time believing this, but, hey, maybe frustration with the Bush regime has turned even liberal peaceniks violent.

[Wind Dancer]

22. I agree!

I do not trust the media and question everything reported. I would need several sources, eye-witnesses, etc. to believe this truly happened.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. I was surprised at the LACK of Freepers actually.

Saw F 9/11 at the Lakewood Cinemas, which is just a few miles north of McChord AFB and Ft. Lewis, in an area where freeway overpasses are usually covered in flags and yellow ribbons, with the occasional Freep rally on the weekends. I honestly expected at least a few such people to be there, starting shit.

Not a Freep in sight. What I *DID* see, coming out of the theater was even better. Voter registration in the parking lot. They had the clipboards out and were asking movie-goers if they were registered.

Brilliant move :)

[Sirveri]

21. One must simply remind them of a quote.

"Of course peoples don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

Anyone remember who said this?

[alarcojon]

31. I think it was Herman Goering

eom

on edit: looked it up on Snopes, and it was Goering

[mzmolly]

23. The press is trying to make the anti-war movement look like violent

hypocrites. It's one of their "talking points"...

Next.

[Kinkistyle]

24. Sounds like typical chain-letter urban legend.

Like the protestors spitting on Vietnam soldiers as they were returning home. I find it so hard to believe that MoveOn activists would spit and asault a FREEPER no less a clueless swing voter that I believe this is a lie.

[imax2268]

28. after reading the article...

why does the name Richard Streeter seem to ring a bell...?

maybe it's just me but I think I have heard that name before somewhere...

[Tinoire]

29. "Kerry, Bush -- one's no better than the other"

"Kerry, Bush -- one's no better than the other"

Doesn't sound like a freeper to me.

Sounds like an Independent Leftist speaking his mind who ran into a bunch of Kerry supporters.

Not everyone who dislikes Kerry is a freeper...

The scene where not one Senator backed the Black Caucus - how'd you feel?

[AngryAmish]

30. Good for them

Crush the Freepers.

[wellstone_democrat]

32. "Spitting?" Marvelous---think about this

This is a claim that will energize a particular faction. The obvious link to the VN war "spitting" incidents is clear. I'm sure that by the end of the weekend there will be *many* reports of "spitting" so that attendees of F911 are linked with "crazy hippies" from the VN era and thus, reinforce the idea that "liberals" are "unpatriotic" and "antiAmerican"

It does NOT matter one bit if this is true or not. What matters is that it is said, associated with a long standing symbol and repeated. I'm fascinated that this is emerging so quickly, but hey, I'm in the business of studying political symbolism so I guess I shouldn't be...:evilgrin: