27 Oct 2010, 1:04 am
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27 Oct 2010, 1:09 am
marshall wrote:
Jacoby wrote:
marshall wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Now what I saw here was a woman being restrained by amateurs who were holding her head down with their feet;
You might want to look at that video again because he takes a cheap shot while he's holding her down with his foot. There's definitely a thrust down on her face and it wasn't a matter of the guy slipping.
But again...it's kinda ironic that a bunch of people who are afraid of oppression would restrain someone in the literal way that many describe political oppression metaphorically.
A 220 lb man putting his full weight down on the neck of a 110 lb woman isn't "restraining". It's someone acting like a barbaric brute. I'd just like to see someone kick the complete crap out of this pig faced piece of sh**.
110lb? I think that might be selling her a bit short.
Looks like what I'd expect out of an amateur to do when trying to restrain someone like a cop. It's very similar to what police do.
The fact of the matter is that this resulted because of inadequate crowd control, where are the police?
Holding a sign and going up to ask the candidate questions isn't a violent or aggressive act. If the candidate doesn't want to engage with her questions he's free to ignore her. They should have just let her go through her spiel and leave peacefully. What are these Tea Partiers so afraid of? Why are there so many thugs who feel entitled to play "cops" and rough someone up merely for being on the opposition? This isn't the first time something like this has happened at a Tea Party rally either. There've been other incidents completely caught on tape of teabaggers making violent threats and physically harassing "enemy infiltrators" who weren't doing anything violent.
Ugh, she wasn't walking up to Rand to have a word with him. She bolted through a line of people to bum rush Dr. Paul from behind. No that is not allowed. Would I be able to do that to Obama?
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27 Oct 2010, 8:36 am
Jacoby wrote:
number5 wrote:
Perhaps what I find most disturbing is the implication by some anti-liberal posters that she somehow had it coming because she was with MoveOn. Sounds a lot like the argument that a raped woman had it coming because she dressed like a slut. Violence is violence, don't blame the victim.
Ugh no, the implication is that she and MoveOn are looking for trouble. If this was a Tea Partier bum rushing Obama, the people retraining said person would be hailed as heroes. How does that sound anything remotely like a raped woman? Just shut up, seriously. You're buying right into the corporate media narrative.
The guy has been dismissed as a volunteer and banned from future events. Time to move on, MoveOn.
The woman was not in any way acting on or promoting violence. The man aggressively pulled her face down to the curb and pushed his boot in her face. If I was her, I would have been terrified. I probably would have peed myself a little. There is absolutely NO excuse for this sort of violent behavior. I don't care if she was representing MoveOn or the Tea Party or the KKK. This is not a corporate media narrative but just basic human decency. The argument that she was "looking for trouble" is the same argument used against rape victims, so while the act is different, the mentality that excuses violence against non-violent bahaviors is the same. Would you also say that an autistic kid rocking in his seat at school "was looking for trouble" when he later gets bullied in the school yard for being "weird?" I doubt it. We shouldn't bend our principles along with our political ideals.
Incidentally, talk about buying into the "corporate media narative," I'm not the one who listens to this guy:
Glenn Beck sells food insurance
No wonder the Tea Party is full of paranoid people who are scared sh*tless.
