The Cowardly Hypocrisy Of RiverLove

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Riverlove: "Democrats and their media whores...

Just some questions for you: Are these people democrats ? And, why do you assume they are when they not ?






























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democrats? probably no. rad? yes! extra rad!

republican/democrat isn't really the proper frame for this, so much as conservative/liberal. i imagine many of the t-party folk think that the republican party is full of liberal commie swine, while many of those folk in the awesome pics think that democrats are facist pigs.

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Originally posted by mincingbeast:
cool, thanks for compressing the argument. is it fair to say that you assert: 1) the left can't complain too loudly about idiots on the right because 2) there are idiots on the left? fair enough. drives me insane when people ascribe their own vices to others.

yet, it seems to me those awesome photos may represent a fringe of the left, while the tea party seems to be waging a battle for the soul of the right. if only liberals were as loud and organzied as the tea-ba--excuse me, t-partiers, then we could have some awesome riots and knife fights and so forth.

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You may a Lib, but I like you MB. You have a sense of humor about you which is quite refreshing. I may be a knuckle-dragging Neaderthal Conservative (and my mom dropped me on my head a lot when I was a baby), but I have never and will never advocate violence of any type against fellow citizens.

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Originally posted by rue:

Just some questions for you: Are these people democrats ? And, why do you assume they are when they not ?

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Sorry Rue, but Kwicko raised that question first. You can read my response back to him if you like, or you can do as I suggested at the end of my original post. I hope that's clear enough even for a super-sized obtuse twit like you to comprehend.

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RL

You are confused. You mistake 'democrats', 'liberals', and 'the left' as being all one thing. They are not.

OTOH, when we claim that REPUBLICANS are inflamatory we are pointing to ACTUAL REPUBLICANS - important REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBERS like Palin and Steele.

Maybe you don't understand a simple concept like that, so I'll give you some time to figure it out.

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aw gee riverlove, i think you're pretty swell, too. you're a malevolent asshole, which means we have a lot in common, if not politics.

despite my liberal leanings and hatred of freedom, i agree with you on the limited proposition that the tps (short for toilet paper, and tea partiers)aren't so different from the assorted heros in your rad pictures. i stand by my position though, that we're comparing fringe elements to an emerging main-stream force. hence, the tps signify a lot more about their side than the stoned anarchists do theirs.

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Yeah, both sides have used inflamatory posters.

Let's see how things stack up when we get down to actions.....



-- A conservative walks into a church and opens fire on the congregation because they're all a bunch of conservatives and he wants to kill as many right-wingers as he can.

-- A conservative walks into another church and shoots a doctor in the head.

-- A conservative shoots three police officers who come to his door because he fears the president is going to take his guns away.

-- A conservative walks into the Holocaust Museum and shoots a guard because he hates Jews and believes it's time to start a race war.

-- A conservative walks into the Pentagon and opens fire because he believes the government is plotting against its citizens.

-- A pack of gun-loving conservatives form a plot to kill law-enforcement officers and start a revolution.

-- Sarah Palin's "reload" campaign, which places bulls-eyes on politicians she wants to see gone.



And that's just recently. We could also add good ol' Tim McVeigh to the list.




On the flip side, you have what? A few liberals shoving folks at a Health Care forum? Ooooooh. Scary.




"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Originally posted by mincingbeast:
aw gee riverlove, i think you're pretty swell, too. you're a malevolent asshole, which means we have a lot in common, if not politics.

despite my liberal leanings and hatred of freedom, i agree with you on the limited proposition that the tps (short for toilet paper, and tea partiers)aren't so different from the assorted heros in your rad pictures. i stand by my position though, that we're comparing fringe elements to an emerging main-stream force. hence, the tps signify a lot more about their side than the stoned anarchists do theirs.

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Asshole? Probably
Malevolent? Nah, I wouldn't hurt a fly.

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I agree that kooks on either side exist, and that it’s disgusting. There is no argument there. I also agree that anyone suspected of planning violence should be arrested and investigated.

I was at marches against the Iraq War and Bush...I saw no such signs. That doesn’t mean anything, the signs may be as incidental as those pointed out against Obama. It’s a valid point. I'm guessing the majority of people anti-Obama are regular folk, just like the majority of people anti-Bush.

On the other hand, giventhat the rhetoric of signs like those are inexcusable, how many people were arrested during the Bush term for just wearing a t-shirt or having a bumper sticker at a Bush rally?

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Two women who were arrested at campaign rally for President Bush last fall and strip-searched at a county jail.

The two women, both school teachers in their 50s, were among scores of people who were arrested, removed or barred from Bush rallies last year for wearing shirts or buttons favoring his Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry, or for vocally criticizing the president.

Both attended Bush's Sept. 3 rally at a Cedar Rapids park, with McCabe holding a sheet of paper reading, "No More War," and Nelson wearing a Kerry button.

While standing on a sidewalk near, but not inside, the rally site, a Secret Service agent told McCabe she was on private property and would have to move.

The women moved to a parking area, where a member of the local Republican Party was holding a bucket to collect contributions.

The agent approached again and repeated the order to move. After asking why, McCabe was arrested by a state trooper. Nelson was arrested later by another trooper, according to the lawsuit.

The women -- among five protesters arrested during the rally -- were handcuffed, taken to the county jail, strip-searched and charged with criminal trespass.

Dozens of people were arrested for protesting outside events, removed after getting inside ticket-only areas or asked to sign forms endorsing Bush to get inside.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0429-07.htm and Nicole Rank were arrested at one of the President's speeches in Charleston, West Virginia, for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts.

Leslie Weise and Alex Young were ejected from one of the President's speeches in Denver, Colorado, for arriving at the event in a car with the bumper sticker reading "No More Blood For Oil."

Through litigation, the ACLU obtained a copy of the Presidential Advance Manual. The manual teaches the President's handlers how to keep protesters away from the President and from the media. People on the ground should "ask the local police department to designate a protest area where demonstrators can be placed, preferably not in view of the event site or motorcade route." The manual suggests that handlers form sign-wielding volunteers into "rally squads" who can "use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform."

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http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/protest-and-president

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As a phalanx of motorcycles sped by on Old Philadelphia Pike in Lancaster County, Pa., in July, Tristan Egolf and six compatriots stripped to their skivvies and piled on top of one another in a pyramid, mimicking the infamous photograph taken at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

But a minute after their bit of street theater had begun -- and long before a motorcade carrying President Bush had arrived -- police moved in and arrested six of the protesters on disorderly-conduct charges.

As Bush has traveled the United States during this political campaign, the Secret Service and local police have often handled public protest by quickly arresting or removing demonstrators, free-speech advocates say. In addition, access to Bush's events has been unusually tightly controlled and people who do not support Bush's reelection have been removed.

Although it's impossible to precisely measure the tactics in comparison with previous campaigns, civil liberties advoca

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