Democratic offices in Wichita, elsewhere vandalized

[deminks]

Source: Kansas City Star

Authorities in Wichita and some other cities across the country are investigating vandalism against Democratic offices, apparently in response to health care reform.

And on Monday, a former Alabama militia leader took credit for instigating the actions.

Mike Vanderboegh, of Pinson, Ala., former head of the Alabama Constitutional Militia, put out a call on Friday for modern "Sons of Liberty" to break the windows of Democratic Party offices nationwide in opposition to health care reform. Since then, vandals have struck several offices, including the Sedgwick County Democratic Party headquarters in Wichita.

"There's glass everywhere," said Lyndsay Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party. "A brick took out the whole floor-to-ceiling window and put a gouge in my desk."

Stauble said the brick, hurled through the window between Friday night and Saturday morning, had "some anti-Obama rhetoric" written on it.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/22/1237045/democratic-offices-in-wichita.html#ixzz0ixoPx0QP


Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/03/22/1237045/democratic-offices-in-wichita.html

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Good Lord. What have the rethugs done now?

[EFerrari]

1. Looks like conspiracy.

[liberal N proud]

2. These poor bastards

They have been driven to this with the hate talk from the M$M monsters like Beck and Limbaugh.

It is frightening what they have created.

[HillbillyBob]

7. Rash limpdick and fiends did nt really instigate or create the hate

they just encouraged those that had it in their hearts anyway..
I know, first hand, these low than dirts have that hate deep down in their psyches they only need a bit of encouragement (as in they don't have the courage in there to do on their own just egging on).
I have shared before that one night after months of minor insults, graduating to outright major fag bashing, vandalism and finally attempting to burn my home with a cross(made from my own lumber no less) because I was out gay, not flaming but not hiding. Rock throwing vandalism and that night a rock through the front window with a note attached by string.."its bad enough that you faggots had to move in here now you have to bring in n***** to'(sic).
It took several shots from a 12gauge pump to get them to run away. The pigs wrote me a ticket for lettin off a fire arm in the city. A couple weeks later 12 undercover cops and the mayor raided my home claiming I had 5 lb of pot.
They have not changed since the time of Reconstruction, just found new ways to let it out and are looking for a way to install Nazi and KKK values.

[annabanana]

37. Bob, I am so sorry you have had to suffer this kind of abuse.

In much of the country people would be shocked (SHOCKED) at the kind of behavior you've described. And the fact that it's been backed up by the force of local law enforcement is disgusting.

This is why Beck & the others are shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and should be curbed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Typical. People who are so unevolved they only use the reptilian part of the brain use violence.

Funny (not ha ha funny, but really fucking sad and disgusting evil horrible kind of 'funny') how when Republicans ruled everything, there was almost no violence whatsoever by liberals against anything, but whenever anything pisses off the rightwing, there's violence against people, violence against buildings, and violence against organizations.

[CLANG]

19. Noam Chomsky vs. Ted Kaczynski

Left vs. Right

[Frances]

4. It's not socialism we need to worry about

It's fascism

The way the Teabaggers are behaving at the doors of Congress and in town hall meetings; the way Repubs are behaving when Congress is in session "You lie" and "Baby Killer"; the way Fox is putting crazies like Beck on the air; the spitting and name calling and brick throwing all remind me of Nazi Germany.

[The Hope Mobile]

20. Could not agree more! nt

[theHandpuppet]

44. You are so right, Frances!

It's the rise of the fascists that scares the crap outta me.

[kestrel91316]

5. Organized political violence = terrorism. Tell me again why these guys

aren't ALREADY in jail awaiting arraignment?

[chill_wind]

12. Organized political violence. Exactly! When will the media

start identifying it as exactly that?

And what's next? More anthrax?

[John Kerry VonErich]

32. I don't think they care about going to jail anyways.

nt

[mn9driver]

6. It's not the first time in history that eliminationist rhetoric has sparked the weak minded

Thank goodness these idiotic thugs have nothing more than Glenn Beck to back them up.

[dmr]

18. Elected Republican leaders & the media have validated the fringe

and in that validation, they become bolder.

Bold enough to take credit for conspiring to incite & follow thorough on violence.

[annabanana]

38. nope, in some places the "law" does their dirty work for them.. . n/t

[SoCalNative]

8. Just like the Nazis

starting their own version of Kristallnacht

[eridani]

9. Can you say Krystallnacht? I knew you could! n/t

[ashling]

14. That was my thought too

(without the Mr. Rogers overtones)

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[Occulus]

28. Whatever, Fredda. n/t

[eridani]

31. I'm sure the glass breakers started small before the big night, correct? n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

40. Krystallnacht was the first thing I thought of too.

The pubs are out to build a "new thousand year reich" A new..."World Order"

Rush wants to wipe us out and he preaches to the nutcase base 24/7...

[SoapBox]

10. Yes...EXACTLY!

I agree...this is some creepy stuff that is going on, nationwide.

...an interesting column that I recently found:

"THE CROSS, THE FLAG, AND AMERICAN IDOLATRY"
How Symbolism Is Today’s National Idolatry

http://tpjmagazine.us/adams29

[chill_wind]

11. 2 of the guys arrested in House Gallery were part of organized Glenn Beck group offshoot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7990078

Why does he get to skate?

[deminks]

13. 2 in NY, 1 in Kansas, 1 in Arizona, 1 in Ohio

are what I have found so far.

Ohio one here:

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2010/03/22/rock-thrown-at-dem-hqs/

PLEASANT RIDGE – Someone reportedly threw a fist-sized rock through the front window of the Hamilton County Democratic Party headquarters Sunday night after Congress passed the landmark health insurance overhaul.

Caleb Faux, the party’s executive director, finds it hard to believe the incident wasn’t related to the legislation’s passing.

“I have to assume that it did,” Faux said. “We’ve been here for three years and we’ve never had an incident of that kind.”

According to Faux, the rock didn’t shatter the window, which is made of heavy plate glass. It did, however, make a hole the size of a half dollar coin and crack the glass.

Faux estimates the window will cost several hundred dollars to replace. He had not yet filed a police report.

Faux connected the rock-tossing with the provocative language associated with the healthcare bill.

[Jefferson23]

15. Appears the bottom feeders are having a time of it...idiots.

[lobodons]

16. There's Democrats in Wichita?

Who'da thunk?

[EFerrari]

17. Isn't that where Dr. Tiller was killed? n/t

[bluestateguy]

21. Angry white men with an entitlement mentality

nt

[scentopine]

22. insurace mandates - like gasoline on a fire, this corporate shit will backfire -nt

[gtar100]

24. That's the face of crazy now.

It's taken years of shelling out distortions and lies for these people to see health care reform as an evil socialist plot to take way their freedoms.

What needs to be taken away from them is their intravenous drip of Fox News, Drudge and Rush. It might just give them time to clear their head if permanent brain damage hasn't set in already.

[alp227]

25. They'll just stop at nothing..

first they call black Congress members the n-word and Barney Frank the three-letter f-word and now they're starting to damage others' property while complaining that Democrats are anti-private property

[JDPriestly]

26. I think that these acts may qualify as terrorist.

I don't think that the people performing them realize that they are committing violence against property to gain a political end. They wouldn't use that kind of language. But that is what they are doing, and that is just as much terrorism as going into a scientific laboratory and destroying equipment, cages and freeing animals. And I believe that those acts in a laboratory are considered to be terrorist acts now. Am I wrong?

[sfwriter]

27. I'm collecting these here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7992482&mesg_id=7992943

[JoeyT]

29. Ten bucks says the guy from the Alabama Constitutional Militia

has never actually read the constitution and would hate it if he had.

Of course right wingers are full of shit once again. Promises of open revolt turned into acting like a bunch of kids pissed off that their football team lost and putting the lie to what they claim to be pissed about in the process. If we actually were pushing tyranny there would be tanks rolling down their streets right now and thrown bricks would be met with a hail of bullets.

Authoritarians are cowards and will only act out as much as they can before they see any real punishment for it. Had there been arrests at the first tea party, there wouldn't have been a second one.

[leftcoastie]

30. It appears

that some people ought to know better. If they can't be humanized (or at least re-educated) they will be enemies of the American public and should be shunned if not arrested and imprisoned.

[d_b]

33. Alabama Constitutional Militia

[pundaint]

34. If only the Democrats had passed a bill in the People's interests they could make

a case that these People were acting against their ally. This behavior will neither bring Change nor a bill in the People's interest. Violence against People can be done with voting and buying vote under the authority of law, responses to such behavior can be messy. I think the behind-closed-door deals with corporations proven to be screwing the American People were much more culpable and deserving of our approbation, and I can only wonder why Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies aren't also included as targets?

[struggle4progress]

35. Will congressional Republicans denounce this violence they set in motion?

[truthisfreedom]

36. No, definitely not. And our elected officials should make massive political hay of this.

Seriously.

[annabanana]

39. "Shouting 'FIRE' in a crowded theater". .

Isn't that the template for deciding what is constitutionally protected speech and what isn't?

Aren't Beck & Limbaugh shouting "FIRE"?

[No Elephants]

41. Maybe. But, the First Amendment does not protect their sponsors from being shamed and boycotted.

I'd rather go that route than leave the matter to the lying Republican SCOTUS.


IOW:

Money talks, Scalia walks.

Trouble is, I never watch FOX and therefore do not know who the sponsors are.

[No Elephants]

42. Thugs. We need a boycott of sponsors. Who are the sponsors of these baiters?

[Doctor_J]

45. Boycotts are useless

The boycott of Beck's sponsors was "successful", and a number of his sponsors cancelled. But he is still going strong.

These people are only going to be subdued by one thing, and it isn't a boycott.

[EXneoCON]

46. Here ya' go!

http://foxnewsboycott.com

[DCBob]

43. I was expecting this and its likely to get worse..

These idiots are convinced America is being destroyed by the Democrats and they are doing Gods work by trying to stop them... by any means necessary.

[chrisa]

47. It's nothing new.

If they were going to do anything meaningful, they would have done it under Clinton.

99% of them are just angry whiners.

[bonnieS]

48. Think "Krystal Naght."

[Odin2005]

49. Kristallnacht...

[mistertrickster]

50. And CONs all over the webosphere are already claiming that Dems staged it themselves

to garner sympathy as "victims."

These people are unbelievable. I supposed Gandhi and King shot themselves too . . .

Reminds me of "kristalnacht."

[AlphaCentauri]

51. They are hurting so badly

they want to discharge their emotions using violence

[denverbill]

52. Wow. Their first Kristalnact! Good little Nazis! n/t

[LuckyLib]

53. The crazies have been given license to come out of the woodwork.

And "that Negro in the White House" put them over the edge. Racist media crazies are leading the parade, followed by congresscritters shouting down the POTUS.

:mad:

[troubledamerican]

54. Krystallnacht