College GOP Brownshirt assaults rock legend Joan Jett

[johnfunk]

This is so typical of the party that claims its anointed Pretendadent is a "uniter (sic), not a divider". They think they can get away with anything:

Two political rallies turned into a brawl Saturday night in Des Moines.

A Democratic rally at Drake's Olmstead Center, urged young Iowans to get out and vote. It was targeted toward high school and college students. A group known for not voting. The rally featured comedian Janene Garafalo and classic rock star Joan Jett, but it got a surprise visit from some unwanted guests.

A group of college republicans at their Midwest caucus leadership conference heard about the rally and stormed in.

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Aw, so the poor widdle Smirk Youth were awwwwl upset that the press was paying more attention to a legitimate political event than their circle jerk.

I hope Joan Jett files charges against the little fascist who shoved her.

[liberalmuse]

1. Disgusting thugs.

It doesn't mention if any of the Nazi Youth were arrested. I hope the one who assaulted Joan Jett gets sued.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. If she filed charges

I'm sure she'd get a grovelling apology just like the ones Margaret Cho got from the gutless, imbecile Freepers who called her nasty names.

[Skittles]

5. what struck me about those "aplogies"

is that their ugly minds could ever even think up such racist obscenities. :puke:

[liberalmuse]

6. I can't stand people like this...

at an anti-war protest, one big, fat, porcine (read 'resembling Limbaugh or Rove) pasty-faced guy came up and put a protestor holding a peace sign in a headlock. The protestor did nothing, and though I wanted to flail at him, it would have compromised the entire purpose of our protest. We let the freep walk on, with his bosses smirk on his face. These people are made of the same cloth as those who tortured, starved and gassed millions of human beings, keeping their hair and skin as souvenirs.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. Maybe comparing Republicans to Nazi's is an ACCURATE....

comparison afterall.

Penn State Republicans are Racists
Iowa Republicans are Intolerant Bigots

Republican, Satan, SAME THING!

:puke:

[liberalmuse]

11. It's hard not to...

especially when they behave like the brownshirt facists and Nazi's of the 1930's, so I feel it is an apt comparison. Hell, just listen to callers into right-wing radio. It'll make your skin crawl. It may not be a 100% totally accurate comparison, but I don't know of any other example in recent human history to use when describing human beings who dehumanize other human beings and then feel they have the right to violate their space. They are this close to becoming the monster that a perfectly decent people became under a mentally deranged leader because of their escalating paranoia, hatred and fear.

Liberals are often called 'pinko commies', which is really not an insult considering I do believe in some socialist policy. Ironic since many of us 'socialists' believe in using peaceful revolution, promoted by men like Ghandi and MLK rather than using physical force in using weapons or dragging people into the streets and brutalizing them like right-wingers talk about doing to liberals. People who dehumanize others they way I see freepers do are in danger of doing to human beings what the German group-mind did to the Jews, Gypsies, mentally handicapped and other 'low-on-the-evolutionary-pyramid' groups.

[bobthedrummer]

14. Real Nazis found a political home in the Republican RW

after clandestine recruitment into US national security against godless communism.
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. If that we're me, I would not have hit him back, I would have just...

squeezed the living shit out of his little honky balls.

[davsand]

16. My husband saw me getting pushed by a GOPiglet back in November.

He was speaking at an Impeach Bush rally and he looked out and saw one of the fine upstanding GOPiglets (my term of affection for the local College Republicans) attempting to push me away from the line. He never missed a beat he just said, "Fella, you don't want to mess with her, she's my wife and you have no idea what she can DO with that sign she's holding. I've seen her on picket lines before and you do not want to do this." The crowd gaped at that point...

Odd thing about me, I may be middle aged and a mom, but I will kick the shit outta anybody that lays hands on my person without prior invitation. I have never supported violence in any social change movement, but I also don't think I have to be some asswipe's punching bag either. It is a matter of personal defense, IMO.

Laura

[Skittles]

3. I am sick of these republican thugs

republican rallies make me sick but it never even occurs to me to try to disrupt them or physically assault people in attendance. FASCIST THUGS who took their cue from the storming of paid GOP operatives in Florida to STOP THE COUNTING OF VOTES. It is f***ing SCARY.

[rfranklin]

9. Those Florida thugs were a bunch of pussies...

They were all pasty-faced think tank warriors and probably not a one of them could stand up to anyone who called their bluff.
A good crowd of working Democrats would have sent them packing.

Pacifism does not work with these assholes.

[oldleftguy]

4. Brownshirts is an excellent descriptor!

:bounce:

[RainDog]

8. dupe of this link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1030333#1030582

[brainwashed_youth]

12. Bet you won't

hear about this on tv. I could be wrong, but i bet you don't hear one damn word about it.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

13. We Should Get Pics of these Brownshirts and Post Them All Over

the internet. Also, send the pics to their Deans on campus and their parents. See what your kids are up to, Mom and Dad? Disrupting Democracy. Look at what your students are doing with their spare time, Dean. Beating up women and disrupting a party they weren't invited to.

Make these little bastards pay somehow. I hope Joan Jett files charges, but there's no doubt in my mind she could've kicked their assess.

[babzilla]

15. here is contact info

http://www.ifcr.org/mclc.html

Conference Description

Excite - energize - educate inspire

Sponsored by the Iowa Federation of College Republicans
Hosted by the Drake College Republicans

Held in Des Moines, Iowa, the weekend before the Iowa Caucus, the commencement of the 2004 Presidential primary season and the launch toward the race toward the November elections, the Midwest Caucus Leadership Conference will energize, excite, educate, and inspire college students about conservative ideals and to prepare for the contested 2004 elections. The conference promises to feature well-regarded speakers ranging from public policy makers, media personalities, entertainers, political trainers and motivational speakers to provide useful political training and thoughtful political discourse to invigorate students to return to their campuses and make a positive difference.



Contact Information

Jason Cole
Chair
[e-mail]

Christopher Jones
Executive Director
[e-mail]

Ruth Huldeen
Registration
[e-mail]

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

17. I love this little euphemistic statement

"One of the Bush supporters shoved Jett and she pushed back in anger."

I'd buy tickets to see that! :)

[rockymountaindem]

18. It's time to stand up for ourselves

Hitting back is fine. We shouldn't start things, but where are we going to get if we let them disrupt us so?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

19. How do we expose these creatures for what they are?

Inundate their website? Call their parents? Deans?

Write letters to their college paper?

Any ideas?

[monchie]

20. No, today's right-wingers aren't Nazis...

...they are however the totalitarian threat of our time and place, much like the Nazis were the totalitarian threat of their era and country.

The Nazis and today's right-wingers have the same mindset, though their targets may be different. For example, the American right-wingers won't target Jews, or even blacks. (Gays though may be a different story.) But listen to the rhetoric of their mouthpieces, the Limbaughs, the Hannitys, the Coulters, etc.: If you take the words "liberal" and "Democrat" and replace them with the word "Jew," you've got an exact replica of the kind of rhetoric that came out of Germany in the 1930s. Same scapegoating, same sneering tone.

Also, both the Nazis and American right-wingers display utter contempt for playing politics by the rules. They both are determined to get their way, and they don't care who or what values they steamroll in the process.

Yes, history does repeat itself, but rarely repeats itself exactly.

[ComerPerro]

22. Thank you

You know what the really odd thing about "Bush is not a Nazi" defense is?
You just nailed it.

Everytime a Republican dismisses these claims, they always are careful to stress that Bush isn't doing the EXACT same things as Hitler.

Its sort of like saying, "No, no, Bush is not Hitler. That's absurd. See, Hitler did it like this... , but we found a better way."

[NashVegas]

21. Bit of a Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1030333

[Moderator]

23. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1030333