Persistent freeper delusion: Lefties get paid to protest....

[Webster Green]

They've been saying this kind of stuff since the days of the Vietnam War protests. They can't accept the fact that we are out there because of something we strongly believe in.

I have never heard of anyone who has been paid to protest anything, and I've been an activist for almost forty years.


Check out this idiotic shit from the dark site (re: Cindy)

<snip>
To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
Maybe if she wasn't so tight with anti-Americans like Michael Moore and Code Pink we wouldn't condemn her so much. She's blogging on their websites and accepting their money.

To: Rosemont
"She filibusters with Soros talking points and when she is done with them she runs out of things to say and ends the interview."

Why not? He's paying her. Be fair!
<snip>

What a bunch of losers! They are really coming unglued as public opinion turns against their fearless leader's follies.

[stepnw1f]

1. Of Course They Think That

Because that's what they do...

[ET Awful]

3. Hmmm, it wasn't the "lefties" who had to have Gallagher bus them

into Crawford now is it?

:)

[Zenlitened]

5. Projection, projection, always projection with these freaks.

Time and again, whatever it is they're screeching about, accusing us, is precisely what they're guilty of themselves.

These are damaged, sick, perverted people. :puke:

[TahitiNut]

8. Exactly. Remember the Izod (Staff) Warriors in Florida?

All-expense-paid staffers on salary to the GOP 'protesting' the recount. Unfreakingreal!

[jrthin]

6. Exactly. A crook always

believe that everyone else is a crook.

[stepnw1f]

16. All They Know is Themselves

So naturally, they are paranoid everyone else is as f*d up as they are.

Just look at the nuclear arms race. They assumed the enemy was going to kill them, so they lobbied for more nukes. Just the same exists with guns. One guy gets a gun because he assumes the other already has one or intends on getting on. Now we are off to the races on who has the biggest gun. And guess who gets killed?

EVERYBODY...

When we see this dangerous pattern, we should snuff it out.

[G_j]

2. that is why I drive a '83 Honda with 230,000 miles

just rolling in the dough here :sarcasm:

in truth, 'lefty' activism helps keep me poor...

(but rich in spirit :-) )

[Ignoramus]

4. Supposedly, there is at least one group that pays protesters

There is a guy who brings a horse carriage to demonstrations in SF, who's main thing is that Mayor Brown of SF is the root of all evil. According to a newspaper article, he pays people to hold up signs and distribute literature.

There is also a group of people that do fund-raising to pay for the livelihood of people who travel to protests. I didn't get the impression that the protesters are sent to protests as assignments. Instead, it's a way to support people who want to go to a protest in Cancun say, but would not have the funds otherwise.

But, I agree with the main point. I'm not aware of any large groups of homeless people who've been payed to hold a sign, for example.

[Webster Green]

11. Oops, I stand corrected!

I forgot about that dude. He lives not too far from me, and he does pay people to protest. He's very anti Bush, and is obsessed with a conspiracy theory about former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown being in on the 9/11 attacks. Someone actually gave him my phone number once, thinking we should work together, but one conversation with him was enough to let me know that he is nuts. He actually started threatening me that I better come right over and start working on his projects, or I would be sorry.

Whoo-boy!

[Spinzonner]

7. OK, where's my cut ?

[Jade Fox]

9. Projection.....

As usual, these folks are projecting their own indifference and lack of
commitment onto others. They've never put their own butts on the line
for anything, so can only imagine Sheenan is somehow doing this for
money.

[despairing optimist]

10. A funny delusion, considering * drove right past Cindy en route to

a multimillion-dollar fundraiser. I guess that means the president and his gang are on more than the government's payroll. It's good to be the king.

[shadowknows69]

12. this from the side that had republican paid media analysts?

spewing forth support for any Bush agenda point they were asked about.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Jeez. I been in leftist demonstrations since at least 1964.

NOW I find out I coulda been getting paid for all of that.

Where the fuck do I send the bill? Do I get extra pay for when they used tear gas & clubs on us? How 'bout overtime?

Hey, shit, man. I want mine!!

[petgoat]

14. The idea that people get paid to demonstrate is spread around because

of its obvious extension to the idea that more liberal social safety
net payments will result in increased numbers of people that spend all
their spare time demonstrating.

[leesa]

15. Funny. Lefties also don't work, so exactly who is paying them??

[kbm8795]

17. It does put a whole new spin

on the motives of the people standing outside the Schaivo hospice a couple of months ago, doesn't it?

[Syncronaut Seven]

18. Where do I sign up! I could use the cash.

.

[zbdent]

19. There were paid protesters in shirts and ties

in Florida in November/December 2000 . . .

Oh, they were Repukes . . .

[wli]

20. eh? astroturf is neocon rethug Goebbelsism n/t

[geckosfeet]

21. All they know is the concept of "being bought". nt