Spread far and wide: The video of DeLay's Thug Beating 70-yr-old woman

[DesEtoiles]

http://www.brazosriver.com/marsha2.mpg

[wake.up.america]

1. Is this the entirety of the clip?

[DesEtoiles]

2. it's edited to focus on the assualt

[Why Syzygy]

3. There is no assault

on that video. Maybe wrong link?

[gr8dane_daddy]

22. By LawerIntl.com, Assault is...

An act by a defendant that places the plaintiff in apprehension of immediate harmful or offensive bodily contact.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. What assault?

I couldn't see anything.

[AtomicKitten]

6. at the very beginning

the guy with his back to you puts his hand in a lady's face and shoves her visor down.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Thanks I did see it

What a horrible thing to do.

[elehhhhna]

27. wath the first 3 seconds. He pulled her hat and shoved her.

I've had hit the floor and SUED HIS B*** OFF

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. I believe that would be called assault

She should press charges.

[AtomicKitten]

5. Not exactly a beating (to say the least) but it was rude nonetheless.

Assholes.

[Melinda]

7. Definite assault; he shoved his fingers into her eyes!

He should be arrested.

If anyone has contact information for Marsha, please pm me, thanks.

[AtomicKitten]

8. Yes, a definite assault and they should file charges.

What is wrong with these Republicans in Texas? What is their problem?

[Melinda]

10. Delay's Thugs = Organized crime

I fully expect that the elections of 2006 and 2008 will be Fl 2000, redux. Now if our leaders only had a spine.......!

[snowbear]

11. You're right.... She should definitely file charges against..

those jerks!


I sure as hell would! :mad:

[Bridget Burke]

34. When real damage occurs, it's "Aggravated Assault"

It can be Assault even if there's just a threat. The event in Sugar Land WAS Assault.

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. MORE and longer video

http://vastleft.blogspot.com/2006/04/youd-oppose-evolution-too-if-youd.html

[andino]

12. What a bunch of cry baby asshats....

My 3 year old has more dignity than those turds...

[AtomicKitten]

15. unf***ingbelieveable.

Where are the police to prevent this crap? Or are they in on it too?

[silverweb]

16. Thank you!

That needs to be shown far and wide. I hope Olbermann, Stewart, et al, pick it up and run with it.

So let's get this straight. The reTHUGs claim to be the adults, the party of family and morals, and the good, decent Christians -- and this is how they show it?

And they're proud of this behavior? :rofl:

Reflect for just a moment on how they would react if we did anything at all like this to one of their candidates....

It boggles the mind.

[orleans]

18. just watched that video you linked to

how disgraceful!

why wasn't there some type of security there to allow lampson his free speech without those assholes climbing all over him?

and what a bunch of stupid fucks! they want to be unrepresented in congress for six months! and hurricane season is coming. (no one there to ask for money when your house gets blown down you jerks!! no, they'd rather be a bunch of freaks putting on their freak show.)

...texas has a terribly low voter turn out.

do these repukes intimidate people to the point of staying home and not voting?

what's wrong with texas?????

[NiteOwll]

19. Wow! Thats's crazy...

Check out the woman in the yellow shirt, her behavior is unbelievable. She's practically got her sign on the guy's head, and when the man in the red shirt tries to move her back a few inches, she grabs at his shirt and shoves him over and over.

These people need to learn some manners...

BTW, sounds like the old guy's saying, "Go Nick Pelosi" -- he probably should have picked a different phrase. :)

[rucky]

24. WOW! Liberals don't do shit like that.

But if they did, the cops would be beating them down hard.

[mainegreen]

42. spelling errors on display for freepers in that video!

[AX10]

44. Facsism IS Republicanism

[LoZoccolo]

45. "Nick Lampson should basically keep his mouth quiet."

Against the First Amendment explicitly.

[LoZoccolo]

46. Also, they should all be detained as terrorists.

It is one thing to do this to Ann Coulter, and another to invade the personal space of an elected official closely enough to do them harm in an act of surprise. This is terrorism plain and simple.

[silverweb]

13. We need frame-by-frame stills of that.

It's way too quick to really see what happens in the video.

[NYC]

17. I had to watch it several times.

It's quick.

[suigeneris]

14. That's assault open and shut.

Take the video to the D.A. and get them on prosecuting this crime.

Violent Republican fucksticks.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

20. That IS assault and it would be...

...a mistake not to pursue it. We need that asshole's name. If we tolerate stuff like this it only emboldens them.

[IndyOp]

23. I would add that I think Lampson should've stopped the rally

called the police and resume when the police had the protester's under control and he could speak without being interrupted, his people could stand with signs without being harrassed.

If you allow this behavior -- at all, any time -- it emboldens them. Bullies must be stopped with force.

[blondeatlast]

29. I respectfully disagree.

If we need the police to enforce our free speech rights, we're in a sad state indeed.

[IndyOp]

31. We *are* in a sad state.

Now, how do we get to a better state?

Allowing someone to talk over you will make you appear ineffective, not worth listening to. So, get control of the situation, and then deliver your message.

The police exist (ideally) to protect the rights of the people. It is far better that they work to defend the right of the people to speak freely, than that they work to defend the right of the powerful to speak freely (and keep the people in a 'free speech zone' down the street).

:shrug:

[Why Syzygy]

32. Yes.

Call the cops on the mofos. That fat ass at the end said Nick should "keep his mouth quiet"! YET, note that he and his fellow hoods view it as an opportunity to voice their freeper insanity!

I was wondering the other day about WHY does the U.S. have these kind of low lifes. This is the 21st freaking century! I can only partially conclude it is a hang over from the 'wild west' and settlers of the country. It would be hard to believe that any other civilized country contains the level of miscreants we do.

It may get worse, folks. Some of them are going to be protesting when the felonious Bush Cabal is brought to its knees. hehe ..

[HardWorkingDem]

21. Um......not to be technical...but it's a battery, not assault....nt

...

[Why Syzygy]

33. Smashing

someone's hat into their face is not assault? I believe it is. Any kind of unwanted physical contact, especially smashing someone's nose, is assault.

[Bridget Burke]

36. "Assault" can be just a threat of violence, even with NO contact.

It's usually a misdemeanor.

"Aggravated Assault" is more serious--& a felony. I believe that "Assault & Battery" is another way of saying "Aggravated Assault."

[ieoeja]

40. SHE committed assault. HE committed battery.

As stated above, it does not take much to constitute legal assault. Battery is the more serious crime. All it takes to commit assault is to get in someone's face screaming at them. Which it appears the woman is doing in that video before he pushes her away.

Though battery is the more serious crime, a judge in this case would probably give out equal sentences since her assault prompted his battery.

And since someone will probably reply to the affect, "then why aren't people being arrested for assault everytime two people get into an argument," I will go ahead and answer. If two people are arguing then BOTH of them are committing assault. If one insists on pressing charges, the other will do in turn, and then BOTH are going to jail. So as a rule, neither party presses charges.

Which is why you won't see anyone pressing charges in this case.

[Bridget Burke]

41. I"d heard that 2/3 of DeLay's campaign chest came from out of Texas.

Aren't you glad he can now use it to pay his legal expenses?

[HardWorkingDem]

47. Not necessarily.....(I know this is just a goofy side issue).....

usually the elements of an assault include the reasonable expectation of someone becoming the victim of a battery; the assault more or less is the vocal part and the battery the physical part. Most often, for it to be an aggravated battery, other elements are needed as well. For example, if she clocked him with a steel pole. But he probably did commit an aggravated battery on her because of her age. Usually striking an elderly person is an element that meets requirements of aggravated assault.

So the woman is probably not guilty of assault - the jerk that hit her probably had no fear of being the victim of a battery. If anything, she is probably barely bordering on disorderly conduct, but that is even doubtful because it is expected for people to get vocal at a protest.

[zbdent]

25. Remember, e-mails can be subpeoned (sp?)

and, if involved in "an act of terror" (inciting a riot), can involve DHS . . .

Of course, that's if it's a Repuke threatened. If it's a Dem, it's perfectly legal . . . :sarcasm:

[paineinthearse]

26. Where's the assault?

Either the content at the site has been changed, or the subject line is misleading.

[elehhhhna]

28. first 3 seconds. before the redhaired clown woman talks.

[Pryderi]

30. I think I'm sending Nick Lampson some $$$

http://www.lampson.com/

[quaoar]

35. Great idea

I just sent a contribution.

[Pryderi]

43. Thanks! Has anyone floated a monthly 17.76 DU club?

Besides me that is...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2556746&mesg_id=2556746

[Bonobo]

39. Mcckinney! McKinney! Mckinney!

Hypocrites! Hypocrites! Hypocrites!