Militia leader in Alabama Called for Breaking Dems’ Windows

[ck4829]

It wasn’t quite the shot heard around the world, but the sound of glass shattering at Democratic Party offices around the country has put the spotlight on former militiaman Mike Vanderboegh, who furiously called on followers last Friday to protest health care reform by breaking Democratic windows.

Vanderboegh posted his message on his blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars, calling for “all modern Sons of Liberty” to break the windows of local Democratic Party offices. Since that time, Democratic offices across the country have reported windows smashed in an apparent response to health care reform. Vanderboegh called health care reform backers “collectivists” and added that they “certainly do not hear the soft ‘snik-snik’ of cleaning rods being used on millions of rifle barrels in this country by people who have decided their backs are to the wall.”

“If you wish to send a message that Pelosi and her party cannot fail to hear, break their windows,” the Pinson, Ala., blogger wrote. “Break them NOW. Break them and run to break again. Break them under cover of night. Break them in broad daylight. Break them and await arrest in willful, principled civil disobedience. Break them with rocks. Break them with slingshots. Break them with baseball bats. But BREAK them.”

Vanderboegh seemed to take credit for instigating at least some of the attacks in interviews. He told the Kansas City Star that his call was meant “to get everyone’s attention.” To the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle, he said: “If it takes a few bricks and broken windows for people to understand how close we are to widespread violence in this country then the bricks in the windows will have been worth it.”

Vanderboegh’s blog has been used to promote the Three Percenters, an antigovernment “Patriot” group that claims to represent 3% of U.S. gun owners. The name is inspired by the 3% of American colonists believed to have actively opposed England. Vanderboegh describes himself as “the alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters.” In the 1990s, he was associated with radical groups including the Alabama Constitutional Militia, the Tri-States Militia and the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Constitutional Militia.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/03/23/former-militiaman-in-alabama-called-for-breaking-dems-windows

[SoCalNative]

1. And the reason he hasn't been arrested yet is?

[KittyWampus]

5. And the reason this isn't being reported on the news is?

[dchill]

12. Rachel Maddow is covering it now.

[Joe Bacon]

18. Yes and Rachel pointed out this ass gets Social Security!

Rachel pointed out this ass gets disability payments. Yet he hates the government. Go figure.

[Posteritatis]

10. He's a white Republican. (nt)

[wial]

2. Congressman Grayson, if you're listening

please put forward a bill in congress asking representatives to reaffirm it is not ok to threaten the life of the president or yell from the gallery during debate or spit on members of congress etc etc etc. if anyone fails to cosponsor for it, we'll know who they are.

[bamademo]

3. Is he being investigated?

Lot's of crazies out there.

[kestrel91316]

4. If a liberal did that it would be called incitement to riot. But this is a RWer, so

everything they do is perfectly legal and folks just gotta suck it up.

[WeDidIt]

6. This is an open and shut case of domestic terrorism

ELF terrorists were charged with terrorism for vandalism of property.

These guys are no different.

Asses.

Prison.

Throw.

[chill_wind]

7. "3 Percenter"? The actively used portion of his frontal lobe?

I want to see this activity crushed now. CRUSHED and buried with a stake in its heart.

[nemo137]

8. If bricks and broken windows are involved, in multiple states

aren't we already seeing "widespread political violence?"

[fascisthunter]

9. the result of right wing propaganda

[dchill]

11. There must be a Republican-approved law on the books...

somewhere that will put this bowl of crapslaw behind bars. This incitement is NOT civil disobedience.

[WCGreen]

13. American Kristallnacht...

What group is acting more and more like Fascist thugs...

Certainly not the democrats.

No it's the right wing and their call to shatter windows across the country. Targeted windows. Democratic Windows.

When they broke the windows, no body said anything...

When they stole an election by intimidating poll workers counting ballots...

when they rounded up and jailed protesters even though we live in a "Free" Society...

No one said a word...

When will our leaders call these thugs out for what they truly are, the strong-arm of the Republican Party...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Well said...

And now it begins...

I wish I could recommend your post...

[Loudmxr]

15. I had not made the connection until now. Thank you.

Last night I was planning our annual Holocaust Memorial. Didn't think when I heard the news today about the breaking of the glass in the Demos offices. Wow! Thank you once again.

[WeDidIt]

16. The Freepers actually called it "Kristallnacht"

Read it in the first thread on the glass breaking before this asshole crawled out from under his rock.

[Paladin]

17. I've Got Your "Soft 'Snik-Snik'", Vanderboegh.

This is domestic terrorism, pure and simple, and it ought to be dealt with as such. And you 1st Amendment absolutists spare us the inevitable whining, OK? Your free speech rights end at another individual's windows.......