The barely veiled threat of violence sometimes not veiled at all
In a piece calling for a more civil dialogue on health-care reform, my colleague Jim Galloway posted a photograph taken at this weekend’s rally at Centennial Olympic Park opposing President Obama’s health-care reform plan.
Let me point your attention to the man literally if not figuratively to the far left, the man holding a neatly printed sign that reads:
“THIS TIME WE DID NOT BRING OUR GUNS”
This time?
It’s hard to misinterpret the message that sign is intended to communicate.
I would argue that it is a threat intended to terrorize. It is an effort to use the spectre of violence to frighten people into accepting an outcome that they would otherwise not accept.
It is attempted intimidation. It is an acknowledgment that, lacking the intellectual firepower and ammunition to carry the day, the person in question is prepared to try to settle the issue using the kind of firepower and ammunition that any idiot can purchase at a local gunshop.
It also reflects a growing mindset among some that the government just isn’t listening and thus must be made to listen, one way or the other. There’s a fundamental childishness to that attitude, a notion that equates listening to agreement. The person in question is not prepared to accept the idea that having listened to him, a majority of his fellow Americans might decide that he is wrong. So he reserves the right to try to impose his view at the point of a gun.
The sad part is, the guy probably sees himself as a defender of freedom and democracy.
(At Talking Points Memo, Rachel Slajda has compiled reports from around the country of people taking it another step farther by bringing actual firearms to political events. Outside an event today in Phoenix at which President Obama appeared, two men were seen carrying AR-15 assault rifles. )
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md
August 17th, 2009
4:23 pm
Kind of like the black panthers wielding nightsticks outside voting booths in Philly. They come in all stripes and one side is just as bad as the other.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 17th, 2009
4:24 pm
“This time we did not bring our guns”
….there’s your sign
that the Feds will be watching you…..
and with just cause.
getalife
August 17th, 2009
4:25 pm
Yeah, a network news anchor called them ignorant:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/14/katie-couric-denounces-fe_n_260190.html
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 17th, 2009
4:26 pm
Well, I sure am glad Bookman didn’t see me standing to the far right out of that picture with my anti-tank weapon and the two machine guns I carry for hunting and self-defense. He might could of had a stroke. Bookman’s got no sense of humor. That sign is just a good old boy having a little fun.
AmVet
August 17th, 2009
4:28 pm
Mark my words, one of these dickhead “conservatives” is gonna shoot up a helluva bunch (more) people soon.
The “base’ has finally morphed into what it was always meant to be – an irrational, undereducated, virulently impotent but enraged, ragtag amalgam of societal misfits, would-be Klanners/Aryan Nation/skinhead types and the flat earth bible thumpers.
You’re doing a heckuva job, connies…
Davo
August 17th, 2009
4:30 pm
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
Get used to it or move to Canada, cowards.
md
August 17th, 2009
4:31 pm
“The “base’ has finally morphed into what it was always meant to be – an irrational, undereducated, virulently impotent but enraged, ragtag amalgam of societal misfits, would-be Klanners/Aryan Nation/skinhead types and the flat earth bible thumpers.”
Did you just describe the rioting out in CA? Naw, them were liberals.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 17th, 2009
4:31 pm
I understand that the feds held a guy with a sign about President Obama and the family…..(not gonna post the words, not feeling like being moderated)….
I’m with AmVet. Somebody stupid is going to do something stupid…..
Jay
August 17th, 2009
4:33 pm
Cowards hide behind guns, Davo.
Jefferson
August 17th, 2009
4:33 pm
4 dead in Ohio.
George American
August 17th, 2009
4:35 pm
WE’LL FORTUNATELY THIS REAL AMERICAN RECOGNIZES HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY HIS GUNS AND EVERYONE AROUND HIM WAS SAFER FOR IT!!!!
JOURNALISM PUTTING DOWN THIS MAN’S 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS IS PURE-T COMMUNISM!!!
Jefferson
August 17th, 2009
4:36 pm
Only two reasons to have a weapon (other than hunting) — fear and anger.
ty webb
August 17th, 2009
4:37 pm
UPDATE: One of the 2 men with rifles in Arizona was black.
Please take that into account when the comments soon turn to race, and how it’s only about how angry white conservatives can’t accept the fact that we have a black President.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 17th, 2009
4:38 pm
Only a stupid and highly ignorant person would do that.
But also, only a stupid and highly ignorant “news” paper would print glamorous photos of left wing protestors burning and rioting like the AJC has many, many times.
Violence is violence.
(And who says this isn’t some pinko trying to smear the non violent protest?)
Brad Steel
August 17th, 2009
4:38 pm
When is one of these wingnuts going to blow his stack, quit yelling and start shooting?
Where will will the AM radio guys skulk to then?
Aren’t these angry bitter geezers suppose to move to Florida?
Davo
August 17th, 2009
4:39 pm
‘Cowards hide behind guns, Davo.’
And you hide behind the govt Bookman; I won’t risk your censure to inform you of what that makes you.
CatherineAtlanta
August 17th, 2009
4:39 pm
Thanks for pointing that out. When I saw that photo earlier it gave me pause. And folks complain about Congressman Johnson had metal detectors at his Town Hall meeting…
AmVet
August 17th, 2009
4:41 pm
Laugh away, md, it’s all a big joke.
And certainly no need to take these psychotic scumbags seriously, is there?
Even after one of the Hannity, O’Reilly, Limbaugh reading (i.e. TRUE) conservatives like Jim Adkisson does his deadly deeds.
Just more empty rhetoric and lip service from his liberal-hating cousins, who again will say next to nothing after the next massacre of innocents…
Jay
August 17th, 2009
4:42 pm
I’m hiding from no one, behind no one, Davo.
You, on the other hand, are safely cloaked in anonymity.
David Hume
August 17th, 2009
4:45 pm
George is a bit off his rocker isn’t he? Does the Brady Bill still require a background check for homicidal mental illness?
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
4:48 pm
Well, Jay, I’m just glad to see that these cowards at least have enough courage to show their faces these days. It’s so much more refreshing. They have their guns and their ammo. Let’s see if the Limbaughs and Hannity’s, et al, can push ‘em over the edge and put an end to this latest uprising of fringe madness. I liken them to Stephen King’s, “IT”. IT is something that seems to get resurrected every so often and IT feeds for a while until IT gets put down, again.
N-GA
August 17th, 2009
4:51 pm
I suspect these gun-toting individuals are just begging for the government to investigate them (wants & warrants, back taxes, etc.).
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
4:58 pm
md
August 17th, 2009
4:23 pm
Kind of like the black panthers wielding nightsticks outside voting booths in Philly. They come in all stripes and one side is just as bad as the other.
Always the joker. The class clown. The “Independent” that seems to have a bias when it comes to recollection of past events. You’re Riiiiiiight, aren’t you. Far Right. Into fringe territory.
@@
August 17th, 2009
4:58 pm
Lawd ah mercy, jay! Did you just call our troops cowards?
Jay
August 17th, 2009
5:00 pm
And the cops too, @@. You forgot them somehow.
thomas
August 17th, 2009
5:01 pm
Jay you seem testy today………
I would contend though that you hide behind conservatives (republicans).
You have spent the last week or so telling us all how the ignorant and ill-informed republicans are the reason that health care reform may fail.
But correct me if I am wrong in this but….. is it not true that your side the democrats have the votes in office but they are not pulling the trigger.
Why is there such a difference in the amount of article you post about these evil democrats holding up health care reform, and those who admittedly are against single payer reform?
Sounds like you ARE indeed hiding behinf the BIG, BAD MADE UP BOOGIE MAN.
thomas
August 17th, 2009
5:05 pm
If a person has a carry permit, what is exactly wrong with them having guns at town halls? 2nd Amendment anyone?
RealityKing
August 17th, 2009
5:05 pm
Meanwhile.., back in Obamaville where Barack sees the green grass a sprouting.
DOW -186.06 -2.00%
9,135.34
Foreclosures rising
Layoffs rising
Consumer spending plumneting
RealityKing
August 17th, 2009
5:06 pm
Can you say double dip recession??
@@
August 17th, 2009
5:06 pm
DANG, jay!!!! Now you’re calling our law enforcement officers cowards?
I did forget about them.
Good thing you were close by to remind us all that law enforcement is among your list of cowards.
Weird, jay….REALLY!
Jay
August 17th, 2009
5:07 pm
I knew it was just an oversight on your part, @@.
RW-(the original)
August 17th, 2009
5:07 pm
“THIS TIME WE DID NOT BRING OUR GUNS”
Well now there’s a sign no fool should be walking around downtown Atlanta with.
Midori
August 17th, 2009
5:08 pm
so THAT’S what Wyld Byll looks like….
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:11 pm
And the cops too, @@. You forgot them somehow.
Ouch! That had to sting.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:13 pm
thomas
August 17th, 2009
5:05 pm
If a person has a carry permit, what is exactly wrong with them having guns at town halls? 2nd Amendment anyone?
As I recall, our Georgia congressmen and women decided not to allow the gun toters under the gold dome. I wonder why they would impose restrictions.
@@
August 17th, 2009
5:13 pm
Well, jay, think what you will about me.
I’ll give you a chance to clarify your comment. Lawd only knows, Obama has set an excellent example for you to follow. He has to clarify his clarifications.
Go ahead, jay…
I’m a patient soul.
Jay "Numbnuts" Bookwoman
August 17th, 2009
5:15 pm
Jay, do you think that guy is a liberal, conservative or a lunatic? What’s your opinion?
JayBee
August 17th, 2009
5:16 pm
Jay’s right, folks.
But President Obama has an answer for the problem and the folks creating it.
Andy Borowitz just filed a report on Obama’s promise to those folks today, The report is brief and in easy-to-understand words. It’s posted at http://www.borowitzreport.com/
@@
August 17th, 2009
5:20 pm
While I’m waiting, I’ll share the story about my neighbor’s trip to David Scott’s town hall. He comes over to the house with a stick (for his poster). I say “Whoooaaaaa (insert name here) what’cha doin’ with that stick?” He replies “I might have to knock some sense into a brainless liberal.”
“But it’s got a point”, I said.
He laughs that contagious laugh of his and replies…..”and your point is?”
“I don’t have one! You do!”
No harm no foul.
WelfarefortheRich
August 17th, 2009
5:21 pm
I’m glad I started going to the range…If the hateful, white, uneduated Georgians wants their 1776 and Civil War all over again…I’m sure the other Americans are ready….The Confederate was lost and it will be lost again….
Pogo
August 17th, 2009
5:22 pm
That’s right Jay. Try to marginalize the people that don’t walk goose-step with you and Obama and your liberal progressive agenda by pointing out something that could be construed as threatening but obviously is not. This sign looks metaphorical to those not so inclined to find the conservative devil hiding behind every corner (unlike yourself). If it makes you feel better to try to make those people against Obama & Co.’s socialist idiocy as being a threat to civility, so be it. The bottom line is, the majority of this country does not believe like you and there is nothing that you and your bottom feeding progressive “journalist” class can do about it. We live in one world. You and your Never Never land liberal buddies live in another. Keep this up, and you will soon go the way of Tucker as in, you will be coined irrelavent. You have lost every last ounce of objectivity that you may have had (though you had very little in the first place). What conservative monster did you wrong in the past Jay? Someone must have because you seem not to be able to get over it. Your inflexibility to anything but your liberal/socialist idealogy is going to be your undoing. Let’s face it, we all want what’s best for our country. But the greatest single thing about America is that when we, the low down working class see cow pie, we call it cow pie. At least the majority of the country does. Obama better slide to the middle soon or he is toast. He better tell the real president, Rham Emanuel, that they can’t afford, politically, to bulldoze their Harvard learned liberal idealogies down America’s throat. Harvard don’t pay our bills for us Jay.
RW-(the original)
August 17th, 2009
5:22 pm
Dang! I was going to report this subversive article to flag@whitehouse.gov but the snitch box has been closed down. It seems their little data mining trick didn’t go over to well with all the recipients of unsolicited spammail from the White House.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:24 pm
“Laugh away, md, it’s all a big joke.”
No amvet, its not a joke. But it is a joke when it is not applied evenly, which you didn’t do.
Jay "Numbnuts" Bookwoman
August 17th, 2009
5:27 pm
You guys have been duped. Nice try Jay, but that photo has been altered. I guess Jay was upset about the recent developments with the Health Scare Bill. Very low Jay, very low.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:27 pm
“The “Independent” that seems to have a bias when it comes to recollection of past events. You’re Riiiiiiight, aren’t you. Far Right. Into fringe territory.”
Its called balance Taxum, something Jay neglects to do when presenting only one side of a story. I wouldn’t have to point out the obvious if you and yours actually had an open mind instead of a partisan mind. I see that both are wrong, where as you seem to think there is a difference.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:28 pm
No amvet, its not a joke. But it is a joke when it is not applied evenly, which you didn’t do
Says the first to commenton the thread… wait for it… wait… unevenly.
Gred Mendel
August 17th, 2009
5:31 pm
You can have their brains when you pry them from Rush’s fat, sweaty hands.
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
5:31 pm
Maybe it’s just me, but I found the sign above it FAR scarier.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:32 pm
md,
do you post under a different moniker on Wooten’s blog. I was looking for some of that “even” stuff that you claim to provide all of us uneven folk with and since there’s none of it here, I thought I would look for it over there.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:34 pm
“No amvet, its not a joke. But it is a joke when it is not applied evenly, which you didn’t do
Says the first to commenton the thread… wait for it… wait… unevenly.”
No Taxum, Jay was the first to comment.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:34 pm
You can have their brains when you pry them from Rush’s fat, sweaty hands.
Now THAT is just plain gut puking gross. I won’t be able to eat for days and then I’ll start feeling all bad and I’ll have to go to the emergency room for another Pepto fix.
By the way, can any of you Republicans spare a dime.
Jay "Numbnuts" Bookwoman
August 17th, 2009
5:34 pm
Guys, you need to do your homework here. Never believe what Jay says until you do the research yourself.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:37 pm
No Taxum, Jay was the first to comment.
No, he was ninth to comment — you were first.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:38 pm
“do you post under a different moniker on Wooten’s blog. I was looking for some of that “even” stuff that you claim to provide all of us uneven folk with and since there’s none of it here, I thought I would look for it over there.”
Now why would I want to go to a blog where everyone agrees with everyone else. Where’s the fun in that. I don’t need anyone to validate my beliefs. Is that why all the lefties come here, so they can nod their head up and down and feel good about themselves.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:42 pm
“No, he was ninth to comment — you were first.”
Well, I guess I was commenting about a non-existent story full of comments by a non-existent author by the name of Jay. Silly me.
@@
August 17th, 2009
5:42 pm
I must admit, that poster do look a little altered.
jay, you may wanna check on the validity of this photo.
Feel free to do it before offering up your clarification.
getalife
August 17th, 2009
5:43 pm
The police will take them out if they draw their weapons.
Crazy, ignorant and guns do not mix well.
Remember when the seniors brought guns when w wanted to privatize Social Security.
Yeah, they didn’t.
getalife
August 17th, 2009
5:44 pm
He is your ilk @@.
Embrace the crazy.
Geez.
Crushing the pubt's
August 17th, 2009
5:45 pm
Good article by Jay. Much of the violence that has actually happened like the shooting of Dr. Tiller, and the killing at the Holocaust Museum have their genisis in the racial unmitigated hatred that has become the mantra of an increasingly small island of the extreme right. What used to be the Republican party with real values and educated members –about the time William F. Buckley Jr. was at his height at the National Review is completely dead; never to return again. It’s been downhill ever since.
The Republican mantra has always been “if ah can’t do it with mah anatomy cause it don’t work , ah’ll do it with mah gun.”
The reality is, instead of looking for ways to broaden its appeal, the way Kay Baily Hutchison is presciently suggesting in her campaign for govenor of Texas, the Republican party is shrinking faster than ice caps in the Artic circle. That base is meltin’ baby, but it’s all good.
Speaking of really scarry developments, now we have the announcement of future convict Tom Delay as a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”
http://www.tomdelay.com This is one of my never miss daily sites. Sign up for DWTS updates from ole Dancin’ Tom. The dancing practice will serve him well when he becomes a longtime resident of the Texas Prison System aka TDCJ.
Whazza coop? They’ve been around for 30 years. Cobb EMC is a coop. It’s under active federal investigation, embezzled a ton of money, hidden all their records which had to be seized with a subpoena, and is full of corruption where a few board members steal from the members.
Your rates with Cobb EMC are significantly more than from Southern Company/Georgia Power.
Coops, around for 30 years have brought you:
In 2008:
Average Insurance Cost: $12, 680
Employer $9,325
Worker $3,354
430 People Lose Coverage per Day in Georgia. 430 more have gotten the great news today by close of business.
It’s rising exponentially and in about 3 years it’s going to be $21,500 in Georgia.
The administrative costs of private insurance have swollen to hundreds of millions of dollars because the brunt of their money is spent on Bunny Ranch contributions to Congress, and advertising.
The paper work doctors are forced to shuffle around and the administrative costs of banging on the insurance companies to get them to pay you could be saved with the competition of a public option easily.
But it’s always about fear. The insurance companies are “skeeerred” of competition. The pharmaceutical companies are “skeeerrred” of competition which is why they are spending hundreds of millions trying to defeat patent window revision for drugs and competitive bidding for Medicare and competition for the insurance companies in the form of a public option.
If Dick Armey is so freaked by government involvement then where were these people when they were secretly sanctioning illegal wiretapping of every domestic phone conversationand illegal email capture? Where were they when they let the phone companies off the hook for doing the illegal wiretapping of all domestic conversations for years?
md
August 17th, 2009
5:46 pm
From Jaybee’s borowitz report:
“We clearly underestimated the role that doofuses and dimwits were going to play in this debate,”
Everybody already knew Pelosi and Reid were going to run the show
getalife
August 17th, 2009
5:48 pm
This guy brought two.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/08/man-carrying-an-assault-rifle-and-pistol-outside-obama-event.php?ref=fpa
getalife
August 17th, 2009
5:49 pm
Oops,
Jay already posted that TPM kook.
booger
August 17th, 2009
5:50 pm
I remember watching Bush’s effigy hung and burned and the general media take was to point out how strongly some people felt.
Now its become a terrorist act.
All the same, I’m sure this diversion came as a godsend since your causes have taken a beating this week. I predict we will see Bush, Cheney, and Palin all paraded around this site in the up coming days.
md
August 17th, 2009
5:53 pm
I zoomed in on the guys hat and by golly it says moveon.org. How interesting.
getalife
August 17th, 2009
5:54 pm
Another TPM kook from GA:
“Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) just appeared on Chris Matthews show basically gave a big thumbs up to the idea of bringing fire arms to public political events.”
Geez.
Jay "Numbnuts" Bookwoman
August 17th, 2009
5:55 pm
Jay’s limp wrist can’t even lift a gun… let alone aim and fire it.
RB from Gwinnett
August 17th, 2009
5:55 pm
Are you scared of a sign now Jay?
Pathetic.
BTW, I saw Fox news viewership is up 13% over last year, Jay. Hows the AJC doing? Is this line of crap from you and yours continuing to drive them out of business? Still balaming it on the economy and changing news outlets?
Try looking in the mirror.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
5:58 pm
No Taxum, Jay was the first to comment.
Comments start immediately below Jay’s blog entry. There’s even a count provided and when no comments are present, that count is zero.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
6:00 pm
Now why would I want to go to a blog where everyone agrees with everyone else.
So that you, the Independent that you are, can make sure that the comments remain even. Silly you.
md
August 17th, 2009
6:01 pm
“Crazy, ignorant and guns do not mix well.”
As evidenced on a daily basis in the good ole ATL.
Curious Observer
August 17th, 2009
6:02 pm
They can’t get their way at the ballot box. Now they’ve resorted to disrupting town hall meetings and threatening violence. And “reasoned” people like @@ urge it on. Most of these thugs carrying signs that imply future violence need a few months in jail well before they qualify for a life sentence. They have a right to express their views but not to threaten future bodily harm if their views don’t prevail. Yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater, anyone?
Jay
August 17th, 2009
6:03 pm
You “remember” that, Booger?
How odd. Because I just went through our electronic database of national media and find no record in Bush’s entire term of him being hung in effigy in this country. None.
Overseas, in Iraq and elsewhere? Yes. Here in the USofA, no record whatsoever of such a thing happening. Yet you not only “remember” this occurring, you remember the attitude of the media when they reported it.
Strange, huh?
md
August 17th, 2009
6:03 pm
“Comments start immediately below Jay’s blog entry. There’s even a count provided and when no comments are present, that count is zero.”
Some of us actually read the commentators comments before posting, and they are just that, comments, but waste of time with you.
md
August 17th, 2009
6:06 pm
“They can’t get their way at the ballot box. Now they’ve resorted to disrupting town hall meetings and threatening violence. And “reasoned” people like @@ urge it on. Most of these thugs carrying signs that imply future violence need a few months in jail well before they qualify for a life sentence. They have a right to express their views but not to threaten future bodily harm if their views don’t prevail. Yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater, anyone?”
Again, one must be directed to the CA riots. Is violence acceptable from one side and not the other? Or is it just wrong, period.
TGT
August 17th, 2009
6:09 pm
Consider some of the words of Keith Olbermann, one of the left’s loonier spokesmen, during W’s administration:
“We now face what our ancestors faced at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.” (Commenting on the setting up of military trials for terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, “Countdown,” Oct. 18, 2006)
“A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.” (On Bush’s commuting Lewis Libby’s prison sentence, “Countdown,” July 2, 2007.)
“Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than al Qaeda-worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.” (In an interview with Playboy magazine, October 2007 issue.)
You don’t have to claim you have a gun that you may or may not produce to be dangerous. Shout “Ku Klux Klan” and such and maybe you’ll get Black Panther Party members with clubs (and whose knows what else) to show up at polling places.
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
6:13 pm
“Yet you not only “remember” this occurring, you remember the attitude of the media when they reported it.”
The definition of schizophrenia: the inability to tell the difference between reality and the little voices in your head
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
6:14 pm
“Consider some of the words of Keith Olbermann”
Sounded quite reasonable to me. Funny how basing your statements on the truth does that.
Jay "Numbnuts" Bookwoman
August 17th, 2009
6:19 pm
It must hurt Jay’s Pulitzer Prize winning ego, to have to write these stupid blogs every day and then deal with the aftermath.
TGT
August 17th, 2009
6:20 pm
Doggone:
The definition of “idiocy”: the inability to discern the difference between reasonable and lunacy.
md
August 17th, 2009
6:21 pm
““Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than al Qaeda-worse for our society. It’s as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.” (In an interview with Playboy magazine, October 2007 issue.)”
Quite comical considering Olbermann works for the other corrupt media giant of GE and NBC. Pot meet kettle.
Dusty
August 17th, 2009
6:24 pm
Honestly, are there any MEN left in this world who are not afraid of EVERYTHING?
One guy in a crowd holds up a provocative sign and Jay Bookman can’t stop running and crying! And all the other libs want you to know they too are scared silly,
Then Bookman wants to explain WHY he is frightened. The man is trying to terrorize people!
NO,,blowing up skyscrapers with planes is trying to terrorize people. Or blowing up police stations like Ayers, Obama’s buddy, did when trying to terrorize. Holding up a sign is not terrorism except for cowards.
Then Bookman makes one true statement. He declares that the man with the sign might see himself as a defender of freedom and democracy
YES, he probably does and is probably a veteran who thinks this healthcare policy is a stinker. He’s right about that.
What was needed at that rally was one little ol’ lady to go over and tap the guy on the shoulder and say”Buddy, that sign gives the wrong impression. Put it away.” He’d probably be surprised and say OK.
The insane nutcases are shooting up churches and college students in class. They are not carryng signs and protesting at a political meeting.
I’m sure you get personal threats, Bookman, and that is wrong. But you have gone overboard here about nothing illegal. NOthing personal. Just a man who wants his representatives to know his objections.
. Pull yourself together. A little man with a sign is not the one endangering the USA. There are far greater dangers you need to fight. I wish you could get upset over them. Seems you are not paid to do that.
.
Then Bookman goes wrong again. No one can legally buy a gun without a permit. In most places, you cannot carry a gun without a permit. .
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
6:24 pm
“the inability to discern the difference between reasonable and lunacy.”
Maybe. But only if there is agreement on what constitutes reasonable and what constitutes lunacy.
@@
August 17th, 2009
6:26 pm
I do believe this is Bush’s head in a basket beneath a guillotine.
Time and location?
Nine days before the 2008 Presidential election, the Obama campaign held a rally in Denver.
That’s in the U.S.of A.
yeah right
August 17th, 2009
6:28 pm
You either became a moonbat lib yesterday or you did not go to any of the Bush protests, Bookman. Whch one is it?
Scooter
August 17th, 2009
6:30 pm
You tellum Dusty! I’m so angry I can’t.
yeah right
August 17th, 2009
6:31 pm
‘Then Bookman goes wrong again. No one can legally buy a gun without a permit. In most places, you cannot carry a gun without a permit.’
You must pass a background check to buy a gun from a dealer. A carry permit is to conceal one after you have bought it. If you buy a firearm at a show from an individual, no check is required.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
6:33 pm
“Comments start immediately below Jay’s blog entry. There’s even a count provided and when no comments are present, that count is zero.”
Some of us actually read the commentators comments before posting, and they are just that, comments, but waste of time with you
Chill md. Jay has chosen to follow the standard definition for comments in the industry but since definitions bother you so much, you go right ahead and re-define comments differently, just for yourself.
yeah right
August 17th, 2009
6:34 pm
might want to worry about the libs that fell for the Cash for Clunkers scam. The Feds have rejected 80% of the so called “deals”.
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
6:34 pm
“If you buy a firearm at a show from an individual, no check is required.”
And the black market
@@
August 17th, 2009
6:34 pm
Here’s a closeup for you leftists.
jay, have you confirmed that photo as legit yet? It really does look altered.
If the guy holding that poster wasn’t indeed holding THAT poster and sees your column, couldn’t he sue you for liable? I mean…
you basically called him a threat to the President.
Bill White
August 17th, 2009
6:35 pm
Far left ultra Liberal Jay doesn’t get it. Nationalized health care is a step towards taking more of our freedoms away. If they choose our doctors or whether we live or die, then what’s next? I’m sorry, but this is what Hitler did to the Hebrews and others. We know how that story turned out. Leftist Communist Jay is taking the sign way too seriously. I love you Jay and would protect you because you’re still a born-American (I think). I would protect you with my guns. Don’t worry about this patriot at Centennial Park. It’s the lonely secular progressives who hate society that we all have to worry about. God Bless…..
yeah right
August 17th, 2009
6:38 pm
“Mark my words, one of these dickhead “conservatives” is gonna shoot up a helluva bunch (more) people soon.
The “base’ has finally morphed into what it was always meant to be – an irrational, undereducated, virulently impotent but enraged, ragtag amalgam of societal misfits, would-be Klanners/Aryan Nation/skinhead types and the flat earth bible thumpers.
You’re doing a heckuva job, connies…’
The libs are up in the body count. Gym shooter, a fervant obama suporter, got three. 89 year old WWII vet at the museum got one.
Taxpayer
August 17th, 2009
6:38 pm
Honestly, are there any MEN left in this world who are not afraid of EVERYTHING?
Apparently not, considering the size of some of those weapons that they feel they need at a public gathering of other unarmed people. I mean, if these gun-toters were physical midgets, maybe the guns would be justified. But being mental midgets should actually disqualify them from having any right whatsoever to anything that they could hurt themselves or others with.
DoggoneGA
August 17th, 2009
6:38 pm
“If they choose our doctors or whether we live or die, then what’s next? ”
That’s right, keep arguing against provisions that ARE NOT in the bills being considered. THAT’s they way to educate yourself and others on what is being discussed. Keep it up, you fit RIGHT in.
booger
August 17th, 2009
6:39 pm
Jay,
I did indeed see pictures of Bush hung in effigy. Pardon me if I didn’t capture the details, but it was during an anti war rally, and the caption in the newspaper was something to the effect of Feelings run high at anti war rally.
Now if you research was searching for an article or headline which used the words Bush hung in Effigy, I doubt you would find it. Much like I suspect if a few years in the future someone researches gun threats over health care reform, I doubt they will pick up your subject photo.
Just the same, I do remember it because it was strange to me that this was not mentioned in the caption.
RW-(the original)
August 17th, 2009
6:39 pm
Looks like Jay B might be right, but since this is the first set of Bush protest photos right here in the good ole U S of A I’ve looked at in a search that took three seconds I somehow think the smart money is on booger all except the part about the press reporting it. These probably are the reporters
Possibly not safe for work due to libs and their language problems.
yeah right
August 17th, 2009
6:40 pm
“I’m with AmVet. Somebody stupid is going to do something stupid…..”
They already did. They elected a marxist President.
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator :-) You Whine :-(
August 17th, 2009
6:43 pm
George W Bush burns in effigy (Washington DC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINhfkQAz1g
Burn, Bush, burn! Hey wait, get it a way from the car!
Paul
August 17th, 2009
6:43 pm
Jay
If someone wants to present some facts and not have them accused of being ‘Talking Points” Briebart did a similar story at
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A4SU8G1&show_article=1
Seems they see it as a political statement about their ‘rights.’ O-kaayyyy. Ummm, just what legislation has Pres Obama proposed that would do away with this ‘right’? Must be a subparagraph bullet point in the legislation to turn us into a socialized country.
Y’know how it’s been said how profanity is the mark of a weak mind trying to express itself? Well, when you see someone carrying a reference to guns (or guns themselves, or any weapons) to a political event not dealing with gun control…
Hey there, N-GA, you too, Midori
RW-(the original) – 5:07 – LOL!
RW-(the original)
August 17th, 2009
6:44 pm
Gotta be all those foreigners doing this
/sarc