A call for armed counterprotesters to Atlanta labor rally
SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, is holding rallies at state capitols around the country to demonstrate solidarity with public employee unions in Wisconsin. The union has scheduled an event at the Gold Dome in Atlanta at 4 pm today.
This has been posted on the far-right Free Republic site, under the headline:
“Atlanta Tea Party and Many Other Groups, Facing Off the SEIU Thugs Wednesday”
“Members of the various Tea Party, 9/12, and other freedom-oriented folks in the Atlanta area will be assembling in the vicinity of Georgia State Capitol this coming Wednesday afternoon at 4 pm. We’ll be providing balance to the ravings of the passengers aboard the SEIU Thugbus, which is scheduled to vomit forth its stooges at that same place and time.
If you are within three hours drive of ATL, come join us.
Dan and others from RTC will be there, with the usual accoutrements. As always, each participant is responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws.
Rally point will be the corner of Trinity and Washington Streets in front of the Trinity United Methodist Church. Guide on the Gadsden flags. Rendezvous time no later than 3:45 pm local.
There appears to be some regulations re armed protests on the Washington Street side of the Capitol, so attendees are requested to be flexible in your attire. We will attempt (but no promises) to get some additional clarity regarding the situation and post it here prior to the show.
Take a stand.
Join us in Atlanta on Wednesday.”
The advice that “attendees are requested to be flexible in your attire” is apparently a suggestion to keep firearms concealed. The original author goes on to claim that “the lefties are idiots who are very good at running their mouths… and also very good at keeping their distance from an armed American”.
A couple of posters advised against bringing firearms to the rally, but that point of view did not seem to carry the day, as the following posts suggest:
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Doggone/GA
February 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
“Ok. wait a sec. I guess I’m ok with changing this law. But what gives the executive branch the right to stop enforcing laws?”
Look up “signing statements” under the past administration
Adam
February 23rd, 2011
1:08 pm
Besides jm, the Obama administration is cutting overhead costs by not enforcing those laws! It’s deficit reduction!
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:08 pm
Mick 1:06 -I would never go work for the government because of the compensation. I might (but not likely) consider doing so under the premise I’m helping try to fix the abundance of problems our cities, state, and country face. But I’d never do it for the money.
And luckily for government workers, they get paid more now, and they get paid OBSCENELY more later, assuming the government doesn’t default under the weight of the absurdly over generous retirement plans (which is a dubious assumption).
USinUK
February 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
jm – you seem to be completely ignoring the .. you know … WORK they do.
That has value.
and THAT is something that the “bill payers” are NOT doing.
Adam
February 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
USinUK: hear hear
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:10 pm
Adam 1:08 – that’s funny.
RE, public unions are engaged in legalized thievery. Businesses taking subsidies are engaged in legal thievery as well. But this does not include businesses receiving tax breaks per se, although I’m against those too.
Adam
February 23rd, 2011
1:10 pm
It’s my day off and I’m going to use more of it to do something productive. I’ll return here when I’m at work (lol)
Adam
February 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
jm: good points. Really the answer is to address corruption, not complete busting.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
USinUK 1:09 – I didn’t say their work doesn’t have value. Obviously some of them are engaged in very valuable, government only can do this, kind of work. But not in aggregate. IN aggregate, the government tends to be a drag, not benevolent. The courts, policing, infrastructure (sometimes) are the exceptions.
RB from Gwinnett
February 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
Public employees don’t pay taxes. They are not tax producers, they are tax consumers. Their tax returns are merely an adjustment of how much tax money, produced and created by the public sector, they consume. The do not produce tax revenue.
Left wing management
February 23rd, 2011
1:14 pm
Barack Obama yesterday in Cleveland:
We’ve been willing to take risks to do big things. And we also get each other’s backs, just like you’re doing here in Cleveland, because we know that when it comes to America’s success, there’s no room for division between business and labor, and Democrats and Republicans. When it comes to competing for jobs and industries, we are on one team, and that is the American team. We will rise and fall together.
But the question is: does denying this division – which clearly exists – further the interests of workers or does it not play into the hands of those who have an interest in denying it?
Jefferson
February 23rd, 2011
1:14 pm
Somewhere, sometime, someday, someone has to do something right.
George W
February 23rd, 2011
1:14 pm
Jay, I am not really sure what your point is here?
USinUK
February 23rd, 2011
1:16 pm
jm – “But not in aggregate. IN aggregate, the government tends to be a drag, not benevolent. The courts, policing, infrastructure (sometimes) are the exceptions.”
ohfercryingoutloud … talk about drinking the koolaid, buddy, you bought the whole STORE.
food safety is a drag?
public health is a drag?
education is a drag?
sanitation is a drag?
firefighting is a drag?
traffic control is a drag?
planning / zoning is a drag?
road building is a drag?
jeebus – THOSE are the things that pave the way for the businesses at whose feet you worship.
I mean. just. DAMN.
I need to go bang my head on keyboard a while …
Mary Elizabeth
February 23rd, 2011
1:16 pm
Stands for Decibels @ 12:15 p.m.
“And given the utter lack of logical thought coming from working class/mid-level professional sorts who post here, screaming and fuming about those public sector unions ruining the country, I have to think something beyond mere policy disagreement if fueling it.”
_________________________________________________________________
A week or so ago, I posted that we are in danger of becoming a nation of small-minded people.
There IS something going on beyond mere policy disagreement, even if people are not recognizing it. The focus in our nation has changed from: “how can I use my life and energy in my profession
to be of service to others?” to “how much money are you making compared to how much I am
making, and what are you taking from me?”
The value I presented would not even need to be money, it could be other worldly values. The point is that Americans (lacking awareness of what is happening) have started seeing themselves as victims of others instead of wanting to see themselves as contributors to society-at-large. That state of consciousness, IMHO, is small-minded in that it lacks a larger vision of what human potential can be about. Those leaders that will, again, inspire the people of this nation to care about something day-to-day that is larger than themselves, and their own lives, will elevate our national consciousness and dialogue.
Politically, instead of simply philosophically, big monied corporate interest are dividing middle and working class people into two camps – public and private – while they continue to be the major players of our national destiny – by continuing to put campaign money into the candidacy of those politicians who will support their interests – not the interests of the average American.
andygrdzki
February 23rd, 2011
1:18 pm
JAY you LIE………..Jay, RTC at the bottom of the story was “Restore the Constitution”…. Did you see that or just making up about Right to Carry…… Go to the Restore The Constitution website…..
EPI is made upon of current and former Union people… very objective…….
Normal
February 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
Oh Jefferson, you poor, sweet, naive kid…
Mick
February 23rd, 2011
1:21 pm
jm
Well, you’ve made your point but that obscenely more can only be those public sector jobs that require overtime. That is the one area of abuse that I will agree, especially when you have former beach police knocking down over 125k in retirement versus teachers at about 30k. Overtime should not be added to the base salary when computing retirement. Even those in the public sector don’t agree with some of the abuse, because regardless of what people like rb think, they are taxpayers too…
getalife
February 23rd, 2011
1:23 pm
Going after the teacher unions fired up Obama’s base but what happens when they decide our cons are the problem?
You lose big in elections silly.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:23 pm
USinUK 1:16 – go right ahead. Yes, planning is a drag. Houston does fine without it. All your other examples can also be executed by the private sector with the right design and plans. Ever heard of a toll road?
I’m not saying we don’t need food safety inspectors. But there are other ways to do food inspection rather than the government doing it. If you don’t believe that, you will need pull your head out of the sand before you can bang it on the keyboard.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:24 pm
Mick 1:21 – my “after” was referring to retirement. Plenty of (CA and elsewhere) public sector workers (even in ATL in the police) can pull down over a couple million in retirement. Absurd.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
February 23rd, 2011
1:25 pm
Appreciate the thoughts…
RB
My wife is private sector, just as I was until 2005. Life sucks sometimes, but when you have an abundance of lemons, you just make lemonade. I’m not looking for sympathy or anything. My point is everybody suffers in some form or fashion. Public service isn’t some grand scheme to get wealthy and die rich, unless you run for public office or something. My wife and I both bust our ass working hard every day.
Jefferson
February 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
Normal, I wish I was…
Mick
February 23rd, 2011
1:31 pm
Scott walker getting punk’d will be a major embarassment, he basically has been revealed to be a koch tool and a major league phony. Sometimes, there is justice in this world…
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
February 23rd, 2011
1:32 pm
Public employees don’t pay taxes. They are not tax producers, they are tax consumers. Their tax returns are merely an adjustment of how much tax money, produced and created by the public sector, they consume. The do not produce tax revenue.
So, what you are saying is that even though we labor and are paid for our labor, the money we earn from our labor still belongs to the taxpayer after we’re paid? That’s stretching the whole taxpayer thing to a whole new level. If that’s what you’re saying, then you can argue that corporate profits do not belong to corporations but to the consumers who give their money to the corporations themselves.
stands for decibels
February 23rd, 2011
1:32 pm
Overtime should not be added to the base salary when computing retirement.
and of course, this (like a lot of other gripes people like to trot out about union representation) is a totally separate issue from what’s actually being discussed in WI and other states.
I mean, for instance, if it’s especially difficult to fire an incompetent worker in a particular state in a particular line of work, that’s an issue. It should be addressed. It has NOTHING to do with budgetary issues, however.
/drive-by
Box Turtle Bulletin » Living In A Post-Tucson World
February 23rd, 2011
1:33 pm
[...] posters at Free Republic are calling on counter-protesters to an Atlanta pro-labor rally to arrive “with the usual [...]
George W
February 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION!!!
Jefferson
February 23rd, 2011
1:37 pm
These “tea-cons” really have no life it seems…what a bunch of saps.
AmVet
February 23rd, 2011
1:38 pm
This Wisconsin governor does seem exceedingly gutless. Even by Republican standards…
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:39 pm
I may be wrong, but I think our ADD 24/7 news culture’s interest is starting to fade regarding Wisconsin. Libya is going front and center….
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:40 pm
“This Wisconsin governor does seem exceedingly gutless” say what?
AmVet
February 23rd, 2011
1:41 pm
I don’t buy all this right-wing blather about supporting the US Constitution.
How else can one explain how they always vote for men like GWB and Ronald Reagan who used it as toilet paper?
Jefferson
February 23rd, 2011
1:43 pm
If Libya supplies 2% of the oil, why did it go up 9% yesterday? Because it can.
AmVet
February 23rd, 2011
1:43 pm
Walker is a consummate coward.
Whats so damn difficult for you you union-busting-wannabes to understand about that?
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
AmVet – “Walker is a consummate coward.”
Hmm. Who is the bigger coward, the run-away Dems that fled the state or the Republican govenor that wants some budget reform? Whew, that is a toughy.
The Left-nuts…..the new party of NO!
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
AmVet 1:43 – evidence please. On the contrary, what he’s doing is considerably unpopular among some very powerful, well financed people. So in most circles, that’s called doing something brave. But go ahead, call him a coward if you want. Your opinion is in stark contrast to the facts.
Doing something easy and in cowardice usually gets lots of applause (things Democrats do).
Fred
February 23rd, 2011
1:47 pm
Maybe they can get a bigger body count than they did in Tuscon……….
Keep up the good fight!
February 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
andy…that thing on your head. Its support to carry a brain. Have you tried to use it? let’s look at the original post on freerepublic:
Dan and others from RTC will be there, with the usual accoutrements. As always, each participant is responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws. . .. .
There appears to be some regulations re armed protests on the Washington Street side of the Capitol, so attendees are requested to be flexible in your attire. We will attempt (but no promises) to get some additional clarity regarding the situation and post it here prior to the show
________________________________________
Restore the Constitution not Right to Carry….okay, I got it now. Of course the Constitution is usually called an “accountrement” and whenever you carry the Constitution be sure that you are responsible to comply with applicable laws. How many times have I seen that warning at a Restore the Constitution event…. And sure the warning about regulations impacting ARMED PROTESTS on Washington Street is clearly directed at those armed with Constitution.
Well I guess you got Jay good on that lying thing….why I daresay he will hang his head in shame….
B^4
February 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
These troglodytes are calling for a Civil War “mulligan”- ya lost, get over it.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
Scaredy Democraps
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
jm – what are your thoughts on this market turmoil? You think this mideat/Africa BS is going to drag on our market rally as of late? Or does Libyia just have The Street freaked out and things could get back to normal next week…or even with some resolution in Libyia/Bharain?
Mr. Peanutty
February 23rd, 2011
1:50 pm
jm,
We’re so glad to hear that others agree with our stance on food inspections. That said, we would be happy to send you free food samples each day if you will simply wear a heart monitor that we will provide for only $19.95 per month. It comes with a wireless adapter so we can readily receive signals over your existing internet connection. Thank you so much.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
1:54 pm
Nice Guy – I think the fear is “Libya Contagion”. I mean, losing Libya oil isn’t good, but it won’t be the end of the world. But things are getting restive over there, and if you lose Kuwait or some place like that, it starts to add up.
And higher oil prices are a HUGE drag on the economy. The second biggest single driver after interest rates. So, higher oil, slower economy, stagflation, until this sorts out. If it gets ugly, make sure you a Prius or Prius style replica in the driveway…. otherwise life could stink.
As far as the stock market goes – I don’t know. I just like the stocks I own because I bought’em cheap. I never try to guess the overall market, impossible….
George W
February 23rd, 2011
1:56 pm
Nice Guy…..there is no way the Libyia issue will be resolved next week. The turmoil will directly affect our oil pricing and oil always has an effect on our economy.
Murmar is already saying that he is doing to drive up the price of oil for the rest of the world.
Abrazos
February 23rd, 2011
2:00 pm
Just received the message below from a teacher friend today. Forget the corporate world. I’d go into teaching tomorrow if I could apply private sector invoicing methods and bill each kid’s parents for services rendered.
“Are you sick of highly-paid teachers?
Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit! We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan– that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Say each parent pays $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.
However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE….
That’s $585 X 180= $105,300
per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries.)
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nationwide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)”
Jack
February 23rd, 2011
2:00 pm
Sounds a lot like someone is trying to bait the counterprotesters and Bookman is guilty too.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
2:04 pm
Abrazos 2:00 pm – that’s the worst argument I’ve ever seen regarding teacher pay
jm
February 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
GW 1:56 – second that
Jefferson
February 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
Boys, ya’ll worry way too much about money…
Silver Owl
February 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
Today’s conservative “man” (I do use that term very loosely) is more the abusive drunk than a respectable human being. The conservatives have fallen fast and very very low these days.
andygrdzki
February 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
Keep…. just trying to keep it straight……. If people show up with guns and they have a CWP, then so be it…
While I have a CWP, I would never show up with a gun….. to a rally, you never know when a crazy left wing nut may try and take it from you……
And was that the best you could do…… LOL..LOL…
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
2:09 pm
jm – “And higher oil prices are a HUGE drag on the economy. The second biggest single driver after interest rates.”
Exactly. That’s why I worry. The markets had a head of steam for many good reasons, but this oil issue can take the wind right out of the sails.
Left wing management
February 23rd, 2011
2:11 pm
Nice Guy: “Hmm. Who is the bigger coward, the run-away Dems that fled the state or the Republican govenor that wants some budget reform? Whew, that is a toughy.”
Here’s let me help you, you seem to be a bit mystified here.
The move that really took guts here was the one that entailed not backing down where it would have been easy to, not just being cowed by all the exasperation and the condescension from the beltway pundit crowd who were asking them why they don’t support democracy and respect election results and blah blah blah. There was no way for them to be absolutely certain they would have the people’s support to back them up and they wouldn’t just come off looking like fools. Well, the haven’t looked that way and their support from the people has only grown. So to me, that’s probably the diametrical opposite. What’s cowardice? Could it be trying to smuggle in a death blow to unions in a bill rather than coming out and confronting the workers to their faces? Hmm.
AmVet
February 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
No wonder cons never recognize their own cowards. (And gawd knows thee are a boatload of them.)
That way they don’t have to see it in themselves.
George W
February 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
Left Wing……run run run the demons are doing a great job of running!
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
George W – “there is no way the Libyia issue will be resolved next week.”
I wasn’t trying to imply that it was. I was really just tossing out the idea that this could be a short term shock to the markets rather than a long term drag on our economy.
George W
February 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
Nice Guy….the only way it will be short term is if Murmar gives up power and goes into excile. There is NO way that is going to happen.
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
2:17 pm
“Could it be trying to smuggle in a death blow to unions in a bill rather than coming out and confronting the workers to their faces?”
A death blow, Left Wing, a death BLOW? Hardly. They can still bargain for wages, and they’ll have to pay equal or less in benefits.
Sorry, Lefty, just not seeing the death blow.
Keep up the good fight!
February 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
andy…weakest and dumbest response I have every seen. You screamed Jay LIED and then when called on the carpet for it you change it into an admission that you lied and Jay was right…
Joe The Plumber Too
February 23rd, 2011
2:22 pm
Wow, what a shocker!!!!!!!!!!! obozo has instucted holder to not obey and honor Federal Law again. He can sit in the Oval Office and decide what is Constitutional and what isn’t, what a joke, who needs the SCOTUS when we have such a scholar as little barry. Thankfully, there are just over 22 months til that fool goes back to that armpit of a city he came from. He and raum can sit around the mayors office and joke about the stupid poor people that made them rich while they thumbed their noses at laws and wiped their rears with the Constitution. Can’t wait to see the blogs in November of 2012 about how the racists stole the election.
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
AmVEt – “And gawd knows thee are a boatload of them.”
You want cowards? Go look for the MIA congressman in Wisconsin. Once you find’em, you’ll have your boatload of cowards.
Nice Guy
February 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
Mike? Is that you?
George W
February 23rd, 2011
2:25 pm
JOE…..FINALLY someone brought up that topic. I agree 100% with you. This joke of a president we have is doing his best to tear apart the constitution. It is absolutely amazing!
Joe The Plumber Too
February 23rd, 2011
2:31 pm
George, Let’s see he has re-written Bankruptsy laws to please the UAW, he has sued a state over their law that mirrored existing Federal Law and now instucted his lapdog holder to no longer defend a 15 year old Federal Law against gay marriage, that right or wrong has not been repealed yet………. amazing is right.
George W
February 23rd, 2011
2:34 pm
Joe….no kidding. Why are more people not bringing this up. This should even be scary to those on the left.
jm
February 23rd, 2011
2:41 pm
George / Joe – Obama and liberals don’t know the meaning of the rule of law. And US Presidents going back a ways now have been doing a crummy job (Bush).
George W
February 23rd, 2011
2:43 pm
jm…..interesting. You bring up Bush instead of discussing the NOW with OBONER!
Midori
February 23rd, 2011
2:48 pm
All this thread proves is that the ones who are so adamantly against teachers are most definitely the ones who need them most.
What a bunch of no-spelling hate mongers!!
Abrazos
February 23rd, 2011
2:56 pm
“This joke of a president we have is doing his best to tear apart the constitution.”
Which amendment is that “Defense of Marriage Act” again? I can’t find it anywhere in the copy of the Constitution that I keep in my office.
Joe The Plumber Too
February 23rd, 2011
2:56 pm
Leave it to a true bedwetter like midori to point out spelling errors but not touch on the little boy sitting at a big man’s desk deciding which laws will be followed and which won’t. Bet she wasn’t so silent about Bush’s Patriot Act.
TnJacket
February 23rd, 2011
3:05 pm
jm
To: JM
February 23rd, 2011
2:04 pm
Abrazos 2:00 pm – that’s the worst argument I’ve ever seen regarding teacher pay
I find it a very compelling argument given the statements made by some regarding techers. Just curious, do you have any firsthand knowledge about a teacher’s workday?
Adam
February 23rd, 2011
3:11 pm
Abrazos: The letter makes a good point. If we did pay teachers by those standards we would be paying them MORE than they currently make. However, my argument is still this:
When did TEACHERS become the people who have it SO GOOD that they need to be cut down?
This really IS starting to sound like union envy. If you people REALLY think that teachers have benefits and pay that is so much greater than yours, then why do you not become a teacher?
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February 23rd, 2011
3:22 pm
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Beth Luns
February 23rd, 2011
4:34 pm
This story is bull! I’m in Atlanta right now, and it’s nothing like that. Yes, there are counter-protesters, and that’s the rights we have. You Dems are angry that Ga. is one of the states to cut union benefits, and I hope they do it all across the country!
Beth Luns
February 23rd, 2011
4:37 pm
More LIBERAL CRAZY LIES!
Keep up the good fight!
February 23rd, 2011
4:42 pm
Beth…its hard to claim that the webposting call to arms was not made. Whether anyone showed up is another matter. Do tell, how do you know that there is no one there with a concealed gun? Have you searched everyone?
Maat
February 23rd, 2011
5:03 pm
Do they not realize the Left will shoot back? Guess not.
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February 23rd, 2011
5:07 pm
[...] the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Jay Bookman reports that right-wingers posting on the Free Republic website have been calling for armed counterprotests [...]
mark o'meara
February 23rd, 2011
9:28 pm
Only cowards feel the need to carry guns to a peaceful Democratic Protest!
mark o'meara
February 23rd, 2011
9:30 pm
it seems that a lot of geneticly challenged people write on this web site!
kaitlinsnana
February 23rd, 2011
9:43 pm
Guns?? That’s insanity. Never heard of such an idea, and I was there. Why are you so afraid of the gray-haired gang??
Lil' Barry Bailout
February 23rd, 2011
10:06 pm
‘Get a Little Bloody’
A Democratic congressman urges government employees to take violent action.
The rhetoric around Wisconsin’s government labor dispute is getting more violent. NHJournal.com reports that Rep. Michael Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, said this yesterday at a Boston “solidarity” rally: “I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.
————–
Oops, that was a Democrat…Jay just lost interest.
George Watson
February 23rd, 2011
10:54 pm
What a joke… bragging about scaring political protesters with guns. Wait till the protesters get the message and start carrying… Does the word left-wing revolutionary have a familiar ring to it? You have no idea what genie you are about to release. And guess who has the most to lose. He that lives by the sword…
rewinn
February 23rd, 2011
11:35 pm
Too bad for the Tea Party’s paymasters that their boy Walker confessed that he’s not really intested in balancing the budget; he’s just out to crush unions for his master Koch. And he agreed to accept a bribe in the form of a vacation and a “good time”:
——–
‘Koch’: [Laughs] Well, I tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.
Walker: All right, that would be outstanding.
——–
…unlucky for Walker, it wasn’t Koch this time; it was a prankster. But accepting a bribe is still a felony.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/23-2
karen tahir
February 24th, 2011
1:13 am
The “thugs” teach your children you jerk…just remember that and thank them for the wonderful and basically “free” education your children receive.
novenator
February 24th, 2011
1:32 am
After getting all pepped up on goofballs (crank and fox news), it is only a matter of time that one of the mentally unstable people in a counter demonstration like this will open fire. That will be the moment where conservative media spokesman will say “he wasn’t *really* one of us, he was just insane”. Got news for ya, you’re ALL pretty much insane!
reality-based world
February 24th, 2011
2:30 am
[...] Scranton, and thousands showed up to support Wisconsin workers in Atlanta despite a call for armed Tea Party counter-protesters. More protests are scheduled throughout the state of Wisconsin, as well as the rest of the country [...]
David
February 24th, 2011
4:07 am
“Suggestion: Bring a camera. Take their pictures. Get their names. Make a record.”
That’s noteworthy in itself.
LiberalsStink
February 24th, 2011
5:48 am
Look at all these terrorist liberal scum sucking commie lovers makes me sick
John
February 24th, 2011
9:36 am
Why would anyone with a lick of sense ever live in the South? What a horrible place.
Workers’ Uprising « Politics or Poppycock
February 24th, 2011
10:24 am
[...] is being held at 4 pm today today at the Gold Dome in Atlanta, and the Journal-Constitution points to another threat of right-wing intimidation posted on the hard-right Free [...]
Pat
February 24th, 2011
1:13 pm
The mouth-breathing right-winger trolls who haunt Jay’s blog never fail to amuse.
Peadawg, do you are you familiar with the term “useful idiot?”
At least the Republicans get paid to be the Koch Brothers bee-yatches.
What’s in it for you?
DoctorSerizawa
February 24th, 2011
4:39 pm
It angers the already-unreasonable fringe that the Wisconsin rallies are peaceful and legal. The tea party is just an unhinged hate group that didn’t care about any of its so-called ’causes’ before the president was Black.
ODDOWL
February 24th, 2011
9:01 pm
The Anti union people sure do have some weird impressions about union members. Union workers are over worked and underpaid like everybody else who are not rich. Share the wealth, tax the rich, pay down the debt.
Mike
February 25th, 2011
5:33 am
After the assassination attempt, my partner and I have become what these people fear the most – liberals with guns. If this is the way they want it to go, we’re ready.
Huff Po notices East Atlanta Tea Party-RTC group’s open carry action « Restore The Constitution
February 26th, 2011
4:53 am
[...] websiteFreerepublic.com asking for armed protesters to show up in response. Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal Constitution broke the story: SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, is holding rallies at state [...]
sue
February 26th, 2011
6:12 pm
It is illegal to carry weapons to political rallies and into government buildings in Georgia. These armed protesters need their RIGHTS revolked!
CC
February 26th, 2011
11:26 pm
Hey Jay, why don’t you cover the violence that the Union thugs have committed instead of worrying about those who love the Constitution? But then I forget, liberals don’t think when reporting.
Also, approx. 40% of the Tea Party groups happen to be democrats/independents but as usual, liberals ignore that.
CC
February 27th, 2011
12:20 am
Here you go, Jay. Report on this.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/20/pictorial-protest-saturday-in-wisconsin/