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This is vile. These pro-union sickos in Wisconsin are so full of hate towards Gov. Walker that they ruined a ceremony honoring Special Olympics participants. Watch for yourself. The friend who brought this to my attention asks the right question:
What would the liberal media do if a bunch of conservative protesters showed up to disrupt a ceremony like this one?
Well, considering that when mentally ill people known for leftist-sounding (although not rational) ramblings shoot congresswomen or send mail bombs, the media blames the “hateful atmosphere” caused by conservatives, I think we know what would happen if a conservative group actually did do something disgusting like this. It wouldn’t stop with a week of front-page stories in the New York Slimes; instead, there probably would be at least one Senate subcommittee hearing on the incident.
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Pete| 6.9.11 @ 11:07AM
Nice folks. Let's raise taxes on ourselves so that they can experience "economic justice." Rubber bullets would be too good for those clowns.
Raoul Ortega| 6.9.11 @ 11:18AM
It appears that SEIU thugs and the Progressive Left now think that emulating the Westboro Baptist loonies is a winning, persuasive strategy.
MikeN| 6.9.11 @ 11:21AM
Not new. Bill Sammon wrote about this back in 2001, where the Left was protesting Pres Bush and ended up blocking wheelchair people. At somepoint it becomes a pattern of hate. DIdn't they call Bob Kerrey a cripple?
David W| 6.9.11 @ 11:24AM
They are hateful, evil, mean-spirited people. Of course, I could say they are "liberals", which would be the same thing.
I just read another thread on a different site about how unionized teachers marched in protest (I believe it was in California). The person who wrote the report (with plenty of pictures) described how it changed his/her view of public education - the teachers don't care for their students, they are just using the students to help further their socialist and communist ideals (some of the protest signs actually had Che Gueverra stickers on them). The students were getting a thorough leftist indoctrination.
Pete| 6.9.11 @ 11:26AM
There was a good article in the WSJ the other day about the NAACP suing over DC trying to close some underperforming public schools in favor of charter schools. The conclusion, which resonated with me, was that it is not about the students, rather, it is a jobs program for the teachers.
Wayne | 6.9.11 @ 11:27AM
Coulter is right about the left being a mob. This is their wheel-house. They are a bunch of collectivist nuts who suffer from terminal group-think. The GOP needs to stay calm and contrast themselves from the mob which most Americans instinctively detests.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.9.11 @ 11:32AM
AW HELL, Quin!
What else would you expect from these turds?
Thanks for the heads up though.
Al Adab| 6.9.11 @ 11:51AM
Class act these folks, eh Ken?
Oldefarte| 6.9.11 @ 11:33AM
Quin, everyone: Although I haven't read same yet [but certainly intend on doing so ASAP], I definately think that Ann Coulter addresses this sort of issue with her latest book that concerns the mob-type culture of the looney left!!!!!!!!
Controse| 6.9.11 @ 11:44AM
Well at least they got the zombie part right.
Bob K.| 6.9.11 @ 12:11PM
As usual, the MSM won't cover it!
Put the blame on the so called journalists and the publishers who hire them and don't give them any oversight. (Until they see the bottom line!)
Al Adab| 6.9.11 @ 12:24PM
The Left does no wrong. Ya gotta remember that. It is how they think.
Curtis Rasmussen| 6.9.11 @ 12:14PM
You have to give credit to the parents of the disabled for their considerable restraint. I have some developmentally disabled nieces, I wonder if I could stand idly by while scum like this disrupt my relative's day of recognition.
W| 6.9.11 @ 12:35PM
Unions now believe they can obtain their wages/benefits through politics, including demonstrations such as this, rather than collective bargaining. This is so because many unionized workers are now public employees, and the "employer" is usually a democrat mayor, county executive, or governor that the union supported with money and manpower. Therefore the "employer" does what the union wants. But when they have to deal with a tough Republilcan such as Cristie or Walker, then the union does not know what to do. They are too lazy and incompetent to bargain collectively, so they resort to the street organizer tactics of demonstrations, confrontation, and personal attacks. In short, they act like spoiled children who were given everything but now that has changed.
Public employers always just raised taxes to pay the union raises. Private employers cannot just raise prices because of competition. But public employers have no competition, and are not restrained by market forces.
Jim Hlavac | 6.9.11 @ 4:06PM
Yes, indeed, this is a horrid story of craved leftists intent on violence to get their way. And yet, there's a lesson in this too, one that is not readily seen by this publication.
We gays are always lumped in with the Left, like gayness is a political position or something. And yet, we have rioted but twice in 40 years, while the Left seems to riot once every 40 days.
Once this very merry month of June weddings, at Stonewall Inn in 1969, when we said no more to the police state against us of bar raids. That they stopped was more a miracle than the effect of the tiny riot by "queers" as the "Liberal" NYTimes put it at the time (it took that grey rag another 16 years before they would even use the word "gay" for us; some still refuse; seems they l like the "sex" in homosexual.) But Republican Mayor John Lindsey did say "enough is enough."
Yet, alas, we had our last bar raid on the very 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riot, when on June 27th, 2009 some 30 cops sauntered into a bar in Ft. Worth, TX and simply beat the living hell out of the 9 guys there -- one is still in rehab. We did not riot of course. The provocation for the raid was, as usual, a few gays guys having a beer. The horrors!
The second gay riot was in 1979, when a good family man, and a Catholic to boot, was given a wrist slap for a "too many twinkies" defense for having assassinated the mayor of San Francisco and pumped nine rounds into the first openly gay elected official on earth -- Harvey Milk. Mayor Moscone got a civic center named after him; Milk hasn't gotten much attention. But he was the direct cause of the two political assassinations.
Meanwhile, then there's the "Gay Olympics" -- which fits in here -- since we're "sick" "demented" "ill" "diseased" "psychologically stunted" (oh, pick a word, there's plenty of them, none nice,) one would think we'd be allowed the use of "Olympics" -- but no, the Supreme Court ruled that gay folks weren't allowed to use the word "Olympics" -- for free speech for someone, but for us to be denied a word is rather bizarre, still we are enjoined from using the word -- so it became the "Gay Games." A million gay folks showed up in NYC in 1994 for the 25th Anniversary of Stonewall and a gay games with 40,000 athletes at Yankee Stadium and all over the city -- but, still we didn't riot. And it wasn't reported in the news either; seems even the leftist mainstream media couldn't find a million people on 1st Avenue in Manhattan.
Nor have we rioted or even demanded or applied for simple Social Security disability -- for if we're dysfunctional, as a certain gubernatorial candidate said, one would think we'd be eligible, no?
And neither do we riot when absurd laws like DOMA and what's proposed for Minnesota's constitution now are passed. Nor do we take over statehouses to press our case or "demand" anything when bizarre hearings are held as to whether gay people should be given the very special right to be called all sorts of nastiness and told to join this or that church and kiss this or that girl or we'll be hounded to the end of our days for someone else's demands we live as they wish, nay, demand with leftist zeal indeed, how we should live. We demur, politely, of course.
But another anniversary comes this June, one of truly horrific violence -- right there in Mr. Hilyer's New Orleans -- for on Sunday June 23rd, 1973, at the Upstairs Lounge, right there in the French Quarter, which was doubling as a church, for we were not allowed in any others, 32 gay men were burned alive. The place firebombed, the smell of gasoline strong, gallons of the stuff had to have been used. And no one gave a damn. And no one was caught. The police investigation was all of asking any passerby "see anything?" "nope" Ah, so concluded the investigation into one of the largest massacres of American citizens on American soil -- one that is unsolved to day, and no one gives a damn.
And we won't riot over this either, like we didn't then. And all we'll do is pay our taxes, do our jobs, own our homes. And like me now, sometimes troop off on a trip to visit sundry cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, where we are embedded into our families which we are said to be so against.
And that's something for this magazine to think about -- calls for violence -- for all such talk of "curing" us and for us to "change" is an unholy call for violence, however benign you all pretend it to be, for your peace of mind. And yet, we're the ones called "Domestic Terrorists" by the Family Research Council and others, and all we do is cut hair, put up drapes, and put on some Broadway shows. The horror of us meandering around being productive decent people is still too much for some to countenance, apparently.
And that's' too bad. And that's unAmerican, and indeed, unChristian. For everybody should follow the words of Jesus: Treat others as you wish to be treated. That's something for Left, and Right, to learn. Especially for the least of God's creatures, which we are, it's said. Well, no, we're not God's either. We're from some other dimension apparently, not quite human in a way, which might surprise our mothers to learn.
Willy| 6.9.11 @ 5:21PM
Hey Jim, the story wasn't about you.
TrueBlue| 6.9.11 @ 4:16PM
Ah the idiocy that is most unions. Had a WinCo open up in my area recently, and there have been union protesters outside the place every day since. Funny thing is, WinCo is employee owned, and the protesters are there complaining that they aren't part of the union... Last I checked the point of REAL unions was to protect the employees from the employers. **headdesk**
Willy| 6.9.11 @ 5:12PM
To do this at a ceremony meant to uplift handicapped people is beneath contempt. I hope those "zombies"( and their families) are proud of themselves.
Ron Parks| 6.9.11 @ 7:40PM
As a parent of a child with Down Syndrome, I can tell you these Union people have made a point with me but I don't think it is the one they intended. I was more or less neutral on this issue but this action shows me that unions are just self-serving and they do not care who pays the price for it.
Kathryn Lanier| 6.9.11 @ 10:19PM
I agree with the earlier comment: I'm amazed that the parents showed such control when they surely had the urge to Zombie stomp! Poor Special Olympians! I can only imagine their confusion, disappointment, and restraint!
Sandy Todd | 6.10.11 @ 12:52AM
I think it's sad that nobody bothered to check the story. If it weren't for lies, you'd have nothing to say at all. http://www.jsonline.com/news/s.....54474.html You also might want to check out the difference between a liberatarian and a liberal. The nut that shot Congresswoman Giffords was a far right libertarian pot smoker, of the Ron Paul variety. As to bombings and shootings, liberals could never catch up with Tim McVeigh, The Freemen, Army of God, and routine killing of abortion doctors.
JB | 6.10.11 @ 4:16AM
OH MY- *running screaming from the room* It's a drive-by troll. That brings up something totally off-topic to make a point of it's lack of intelligence. Both groups it mentioned had no distinct political affiliation, McVeigh was an anti-government loner and Loughner had absolutely no discernible political interests, let alone a party affiliation. That doesn't stop the delusional zombies from tossing those old memes around. Any bets on if it comes back, it'll toss out the Nazi meme too?
Collin Lee| 6.10.11 @ 12:56PM
This is really sad. The kids probably don't even understand what's going on.
Ben Trapp | 6.10.11 @ 9:06PM
Other news sources are reporting that a public relations manager for The Special Olympics stated the protesters were very respectful and didn't diminish the event.
Looks like Scott Walker and his supporters are trying to use the children in the Special Olympics as some sort human shields to deflect attention away from the budget cuts the GOP are enacting against those very kids...
Clifford Wiesner| 6.13.11 @ 10:49AM
Take note that street protests and violence in Europe are frequently led by trade unions. Although our trade unions represent a small percentage of American workers they have disproportionate power because of superior organization and control of their members, almost unlimited funds which their friends in government allow them to take from their members unchallenged and without accountability, corrupt politicians bought and paid for with that money, goons and thugs they can turn out to do their bidding without question at a moments notice, the ability and will to intimidate anyone they wish without consequence. Their actions in Europe are just a foretaste of what can happen here. They are envied by the Mafia Chieftains.