Oops! Quincy PD Releases Bogus Statement; Lashes Out at Protesting Granmas… Forgets About Army of Videographers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 29, 2010, 12:06 PM
Oops! The Quincy Police Department released a bogus statement calling the SWAT Team on the the protesting grandmothers yesterday. Unfortunately, they forgot about the army of videographers that filmed this incident.
The Quincy Police Department released a statement today following the embarrassing incident yesterday when they called in the SWAT squad to quash the peaceful tea party protest outside the convention center during Barack Obama’s visit.
During President Obama’s address, at approximately 1530 hours, the MFFT was deployed. A group of individuals positioned themselves on the south side of York Street near 3rd Street. This was within the area that was to be kept secure at the request of the U. S. Secret Service agents in charge of the site. Prior to the event only ticketed individuals were to be in this area; during the event it was restricted to the general public completely. Secret Service personnel requested these individuals leave the area and to go back to the north side of York Street. They did not comply. Quincy Police Department personnel made the same requests and again they did not comply. At that time the MFFT was deployed to stand post between the individuals and the site and, if necessary, remove the individuals. Once the MFFT was in place, the individuals agreed to move. Once everyone complied and the site was again secure, the MFFT returned to their staging point. No physical force was used during this deployment.
Of course, this ludicrous statement is a complete fabrication. We are currently contacting the police department to retract their statement.
We strongly object to these points.
1. Prior to the event only ticketed individuals were to be in this area; during the event it was restricted to the general public completely.
From the videos below it is clear that the restricted area was not roped off or marked as restricted. The protesters repeatedly checked with the police to make sure that they were not being disruptive.
2. “Secret Service personnel requested these individuals leave the area and to go back to the north side of York Street. They did not comply.”
We have at least three videos below that prove that the protesters asked and double-checked with the police to make sure we were following orders.
3. “Once the MFFT was in place, the individuals agreed to move.”
Once again the video shows that we were already moving from the corner to the middle of York Street before the MFFT marched into place.
The first video produced by Adam Sharp shows Adam checking and double-checking with the police to make sure that we are in the correct area. You’ll also notice that Adam was polite at all times.
In this video Local Quincy Tea Party Leader Steve McQueen was directing protesters to the middle of York Street when the SWAT team was called in.
In this video P/Oed Patriot assists police with moving the protesters to the middle of York Street.
Bob McCarty also has video of the peaceful protesters following orders.
The Quincy police needs to retract their statement and issue an apology.
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Just_Saying commented:
Quincy PD: “during the event it was restricted to the general public completely”
The Quincy PD must not know English. If this is the statement the PD issued, it indicates the area would be accessed ONLY by the general public. (If it was intended that the general public be kept from the area, the correct verbiage would be “restricted FROM the general public…”)
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bill-tb commented:
Yeah but didn’t you see the immigration protests, we need fairness … It’s going to be lies like this until we rid our country of this regime.
Mrgoodwench commented:
What a bunch of stupid sissies this PD.
Not one Oathkeeper ? Is that PD a b@!!-free zone ?
Paddy commented:
I have been worried that Obama would call on SEIU, ACORN, Nation of Islam and New Black Panthers to provide storm troopers. Apparently, local police can be compromised also. I hope someday soon that local police in a similar situation will refuse to engage in useless but intimidating actions designed to silence free speech. We are in deep s**t and the situation will worsen between now and the November elections.
Every one should keep the faith and continue peaceful demonstrations.
thebronze commented:
Jim,
What the police did was pure intimidation.
However, these weren’t SWAT guys, they were regular cops in riot gear.
It’s inflammatory and counter-productive to sensationalize it. If the other side did it, we’d be calling them on it.
We’re above that.
Valerie commented:
Very well done.
Now, perhaps the city and the police department will demonstrate good sense, and apologize.
Andreas K. commented:
Someone in the higher echolon is kissing up to some guy in a suit sitting in an office pushing paper.
vikingTX commented:
Links to these videos should be sent to all the civil offices in Quincy. City email addresses should be available online. Make sure the story is widely known within the local bureaucracy, and that there is video evidence. Let the mocking start within the PD and other local civic offices.
An attempt is being made here to separate the people from the police. To make the people afraid of the power of government. We need to make sure the police (line officers) realize that we know it is their leadership that is abusing power, and that we still support the difficult job they do. It is their leadership that will lose their power at the ballot box.
Patman commented:
We should not be accusing the Riot Police of doing anything wrong. They just obey orders and collect their paychecks.
We SHOULD be accusing whom ever ordered them there in the first place. They are the ones responsible for the farce that ensued.
Jayne on the left coast commented:
What does MFFT stand for? A response team for what?
Jon commented:
There’s evidence that Obama’s people were behind the “deployment” of riot police. It’s pure and simple muscle-flexing, as ordered by those around Obama, trying to put tea party protesters in their place.
Be aware of the next wave of infiltrators who will try to start physical conflicts with the police to draw the attention of the media to begin doing overtime in demonizing Tea Partiers.
We’re having a positive effect in politics and leftists in both the Democrat party and various other leftist groups don’t like that we’re beating them at their own game…non-violent protest. They want a reason to indiscriminately detain us for the reason that we’re so effective and that’s what this is about.
Charlie Collier commented:
Jim Hoft is an irresponsible purveyor of destructive hysteria. He calls this an action of Team Obama, whom he also slanders elsewhere as “goons,” even though his own (confused) reporting makes it clear that the local police department made the decision to deploy these security forces. Only a paranoid lunatic would think that Obama or anyone near the president had anything to do with this.
Hoft also feels free to call anyone a liar when their own version of events contradicts his. This is ideology at its ugliest. No truth is being served by Hoft. He is serving himself and a very, very narrow political agenda, before which he as sacrificed his decency, and any sense of civic charity and responsibility.
Muddywaters commented:
“I wasn’t there and I don’t have all the facts.I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry,” . “Number two, that the Quincy police acted stupidly. And number three – what I think we know separate and apart from this incident – is that there is a long history in this country of Americans and Teapartiers being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact.”
Spook commented:
Super the true nature of the Obama Regime and his blind followers is being revealed. This should do nothing but recruit more freedom loving Americans to the Tea Party Movement.
In the meantime, I suggest all read the book, “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross.
Also, suggest you go to your local gunshop and purchase a semi-automatic firearm. I’d strongly suggest it be in .308 caliber (As this is NATO approved and you can resupply your ammo off the battlefield plus it has more knockdown power than the 5.56×45 (.223) round). Some good choices would be FN FAL type weapons or AR10 (like AR15/M16 but in .308/7.62 caliber). You can generally find ammo online cheaper if you buy in bulk (e.g. 1,000+ rounds at the time.) I would suggest you stockpile at least 5,000 rounds (10,000 would be better!)
The founding fathers would already have taken action. We are a peaceful and law-abiding people overall but we will only be pushed and intimidated so far.
Stelermark commented:
The Quincy Police Department released a statement today following the embarrassing incident yesterday when they called in the SWAT squad to quash the peaceful tea party protest outside the convention center during Barack Obama’s visit.
The Quincy police needs to retract their statement and issue an apology.
Both sides need to issue a retraction. Clearly the police statement is wrong, but so is the statement that this was a SWAT team and that it was called in to “quash” the protest. That was not a SWAT team, and the protesters were allowed to continue protesting. Nobody was arrested.
thebronze commented:
MFFT stands for Mobile Field Force Team.
It’s a bunch of cops (from one dept or many) that are specially trained in riot control and civil disturbances. When a need arises, they are pulled from their regular duties and formed up as an MFFT.
Kevin P commented:
Stelermark #17 – O.K. – it wasn’t a SWAT team literally. Would Jack-Booted Thugs, or Goon Squad be more appropriate?
Scott commented:
On the one hand, I want to laugh because it’s so ridiculous to put men on the roof and in riot gear simply to ask people to move across the street.
On the other hand, it really is a sign how frightened the authorities are of losing control when they think its necessary to intimidate an orderly and peaceful crowd singing patriotic songs and waving flags with such a show of brute force.
Kevin P commented:
Scott #22 – exactly. Can you picture this scene outside of Busch Stadium after an everyday Cardinal’s game? Basically – it’s the same type of crowd – just less drunk. Basically they just needed a traffic cop – but sent out the JBT’s.
Charles Allard commented:
From the “precision marching and footdrill”?
I wonder if their hearts were in carrying out the order?
Kevin P commented:
When the JBT’s have their foot on my throat I’ll be sure to get clarity from them … “Are you a member of a S.W.A.T. team, or are you a member of an MFFT?” before I draw my last breath.
Auntie Em commented:
Barney Fife Elected Sheriff in Quincy.
Valerie commented:
Charlie Collier
April 29th, 2010 | 2:01 pm | #14
… the local police department made the decision to deploy these security forces. …
Garbage. The report from the police says this started with the Secret Service. They work for the President. Last I checked, that was Barack Obama, and it’s fully fair to lay this incident at the door of Team Obama.
Fuzzy commented:
Unreal. I guess if they can’t incite real violence, they’re okay with fabricating some.
Anyone else reminded of BO handing out white lab coats for a doctor presser? It’s all about image, nothing about reality.
They’re going to keep going, too, keep pushing. They NEED us to become violent; it’s the only way they can win.
unbelievable! commented:
Obama creeps me out, this Apollo CCX scandal where he tries to enrich himself by controlling everyone’s tax dollars creeps me out, and him calling the goofy police squad in Quincy on Americans creeps me out. National creep out day.
Char commented:
And thus it begins. Although, it already was there in the background, now we are going to be more forcefully taken towards the fundamental changes that Obama had in mind for this nation.
st louie mo commented:
Me thinks the fellas back at the station figgered there was no time like the present to try out all that neat homeland security gear they’d been gifted a few years ago. Especially as some of the fellas appear to be outgrowing their gear.
In short, our law enforcement establishment is only overshadowed by their pension liabilities.
Punkindrublic commented:
Another great example of YOUR tax dollars funding small town “Barney Fife” cops with far toooooooo many toys for them to play with in intimidating the citizens.
ILLINOIS, WAKE UP YOU DOLTS!!!!!!!!!
Glenn commented:
Hate to tell you this folks but public officials, elected and otherwise routinely lie about all sorts of stuff. As long as the officials say they are to the left the press remains silent. It’s all about who gets to ride in the Limo.
Skandia commented:
Are y’all sure they weren’t clowns? They sure couldn’t march worth a fig. Didn’t look too intimidating to me, looked like rookies in training.
BBC commented:
The Quincy Police most likely made the unnecessary show of force at the White House request. For all we know, the White House also suggested a covering statement (they ARE good at media manipulation).
The Police Department sould have played it straight by being honest from the start, by announcing to the friendly crowd they were making a show of force by request. That would have also made the false statment unnecessary.
A Police Department that lies to the citizens it works for just makes problems for itself.
24AheadDotCom commented:
I was video’ing at a donut shop in Hwd at 3am for a project, when one of the street people started talking about how he’d known Pat Boone or something like that. I was trying to figure out whether there might be a kernel of some slight truth to what he was saying, or whether it was all just a figment of his imagination.
Posts like this are a lot like this.
In any case, it’s a good thing that no one took my advice. A couple days before the event I tweeted the suggestion that people get tickets and ask BHO things he’d have problems with. If anyone had taken my advice, they might have been able to ask him to his face on video something that would reveal the flaws in his policies and encourage better policies. In fact, they might have been able to call him on his bogus talking points or his lie about the AZ law:
http://24ahead.com/n/9941
Instead of trying to find the smartest among them to engage their opposition intellectually, all the teaparty types can do is stand outside and wave loopy signs and then generate frantic reports like this.
Now, if you’re a teapartier, please go read the above a few times. I want BHO to be challenged, and at the link I point out how he lied. Then, compare it to this post: while the partiers might have some kind of point, it’s buried beneath their obsession with being drama queens.
bg commented:
++
re: Goldman Sachs; video #1:
ht stacy in a previous thread..
Obama, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, and CCX part 1
Obama, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, and CCX part 2
Obama as the Joker is over the top, where is it, i don’t see a one in the crowd?? just a totally wild guess, but this is not where she just moved
from..
==
Hogarth commented:
The cops were just trying to score some free brew. I knew at the time that the “beer summit” was setting a dangerous precedent.
Moon Pie commented:
Typical white people.
Max commented:
The police who live in Quincy and the tea party members who live in Quincy are still there.
Obama has left Quincy and he isn’t looking back.
City officials should be made to answer to Quincy residents for selling them out.
Rob Crawford commented:
Good Lord, lonewhacko — if your approach is so effective WHY THE HECK DON’T YOU HAVE ANY EVIDENCE?!
Show, don’t tell. You fail at both — nothing to show, and your constant whining makes your telling an annoyance.
Nick Reynolds commented:
MFFT . . . hmmm . . . so can we call them MuFFeT’s?? Which rhymes with Muppets?? Which is a Puppet that has someone’s hand up it’s b*tt controlling it?? Which is bascially what these cops had done to them. Right? UTB!
Riot cops called on American Citizens who are chanting USA. WTF is wrong with Obama!! This will not stand.
archer52 commented:
Max is exactly on point, and as I said in my prior post, this is the typical example of the “hut hut team” trying to prove themselves. I’m telling you EVERY ONE OF THEM in those uniforms are embarrassed. Their bosses are probably all puffed up with a “Look at what we can do” air.
Jim- and this is important. The police bosses are political and usually not the sharpest knife in the drawers. They are incapable of the grand conspiracies everyone thinks they commit.
But what they are good at, or at least attempt to be good at, is the cover up. You are going to see it now if you all keep the pressure on.
Please keep the pressure on, as a street guy liking to see the bosses hoisted on their on petards, I’m in for it!
StandYourGround commented:
Obama is going to either fabricate or provoke an incident so that he can begin flexing his might! Just as Hitler began! He has come to destroy this country. You had better be videoing everything!
M. Report commented:
Remain calm.
Walk, do not run,
to the Voting Booth,
and throw the bums out.
Meanwhile, please stop using words
you do not understand, to refer to History
you cannot imagine; The US is nothing like
Nazi Germany, never will be, and does not
need a Resistance Movement.
Mike_K commented:
I certainly hope those police has sense enough to be embarrassed at how they were used to construct a phony theme for the Democrats’ campaign against the tea party, also known as citizens. They just happen to be awake instead of glued to American Idol, whatever that is.
Michael Chaney commented:
This is why police don’t like being videotaped – makes it difficult to lie.
egoist commented:
The country isn’t [economically] collapsing in a single spasm; it is in city by city, state by state. The same will probably be true from a “statism” perspective. You can see it in the goofy control-freak laws popping up ever where. This is the 1st show of local force I’ve seen, but I’m sure it’s not the last. Thank god (or somebody) for flip-camcorders! We’ll need them.
Tulsa Jack commented:
May I ask where the elected mayor and the elected chief of police stand in this odious police-state intimidation incident?
Could they be partisan Democrat hacks? If so, this is only what honest American citizens expect of Obama and his thugs. It will get worse before We the People make it better.
Aussie commented:
The whole thing is really creepy. There was absolutely no need to bring in these policemen dressed in riot gear who then had to stand there as they looked intimidating.
This was the use of scare tactics and the attempt to use brute force.
As for the troll who smears Jim Hoft, well you are wrong in your statements. The video tells the real story.
At no time were these policemen necessary.
Now as to the women who were interviewed, they really showed up the lack of intelligence of those who follow the CPUSA – they claim it to be the Coffee Party but when you put it together you come up with Communist Party USA. That woman showed that she had no idea what she was talking about.
dacoelec commented:
24aheaddotcom
You should bone up on some Mark Twain, such as, “Never argue with a fool, perchance onlookers can’t tell the difference”.
What on earth makes you think that the dictator in chief would allow anyone with an apposing view to speak?
24AheadDotCom commented:
Why is Rob Crawford trying to dissuade teapartiers from doing what’s in their best interests? I mean, everyone should know that p0wning BHO on video by calling him on his lies is going to be much, much, much, much more effective than waving loopy signs on street corners, right? I think we can all agree that showing how he’s wrong to his face on Youtube video is far, far, far, far more effective than, say, dressing up like Tom Paine, right?
So, why is Rob Crawford trying to dissuade teapartiers from helping themselves and doing things in a better way?
Google in name in a couple months to find out.
celebrim commented:
“However, these weren’t SWAT guys, they were regular cops in riot gear.”
And anyone that knows cops can tell you that these guys hearts were not in it. They were just following orders, no matter how ludicrous they might have felt those orders to be.
DMFFT commented:
I got good camera face shots on each of them for easy ID!
Charlie commented:
I watched the video. The cops look like “jackbooted thugs”, and poorly trained jackbooted thugs at that.
When they stomped on-site (left-left-uh) it was a cringe-worthy moment.
Charlie (pretending to be military isn’t cool!)
Hankmeister commented:
Lying pieces of crap. This is what happens when officialdumb bows the knee to ObaMao, they have to spin everything to make themselves and their messiah look good and everyone else is nothing but disobedient trash.
Time to start polishing up the pitchforks if this is the kind of lying PR that we’re going to get from officials trying to make Tea Partiers look like troublemakers.
nolan commented:
M. Report @46,
you are a naive, condescending fool.
Words we do not understand?
How about Voter Fraud?
Amnesty?
PR Statehood?
Universal Voter Registration?
Do you really think elections will matter?
History we can not imagine?
You need to read up on the Weimar Republic’s last days.
Think what’s happening in Greece won’t happen here?
Are you paying attention?
Heard about the “Security Operations War Games” at Ft. Knox?
link
This sort of thing has never been done, calling an “OPFOR” by name. Even when we practiced against the USSR, we never specifically named the potential enemy. Even if it’s sheer intimidation and goes no further, it’s still detrimental to the well-being and cohesiveness of this country. He’s not our President.
Please, inform us as to where the guarantee is written that this country will never be like Nazi Gemany, or will never slide into another Civil War? Who underwrites that guarantee? You?
Take off the Rose-colored glasses.
TeaC commented:
Now this is a ‘shared with me report’ ——-
A co-worker of mine, who’s son-in-law is a Missouri State Trooper, told me that his son-in-law was called to help with security in MO. at the diner where Obama stopped for lunch yesterday. His son-in-law told him that the Secret Service told him that they were worried about infiltrators of the TEA Parties, not about the TEA Party groups themselves in relation to the security for Obama.
These TEA and 9.12 people were ‘professional and peaceful’ and did NOTHING what so ever out to have the SWAT’S come out.
We even had some good conversations with local police and we also thanked them as we left. This was a total uncalled for action by ‘who ever’ called them out!!! If it was ‘local HEAD of police he needs better communication with his officers as they were peaceful and when ask to move back from the parking lot, did so and from the street, took the moment to sing God Bless America and there come the SWAT!!!
Randy commented:
For what it’s worth, I’m a Canadian and I’m incensed by the police department’s duplicity. I’ve sent the following to both the Chief of Police and the Mayor’s office.
Dear Chief Copley;
As a Canadian of a certain age, I have a great appreciation for the United States of America and for everything your nation represents. So I was shocked and saddened to see the politicization of your police department as evidenced by your recent statement regarding behaviors of the Tea Party participants in our town. I quote:
“They did not comply. Quincy Police Department personnel made the same requests and again they did not comply.”
From multiple videos I’ve seen, your statement is at best disengenuous and at worst, patently false. I’m not a citizen of Illinois nor of your great country, but as an observer, it seems to me that you should be embarrassed for yourself and your department. The Tea Party participants were everything that citizens should be, and for you to suggest that they represented a threat to either public order or the President, is simply Orwellian.
Alice Wigglebotton commented:
You are a racist bigot.
Aussie commented:
@Alice the troll…. you make no sense… I guess that is because you are projecting your own thoughts and feelings…. ergo dear troll… you are in fact the racial bigot.
Sara commented:
It is clear from the video documentation of this event that the police were sent in by Obama’s homies to harass and incite Dear Reader’s political opposition. They were made to look like jack booted idiots and they know it. They reflected badly on the President and themselves.
It is time for budget cuts at homeland security and at the Quincy police department. It’s not wise to fund a politicalized one-party police state. When the president can turn homeland security and American police forces on a dime against his political enemies; defining Americans as “terrorists” and dangerous “racist extremists” it is time for them to go.
mark commented:
Come on, people, you know you can’t protest against the Magic Negro! /sarc
Xiaoding commented:
A good start.
Now, someone neds to file suit. The right to assemble was violated, by the intimidation of the SWAT team. Get some people to testify about how frightned they were.
Once the suit is filed, you got discovery. Have FUN with that!
A petition demanding the Chief of Police to resign, should be circulated forthwit.
Keep up the pressure! Rely on the nationwide Tea Party movement!
nolan commented:
Sara @69
“Dear Reader”!!!
I love it!
Blake commented:
Do any of you posting the “just following orders” excuse have any grasp of history? Do you know how many Nazi’s tried the “just following orders” defense?
Just remember, a deadly confrontation doesn’t always start at the hands of protesters. It could just as easily start at the hands of an under-trained and over eager nervous young officer.
Also, every one of the police officers involved in this incident had best remember that if worst case happens, their superiors will hang them out to dry.
joe commented:
I wonder if Obama thinks that the Quincy P.D. acted “stupidly”.
JacobSon commented:
In response to ‘Patman,’ (post #11):
It is this very kind of thinking that has put us in the position we are in today. By not holding ALL those responsible for their actions, we are giving tacit approval to their behavior.
Your logic implies that the actions of the Nazis’, should not be criticized because they were “just following orders and collecting a paycheck.”
Just because you are paid to do something does not make it legal or moral. Someone has to be the first to say “NO!” It should have been those cops…there and then!
Remember, whoever gave them their orders, also got THEIR orders from someone too! So everyone is “just following orders!”
It is no excuse, and those cops should all be ashamed.
Sara commented:
Those making excuses for the cops cooperating with this dangerous political police hit designed by Obama’s homies, should remember that this is why Oath Keepers has come about. As a professional association of American-American cops and military members, they can work against being used as the thug’s unconstitutional political pawns. The ones who cooperate against the constitution need to lose their jobs.
Every cop makes a pledge to uphold the constitution and they are expected to uphold that promise to Americans; not the President. It does not matter if the President is a Marxist (global socialist) or a Nazi (National Socialist). Obama is way outside the boundries of the constitution as he directs homeland security to treat his political opposition as “terrorists.”
William Hodges commented:
Since the inception of the current administration, it is becoming quite clear that this is what should be expected across the nation.
If you attend a public rally, protest, or demonstration, do your best to bring along a video camera. The more video produced and the more angles filmed, the less likely anyone can dispute the evidence. This will eventually result in one of two outcomes: 1. Authorities will begin returning to public compliance and treat citizens more respectfully, or; 2. Authorities will drop all pretence of upholding the law and may become violent. The first is most preferable, obviously. The second would provide evidence and cause for public outrage and serve to demand immediate justice.
Let’s never forget the power that video provided following the massacre of Tiananmen Square in 1989. One good picture is worth a thousand words. One good video is worth a million. Many photographs and videos are priceless and cannot be argued against nor suppressed.
Militant Conservative commented:
Spook
April 29th, 2010 | 2:12 pm | #16
Military Spook or Government Spook.
I was a military spook. EWOP on then EP-3E.
I agree and have been buying the said rounds for YEARS. 9mm, .40, 5.56 and .308. Oh yes the security I have when I close my eyes. powder is dry.
Brenda commented:
The big O just has to be protected from all those Grannies with signs singing patriotic songs! Chicago type thugery at it’s best. Actually this was probably a practice run!
No longer a Dem commented:
Of course Pres. 98 lb weakling is afraid of 75 year old women. They could kick his a$$-arthritis and all. Hoping to intimidate but instead illuminating for al lto see is Pres. Puss and his Keyston Jackboots
I bet those SWAT guys were peeing in their pants when they saw those old ladies, stay at home moms and 6 year olds sucking their thumb. Is the idiot in chief forgetting we the people have cameras and will film things? Gone are the days the Depsot can i nti midate without the entire country noticing. This vidoe shows everyone just how ridiculous Obama, Dams and the left are. We thank you-your idiocy swings more and more people to the TEA party every day
yes, your incompetancy and thiuggery attempts have been blasted to the internet for al lto see-leaving so much good mocking coming theirway
miriam sawyer commented:
All that was missing was the goosestep.
snaggletoothie commented:
Isn’t it a crime for a sworn officer to file a false report?
And it is rather stupid. They could have just said, “Sorry for any inconvenience but we’d rather be safe than sorry where POTUS is concerned.”
Whoever filed the report should be disciplined in some way.
And now I finally get to ask, “What did Obama know and when did he know it/”
An American in London commented:
All, I was at the big demonstrations of the Vietnam War: the Pentagon protest, and the Days of Rage where we tried to shut down Washington, and the Democratic Convention in Chicago. The cops and the army were out in their thousands, and a very few protesters were killed, and thousands were arrested, beaten, and tear-gassed. (It was great fun.) The revolutionary rage and the savage government repression of those days, just cannot be compared with the piss-ant protests of some white middle-aged Tea Party whiners versus a posse of overdressed small-town cops (who can’t even march in step).
“Repression? Hah! They don’t know what REAL repression is!”
Seriously, America has gotten far more tolerant of protest and dissent since the Sixties. Speech is freer. It’s one of the best trends that has happened in America in my lifetime. Even back then, when we said “this is turning into a fascist state” we were wildly overstating the situation; likewise the Tea Partiers now who say “this is turning into a communist state”. It’s ridiculous. America remains an amazingly free country.
Chisum commented:
America remains an amazingly free country.
Really? I don’t think you are paying close attention.
Why does the Wall Street regulation overhaul give FTC authority over the Internet?
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/01/why-does-the-wall-street-regulation-overhaul-give-ftc-authority-over-the-internet/
Barry Soetoro (D-King Of The World!) commented:
I shall have jack-boots whenever and wherever I so choose. Now you bitter-clingers BOW YOUR HEADS!!
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-
FINKSTER commented:
It angers me to see this type of reaction to grand ma and her friends singing and chanting patriotic songs. What has America turned into?
Those in charge of these swat squads need FIRED. They need removed from positions of authority. And these cops that stayed there in Swat gear need Fired. They all take an oath to uphold the constitution. And this shows the whole world how oblivious the Law Enforcement is to that constitution.
There needs to be an investigation to find those responsible for this intimidation of LAW ABIDING CITIZENS and have them fired and face criminal charges. Show an example of all the wrong doers. Send them to jail.
This should be front page news across America for a month.