WI Republican Forced to Skip Parade Appearance Due to Death Threats (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 12, 2011, 3:26 PM
It’s come to this…
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers are being advised to skip parades due to death threats.
Lawmakers skipping parade after threat: fox11online.com
A Wisconsin Republican was told not to participate in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Fond du Lac after receiving death threats this week. Police told the senator to sit this one out.
FOX 11 reported:
A parade with more than 50 entries will now be down two participants.
Fond du Lac police say the tension in Madison has spawned threats, they and lawmakers are acting on.
“We’ve taken them all seriously and we’re happy to say that none of them have panned out yet here in Fond du Lac, so we’re still vigilant,” Deputy Chief Kevin Lemke said.
State Senator Randy Hopper and State Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt, both Republicans, have decided not to march in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday.
Hopper was among the Republican lawmakers who received death threats, in connection to the battle over collective bargaining and fixing a budget deficit.Deputy Chief Kevin Lemke says officers advised Hopper not to attend.
The parade will start at 3:00 p.m. at Rees and Main and move south down Main Street. It is meant to be a family affair, but this year will have a significant police presence.
“Obviously people have a right to express their political views, we’re just concerned for the safety of himself, participants and people that are there to enjoy the parade,” Lemke explained.
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BetterDeadthanRed commented:
Go any way just to show these maggots who’s boss.
They are all talk @ this point anyway.
Gman commented:
Yeah go anyway. Shove it in their faces.
BarbaraS commented:
Are those buses just late picking up this trash and hauling it away? Is that why they are still there causing problems? Let this be a lesson (if you actually needed one) that unions are criminal and are set to take over the whole country. They are nothing but thugs (people after obama’s heart). And don’t kid yourselves, he is behind all this violence. It wouldn’t surprise me that most these protesters are party of his private army (Organizing for America) paid for by us with his slush funds given to him by the last congress.
Ginger commented:
No…They can not take that chance the liberals are just down right EVIL! They need private security and I would gladly donate for that cause. They can not trust the lawinforcement in that state. Hey we got some retired swat teams, etc, to help protect these hero AMERICAN Senators and Governor?
Ginger commented:
I pray every day for an “Act of God”
MrGoodWench commented:
Police told the senator to sit this one out.
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Now that wouldn’t be the same police who are in bed with the marxist thugs , would it ?
Seems to me the police do not want that Senator to be able to get out in public.
If he goes to the parade and nothing happens to him, well the police get credit for keeping him safe .
If he goes to the parade and something happens to him, well he is to blame because the police warned him.
If he does not go to the parade, the thugs win by keeping him home and scaring the $h1t out of him and his family.
Nicely played Obama’s mercenaries er…er…police
Ginger commented:
Maybe Britain will send the REAL COLB to Atlas Shrubbs.
MrGoodWench commented:
Ginger commented:
No…They can not take that chance the liberals are just down right EVIL! They need private security and I would gladly donate for that cause.
+++++++
I agree 100%.
Get them private security and take it out of the police+sheriff department budget .
Officers don’t have to be paid if they work for the other side .
Ginger commented:
Maybe they should go and let the FBI or CIA guard them!
Ginger commented:
Get me those cops pictures and I will blow them up and use them for my dart board. hehehe
TheReal commented:
Politicians receive death threats all the time – I find it interesting that the union police officers have pretty much booted the republicans from the parade.
MrGoodWench commented:
Deputy Chief Kevin Lemke says officers advised Hopper not to attend.
++++
Why didn’t those officers neutralize the threats instead ?
kevin commented:
If it were me I would have a pair of custom green, white and orange bullseye’s printed up, tape them to my front and back and march in the parade big as you please.
Go ahead sh!tbirds, take your best shot. I’d be like Denzel Washington in “Training day”-
“Shoot me, shoot ME! Ya can’t do it!!!”
I’d have all kinds of fun with these bastards shoving their cowardice back in their faces. Like hell they’d run me off.
patman commented:
Where’s Janet???
Chirp…
Goofball is golfing. Holder is tea bagging muslims. Hillary is kankling.
And liberals are still just smelly and wrong.
Big L commented:
get to work, cops.
apodoca commented:
The GOP lawmakers should go. Don’t hide. The Democrats are anarchist thugs who don’t respect the law or the democratic process. Go. Let the world see that the GOP is not afraid of Democrat thugs. If the thugs shoot, let the world see that the violence and bloodshed is a one-way street. But then the media will blame the GOP lawmaker for going and for getting shot; after all, they ought to have known that their presence there would incite violence.
Joe College commented:
This continues to escalate because outside of Fox the media does not cover it.
Granny commented:
I never thought I would live to see the day where half of the entire legislature of a state is under death threat and the Secretary of State of that state flatly refuses to do his job and publish a bill duly passed into law.
You didn’t see this even in the heydey of the 60′s!
eden commented:
And the depraved, ignorant activists will claim this as a win. Despicable. While this is going on, Obama is hosting some conference on bullying. Can you stand the irony?
eden commented:
Oh, and remember when the Tea Party Grandmas and Grandpas were surrounded by law enforcement at a Tea Party gathering in (I think) the Quad Cities? Someone at the time said they were probably worried a bingo game my break out.
I know I’m not alone in feeling like I’m seeing an alternate universe. The communist goals from the 60′s are becoming more closer to being attained.
eden commented:
my=might
Ginger commented:
DRUGS! DRUGS! DRUGS! Their brains are ate up from DRUGS!
Rachelle commented:
Unfortunately, the police have proven untrustworthy and unwilling to fully perform their duties in disputes involving public unions. The public employee unions–particularly those of the police–should be abolished completely. They have civil service–that’s enough.
squeaky commented:
for reference it was reported that the NJ NEA invested just under 7 million to defeat chris christie. now NH teachers union has called for a boycott.
[The executive board of the state's largest teachers union has called for a boycott of the businesses owned by state Republican National Committeeman and Concord developer Steve Duprey because he has called for an end to collective bargaining for public employees and to teacher tenure.]
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=State+teachers+union+calls+for+boycott+of+Duprey&articleId=22471b53-6c81-487c-b5bf-dc1f743bbafa
squeaky commented:
“Unfortunately, the police have proven untrustworthy and unwilling to fully perform their duties in disputes..” everyone has their price. so much for ethics – especially from those who benefitted from the lions share of the wisconin stimulus payments.
Granny commented:
#25 Squeaky -
The teacher’s union might just be barking up the wrong tree in NH. Lots of Libertarians moved to NH a while back and flipped the state from bright blue to a deep, deep red. Lots of Tea Party folks over the other side of the river from me and they are all definitely not happy with the property tax rates.
squeaky commented:
#27 Granny
the school of hard knocks for them just maybe? the aura of invincibility can’t wear off fast enough
Rose commented:
This will really backfire on the Dims and the Unions, and the Protectionist Racketeers who run them.
Dim Marxist Thugocracy.
Well-earned reputation, and Great Rewards. Great Rewards in the Nether Regions of Sheol!
Rose commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHF558u6Q_8
Wooley Bully – Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT
Would you like another reason to be so pissed off that you want to break s**t over some ghetto-a$$, thug, stinkin’ piece of dogs**t’s ignorant and animalistic head?
http://minx.cc/?post=313285
If so, there ya go.
“New York Times Report on Gang-Rape of 11 Year Old Girl By 18 Young Men Poses Important Question: What Did The Raped 11-Year-Old Do To “Draw” These Men Into Such An Assault?”
Oh, and let’s all play “Guess the Race?” Tic-tac-toe is easier.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
THANKS, DEMOCRATS!
You’ve created quite a culture in your inner cities. It’s CULTURAL! So it’s GOOD, right?
IT’S ALL GOOD!
THIS BELONGS TO YOU.
New York Times Report on Gang-Rape of 11 Year Old Girl By 18 Young Men Poses Important Question: What Did The Raped 11-Year-Old Do To “Draw” These Men Into Such An Assault?
It’s ALL YOURS. Your baby. Your precious Culture that your schools and Rappin House Negroes and Mainstream Media have created. BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES, KKK-STARTING, SLAVE-OWNING, SOCIETY-DESTROYING DEMOCRATS. You have created a monster, and you own it.
Rose commented:
#23 – Plus, also, Ginger – they done lost ALL their self-restraint. They got no morals and they got no self-control – they got no Love of God and no Love of anyone or anything but themselves at all.
They have no sand, no guts, no Grit! they have no where-with-all.
30 years ago, they ran commercials about a Rhesus Monkey and cocaine science experiment.
They told us that the longer the monkeys were offered cocaine and food, and water, the more cocaine they ate, the less food they ate, they less they wanted anything BUT the cocaine, and even didn’t even want sex anymore – until they died for the love of cocaine – and lack of food by their own hand.
These Dims – they have nothing. They are just Spiritual Black Holes.
Like Bill Clinton was called “Vacuum Cleaner Nose” and was said to be able THEN to inhale an entire Party Bowl in less than a second, ALONE – these guys are just Black Holes.
No brain left, no heart, no soul. Nothing.
jimg commented:
This is BS.
You’re telling me these are more serious threats than when Bush had to throw out the first pitch in Yankee Stadium after 9/11? Bull.
All this does is embolden the cowards.
You shove it in their effin’ faces. Dare them to make their best move.
Not only go to this parade, increase your public appearances.
Backing down from these people is precisely the WRONG move.
Grow a pair, for the love of gawd.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I’m with jimg. Grow a pair, Republicans. Get a kevlar vest, and go to the parade.
The Fleebagger 14 are back, heads held high with pride.
And now you’re afraid, and you’re showing it.
Typical spineless Republicans. PROVE YOU’RE NOT.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Or, conversely, PROVE ME RIGHT.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i can’t believe this is happening after obama’s better than the gettysberg address speech in arizona.
MrGoodWench commented:
Suppose it was a muslim rally in suport of sharia and a democrat wanted to attend it.
Would the police have ‘suggested’ to the democrat to stay home because of some totally imagined unprovable ‘threat’
or
encouraged him to go and assured him their full cooperation ?
Ginger commented:
Rose …Wolley Bully…Thank you!
Brings back a lot of good memories. Still dancing sitting down.
Ginger commented:
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT
Would you like another reason to be so pissed off that you want to break s**t over some ghetto-a$$, thug, stinkin’ piece of dogs**t’s ignorant and animalistic head?
************************************************************
Boycott the fility rag! Must have a bunch of f..n muslims running the place. If it is any comfort there has to be a lot of people who has giving them a big piece of their mind.
Rose commented:
#5 – Ginger – Agreed!
Numbers 16 would be a good one!
Ginger commented:
Rose 35…I so agree! The liberal/demo-rats/unions/communist are scum of the earth.
Ginger commented:
NO! Every one we have to turn our cheeks and swallow hard a little while longer. The senators can not be in the parade. There is more Laughtners (sp.) out there. NO! They need protection! Those people are evil!
Ginger commented:
Believe me I have seen the evil mean uncaring bast*rds and what they do to others and laugh and no one went to the foremans or union to have it stopped because they knew the unions would to nothing!. UAW any of the unions are evil evil people. They think every one owes them every thing.The drugs were everywhere! Even the booz
Ginger commented:
aine commented:
How much longer do decent people have to live under this cloud of abuse and intimidation? Anyone should be able to attend a St. Patrick’s Day parade, for heaven’s sake. They’ve won: the crazy, vicious, stupid Left have won if they can make good people stay home in fear of their lives.
Infuriating and outrageous.
MoreEntertainingnFiction commented:
#34 March 12, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:
These SRMers are subhumans, just like those rapists.
MoreEntertainingnFiction commented:
“Obviously people have a right to express their political views, we’re just concerned for the safety of himself, participants and people that are there to enjoy the parade,” Lemke explained.
WTF? What does the bolded point have to do with the rest of this statement? I think Deputy Lemke doth protest too much.
My faith in America’s police forces is practically nonexistent at this point. Unbelievable.
dnb commented:
I think the police union + other public unions don’t want them there. Then they can say, “Look, the republicans don’t even both coming to Wisconsin events.”
gastorgrab commented:
Attempting to influence government policy through the threat of violence is called TERRORISM!
CNC commented:
Hey, Wisconsin Teaparty folks! Here’s a couple of cowardly Republicans that need replacing. At the very least, these cowards should remind the local police that it is their job to protect them AND INVESTIGATE THESE THREATS!
jimg commented:
NO! Every one we have to turn our cheeks and swallow hard a little while longer.
No. Call them out.
Going to make threats? Going to act all tough?
Make your best move.
The last thing people need to be doing right now is backing down from these loudmouth cowards.
Trust me. I’ve been there. More than once.
You give them an inch, they take more than a mile.
Call.
Them.
Out.
Now.
Radegunda commented:
Very curious about the absence of lefty trolls on this thread. Why aren’t they defending their poor downtrodden “working family” friends?
BetterDeadthanRed commented:
#60 March 13, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Radegunda commented:
Most of the right of center blogs have had few lefties on them. Strange, prob out in the street shouting down someone who pays their bills.