Security Wise or Warrior Wimps?
The opinioned moonbat says “that St. Paul is getting ready to spend over $4 million on security measures so the Spartan warriors of the GOP won’t soil their loincloths at the sight of some Code Pink ladies waving signs”.
In reality, the worst recent political violence took place in December 1999 over a WTO meeting in Seattle:
Strange, isn’t it, how the Republicans who spend their days calling liberals and Democrats a bunch of wimps turn into a clutch of shivering mice at the thought of facing left-wing protestors?The moonbat forgot to mention security planning is also underway for the 2008 "pantywaist" convention to be held in Denver.
Day in, day out, winger commentators are denouncing lefties as a bunch of white wine and Brie scarfing pantywaists who can’t be trusted to carry out a decent war. But when these stalwart warriors get together for their quadrennial gathering of the wingnut flock, their terror of the pantywaists is such that they can hardly bring themselves to fly in unless the gathering place is surrounded by platoons of cops and miles of chain-link fence.
So, by all means, let the St. Paul authorities squander millions of dollars to protect the Republicans from the scary liberals.
Security will be tight during the 4 day event and run up a tab of about $35 million.The moonbat’s idiocy continues with this little know fact, pushed by The World Socialists. According to the opinioned moonbat:
The worst political violence to take place in America in recent years took place in Florida in November 2000 when a mob of Republican operatives attacked the Dade County canvassing board as it attempted to evaluate and recount disputed ballots in the presidential election.A small protest did occur and the Miami-Dade Democratic Party chairman was pushed, but no one ever "attacked" any member of the Dade County canvassing board. David Leahy, the Dade County's supervisor of elections and a member of the canvassing board said "At no moment was I intimidated." Leahy told the told the Los Angeles Times: "I was not intimidated by that protest. I saw it for what it was ... a noisy, peaceful protest."
In reality, the worst recent political violence took place in December 1999 over a WTO meeting in Seattle:
President Bill Clinton arrived here Wednesday, in a shaken and subdued city, and immediately sought to move beyond the violent demonstrations that a day earlier disrupted World Trade Organization meetings, hoping to persuade delegates that a deal could still be rescued to further open world markets.Is $4 million for security in Minnesota enough? I doubt it.
The disturbances Tuesday, and the show of police force used in reclaiming the area, was of a magnitude unseen in the United States since the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s and '70s.
The demonstration turned violent after small numbers of youths in ski masks and bandannas began breaking windows in downtown banks, restaurants and shops, overturning trash bins, setting garbage on fire and vandalizing police cars and city buses.
Riot police enforced a state of civil emergency declared by Mayor Paul Schell; all demonstrations were banned in a large area, and protesters faced immediate arrest. The governor of Washington state, Gary Locke, called in unarmed National Guard units. The Seattle police chief, Norm Stamper, said Wednesday that the state of emergency and a curfew would remain in force here until the WTO talks were over.
"Ninety-nine percent of people didn't know what the WTO was before this," said Steve York, who had come from Minneapolis for the protest, his first since the Vietnam War. "Now they do."
Labels: Political Conventions, Political Violence, Security, Steven Hart
