From Megyn Kelley: “This was not at the bank’s corporate offices – it was at a man’s home.”
Mark Sawyer is completely insane, so this clip is a little rough. I apologize in advance.
First of all, he claims the Black Panthers haven’t been around since 1968? What? Did he forget this? Or this? Or this? And this was just this month! That’s right y’all. A Black Panther is on the ballot as a Democrat in Philly.
But I digress: This is the SEIU. The same SEIU that is so connected to the White House. They’re pissed off about the bailouts. I get it. I understand. I am too, for clearly different reasons. They’re free to protest – I’m a huge fan of protests myself. I’m grateful that we still live in a place where we CAN protest.
The line gets crossed when you take a protest from a public venue and place it on someone’s doorstep. When you invade someone’s home and trap their kid inside while 500 people rage on their front lawn, it ceases to be a protest, and becomes a mob.
Then Sawyer has the cajones to say this is “what the tea party would be if they weren’t so reactionary and misguided… this is where they would be focusing their rage.” So… wait, what? We should be focusing on a lawyer from Bank of America – who isn’t even a CEO or executive – and going to their house? We sould rage against private citizens and send 14 buses to trap their kid in their house? It’s one thing to protest the Capitol, state capitols, Congressional offices, places of business. If he thinks we’re “misguided” to go after the Congressmen and other elected officials who FACILITATED the collapse and cut the checks to the people who he claims causes the problem, then there’s really nothing I can do to help him.
The Tea Party has been around for almost a year and a half now. There has been no violence and only minimal arrests – only one comes to mind. It’s absurd to even place these two protests in the same category.
The bottom line is that the SEIU is dangerous. This isn’t a new thing, and I don’t want to give the impression that they only recently crossed lines – it’s been happening for ages. My theory is that they’re becoming bolder as a result of a) having the support of the White House, and b) being challenged. They don’t know what to do with opposition but beat them down.
Gird your loins.
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He's a lawyer
banzaibob (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 1:39PM EST (link)It’s time to sue for mental harm of his teenage son. Get these thugs into court and pull the mask off their ugly faces.
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas
It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
Not mental harm - trespass
josephusmyer (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 1:48PM EST (link)It’s absolutely blatant trespass to land. They’re on his front lawn. He can sue. He doesn’t even need to prove damage – infringement of the right is enough.
Really?
petrarch Friday, May 21st at 2:49PM EST (link)The lawyer can privately sue each of the people that are identifiable on his lawn in the video? That would be great! Hope he has the guts to do it!
Unlikely, I know. Worth hoping for however.
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He doesn't have to sue the individuals...
fmaidment (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 5:55PM EST (link)…just the organizers and the organizations they represent.
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Exec and wife big time Dems
audax (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 11:17PM EST (link)so doubt anybody gets sued unless they become conservatives (liberals mugged by reality).
Audeamus pro audere est facere
That guy made me squirm...
Carolynp (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 2:00PM EST (link)I’m shocked that he sits there and laughs as a kid is in a house terrified. He must have no soul.
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"Populist rage"??
Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 2:14PM EST (link)Try Astroturfed rage, brought to you by Obama and the SEIU.
Mark Sawyer is another leftist hack.
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Update, SEIU escorted to home by DC Police
Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 2:50PM EST (link)Via Big Govt.
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Another step closer to Kristallnacht
banzaibob (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 3:50PM EST (link)When you have the authority of the government helping “populist” groups in this manner, private citizen beware.
Prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas
It’s better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!
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Aiding a protest group to trespass on a private citizen's property, no less -nt
Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 4:52PM EST (link)Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.” -Ronald Reagan
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Unfortunately, Violence will Escalate
kipling (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 3:06PM EST (link)There will be blood. Mr. Obama and his administration want violence to happen so they can label the Tea Party as violent extremists and begin a crackdown. It is a sad day in America when the President of the United States is nothing but a thug. I hope he reaps what he sows.
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samiran Friday, May 21st at 3:10PM EST (link)This is *precisely* the reason that fully automatic assault weapons should be legal.
Once you permit mobs to trespass on private property and harass innocent civilians, you are only a hair away from tar and feathering, or fire and pitchforks.
This is the *perfect* counter argument to the claim that no one needs anything more than a semi-automatic for self-defense. Imagine if 5% of those protesters decided to start smashing up that house; or worse, lit it on fire, similar to that bank in Greece.
Not even the *police* are on the side of the innocents! This is madness!
If this happens to my family, I should have the right to step out on the front porch armed to the teeth. And if they decide to burn *my house*?? I *will* start firing!
That’s all there is to it. And that moron Megyn is interviewing? “The people are angry because they are losing their homes, and the tea party would be to if they weren’t so misguided (and presumably racist)”.
I have no words to respond to that man’s stupidity.
Perfect time to exercise
conservativecrusade (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 3:20PM EST (link)your 2nd Amendment rights to the fullest extreme. Once they crossed into the line into yard, they have become human bullet fodder.
“The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. — Curtis LeMay
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
Probably not, conservativecrusade.
Achance (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 3:31PM EST (link)You’re in a jurisdiction where you WILL be charged with at minimum assault, probably attempted murder, or premeditated murder if you actually kill one. Your only defense is they were on my property, threatening me, and I was afraid, very afraid for MY life, not all states even allow you to use deadly force in defense of another. You’re going to be tried by a jury that in all likelihood would be willing to sentence you to death for being a registered Republican. There was a reason the USDOJ/PIS brought those chickens$%t charges against Senator Stevens; they needed something they could charge him with in the DC area where a jury would convict him of being a Republican.
In civilized places with better self-defense laws or castle laws, you could probably bang away. You might get charged, but you wouldn’t get convicted.
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kipling (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 8:28PM EST (link)Good castle laws here.
Sprinklers
jeffreywturner (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 4:12PM EST (link)At this point, I think I’d decide I really need to water my lawn and turn on all the sprinklers. Only, it wouldn’t be only water. It would probably be an interesting concoction of liquids that people would really not like to get on their clothing.
“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”
Sawyer says the end justifies the means.
momma Friday, May 21st at 4:42PM EST (link)The end? Make the government give everyone who signed a promise to pay back a mortgage loan, a house without paying for it.
The means? Criminal activity.
Lenin and Stalin would be so proud.
Someone is going to get shot
Mark Brown (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 4:51PM EST (link)If the SEIU keeps doing this stuff, someone is going to start shooting.
Mark C. Brown
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"This is freedom of speech"
fmaidment (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 6:02PM EST (link)Did I really hear him say that?
No it’s not, you @#^%^#$. It’s criminal trespass.
On the street? Fine.
On his lawn? Crime.
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Is it realistic to boycott businesses whose employees belong to SEIU?
mikerazar (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 6:09PM EST (link)Now that boycotts are considered fair fighting…
Just asking…
We have a nation to save, people.
It'd be a lot more effective...
fmaidment (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 6:17PM EST (link)…than boycotting a state.
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Doubtful on the effectiveness.
Steph C (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 9:14PM EST (link)It would hurt the individual business only to the extent of not getting their fair share of federal bailout dollars. Obama is not going to cut off funds to his favorite thugs.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Giggles like a little girl
patriot601 (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 6:11PM EST (link)Mark is just a typical clueless drone who giggles like a little girl and Megyn is right on him.
Aren’t we blessed on the right with such beautiful and brilliant women like Tabitha, Megyn, and Andrea! Great post as usual Tabitha.
And imagine, not a word of this reported...
kowalski (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 8:37PM EST (link)Not a word of this reported on the front page of the Washington Post.
Now, if several hundred tea partiers had encamped themselves on someone’s front lawn…
Ok you guys know the rest of the story of non-coverage of events that don’t support the narrative…
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Two pictures of Shrek!
kowalski (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 8:41PM EST (link)Instead of pictures of the SEIU mob, the Washington Post has not one but TWO pictures of Shrek on their home page right now!
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Firehose?
jcincy Friday, May 21st at 9:04PM EST (link)“9-1-1, What’s your emergency?”
“There’s a large group of people rushing onto my front lawn, screaming obscenities and threatening to burn my house down!”
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” — John Jay
When you lie down with dogs, Mr. Bair...
smagar (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 10:57PM EST (link)According to Allahpundit, Greg Bair, an attorney for Bank of America, is a registered Democrat.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/21/seiu-protesters-descend-on-bank-execs-home-terrifying-his-son/
If I were the SEIU, I’d keep doing this until someone stopped me.
Wonder why they picked this guy? Besides his being a lawyer working for a bank. He’s a Democrat in southern Maryland. BOA is probably full of Democrats. SEIU most likely thinks they can smack this guy and get away scot-free.
Do you really see this man’s neighbors doing anything that will potentially hurt the Democratic Party in this election year? Do you really see BOA doing anything? Me neither.
I’ll bet the SEIU expects that, PDQ, the Bair family is going to get lots of private assurances that “something will be done,” and just-as-private entreaties to “take one for the team” and not make a big fuss about this.
I’ll bet the SEIU is right.
Sorry, but my give-a-dang meter isn’t going to budge until I see Mr. and Mrs. Bair out in front of the TV cameras, raising hell.
This happened a week ago…has any one seen Mama and Papa Bair on thei airwaves? If someone did this to my cub, I’d be a lot more vocal about it. Has anyone seen anyone from BOA raising hell about it?
If people won’t help themselves, I’m not going to move all that fast—-if at all—to help them. IMO, neither should we.
“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)
Amen! nt
audax (Diary) Friday, May 21st at 11:24PM EST (link)Audeamus pro audere est facere
Anybody remember this?
mstedman Saturday, May 22nd at 12:52AM EST (link)From the 2008 campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSqwhe53xA
bums and thugs
rfpzzzzz Saturday, May 22nd at 3:44PM EST (link)Why didn’t police get them off the property ….didn’t RR guys use to use salt guns to get bums off the trains?
They are just following dear leaders orders
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, May 22nd at 4:34PM EST (link)“You must argue with them, get in their face”
the chickens are coming home to roost.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
turn on the sprinklers
xJesterx (Diary) Saturday, May 22nd at 9:18PM EST (link)If I was on the phone with that poor teenager, I would have told him to go into the garage, and turn on the sprinkler system. Now that would have been funny.