Tea Parties Bad, But G-20 Protests Good?

Lefty Protesters Get Violent at G-20, No One Frets About State of Republic

It is looking more and more that Obama is interested in running for President of the World, not the independent republic known as the United States.

**Kirin Skinner: More Powerful G-20 Potentially Dangerous to US - Video

Here's the Huffington Post take on left-wing protests in Pittsburgh yesterday, which erupted in violence, as globalization protests always do:

Protesters have taken to the streets of Pittsburgh in opposition to the Group of 20 summit taking place Thursday and Friday. The protests have turned violent, the AP reports, with demonstrators rolling trash bins towards police, and officers firing tear gas back. Read more here.

Check out this slideshow of protesters and vote on the most intense image.

And are you going to any G-20 protests? Send us your photos! We will publish the best ones of the HuffPost.

Why, HuffPo, you have of late, but wherefore I know not, found all your mirth when it comes to violent protests. Remember my tally of "violent" acts for the entire month of August town halls?

That's the full list of documented violence from the August meetings. In more than 400 events: one slap, one shove, three punches, two signs grabbed, one self-inflicted vandalism incident by a liberal, one unsolved vandalism incident, and one serious assault. Despite the left's insistence on the essentially barbaric nature of Obamacare critics, the video, photographic, and police report evidence is fairly clear in showing that 7 of the 10 incidents were perpetrated by Obama supporters and union members on Obama critics. If you add a phoned death threat to Democrat representative Brad Miller of N.C., from an Obama-care critic, the tally is 7 of 11.

And if you extend the census into September, you can add the most severe injury of all, which happened during a fight at a September 2 rally backing Obamacare in Thousand Oaks, Calif., hosted by the left-wing activist group MoveOn.org. Police have not determined who started the fight, but it ended when one of the Obamacare supporters "bit off the left pinky" of counterdemonstrator William Rice after Rice threw a punch, according to police.

Via Caleb Howe, here's how the HuffPo (as a symbol for left-leaning media and pundits, alike) treated the Tea Party protesters, who perpetrated barely three acts of documented violence in August and zero documented acts of violence, property damage, or arrests on 9/12, despite a gathering of hundreds of thousands of protesters in the capital.

Wherefore the wringing of hands and overwrought newscasts about the future of our very nation? Guess it'll take more than a measly 66 arrests, some damaged businesses, barrels and rocks thrown at law enforcement, setting fire to posters, and parading around like anarchists before the media starts worrying. If only there had been someone there with a rude sign about Obama...

Posted by Mary Katharine Ham on September 25, 2009 01:15 PM | Permalink

• VIDEO: Dumpsters, bricks, sound weaposn and tear gas used in G-20 protests in Pittsburgh
• Pelosi Condemns Peaceful Town Halls, But Silent on Violent G-20?
• VIDEO: Violent Clashes at G-20
• Teargas used on G20 Protesters

Comments:

Freelance Photographer- This is in regard to that site, concerning the video clip of a G20 arrest. That is a very suspect, fishy video. Love the old camo mix from head to foot is the first clue. Second clue --- Funny thing --- they have no weapons. And the tags on the car certainly are not official anything. What is up with this? But I hope someone investigates this because I believe --- 100% ---- certain in my mind this is FAKE!

It appears to me that the gov't jumped the gun a bit with the teargas, but the fact that there is not a peep from Nancy Pelosi or anyone about these violent protests after reaming tea party and town hall attendees says a lot about Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the liberal Dems!