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!

Happy B-Day USA! Celebrate July 4th Right Here From the FOX Nation!

Happy B-Day USA! Celebrate July 4th Right Here from FOX Nation! | The FOX Nation

Take a Few Moments This 4th of July to Read the Declaration of Independence!

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Read The Full Article

Tea Party Movement Update - Middle America Reaches Tall… Mainstream Media Falls Short

The attendance numbers for the Anti-Tax Tea Parties are in…  800,000 on the high end, 600,000 on the conservative side.

Some of the larger Tea Parties:

--  20,000 in Atlanta, GA

--  16,200 in San Antonio, TX

-- 12,500 at City Hall in New York City – one of 27 Tea Parties in New York

--   6,000 on Broadway in New York City

-- 10,000 in Sacramento, CA

-- 10,000 in Overland Park, KS

--   7,500 in Dayton, OH

--   7,000 in Nashville, TN

--   5,000 in Dallas, TX

--   5,000 in St. Louis, MO

--   5,000 in Santa Ana, CA

--   4,000 in Chicago

The Attendees were:

Not fringe Republicans as the mainstream media tried to paint these events.

They were (and still are) Disappointed Democrats, Moderates from both parties, Reagan conservatives, Republicans of all types, Libertarians, Fiscal conservatives, Advocates of a New Third Party, all: races, religions, economic groups, men, women, kids, gays, Straight people, even some Hollywood Heavy-Weights took a bus up to the Sacramento California Tea Party who were standing up for Common sense, not a democratic or republican issue, and for the true values of capitalism.  They were tired of big government, of both parties, ignoring them:  the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration, the present liberal Democratic Congress and Republican Politicians who have not fought for them.

And it this Tea Party Movement all about??

• It’s About Forgotten Man and Woman  - Middle America
• It's about the idea that we're all socialists now.
• It's about the idea that the government can force companies, banks and states to take money and the strings that are attached to it, that they didn't want.
• It's about power — too much power going to federal government.
• It's about corruption — too much corruption, in both parties.
• It's about the rule of law — that no one is above the law: if you're here legally or illegally, it applies-never too rich or powerful.
• It's about if you write the tax code you should pay your taxes.
• It's about the Republic, not mob rule.
• It's about the concept of free speech — we've been called insane, lunatics and worse, just for speaking out.
• It's about the years of lies from both parties — a Republican Party that claims to be for small government but gives us Medicare Part D that's got $17 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
• It's about hypocrisy — both parties claim to be the most ethical, but we get corruption and not one damn person in Washington to speak out against it.
• It's about the media that gets into bed with one party and has moved so far left that it can't even begin to see we're not extremists, we're moms and dads who just want to have a Republic for our children; but they can't see it.

And the proof of the mainstream media missing the boat and backing only one party was the lack of coverage of the Grassroots Movement.  They missed the meaning.  They missed that fact that it was the awakening of the Forgotten American who is sick and tired of being sick and tired!  Instead of paying attention and reporting the ‘news’ they tried to change the news in a political conspiracy started by Fox News, who just honest and smart enough to realize what the Tea Party Movement really represents.

It’s about:

• Bush and Obama spend or put us on the hook for $12.8 trillion, but I'm the extremist?
• Cap and Trade without any plan on who pays the taxes or where the money goes, but I'm the extremist?
• States are looking to apply retroactive taxes — that's like changing the rules in the middle of the game — but I'm the extremist?
• Vilifying AIG executives, without any law being broken, just for accepting money they were owed, but I'm the extremist?
• Bush and Obama have taken over and want to take over banks, car manufacturers and insurance companies, but I'm the extremist?
• The politicians in the House and Senate stuff $20 billion in pork and earmarks into spending bills when we have to beg the Chinese to loan us that money, and I'm the extremist?
• A Supreme Court justice and Harold Koh, who will help run the State Department, talk about trans-nationalism and by definition a diminished role for the Constitution, but I'm the extremist?
• Politicians openly talk of the Fairness Doctrine — or its ugly twin, "localism" — and curtailing my free speech, but I'm the extremist?
• Unions and big labor politicians want to take away the right to a secret ballot, but I'm the extremist?

The Government’s Answer was to call these people who were just standing up for their rights as possible right-wing radicalized extremists.

• You Might Be a "Radicalized Right-Wing Extremist" If…
• The Obama Administration Says We're Dangerous, Rightwing Extremists by Michael Reagan

TEA BAG UPDATE: More than 1 million tea bags delivered to Washington, D.C. near White House.

Fox News televised the partial unloading of more than 1 million of our tea bags at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. near the White House on April 15th (note background of photo)! Unfortunately, representatives of The Patriot Depot and Reagan.org were told by National Park Services officials to reload the truck. Why? Even though the original protest permit was approved, our tea bag team was conveniently told that it was not the "proper" permit. This is an absolute outrage and a denial of our First Amendment rights, which read:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

But our tea bags are not leaving the Capitol City any time soon! We've just set up a towering display of more than 1 million tea bags at a new location in Washington, D.C.—the headquarters of a free market think tank, The Competitive Enterprise Institute. Your tea bags are sending a loud and clear message: Enough is Enough!

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• Estimating the Tea Party Numbers (Update: Is 800,000 Unreasonable?)
• What Are The Tea Parties About?
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Next round of Tea Parties set for July 4th, 2009

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Obama's Recipe For Change Not My Cup of Tea

I had no idea how important this week's nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times' Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties, apologizing for making fun of "crazy people." It's OK, Paul, you're allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.

On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name "tea parties" to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as "tea bagging." Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies "tea bagging."

Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.

Except no one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them "tea parties."

But if the Republicans were calling them "tea-bagging parties," the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand, they're not called "tea-bagging parties." (That, of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Frank's condo in Georgetown.)

You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clinton's name were "Ima Douche." Unfortunately, it's not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up, realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.  

The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats' modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.

Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.  

Obama's biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats, which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats' admiration for raising taxes on the productive.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. Evidently, offering to expand welfare payments isn't a big vote-getter.

Even Bush had a "stimulus" bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didn't stimulate the economy. Obama's stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. ("O" stands for Obama, not Oprah, but there's probably a lot of overlap.)  

And all that government spending on the Democrats' constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.

Raise taxes and the productive will work less, adopt tax shelters, barter instead of sell, turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.  

The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the '80s were not caused by Reagan's tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagan's tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)

The lie at the heart of liberals' mantra on taxes -- "tax increases only for the rich" -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board, the government won't get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats, none of whom can possibly be laid off.

How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obama's constituents noticed? They don't pay taxes, they engage in "tax-reduction" strategies, they work for the government, or they're too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters, like George Soros.)

California tried the Obama soak-the-productive "stimulus" plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.

In June 2002, the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a "laboratory" for Democratic policies, noting that "California is the only one of the nation's 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control."

They said this, mind you, as if it were a good thing. In California, the article proclaimed, "the next new deal is in tryouts." As they say in show biz: "Thanks, we'll call you. Next!"

In just a few years, Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as it's now known, a "job-free zone" -- with a $41 billion deficit, a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.

Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs, salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of "greed" for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.

Having run out of things to tax, now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure, the governor will protest, but it is the best solution ...  

California was, in fact, a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died, so now Obama is trying it on a national level.  

hat's what the tea parties are about.

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Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" and most recently, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America.

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