Anti-Obama vandalism reported

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Police in two Western Pennsylvania communities 70 miles apart are investigating reports of harassment of people who supported President-elect Barack Obama.

In Greenville, Mercer County, state police say someone spray painted the word "Obama" on a vehicle and then set it on fire. It was discovered early yesterday.

In Forest Hills in suburban Pittsburgh, Jerome Tompkins tells WPXI-TV that someone left a note with a racial slur on the windshield of his car.

Among other things, the note says "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."

Police have not charged anyone in either incident. The owners of both vehicles are black.



Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08311/925886-100.stm

[LeftinOH]

1. There will be more of this.. Inauguration day ought to bring 'em out

by the (pickup)truck load

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yep :^( Stupidheads that they are

[RamboLiberal]

4. On Pittsburgh radio this morning one African-American

caller who is a CEO was talking about at the school where his kids attend that some of the other kids in the school were upset that Obama won and that one parent kept her 12 year old home because he was in a rage over Obama's victory. The caller was wondering what was taught at that home by the parents.

[Mira]

3. Enraging! I came out to get my paper on Wed morning

and all my yardsigns (7) had been destroyed.

[JimDandy]

10. All 4 democratic yard signs were taken from my parent's yard before dawn Wed.

They live in a conservative county in WA that, as of now (there are still 40,000 ballots left to count), is barely going for McCain (48.95% 87,597 votes; Obama 48.75% 87,290 votes) I think the McCain supporters there are enraged that Obama is the president-elect, never-the-less.

[Ian David]

5. Domestic Terrorism. n/t

[Doctor_J]

12. Yup. Time to stop using euphamisms

These people are terrorists

[orleans]

13. if we don't close gitmo we might end up filling it with all these

assholes (now, wouldn't that be ironic?)

[zelta gaisma]

18. oh can we pretty please huh? huh? preeeetty please?!!?!?

[orleans]

29. oh, alright zelta--but just this once.

;)

[RamboLiberal]

6. Black church in Springfield burns

A predominantly black church under construction in Springfield was destroyed by fire early yesterday, just hours after Barack Obama's landmark victory, triggering concerns that the building was purposely set ablaze in a possible hate crime.

The blaze started at Macedonia Church of God in Christ at 3:10 and caused an estimated $2 million in damage.

Church officials pledged to rebuild, but the concerns that their building was targeted dampened a mood that had been so uplifted in the night of Obama's historic win to become the nation's first black president-elect.

"This was a special time in our nation's history, but I also know not everybody was happy and celebrating," said Bishop Bryant J. Robinson Jr., head of the church. "After 71 years of being an African-American, you know these things happen."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/06/black_church_in_springfield_burns/?s_campaign=8315

[Mrs. Overall]

7. Sarah Palin doesn't pal around with domestic terrorists, she just creates them.

[RebelOne]

8. Vandalism on election eve in area where I live in North Georgia

www.wsbtv.com/news/17912165/detail.html

[Dogtown]

19. Kennesaw

The city that requires you to own a gun.

[ailsagirl]

9. This crap is going to happen-- it's best ignored

After all, it's the same fringe lunatic mentality we've seen all along. It does no good to focus on it. IMO.

[Beam Me Up]

25. Best ignored? I don't think so.

Ignoring criminality only emboldens it. If people break the law they need to be held accountable. I don't care whether it is some racist idiot or the pResident of the United States.

[hvn_nbr_2]

27. This crap is best prosecuted to the full extent of the law and ...

soundly condemned by everyone in the sane portions of the political spectrum.

[silverojo]

31. Let's see you "ignore" it when it happens to you

I don't know about you, but I'd find it pretty damned hard to get around of some RW whackjob set my car on fire....

[judesedit]

11. GOP Campaign riled them up. NOW WHAT?

I blame McCain and Palin directly for their blatant hate speech and refusal to denounce the death threats screamed out by their violent supporters. If anyone else did what they did, we'd be locked up for inciting violence and charged with physical endangerment. Whatever McCain tries to say now will not matter. He has already gotten the nazi skinheads, kkk, racists, and violent rednecks stirred up by repeating malicious slanderous lies about Obama. I believe Obama should sue for defamation of character. Even Ayers has now spoken out saying he barely knows Obama and that the GOP made him out to look like a cartoon character. Maybe he should sue, too. Whoever is caught and charged with the destruction of property, inflicting bodily harm or the brutal murders of the newly married couple in CA, and others like them, should be made an example of, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, to include the death penalty, of which I normally am against. It was bad enough that this administration that condoned torture, already had the sadists salivating, when McCain's and Palin's poor judgements in the use of sleaze tactics, lies and hate speech was just the fuel they needed to start acting on that hate. They make me ashamed to be white.

[noonwitch]

20. I don't blame McCain-he's not responsible for other people's actions

any more than Obama is responsible for the woman who slapped the Chicago cop during the rally Tuesday night. Or the idiots in Detroit who were firing their guns into the air when the networks called the election for him, for that matter.


Did you watch McCain's concession speech? His own so-called supporters booed him twice when he said nice things about Obama. He's an old guy who seems genuinely shocked when he hears his supporters say these things, or act this way, and he appears to not know how to handle it.

I felt sorry for McCain-he's not a republican that I hate, I like him, even if I didn't vote for him. He's a far better man than a good number of the people who allegedly support him.

[CatholicEdHead]

14. Also happened in SE Minnesota

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2008/11/06/news/00lead.txt

Winona DFL party headquarters was vandalized early Wednesday when three rocks were thrown through its street-front windows.

Two of the rocks pierced a poster of President-elect Barack Obama, who was projected the winner of Tuesday’s presidential election just hours before the incident. DFL leaders suspect the timing indicates the vandal was upset by the election outcome.

“It’s a very overtly aggressive act, and it’s not how this country can move forward,” said Anne Morse, chairwoman of the Winona County DFL party. “It’s more than a shame � it’s a sign of a very troubled individual.”

Morse suspects the vandalism was planned, because the rocks were large and did not likely come from the sidewalk or street nearby the headquarters, 685 W. Fifth St. No one was in the building at the time.

[Sequoia]

15. Also in Pleasanton, CA

Only the black family who had Obama signs were attacked...tires slashed, windows smashed, cuss words spray painted. The white families who had the same signs were not attacked.

[uppityperson]

16. Mccain needs to do some public speaking against this.

His campaign promoted it, he needs to do something about it.

[jedr]

17. And they knocked Murtha for saying Western Pa. is racist;

I live with these rednecks and they are. There's a major KKK chapter in Connellsville Pa. These peoples fathers worked in the mills and factories and haven't had a decent job since Clinton. But they watch Fox news and are certain that it's the "liburals" who did them wrong. God help us all!

[sugapablo]

21. I was just going to comment on that. :)

Beat me to it. (Pittsburgher here)

[awoke_in_2003]

22. This is a special time...

for all African-Americans, who have been treated as second class citizens (and at times worse) throughout our history. Why does anyone feel the need to rain on this? Real shitheads, for sure.

[noiretextatique]

24. not every american supported civil right for african-americans

these are the people who are either still resentful about the civil rights movement. or the ones who have been brainwashed to believe african-american progress has taken opportunities from them.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Yeah, I know...

I just have a hard time fathoming their hate.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Are these the anti-Americans that Michele Bachman talks about? nt

[customerserviceguy]

26. There will be more

as some who just did not think this was possible come out of shock.

[RamboLiberal]

30. Cross burned on lawn of Obama supporters in NJ

NEWARK, N.J. - A family who had supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred remnants of a 6-foot wooden cross on their front lawn.

Pieces of a homemade bedsheet banner reading "President Obama , Victory '08," which had been stolen from the yard the night before, also were found, leading investigators to believe the banner had been wrapped around the cross before it was set afire.

Lt. Gerald Lewis of the New Jersey State Police said his agency is treating the incident as a bias crime.

Police believe the cross, made of two-by-fours bolted to a metal pole like those used to support road signs, was placed on the lawn sometime between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., and fell over after being set on fire.

Homeowner Gary Grewal said he had noticed the Obama banner missing from his lawn the night before and reported it to police.

Grewal said his 8-year-old daughter, Arianna, spotted the banner wrapped around the burnt cross as they walked toward their car to drive to school.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20081106_ap_crossburnedonlawnofobamasupportersinnj.html

[NYC Liberal]

32. Typical right-wing behavior. They don't get their way so they get violent.

I didn't see Democrats doing this sort of thing in 2000, despite all of the shit that happened there and despite Gore being the RIGHTFUL president-elect then.

[happydreams]

33. Hopefully this will pass away when these cretins come face to face

with the fact that their fears were not justified.
Hopefully.

PS. I am not an Obama fan, but I am very happy to see an African-American become president.