Gun-toting protesters voice violent thoughts peacefully (Milbank | WaPo)

[struggle4progress]

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

... "Let me hang out my shingle," Mike Vanderboegh shouted to the 75 armed men and women at Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria on Monday morning. Vanderboegh, leader of the "Three Percent" movement, a gun-owners' rights group, slammed down a brick on the stage bearing the Roman numeral III.

This was a reference to his call for his followers to "break the windows of hundreds, thousands of Democrat Party headquarters" after health-care legislation passed. Some of them did as they were told ...

... Among the group was Tim Hammond, who carried two pistols, a rifle and plenty of ammunition as part of an all-black outfit that included a black tricorn hat. Hammond, who said he flew in from California, told another demonstrator he believes that President Obama is the antichrist ...

Vanderboegh ... then led the crowd in chanting what he called a Southern "battle cry" of "Oh hell no!" Explained the Alabaman: "When you hear it, where I come from, you know that somebody's going to get beat, stabbed or shot, and the guy that takes the beating, the knife blade, or the bullet undoubtedly deserves it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/04/18/ST2010041803839.html?sid=ST2010041803839

Some seriously disturbed individuals ...

[Atticus]

1. Well, I had hoped it wouldn't come to this, but events leave me no choice:

Vanderboegh---you are a loud-mouthed punk whose very existence makes decent people clench their teeth and their fists in disgust.

That's right---I'm calling you out. You are an insult to the American people and I demand satisfaction.

Tomorrow morning at dawn; Lafayette Park; bricks at 10 paces.

Be there or crawl back under your rock.

"Oh, hell YES!"