Teabaggers can't handle a little dissent

[Joanne98]

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A brave man walks through the teabagger protest on the National Mall in Washington, DC, with a large sign that reads "Public Option Now". If not for the cops that escorted him through the crowd, they probably would have eaten him alive.

[demmiblue]

1. WOW... what a brave soul! K&R

[TheEuclideanOne]

23. He is my hero of the day.

Holy F***ing Shit! Look at those savages. If you take any single one of them aside and ask them about capitalism, they will sing it's praises until you can't take it any more. But having an option is now the worst thing in the world.

[tomm2thumbs]

70. A man who knows that 'silence gives consent' - good for him making his point /nt

[wial]

105. If I'm not mistaken there was Hebrew on his shirt

along with the word "Obama" -- he must be someone who remembers that poem ""First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me."

American nativism. An oxymoron. A chillingly familiar one. Rhine maidens anyone?

It's occurred to me as it must have to many Obama represents the America that came here to find freedom, the America that is an ideal for all the oppressed of the world, as symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, like the Jews coming to Germany to escape the pogroms in Poland. That's what's so scary about him to these people, not so much that he's black, but that he's international, and that America has always been a radical, international idea, not just another nasty little chauvinist country like they want it to be.

[Farzan]

104. Just love this guy

Flew through the "cuckoo's nest".

[C_U_L8R]

2. A truly ugly mob

the republicans aren't doing themselves any favors embracing the worst demons of our nature

[bjobotts]

79. They tried to block his sign.They don't believe in others expressing their opinions

[bjobotts]

80. They think only THEY have rights.Remember the guy who jumped out and ripped code pinks sign

[bjobotts]

81. It has nothing to do with coming together like we did on 9/12.It's attack democrats only

[bjobotts]

82. They offer nothing but criticism. No gratitude for Obama keeping them from the repub great depressi

[bjobotts]

83. a 10y/o screaming at something mommy disagrees with with such hatred

[bjobotts]

84. They were all republicans who hate losing the election and refuse to let the majority govern

[bjobotts]

85. Millions stayed home in protest of these tea baggers obstructionism

[Butch350]

99. Actually...

I don't think the all republicans act unruly. In my office the ratio of republicans to democrats are 2 to 1 and they are some of the nicest people I've ever met. We have differences in our politics but we disscuss each others point of view without anything getting out of hand or rowdy.

People that are disruptive (sp) are just that disruptive people and shouldn't be referred to as just republicans. (IMHO) o course.

[TankLV]

120. Except for the "small" FACT that ALL - 100% of these disruptive IDIOTS - ARE - REPUKES!!!

ALL these IDIOTS are REPUKES!!!

[baldguy]

3. I'm suprised DC didn't collapse into a black hole of stupid yesterday.

The whole thing was set up & staged by the insurance industry & the GOP, and those morons are screaming at this guy implying that he's some sort of stooge.

[lame54]

16. I think Michelle Bachman was out of town

[elleng]

69. We're BIGGER than that, here in DC!

[Ysabela]

4. 'eaten him alive'? more like BEATEN him to DEATH. Look at them, they are frothing at the mouths...

these are violent, hateful people, many who believe that the South merely had a 'draw' in the Civil War because Lincoln was killed by the banking cabal and shall rise again (the South, not Lincoln :P ). I wouldn't doubt for a second that if the cops hadn't been there, they would have assaulted the elderly man with the public option sign, perhaps severely injuring or possibly even killing him.

[comtec]

88. RRrrr Zombie Lincon needs braaiinnsssss

sorry couldn't resist

[DollyM]

89. that's for sure . . .

The hate part is what gets me and many of them purport to be loving, Christian people. We had a tea party locally and I thought about doing the same and making my own sign. Honestly I was afraid to do so because of fears for my safety. I have arthritis and can't get around very fast as it is and I a was afraid someone would knock me down. The open hostility is just incredible. I thought Bush was a jerk but I would never have treated people the way these people are doing.

[stlsaxman]

5. That guy has bigger balls than.... God!

And, mind you- Gods balls are pret-ty fuck-in big!

[PurpleChez]

21. You're right!

This guy kicks ass!

[Crowman1979]

6. Nice to see a human in the sea of zombies.

[Ysabela]

7. Need a sign that says "Obama won by 10 million votes. You LOST, teabaggers!"

LOL

[CitizenLeft]

14. look at the hatred and near-violence caused by a sign ...

...that merely says "Public Option Now." Can you imagine? No mention of Obama, no liberal slogan or connection to Democrats whatsoever - this guy could be a Republican with a brain, for all we know. Yet he needed a police escort to get through that crowd.

I know I shouldn't be, but I continue to be astounded by the viciousness of these people. I guess I've led a sheltered life, I've never seen this kind of hate up close and personal, even when I was a kid and was called "n*****" by other children when we were bussed to a white school. That was less scary than this, maybe because it was just other kids. But to see this unrelenting ugliness from adults is just disconcerting, to make a huge understatement. I've never seen anything like it short of the B/W footage of the integration of southern schools. Rattles me to the core.

[TheEuclideanOne]

22. Not unrelated: When you wre a kid a called a "n*******", those kids had to grow up and go somewhere

I am pretty sure that if you look at that crowd, you will see alot of those folks used that word when they were little kids. Now you know where they are now.

[CitizenLeft]

55. that's a good point.

What exacerbated the problem was that we weren't there because we were bussed due to city policy, but because our school burned down... and worst, we were the "enrichment program" kids - the smart kids, in accelerated classes; apparently that school was the closest in the city with a similar program. Talk about a powder keg.

The story did have a good ending, though. One of the loudest and meanest leaders of those racist kids was a big tall rough muscular blond girl, at least a head taller than the rest of us. Her mother called our mothers, and invited six of us over for lunch. Good chili, too. :) She made her kid be there, and be polite. And made her stop. And encouraged her daughter to disassociate herself from the others. And she did, reluctantly. It defused the whole situation. The rest of the school year passed relatively peacefully. Yeah, the others kept bullying us - and make no mistake, we were not milquetoasts, we gave it right back, this was 1969, not 1959, big difference - and it was Cleveland, not the South, so there was no danger in defending ourselves. But the hostility became less frequent and leveled off to only 1 or 2 of them in the end. We all never become friends, but a grudging nod of the head as we passed in the hall was good enough. I have no idea what happened to that girl, or her friends, but... yeah. "Where are they now." Grim LOL.

This is probably why I'm so disappointed to see people in this day, 2009, with this kind of shameless pride in their ignorance and bigotry. If this brave woman 40 years ago could pull her child back from that ugliness, what the hell is wrong with these freaks?

They must be the other kids.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Ass. Holes.

"I LOVE MY PRIVATE INSURANCE!
WHO CARES IF THEY CANCEL MY COVERAGE
WHEN I REALLY NEED IT?
WE HATE CHOICES!
WE HATE THE POOR!
THE POOR SHOULD JUST GET JOBS!
THE CORPORATIONS LOVE US!
WE'RE CHICKENS FOR COLONEL SANDERS!
WE LOVE BEING PARROTS AND SHEEP
FOR OUR LOVING CORPORATE SLAVEMASTERS!"

a. What's with freepers and their bullhorns? Every protest where these asswipes gather, they always have Mouth of the South Bullhorns; perhaps to make up for their lack of numbers?

b. Why do these porkers always have to POINT at you?

c. That old guy is my new hero. There's no way on earth I would have made it through that crowd of geriatrics, slaves and beer bellies without getting into several scraps.

d. If anyone thinks freepers wouldn't have attacked that old man, several of them beat up a Gold Star dad in plain view of cops during an 2007 anti-war protest in DC. Not ONE ASSAILANT was arrested. Here's proof.

[pattmarty]

9. So much for "free speech". Their "free speech" is protected and...............

............great, but HIS "free speech" ain't so free I guess. What a bunch of uninformed, ignorant, racist, stooges. FUCK ALL THESE CLOWN MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!

[Stumbler]

103. Of course, there are two sets of standards..

There always has been, and always will be.

Competition among consumers over a scarcity of jobs is "good."
Competition among big business over those consumer's dollars is "bad."

Big government can't do anything right, ever.
Our government protects us with the best military in the world.

Obama's presidency is illegitimate cause we don't have enough background info to prove he's really a Kenyan Muslim.
Don't you DARE ask questions about Bush's past, or you're an American-hating terrorist-lover!! He was anointed by GOD, remember?

[spiritual_gunfighter]

10. That guy is my hero n/t

[MoonlitwingsX]

11. one brave dude.

The guy must've had those pants tailor-made to lug those massive brass balls.

Brave soul!

[zbdent]

12. Yeah, they probably felt that it might be a fair fight ...

a few hundred of them, vs one older out-of-shape guy ... They might have done it with the cops gone ... about the only time they'd really feel that it would be a fair fight is if it was a 5-year-old quadriplegic girl in a manual wheelchair ...

[sulphurdunn]

13. How depressing

to see that the demonstrators in defense of liberty and the supporters of tyranny in this country are mostly old people.

[Vickers]

64. Old *racist* people.

:eyes:

[Why Syzygy]

15. A magnificent man!

:loveya:

Those people are beyond moronic. Was it that type who opposed Medicare in the day of its establishment?

At first I thought they were saying "No Obama death camps". It is so hard to keep myself from wishing someone would roll out the FEMA camp railcars and haul their dumb butts away. *slaps self* WRONG! Being a liberal is sometimes so painful.

[ScottLand]

17. They'd have killed him if the cops weren't there.

I always think of the crowd in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" chanting "We're all different".

[tomm2thumbs]

18. he could have been holding up a sign that said 'puppies' and as long as they knew he was pro-Obama

they would have chanted all the same. they'll just take the opposite side of anything that the administration does

and I dare say if that fellow had been other-than-white and other-than-older, he would have been mauled, police or no police

blinded by their searing defeat, they broke their brains as it has been said

[mzteris]

35. 90% of them don't even know what "Public Option"

means, I bet.

They're just anti-Obama.

[wolfgangmo]

118. anti-Obama = rascist

at least for a lot of people.

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Fair and balanced....You decide !!!!

[lame54]

20. he was as calm as could be - this guy rocks

[Swagman]

24. they sound like rabid dogs howling at the moon !!! love that bloke though..

[parasearchers]

25. Their Idea of what Free Speech is, is to Drwon out or Kill anyone who doesnt agree with them.

[RoccoR5955]

26. That crowd is awfully white!

Aside from the cops, I don't see any persons of color there.
Hmm. I wonder why?

[FarLeftFist]

27. THAT WAS THE MOST EXCITEMENT THEY SAW ALL DAY.

[trapper914]

28. I'm curious how he got the police escort

n/t

[Robb]

41. My guess

He probably told the first cop he saw what he was up to before he started. The rest probably came in as he went along and it became clear they were needed.

DC cops have a really good idea what to expect at these sorts of things. At the end of a five-minute video he's got what, seven cops, and is getting advice from a higher-up.

[Writer]

29. It was very good of those cops to escort that man through the crowd.

They could have, due to imminent harm to his life, just as easily have yanked him out of crowd which would have been a legal form of prior restraint. They came to a thoughtful compromise, and in doing so, salvaged his freedom of speech.

[jwirr]

44. Yes, I for one would like to give a medal to the older man who is about

my age. But I would like give my thanks to those upstanding policemen who did their job the right way.

I shake just watching these violent videos - he is beyond brave.

[rpannier]

107. Looking at the few numbers (relative to what they said they'd get)

and the all mouth and all gut on the teabaggers I'd say the officers felt it was easy to handle

They were probably more afraid one of the baggers was armed and would have shot himself or herself

[miloaxon]

30. Horrifying and sad

I know it's not quite as many people as the far right would
have us believe but those people are scary as hell.  That guy
has balls for doing that.  What I still can't understand is
what is so frightening about a public "Option."  By
definition it is optional.  Yes it would be paid for by my tax
dollars.  Buy my tax dollars already go toward enforcing laws
I disagree with. 

[ThatsMyBarack]

73. Welcome to DU, miloaxon!

:hi:

[4dsc]

31. I only see white people....

Is something wrong with me if I only see white people at these teabagger rallies??

[PreacherCasey]

32. at 2:56 a guy yells "Yeah, you better have a police escort asshole!" Nice to see the public coming

out en masse to scream "No Public Option". Is the irony really lost on them all? :shrug:

Then there's the woman yelling (regarding the public option), "You can have it, just don't make us take it!" Ma'am, what is the definition of the word "option"? :shrug:

[Xicano]

39. Thanks for pointing that out. I missed it.

You know one of the things that gets me about people like that guy. There he is all frothing at the mouth over something that I'll bet you anything if he's ever faced with the unfortunate reality of having a loved one in trouble with a life threatening medical emergency and he doesn't have the money to pay for treatment. I bet the first thing he'll do is exactly what any of us would do and that's seek "public assistance". That's what makes us different from dumb fucks like this guy. We don't just think about ourselves until 'we're' the one in need. We care about the country as a whole.

Just out of curiosity. I wonder how many people in that crowd ever applied for government assistance after being unfortunate victims of a flood, hurricane, tornado, etc? I wonder how many of them ever used medicare or medicade? And what made them think it was ok to receive public help?

Pathetic how so many people are so stupid.

[chasitynola]

75. I heard that, too...

but I believe she said, "You can have it, just don't make us pay for it."

It's all a big 'welfare' thing to the teabaggin' crowd.

[tomm2thumbs]

33. what happened to all the 'AMERICA: Love it or leave it' signs the GOP used to love?!! Bwahahahahaha

I guess they decided it doesn't work when you are the ones complaining

[mzteris]

34. were they saying "Slave Party" @

at about .33 ????

[Xicano]

40. Ironic isn't it?

What term is there to use when slaves to corporate interests attack other people trying to break free and calling 'them' slaves of all things?

LOL if it wasn't so important and sad.

[mzteris]

43. I was wondering if it had a

"different" meaning - you know?

[Candy Randy]

36. You know who this gentleman reminds me of?

That brave soul in Tienanmen square who stood up to the tanks!

[DWilliamsamh]

37. You're right he was brave but the reaction from the crown is understandable.

To be fair, Is there any doubt that an individual holding a "Stop Islamo-Fascist" banner walking through an anti war rally would be meat with boos and taunts?

There are LOTS of reasons to ridicule these tea party racists and dimwits. I don't think this is one of them.

[Robb]

42. Meh.

Anti-war protesters would all have their iPhones out to make sure they got a picture of the Islamo-Fascist banner guy, and would be standing in line to interview him for their blog. :D

[luvspeas]

112. I've been to many many anti war protests in the last few years...

If anyone acted that way toward a counter protester (and yes, they were always there too!), many of us would have said something. It never happened where I was, and if I ever saw someone spit on someone, I'd really have a fit. Those wierdos from the Eagle forum were always among us. They had gigantic signs and always tried to get in the way if the media was around. I spoke with them from time to time. I especially tried to talk to the kids. People would try to give them brochures and info and we all felt that it was better to win them over by being kind. No one screamed or cursed and they were always resistent to everything we said. You know, it is possible that someone in that crowd notified the cops. I'm not defending tea baggers, but I am certain that there are a lot of people in that crowd who are not complete assholes who now feel like they wasted a Saturday looking like idiots and won't be back out again.

I love this guy for bringing out the "true colors" of the creeps and scum in that group and showing all of us what this bullshit is really about.

[Xicano]

38. NO Public Option!!

I say we call them on it and give them what they want - no public option. They all should have been told they'd be disallowed to drive on the "public" highways back to their hotels because that's a public option. I say let 'em put their money where their mouth is.

[ThatsMyBarack]

72. I like that idea!

:thumbsup:

[dccrossman]

45. K&R

AC/DC

My balls are the biggest balls of all!

[tooeyeten]

46. what a bunch of hatefilled people

"If not for the cops that escorted him through the crowd, they probably would have eaten him alive."

Probably worse.

[davidhilton]

47. looks like a scene from a middle ages mob getting ready to stone someone...

[Confusious]

48. Guy at the end is trying to cover his sign

No speech for you, the right-wing way.

[Turborama]

49. k&R! Teh stoopid - it BURNS!

I was getting worried for that brave man's safety a couple of times. Thanks for adding the introduction underneath, it helped me get through it knowing that he was going to be ok in the end. Soreloserpalooza, indeed!

[Tx4obama]

50. The people that are against public option...

will change their minds 'one at a time' when they...

1) Lose their job and health insurance
or
2) When their insurance companies denies some of their claims
or
3) When they have to file bankruptcy due to the inability to pay their medical bills

[safeinOhio]

52. can't change a mind that isn't there.

[GrantDem]

67. +1

[jdadd]

51. Teabaggers....Huh....

From the sound of that crowd....Man...."You just can't fix stupid"

That man has got Guts!!

[scribble]

53. It Was Stupid

This was a remarkably stupid thing to do.

All this guy did, was to rile up people who were already riled up. He said nothing. He added nothing to the debate. He didn't try to do anything.

Most of all; he set back the cause that most of us believe in here: Passing a Bill that contains a strong Public Option.

You have to pick your fights carefully, boys and girls. This was a stupid, stupid, stupid fight to pick.

He should have left those tea-baggers alone.


sc

[mr1956]

56. I respectfully disagree

Since the news media seems fit to cover all things right-wing these days, I think it is important that a dissenting "voice" be heard. These tea-baggers are the ones being stupid, this guy is indeed brave to confront the stupidity.

[Vickers]

66. Wow, you were petty, wrong, condescending, inaccurate *and* overly dramatic

all in one post!

Er..congratulations?

[zanne]

102. I disagree; it wasn't stupid.

They come to our protests all the time and get as much media coverage as we do. It's time we do the same thing to them. I'm glad that man had the courage to go and I wish there had been a group of us there with him.

[rpannier]

108. Because ceding the conversation to the other side w/o any response is always the best way to go

[TankLV]

121. You're ALONE in your opinion here - that guy is a HERO - and more like this NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!

[StarfarerBill]

124. I have to disagree as well...

Unless and until we challenge these tools each and every time they spout their filth, they're going to solely own the issue just as they do now. They obviously have their right to exercise free speech; we simply want to take reasonable exception to the falsehoods they're screaming.

In fact, this leads me to a question no commercial media outlet has answered that I know of: was there a significant anti-teabagger contingent present, beyond this courageous fellow?

[dae]

54. Wish Dems politicians had cojones like him. n/t

[mistertrickster]

57. Actually, I've found that dissent isn't tolerated too well around here either.

If you think that Obama is a pretty good guy and good president, you've drunk the kool-aid.

If you think that Obama's health care reforms are a damn good start, you've sold out to big corporate interests and you don't care if sick people die!

If you think a date certain to end the war in Iraq was a fine idea, you're just as bad as BUSH!

The only difference between having Obama in office and having Bush in office was that before, the FReeps always supported Bush and we DUers always bashed him.

Now the FReeps bash the president and we bash him too . . .

Nice.

[tomm2thumbs]

58. I cannot tolerate those comments of yours!

<grin>

but only because you are correct in your observations

[mistertrickster]

61. LOL! nt

[shadowknows69]

59. This country is fucked. These people are just animals. Stupid, dangerous animals.

[shadowknows69]

60. Those dumb fuckers have no clue that they're protesting something that will help them.

My Aunt is a nurse and even she's bought the Faux Kool Aid by the gallon. Is convinced a public option will put employee plans and Blue Cross/BS out of business. I explained to my mother that no, it would just make them charge competitive rates. Find me something wrong with that?

[harvey007]

62. Free Speech Threatens Tea-Baggers

Congratulations to the man who carried the banner and thank you to the policemen who helped to protect his constitutional right to free speech.

The over-reaction of the crowd shows who these people really are -- bullies.

They need to go back to school and learn about the Bill of Rights.

[pauldg0]

63. Do you think most of those people know....

...what a public option is?

[riverwalker]

65. "torture terrorists, not taxpayers" ???

There was actually a sign with that. Someone actually took the time and energy to make a sign to promote torture.
I think I just threw up a little...

[elleng]

68. GOOD COPS too!

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[hellsbeagle]

71. A Hero

That has had to have been one of the most courageous acts that I have ever seen.

[BrklynLiberal]

74. Those morans were screaming "No public option!"...Bet you they have no idea what that means.

They do not even want the choice to have something besides private insurance. Those idiots! Let them keep their private insurance and see what happens if they ever really get sick.

The absolute stupidity of this crowd makes me want to cry...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

76. If only a large meteor had struck the mall during this protest...

...I think the average IQ of the country would have gone up by a point or two.

[CadenBlaker]

77. Hah!

I'm two minutes in and I love this old boy. LOL

[gordianot]

78. At an Obama rally last year a birther walked up and down the street with his sign.

There was some laughter a couple comments, NO Threats. This re-occurred for more than than 2 hours. No Police escort, just the lone nut parading up and down the street in apparent safety.

On the flip side it takes real nerve to approach the astroturfers when they have safety in numbers.

[never cry wolf]

86. How can that many people be so stupid?

I know the numbers were inflated as to attendance, but these people would stand to benefit the most from a public option and especially a single payer system... Can they not think?

[defendandprotect]

87. Did anyone see this sign..."BURY OBAMACARE With Kennedy" . .. !!!!

:crazy:

[Autonomy]

90. BOOOO I don't want a public option either

We wouldn't need it with single-payer universal.

[quark219]

91. I have never seen such a mass display of stupidity in my entire life.

This was the "mob" that some of the founding fathers detested. Idiotic, brainwashed rabble without two intelligent thoughts to rub together. Ignorant, and proud of it. God.

[vaberella]

92. These people are violent. I agree with the eating...n/t

Question---where are the other protestors FOR Public Option?

[Enthusiast]

93. But they are for CHOICE. nt

[20score]

94. I've been to a dozen anti-war protests and when one or a few pro-war people showed up, they didn't

need police protection. Shows the difference right there.

Not only are they wrong, they just suck as people.

[liberal N proud]

95. Surprised the tebaggers respected the socialized police

Or maybe they think police is OK because they see them as military types.

[90-percent]

96. I can understand how the guys feels

I did the same thing at the Sept 11 Tea Party in Hartford. His mission is a lonely and unpleasant one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=369767&mesg_id=369845

My sign was not as good and I didn't have a police escort, but doing this sort of thing is not fun.

I don't think they would have eaten him alive, though. Impossible to say. All crowds are different and there were many more at D.C. than Hartford.

-90% Jimmy

[NikolaC]

97. What a brave, brave man!

What sick, ugly, twisted, hate filled, stupid people. Thank God he was protected by the police, I was afraid of what those things would have done to him if he wasn't protected.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

98. public option

I bet if you asked these morons what a public option is one would get the deer in the headlights look

[Barack_America]

100. This video could be the Reagan "Evils of Medicare" of the modern healthcare debate.

If the Republican party survives the next 50 years can you imagine a Republican (probably a big defender of his single-payer health care by that time) looking back on this?

[rpannier]

109. These people would have turned on Reagan

the moment he introduced the tax hike in 83, they'd have called him a commie and insisted he be thrown out of the party

[zanne]

101. Proving, once again, that they ARE a mob. nt

[rpannier]

106. And look how much space he had to get through

the *ahem* crowd was rather sparse

[Lerkfish]

113. yeah, the had to make a concerted effort to scramble to stand in his way.

even so, it only takes a few crazies to start something violent.

[rpannier]

114. I just mentioned it as a reminder as to how few showed up

If there had been a million there, he'd a had no room to move so easily through their ranks

[Lerkfish]

116. and I agree with your assessment. I was just adding my own.

[Lerkfish]

110. wow! did you see all those people of color in the teabagger brigade?

yeah, me neither. and I was specifically looking for them.

[NewJeffCT]

111. Republican protesters are just exercising their free speech

anybody else is an angry mob of terrorists or anarchists. Didn't you know that?

[TankLV]

122. But - these are just "distruptive" people - not all repukes are "disruptive"!!!

That's what a poster above tried to spew...

Forgetting that ALL these IDIOTS are REPUKES!!!

[Richd506]

115. That sure is a lot of stupid concentrated in one spot.

I take my hat off to that guy for braving it...

[wolfgangmo]

117. I couldn't tell if they were chanting "no public option"...

... Cause it kinda sounded like "no N*****'s in Washington" to me.

Which would be, I guess, kind of the message they are trying to send. Whatever it is that they are protesting, it isn't a public option.

[FailureToCommunicate]

119. This reminds me of Little Rock and Elizabeth Eckford's walk past angry mob to go

to school. 'Teabaggers' give white folks a bad reputation. (Not all of us are like those hateful people!)
That guy was brave and stayed safe. But it took upwards of nine cops to ensure a happy ending for free speech that day.

[knitter4democracy]

125. I thought the exact same thing!

It sure felt the same in the video. Thank goodness those cops were there and did their job. Raise a glass to DC's finest!

[FailureToCommunicate]

127. Clarification: this only reminded me of Little Rock. The bravery of those nine kids

was way beyond this guys' act of courage, I know. And those kids didn't have police protection from the screaming, spitting white people: the National Guard was there to BLOCK them going to high school. It took many days and President Eisenhower sending in federal troops - the 101st Airborne - to finally get the kids past the mob and into school. Even then the kids suffered a year of threats and abuse, and suspension, for daring to want an education in the same school as whites.

[philly_bob]

123. Sign: "Torture Terrorists not Taxpayers" n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

126. Did he get out alive?