Teabugger Excuse In: "wanted to see how her staff would respond if the phones were inoperative"

[Bolo Boffin]

Somehow I don't think that's going to set them free....

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001270060

Instead, the official says, the men, led by conservative videomaker James O'Keefe, wanted to see how her local office staff would respond if the phones were inoperative. They were apparently motivated, the official says, by criticism that when Sen. Landrieu became a big player in the health care debate, people in Louisiana were having a hard time getting through on the phones to register their views.

That is, the official says, what led the four men to pull this stunt -- to see how the local staffers would react if the phones went out. Would the staff just laugh it off, or would they express great concern that local folks couldn't get through?

That's why the charge is just tampering. Well, we'll see, won't we?

[Bolo Boffin]

1. I mean, this doesn't pass the smell test.

There's nothing wrong with the phones, and then the Village People show up and the phones go out. Sounds like a FOOLPROOF plan. No one could have figured it out!

:eyes:

[katandmoon]

2. What a crock.

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. I guess they found out that the local staffers would call the US Marshalls

to arrest the men committing felonies in their office. Shortly, they can learn everything involved with defending themselves in front of a Federal judge in a Federal Court and later they can learn how to survive in Federal prison.

[Bolo Boffin]

9. LOL! n/t

[MUAD_DIB]

4. I would bring full charges against them. Anything. Everything.

It is time to show them what rule of law means.


No mercy.

[chollybocker]

5. They wanted to record her unanswered phone calls?

Fascinating logic.

[Bolo Boffin]

10. Yes, how a listening device a couple of blocks away would help

determine how the staff reacted to no phone calls, that's not explained yet...

One of the Village people had a camera in his hard hat. Maybe that was radioed to the "listening device." Shit, I'm giving them ideas...

[niyad]

15. do you think the real "village people" are going to be a tad upset at these louts imitating them?

[TexasObserver]

6. This is one of several trial cover stories.

They'll float several and try to use them all.

[Bobbieo]

7. And the dog ate my homework!!!!

[livetohike]

8. Don't care what their excuse/reason for impersonating

someone else in a federal office building is. They deserve to go to jail.

[theothersnippywshrub]

11. If the teabuggers said this, they admitted that they committed a felony.

And that makes the entry under false pretenses a felony also. They could each be looking at 20 years and up to $500,00 in fines.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Jack the Ripper: I wanted to see what prostitutes looked like on the inside.

Lindbergh Kidnappers: Sure, he can fly across the Atlantic, but how long will it take to find his kids.

The Rosebergs: We wanted to see what a Cold War looked like.

Buffalo Bill: I just wanted to know if this dress makes my butt look fat.

Osama bin Laden: I want to know how long it will take for them to put in a Starbucks.

[Bolo Boffin]

14. You're wicked.

John Wilkes Booth: Just wanted to see if Mrs. Lincoln liked the play.

Japanese Empire: Just wanted to see if the U.S. could muster a Pacific offensive.

Bernie Madoff: Just wanted to see how lax SEC enforcement could get.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Well, would this work, "I wanted to see if the Bank Robbery security protocol was working."?

Or airport drug sniffing dogs were working.

Etc., etc...