Discussing OWS Coulter Says: "It Just Took A Few Shootings At Kent State To Shut That Down"

[Swede]

Her vile fantasies of killing bubble up again.


As San Francisco Weekly and others have noted, while discussing Occupy Wall Street on November 17, Ann Coulter stated: "So at the moment anyway, I mean I don't know what's going to happen in New York today, but at the moment I'm not really worried of a movement like SDS which really swept a lot of the college campuses taking over. Of course if it does, just remember the lesson from my book: it just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111260001?frontpage

[Vanje]

1. Chilling nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. That woman is pure evil.

She celebrates the murder of four innocent college students. There's a special place in hell for Coulter and her ilk.

[jimlup]

19. She's also an opportunist

Anybody who lived through that era knows full well that the Kent State shootings did very much the opposite. She's just playing on the general population's ignorance and youth.

[unionworks]

3. did we ever find out

...who busted her jaw?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I wish it had been me.

[joshcryer]

7. Heh, I laughed.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

42. I could probably make an exception ...

... to my no hitting women rule.

[lunatica]

4. Someone should have washed her mouth out with soap when she was little

[jmowreader]

62. Soap wouldn't work

For Coulter, pure lye is called for.

[mick063]

6. This link must go to every Independent you know.

I'm serious.

This is a whole new truck load of ammunition to show the "Hitler like" mentallity of the far right.

[tavalon]

8. What would it take to shut Coultergeist down or at least shut her up!

God that woman is a disgrace.

[ZenaD]

9. Not only is that statement disgusting, it's flatly wrong.

The Kent State massacre didn't shut anything down.

[blue neen]

You are exactly right, however the unaware and the uneducated will listen to Coulter.

Thank God that there are those of us who know the truth.

[ZenaD]

17. Yeah, you're right

Coulter's fans are wetting themselves over the prospect of shooting some hippies. :puke:

[blue neen]

18. Bingo!

Welcome to DU! :)

:toast:

[ZenaD]

20. Thanks for the welcome.

:hi:

[mick063]

23. But I'm not a hippi

I'm a middle class father that pays taxes and goes to work everyday.

They would even shoot me?

[ZenaD]

27. We're all hippies now, mick.

[blue neen]

28. Shhh! Don't give away the secret!

We know OWS is about all KINDS of people being sick of corporate rule.

Ann of Mean Gables just wants the Fox minions to think it's about hippies--that way she can turn up the hatred meter!

Welcome to DU! :)

[lbrtbell]

37. It's vintage Coulter: Vile AND inaccurate

I hate that inhuman creature so much. She's like one of the demons in Charmed, except the Halliwell sisters aren't around to cast a "power of three" spell to vanquish her.

[treestar]

56. Exactly.

Shooting would create a backlash and make it worse from her side. Not only is she an ignorant lying bigot, she's stupid.

Another pathetic ploy of hers to get attention. Hasn't even been a couple weeks since her "our blacks" inanity.

[Peregrine Took]

10. Just trying to be outrageous and revive her "over the hill" pundit status.

Too nutty to be taken seriously even for a wingnut.

[Marie Marie]

11. Just a washed up Hag trying to stay relevant by spewing outrageous hate speech.

Her little act is getting so old.

[blue neen]

12. Ann Coulter knows exactly what she's doing and knows exactly who her target audience is.

That is why she says things about shootings that seem hateful to most of us here--but they're perfectly normal musings to certain segments of the population.

Ann Coulter knows that, and so does Fox "News".

The corporate powers-that-be must be feeling a little threatened--they're putting Calamity Annie out there to fire up the sheeple.

[tavalon]

13. Whoa! her books have "lessons"?

I though they were just pointless screeds from a narcissist. but, to be fair, I'll admit I've never read one.

[libinnyandia]

51. I cry when I think of all the trees that died in order to provide

paper for books by Palin, Coulter, Bachmann, Limbaugh, O'Reilly.Hannity........

[treestar]

57. Sort of a giveaway of the true intention of her books

To "educate" i.e. "brainwash" the nuts who read her books and listen to Rush.

[alittlelark]

14. Cage match.... seriously...

I would pay her for the fight.

[BeyondGeography]

15. That's entertainment

Ignore her.

[edgineered]

16. The youth of today are very brave indeed; to stand for what we of the 60s and 70s could more freely

protest. Sure there were scattered overreactions, shootings, beatings and harassments by TPTB in those times, and maybe it is that my memories deceive me, but today my friends of old and I are afraid, or more accurately - terrified by the unchecked actions our police states use to interpret and enforce laws without accountability for their means of doing so. I am ashamed in feeling proud of our kids for doing the right thing while I fearfully cower. What events are going to have to take place before we as citizens can regain our freedoms, liberties and self respect again?

[blue neen]

21. It is a blessing and a curse of youth that they feel invincible.

In the case of OWS, it's a blessing and a gift to all.

IMHO, you'll eventually come out of your place of fear--we can learn from the young, and they can learn from us. :)

[lbrtbell]

39. +1,000,000

[treestar]

60. That's crazy

It would have been far more dangerous in the 50s and 60s. The cops of that day likely felt completely free of potential discipline.

[Alameda]

22. It's incitement because some take her seriously

....People like Anders Behring Breivik in Norway, or Jared Lee Loughner who shot Gabrielle Giffords ....what next? I shudder to think. It's disgusting hateful provocative speech and should be illegal. Isn't it incitement?

[Major Nikon]

40. The problem is nobody of significance on the right is going to call her on it

Why wouldn't she want to say inflammatory and morally reprehensible things? It only brings her more publicity, larger speaking fees, and more book sales. She'll still get invited to speak to wingnut forums like CPAC and Faux news because such places simply have no standards for decency. Do you think she really cares if a wingnut bombs a government building so long as she's making money?

[ellisonz]

24. Incitement of violence.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. She will say anything to get attention and sell books. The fact that

her statements are wrong and disgusting means nothing to her as long as she gets someone to report what she says.

[MindMover]

26. The far right loves this woman....

she will say anything to get the left agitated enough to spread what she says and then laughs all the way to the bank when she sells some piece of crap that she is hawking this week...

[kestrel91316]

29. Not surprising in the least. Coulter advocates killing all liberals.

[saras]

30. I am SO FUCKING TIRED of "liberals" pretending we haven't known this for decades.

ANYONE getting involved with OWS who doesn't understand that the opposition will shoot as many people as they think they have to - just scale up early 20th century labor unrest to our current population - to keep things under control, is terrifyingly ignorant.

Can we just stop pretending, once and for all, that this is surprising, or unusual, or otherwise not entirely characteristic of corporate rule?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

44. + a gazillion.

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[a simple pattern]

32. What a bobbleheaded blathersome bonesack

Honestly who even

[MilesColtrane]

33. She's a boot licking camp follower.

Her one regret in life is that she wasn't Eva Braun.

[Morning Dew]

34. Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, Sandra Scheuer

Killed (and approximate distance from the National Guard):


Jeffrey Glenn Miller; age 20; 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth; killed instantly

Allison B. Krause; age 19; 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound; died later that day

William Knox Schroeder; age 19; 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later in a hospital while undergoing surgery

Sandra Lee Scheuer; age 20; 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound; died a few minutes later from loss of blood


Wounded :


Joseph Lewis Jr.

John R. Cleary

Thomas Mark Grace

Alan Michael Canfora

Dean R. Kahler

Douglas Alan Wrentmore

James Dennis Russell

Robert Follis Stamps

Donald Scott MacKenzie

Ann Coulter lacks a soul.

[CoffeeCat]

35. Ann Coulter--must say obnoxious, lazy things like this...

...because she has fallen off the map--and the only people who pay attention
to her are the crackpot 10 percent in the crackpot wing of the Republican
party.

No one cares anymore.

Ann spread her cynical venom all over--with her immature books and speeches, and
now her schtick is old.

The only way she gets attention is by saying vile things. She's like a child throwing
a temper tantrum, "Look at me! Look at me! I'm being bad and I need you to pay
attention to me!"

:eyes:

[AntiFascist]

36. That can work both ways n/t

[Loudmxr]

38. There is a bunch of old men that sing a song that still angers me and inspires me.

CSNY Ohio.. still makes me weep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqFwCFeosg

Hear the audience ... STFU A H Coulter. Her middle name is Helen so she really is AH Coulter. HA!!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

41. " I'm sorry about your bank by the way ..."

Tells you all you need to know.

[Kablooie]

43. Hey, the Tiananmen massacre stopped the protests cold too.

Better prepare yourselves.
If the OWS movement begins to actually make a difference you know our plutocratic overlards will try the same thing.

She's kinda got a point except she thinks it's a good thing.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

45. Which then precipitated the goals of the protest into success

It is unfortunate- but how long would we have been in Vietnam if it had not been for that horrid act. How long would the Indian people been oppressed if many unarmed peaceful protesters, following the vision of Ghandi, had not been gunned down?I have been saying for weeks that there will be a Kent State before this is all over. Not hopeful- completely dreaded- how many? How young? How old? How many tours of duty had the been on? How many fires had they put out? How many lives have they saved, will save? How many will I have personally known? And how paraded would the cover-up be all over the main-stream media?And how many of our visionaries be assassinated after the fact?
It is not really a comfort to know that this extreme government intervention will only inevitably sway public opinion so ardently towards the goals of the protest- as well as actually stinging what little conscience those in power have left- that there would be no other viable (politically and morally) option. The real comfort will come after the fact, when even if their names are not remembered by most- their legacy will completely change the course of human history. It is the survivors duty to make sure the path continues upward. That the future generations of not only this country, but the world, will be so much better than our own- and that they continue to ascend to the apex of humanity.
Solidarity

[Bryn]

46. Just ignore her

She knows what she's doing. The more outrageous she gets the more money she makes. That's what she said while back.

[sarcasmo]

47. I am surprised she is not in jail. The stupid shit she says, imagine what she thinks.

[spanone]

48. what a sweetheart.....was she kept in a closet as a child?

[GeorgeGist]

49. Mann is obviously a poor student of reality.

Just five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and the killing of unarmed student protesters. Ray Price, Nixon's chief speechwriter from 1969–1974, recalled the Washington demonstrations saying, "The city was an armed camp. The mobs were smashing windows, slashing tires, dragging parked cars into intersections, even throwing bedsprings off overpasses into the traffic down below. This was the quote, student protest. That's not student protest, that’s civil war."<8> Not only was Nixon taken to Camp David for two days for his own protection, but Charles Colson (Counsel to President Nixon from 1969 to 1973) stated that the military was called up to protect the administration from the angry students; he recalled that "The 82nd Airborne was in the basement of the executive office building, so I went down just to talk to some of the guys and walk among them, and they're lying on the floor leaning on their packs and their helmets and their cartridge belts and their rifles cocked and you’re thinking, 'This can't be the United States of America. This is not the greatest free democracy in the world. This is a nation at war with itself.'"<8>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings#Aftermath_and_long-term_effects

[lonestarnot]

61. I was going to say short memory, but looks like you covered it.

:7

[indepat]

50. God, why is Coulter making herself out to be an SS wannabe? Why does she express so much

hatred of our Constitution, our country, and most of our people? At least we know the mindset of a person who seems to typify that of those who would thwart the people from seeking a redress of their grievances. :patriot:

[alphafemale]

52. Except this time it would be the shot heard round the world....

Stupid...horseface

That just moved you to a front of a line you may not wanta be in.

[Warren Stupidity]

53. wha what?

after the shootings at kent state a nationwide student revolt broke out - every campus in every state (well almost every campus) was out of business and the kids were all out on the streets for weeks. It was the high point of the antiwar movement.

[Withywindle]

54. "What if you knew her...and found her dead on the ground?"

If it was Ann Coulter, I'll buy the next round!

[treestar]

55. The shootings at Kent State did not cut it down

Gawd, she is the stupidest witch on the planet.

[Rex]

58. So how does calling for the death of people at the OWS rallies

not land her...OH RIGHT, she is part of the GOP (no matter what they say). She gets M$M immunity.

[Downwinder]

59. She was only 9. And she is an expert?

[Brother Buzz]

66. She's an expert on Canada and the Vietnam war

NOT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc

[Better Believe It]

63. By the time of the Kent State shootings SDS had declined into virtual non-existence.

SDS had split into various tiny sectarian political sects by 1970.

They had little or no influence on the college campuses after 1969.

Meanwhile the anti-war movement on college campuses grew like crazy. Coulter knews little about SDS and other campus organizations during the 60's and early 70's.

[closeupready]

64. Many a truth said in jest, and she's too narcissistic to realize she showed her side's hand.

Called on it, she'd go, "oh, I was just joking." Regardless, the kernel of truth in it is what's telling.

[marmar]

65. That is the sound of a desperate attention junkie......

..... who'd set herself on fire if she thought it would garner her a few more minutes on air.