The Peninsula Daily News reports today that concrete blocks were tossed through the window of Clallam County GOP headquarters last week.
County Republican Party Vice Chairman Fred Norton said...police told him someone had thrown what looked like sections of concrete curb through the window....Two of them went through the windows and hit the office's desk, and the third bounced off the door, bending it and breaking the glass....Norton said he and party members Keith and Carol Moffett spent the night shoveling glass, vacuuming and otherwise cleaning up the mess.
No suspects yet. Lawbreakers have previously targeted GOP offices in Bellevue, and Spokane. Recently, burglars struck Kentucky State GOP HQ, and a driver in Tampa got a bad case of anti-Bush road rage after spotting a displeasing bumper sticker.
Maybe now, finally, there's enough anger.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at March 20, 2005 12:52 PM | Email ThisAnyway, this latest act of vandalism shows how one leftist's legitimate protest is everyone else's tyranny.
Posted by: Dennis on March 20, 2005 01:56 PMEven worse, a Bush bumper sticker meant having your car keyed for sure.
We've taken our activism to the Internet, but also have rallies now and again to show the lefties our patriotic colors.
Keep an eye on RESPECTFULLY REPUBLICANwww.plucrs.blogspot.com
Posted by: Chairman Bell on March 20, 2005 02:28 PMThe left's greatest hero? Bill Clinton. And what did he accomplish? His party lost control of both the House and the Senate during his terms in office.
The left's one last hold on power is the judiciary, and boy have they been delivering! Right now in Florida they got a judge claiming Congress has no power to legislate! Interesting fact: "A Court Divided" by liberal law prof Mark Tushnet, which tries to paint Supreme Court decisions as moderate (nothing to worry about here, folks) has sold only a few thousand, while Mark Levin's "Men In Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America" has sold out it's initial 80,000 printing and is already into a second print run of 85,000- this despite the liberal Tushnet book coming out a week earlier and with the advantage of reviews in major papers like the NYT and the Washington Post.
So the left (I cannot even in good conscience call them liberals, for they are anything but!) have some major problems. In short, they are deluded. They think the majority support them, but they do not, as recent electoral results show. They think they have the advantage of higher purpose and principle, but they do not, as recent trends in the middle east so clearly demonstrate. So all they have left are feelings, which they certainly do have in abundance. Certainly more feelings than brains.
It would be nice to catch them, prosecute them and lock 'em up. But first, give them some air time so everyone can see just how deluded and inept they are in their leftist world view.
Posted by: Chuck Miller on March 20, 2005 03:01 PM
I never did hear of what happened to them. Were they convicted under federal elections laws for intimidation? Somehow I suspect they were slapped on the wrist and sent home with a note. If someone knows better, let me know.
Posted by: DeadWood on March 20, 2005 03:09 PMI think it was Wisconsin and there was a recent pleabargain with I believe even jail time for the principle (the son of a long time activist and I believe sitting elected leader as you pointed out.)
Interesting (or rather typical) that if it were the Dems whose hq's were getting riddled with bullets, windows smashed, offices overrun, graffitti applied, cars keyed, signs stolen, workers intimidated, and arms broken Stone Phillips and the like would be looking very concerned across whatever dead media desk they presently anchor.
((Does that guy still do t.v.? Thankfully I'm an now largely pop-culturally ignorant having acted on my pro-choice desires and aborted my t.v. four years ago.))
Posted by: Jericho on March 20, 2005 03:41 PMIf it had been NPR, they'd have gone 'coo' and 'twitter' and written the Republicans, on scented stationery, a fawning proposal that both sides reach out and take their differences to the International Community for resolution.
Related topic: In 2003, NPR President and CEO Kevin Klose was compensated $377,999, and even their 'ombudsman' Jeffrey Dvorkin made $181,409. The concrete-hurlers would do well to go and protest the obscene profits both made via what they'd call 'Bush's tax cuts for the rich'.
If they don't, the brownshirts of the left will continue to smear fecal matter on the State and Federal constitutions and laws, because...they think they can get away with it - and in their own perverted way, they think they are cool (Sick commentary), but unfortunately true.
Posted by: KS on March 20, 2005 06:12 PMAnd have they sent the bill to Paul Berendt yet?
Posted by: Michele on March 20, 2005 07:06 PMThou doth protest too much, sounds like you may be a brownshirt...
Posted by: KS on March 20, 2005 07:36 PMBut the fact that you justify vandalism in this manner against R hq shows how far off the deep end you've gone. I'm pretty angered by what's gone on with the legislature here in WA but no way would I be THAT disrepectful to the Dem hq here. I wouldn't damage their property. It's THEIR property! Why are YOU justifying it? THERE is the problem Dems have. They are slashing tires of voter vans and breaking into R offices. That's just plain thuggery and crime.
Posted by: Michele on March 20, 2005 07:36 PMContact Michele and KS for whiny play by play.
Posted by: Rob on March 20, 2005 08:02 PMActually, during the elections it happned all over the county to both Rethugs and Demos. Fox News probably didn't cover the fact that Rethugs did the same type of things as well. I pulled my Kerry/Edwards sticker off my car after Kerry lost. Why do you still have the stickers on your car? The election ended in November!
Maybe we should roll up our sleeves and start knocking some of these liberal vandals up-side their heads.....! What's the worst that can happen? The liberal judges will release us if we appear to be truly dangerous! Assault and vandalism are not crimes that will make the city or county money - so they will just let us go!
The Liberals figured this out long ago! Sheesh!
Posted by: Deborah on March 20, 2005 09:51 PMRead this Michele! Its happening all over:
Vandals strike county Democratic headquarters
Byline - Lara Brenckle
STATE COLLEGE - Centre County Democratic Headquarters was vandalized late Tuesday when someone smashed the thick, tempered glass in the building's storefront window, causing about $3,000 worth of damage.
According to State College police Cpl. Mark Argiro, witnesses in the 300 block of Calder Way heard the window break and saw a white Ford Tempo carrying three men leaving the area.
Investigators will review surveillance tapes taken by cameras posted on Beaver Avenue from McAllister Street to Hiester Street, in hopes that the white car seen leaving the area was caught on tape. If it was, police can attempt to identify the license plate, Argiro said.
Joanne Tosti-Vasey said she was working alone at 9:32 p.m. in the headquarters at 236 East Calder Way when she heard "a loud thud and a boom and (the glass) fell."
Tosti-Vasey, who was not injured, said she did not see anybody because a wall blocked her line of vision. …
And the Associated Press reports this via the Grand Rapids Press -
Vandals smash window at Grand Rapids HQ of Kerry campaign
September 1, 2004, 2:20 PM
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- Someone tossed a cement chunk through a storefront window of the local John Kerry presidential campaign headquarters in an act of vandalism a Democratic official said appeared to be politically motivated.
"They could have gone through any number of storefronts, so I don't think it was an accident," said John Otterbacher, Kent County spokesman for the Democratic presidential ticket.
Local campaign official Jim Rinck said nothing was taken from inside the headquarters during the vandalism early Tuesday.
Kim Yob, chairwoman of the Kent County Republican Party, said she was sorry to hear of the vandalism but dismissed the possibility of any Republicans being involved.
"We're not yelling at Democrats, telling them we hate them," said Yob, who The Grand Rapids Press contacted at the Republican National Convention. "But out here in New York, these (protesters) are out of control. I'm walking down the street and some people were screaming, "I hate Republicans."'
Posted by: Rob on March 20, 2005 10:00 PMI will say it here, I condemn any attack on the Democrat offices. We easily win on the argument on ideas. Desmond Tutu of South Africa said his father once told him, "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument". We don't need to raise our voice. Nelson, Unkl Witz, flaming liberal woman and Chew2, I haven't heard you...
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Posted by: Puddybud on March 20, 2005 10:30 PMYou are correct to point out intolerances on the part of those who attacked Democratic campaign facilities.
However, you are incorrect in assuming that many Republicans would be thrilled with such conduct.
Also, your half-justification for throwing a brick in the PA incident leans towards criminal negligence of your gray matter and speaks more to your own tendency towards injustice than anything else.
Posted by: Kristan on March 20, 2005 11:15 PMOk, so the Democrat observers instigated long lines, blamed them on Republicans, felt there should have been proportionally more machines per populus in dominately democrat districts than republican, wanted the loosest possible vote counting standards, wanted thousands of ballots to be altered, made wild accusations, and performed an investigation and filed a report through a strictly partisan committee. Can someone make a stink comparison here. If Washington had done everything Ohio had done Rossi would have been left in office and Gregoire would have been justified to claim it was a model election.
Posted by: Mark Beyer on March 21, 2005 12:03 AMBut wait, you miss two important points.
1.) The Ohio SOS is a minority; an articulate, intelligent, no nonsense, individual; Ken Blackwell. He is a sellout to Jesse Hi-Jackson and Al AlmostSharpton
2.) When they tried to utilize the "Jesse Jackson Race Card", it was a canard because as you said earlier, they areas where the "so called problems occurred" were/are/still are controlled by Democrats.
So if the problems occurred in areas controlled by Democrats and the problems cause issues in an election, are we as good standing Republicans going to investigate interesting voting circumstances? Of course.
Regarding the stupid canard of 100K dead IRAQIs, I heard some idiot spout that off in the Sea-Tac airport yesterday as I was going to my gate. I really wanted him to prove it but in an airport I didn't want TSA to make a visit. Did we kill 100K IRAQIs? No!!! On my flight someone asked if I was from Seattle. I said HELL NO! Do not confuse me with someone who supports Jim McDermott. Rob did you vote for Baghdad Jim? Another waster NOvember vote.
Rob if you can remember for a second. Saddam's people fire a SCUD at us. It lands in downtown Baghdad. They blame it on us. Our and the international sensors in space prove (even the French agreed) that Saddam's Imperial Guard fired the missile. Don't you remember Saddam firing the defense minister of Baghdad? Oh, that's right you get your news from Baghdad Jim McDermott.
And lastly the bricks through the windows. I hope they forgot to wear gloves. Then the fingerprints are on the bricks. But doesn't everyone recognize it all starts with a brick. The first brick is the cornerstone for the outside foundation. It sets the tone for the rest of the bricks. Just like a brick flying through a window. It sets the tone for more stupid Democratic actions.
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Posted by: Puddybud on March 21, 2005 05:22 AMYou've got to get over this "100,000 dead Iraquis" number. This is a perfect example of one of the worst conducted "studies" in the history of studies. Lancet did a poll and asked Iraqis how many in their family had died, then extrapolated this result to the whole country. There was no independent verification of the numbers, no effort to determine whether or not people had in fact died, nothing to suggest that this survey was in fact accurate. If you look at the actual survey, they even mention in it that that the number of dead could range from 8,000 to 96,000 based on their own survey numbers. They then chose to issue a politically motivated report claiming the higher number. Sheep like you then jumped on it as "proof" that Bush is a criminal. Get a life. Bush was right, Afghanistan is free, Iraq is free, Lebanon is about to be free, Egypt is freer than it was, and Syria is tottering. It must be killing you to have been so wrong about virtually everything.
Posted by: Calvin A on March 21, 2005 05:33 AMAs far as Bush's lies go, I think you may be listening too much to that fat slob in Hollywood.
Many of the same Democrat leaders who have condemned this war also urged president Cliniton to do exactly the same thing in 1998 and 1999, for the same reasons based on the same intelligence. Clinton was also offered Osama not once but twice and turned the offer down both times saying it was not in our jurisidiction.
Thanks for proving the whole point about the mentality of liberal thuggery.
Posted by: Amused by liberals on March 21, 2005 09:29 AMReminds me of the constant drumbeat of "where is the evidence?" during the Lewinsky years.
Posted by: Jericho on March 21, 2005 11:52 PM