Yet another incident of political violence in a city that is proud of its tradition of tolerance and inclusion.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 22, 2005 09:52 AM | Email ThisWhy?
This action just gave the perp a chance to beat it.
Why would the police want you to get away from a "windshield wiper vandal"?
Posted by: jaybo on August 22, 2005 10:03 AMAaron should have waited on the barstool next to the perp, while staying on the phone with 911. "I'm sitting next to the perp and I'm not letting him get away. I'll follow him home if I have to. If you want to mitigate the situation then you better get an officer here ASAP!! The sooner the officer gets here the sooner they'll stop me from kicking the perps @$$."
Unfortunately, as with the King County Elections Commission, Seattle and Washington State are places where you often have to do the work of the police for them. I have called them for help several times, and they've never been able to identify a perp nor make an arrest.
Get a small digital camera and carry it with you wherever you go. If the cops won't do their jobs, we as citizens must take up the slack until they perform.
Posted by: Larry on August 22, 2005 10:22 AMSecond, if you have to be there, why aren't you armed?
Third, If you're there, and unarmed, WTF are you advertising your Outsider status with the bumper stickers?!
That said, Aaron did the right thing (which essentially was nothing). Provoking the cowardly liberals would only lead to more violence (which Aaron obviously wasn't prepared to deal with). Replacing car parts is cheaper than teeth or bones.
The only problem with this whole story is that these poster boys for the democrat party now think that they are bulletproof. Someone else is ultimately going to have to deal with them. Pity the cops didn't....
Posted by: alphabet soup on August 22, 2005 10:41 AMQ: If you have Kerry and NARAL and Animal 'rights' stickers on your car in my eastside neighborhood, guess what happens to your car???
A: Nothing.
You see, unlike Seattleites, we really ARE tolerant here in Sammamish.
Posted by: Michele on August 22, 2005 10:44 AMLet's face it - these 2 assholes represent the vast majority of the liberal left in Seattle. If you aren't convinced - check out the participants in the next *liberal* sponsored protest rally in Seattle! Look at these people! They are radical in the worst way. Purple, orange bleached or extreme black dyed hair, grotesque body piercings, filthy, drugged, aggressive..(OK - they try to place a few *grandma* and *uncle Bob* looking characters along the outer rings of the march..just to confuse those who are disgusted)...Does this fringe group truly represent half of this county?
If the *moderate* Democrats in King County don't stand up pretty soon and denounce these mutant's and insist on honest elections - they will find themselves voiceless among liberal left moonbat thugs! And... the Democrat party - as a whole - will continue to spiral into treasonous and criminal infamy!
I love using this phrase to 911 operators, speeds response 10x, "I am hold suspect(s) at gun point."
Posted by: JCM on August 22, 2005 11:40 AMTwo years ago I visited my sister at her apartment for dinner, she lives on capitol hill.
I parked on the street outside her building. At the time I had a small american flag window cling and small "W 04" window cling in the back window of my car.
When I went to my car 3 hours later to head home there was a deep scratch along the trunk of my car. Most likely from a key.
I figured the irony of the whole thing is the person who keyed my car probably rants about tolerance and diversity, but then goes out and destroys the property of people who doesn't share similar views.
Aren't some residents of capitol hill wonderful!
Posted by: Joe on August 22, 2005 11:41 AM
By definition, this tolerant neanderthal is a coward. Give him the a** whipping he so richly deserves.
Posted by: Danny on August 22, 2005 11:44 AMAaron- you can borrow my Taser X26C anytime pal!
Shark- nice to see your post on this topic. I doubt the MSM will even acknowledge this occured...
Posted by: Patrick E. Bell on August 22, 2005 12:07 PM
For those interested in exercising one of their fundamental rights in a safe, effective, legal and (important in King County) discrete manner, pay attention to the accompanying links. Even if you're part of a community of people that aren't traditionally associated with exercising that right.
And if you can't be moved to take that step to ensure your own personal protection, at least get a defense spray with indelible UV dye in it. Even though OC spray isn't entirely effective against assailants that are high, naturally resistant or extremely angry, it'll make it easier to identify the offender after the fact (whether or not you survive to make an identification).
Yep, the ol' liberal lefties: loving, kind, open, caring - as long as you agree with everything they do, say, think, feel...
Posted by: SnoCo Voter on August 22, 2005 12:46 PMAnd to everyone else, yes, I should NOT have listened to the dispatcher. I should have stayed in the bar right near him. I was not afraid that he was going to get violent, particularly with a ton of people around. I just wasn't thinking clearly and when the dispatcher said very sternly that I should leave right away, I did.
And I have a camera phone, too! I just was on the phone with 911 the whole time I was around him. At least I'll know what to do better the next time it happens to me.
Posted by: Aaron on August 22, 2005 12:47 PMI have an idea I am surprised no one has thought of. First aquire as many Bush/Cheney stickers as possible. Second, go to Capital Hill and start placing said stickers on as many cars as you are able to do, as discretely as possible. Third, sit back and watch the fun. (Remember to try and cover any Kerry/Edwards stickers in the process.)
Domo.
Posted by: Left Behind byt the New Democratic Party on August 22, 2005 01:38 PMIt's true though - the people that talk the most about acceptance and tolerance, and demand that everyone accept and tolerate whatever fringe aspect of their lives that they define themselves by are some of the most intolerate and unaccepting people that I've ever encountered.
They have no qualms about calling you every name in the book for being a Christian, for being conservative, for supporting the military or President Bush. However, the moment you say anything that their fragile little minds can stretch and (mis)construe to be in anyway a slander against them, it becomes evidence of why conservatives are ignorant and why America is such a terrible country. Then they'll spend as long as they can lecturing about how liberals are such openminded, wonderfully tolerant people, and how we need to be more like Canada.
If these people didn't actually believe the crap that they were spewing, it would all be very amusing.
Posted by: Darth Dogbert on August 22, 2005 01:44 PMI live near UPS in Tacoma, and last fall a couple of moonbats stole bumber stickers from my car, and threw a full Starbucks Latte at my car. Unfortunately, they were gone before I could get outside to see what the noise was.
Posted by: Jeff B. on August 22, 2005 01:59 PMI've stopped going there (HA.org) for that exact reason... and because I found MYSELF getting wound up, angry and hateful.
Amusing as they can be occasionally, it's like being in the vicinity of a funny drunk (which from their posts, I gather most actually are over at HA) - eventually it's not fun or funny anymore. The viciousness with which they 'debate' (HA!... the term 'debate' is used loosely!) is insidious and I prefer to associate with those who elevate me than those whose only goal is to drag down and destroy.
This time, I'll just be...
Keep poking the bear with your sticks. One of these days you're going to get a response which might surprise you, and you won't like it. And you'll have no one to blame but yourselves.
Posted by: jimg on August 22, 2005 03:44 PMJust because Mrs. Christine Gregoire has an approval rating of 36%, I would NEVER suggest that it would justify behavior like that. You've been caught trying to use an approval rating to justify bad, criminal behavior. I see reasoning like that from the left more times than I care to admit, and it sounds just as silly as ever coming from you.
Posted by: Michele on August 22, 2005 06:12 PMAccording to Rasmussen:
Monday August 22, 2005--Forty-eight percent (48%) of American adults now approve of the way George W. Bush is performing his role as President.
Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.
Just 23% of Americans Strongly Approve of the President's Performance while 38% Strongly Disapprove. Six months ago, following the Iraqi elections, those numbers were essentially even. On the day the President delivered his State of the Union Address, 33% Strongly Approved of the President's Performance while 31% Strongly Disapproved.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Americans believe it is time to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
Do a google search before you spout your false rhetoric.
Regardless if the folks you know are conservitave or liberal I think they need to cut back on the strong drink and whacky weed.
As for getting things on track a few 200kt airbursts
over enemy cities like Meca, Damascus, Theran and Berkley would be a good start.
When I worked in Leavenworth back in 2002, I caught two men in the act of stealing my work camera out of my vehicle and I chased the pair for half a mile and right into the Wenatchee River. Two Chelan County deputies were there in 20 minutes, after driving from 30miles away, and caught two rather wet thieves half an hour later. Both enjoyed the hospitality of room and board at the taxpayers’ expense for the next month.
There isn't really any connection and I'm not trying to denigrate the Seattle PD who usually do a good job in often times impossible situations. Sometimes citizens need to go the extra step assist police in a safe and intelligent way.
Posted by: Reporterward on August 22, 2005 08:12 PMIf you are going to sport an NRA sticker on your car, I would suggest you follow through on what that suggests....
Posted by: SuziHomemaker on August 22, 2005 08:46 PMMy money is on the rave for where these moonbats came from....(Though - their description would allow them entrance into any of the three clubs!)
Great place Seattle is.......just like in the tour brochures!....NOT.
Posted by: Deborah on August 22, 2005 10:44 PMAt least there is some vestage of civilization left.
;-)
Posted by: Petrock on August 22, 2005 11:52 PMI have to wonder if any of the morons running the city/county/state have ever even pondered why we no longer have something as simple as decent department stores anymore. Do you see a Saks 5th Avenue? Lord and Taylor? Dillards? Neiman Marcus? Even little Caswell Massey packed up and LEFT Seattle years ago.
How is it that a popular vacation destination like Tampa Florida, with a city population of 321,772, a county population of 1,101,261, a mean household income of $40,663 (in 2004) and 600+ millionaires have ALL OF THOSE, but an equally popular vacation destination like Seattle, with a city population of 572,600 (+250,828), a county population of 1,777,143 (+675,882) and a mean household income of $45,776 (in 1999!!), I would guess at least 600+ millionaires with just Microsoft alone (and we know positively about 4 billionaires... Gates, Allen, Ballmer, McCaw) have NONE?
This city/county/state began a decline from its glory days in the late 80's/early 90's-mid (gosh, wasn't that when the liberal Californication began?) and now, I fear, it has fallen so badly it will never recover.
Seattle was Seattle was considered America’s most Livable City in 1993.
Seattle was ranked No.2 among major U.S. cities as the best place to raise kids 1994 and a nationwide poll of top executives ranked Seattle No.2 among major U.S cities as a place to locate a desirable business.
Seattle was rated tops again in 1996 from Fortune magazine. “ An affordable life. A safe life. A profitable life. May be even a wonderful life” It was rated the best cities for work and family.
Now, it's ranked 88th as most livible city/best places to live, while Tampa, barely making the list back then, is 48th.
How the mighty have fallen.
How sad.
How sadly preventable.
There IS one demographic in which Seattle is just about equal with Tampa: homeless population. BUT,while Tampa (with about 8000 homeless in Hillsborough County in 2004) arrests individuals for serving food to homeless people, Seattle (with about an equal 8000 homeless in King County) gives them campouts next to elementary shools and churches. While Seattle area homeless population is going up, uP, UP (Hello! Can anyone say just in little ol' Ballard alone there was an increase of over 132%??!), Tampa's is going DOWN, DOwn, down.
Someone in this pitiful place needs to wake up... and stop depending on the Starbucks to make Seattle vibrant and welcoming again.
I'll also demonstrate a deep concealment holster. You'd never know I was carrying anything unless you used a metal detector on me.