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May 3, 2010
What the Media Wishes Tea Parties Were Like
Posted by Dave Blount at May 3, 2010 8:53 AM
The communist-Reconquistador rallies scheduled for May 1 didn't live up to the hype on Saturday, but they did allow some enlightened liberals to express their nuanced ideology. In moonbat-infested Ashville, NC, for example:
Sophisticated progressive cerebration was also on display in Santa Cruz, CA:
Close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigrants' rights march in downtown Santa Cruz turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said an estimated 250 people started marching through the city around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
It was a harmonious but "unpermitted and unsanctioned event," he said, until some in the crowd started breaking windows and spraying paint on retail shops that line the downtown corridor. …
A fire was started in a coffee shop entryway but was extinguished once police cleared the way for firefighters, Friend said.
Eighteen businesses were damaged, with the cost of repairs estimated at between $50,000 and $100,000.
A little to the north in San Franfreakshow…
Three people were attacked and at least two others were arrested. The people assaulted were part of the Minutemen demonstration, a group in favor of Arizona's new immigration law.
They said a large group of immigrants' rights supporters followed them to the BART station on Market Street and started punching and kicking them, and calling them names.
"They said we were racists, and we were against them, and against their town, and against San Francisco," said Parker Wilson with the Bay Area National Anarchists. "What they were saying, they said we need to get out and called us racists, and that we need to go home. And then they just attacked my friends and me."
Meanwhile, tens of thousands turn out for Tea Parties without so much as littering. Yet patriots are the dangerous ones, according to the governmedia.
On tips from Bill T, ES, and J.
