Posted on 08/17/2004 10:36:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone
A leader of one of the major protest groups planning to disrupt the GOP convention said Monday she will not instruct her members to refrain from violent attacks against New York City police, delegates or city residents during a planned 250,000 person march on the night before the convention.
Referring to planned protests as "a battle," Tanya Mayo, national coordinator for the protest group "Not in Our Name," told radio host Sean Hannity that her group alone has 30,000 members, but that other groups could swell that number by hundreds of thousands during a planned march up 7th Ave. to the area around Madison Square Garden.
Contending that there's "a real hatred" for President Bush's agenda, Mayo said protesters have a right to assemble in Central Park after leaving the Garden area, a plan that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned.
Asked if her group would "follow the rule of law" if Bloomberg's ban stays in force, Mayo told Hannity, "I think it's ironic that you would ask that question when we've got a president that actually has sacked the rule of law."
"Look, we've got a gang in the White House right now that are rounding up immigrants, putting people in detention," she insisted. "Trust me, [Bush] is a bad guy."
The rest of the exchange went like this:
HANNITY: Will you be non-violent with the police?
MAYO: I'm gonna answer that in the best way that I can. I can't answer it as a yes or no answer. What I can say, is . . . .
HANNITY: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You can. Will you encourage people in your protest not to be violent with the police - yes or no?
MAYO: People are concerned with the fate of the people of the world . . .
HANNITY: Yes or no? Answer the question, Tanya.
MAYO: If you want to do this interview and you want to hear what I have to say, then allow me to answer the question. . . . If people are concerned about safety and disruption in the streets, then we need to actually look at who will be held responsible for something like that. And that's Mayor Bloomberg and his administration for refusing the right of people to assemble.
HANNITY: Now I'll ask the question again. Will you encourage your members to be non-violent?
MAYO: I think our members are a very diverse group of people and individuals will have to make a decision what lines they choose to cross at any given point.
HANNITY: But as a paid leader of the group "Not In Our Name," as a leader of the peace movement, will you encourage members in your group not to be violent?
MAYO: Like I said, those things will unfold as the days come and we'll definitely give you a call back if we have any other answers. . . . We have respected everything up to this point. The only people who have sacked the rule of law are the gang in the White House.
Editor's note:
Heard this yesterday. Quite amusing. She was exposed as a hypocrite of the first degree.
Hannity should have said:
"Its obvious that this 'peace' organization will not promote peace so I will publically forewarn law enforcement that this group will engage in violent protests."
I cant wait until the final jail bird count : )
I think it will be huge...how audacious for them to think we New Yorkers would tolerate this disrespect for the Rule of Law.
Steel-capped workboots? Check.
MagLite? Check.
Pepper spray? Check.
Aluminum baseball bat in my duffle bag for my corporate softball league? Check.
I think I'm ready for Tanya's thugs.
ah...where's Mayor Daley-I when you need him ?
Alot of these people coming in are NOT from New York. That is what gets to me. WHO THE HECK TOLD THEM THEY WERE WELCOME HERE TO PROTEST VIOLENTLY? Oh yea I forgot, "Blooming Idiot" Bloomberg said everything would be hunky dorey!
So, Violence in the name of Peace. Put 'em on a ship and send 'em to Syria.
They are claiming a 1/4 million will show - does anyone have any recent events where similar numbers were predicted and what the actual numbers were? I have a hard time believing this number. It is hard enough to steer a few thousand in the same direction to believe this type of count.
I also think that the inclusion of other groups will give this charlatan a way of saying that it wasn't her group that 'rioted' but that her group was arrested for the actions of others.
Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using a deadly weapon inside city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or "Endangering bystanders," or other misdemeanor.
by Robert Anson Heinlein
I just hope our NYC Freepers are armed with their video cameras so that we can watch the police beat the snot out of the "peace" activists who resort to violence.
The FBI may have enough to round up all the protest leaders on RICO charges.
fyi
Why not just spray soap and water on them? They'll disintegrate.
Chief Wiggum: "Well boys, looks like it's time for a good ol' fashioned hippy ass-whompin'. Set your nightsticks to 'whomp' "
They will politely tell you to move. If you refuse, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will have your ass kicked.
After your arrest, you will not be jailed exclusively amongst your trustafarian brethren. You will be sent to the bowels of Riker's Island, to live amongst the regulars.
And when Daddy's lawyer shows up to get you released, there will be problems with the paper work and an incredible backlog due to the obvious circumstances. By the time you are released on bail, you will have spent four days being re-educated as to the reasons you don't ever want to be arrested in NYC, and the convention will be over.
"Tanya the Terrorist".
Who needs Osama?
Rooftops. Gravity. Eggs. (dog poop? cinderblocks?)
Should serve to give these Marxist cockroaches a run for their "struggle".
Actually, it seems to me New Yorkers will tolerate just about anything, including terrorists flying airplanes into skyscrapers. That's the only conclusion I can come to given the fact that New Yorkers will vote overwhelmingly for Kerry-Edwards in November.
We see yet another significant difference in conservatives and liberals. During the Democratic Natl Convention protestors were basically well behaved and did not threaten violence. They showed complete respect for the Convention goers and the city of Boston. Now you have the Liberals, a group of people who have no respect whatsoever for anyone or anything. And if they do something wrong, of course it is someone else's fault. These people are self-absorbed, ignorant fools.
Dennis Prager has David Horowitz on his show. Horowitz was saying that he thinks violence is a pretty fair bet depending on security. But he also says that violence will only help the republicans.
I think a lot of former "centrists" allowed themselves to be dragged off to the left. Now that they're there they aren't comfortable. I think violence at the convention will send a lot of those uncomfortable leftists running for the center.
BLOAT
Aim small, miss small.
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New York is going to be a lot dirtier than normal when all these smelly, dirty, unkept hippies come to town.
But I agree with you on the NYPD. They are the best.
They should throw these hippie-war mongering law breakers in the tombs for a while and lose the key in the bureaucratic process. That will teach them for not following the law.
Isaiah 3:12 ping.
sedition: Language or conduct directed against public order and the safely of the state
Now why in the world can't they all be arrested for this? The First Amendment does not protect sedition.
I gotta agree with you there.
NYPD are the best cops in the world and I feel safe with them there but I am afraid for them. Last time the protesters even attacked the horses that the cops were riding on. I am hoping my fellow NYers will not stand for this and do a little bit to help the NYPD.
NY is alot dirtier already with Bloomberg in charge. More and more homeless people are on the streets stinking up the place and the rats (I mean the furry kind) are taking over.
In other words, they will be violent.
It kills me when these people talk about how much they are for peace and put down violence as "violence promotes violence" yet she cannot answer plainly if they will be non-violent! Isn't that why they are against President Bush? Because he's for war and thus, promotes violence? Yet they will be violent.
Unbelievable!
If these a$$holes want to play...well, they may get a wee more out of me than they planned on.
A friend suggested using flail tanks as riot control vehicles.
I can't even imagine the unholy beatdown that will befall the first "anarchist" that they see aiming his slingshot at a police horse. There will not be an inch of skin left on their body without a purple nightstick welt.
The police know who will be messing with them, but I'm not sure the trustafarians are as informed as to the nature of their enemy.
RATS? RATS?? Oh dear.........
LOL thanks for the laugh. I am sooo pissed off at these jerks right now!
I am ALLLLLLL for a
good old fashioned,
open-the-can-of-WHUPASS,
NYPD ASS-kicking.
I'll bring the pop-corn.
I have a couple of friends on the job here in NYC and let me tell you, they are ready. there is a zero tolerance for bullsh!t by these so called peace lovers. No one is in the mood for this nonsense.
The thing that amazes me is the attitude of appeasement by City Hall. Mennino in Boston was right -- put the filthy freaks in cages on the West Side highway dammit.
Companies in the city are making plans to let people work from home, etc... How about forcing the mayor to be more vocal about what will happen to demonstrators, how about some threats coming from city hall... how about a set of balls Bloomberg. Ugh, he disgusts me.
Everyone at the convention needs to be armed . . . with video cameras. Film the filth and their antics and post it to the internet. The mainstream media won't do it, so we must.
In other words, "I believe in peace, and if you disagree with me, I'm going to break your face."
In other words, "I believe in peace, and if you disagree with me, I'm going to break your face."
Boy! I tell you! You try to live a good decent life, and it's idiots like this that get face time on TV. Just horrible.
The sure come out from under their rocks, don't they!
Alas I have to go to work during that week. I wish I could stay home but no dice. But if any protestor gets in my way there will be hell to pay. I heard they will be chaining themselves together to block traffic again and that by doing that they will keep the NYPD occupied trying to cut thru the chain thereby letting other protestors incite more violence. These animals are SICK!!!
A leader of one of the major protest groups planning to disrupt the GOP convention said Monday she will not instruct her members to refrain from violent attacks against New York City police, delegates or city residents during a planned 250,000 person march on the night before the convention.from "The True Believer":
Referring to planned protests as "a battle," Tanya Mayo, national coordinator for the protest group "Not in Our Name," told radio host Sean Hannity that her group alone has 30,000 members, but that other groups could swell that number by hundreds of thousands during a planned march up 7th Ave. to the area around Madison Square Garden.
Contending that there's "a real hatred" for President Bush's agenda, Mayo said protesters have a right to assemble in Central Park after leaving the Garden area, a plan that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has banned.
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists of concentrating all hatred on a single foe. [pp 85-87]
Yes they do. Slithering out from the depths of the sewer is more like it.
I wonder what they are so upset about?
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