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Chilling effect(Political thuggery)
The American Thinker ^ | October 23rd, 2004 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/23/2004 8:26:21 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind

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To: JustaCowgirl
Isolation leads the victim to feel that they cannot fight back and the intimidator almost always wins.

And this can work on many levels. Obviously on a large scale like this article mentions..... or just a conservative college kid who can't keep a Bush/Cheney 04 sign on his dormitory door because he's so outnumbered by slick Kedwards supporters! (This happened to my son yesterday)

21 posted on 10/23/2004 9:42:43 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.” – Joseph Conrad)
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To: CFC__VRWC

Good. I wish I'd been there - I can't throw much of a punch, but when 200 lbs. of p*ssed-off Jew lands on you, you notice it.


22 posted on 10/23/2004 9:44:37 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: ride the whirlwind

What about the thuggery committed against Sinclair Broadcasting?


23 posted on 10/23/2004 9:46:32 AM PDT by FreedomSurge
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To: ride the whirlwind
I pray the left doesn't get violent after they lose on Nov. 2. The backlash will not be pretty.

5.56mm

24 posted on 10/23/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: ride the whirlwind

Exactly. It's happening on every level, from cultural to individual. And it's going to take strength and sticking together to fight it.

Does anybody think that the screaming raving lunatic show that O'Donnell put on against John O'Neill last night was anything but mass intimidation? He might not have succeeded in intimidating O'Neill, but how many conservatives and pro-military, anti-Kerry viewers could be intimidated by that, even unconsciously? Maybe more than we like to think. And O'Donnell will go totally scot-free from payback for that, because there's no one holding him accountable for it.


25 posted on 10/23/2004 9:53:28 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Terrorists will "global test" us right off the planet)
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To: ride the whirlwind

These are only a few of many incidents, including bullets through the window, theft of laptop computers, beating up precinct workers, closing down of theaters trying to show "Stolen Honor," and the like. I've seen more than a dozen such incidents posted here, and I'm sure there are many more that the MSM have managed to ignore even locally.


26 posted on 10/23/2004 9:54:01 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ride the whirlwind

Bump


27 posted on 10/23/2004 9:54:55 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Slings and Arrows
Maybe we'll get lucky, and one of those apes will try a pie attack on G. Gordon Liddy
or a like-minded conservative.


It will be interesting if such an event were caught on tape.
Then the nation would get to see what a couple of sharped #2 pencils can do.
28 posted on 10/23/2004 9:56:03 AM PDT by VOA
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To: M Kehoe
I pray the left doesn't get violent after they lose on Nov. 2. The backlash will not be pretty.

First we have to make sure they lose. Worry about the aftermath later.

If the leftists and union thugs can get away with this at voting places in Florida, imagine what they will pull in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. We'd better start preparing for that.

29 posted on 10/23/2004 9:56:23 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (Terrorists will "global test" us right off the planet)
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To: Cicero

Oh yes, I know that. It took long enough to link those 4 very recent ones. Link some more if you want......it's sickening, isn't it.


30 posted on 10/23/2004 10:03:52 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.” – Joseph Conrad)
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To: M Kehoe
I pray the left doesn't get violent after they lose on Nov. 2. The backlash will not be pretty.

I may be getting cynical and grumpy in my old age...but part of me hopes the left does pick a fight.

The waiting is killing me ;-)

31 posted on 10/23/2004 10:05:53 AM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: M Kehoe
I pray the left doesn't get violent after they lose on Nov. 2. The backlash will not be pretty.

If they go completely nuts, they can kiss many more elections goodbye!

32 posted on 10/23/2004 10:06:38 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.” – Joseph Conrad)
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To: ride the whirlwind
Needless to say, the Libertarians would decry 'statist' laws which punish people for what could happen from a non-consensual albeit harmless pie toss. "Let the so-called 'victim' sue for her laundering and coiffure fees if she wants to, and leave the rest of us liberty-loving people alone! If anyone fears standing up and speaking their opinions in the face of growing political violence, then that's their problem!"
33 posted on 10/23/2004 10:15:20 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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Imagine what they'll do to us if they win.


34 posted on 10/23/2004 10:16:57 AM PDT by JesseJane (~On November 2, keep in mind what mattered most on 9-11.~)
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To: JustaCowgirl
I copied the following from an enemy site -


After what happened to Gore, the Kerry team has prepared extensively for a close election with recounts, disputed ballots, electronic machines, and voter disenfranchisement. Check it out:

Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency.

Six so-called "SWAT teams" of lawyers and political operatives will be situated around the country with fueled-up jets awaiting Kerry's orders to speed to a battleground state. The teams have been told to be ready to fly on the evening of the election to begin mounting legal and political fights. Every battleground state will have a SWAT team within an hour of its borders.

The Kerry campaign has recount office space in every battleground state, with plans so detailed they include the number of staplers and coffee machines needed to mount legal challenges. (!)

"Right now, we have 10,000 lawyers out in the battleground states on Election Day, and that number is growing by the day," said Michael Whouley, a Kerry confidant who is running election operations at the Democratic National Committee.

On Election Day, Whouley will head the so-called "boiler room," probably in Washington, that tracks vote counts and ensures Kerry doesn't concede too soon. Whouley was the aide who, after noticing Florida was too close to call in 2000, called Gore's team in Tennessee and told them to put the brakes on the concession speech.

35 posted on 10/23/2004 10:19:57 AM PDT by ride the whirlwind (“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.” – Joseph Conrad)
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To: ride the whirlwind

Anyone who thinks a pie in Ms. Coulter's face is funny is a simple minded simian. Let us hope the lemmings
awaken before Nov. 2.


36 posted on 10/23/2004 10:43:00 AM PDT by Paperdoll (.........vote for GWB "early and often"!)
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To: Cultural Jihad

CJ, you're obsessed by libertarians. I do suggest that you do NOT put words in the mouths of libertarians and misrepresent what libertarians stand for. The foundation of libertarian philosophy is the rejection of the use of agressive force, such as assaulting people with pies. Tell the truth or shut up!


38 posted on 10/23/2004 10:54:03 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Michael Moore: Will lie for food and I stay busy!)
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To: Jabba the Nutt
Hence the statement that all the big deal is about laundering and coiffure fees rather than the Libertarian-approved "right" to destroy our institutions of self-governance.
39 posted on 10/23/2004 11:03:22 AM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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