Posted on 09/17/2009 5:32:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone.
Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi -- whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her rote recitation of Democratic message points -- paused and took a deep breath as she recounted the tone of some protests in her hometown.
"I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco," she said, a reference to the antigay laws and protests as that city became the flashpoint of the civil rights movement for gays and lesbians. "It created an environment in which violence took place."
Pelosi appeared to fight back tears, staring down at the podium.
Pelosi did not say that such an environment had returned thanks to the conservative activists who have been holding rallies in opposition to President Obama's health-care reform proposals, as well as the government takeover of troubled firms in the financial and the auto industries. But she added that protesters on all sides had to "take responsibility" for their words and actions.
Pelosi, a Baltimore native, moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s with her husband, Paul, a native of the city, and she became active in Democratic Party politics. By 1977 -- as Milk was on the verge of winning his Board of Supervisors seat -- Pelosi became the state's Democratic chairman for Northern California.(continued)
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The 70’s SF environment also spawned Jim Jones and over 900+ deaths at Jonestown. He was for many years an ultra left and bay area media darling. Nancy seems to have forgotten about him. Talk about violence, he made Dan White look like a piker.
2 1/2 hours later says apparently you can.
Jones was a Communist, but the media spun him as a religious fanatic. Maybe that’s why
“Nancy seems to have forgotten about him.”
;)
Anyone who remembers anything about World War II, or has studied anything about World War II, will understand and remember that during World War II, the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.
They gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale.
What was that demoralizing message?
It had three main points:
1.Your President is lying to you. 2.This war is illegal. 3.You cannot win the war.
Sound familiar?
Is it because
Tokyo Hillary,
Tokyo Harry,
Tokyo Teddy,
Tokyo Nancy,
Tokyo Durbin,
Tokyo Kerry,
etc. have all learned from the former enemies of our country and they picked up the same message and broadcasted it on Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc., to our troops! The only difference is that they claimed to support our troops before they tried to demoralize them. Tokyo Rose told the American Troops she was on their side too.
Pouillon was a 63-year-old Vietnam Veteran and grandfather.
Applying Nancy's approach, we would have to say that NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the Liberal Democrats are responsible for the murder of this man.
It bothers me A LOT that hardly anybody has said a thing about this.
This we know: The 18 "reporters" asking Gibbs about intemperate speech will never ever ask Nancy about this.
I wonder if she gets choked up about aborted babies - 50 million of them.
responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence
Is leftist aka progressive Pelosi talking about the leftist aka progressives groups of the 60’s?
You know the sds and weather underground. Not to forget the black panthers. All of these leftist aka progressive groups preached attacking the government. And some did. Police officers were killed by members of these leftist aka progressive groups.
Tears of a clown.
This is the new left game. boohooing and calling everythig racist.
I’ll play. Who is the best fake town crier?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtcyVbPvC4 - Boll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq9wAHk-S_A - Hillary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcO4EvqDxRQ - Pelosi
I think it’s Bill
If I am ever in a crowd with her or near her I am going to ask her that. Most excellent.
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