and so it begins???
Posted on 04/20/2010 2:50:12 PM PDT by abb
Over at Pajama's Media, Scott McKay, whose Hayride blog has been tirelessly cataloging the story of a brutal assault on a young Republican operative and her boyfriend outside a New Orleans fund-raising dinner earlier this month, summarizes his findings.
Though initially reported as a straight fight, there is increasing evidence that the attack was political, perpetrated by a group of (get this) anarcho-communist agitators who had broken away from a larger protest at the nearby SRLC. The victim, Allee Bautsch, tentatively identified a member of a group called thee Iron Rail Book Collective, as the chief perpetrator of an attack that left her with multiple breaks in her leg and her boyfriend with a broken jaw and a concussion. The Iron Rail Book Collective had called for “direct action” and “active resistance” against the attendees of the SRLC, and had been hounding (and in one instance, actively chasing) fund-raisers as they left the restaurant.
Unfortunately, the New Orleans Police Department didn't follow up with Bautsch until six days after the incident, long after the protests, which brought in agitators from out of state, had subsided. No arrests have been made and — you guessed it — the local media is not particularly interested in the story.
McKay has a whole lot more details, and links to all the relevant evidence.
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In other words even the NRO isn’t going to try and bump the story
Its only worth a shot blog entry after all this time? wow.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-new-orleans-beating-real-violence-real-evidence-no-media/
The New Orleans Beating: Real Violence, Real Evidence, No Media
Why is this not a headline?
I’ve always thought communist anarchism was a contradiction in terms. True, if you have people united by strongly-held ideas, they can stick to communism without being held in check by authority, like monks in cloisters. Except said cloisters never amounted to much. It only ever worked with a tiny population. Plus, communist ideology has never be as binding as religion.
When people get sick of living communally after the revolution, and they will, and you can’t sock them over the head to make them stay in line, what happens? They leave, I guess, and start their own societies. How long before every communal society is back down to a few guys in something like a monastery, damning the outside world for their vanity?
Generally, because they're shiftless and lazy.
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It’s a start, I guess. NRO’s (The Corner) has published.
That initial effort by Jindal to smother the story with Malkin has taken a lot of work to overcome.
The young people must get justice.
“anarcho-communist”
Anarchy and communism are polar opposites. I mean completely at each end of the spectrum.
Idiots.
looks like the first shot has been fired.
That "iron rail bunch" should be on someone's "S" list. The FBI is a bunch of assholes...
Does anyone else understand the silence of ALL the media on this huge story? I sure don’t.
Add me to “I sure don’t.”
and so it begins???
What about the silence of the New Orleans Police Force, (NOPD). This should never have gone on like it did, but the NOPD was nowhere to be found that night, permitting the anarchists to harass, threaten, and finally cross the line with physical violence.
I am a New Orleans born person, moved out, and am disgusted by this. This activity should have been noticed and dispersed. This reminds me of the Godfather movie when
the corrupt Irish cop kept police away from the hospital so the hit men could kill the Godfather.
I am open to an explanation better than the NOPD silence.
I e-mailed this in to WWLTV and Michelle Malkin yesterday.
I know better than to hold my breath while waiting.
deeptrout
The NOPD is well named. NO PD.
Thanks for the ping! Bump!
Actually, the political “spectrum” isn’t the straight line that people think it is, but more of a circle.
Who’s the mayor of New Orleans again?
Does anyone understand why Jindal does not have the stones to stand up a declare a bit of outrage?
What a wimp.
It has nothing to do with "stones."
What I want to know is, where is the conservative media? I haven't heard anything from anyone.
It has everything to do with stones and leadership. The woman that was attacked is his subordinate, it is my understanding that she was at an event, it is more than possible that she was working at the time in the capacity as his assistant. At the very least, he should stand up and act like a man, and not be “handled” by lawyers.
Enough of this self-serving crap. This attack was an outrage and if Jindal cannot summon the personal courage to do and say what is right, the hell with him and the horse he rode in on. Jindal is a coward.
I don't know the specifics (nor do you), but I would rather not have a conservative Republican Governor break the law.
Just my humble opinion.....
Of course he should.
However, we don't have any evidence that he was advised to do so. In fact, when he had the opportunity to say so, he didn't.
And I agree that he didn’t say enough. I’m just not willing to jump to the conclusion that he’s an evil coward based on what I don’t yet know.
We had a Republican governor here in Colorado who acted very much like Jindal following Columbine. Governor Owens.
Owens weak actions, or mostly inactions, destroyed the Republican Party here, lead to a Dem takeover of the governors seat, both branches of the legislature, resulted in us have a leftleaning Supreme Court, Democrats took several Congressional seats, including a Senate seat that was otherwise winnable for the Republicans.
This is much, much smaller than Columbine, but Jindal’s actions sure remind me of former Governor Owens.
I hope that Jindal is just being cautious for legal reasons.
He’s leaving his supporters out to dry.
Is she (Rose Wilder Lane) Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter? I remember her daughter had that name but didn’t know if she’s the same one.
It ain’t dead until Scott McKay and I say it is. We continue to work the story.
And we know how to do it.
Yes, and Bill Owens worked in his early years for Speaker Jim Wright, D-Fort Worth. Liberalism continues.
Indeed, she is.
“As Rose Wilder Lane notes in her classic essay The Discovery of Freedom (John Day, 1943), communism has been practiced by primitive peoples, including most American Indian tribes, for millennia—and, of course, all those communistic and anarchistic primitive societies lived in extreme poverty.”
Almost certainly, referring to themselves as anarcho-communists as they do, these guys have Marx and Bakunin rather than the noble savage in mind. If you wanna call tribal society “communistic,” fine, I guess. So long as we realize they differ fundamentally from orthodox Marxism. 19th century socialists didn’t envision post-proletarian society to be so patriarchal or elder-centered. Perhaps we should distinguish tribal society as “traditional communism” as opposed to post-industrial “modern communism.”
It is absolutely accurate, without reservation, to say that tribal societies are anarchistic, since there’s no state without an agrariam people being conquered. It’s simply impossible to regularize control over hunter-gatherers. You can slaughter them, but whoever remains will simply get up and move. Farmers, contrariwise, have nowhere to go.
“communism has been practiced by primitive peoples, including most American Indian tribes, for millennia”
Oh, and when I imply communism wouldn’t last for long, of course I realize that we lived with tribalism and without private property, division of labor, and complex systems of trade for most of human history (which goes back millions of years). But those people didn’t know any better. They had not experienced the cultural evolution we have. I am of the opinion that if there ever was such a thing as a proletarian revolution, and if the state was somehow to dissolve, and if for some reason we were to resume tribal life, it wouldn’t last very long. Because unlike noble savages, we’d remember. We’d know other ways, and we’d return to them posthaste.
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