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As Gov. Palin attempted to make a campaign speech, she was interrupted by a hippie, er protester.Click here to view the video. Palin stops her speech, looks directly at the heckler and says the following "Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest"... Visit RUF for the video and the rest of the story!!!

What a great comeback line from Governor Sarah Palin today in Florida. Best. Comeback. Ever.

A protester (L) reacts to a statement made by a Republican supporter outside of a fundraiser held for republican vice presidential Nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in Dallas, Texas October 3, 2008.

Police watch as anti-war protesters dressed as detainees chain themselves across Market Street in San Francisco, on the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Anti-war protesters block traffic as they march down K Street in Washington March 19, 2008. Protesters to the war in Iraq perform a demonstration of waterboarding torture techniques in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2008. A lone protester tries to catch up with the main body of marchers as she carries a large marionette during an anti-war march on the fifth anniversary of the...

Shanbo Heinemann, a pro-Palestinian activist from San Francisco, California, sits on the ground after being shot in the head with a rubber bullet fired by Israeli troops during a violent protest against Israel's security fence in the West Bank village of Bilin, February 22, 2008.Slideshow (graphic): http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1604&galleryName=All%20Collections#a=1

At a later event today in Steubenville, OH, Bill Clinton snapped hard at an anti-abortion protestor who had interrupted him. “I gave you the answer. We disagree with you," Clinton said. "You wanna criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree... I reduced abortion… Tell the truth, tell the truth… If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won’t say you wanna do that because you know that because you know that you wouldn't have a lick of political...

The death of Malachi Ritscher was reported by a local television station as just another frustration for commuters driving into Chicago one morning when police were told that a statue was burning and slowing-up traffic along the Kennedy expressway.This was not how the anti-war activist had envisaged media coverage when on November 3, he set up a video-camera and a small sign reading “thou shalt not kill” next to Chicago’s Flame of the Millennium sculpture. He then doused his body in petrol and set himself on fire. Mr Ritscher, 52, had even written a lengthy “mission-statement” on one of his...

A CHINESE factory worker has been released after serving 17 years in jail for setting fire to a military vehicle during the Tiananmen Square democracy protest.Zhang Maosheng was 21 in 1989 when he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of counter-revolutionary arson. His sentence was commuted to life in prison and then reduced several times for good behaviour. Contacted at his mother's Beijing home, Mr Zhang, now 38, confirmed he was released on 13 September after 17 years and three months in jail. He declined to speak further, saying that the conditions of his parole forbid...

TV reporters 'helped protester burn himself to death' By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi (Filed: 18/08/2006) Indian police are investigating a group of television journalists for allegedly helping a man to burn himself to death and filming his agony for broadcast. Pictures of Manoj Mishra writhing in pain with his back on fire were shown in Bihar state on Tuesday. Mr Mishra later died in hospital from severe burns in the town of Gaya. "We have seized footage clearly showing a group of journalists handing over matches and some inflammable substance, which we later verified to be diesel, to the...

No Criminal Charges Against Policeman who Beat Amona Protestor 22:14 Jun 15, '06 / 19 Sivan 5766 (IsraelNN.com) A Border policeman who was filmed beating an Amona protestor with a rod faces only a disciplinary trial without criminal charges, it was revealed Thursday. The human rights group in Judea and Samaria plans to appeal the decision and demand that Ali Sa'id be charged with criminal violations in the filmed beating of a 17-year-old youth at Amona earlier this year. The injured boy said he was not involved in any violence prior to the beating by the policeman. His lawyer added...

Officer accused of strangling pullout protestor Border Guard officer accused of assaulting protestor during settlers' demonstration at Kissufim checkpoint in July 2005; according to indictment, 'officer held plaintiff by his neck with two hands, squeezed his throat, chocked him' Shmulik Hadad The Police Investigation Unit has filed an indictment against Yaniv Reuveni, a 28-year-old Border Guard officer from the southern town of Kiryat Gat. The officer was accused of attacking a Gush Katif resident during the evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements as part of the disengagement, Ynet learned Wednesday. According to the indictment, which accuses the officer of assault, was...

While looking through some large files of photos taken at the Anti-war protest in DC last weekend I happened across the photo I've posted below. This photo gave me pause because it appears to show a Marine in dress blues protesting the war along with the decidedly anti-American crowd who gathered to participate in the wholesale condemnation of our military and their Commander In Chief. Now I realize that, as with skerry's anti-war mob in the '70's, there is no shortage of "pretend soldiers" in the current rabble protesting the war and, to my eye, the person in this photo...

Mother Sheehan's peace-loving comrades are at it again. Watch this KAKE-TV News video report  of a member of Cindy's "Peace Bus Tour" attacking a hapless interlocutor:  September 1 - The war in Iraq sparking a heated confrontation in Wichita. War supporters and opponents butted heads Thursday at a peace rally.The "Bring Them Home Now" tour started at the site of Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch. Sheehan's son died fighting in the war in Iraq.Although Sheehan didn't make the trip to Wichita, her cause sparked heated exchanges. People on both sides of the issue shared their opinions on...

(1) The overthrow of Talibanism and Baathism, and the exposure of many highly suggestive links between the two elements of this Hitler-Stalin pact.. (2) The subsequent capitulation of Qaddafi's Libya in point of weapons of mass destruction--a capitulation that was offered not to Kofi Annan or the E.U. but to Blair and Bush. (3) The consequent unmasking of the A.Q. Khan network for the illicit transfer of nuclear technology to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. (4) The agreement by the United Nations that its own reform is necessary and overdue, and the unmasking of a quasi-criminal network within its elite....

Here is an unambivalent statement: "The moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute." And, now, here's another: "Am I emotional? Yes, my first-born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a [Project for the New American Century] neo-con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full well that my son, my family, this nation and this world were betrayed by George Bush, who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agendas after 9/11. We were told that...

A U.S. Air Force colonel has been charged with painting obscenities on parked cars bearing pro-President Bush bumper stickers, police said on Wednesday. Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, who supervises 41 full-time and part-time reservists at the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo., is suspected of vandalizing 12 cars at Denver International Airport over a six-month period, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. "Lieutenant Colonel Fecteau has been charged with one count of felony mischief and six misdemeanor counts related to the vandalism," Jackson said. Fecteau, who could not be reached for comment, is scheduled to be arraigned later...

DENVER - A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by peace protesters who said their free speech rights were violated when Colorado Springs officials barred them from demonstrating within sight of a NATO meeting in 2003. Judge Richard Matsch said the steps city officials took to control protests were reasonable, especially after the theft several months earlier of 450 pounds of a fertilizer-fuel oil mix similar to the bomb that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995. The plaintiffs, members of a Colorado Springs-based group that opposes government attempts to militarize space, have not yet decided...

DAYTONA BEACH -- Elizabeth Book stood near four bare-breasted Grecian muse sculptures on Peabody Auditorium's wall. Accompanied by one supporter Saturday, she held a protest flag that read "Sic Semper Tyrannis," -- Greek for "thus occurs to tyrants" -- and a portrait of a woman warrior with one breast bared. Book's eyes full of fear, she stood fully aware of the consequences of what she was about to do. Then, gradually, she pulled down her tube top exposing her breasts to an audience of a couple of bystanders, a reporter and a photographer. Two unmarked and one marked police vehicles...

A California woman who staged a protest inside the Republican National Convention last September while President Bush was speaking went on trial Tuesday on charges of kicking and injuring a security official. June Brashares, 40, of San Francisco, is on trial in Manhattan's Criminal Court charged with misdemeanor assault, attempted assault, disorderly conduct and harassment in connection with the incident on Sept. 2, 2004. Assistant District Attorney Jessica Troy said Brashares kicked and opened a wound on Sean Flanagan's leg as he and another RNC floor official took her out of Madison Square Garden's main hall during Bush's speech. Troy...

does anyone know the case or citation where the use of the name "tax-protestor" was outlawed?

Rosen: 1st Amendment trashed January 28, 2005 Aztec and Mayan Indian cultures in North America routinely practiced brutal human sacrifice. This has been confirmed by contemporary archaeologists using high-tech forensic tools on skeletons found in excavations. The victims, often young children, were brutally murdered in rituals that involved stoning, crushing, having their hearts cut out, being shot full of arrows, skinned alive, buried alive or being tossed from the top of temples. Whew! I read all this is in Associated Press story that ran, ironically, right after a Denver jury acquitted eight leaders of a protest that unlawfully blocked last...

President Bush's inaugural speech was interrupted by chants from protesters sitting in the front of the crowd, near the podium — a spot usually reserved for VIP's and big supporters of the President. Turns out, those protesters were from the liberal women's activist group Code Pink. How did they get choice seats within shouting distance of the President? They say they got the tickets to the VIP section from Democratic members of congress from California and New York.

A message on the official ABC News Web site asked readers for help on a possible inauguration day story saying, "We are trying to find out if there any military funerals for Iraq war causalities scheduled for Thursday, January 20." ABC then asked for information on any family that might be willing to speak on camera. The network has since pulled that post. Meanwhile, last night’s "Nightline" dealt with what the show called, "critics" who believe that voting irregularities in Ohio on Election Day cost John Kerry the presidency. And "Good Morning America" led their inauguration day show with a...

It's All About Character, Stupid! Written by the White Knight Wednesday, October 20, 2004 It is disingenuous for the media to characterize Kerry simply as an “Antiwar Protestor.” What Kerry did went far beyond protesting against the war -- Kerry supported the goals of the North Vietnamese. And, they honor him in their museums for his support to this day. George Mc Govern was a patriotic American against the war – but McGovern didn’t go to Paris 3 times and meet privately with high-ranking North Vietnamese leaders like Madame Binh. McGovern did not join Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a...

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK?

Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West Virginia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)

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Howdy Folks I have heard of Republican delegates assaulted bodily, I have heard about kerry supporters trying to destroy the horses of mounted policemen, of property damage, bonfires being ignited in the streets of New York, of seriously injured policemen being hospitalized.... Is anybody keeping track? The fascists for kerry must be held accountable, that the left should be known for the evil works they do, so, where is the hall of democrat shame?

A suspect was arrested last night in the vicious beating of a cop at a protest Monday, a law-enforcement source said. Jamal Holiday of Manhattan, who turns 20 today, will likely be spending his birthday in jail for assaulting Detective William Sample Jr., according to the source. Sample, meanwhile, was on the mend at home. The 10-year veteran who usually investigates taxi-business crimes, was badly bruised and suffered internal injuries in the attack that Mayor Bloomberg called "outrageous."

Fifth paragraph down in the article mentions a protestor arrested that assaulted a N.Y. City police on Monday.

The leader of the Olympic Marathon was charged by a spectator and pushed into the crowd. The assailant appeared to be an adult male who wore clasic Greek garb and had a placard or sandwich board covering his upper chest. Vandelei Lima of Brazil was leading the race at about one hour fifty seven minute point when a man ran from the far side of the street and held Lima as he pushed/threw him into the crowd. The assailant was subdued by spectators in the crowd and Lima was able to rejoin the race.

MIDI - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH There's something's happening here It has now become perfectly clear There are men with a story to tell They will bid John Kerry farewell So you'd better stop, Kerry, look around...you are in a boat that's going down With words and using his pen Baby killers he called those brave men He has not said he's sorry to vets Sorry, John, they will not forget So you'd better stop, Kerry, look around...you are in a boat that's going down Stop, Kerry, look around...you are in a boat that's going down To soldiers he...

Jason Gilson, a 23-year-old military veteran who served in Iraq, marched in the [annual Bainbridge Island, Washington Grand Old Fourth of July parade]. He wore his medals with pride and carried a sign that said "Veterans for Bush." Walking the parade route with his mom, younger siblings and politically conservative friends, Jason heard words from the crowd that felt like a thousand daggers to the heart. "Baby killer!" "Murderer!" "Boooo!"

Still No Justice for Rachel Corrie - Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, January 23 2004 @ 12:57 PM EST "It is an insult to the human heart to have to force government officials to do their jobs properly while digesting the fact your child has been brutally killed .." By WENDY SMITH Tom Hurndall, a 22-year-old British peace activist, died last week in a London hospital. He was shot in the head by Israeli sniper fire nine months ago while shepherding Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip out of the line of fire. He had been in a coma since his injury....

<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A peace activist pleaded guilty Wednesday to tampering with high-voltage power line towers in what he has said was an effort to draw attention to lax security for the nation's energy infrastructure.</p> <p>Michael Devlyn Poulin, 62, of Spokane, Wash., had admitted damaging or attempting to damage more than 20 towers last month in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Bolts were loosened or removed from the legs of the steel towers.</p>

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A group of Congressmen have written Attorney General John Ashcroft urging him to drop prosecution of a South Carolina man arrested for trespassing while protesting an appearance by President Bush in October. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said 11 House members - 10 Democrats and Texas Republican Ron Paul - wrote to Ashcroft that charging Brett Bursey was a mistake "and is in fact a threat to the freedom of expression we should all be defending."

OK, let's combine into a single thread(easier to bookmark) all our favorite images of the stupid anti-war protests. Ironic or altered, all are welcome. Here's a few to start: On the other hand... This one actually was pretty good...

Frank Wright of Lanesboro, Minn., marches with other protesters in rural Harmony, Minn., Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, holding a sign reading 'What Would Mr. Roberts Do?' Wright had the perfect idea: Use a beloved television character to make his point about a potential war with Iraq. The only problem was that he meant to write 'Mr. Rogers,' he explained 'Perhaps I don't watch enough TV.' (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter)

No matter how many times we hear of Americans doing or saying things that display their contempt and disdain for America it never ceases to fascinate and disgust true Americans. On March 28, 2003, the New Jersey newspaper the Trentonian reported on an interesting story entitled "Town Bans Yellow Ribbons."

Every now and then things happen which tend to cause people to reassess their notions of which way up is. Sometimes it takes a big thing like airliners crashing into buildings and killing thousands of people, sometimes it doesn’t take much of anything at all.

Lots of folks, well some anyway, have a tendency to distrust their government. In democracies they elect people they like, or the "lesser of the evils," then spend the rest of the election term, being skeptical. People who are skeptical by nature, those who voted for the other candidate, speak the loudest, but even the ones who elected the government have a tendency to give credence to the idea that if they trust their government, they are somehow leaving a door open to disaster. For about three decades now, the trend has been increasing......

Bashing America and giving the benefit of the doubt to ruthless dictators and totalitarian regimes rather than your own government in times of crisis and war, is far from patriotic. Looking for American military mistakes, when massive military victories are blatantly clear, is not patriotic. It is unpatriotic to emphasize or fabricate mistakes while minimizing or ignoring military successes.

To nobodys surprise there were protestors today in DC, they attempted >to disrupt the metro system and block the Key Bridge, a leading artery >into DC from Northern Virginia. I got hosed twice because I come in >from NoVA on the metro and it is raining hard which makes traffic worse >any way. My commute was long and arduous and only caused further >resentment for protestors (but that isn't the point of this thread). >Anyway, I'll get to the point. > >I got off the train in Rosslyn because I had to use the bathroom and >the train was moving...

The following was posted on a Yahoo Finance Message Board: I received this from a friend: To nobody's surprise there were protesters today in DC. They attempted to disrupt the metro system and block the Key Bridge, a leading artery into DC from Northern Virginia. I got hosed twice because I come in from Northern Virginia on the metro and it is raining hard which makes traffic worse any way. My commute was long and arduous and only caused further resentment for protesters (but that isn't the point of this thread). Anyway, I'll get to the point. I got off...

H Norr, an employee of the SF Chronicle was suspended for falsifying a time card taking a sick day off to protest the war.

It is time. All of us have watched with disgust and some with utter amazement, Americans marching, protesting and arguing against the right of America to defend herself from regimes and tyrants who possess weapons of mass destruction. Whether it is the Left or the so-called Paleo-Cons, their message is the same. America cannot remain a superpower; America needs to be brought down a notch. The media, the universities, the liberal think tanks, all proclaim that those in the world who wish us harm, those countries whose interests it would serve to see America no longer a leader, are correct...

More truth is emerging about the "murder" of the "peace activist," shown above burning a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 15, 2003. Now that Reuters, a supposed "objective" news service, has been caught, will it make an effort to correct its damage? The "peace activist," shown above burning a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 15, 2003 On March 16th, college friends Joe Smith and Rachel Corrie came to Gaza to protest against terrorist home demolitions as part of the former's activity with the International...

On March 20, 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle reported the latest fad in peace protesting, the "vomit-in." No kidding. Hundreds of America's leading intellectuals on.....

  Anti-War Websites / Anti-American Websites - UnitedForPeace.org -  coalition of groups that oppose a pre-emptive U.S. attack on Iraq. - Human Shields -  group of volunteers who are stationing themselves around Iraq to act as human deterrents to war. - Win Without War -  advocating alternatives to preemptive war against Iraq. - ARROW anti-war -  UK-based nonviolent direct action affinity group orignially set up in September 1990 to oppose the Gulf War. - Baring Witness -  group that undertakes nude and clothed protest actions against the war in Iraq. - Campaign To Stop The War Against Iraq -  from the Rocky Mountain Peace and...