York GOP HQ vandalism part of a pattern of Klan-style intimidation
Over the weekend, the vandalism of the York County Republican Party campaign offices has received attention by new media, as well as traditional print media.
We understand intimidation tactics occcurred around the Upstate over the weekend. The same night in Chester, a GOP activist was accosted by several males when leaving the Chester GOP headquarters, who surrounded him and threatened him for opposing Barack Obama. He escaped unharmed.
According to Victory 2008 regional coordinator Joe St. John, the York County Democratic Party chairman was there with an apology before the news media arrived. While some would say that his fast response was coincidental and that he really didn't know these things were happening overnight ... we'll leave such judgments to our readers.
George Orwell once wrote "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" ... well, we're sure if a similar incident of vandalism occured at a predominantly-black church, NAACP office, or Democratic Party office, we'd see a little more outrage - as well as visitors from the Justice Department. But when it's part of a pattern of voter fraud and political intimidation tactics are directed at Republicans, it's no big deal. Such disparity reminds us that we still have a long way to go in building a truly equal, civil and tolerant society.
To whoever was behind these and other incidents, we would encourage them to go ahead and put on the bedsheets and light up a cross, because your words and deeds seem so much like a Jim Crow-era Klucker that it’s hard for us to tell the difference.
At least this way, you'd be more honest about who and what you are.
We understand intimidation tactics occcurred around the Upstate over the weekend. The same night in Chester, a GOP activist was accosted by several males when leaving the Chester GOP headquarters, who surrounded him and threatened him for opposing Barack Obama. He escaped unharmed.
According to Victory 2008 regional coordinator Joe St. John, the York County Democratic Party chairman was there with an apology before the news media arrived. While some would say that his fast response was coincidental and that he really didn't know these things were happening overnight ... we'll leave such judgments to our readers.
George Orwell once wrote "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" ... well, we're sure if a similar incident of vandalism occured at a predominantly-black church, NAACP office, or Democratic Party office, we'd see a little more outrage - as well as visitors from the Justice Department. But when it's part of a pattern of voter fraud and political intimidation tactics are directed at Republicans, it's no big deal. Such disparity reminds us that we still have a long way to go in building a truly equal, civil and tolerant society.
To whoever was behind these and other incidents, we would encourage them to go ahead and put on the bedsheets and light up a cross, because your words and deeds seem so much like a Jim Crow-era Klucker that it’s hard for us to tell the difference.
At least this way, you'd be more honest about who and what you are.
I do have to say, to the credit of Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the founders of what became a brown shirt wing of the Dems, General Forrest quit the Klan and repudiated the direction it took.
I in no way condone this behavior, but do wonder if this is the source of the hate that we are seeing today.
I do wish both parties would get out of the gutter and stick to the issues. Tell us how you are going to fix the issues facing Americans today.
So you can show me where McCain, Palin, or anyone directly associated with his campaign organization, to use your words, called him "a Muslim, being an Arab, and tossing the "n" word"?
I'd love to see your proof.
While you're talking about who is injecting race into this campaign, tell me which candidate has major supporters who have suggested that if Obama loses, then it was because white people lied to pollsters, secretly intending to vote for McCain.
If Obama does lose, imagine what sort of hatred THOSE comments will fuel.
I've been around a lot of Obama supporters, and few of them have the ability not to make personal cheap shots at McCain, Palin, and his supporters. I'm guessing you and your cohorts aren't among those?
But I'm guessing you don't know what I'm talking about, do you? Probably not.
But, as "ande's" gratuitious assertion draws, any criticism of Obama is racist... no coincidince tht this is the new leftist mantra or part of the "great schlep" of coercing young Jews for Hitler, er Obama to travel south and play at shaming their retired grandparents, part of "Our Greatest Generation" into voting for Obama, against their best intrests.
I only have to look at the 1920s to early 1930s Germany to see a clear paralell.
I'd offer a different choice of "n" words, nephelim, the children of the crossbreeding of the angels that fell with Satan and man, physically impressive, very charismatic and prone to oppose the tribes of Israel.
So please read my post as it is meant to be.
First, you went out of your way to single out the "GOP presidential team", not both campaigns. That suggests some degree of bias.
Second, when you refer to such a team, you mean McCain's campaign, the Republican National Committee, or both, as "stirring up a lot of hatred and misinformation" you are accusing them of using discourse which makes personal derogatory claims or suggestions. That's a pretty harsh accusation.
Third, when you suggest the McCain campaign and or other GOP organizations are "partly to blame for behavior like this", it reminds me of the days when the Klan would go after someone for being "uppity" ... and often used the same justification for their crimes. The same for people who have beated up, and even killed, people based upon their sexual orientation in more modern times.
But somehow those Republicans ... we just have it coming. I guess that includes me when my tires are slashed or someone walks up and attacks me for working at a GOP campaign office or having a McCain sticker on my car. How touching.
Violence as a response to discourse, no matter how disagreeable, is always completely inexcusable and is solely the fault of the perpetrator.
Crank up Cheley Wright's "On The Bumper Of My SUV"...