Attempted Murder of Republican Delegates and Harassment of Visiting Cub Scouts

(Obviously, the black-masked anarchists and crazy moonbats are unlikely to be members of the Democratic Party. These jerks vote for weird third parties you’ve never heard of, or don’t bother to vote at all. Some of them get funding from ANSWER, which is a Communist organization set up during the Venona files days, and it’s probably having a resurgence these days thanks to foreign funding from sources similar to those which began it. I want to say that first.)

It’s a sad, sick day for America when peaceful democratic discourse, or even the odd bit of physically lively discourse in bars, is replaced by throwing bleach in the eyes of arriving delegates, or throwing 90 pound bags of cement or sand from overpasses onto busloads of convention attendees, or trying to frighten a busload of Cub Scouts while holding their bus prisoner. That’s what was happening today to folks coming to the Republican convention.

It could have been worse: the police seized some rather nasty anarchist stockpiles just beforehand.

Now, let’s add the further sickening fact that the rest of America was busy worrying about Hurricane Gustav and Hanna coming on behind; and that the Republican leadership had already announced that the convention would be less a festive gathering and more of a telethon for hurricane victims.

Now consider what the anarchists used. Sandbags. Cement. Bleach. Things that come in useful before and after hurricanes, used as weapons on fellow citizens. Fellow citizens who, unlike these anarchists, have spent a long time working for political objectives through those slow, peaceful methods called “association”, “persuasion” and “compromise”.

The objective, of course, is to make ordinary people of all parties either too frightened to oppose the anarchists, or too angry to react sensibly. So remember that Ben Franklin’s admonition is still true:

“We must hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.”