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[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

This is really fuckin scary.

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[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

What's scary about it? One person tried to pull down the sign, the rest were loud and appropriate. I fail to see the problem.

Was this (http://www.protestwarrior.com/videos/crashing_the_protests.php) scary?

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

its scary that the uninformed have the potential to destroy needed healthcare reform

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The uninformed are the ones in favor of the reforms being peddled.

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

healthcare in this country is broken, and its only going to get worse. frankly i tend to believe the people who arent confusing obama with hitler

Here's why we need healthcare reform and how the fucktards on the right and the pussys on the left will prevent it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong/

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

You misunderstand the protest - many of them would love to see reform. The majority of people simply disagree that the reform put out there by the Democrats is the correct one.

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

it would be nice if that was the case, but its not.

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

Also, the guy who yelled "You better have a police escort" at 2:54, right? I'm sure that wasn't the only threatening comment thrown at him, but it was the only one I caught in cacophony.

Mobs are retarded.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

"A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals and you know it."

-Tommy Lee Jones, in Men In Black

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Also, the guy who yelled "You better have a police escort" at 2:54, right? I'm sure that wasn't the only threatening comment thrown at him, but it was the only one I caught in cacophony.

Well, I think that's a circumstancial thing. When I went to an Obama rally with my McCain sign, someone said something similar to me, but I certainly didn't feel threatened by it - I mean, the police were 10 feet away.

Mobs are retarded.

Undoubtedly this.

[hazardous-filth.livejournal.com]

but I certainly didn't feel threatened by it - I mean, the police were 10 feet away.
Really, you felt ok due to the cops being 10feet away, well clearly it's not a threatening statement ... now let's take the police away and ... oh shit!

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Well, no. No one would have mentioned police escort or beaten me up if they weren't there.

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

its scery that someone told him "you beter have a police escort". sounds like a threat to me. he was sounrded a couple of times. thats pritty threating. and that was proberbly the aim.

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

I dunno, Jeff. I see a lot of flappy stupid hippies, sure. I don't see them running up to those guys in clumps pointing angry fingers, shoving bullhorns in their ears; save the one long-haired old guy and the "get the fuck out of here" hatguy, I see people speaking to them speaking in a pretty civil manner. They're saying dumb things, but the aggression isn't there. I would have liked to see the context in which someone shouted "murderers," but they chose not to include that for some reason.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So the few bad apples at the Tea Party = scary.

The few bad apples at the anti-war rallies = okay?

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

There's a whole crowd at the Tea Party that swarmed upon him. There were a lot of angry fingers pointing his way.

The anti-war rally video had a handful of low-toned people.

I don't doubt that an anti-war protest or rally has gotten out of hand in the past. The video you provided doesn't really demonstrate that, though.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I see it in both places. Mobs are mobs, and the inconsistency of perception is ridiculous.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I can't stand Obama, I think he's the worst President we've had in 70 years, but he's still the President. That means something.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

I found it more hilarious than scary. That mob was so incensed by one old man and his sign. Ha! It's trolling in real life. What a bunch of maroons.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

I agree, it was very "appropriate" for a bunch of people at a rally supposedly about 'dissent' to shout down and freak out over the one guy who showed up who had a different opinion than them. Good call.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The guy carrying the sign was a racist? How do you figure?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Groupthink transcends ideology. Its exhilarating, addictive, stupid and dangerous.