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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 10:52 AM
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Pictures of the assault on Gold Star Father Carlos Arredondo
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 10:54 AM
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1. Try putting the word "taser" in the headline
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 10:57 AM
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2. Thanks for posting the pics
This is the face of the republican party. This is the face of those whom dishonor our vets and Gold Star Families.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:04 AM
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3. You're welcome
No, I was told that since I want to end the war, I am supporting the terrorists and have no core. That I hate Amerika.

Blithering, fucking morans
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:29 AM
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:50 AM
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14. Delete post
Edited on Wed Sep-19-07 12:24 PM by danagsk8
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:59 AM
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16. It is totally wrong
for you to inspire an attack on anyone -- In fact I'm certain it is not encouraged on this site.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:32 PM
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25. Sorry about that.
Edited on Wed Sep-19-07 12:51 PM by danagsk8
It just makes me so mad!

(What did I do wrong? :shrug:)
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:14 PM
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21. Drew Carey?
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:10 AM
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4. I marched alongside this man and other Gold Star parents.
Edited on Wed Sep-19-07 11:11 AM by HughBeaumont
Nary an arrest in this assault.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

I fucking HATE freepers.

Not so much before this weekend, but now, oh HELLS yeah.

When you're yelling at the top of your lungs at a teenager to "meet me at the at the WALL, bitch!", FUCK that.

When you're still yelling the same old goddamned "commie" "hippie" "cowards" "Hanoi Jane" "Give soap a chance" slogans that are old as the dust that falls off of them, FUCK that.

And when you come to a progressive city demanding MORE of my tax dollars being burned in the PentaGONE to prolong a soldier-killing war that's doing nothing but turning a sovereign nation into a morgue and cheering for a victory that's never going to be DEFINED, much less HAPPEN, fuckity fuck FUCK that.

So now we have pictorial and video proof that they assaulted a Gold Star dad, a female demonstrator and a photographer and not a SINGLE arrest.

FREEPERS: you are a fucking pitiful disgrace to this country. You swallowed the Bewsh Koolaid with open throats and blackened hearts. Your ideology is dead and moldy. All you want to do is pretend like this world is a big fucking football game where the only goal is to WIN something, no matter what it is, no matter how good it will be for the rest of the planet. All you want is to hate someone or something because you're paranoid, bitter, resentful, curmudgeonly and pathetic. You're the most desperate, sick and twisted bunch of fucking assholes I have the utmost DISGUST of sharing a country with. You don't have my pity and you don't have my sentiments.

You're fake Americans hiding behind your house-sized flags.

You don't respect my grandfather, who gave more of a sacrifice than any of YOU have EVER given to your country. You don't respect the soldiers that are over there, because prolonging this occupation of choice will result in more maimings, dismemberment, killings, genocide and bloodshed. You don't respect the working or poor people of this country (a group which most of you are in, BTW), because this war is consuming an asston of tax dollars, as are the rich, who are using their breaks to offshore jobs and pocket the savings. You have not one goddamned CLUE as how terrorism works; otherwise, you'd understand the very ideology behind it's perpetuation is why an occupation trying to eradicate it is not only insane but patently wasteful.

We're going to change America with or without your help, fuckers.

No more bridge-building.

NO more reaching out.

Their display this week was VOMITOUS. Stick your anger straight up your ugly ass. I'm not going ANYplace and neither are the thousands upon thousands of Americans who care about lifting the nation out of the toilet your kind flushed it down thanks to your undying love of fascists.

I was civil during the demonstration at the request of the ANSWER people, which I complied with.

After seeing this, I can't promise that in the future.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:35 AM
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12. they know they are disgraceful and they don't care
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:00 PM
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17. Excellent post
:applause:
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indythinker1776 Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:25 AM
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33. Great post!
Do you have a link to the video?
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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:26 AM
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35. Makes me really pissed, too, ...
and I'm having a real hard time keeping the hate down.
I'm with you, Hugh, just like last Saturday. I'm not going anywhere either until these disgusting "humans" are pushed back to the fringe where they belong.
Take care, fellow evolved marching buddy.
:applause:
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:42 AM
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36. I mean, WHY would you come to DC and demand MORE war?
It takes a sick kind of individual to fall in line with that train of thought.

The march . . . I don't know what happened there. All of a sudden I looked behind and hey, no more DUers! It's hard to stay together when there's 100 thousand people, but it's also nice to know you aren't alone and we're outnumbering the non-thinkers 100 to 1.

If only the people of America would wake up to that. :)
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:14 AM
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38. Top Post!
Thank you, HughBeaumont.

Their display this week was VOMITOUS. Stick your anger straight up your ugly ass. I'm not going ANYplace and neither are the thousands upon thousands of Americans who care about lifting the nation out of the toilet your kind flushed it down thanks to your undying love of fascists.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:35 AM
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39. These monsters should be put on display for ALL to see.
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 08:36 AM by HughBeaumont
A perfect personification of the TRUE nature behind Repuke troop "support": A beatdown of a Gold Star parent. Underneath the American Flag the unfortunately deceased son fought under.

And I should mention that everyone should read Octafish's posts, lest we forget that "Ike" Republicans no longer exist. They've been replaced by predatory piles of neo-clown bastardry with all the approachability and compassion of a Grand Cyclops. Their once-reasonable following has morphed into unguised yee-haw hypocrite neo-Klansmen like the ones pictured above.
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jackster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:30 AM
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43. Thanks Hugh!
:hippie:

proud to be a HIPPIE!
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:17 AM
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5. Hey proud they must be...
Edited on Wed Sep-19-07 11:24 AM by George Oilwellian
to beat up the father of a dead soldier.

On edit: And let's not forget these same thugs were invited to the WH the next day for a little picnic.
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:22 AM
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6. It is so sad
that these "patriots" would attack and harm a man who has had his heart ripped from his body already.

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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:31 AM
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9. Jesus. Look at these pinheads.
We're talking collective IQ of "turnip" here.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:31 AM
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10. Laughing like fat pink inbred Klansmen.
"HAW HAW HAW HAW now THAT wuz FUNNY, BUBBAH!"

WHY ARE THESE MEN NOT FUCKING BEING ARRESTED??????
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:11 PM
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18. Because
for some oddball, alternate universe way of thinking, THEY are the patriots....

Sick Amerika
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:27 PM
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23. I mean, there's a freaking COP right there!! In the Photo!!
What's he doing, joking with them about the whole thing?

These guys aren't even human, much less patriotic - takes 5 of their redneck asses to beat down a Gold star dad.

It should be easy to identify these "patriots" now.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:20 AM
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31. Kick. I want the world to see the faces of hatred.
I hope these pigs are shunned in their communities as the pathetic pieces of human excrement that they are.

Hey freepers, keep it up. The country is now against the war and YOU are in the minority. These types of actions will make you despised and hated. Way to go.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:34 AM
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45. real men? bwahahahaha.....more like assholes, real assholes
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:23 AM
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7. Please tell me that there are charges being filed by Carlos
If not, that the police took these brave "patriots" away for assault.
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 08:23 PM
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27. Yeah, I hope so.
Those guys deserve a little time in the clink.
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:33 AM
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11. As I've said, I'll walk with Carlos Arredondo
if he's ever out my way. I may not be the most dangerous dude on the planet, but I think I can handle the fat hillbilly fuck that's kicking him.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:47 AM
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13. Looks familiar
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 11:56 AM
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15. Pigs...
...and that of course is an insult to the animal pigs.

I have looked at their faces. And being a bit superstitious, I sent strong hex vibes in their direction. It's all I can do from here at the moment.

No arrests? Of course not, because the cops think their job is to enforce right wing positions, not to enforce the peace.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:12 PM
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19. Is that Freeper beating him with his flag?
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QueenOfCalifornia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 01:30 PM
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26. That would be illegal
to abuse a flag like that...
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:09 AM
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30. The guy with the flag appears to be trying to hold the asshole back.
These sonsobitches should have been arrested! :grr:
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 07:44 AM
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37. The guy with the flag is not a freeper that was a VFP guy
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coco77 Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:14 PM
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20. Where was the other side...
they should have been over there kicking their asses. I saw them makin speeches that day about how they were going to kick some ass here and in Iraq. I guess its time for them to get there asses on over there..
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:21 PM
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22. shit. shit. shit. this makes me sick.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 12:32 PM
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24. DUDE! In the background! Between the trees! Is that the "Morans" guy???
Edited on Wed Sep-19-07 12:33 PM by HughBeaumont
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:09 AM
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28. yeesh. They remind me of every white guy I knew back in Mississippi
Maybe they bused these guys up from the South?
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:01 AM
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29. Why are violent hate crimes illegal and violent political crimes are not?
This one should be a no-brainer to enact.
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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:22 AM
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32. I was not aware that this happened, and I am really pissed.
I met Carlos in Kennebunkport this summer, chatted briefly, and saw him several times over the weekend. I don't believe I've ever been more impressed or moved by any individual I've ever met before in my life.
Carlos passed by me during the march, on his way to the front to be with the vets. As he passed by, he looked at me, smiled, said hi, and asked how I was doing. He recognized me, and took the time to acknowledge my presence. This is the type of man he is.
How dare they assault this man. I am not a violent person, but so help me, had I been near him when this happened, I would have jumped in to defend him with every wimpy, out of shape muscle my body could muster up.
Passing by the counter protesters made me sick to my stomach. It's hard not to hate when you see and hear them, and this attack on Carlos is more than I can take.
Many of them are thugs, pure and simple, stupid, ignorant, and vicious thugs. Hypocrisy wrapped in the American flag.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 06:26 AM
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34. Well Bush gave them permission
so no biggie here :sarcasm:
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 11:47 AM
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46. Invited them to the White House afterwards, apparently . . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1848841

The Failure Fuhrer in a Plastic Bubble needs to be surrounded by his loyal "salt".
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:52 AM
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40. Did any of those assholes get arrested?nt
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 08:56 AM
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41. NAWP!
I mean, look at the one photo . . . the cop in it seems to be sharing in the laughter of the Klansmen assailants. They might as well be at the Pigsuck Roadhouse downin' some beer together.

A beatdown of a Gold Star dad with photographic proof and not one arrest. WHERE do I live again?
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:14 AM
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42. This is fucking crazy.
I just don't understand how police could get away with not arresting them.
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 09:32 AM
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44. Perhaps we should help Carlos get a taser gun!
If the police won't protect him and arrest bastards that attack him, then perhaps its time that someone like him is able to have a means to defend himself from bastards like this! If they try to come down on him the next time he gets attacked and he uses it against bastards like this, a lawyer can say "Well, he doesn't have a government that's willing to defend him, so he had to defend himself!"
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