[kj] OT: Tender, moving YouTube video

[GREG SLAWSON]

One thing about the "2 sides protesting" argument, Exorcist. The anti-war people have been doing that stuff for years, and in some cases decades (going back to Vietnam). I don't blame for some of that crowd being a little suspicious when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, groups (not too large from what I could tell, smaller than most earlier anti-war demos) materialize protesting "taxes" (which of course Obomb-'em has lowered for most), and get tons of media coverage...
 


Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:55:05 -0400
From: killingjoke at theimmortalfool.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Tender, moving YouTube video

I was merely quoting your words. Maybe I put to much emphasis on words that
people say and should've thought "maybe he means protest or demonstrate"?
I did, but then wondered why the choice word of riot came up. I guess that sometimes
I'm just not so quick on the button. You'll have to forgive me.

I'll be responding to the astro-turfing in a bit.

It is amazing, however, that when one side protests is all for valid reasons. When they other side protests
it's all because they are a bunch of losers.

Will write more later (though I promise not to turn this into another 800 response email thread)
(Twisted the fuck outa my ankle and gotta ice it down right now. And on the first NICE day of 2009!)

Cheers Oli!


"> Since the Obama administration has cut taxes for 95% of Americans, 

> including the working and middle class, but has promised (yet has not 

> yet delivered) to raise taxes on income over $250,000 - to raise these 

> taxes to LESS THAN THEY WERE UNDER REAGAN, it means we are living in a 

> socialist, totalitarian society. So we gotta riot.

> 

> -Oliver"



At 10:35 AM 4/17/2009, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

Who said there were tea party "riots"???

I never did. I just pointed out the truth, which is that they are 'astro-turf' (fake grass roots), corporate directed anti-Obama events designed to give vent to sore losers from the 2008 POTUS election.


As far as the teabagging fests, which looked like the worst Sarah Palin rallies from last year, this man is my hero:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOwsIIIe5I


He 'infiltrated' a tea party and actally said something that was true. He's got big bals for doing that, because most of the people at them are nuts. Accordingly, he gets booed.

-Oliver
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