2 hrs ago: WH on lockdown after tea bags thrown over gate; protesters yell "death to president"

[HopeOverFear]

about two hours ago on twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisgolden/statuses/1527207661

[skooooo]

1. are you kidding me????

Throw the lot in jail!

[bluestateguy]

2. Well I'm sure Sasha and Malia will enjoy coming home from school to that

Assholes.

[FVZA_Colonel]

31. If I were Barack or Michelle I would be really worried about them leaving the White House grounds.

I'm certain they already are, but these assholes really seem like the types to go after them to hurt their parents.

[ginnyinWI]

3. Did Dems ever do this with *??

Yell stuff like that? I know they did in Europe. These righties are getting a little too full of themselves.

[Odin2005]

4. My god, this shit is getting out of hand.

:scared:

[predfan]

Remember the "wingtip revolution" during the Palm Beach recount, the one

organized out of Tom DeLay's office?

Same old same old. Gutless wonders who get real brave in numbers; we had them in Nashville during the state income tax discussions a few years ago.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. first I've heard of it

I did hear that the protesters were told they didn't have a permit to protest in front of the Treasury Building, and they complied with the police order, just as they stopped dumping tea when the cops told them to. I can't imagine them throwing tea bags and yelling those things--sounds to me like the product of a fertile imagination.

[ailsagirl]

23. There were plenty of protests when * was around-- but the MSM

by and large ignored them.

Remember when John Conyers (and others) delivered hundreds of thousands of
petitions to the WH gate? It got barely a mention.

WHY do the repugs get so much media attention???

:shrug:

http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/7266/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

28. Republicans own and control the media

and have successfully sold a number of people on the idea that there is a liberal bias.

[ailsagirl]

37. They make me sick

:puke:

[atreides1]

6. Looks like they went too far this time

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 41 > § 871

§ 871. Threats against President and successors to the Presidency

(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

[npk]

18. Nah. Wait till later when they have been drinking for a good 8 hours

That's when you are likely to see the most vile and disgusting shit.

[HopeOverFear]

20. that's the REALLY SCARY PART

one of those rednecks could go cruising through a black neighborhood in DC and spot someone with an Obama tshirt...I won't say the rest. People need to stay in their houses.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

26. Uh...I don't think any of them have the guts to go through Southeast D.C.

It won't be no tea-bagging; it'll be tea-CUTTING!!

They are cowards! They wouldn't dare!!

[lebkuchen]

7. fucking frightening

which is why I don't live in the US anymore.

[SeaLyons]

8. I hope they round them up and put them in JAIL....

way out of control. I hate these morons.

:banghead:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

11. I agree.

If this had happened when * was in office, the person would have been rounded up for sure.

[Stellabella]

33. And throw away the key.

These people need to be removed from society as they are a menace.

[cwcwmack]

9. something a bit better than twitter please...

this migh t get interesting.

[HopeOverFear]

19. it was on MSNBC two hours ago, sorry for the delay

[C_U_L8R]

10. Yeah that's really gonna help the GOP (( sarcasm ))

If there is a dictionary definition of "final throes", this it it

[Wapsie B]

12. Not to worry. Some of Agent Mike's peeps will be all over that.

At least I hope so.

[Bluerthanblue]

13. how is this allowed?

"patriotic" right-wing attitudes like this are acceptable?

My cynical son said when our local vigils against the war suddenly got larger and more aggressive as the cost of gas went up- "Sad that it's only when it hits the wallet that some people get motivated"-

I'm ashamed of those fools who believe and are trying to equate greed and living high off the hog with 'freedom'-

Are they going to claim first ammendment rights???


:nuke:

[peace13]

14. These people need to be hauled in and put in their own lock down.

When * was in office I would never have uttered a word against the man for fear of being hauled away, as many were. These folks need to rounded up and their finger prints taken.

[Cha]

15. Not once did I think

"death to the president(sic)" when bush was in there destroying lives with his lies!:grr:

Who here knew this was a crisis waiting to happen?

[polmaven]

34. Ditto!

I thought a lot of "Impeach", and a little Impeach the A**Hole", but never EVER "Death to the president".

This is from the party of religious values......"Kill!" Yeah - I'm sure Jesus yelled that about people with whom he disagreed. ....MorAns.

[liberalmuse]

16. Oh, so now we know what they're really protesting.

A rightfully elected President.

[SoCalDem]

24. Yep.. they always obfuscate their true intentions

states rights = el cheapo labor, no unions

tea parties = cutesy protest masking racial hatred of the president

2nd amendment rights = gotta have guns to shoot people they don't like

pro-life = keeping the "wimminfolk" in line..at home & subservient

fair & balanced = 3 right wing pitbulls vs 1 comatose leftie chihuahua

bipartisan = all the right wingers + Joe Lieberman or Evan Bayh

[Rocknrule]

30. Don't forget:

Muslim = n****r

anti-American = anti-Republican

family values = God hates f@gs

communism/socialism = anything to the left of Hitler

Christian values = hating abortion and gays, nothing else

[Diamonique]

27. I always knew what they were protesting.

Sour grapes from losing the election, with a sprinkling of racism thrown in for good measure.

[Ilsa]

29. Yeah, that's what this is really about. And the some of the signs

with ugly caricatures of Barack Obama and comments about him wanting to enslave white people reflect what their real fear is.

[politicasista]

17. So scary

So sure the Secret Service is on the ball. People are desperate out here. :scared:

[KingFlorez]

21. I was wondering when they would start talking violent

It never fails for them to react totally irrational.

[Phx_Dem]

22. And this is the crowd who threatened to kill the Dixie Chicks

and called them traitors for saying they were ashamed the President was from Texas? But it's okay to call him a fascist and yell death to the President?! Jesus, the idiocy and hatefullness of these people is beyond my realm of comprehension.

Maybe they should move to Somalia where there are no taxes.

[demo dutch]

25. Dixie Chicks were right so was France (and remember the Freedom fries nonsense)

[Phx_Dem]

35. There's a great little deli near my office that has "freedom fries"

listed on the menu. It actually says "freedom fries (not french fries)," so I ordered a sandwich with french fries and the woman said we only have freedom fries! I said "oh, nevermind then." This was last week! The deli is family-owned and they're all from NY so I was a bit surprised by their Freedom Fry bullshit, eight years later. I thought that was over a long time ago.

Homey don't play that game. :P

:puke:

[Maine-ah]

32. do we have any other links yet?

I've googled news and can't find anything on this.

[Top Cat]

36. more links

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/15/tea-bag-toss-ends-white-house-protest/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230315/posts

http://nobamablog.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/white-house-went-under-lockdown-because-of-teaparty-lol/

http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=696197

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/33edb27fe3844a9a

http://video.ap.org/?f=YOUR_OVN_ID&PID=z5URy8PKsLS_cEtt4Svs1yVhQ_M6xnzh

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/obama-we-will-deal-with-drugs-coming-from-mexico-and-guns-from-the-us.php

[mmonk]

38. Bipartisanship.