Contributed by: filbert Friday, September 11 2009 @ 07:47 PM CST
In more than 400 events: one slap, one shove, three punches, two signs grabbed, one self-inflicted vandalism incident by a liberal, one unsolved vandalism incident, and one serious assault. Despite the left’s insistence on the essentially barbaric nature of Obamacare critics, the video, photographic, and police report evidence is fairly clear in showing that 7 of the 10 incidents were perpetrated by Obama supporters and union members on Obama critics. If you add a phoned death threat to Democrat representative Brad Miller of N.C., from an Obama-care critic, the tally is 7 of 11.
And if you extend the census into September, you can add the most severe injury of all, which happened during a fight at a September 2 rally backing Obamacare in Thousand Oaks, Calif., hosted by the left-wing activist group MoveOn.org. Police have not determined who started the fight, but it ended when one of the Obamacare supporters “bit off the left pinky” of counterdemonstrator William Rice after Rice threw a punch, according to police. The Obamacare supporter, who could be charged with mayhem, left the scene before police arrived, and though Rice’s missing digit was recovered, doctors were unable to reattach it because “a human bite has so much bacteria,” Rice told me. Several liberal commentators took the opportunity to hail the forcible amputation as a victory of government-run medicine over a hypocritical Obama critic. Because Rice is 65, he is covered by Medicare.
Oh, I await the groundswell of outrage from our friends on the left and in the media (but I repeat myself) at the apparent assassination of a pro-life demonstrator[*2] :
A 33-year-old man was in police custody for the fatal shootings this morning of a longtime local abortion protester and a gravel company owner found slain in his office.
James Pouillon, 63, was shot multiple times at around 7:30 a.m. as he protested across from Owosso High School, according to witnesses, police said.
How about everybody agrees that pointing guns at other people is generally a bad thing to do and that pulling the trigger is an expedient held in reserve only for the most dire situations of self-defense. And shouldn’t that include government guns pointed at peaceful, law-abiding citizens in a form of extortion/protection racket known as “taxation,” by the way?