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| New York ruckus brought to you courtesy of Teresa Heinz-Kerry |
| 2004-07-20 |
| She may sport fashionable togs rather than a face mask, but the chaos expected during the upcoming GOP convention, is partly courtesy of the stylish Teresa Heinz-Kerry. The Ketchup Queen financed the shadowy Tides Foundation to the tune of $4 million to date. The Tides Foundation funds the Ruckus Society, a notorious group of anarchists who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots. This summer, the Ruckus Society has been training protesters for the GOP Convention. Included in their how-to Book for Dummies are mass sit-ins, blockades and pie throwing at high-level officials enroute to Madison Square Gardens. With the money of Mrs. John Kerry, Ruckus Society members live up to their name of being ready to create a ruckus anywhere, but they're bound to be more careful in New York than they were in Seattle. And it's not because they are afraid of The Terminator who's scheduled to give one of the GOP' keynote addresses. It's because they don't want their rioting, looting, sit-ins and blockades to leave the impression that the Dems and their gaggle of Hollywood supporters are the bad guys. It's the Johnny America shout mimicking Paul Revere: "The Republicans are coming! The Republicans are coming!" that they want to stick in the public mind. In Ruckus Society Director John Seller's own words: "The Republicans would love to have images coming out of New York City that make them look like the reasonable ones like they're about responsibility and law and order and creating a safe society, and that the left was unreasonable and violent." Rhetoric aside, with tactics like dog decoys intended to deliberately miscue bomb sniffing dogs in their bag of dirty tricks, tossing marbles under the hooves of police horses and using homemade slingshots to pelt the noble beasts, radical protesters should be prepared to wear the unreasonable shoe that best fits them. While some 600,000 passengers travel to Penn Station on regular working days, protesters are hoping that their handiwork will see the necessity of having to evacuate Madison Square Garden. All lessons being taught to willing protestors at the Ruckus knee are ones to make it less easy for the New York Police Department to maintain public safety. Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney calls radical protesters what they are, "criminal conspirators". |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 How about the turtle shell peoples, will they be there? BTW: Ever though about tripping one of the stilt people? How hard could it be? Hell, worse comes to worse a Poulan will take care of the job. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-20 10:16:48 PM |
| #11 nope - next stop on the "Human Shields Tour™" is Iran |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-20 9:39:16 PM |
| #10 Um, I might wanna join... What's their position on gun sex? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-20 9:38:06 PM |
| #9 Can we send the human shields back to Iraq? I'm sure that we can find some schools, hospitals, and power plants for them to guard this time (unlike Hussein). Perhaps they'll even get along with their allies. |
| Posted by: Brutus 2004-07-20 9:23:45 PM |
| #8 Spot, dude! It's, like, not organized, man, it's like, well, spontanenous, kinda, you know? Bush Lied! |
| Posted by: dreadnought 2004-07-20 1:42:54 PM |
| #7 All I hope is that the native NYC lefties inform their out of state bretheren that the people of NYC are not the latte-sucking seattlites they saw in 1999. Id be more worried that some irate driver delayed by thier "protest" may make their displeasure known than that some cop may thump them. Word of advice to protestors, sing your "kumbayas" and behave. try to break stuff up (especially in the outer boros) and expect a good old ass whupping from a private citizen. |
| Posted by: MartyBegan 2004-07-20 1:24:04 PM |
| #6 I hate to have to explain to these idiots, but if you are organized, you aren't anarchists. |
| Posted by: Spot 2004-07-20 11:54:20 AM |
| #5 NYPD will be on a long leash in controlling these asshats. Batons at the ready! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-07-20 11:43:45 AM |
| #4 "The GOP oughta go down to Brooklyn and hire some head-breakers to "interact" with these yahoos." No way! Don't harm so much as a single hair on any of their cute, pointy little heads! Let them run completely amok, start fires, overturn cars, throw Molotov Cocktails, the whole works: it's all good publicity against the Democrats. Go for it, dudes! |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-07-20 11:20:18 AM |
| #3 If any personal injury or property damage at the GOP convention is attributed to these lowlifes, is there any way she and her shadowy foundations could be sued? If anything bad happens, I hope every tabloid east and west of the Mississippi plasters her face on their front covers with headlines like "riot contributor". How sad that the Democratic Party is now the party of anarchy. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-07-20 11:00:16 AM |
| #2 Included in their how-to Book for Dummies are mass sit-ins, blockades and pie throwing at high-level officials enroute to Madison Square Gardens. You really have to teach this stuff? Gheez. |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-20 10:44:43 AM |
| #1 The GOP oughta go down to Brooklyn and hire some head-breakers to "interact" with these yahoos. Unofficially, of course. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-07-20 10:42:36 AM |