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2012-10-22 -Election 2012

Wisconsin senator's son beaten by anti-Romney thugs

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Posted by DarthVader 2012-10-22 18:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Honestly, I believe we are at the point with these Brownshirts that we need to videotape them in the act of vandalism, ask them to leave, and when they come for you to do physical harm you shoot the fuckers dead.

Enough of the "new civility".

Posted by DarthVader 2012-10-22 18:30|| 2012-10-22 18:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Wisconsin has concealed carry. If a State Legislators son does not have a permit, I'll bet he gets one pretty darn fast.

Posted by Griter Crart8496 2012-10-22 18:55|| 2012-10-22 18:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Night riders. Remember the Klan was at home with the Donks.

Klan members adopted masks and robes that hid their identities and added to the drama of their night rides, their chosen time for attacks. Many of them operated in small towns and rural areas where people otherwise knew each other's faces, and sometimes still recognized the attackers. "The kind of thing that men are afraid or ashamed to do openly, and by day, they accomplish secretly, masked, and at night." With this method both the high and the low could be attacked.[44] The Ku Klux Klan night riders "sometimes claimed to be ghosts of Confederate soldiers so, as they claimed, to frighten superstitious blacks. Few freedmen took such nonsense seriously."[45]

The Klan attacked black members of the Loyal Leagues and intimidated southern Republicans and Freedmen's Bureau workers. When they killed black political leaders, they also took heads of families, along with the leaders of churches and community groups, because these people had many roles in society. Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau reported weekly assaults and murders of blacks. "Armed guerrilla warfare killed thousands of Negroes; political riots were staged; their causes or occasions were always obscure, their results always certain: ten to one hundred times as many Negroes were killed as whites." Masked men shot into houses and burned them, sometimes with the occupants still inside. They drove successful black farmers off their land. "Generally, it can be reported that in North and South Carolina, in 18 months ending in June 1867, there were 197 murders and 548 cases of aggravated assault."[46]

Klan violence worked to suppress black voting. More than 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868. Although St. Landry Parish had a registered Republican majority of 1,071, after the murders, no Republicans voted in the fall elections. White Democrats cast the full vote of the parish for Grant's opponent. The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods. Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods. The KKK made people vote Democratic and gave them certificates of the fact.[47] - wiki

History may not repeat itself, but the currents are strong.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-10-22 19:47|| 2012-10-22 19:47|| Front Page Top

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