Dick Armey Leads Armed Coup of Tea Party Group

[HomerJS]

If this doesn't convince normal people Tea Partiers are nuts, nothing will.

Can anyone be shocked why Republican primaries are filled with far right loons, who ultimately wind up screwing the GOP in general elections?

Second point is this what 2nd amendment people are advocating? If I'm unable to forward my ideas come armed for a gunfight? So what would have happened if one of the people Army had kicked out been armed and refused to leave? Is the the fruition of "2nd amendment remedies"??

The day after Labor Day, just as campaign season was entering its final frenzy, FreedomWorks, the Washington-based tea party organization, went into free fall. Richard K. Armey, the group’s chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey’s enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks’ top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.

Interesting, Republican gun thugs!! So who would have invoked SYG??

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...ed-coup-tea-party-group-gets-bought-8-million

 

[Agent11]

Unless he had a controlling interest in that organization and the authority to do this some one should have called the cops and had him thrown in jail.

That isn't the story though.... So I assume he did, and he broke no laws?

The tea party are a bunch of idiots to be sure, but this inflammatory article is pretty stupid as well.

 

[xj0hnx]

Wow, even for progressive, shitrag motherjones this is a terrible article, and as Agent11 pointed out, needlessly inflammatory, well, I guess to mj pointing out that someone possessed a firearm, and trying to make it sound like it had anything whatsoever to do with the events is the whole point of the article.

 

[Ausm]

If this doesn't convince normal people Tea Partiers are nuts, nothing will.

Can anyone be shocked why Republican primaries are filled with far right loons, who ultimately wind up screwing the GOP in general elections?

Second point is this what 2nd amendment people are advocating? If I'm unable to forward my ideas come armed for a gunfight? So what would have happened if one of the people Army had kicked out been armed and refused to leave? Is the the fruition of "2nd amendment remedies"??



Interesting, Republican gun thugs!! So who would have invoked SYG??

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...ed-coup-tea-party-group-gets-bought-8-million

I doubt you would convince any of the resident Rethuglicants in here.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Cool!

So, when can I vote against these morons again?

 

[fskimospy]

Why wasn't everyone at the meeting a CCW holder? Along with schools and blazing infernos every meeting of Freedomworks should have an armed guard.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I don't see the issue here. Hell, I open carried on Christmas just to make sure I got all my presents.

 

[HomerJS]

I don't see the issue here. Hell, I open carried on Christmas just to make sure I got all my presents.

Again, is that the way you want to win a political debate, at the point of a gun??
Maybe we should let the Tea Party kill each other off. It would be a better country.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Again, is that the way you want to win a political debate, at the point of a gun??
Maybe we should let the Tea Party kill each other off. It would be a better country.

When you're dealing with someone named "Dick Army" you have to expect guns being brought out sooner or later.

 

[RabidMongoose]

This is typical conservative behavior. It is a very violent ideology.

 

[Lanyap]

More details from mj.

This sort of drama does not happen often in Washington, and the Post did not identify the guy with the gun. But Armey tells Mother Jones that this episode has been hyped up by his FreedomWorks foes, and he says the not-so-mysterious gun-touting assistant was a former Capitol Hill police officer named Beau Singleton, who used to be part of Armey's congressional security detail and who has volunteered his security services to Armey and FreedomWorks for years. "He was well-known to the people at FreedomWorks," Armey says. "He has provided me personal security on many occasions when I was in Washington." Singleton also oversaw security for FreedomWorks in September 2009 when it organized a large rally in Washington. Singleton, Armey says, is authorized to carry a gun, but he does so in a back holster that cannot be seen by an onlooker. "I was unaware he had a gun [at the meeting]," Armey maintains. "He kept it under his coat in the back....But the news looks like Armey came in there like John Dillinger, all guns a-blazing. That was false."

Armey says that his wife, Susan, and his assistant, Jean Campbell, were concerned about a FreedomWorks official losing his temper at this meeting and suggested that Singleton join Armey and the two of them on this trip to the group's office. But he insists there was nothing odd with him showing up at FreedomWorks with Singleton by his side.

Singleton, 56, confirms Armey's account. He says that he has known Kibbe and Brandon for years and that he had often "been around" at FreedomWorks. He adds that during the meeting between Armey and Kibbe, he "just observed. I was just kind of there…I can't see why they would act like I was menacing." In the Post's account, the unnamed gunman escorted Kibbe and Brandon off the premises, but Singleton says he did no such thing. "Whatever problem they had with FreedomWorks, I had no issues with them…I was not used to get them out of the office."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/mysterious-gunman-beau-singleton-freedomworks-dick-armey

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

More details from mj.


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/mysterious-gunman-beau-singleton-freedomworks-dick-armey

So much for the "armed coup".

Ok reps, your turn. Maybe Obama is a secret cannibal?

 

[HomerJS]

More details from mj.


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/mysterious-gunman-beau-singleton-freedomworks-dick-armey

So the head of the largest Tea Party organization would lie about the account?

I guess the people crying and left the gathering on orders from someone who "just happened" to enter the room had nothing to do with the gun???

So who's the liar? Matt Kibbe or Dick Armey???

 

[RabidMongoose]

So much for the "armed coup".

Ok reps, your turn. Maybe Obama is a secret cannibal?

Obama wasn't born in the US.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Obama wasn't born in the US.

The cannibal thing would be new and different.

 

[Lanyap]

So the head of the largest Tea Party organization would lie about the account?

I guess the people crying and left the gathering on orders from someone who "just happened" to enter the room had nothing to do with the gun???

So who's the liar? Matt Kibbe or Dick Armey???

According to the WaPo article that mj is referring to, this was their source, not Kibbe.

These and other new details about the near-meltdown at FreedomWorks were gleaned from interviews with two dozen current and past associates, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to talk freely.

Matt Kibbe, the group’s president, and Adam Brandon, its senior vice president, declined to discuss the issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...095b68-4545-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html


Oh, and I like mj's pic they put in their article.

 

[werepossum]

So much for the "armed coup".

Ok reps, your turn. Maybe Obama is a secret cannibal?

Personally I highly respect people who get their news from a magazine dedicated to establishing the left wing utopia and getting stoned.