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3 Arrested in MD after political signs are vandalized - Washington Post

By Miranda S. Spivack
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 6, 2004; Page B08

They staked out a spot on Route 40 near Ellicott City with unmarked police cars and plainclothes officers, then waited for the culprits to arrive.

Twice in the past 10 days, the stakeouts have netted arrests: three people charged with destroying Bush-Cheney signs, Howard County police said.

The election-year ritual of political sign demolition took on added significance this year after reports of a sign being set on fire in front of an Ellicott City home, police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said.

"That was of great concern," Llewellyn said. "We wanted to nip it in the bud." . . . .
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A bit dated, but still relevant.

WGAL - Lancaster, Pa

Vandals shoot windows of GOP HQ in Gettysburg

POSTED: 11:44 am EDT September 16, 2004

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Police are looking for whoever vandalized the Adams County Republican Center in Gettysburg.

Over Tuesday night, vandals shot several windows with either BBs or pellets.

"It's devastating around here. This is a highly Republican community that we live in and this is childish antics, and other than that -- it's destruction of property," said Sabrena Meyerhoff, with the Adams County Republican Committee.

Last week, there was graffiti on the windows.
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I was thinking about starting a thread simlar to this, but I'll just add to this one instead.

I think what burnedout is trying to show is that varoius acts of violence are some what one sided. I do recall reading a story about an employee either being fired or threated due to their polictial views, but i haven't seen any stories about out and out violence against democrats.

I can concede that a sign removal not always be news worth, so people removing John Kerry signs might go un reported, but break-ins, shootings(at property, not people), and desctruction of proprety tend to make the news. All the later have been targeted at republicans.

From a lot of the comments posted here:

Wait, don't the Repugs advocate violence as a means to an end? What's the problem here?
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how about a purple heart bandaid for your signs of idiocy.
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Ahhh yes, Republicans ... they love to portray themselves as the "oppressed underdogs," yet they control all aspects of our government. A strange disconnect from reality I must say . . .
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Why are Republicans complaining about a swastika in their front yard when they have one in the backyard too?
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This type of behavor seems to get an "ok" by the majority of the posters in this thread. Personally if the type of violence that have been posted here was being targeted at Democrats, i would be disturbed that 1) right leaning people are perptrating these acts and 2) that the acts are not geting condemed but getting a stamp of approval.

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Yesterday the Dems were all pussies and girlie-men; today they're violent opressors of the poor, defenseless Republicans. So it goes.
 
i certainly won't "OK" the violence reported in this thread, but the thread lacks the scrutiny that would make it useful. why not ask:

(1) is this more vandalism than has happened in previous election years? if so, why?

(2) is there a comparative amount of vandalism done to Kerry's campaign?

what else should i really expect though?
 
People are stupid in general. This election is very polarized and some people are angry at Bush and Cheney as well as Kerry and Edwards. What they are doing is wrong but you posting a thread to point out the "violence and vandalism against republicans" is pointless. You might as well have called it "The Official Democrats are meanies and they are vandalizing and stealing from the Republicans as it shows in the articles I choose to post here thread"

Talk about flame baiting....
 
An oldie but a goodie - the gentle, ever so friendly, Democrat social behavior sciences instructor in Gainesville, FL.

Gainesville Sun

Democrat slugs area GOP chief, GPD says

By LISE FISHER

Sun staff writer
September 18. 2004 6:01AM

Politics in Gainesville turned rough and tumble Thursday night when, police say, a social behavior sciences instructor - a Democrat - punched the chairman of the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee in the face.

David Philip McCally, 55, of Gainesville faces misdemeanor battery and criminal mischief charges after he was accused of hitting both committee chairman Travis Horn, 32, and a life-sized, cardboard cutout of President George Bush.

The incident occurred at the Republican headquarters in downtown Gainesville at about 7:30 p.m.

McCally went into the office at 1212 N. Main St. and hit the face of the Bush cutout, a police report states. Afterward he argued outside with Horn, police reported, then punched him in the face. Police said there was a fight and Horn struck McCally several times "but was not the primary aggressor and fought only in an attempt to escape from further conflict. . . . . . .
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According to WCJB in Gainesville, Santa Fe CC administrators decided to remove this outstanding behavioral sophist from the classroom.
 
Morons storm Milwaukee Campaign Office
PRO-KERRY FORCES INVADE GOP VICTORY CENTER
Oct 5th, 2004


(MILWAUKEE) ? More than 50 demonstrators supporting Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry stormed a Republican campaign office in West Allis at mid-day today, trespassing, creating a disturbance through the use of a bullhorn in the office and then refusing to leave when asked.

The Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW) condemned the action by Kerry supporters, and asked the Kerry campaign and the Democrat Party of Wisconsin to do the same.

?Do John Kerry and Wisconsin Democrats really believe this is conduct becoming of a presidential candidate and his campaign?? RPW Chairman Rick Graber asked. ?It is unfortunate that Team Kerry feels the need to engage in such childish and obnoxious behavior.

?The President and his campaign will continue to talk about the issues in Wisconsin,? Graber added. ?Let?s hope that someday soon, the Kerry campaign and Wisconsin Democrats will join us and put an end to this foolishness.?

Graber called the latest incident part of a disturbing trend of criminal conduct by anti-Bush forces in Wisconsin, pointing to an incident in Madison last week in which Bush-Cheney yard signs were stolen from the yards of three homes. The vandals then used chemicals to burn swastikas into the lawns of the homes, which were within a two-block radius of one another.

In addition, reports of stolen, defaced and damaged Bush-Cheney campaign signs are surfacing throughout Wisconsin.

?Our volunteers, from children to the elderly, have every right to feel safe when they are working on behalf of a cause and candidates they believe in,? Graber commented. ?This type of thuggish, intimidating conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is time for John Kerry, the Wisconsin Democrat party, and Kerry?s campaign leaders, including Gov. James E. Doyle, to put a stop to this shameful behavior.?
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Wow - That was pretty cool.:roll:

CsG
 
Originally posted by: Mockery
Originally posted by: Infohawk
burnedout, having fun posting but not responding? That's what a troll does.

Again, conservatives believe in furthering their views through violence. What's the problem here?
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You are a vivid example of what is wrong with this country. Only the ubberly elite of the devotee trolls can condemn the actions of one event while keeping intellectual dishonest about another.

Ever heard the saying lead by example?

Apparently not, since you?ve decided to enact the doctrine of ?they're dense, so I?m going to act as if I?m a lead poison victim.?
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I agree Mockery, Infohawk is a seriously deranged child, my guess is no older than possibly 16...utterly appalled by some of the responses of so called liberals in this thread...say what you like but I have never condoned either violence nor defamation of private property in the name of a cause and I am pretty darn conservative, this little loon seems to be gleeful over actions such as this....pretty sad.
 
Gentlemen, thank you for the updates. Tonight's report encompasses many areas of the country.

We'll begin in Howard County, MD with this report from the Howard County Times which concerns arson.

Over the weekend, county police conducted a surveillance operation prompted by the spate of sign destruction. On Sept. 25, police spotted a man on Route 40 cutting down with a power tool a sign urging voters to re-elect President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Police arrested Corey Robert Cooke, 33, of Ellicott City and charged him with destruction of property.

Pfc. Dave Proulx, a county police spokesman, said Cooke has not been charged in any of the other incidents.

The most dramatic incident so far involved the burning of the 4-foot-by-8-foot Bush-Cheney sign and a smaller sign endorsing U.S. Senate candidate E.J. Pipkin in Ellicott City.

James McQuarrie said he awoke shortly after 1 a.m. Sept. 25 and saw a fire burning in the yard of his home in the 10100 block of Old Frederick Road.

"I saw a big flame outside my window," McQuarrie said. He rushed to fight the fire with a hose, then county firefighters arrived to help. The fire also burned part of his yard fence and a nearby pile of wood, McQuarrie said.

His house was not damaged, he said.
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More from Howard County, courtesy of the Baltimore Sun

Howard County's spate of political sign destruction led to the arrest late Friday of a Randallstown couple accused of using a bayonet to cut the centers out of two Bush/Cheney campaign signs on U.S. 40 near Ridge Road in Ellicott City, according to court files and county police.

Peter Lizon, 30, and his wife, Stephanie Louise Lizon, 34, of the first block of Valdivia Court, were each charged with destruction of private property. Peter Lizon faces weapons charges. He is free on $3,500 bail and Stephanie Lizon on $3,000 bail.
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Moving on to Duluth, MN, we find the swastika kiddies have turned themselves in. The Duluth News Tribune reports:

"We did it."

Three Duluth teenagers walked into the Duluth News Tribune on Wednesday afternoon, opening with these three words. The boys said they were responsible for vandalizing Bush campaign signs and painting a swastika and the word "Nazi" at a London Road residence last weekend.

An hour later, the three boys traveled to the Lakeside-Lester Park police station, where Sgt. Scott Campbell was waiting to talk to them.

The teenagers told the News Tribune they meant no harm to Bob James, the homeowner and Bush-Cheney supporter who erected the signs. They said they spray painted the signs and the swastika on James' sidewalk but had nothing to do with the vandalism of two of James' vehicles.

Friends and supporters of James and the Republican Party of Minnesota had offered a $2,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the vandalism.

While the teenagers were remorseful for what they did to James, they stood by their contempt for President Bush. They said they left a phone message for James on Wednesday and twice went to his house to apologize, but he wasn't home. They planned to try again later Wednesday.

"It was not an act of hate," said Dustin "Dusty" Dzuck, 17, a senior at Denfeld High School. "My mom called me a terrorist. It wasn't terrorism; it was activism. It was for a cause.... The whole thing is, basically, I just wanted to get the word out there that in my opinion Bush isn't doing this country any good."
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WSMV Nashville has this report:

September 29, 2004

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Police said a Nashville teenager and his friends stole 71 Bush-Cheney yard signs because he was mad at President Bush for sending his brother to Iraq.

Andrew Thurman, 18, told police that he and 19-year-old Frederick Stevenson stole the signs from several west Nashville neighborhoods because his brother, a U.S. marine, was sent to Iraq.

"It's not unusual to see the isolated theft of campaign signs in local, state and federal elections," Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said. "However, this is the first time I can recall that someone who admits responsibility for the theft has linked it to the war in Iraq."
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By the looks of it, the Dems are winning the war of attrition in Rapid City, SD. The Rapid City Journal explains:

Vandals target GOP campaign signs
By Kevin Woster, Journal Staff Writer

RAPID CITY ? The battle over political yard signs continued in Rapid City on Friday night, and the Republicans seemed to get the worst of it.

Signs supporting Republican candidates John Thune and Larry Diedrich were spray painted, stolen or destroyed up and down West Boulevard, as well as on several streets nearby. West Boulevard resident Ellen Drabek said Saturday that she lost two signs from her yard during the night.

"Mine weren't painted. Mine were stolen. And there were two large Thune signs up at St. Patrick Street that were broken up. All the rest of them were spray painted," Drabek said. "None of the Democratic signs were touched."

The vandalism and thefts occurred about two weeks after three Rapid City teenagers were caught after they were spotted in the act of stealing a large yard sign for Democrat Stephanie Herseth from a West Boulevard yard. Signs for Democrat Tom Daschle also had been taken. . . . . . . .
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Protesters raise a ruckus at GOP office in Minnesota - Star Tribune

Protesters pushed their way into the lobby of the Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters and confronted startled staffers in St. Paul on Tuesday during a surprise rally to protest the administration's change in overtime rules that they say could deprive 250,000 Minnesota workers of overtime pay.

Of the more than 300 workers bused in by Minnesota labor unions for the outdoor rally, about a dozen protesters pressed forward into the campaign headquarters' lobby. The protesters were trying to deliver plastic bins filled with postcards but found their way into the headquarters itself blocked by an eight-foot-long Bush/Cheney placard that had been upended against an interior door.

The postcards bore the signatures of 10,000 Minnesotans protesting the change in overtime rules that went into effect in late August, said Diane O'Brien, spokeswoman for the Minnesota AFL-CIO, which represents 400,000 Minnesotans. "We want to send a message to the president," O'Brien said.

A Bush volunteer attempted first to shut the door against the protesters, then to push out several, including Jon Youngdahl of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, who struggled to yell through his bullhorn while the volunteer kept searching for a mute button on it. Others blasted airhorns in the lobby while one man pushed repeatedly on the campaign's intercom to yell his protest. . . . . . .
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Originally posted by: conjur
A "ruckus"????

OH NOES!!!!!!!!111!11!!!11!11!!
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Hey look, we have another violance apologist. Go figure.

With their win at any cost "anyone but Bush" mentality, it's no wonder these sorts of things are happening.

CsG
 
Originally posted by: wiin
This is relevant Soldier attacked at concert
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Umm... where does it say he was Republican or that a Democrat attacked him? It was a concert where there is a lot of drinking. Ever stop to think that a drunk a$$hole(forget party affiliaition) saw an Iraqi shirt and just flipped out? :/

Was it wrong? Yes. But trying to say this is a republican incident or democratic crime is just stupid. Keep on assuming though, it makes you look real smart.
 
I brought up the same violence against the Republicans thing a month ago, in that that violence against conservatives is often encouraged, but so much as a bad word against the Liberals is front page news.

Spoiled children is what I call Liberals. They never were shown how to respect others, or consider the implications of their actions in the community at large. They tend to think only about personal liberty, not for a moment thinking that they live in a community, not a vacuum, and their actions are affecting the personal liberties of others. It's very 8-year-oldish behavior. My daughter is sometmes guilty of it, as are all kids at times.
 
Originally posted by: maluckeySpoiled children is what I call Liberals. They never were shown how to respect others, or consider the implications of their actions in the community at large. They tend to think only about personal liberty, not for a moment thinking that they live in a community, not a vacuum, and their actions are affecting the personal liberties of others.
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this comment is not only inflammatory, but oposed to the Democrats' (liberals) basic party platform.

nice to see that any attempts to turn this thread into a discussion have been throuroughly squashed.
 
Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY
Originally posted by: conjur
A "ruckus"????

OH NOES!!!!!!!!111!11!!!11!11!!
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Hey look, we have another violance apologist. Go figure.

With their win at any cost "anyone but Bush" mentality, it's no wonder these sorts of things are happening.

CsG
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Nice flip-flop.

:music: Flip-flop to the flip-flop-flip and a flip-flop-flop :music:

So when you use violence to further your means in Iraq it's dandy but when someone uses violence and you whine like a baby? Yup. That's a flip-flop. 😉
 
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