Violent Tea Party Mob Attacks Media.

[Jesus Malverde]

Description from yt: This was filmed on the public lawn of the Arizona State Capitol on September 7, 2013 where the "We Are America Tour" added Arizona racist, former State Senate President President Russell Pearce. Pearce is famous for SB1070 and his association and endorsement of neo-Nazi JT Ready, who killed an entire family before killing himself in 2012. The local racists have worked closely with FAIR for years. I was there to film the speakers. It's a safe guess that if Minute Man Founder Chris Simcox wasn't sitting in jail for multiple counts of child molestation that he would've been a speaker at this event also. Is it any wonder why they didn't want the "liberal Media" filming them? For my own safety, I refused to leave without a police escort. It took over 7 minutes for any law enforcement to arrive. The video is edited only for length.

[alfie]

1. Where was that? NT

[Jesus Malverde]

2. az

[Jesus Malverde]

4. updated the op with the context

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. big crowd they drew there....

[Jesus Malverde]

5. pretty sparse...nt

[gopiscrap]

6. This needs to go viral so everyone

can see what a bunch of fucking assholes these tea party shit stains are are!

[RandiFan1290]

7. They are biker gang thugs.

They need to be called out for what they are.

Criminal gang members.

[lib87]

8. Bunch of Thugs

Amazed they think no one sees them for what they are: Angry ignorant racists.

[Ahpook]

9. Sorry you had to deal with that

And I applaud you for mixing it up with those freaks. Some of the comments are exceptionally fucked up. I wouldn't even begin to know how to respond to the nonsensical bullshit that comes from them.

They are trained parrots:

Squawk

Commie

Squawk

Socialist

Squawk blah, blah

Go drink a Pabst you fucking beer swilling puppets

[Beartracks]

15. What? Why Pabst?? n/t

[TalkingDog]

23. Pre-Hipster, Pabsts was the breakfast of backward, low class individuals.

Cheap beer for cheap minds.

[Eleanors38]

31. "The beer of the Army?"

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Red neck, white socks & Blue Ribbon Beer?

[MrMickeysMom]

10. The collective IQ must have been less than your shoe size!

And, we've learned that the Capital is "private property"!

Wow! How'juh like that party getting a platform .... oh... they already do, sorry...

[Downwinder]

11. Did The New Times have a reporter there?

[blkmusclmachine]

12. .

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[Dustlawyer]

13. K&R! Light needs to be shown at the fringes so the people can see the result some of the

more mainstream views and where they originate!

Update please!

[Sanddog42]

14. Permit?

What was the basis of their contention that because they had a permit they had the right to ban you from the property? Is there any law that can be interpreted -- or even misinterpreted -- to support that?

[Beartracks]

16. Yeah, I think the permit is just to allow the event to take place.

But the permit is not required to simply BE there.

Idjits.

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[sulphurdunn]

17. A bagger for the most part

is a 50s something, lower middle class bigot whose idea of liberty is not paying income taxes but getting benefits from those who do. They hate poor people because most poor people don't pay income taxes but still receive some benefits from society. The baggers think the poor are getting something for nothing they think they deserve but don't want to be poor to get. They are about the sorriest kind of people America produces after investment bankers.

[LittleGirl]

18. you just described two of my siblings. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

27. Have you ever considered divorcing your family of origin?

[LittleGirl]

30. I have actually

My Mother and brother are liberal thinkers and they are the only ones I speak to. I haven't spoken to my sister in 2 yrs and my other brother that listens to Rush every day, like my sister, in almost a year. He refused to speak to my Mother after the November election. She was heart broken and furious at him. He finally admitted in December that he didn't want to speak to anyone in the family that voted for that n****r in the white house. Both of these siblings have divorced themselves from us.

[AAO]

41. Goebbles knew the power of propaganda.

They are brainwashed, pure and simple. We may need to send people to reeducation camps at some point. I think it's worth trying to save as many souls as possible.

[LongTomH]

50. I can empathize with your situation, as can a number of people on DU

In my case it's a cousin on my Mom's side. She keeps Glenn Beckerhead's Agenda 21 on a reading stand like a devotional. I avoid political discussion (on my rare visits!); but, she always makes some comments about Obama, or unions, or just 'socialists.'

The last time I visited she bent my ear about how it was Obama's fault (through Obamacare) that her mother was discharged from the hospital a day early.

I remember an absolutely terrifying incident a couple of years ago, when I was riding with her. It was an icy snowy day and the roads were treacherous. She turned to me -- taking her eyes off the road -- and started up a rant about Obama and Acorn. Her face was absolutely distorted with hate! Her eyes were closed while she talked about hoping Air Force One would fly into a mountain!

I kept visiting, because, well, they're family, and largely for the sake of my late aunt. Now that my aunt has passed, I doubt that I'll see them more than a couple of times a year, at most.

The funny thing is, my mom was the quietest, gentlest soul you could ever want to meet. She wasn't political in any sense; but, a lot of her opinions could be called liberal. She thought that higher education, at the college level, should be provided free (as it actually was in California at the time). I think she'd be with us on the idea of single-payer healthcare.

[IrishAyes]

33. Well, most of the people where I retired ARE poor

So that means most of the local baggers are poor. But as John Steinbeck said, they think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. So they'll scream about blood sucking leeches on welfare but don't you dare touch their food stamps or throw them off Medicaid, etc. Maybe they excuse themselves by feeling they would work and/or get better wages if they only had opportunities, but these damned minorities keep taking all the jobs! (Never mind that the supposedly stolen jobs aren't here in the first place, and these baggers refuse to see they're being robbed blind by the really rich via corporate welfare etc.)

Of course every area is different. And I do realize that quite a few baggers are less than poor themselves - but terrified of becoming poor.

[canuckledragger]

44. The teabaggers are afraid...

of being treated the same way they themselves treat the poor, women and minorities.

[IrishAyes]

45. And the teabagger poor HAVE to believe that the ax will never fall on their own personal neck

because after all, they've kissed the feet of the rich faithfully, so they'll be exempt from the consequences - right? RIGHT??????

Fortunately not all the poor are ignorant and gullible. If outright armed revolution ever breaks out, you can expect at least some of the leaders to spring from their ranks. Unfortunately, armed revolutionaries all too often adopt the tactics of their oppressors and turn out to be no better at all in the end.

While holding tight my ultra-liberal beliefs, that's one reason I also remain an ardent supporter of center-left because there's the only real hope of progress w/o conflagration. Those who at least publicly claim to be far left (but are often libertarians, no better than RW teabaggers) seem to think they'll ride that tiger and come out ahead. They're too drunk on hubris to remember history. Very seldom does anyone really ride such a whirlwind unscathed. Far better to build on past advances and continue the progress - that's the Solidarity Democratic way, the only one that can be counted on to deliver and build w/o first destroying everything both good and bad.

Rant finished. For now.

[AsahinaKimi]

19. I'm sorry but

These people are such Assholes.

[nolabear]

20. I'm curious about those taking photos of you. Any idea who they were?

It would be interesting to see the confrontation from the outside. From your perspective it must have been enraging.

[Jesus Malverde]

22. I did not film this...nt

[nolabear]

24. Oh, sorry. My misinterpretation. I'd still like to know, though.

[BB1]

21. At least they were smart enough not to grab your camera but instead block your view.

Seems to me they are evolving creatures after all

[Half-Century Man]

25. I became enraged watching this video.

I would not have handled it as well as you did; well done.

I guess they realize that their argument is so weak it will not stand up to public scrutiny. Or that somehow the absolute containment of their message promotes an increase in their membership??( we don't need no stinken public relations).

[xfundy]

28. If the camera'd had a Fox Noise sticker

they'd have let him right up front.

Truly, I fear for the nation.

[JeffHead]

29. I thought these teabag freaks were supposed to be all about the Constitution.

Did they ever read it? I think it says something about freedom of the press. And how is a public park now all of a sudden private property? I don't get it.

[IrishAyes]

35. At various times

a particular hate group tries to look good and gain new members by attaching their program to something most people support; in this case the Constitution. But that doesn't mean they have any real concern for it. There true objective is raw, naked power in the service of hate, which generally seeks total destruction of its enemies, real or perceived. They no more care for the Constitution itself than the man in the moon.

[HatTrick]

32. What are they so afraid of?

The guy has a camera. So, what?

What did they think he would film the secret handshake.

Afraid, the speaker might say something really stupid, or what?

Or, is it they don't want anyone near them that might have a different opinion?

[JEFF9K]

34. Cons always compare ...

Conservatives have been ordered by their media masters - talk radio and Fox News - to compare how peaceful the Tea Party rallies are compared with protests by the Occupy movement. Is it possible that they are wrong?

[MrModerate]

36. Here's what I don't get . . .

In what way does filming this event even bother the organizers? Wouldn't they 1) appreciate the chance that their message might be seen by people outside their circle, thereby increasing their influence, or 2) not give a damn?

Was the camerman wearing a provocative shirt or sign?

Also, while I accept that laws in Arizona are 'special,' how does having a permit for an event, to which people are allowed access without tickets, give you the right to deny access to anyone, short of there being a crowd-control concern? (And given the approximately 20-30 people in attendance, the word 'crowd' doesn't even come up.)

Or are these people just hopeless troglodytes?

[Jesus Malverde]

48. Pretty common these days to send a camera person to film your opponent

just in case the candidate runs into a nut in a deli or other unscripted moment gets captured on video.

[MrModerate]

52. Ouch! And those unscripted moments . . .

Often say everything you need to know about the candidate.

Notwithstanding very recent examples, there's Allen's historic "Macaca" moment, which arguably cost him his political career. And we won't even go into '47%' territory.

[The Wizard]

37. By any other name

but still the Klan.

[freshwest]

38. The STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS are PRIVATE PROPERTY NOW? EFFIN' FASCISTS!

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

39. This is great,

I like the way they played right into your lens and microphone. A lot of gray hair but minimal gray matter. Wow!

[Mkap]

40. don't they know?

Didn't the media know that freedom of press is not allowed at a tea party rally

[workinclasszero]

42. Teabaggers are nazis

No surprise here.

You are a brave american patriot for exposing these fascists.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

43. "Don't cuss" they say as they are assaulting him.

Irony alert.

[silvershadow]

46. Bump for exposure of Tea Party. nt

[fasttense]

47. Why does it bother them so much that people are filming them? What are they hiding?

Other's were there filming too. Why is this guy harassed and the other media not harassed?

[Snake Plissken]

49. Baggers ... The New Scientologists

Another batshit crazy cult that is fighting it's leader's imaginary enemies.

[shenmue]

51. The hell do those people think they're doing?

What about freedom of the press do they not understand?

Since when does an average citizen need a license to take video? Aren't they proud of what they are saying, and why don't they want people to know about it?

A shrink would say that maybe deep down, they realize they're assholes, and can't deal with it.