Assault Rifle Interview Outside Obama Event In Phoenix Was Planned

[kpete]

TPM LiveWire
Assault Rifle Interview Outside Obama Event In Phoenix Was Planned
By Versha Sharma - August 18, 2009, 3:42PM

We worked with the Phoenix police department. They came down to our studio on Friday. We've gone through this with them for 15 years.

They have a squad - used to be called the confrontation prevention squad, now called community service. We told them that we're going to come down, I'm going to do the radio show live, we're going to be broadcasting it, and I'm going to have a firearm. I had a 9 millimeter on myself...

It was Thursday that I called and talked to Al Ramirez, the representative from the Phoenix police department, and we were discussing - we've been around this rhetoric that was building up around William Kostric, who did this in New Hampshire. We knew this from 15 years ago when Janet Napolitano was a U.S. Assistant Attorney and prosecuted the Viper Militia out of Arizona, and how that was generated into something it wasn't. We talked to Al and we were like, look, we know where this is going and we want to make sure, we come down, we're peaceful, and we demonstrate the right of the people to carry their firearms. And the police protected our right.

They wanted to help - they assigned him (a police officer) to me. He was never more than 4-5 feet away from me. We had law enforcement around us to protect our rights to protect this firearm.

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[lapfog_1]

1. The Secret Service still should have drilled them all.

Assholes.

[TxRider]

4. Maybe the SS should have drilled these guys too?

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=Gdnz8z2GaG


"“Hardball” host Chris Matthews and his daytime colleagues at MSNBC, for example, have their used air time to marvel at what would possess an average American citizen to go to a rally near where President Obama is speaking with a gun.

But the media reaction was markedly different nine years ago when a group of Black Panthers marched on the Texas Republican Party’s state convention on June 2000 brandishing AK-47s. Indeed, that incident itself was chalked up as then-Gov. Bush’s fault by none other than then-MSNBC "Equal Time" co-host Paul Begala.

A search of Nexis and the Media Research Center’s News Tracking System found no stories on that evening’s broadcast network newscasts about the Black Panthers brandishing “assault weapons” to protest then-presumptive GOP presidential nominee – and Secret Service protectee – Gov. George W. Bush’s refusal to intervene in the pending execution of convicted murderer Gary Graham.

The June 16, 2000 “Fox Report” noted the incident, featuring an on-scene report from reporter Mike Rosen of Fox News Austin, Texas, affiliate KTBC."

[lapfog_1]

7. FYI the Secret Service doesn't protect the Texas Republican Party

And they shouldn't have gone there with assault rifles.

you fail to state whether or not "presumptive" GOP nominee was even AT the event when the Black Panthers protested (are they still around? good god, they must have been using walkers and canes to march). A "presumptive" nominee for President doesn't get the same level of protection that the President gets.

Anyway, Faux lies about everything, so they probably lied (large or small) about this as well.

[jody]

2. So the msm manufactures news in addition to distortions and outright lies. Let's hear it for freedom

of the press.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Then I shall be bringing several Colostomy Bags to the next big Gun Rally.

And, they be LOADED!

:P

[Hello_Kitty]

5. As a Phoenician, I'm not terribly pleased about this.

The Phoenix PD has better things to do than babysit libertarian idiots.

[BadgerKid]

6. Gun...penis...what's the difference???

:crazy:

[tjwash]

8. Oh yeah...that's some real grass roots spontaneous shit ya got going on there skipper

:eyes: