"...I'll wear my hard hat and carry my 'little friend' under a jacket..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tax Day ‘war’? Tea Partiers promise to meet anarchists with firepower

By Raw Story
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 -- 5:15 pm

It's war!

Or at least that's the word being employed by the right-wing blogosphere to describe anarchist groups' plans to "crash" the Tea Party movement's Tax Day demonstrations on April 15.

"Anarchists plan war on April 15th Tea Parties," reads a headline at Gateway Pundit. The Fox Nation Web site links to that story using the same headline.

But is it war the anarchists are planning? Not according to the blog posting that started it all: A call to action at the anarchist news site Infoshop, urging people to "Crash the Tea Parties!"

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Infoshop outlines "three options" for challenging the Tea Party movement: Organizing counter-protests on Tax Day; handing out leaflets at Tea Party events to convince some of them to change their views; and "ignoring the Tea Party movement," which it suggests is "the worst option."

Nowhere in that list is any suggestion of violence -- or "war," as some bloggers would have it -- but that didn't stop a number of commenters at Gateway Pundit from promising to come to the protests armed.

"I'll wear my hard hat and carry my 'little friend' under a jacket," promises commenter "Tom Mannis," in the first response to the Gateway Pundit article.

"Be aware anarchists, you WILL be HUGELY outnumbered," writes "Rick Mercer" at Fox Nation. "You won't have the numbers you like to help yourself feel anonymous. And some of us DO legally carry concealed weapons to protect our rights. MAKE MY DAY, PUNK!"

For its part, the anarchist side seems to be taking a different tack.

"Bring your video cameras to every single tea party rally you may attend in the future, with extra batteries and more memory than you think you need," writes blogger "Russ" at The Resistance. "Don't...fight...back. If they yell, yell back. If they rant, rant back. If they push or punch...make sure it was on tape, smile and tell them they're on Tea Party Camera."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0401/tea-partiers-promise-anarchists-firepowe/

[damyank913]

1. The way these bozo's are talking, you better wear a vest if you go to 1 of these rallys.

That would be illegal though, would'nt it?

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Actually it's the Teabaggers who are afraid. They try to fortify themselves with macho tough-talk.

Their whole "movement" is about fear. Fear of "other", fear of loss, fear of change of any sort.

The point of their response to this is that they've become so addicted to fear that they INVENT things to fear where none exist.

Yes, they are despicable, but they are also pitiful.

[damyank913]

9. They're afraid of being identified with the very same elements that their tough talk attracts.

This will be their downfall. And the GOOPs too.

[notesdev]

2. Dumb-ass anarchists

1 - telegraphing your punches is a set-up for failure
2 - screwing with a mob of well-armed, very angry people is a good way to get yourself hurt
3 - now everything untoward that happens at these rallies can credibly be blamed on "anarchist infiltrators"

[damyank913]

5. I think most tea-baggers are closet anarchists.

At least as long as the Dems are in power.

[Ozymanithrax]

8. If anything happens there, it is the teapartiers at fault...

Teapartiers will blame other people to justify their own actions, but that doesn't make their claims credible.

[notesdev]

14. These "anarchists" are manufacturing that credibility

An accusation of infiltration is quite credible in the face of a public call by an opposing group to do exactly that.

If a bunch of Republicans infiltrated a Democratic rally and proceeded to destroy property, scream outrageous things, instigate police action, and so on - and were publicly on the record with the stated intention to do exactly that - I'd say that when it happens, our claims of innocence will be credible. And so the same situation with the parties reversed is also true.

[tkmorris]

16. They aren't "infiltrating" anyone

Your use of that word is puzzling, unless of course your intent is to make this seem worse than it is as a defense of the Tea Partiers. It is more of a counter-protest, and it isn't designed to be some sort of guerrilla warfare, thus there is no need of secrecy. They plan to present a differing point of view, and are being asked to AVOID any sort of violent confrontation, in stark contrast to the Tea Party people who rant incessantly about the guns they will be carrying and issue dire warnings about what they will do if confronted.

[notesdev]

18. I think it's very bad karma

They're going looking to start a fight. Someone is going to get hurt. Whichever rocket surgeon decided this was a good idea is going to be responsible for the fallout.

If you think anarchists are peaceful, you've never known any. I spent many years among them and "peaceful" is not how they operate.

[Javaman]

13. Meh, most of the tea bagging ball lickers are carrying high powered rifles..

they fail to understand that those bullets, at close range, will go through people and hit others behind.

I see more of the tea baggers killing each other than the anarchists.

[tjwash]

3. Great...image of a fat hillbilly wearing a hard hat-his hand buried wayyyy too deep in his pocket.

That one aint going anywhere soon.

[Demoiselle]

4. I assumed this was a sex thread!

Little Friends indeed. That might explain it all.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I think maybe they are the way they are because they have such

"little" friends. ;-)

[Birthmark]

7. They get so brave....

...when they outnumber the opposition or are the only ones armed or posting on the internet. Remove their advantage and...ACK! I NEED A DEFERMENT! (Or five deferments in some cases.)

[liberalmuse]

10. John Wayne is alive and well...

and is teamed up with Dirty Harry as a feeble fantasy in the teabaggers heads. LOL, that is hilarious. 'My little friend'. Some women are turned on by guys who talk like that, but they usually have meth face and about 3 teeth left.

[BurtWorm]

12. I'll bet his 'friend' is even littler than he thinks.

:eyes:

[piratefish08]

15. death by a teabagger is only a matter of time now. not if, but when.

[mitchum]

17. Little friend = colostomy bag

[AnnieBW]

19. More like the "little friend" in your pants

Ya stupid 'bagger. VERY little friend.

[SoxFan]

20. These asshats never served in uniform, but they can quote "Scarface"

Useless.

[surrealAmerican]

21. It's going to be awfully hard to tell the difference ...

... between anarchists and teabaggers. They believe most of the same things.