Mailman unwelcome at tea party

[BigD_95]

Source: York Daily Record

Last Saturday, Mo was making his appointed rounds, which on that day took him downtown to collect the mail from the big blue box at 21 E. Market St. When he got there, he found the first block of East Market Street was closed, so he parked on George Street and, carrying a plastic postal service bin, started to walk to the mailbox.

As he tried to get to the mailbox, people stood in his way. He told the crowd, "I've got a job to do here." People still didn't move. One woman screeched at him -- screeched was Mo's word -- "Nobody's stopping you." Mo replied, "Oh yes you are." At this point, Mo was getting kind of frustrated and asked the guy, "What is your problem?" See, all due respect, but that's the wrong question. A lot of people have been asking that question, and the answer never makes much sense. These people seem very angry about something.The guy answered, "I don't have a problem. You're the problem. The government."A group of people in the area picked up on that and, pointing at Mo, started chanting, "You're the problem. The government."

One letter blew out of the box and onto the sidewalk. When Mo went to pick it up, a man standing by the mailbox stood on the letter, ignoring Mo's request to move his foot so he could get the letter. Mo finally was able to wrench the letter away.As he started back to his truck, people in the crowd tried to get in his way.

Read more: http://www.ydr.com/ci_14881176

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My mom told me about this in the county I live. I wish I would have known they were going to be there I could have made up some signs and crashed their tea party.

[FSogol]

1. Too bad they couldn't have sent a few Postal Inspectors over to make some arrests. n/t

[havocmom]

3. Too bad they don't know USPS is not 'the government'

They sure don't want facts/understanding realities to get in the way of their mob mentality, sink-to-the-most-ignorant-moran level habits.

While it is really a hybrid, it isn't 'the government' by a long shot

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/uspsabout.htm

...

No, the USPS is a Business!
the Postal Service takes on some several very non-governmental attributes via the powers granted to it under Title 39, Section 401, which include:

* power to sue (and be sued) under its own name;

* power to adopt, amend and repeal its own regulations;

* power to "enter into and perform contracts, execute instruments, and determine the character of, and necessity for, its expenditures";

* power to buy, sell and lease private property; and,

* power to build, operate, lease and maintain buildings and facilities.

All of which are typical functions and powers of a private business. However, unlike other private businesses, the Postal Service is exempt from paying federal taxes. USPS can borrow money at discounted rates, and can condemn and acquire private property under governmental rights of eminent domain.

The USPS does get some taxpayer support. Around $96 million is budgeted annually by Congress for the "Postal Service Fund." These funds are used to compensate USPS for postage-free mailing for all legally blind persons and for mail-in election ballots sent from US citizens living overseas. A portion of the funds also pays USPS for providing address information to state and local child support enforcement agencies, and for keeping some rural posts offices in operation.

Under federal law, only the Postal Service can handle or charge postage for handling letters. Despite this virtual monopoly worth some $45 billion a year, the law does not require that the Postal Service make a profit -- only break even. Still, the US Postal Service has averaged a profit of over $1 billion per year in each of the last five years. Yet, Postal Service officials argue that they must continue to raise postage at regular intervals in order make up for the increased use of email.

[The Wielding Truth]

68. Teabaggers interfering with business! To them this is tyranny.

[happygoluckytoyou]

87. Strike up the RUSTY TRUMBONE, and build a wall to keep DIRTY SANCHEZ out.... the TEABAGGERS ARE HERE

[Beartracks]

102. Where do their profits go?

Do the profits go back to the Treasury? Seems like USPS wouldn't need the $96 million annual appropriation if it is generating $1 billion a year.

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[No Elephants]

106. Without leaving the profit motive intact, you could never get mail delivered.

;)

[CAcyclist]

113. Revenues do not equal profits. nm

[struggle4progress]

83. U.S. Code: Title 18: Part I: Chapter 83: § 1701

Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined .. or imprisoned .. or both

[TwilightGardener]

2. I imagine they all like getting THEIR mail, though. Assholes.

[ladywnch]

6. their SOCIALIST mail........

the postal service is yet another example (which these dimwits don't recognize) of monies spent for the common good.

While it is no longer a part of the Cabinet (wiki: Since its reorganization into an independent organization, the USPS has become self-sufficient and has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s. However it is currently borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury to pay its deficits.)it is still a government agency and is still receiving monies from the evil government.

[ejpoeta]

10. probably a check of some kind

like socil security or disability.... or unemployment since they have all this time t go to 'tea parties'

[KansDem]

11. Yeah, especially their Social Security checks and Medicare statements...

:grr:

on edit: not to mention their tax refunds--larger this year due to Obama's programs

[No Elephants]

107. Direct deposit.

[MidwestTransplant]

55. Kind of like Keep the Gov't away from my Medicare.

[sui generis]

4. I do believe in Texas at least

a postman can require that you show your identification if you interfere with delivery. If you fail to comply, he can place a call to 911 and charge you with all kinds of costly administrative shit.

Can you imagine what these Taliban Party (isn't that what the T stands for in T-Party?) members would be like in positions of authority?

They're not a valid movement any more than diarrhea is a valid bowel movement. Just a bunch of shit flowing at high speed, bound to get flushed sooner or later.

[pnorman]

38. TEE-TEE-TEE

(Teabag Taliban of Texas!), Somehow, that immediately came to mind!

[ET Awful]

5. Hmmm, I think that would qualify as tampering with the US mail, a felony.

Too bad he didn't flag down some law enforcement.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. +1000

[DesertDiamond]

17. +10000

[Skratchez]

25. He was probably too decent and upright

To stoop to their level or make a martyr out of some dumbass with his foot on someone else's letter.

[tblue]

46. Poor man. He should've called 911. Buncha sick bullies.

Was he black, I wonder?

[butterfly77]

8. These people are crazy...

they claim they are the only Americans and they hate government. Americans are the government. These people really think they are the DECIDERS of who are Americans..Insane.

[pnwmom]

30. Tell that to Ron Paul. He uncovered this particular rock. n/t

[Iowa]

40. I was reading an article yesterday...

Apparently the tea party is funded by organizations that are funded by the Koch brothers - billionaires whose wealth can be traced back to Joe Stalin. In other words, there probably wouldn't be a tea party were it not for Joseph Stalin and the communists.

You couldn't make this shit up.

Edited to add link:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement?page=entire

[pnwmom]

43. Do you remember where you read that article? I'd like to read it. n/t

[tblue]

48. I read it, too. Link here:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/18/the-roots-of-stalin-in-the-tea-party-movement/

[Iowa]

64. Here's the link...

http://www.alternet.org/economy/146504/the_roots_of_stalin_in_the_tea_party_movement?page=entire

[JHB]

110. They made thier fortune the old-fashioned way -- government contracts...

...the Soviet government, no less!

[vduhr]

93. They don't even see that they are the ones that want to take

away freedom. It's their way or the highway. They want us all to think and feel the way they do.

[LeftishBrit]

9. So they don't like getting letters, I suppose!

Interesting to imagine how they'd manage if all government workers stopped working.

Anyway, usually it's vicious dogs that attack postmen. I suppose that teabaggers must be a sort of vicious dog breed!

[SemperEadem]

12. the bottom 5% who think they're the top 95%

they'll be like Wyle. E. Coyote when he runs off the cliff and doesn't realize it for about 4 seconds and then, that look before the fall. A lynch mob is not a political party. Never was, never will be.

[Bitwit1234]

13. I swear, I would love to see these ignorant wussies in a country

that is run by them. Supported and paid for by them. Chaos would be the order of the day. No services, no protection, no water, no food no damn nothing. And then don't let em get anywhere near civilization. Let em dig in the dirt for ever.

[BobbyBoring]

32. Rent the movie

Idiocracy with Luke Wilson. It's a sickening insight to where we're headed. It is an absolute MUST WATCH for every free thinking person in the US. Stupid people, like the family with 10 home schooled kids that went to a Tea Party to protest "Socialism" while their family is on Medicaid multiply like rabbits, while smart folks don't have kids. Costco is the ONLY option and it's a shopping mecca, school, university, etc. No one drinks water as Brawndo (also used to kill crops) is the only beverage. It's corporate rule!

The movie takes place 500 years from now, but we're going to be there in 5 MAYBE~

[abq e streeter]

39. best comment I ever saw about Idiocracy; "I didn't realize it was going to be a documentary".

[awoke_in_2003]

74. "you'll have to buy new boots....

because they will get worn out from kicking everybody's ass all the time" :) Welcome to DU

[Arugula Latte]

14. The irrationality of these nutcases is almost beyond satire at this point.

You can't make this shit up.

[Rozlee]

15. The Constitution they love so much called explicitly for the creation of the postal service

and these idiots are the ones always bleating about the Constitution. Unbelievable.

[Lasher]

60. My first thought upon seeing this.

Most of them don't know that. Most of them don't know a lot of things.

[awoke_in_2003]

76. and their favorite founding father,

Benjamin Franklin, was instrumental in the development of a national post office.

[DesertDiamond]

16. OMG! Must have felt like being in a zombie movie! There should be some arrests made on this case.

[craigmatic]

18. These people are so dumb. How is an ordinary mailman taking away their "freedoms"?

Even in the guilded age when there was no social safety net and the government didn't get involved in the economy there was still the postal service. Half these morons are on welfare of one form or another and they're not just voting against their own interests, now they're marching and protesting against them as well. Ray-gun's job is done.

[salguine]

19. When that asshole stood on the letter, he committed a felony. Aren't postal carriers

given pepper spray? The ones I know are...it's issued to them for protection against dogs. From what I understand it works on people, too.

[CLANG]

33. If he'd used the pepper spray, he'd have been in mortal danger.

[smoogatz]

20. What a bunch of assholes.

That seems to be what this teabagger thing is ultimately about, at the gut level--loudly insisting on your right to be a colossal gaping asshole in front of God and everybody. What a bunch of whiny, petulant, irrational, hyper-entitled, adolescent jerks. Screw them--who cares what they think?

[4lbs]

21. Those teabaggers pretty much committed a federal crime. Anytime you hinder, obstruct, or otherwise

prevent a mailcarrier from properly doing his/her appointed job, that's a federal crime.

[BetterThanNoSN]

70. too bad...

..was hoping to see O'reillys' 'f*ck it' ! face, lol

[SteppingRazor]

22. I had a similar experience when I went to the first major tea party on tax day '09:

People like that have more in common with wounded animals than human beings. Just dumb belligerence. Anyway, like I said, I had a similar experience, below:




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-sweeney/a-last-bit-of-tea-party-c_b_190063.html

<snip>

But thoughts of being torn limb from limb by an angry mob proved unfounded. I made my way to the front of the protest, against the barricades, and jotted down a few notes for this column. Behind me, I heard a voice: "He's probably writing down what's on the signs. Whatever. Makes him look like a dork." I turned, and there behind me stood a man in perhaps his early 50s with long, graying blond hair and a thick mustache. I finished my notes and then made to leave. But the fellow behind me, arms crossed, refused to move.

"Excuse me," I asked, "Can I get by?"

"If you can get around me," he replied, widening his stance to take up more room.

<snip>

[quiet.american]

34. "The New Dumb" -- excellent moniker.

But in terms of the last line of the piece:

We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- it seems to me that it's more a matter of:

We have met the enemy, and he wants to be us.

When The New Dumb first started meandering out onto the streets, I had the distinct feeling that after watching 'us' rail against Bush's crap for eight years (and then 95% of what we were railing about turned out to be true), they now wanted their turn at bat, even if it meant simply making something up about which to scream bloody murder.

Even after reading several accounts where there is talk of common ground between them and us, I still have to conclude these people are just nuts. Especially after OPs like this one, too.

Kudos to you for braving "teh stupid." (And I don't mean to be so dismissive of them, but the more I see and hear of these folks, the more convinced I am that they deserve precious little respect.)


edited for typo

[PatSeg]

45. That is the impression I've had watching them

They are doing a poor imitation of the left's protests during the Bush years, except they can't spell and don't know what they're protesting. They've even used some of the left's slogans like, "I want my country back". They are like children trying to act like the adults do, but their arguments lack substance.

[SteppingRazor]

53. Looking back on it now, I agree with you.

And if I had the benefit of hindsight, I'd probably have written something different. But this was a year ago, when the tea parties were in their infancy. One thing that's always struck me about the left's protests vs. those of the right is protesting what has happened vs. what will happen.

The left protested the actual Iraq War, which actually came about because of an actual pack of lies and actually killed thousands of Americans.

These tea partyers are protesting that Obama will take their guns away, will take the country into communism, will raise their taxes, etc., etc.

Rather than protesting real, actual events, they're protesting about their perception of the future. When looked at from that standpoint, the tea parties are even more bizarre than we're giving them credit for.

[quiet.american]

77. I hear you - and agree with your further comments. nt

Cheers. :)

[Alcibiades]

105. THey really want to be themselves

They are not imitating us: they are imitating themselves, and their parents or grandparents, of 40 years ago. They are the John Birch people, the Goldwater people, the George Wallace people.

They are these people:



We have seen their nonsense before.

[CLANG]

35. Not even smart enough to be a third grader!

[bluestateguy]

23. Isn't that against the law?

Interfering with the mail delivery? A federal charge, I would think.

[mikehiggins]

24. I hope the Postal Service was paying attention

Interfering with the mails is a crime and always has been.

Not a disagreement or a debate. A crime and one that should be punished as such.

Even criminals in lousy neighborhoods leave the mail carrier alone. What's wrong with these teabaggers?

[Jennicut]

26. My grandpa worked for the postal service for 40 years. These assholes don't deserve their mail to be

delivered. Then, they could all end up with late fees from the corporations they bow down to. Assholes.

And my grandpa got a great pension and good benefits from his govt. job.

[mainer]

27. Look at the comments. There are Teabaggers who are mailmen!

Beyond my comprehension that you can work for the USPS and be a Tea Party member.

[geardaddy]

47. My guess is those TeaKlanners are white

while the postal carrier who was attacked was African American. Just a guess, though.

[pnwmom]

28. This is typical Libertarian nonsense.

They spout off about ending ALL government services. According to them, the government should be running the military, period. Everything else should be strictly private enterprise, with no safety net or government services. Not education. Not even a fire department.

Any DUer who thinks s/he has something in common with Libertarians -- except getting rid of drug laws -- is seriously deluded.

[krabigirl]

31. To be honest, not all libertarians are the same. Your statement is wrong.

[pnwmom]

41. The Libertarian party is quite clear on its positions. Some libertarians

apparently don't know who or what they're voting for.

[tclambert]

82. Pretty sure the Libertarians want the military privatized, too.

Blackwater, KBR, private militias, etc. Libertarian is just a modern name for anarchist. Anarchists got sort of a bad name when one of them, Leon Czolgosz, assassinated President William McKinley.

[sendero]

117. Libertarians..

... are a special kind of defective idiot that thinks that on his imagined "level playing field" he would come out on top.

Exactly the opposite is true.

[Holy Moly]

29. Down with Mailbags, Up with Teabags

THY HOLIEST SAINT,
WHO ART IN HEAVEN,
ONCE SAID...

"Mailmen is not the solution to our problems;
Mailmen is the problem."

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
'I'm from the post office and I'm here to deliver your mail.'

My fellow Americans,
I am pleased to tell you
I just signed legislation
which outlaws Russia forever.
The bombing begins in five...
or ten minutes...
whichever is sooner.

[Ganja Ninja]

36. This is why I don't go to teabagger protests.

I would be inclined to go home and come back loaded for bear.

[Autonomy]

37. Seriously? Standing in front of a mailman?

That's their "revolution"? That guy is not "the government". Teabaggers are crazier than I would have believed.

[rasputin1952]

42. This individual could have been arrested under intentional tort...

He was a tortfeasor, intending to commit an act, the consequences of which interference in interests of a way not permitted by law. Any intentional, unexcused act that creates in another person, a reasonable apprehension of immediate or offensive contact is an assault. The arousal of apprehension is enough to justify legal action against the tortfeasor.

Also, from the time a letter, card or package is placed in a receptacle, or the hands of a Postal employee for the delivery of such, it becomes property of the USPS until delivery is made. it is a Federal crime to interfere with any piece of mail that has been placed under the authority of the USPS, if damage was done to the article, other charges may apply.

These people are not "patriots", they are thugs, there is no difference between some of them and the Brown Shirts of the 1930's Germany...and like those Brown Shirts, the travel in packs, cull one out, and they crumble like cheap cookies.

I know that the FBI and SS are looking into a lot of these groups, and there is undercover work going on, the more they do crap like this, the more scrutiny they will come under.

Charge a few with crimes, and voila, they will disappear back under rocks and sob like babies.

[704wipes]

44. but same mailman would do these things for them

if they lived on his route:

1. Call police when he hears their elderly mother crying inside her home for help after she has fallen and broken her hip and can't move.

2. Help their elderly relative who slipped and fell under their own car during an ice storm.

3. Tie up their dog who has broken his chain or escaped his yard fence, by getting him back in the yard, etc. (ok maybe not all the dogs, but some)

4. Notify the trash men when he is first to spot the rubbish in their truck is ON FIRE.

5. Take the newspapers lying all over the drive in with mail to the customer who was one of the last polio victims from the 50's.

6. Pick up kids who have crashed their bicylces, get them and the bicycle home.

7. Obey all hopscotch jumps/rules for the little girls who use sidewalk chalk and have made a grid on the sidewalk.

How do I know? My father did them. And, probably a lot more I never heard about. Guess what? Your mailman keeps confidential too all the lesbian bondage magazines you subscribe to as well, so Teabaggers/Republicans should be careful when messing with the USPS.

Actually anyone messing with USPS collecting mails from collection boxes should be shot, IMHO. ;-)
And I am sure a federal offense was committed by the person who would not let that do the collection unimpeded.

[GreenTea]

49. If these people are "mad about something" they should look no further than the greedy corporations-

But the republican & corporate shills tell these fools it's the government you should hate not the corporations receiving government subsidies while making billions off workers & the middle class, cutting pay & benefits & shipping their jobs away for cheaper labor.

Now these same teabaggers are shilling for the Republicans and the corporations....How wonderful.

[ieoeja]

50. Even gangsters don't fuck with the mail.

If this is true -- and, frankly, this story has the same unbelieveble ring as those rightist chain letters we are always receiving -- then congratulations to the Teabaggers for officially becoming less a part of the community than gangbanging punks.

[veganlush]

51. the solution is simple but the MSM will never do it

..someone in congress simply needs to propose privatizing police and fire. When you call 911, a quick computer check tells would be responders whether or not you are current on your "premiums" just like healthcare or car insurance, etc. If you're in good standing, they'll respond to your emergency. Why should your precious tax dollars pay to save someone Else's kids from a fire? They had the fire, not you! This needs to be proposed and debated so tea-baggers can see how hypocritical they are.

[wolfgangmo]

A small refinement to your excellent idea.

"...someone in congress simply needs to propose privatizing police and fire."

The refinement - someone needs to talk some dumbass republican into sponsoring it and then talk to a lot of democrats into not opposing it UNTIL it reaches the debate stage. By subtly opposing it until the Repubs like Boner kneejerk react to it (and Bachmann gets on TV and says what a wonderful idea it is), the Dems could score BIG TIME.

But we have to get an idiot to sponsor the damn thing first. Who's our patsy?

[wolfgangmo]

115. A small refinement to your excellent idea.

"...someone in congress simply needs to propose privatizing police and fire."

The refinement - someone needs to talk some dumbass republican into sponsoring it and then talk to a lot of democrats into not opposing it UNTIL it reaches the debate stage. By subtly opposing it until the Repubs like Boner kneejerk react to it (and Bachmann gets on TV and says what a wonderful idea it is), the Dems could score BIG TIME.

But we have to get an idiot to sponsor the damn thing first. Who's our patsy?

[izquierdista]

52. They will be happy to privatize it completely

And I have just the person to do that -- me. I can do just like Carlos Slim did privatizing the Mexican phone company, privatize the USPS and give me (oops, I mean allow me as CEO to exercise options on a 47% minority stake in the enterprise) a controlling interest. I think my first improvement will be to change postage rates on checks to be 2% of the face value of the check, collected from the addressee. I know the teabaggers will feel victorious when they negotiate it down (remember, free markets) to 1.75% for 3-day delivery and a mere 1% if they can live with 3-week delivery.

Now if I can average a 1.43% income stream off of all Social Security and other pension checks that are mailed, (:think: note to self, get MOU in place with banks to charge postage rates on bank statements as a percentage of the account balance) I figure it will take me less than a decade to become a multi-billionaire.

[Vinca]

54. Someone should have been arrested over that incident.

[Roland99]

56. Mob mentality. They're just seconds away from pitchforks and boiling oil

[Liberal In Texas]

78. It is indeed mob behavior. These people would never do anything like this if they were alone.

They get positive reinforcement by those around them to act like bullies and louts.

[Hubert Flottz]

57. The mail don't matter to most repubLICKans

Because they can't read.

[47of74]

58. Someone might want to tell the teabaggers about 18 U.S.C. § 1701

Although they wouldn't listen, once they're told about this of the United States Code it's their own fault if they get in trouble;

§ 1701. Obstruction of mails generally

Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

[madmom]

59. Sounds kind of illegal to me, federal employee, US mail and all...

[liberal N proud]

61. Isn't there a federal law covering postal worker harassment?

I know it is illegal to place something in a mail box without proper postage. I was wondering if there is something about preventing mail from being delivered or harassment of the postal worker.

Bust the teabagger for obstructing the mail man, give them a taste of another side of the government.

[47of74]

62. Yes, 18 USC 1701

[h9socialist]

63. With leaders like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, what do you expect?

[chrisa]

65. Thugs.

Their antics are childish, bullyish, but not surprising.

[dencol]

66. Maybe postal workers should be armed.

Ironically, that's something these jokers would probably support.

[Hekate]

67. These people are appallingly insane. The Postman was a target?! nt

[howard112211]

69. Harassing the mailman to make some "anti gubmint" point. Rock bottom pathetic.

What brave patriots they are...

[Liberal_in_LA]

71. wow. Mob anger towards the mailman

[Marr]

72. Can I assume Mo is black...?

I know they hate the government and all, but I doubt that was really the problem.

[Jkid]

73. Disgusting...

I bet Teabaggers don't get any civic classes at high school.

[pasto76]

75. You wouldnt here this is the mailman had been PD

teabaggers are cowards by definition. A mailman is a seemingly defenseless target of their delusions.
any reports of them getting all aggro on the local PD? State patrol?

no. I didnt think so.

[Lerkfish]

79. just IMAGINE if one of us did the same thing to a mail man during the Bush administration

quite frankly, there is NO LEGITIMATE REASON why the teabaggers are given so much legal leeway. NONE

[marew]

80. I am so sick of their crap.

These people go beyond stupid and ignorant. Faux supported them and gave these nuts a platform and they've become real a**holes. Sorry, I hardly ever use language like that but these people think being rude, stupid, and ignorant and acting out is something to be proud of. I can't take it. I've been around a while and never sen anything like this.

[earth mom]

81. Isn't it a federal offense to interfere with the delivery of the U.S. Mail?

That mailman should have called the police and got some of those asshole teabaggers thrown in jail! :grr:

[SnakeEyes]

89. Yes

[Little Star]

84. No wonder they love Sarah Palin. They are no brighter than her.

Or vice-versa.

[Catherine Vincent]

85. What an angry mob

It's too bad this mailman didn't actually "go postal" on their ignorant arses.:)

[fascisthunter]

86. whacko fanatics lumping mailmen now into socialism... yes

keep distancing yourselves from everybody. Since you have so many pet peves with so many of us Americans, maybe it's time for you all to take a really good look at yourselves.

[SnakeEyes]

88. Is there a video of this nonsense?

[mailman82]

90. I am a Mailman of 30 yrs.

The first call i would made would be to the Postal inspectors. I don't know that I would have been able to keep my temper in check!

[Drunken Irishman]

91. I thought they meant Karl Malone.

:P

[AllyCat]

92. I'll ask a question I was asked at nearly every protest I've ever attended:

"Why don't you have a job?" and I think that is fair. Why aren't these people working? What do they do for money? Many of them, like me, probably work an off shift or are students. But if they are unemployed and taking unemployment compensation, or social security checks, or social security disability checks, I think the question pertains to them. Because they protest the very things that benefit them while PREVENTING someone who HAS a freakin' job and is trying to do it from doing it!

[ljm2002]

94. It's getting ugly...

...when they think it's okay to confront a mailman trying to get through his workday.

Someone needs to remind these asshats that it is a federal offense to tamper with the mail. I'm guessing that physically keeping a mailman from performing his duties, not allowing him to retrieve a letter -- those can't be legal either.

I hope someone has it on a cell phone camera and alerts the Feds. No one should have to put up with that nonsense. He must have felt threatened, I know I would have.

[Barack_America]

95. These people are fucking idiots.

All about mindless gimmicks, not a coherent thought among the lot of them.

[MadMaddie]

96. Isn't that illegal?

[KonaKane]

99. Yes it is.

Not that stuff like that means anything to these bulging eyed, frothing baggers.

[Synnical]

97. Someone told me that someone told me?

Really? Everyone is going with that?

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[Bluebear]

101. It's a newspaper column, Cindy in Fort Lauderdale. You don't believe this happened?

[Synnical]

116. Skeptic, need evidence.

Not saying it didn't happen. Seems second hand to me. Not every written word in a newspaper is true, as I am sure you are well aware.

Hugs,
-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[senseandsensibility]

98. Unbelievable.

eom

[lonestarnot]

100. Teabaggers don't believe in democracy. Never have, never will, and they apparently

don't like having mail delivered.

[Enthusiast]

103. What assholes!

See, this is what they are-the new brown shirts, American brown shirts. Bullies. Fucking asshole bully brown shirts. Teabaggers = asshole Republicans.

[JVS]

104. He should have used the dog mace on them

[No Elephants]

108. The conservative as anarchist. Whodda thunk?

[DailyGrind51]

109. Did he "go postal" on their asses?

[Javaman]

111. Call me crazy, but isn't it a federal offense to interfer with the delivery of the mail? nt

[BigD_95]

112. wow!!!!

I cant believe this made a greatest thread. I was just trying to let people know what is really going on. I would love if anyone had actual time to post in the local newspaper about this nonsense. ydr.com

The area I live is just such backward. Its heavy misinformed right wingers. The debates I get in at work... and the countless email of lies. I get tired of always proving they are false. thanks

[Oilwellian]

114. Incredible

This story needs to go viral. Just tweeted. Hope it travels.