Some pics I took of the "Veterans" (Tea Party) rally today
Showing their true colors in front of the White House
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The barricades torn down at the WWII Memorial
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'Good Old' Mr. Wilson followed Romney everywhere and visited California (read San Diego) every time Romney swung into the fine state. Wilson got a lot of ink during the ill-fated campaign, often being the only person in attendance during some whistlestops.
Remember when his truck got all burned up?
and the replacement vehicle Romney gave him:
Mitt Romney presented Jim Wilson with a fire hydrant and keys to a truck at a campaign event in Sterling, Va. Mr. Wilson, who is one of the Romney campaign’s biggest fan, had his old truck destroyed by a fire last week.
I regularly see a bigger crowd in front of the Apple store before it opens 
Fucking losers.
the workers.
Fucking stupid does not quite describe them 
who the fck do they think is going to clean up after them and buy new cables?
They fought to overthrow the government, They fought to incite riots. They fought for the right to fly the phucking confederate flag. They fought for the right to smoke? 
(seriously WTF is with that 3rd picture?)
Thanks for the photos. I was thinking about going into town to watch this mess. I see that I made the right choice to stay home and hang with hubby who is brewing a 10 gallon batch of Nut Brown ale. 
I hope some of these assholes pent some money on local businesses that are suffering because of the protesters' tea bagging overlords.
Patriots my ass -- NO patriot brings a confederate flag to the White House. No patriot treats a memorial with more reverence then the actual soldiers and Veterans that actually fought in said war. In this case, it's the WW2 memorial. They care about that memorial than the Vets who are facing the very real fact that they won't get the money they rightfully deserve.
Absolutely disgusting.
I feel nauseus just looking at them.
I did that to one if the street fundys/preachers. I just pointed and laughed. I think i scared the poor guy into smitterins
(Well obviously I saw a little of the pics)
It just makes me so mad. These people are lunatics and they have very little intelligence. I don't mean that in the typical "you're stupid" insult. I mean it literally. These people are of lesser intelligence than the rest of us.
We've seen this coming for awhile. At some point these people are going to do something really stupid.
do away with critical thinking classes and re write text books will have a way of making people less intelligent.
Now the big thing is the CORE standards. Big money folks will be saying they can't find American workers that can think for themselves, or solve problems by themselves so they have to reach to India and central Africa to find qualified workers when they
could have funded the schools here.
THis country is getting more fucked every day. good luck on the other side.
Those who served, died or survived WW2 did not value appearance over substance. They served under the American flag, not the Confederate flag. They did not die for a memorial, but a country based on what FDR and millions of Americans believed in.
That memorial is not their legacy. This country is their legacy. These folks are filled with Paulite, Bircher, Libertarian, White Supremacist, Teahadist and every form of deceit, do not speak for our nation or that generation. They are spitting on it all.
Take a close look at them. I have warned people who think these little fascists are dying out, or that it is an older generation thing. Look at the ages there and their relative prosperity in comparison to those hurt by this shutdown and the default.
I don't think this is at all amusing or comforting. They each represent a hundred or thousand who are voting for destruction and anarchy. And they'd love to kill many of us.
I wonder what percentage there are, especially those who came back and were unable to get jobs. Obama has done all he could for them, but the reality is that there could be disaffected vets who blame the government for everything.
They may have just cause to hate the government, as other veterans did in unpopular wars, but they volunteered. But for some it was a forced choice due to lack of educational and economic opportunity. And Rush Limbaugh is STILL spewing his hatred on Armed Forces stations.
I'm not calling to question the loyalty of DUers who served, took an oath to protect the Constitution, but there is the dark side, the Oathkeepers, who want it all torn down for a libertarian (and theocracy is the goal) revolution to remove the government.
There is big money behind all of that, as shown in this picture, widely posted:
...The latest evidence comes in the form of this billboard recently installed inside the subway station that serves the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. The billboard was paid for by the Oath Keepers, a "patriot" group founded in 2009 not long after President Obama took office. The controversial organization, founded by a former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) staffer and associated with former militia leaders, encourages members of the military and law enforcement to swear an oath of loyalty to the Constitution, and not necessarily to the Commander in Chief. The Oath Keepers pledge to essentially turn on the US government if they think they're being ordered to do things that they think are unconstitutional, such as, for instance, taking people's guns away.
They arrived on the scene with much fanfare and were often staples at tea party and Second Amendment rallies organized around opposition to the tyrannical Obama administration. Their ranks are filled with Birthers, Truthers, and others who see black helicopters lurking at every turn. Their highest profile associates have been people like Mike Vanderboegh, the former Alabama militia leader who urged followers to throw bricks through the windows of Democratic offices to protest the passage of healthcare reform. (Some actually did.) But the Oath Keepers have since dropped out of the limelight, the dictatorship they were preparing for never quite materializing.
But the group has reemerged with a new project, which involves billboards like the Snowden one at the Pentagon Metro station. The Oath Keepers initially set out to put up billboards around military bases to "Educate Troops About Their Oath Bound Duty to Refuse Unconstitutional Orders," and to "counter the propaganda of the domestic enemies of the Constitution," according to their website. So far this year, they've installed one near the Twenty Nine Palms Marine base in California, with plans to target Ft. Hood, in Texas, and Ft. Rucker in Alabama.
The first billboard went up last year across from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in response to a retired Army colonel who enraged tea partiers and gun activists with a paper he wrote describing a hypothetical scenario in which the military might have to intervene on US soil. The hypothetical involves an "extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement" that takes over a town in South Carolina and starts an insurrection. The "tea party insurrectionists" in the paper sound a lot like the Oath Keepers, who took great offense to the paper and responded with a billboard screaming, "Colonel 'Red Coat' Benson, The Tea Party is Not the Enemy. Soldiers! Honor Your Oath. Refuse To Fire On Americans..."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/oath-keepers-heart-snowden
Their piece of their intent is in itself is not that bad, and I don't give a rat's ass about Snowden. It's the Oathkeepers that have me worried. Always have, as they are part of the Christian Nationalist Movement. I've seen in Christian bullets their meetings which they fill up large auditoriums and they are not open to all. The SPLC says:
Oath Keepers to Form ‘Civilization Preservation’ Teams in Anticipation of Societal Collapse
by Ryan Lenz on October 2, 2013
The Oath Keepers are going operational.
An article posted to the group’s website Tuesday announced the formation of “Civilization Preservation” units, basely loosely on the organization of U.S. Special Forces teams, to provide “community security and support during crisis” – but also “to assist in forming and training town and county militias.”
These comically named 12-person teams would consist of two communications experts, two medics, two combat engineers, two weapons experts, two operations leaders, a commander and his assistant – positions that would be filled by the law enforcement officers and former military personnel who comprise the Oath Keepers. The Oath Keepers imagines that these units would be scattered across the country, working with other veterans organizations such as the VFW, American Legion and Marine Corps League, to lead communities “in resistance to oppressive regimes.”
More at link where it says, 'continue to full post' which details there are 30K members with reader comments. There are other stories at the link:
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?s=oathkeepers
I don't think SPLC is into scaring people, but having seen the uptick in gun shops, Obama hate and Second Amendment Solution bumper stickers, hate radio taking over even in my area, I'll admit I'm getting a bit worried.
If the government defaults many people I know will lose their residences in November. Their loved ones who depend on SS, Medicare and Medicaid will lose their homes and care. None of this has to happen. I see very positive things happening and negative ones as well. If I thought that we'd recover after default, it'd be one thing. But I don't:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110218177
These bastids want this. And I don't know if SPLC or Mother Jones are into scaring people with things that are not true. Sorry for the long post, guess I'm just venting here.
and I believe that the "all American" smoking van is a Toyota, too.
Just sayin'
bad link. What I get for being in a hurry. 
thanks for catching it and letting me know, fresh. I know you're interested beyond just the photos.
Obama won, he's the President