Teabagger Violence Mars Tax Day Rally With Sen. Marco Rubio

[SugarShack]

Run time: 09:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BU8pfz2O4   Posted on YouTube: April 18, 2011 By YouTube Member: CorporatistNationTV Views on YouTube: 282   Posted on DU: April 19, 2011 By DU Member: SugarShack Views on DU: 6576

 
First the nooze media say that 5,000 showed up at the tea party rally in Tampa. They came and went, and at best there were 350...tops.

Just like the governor in florida who was called out for revealing the people's florida budget to the tea party at a private event, this group thinks no one else should be allowed on the sidewalk.

The man with the megaphone is John Russell, the democratic nominee in 2004 AND 2006 in congressional dist. 5, fla. He works in healthcare and speaks out on "medicare for all" and a "single payer system". Just look at the negativity this tea party group puts out there.

[teabaghater]

1. Nice folks.

[democracy1st]

2. K & R this is a must see!

[freshwest]

3. Any luck with the assault charges? Disgusting, lying even when caught on tape!

[Boudica the Lyoness]

4. Wow

nasty nasty teabaggers. I hope that red headed thing in the red white and blue gets taken off the streets for awhile. She is a menace to everything decent.

[byronius]

5. Revealing. The guy in black is a total weirdo. Psychopath. A Bad Freak.

Brave. Very brave of this couple. I applaud. Teabaggers require silence to propagate their bullshit.

[rasputin1952]

18. He was trying to be intimidating, as if he were SS or some such thing...

if that jerk ever served this nation in uniform, or in any other capacity, I would be flabbergasted. He is, th classic punk; a worthless piece of crap that deserves to be little more than a doorstop at the Gates of Hell.

There should have been several arrests for assault by the way. The cowardly redhead in the USA cap took off when the police arrived. Gotta love these "brave" people picking on a woman with a camera.

[vercetti2021]

6. Wow...

That blackwater guy is a complete tool and if he really is a ex marine then what a shame to america for him acting like he is. Bravo John i applaud you. Tea baggers are anti american morons who don't and will never have any common knowledge in this world called reality. To me they're completely ignorant and act like rabid animals, and always wrong about facts that they don't have, which is why they always result to name calling and violence, but they live in a little world called imagination land.

[leftynyc]

34. Did he actually call himself

an ex-marine? If he did, there's your first clue he's a fraud. To a real Marine, once a Marine, always a Marine.

[Nostalgic]

7. I hope the cops found and arrested the redhead.

She shouldn't be allowed to get away with what she did.

[Fuddnik]

17. She was identified in the WMNF radio spot.

Haven't heard anything about an arrest yet.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/wmnf/news_story_soundclips/4107/0418TeaParty.mp3

[Maine-ah]

49. fb page

http://www.facebook.com/lisa.bamberger

[toddwv]

8. K&R

I love to see the teabaggers get a taste of their own medicine.

[HolyCity2012]

9. this is whack

All I saw was a bunch of square ass, old white people with no idea of strategy or tact. Shame on everyone involved. What did the guy with the mega-phone think was going to happen?

If the plan is to piss the baggers off until they assault people then mission accomplished.

[Cherchez la Femme]

11. Because he has a right to protest

just as they do.

Peaceful protest.

[HolyCity2012]

19. it's all about tact and respect

The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to an issue. This guy with the bullhorn wasn't doing that. All he managed to do was get his wife beat up. I know when I protest my goal is to bring attention to an issue and encourage people to listen to some ideas that they might not yet have considered. Disturbing this Tea Bagger event just pushed them further away.

We The People should always exercise our rights but it is plain to see, this guy wasn't there to do anything except be a disturbance.

[Fuddnik]

20. He managed to get his wife beat up?

Blame the victim much? Maybe she was operating the video camera while wearing boxing gloves, and was just asking for it, huh?

The fact of the matter is, the guy has spoken at some of the earlier tea-bagger events, and tried to talk some sense into them. Nicely. It didn't work.

And when you're dealing with Marco Rubio and Ralph Reed, be prepared for this kind of response, no matter how you act. They are the leaders of a brownshirt movement, pure and simple.

Listen to what the mindset is that you're dealing with in post #17 above.

[HolyCity2012]

24. swim in the ocean and risk losing a leg

"the guy has spoken at some of the earlier tea-bagger events, and tried to talk some sense into them. Nicely. It didn't work."

So you are saying that this man and his wife were aware of who they are dealing with?

I don't need to pull a stunt like this to find out what these baggers are capable of.

Bethany Hamilton never blamed the shark that bit off her arm.


Pro-Tip: The videographer should remain about 30 yards away.

Pro-Tip: Don't pull this kind of stunt with only two people.

[damienqui]

27. ...and that's why Florida lost it's ocean.

Fighting ignorance by ignoring it is a cowardly suggestion. You're suggesting that when someone shove you down, you should just stay down? What a shitty statement!

Yes, they were aware of who they are dealing with. The 'videographer' is an Environmental Science PHD and a former professor of mine. "The guy" is a seasoned politician and activist. And "stunts" like this have been instrumental in every rights/political movement that has made any difference in our country. How about "Don't ask for equal rights when you know that white people have dogs and hoses" or "just shut up and pray whether you believe it or not, because good schools do that"?

BTW, 30 ft away? Even if that wasn't a completely asinine suggestion, did you happen to watch the video at all? That little speck in the distance is the Tea Party Rally. These people approached the protesters, not the other way around. They were a solid 100 yards from the actual event.

As for your critique of his approach to protest, it takes a truly blind individual to watch this and accuse the protesters of being violent, abrasive, or out of line. Your comments are equivalent to the guy who is heard claiming that Dr. Tabone (filming), assaulted Lisa Bamberger (the screeching woman) in the hand with her face!

On top of all of this. Russel was standing and protesting through a bullhorn, loudly vocalizing his position but never erupting into violence even when attacked. If the teabaggers had not trekked all the way over to Russel and attacked him, or come to speak and contest without malicious intent, there would have been no violence. There would have been a man and his wife standing on a public sidewalk vocalizing their beliefs.

As for their being only two people, that is no fault of theirs. It's a testament to their perseverance. I should have been there, and was going to be if I hadn't gotten incredibly sick that day. Even so, I regret missing it now and won't let illness be an excuse next time. There should have been more than two hundred people there, but you suggest less than two. There should have been open debate and civil rights present, but you suggest that bully tactics are rightfully the law of the land? What the hell is wrong with you?

No, Bethany Hamilton didn't blame the shark that bit off her arm, but Bethany Hamilton didn't live in the ocean. There is no Bethany Hamilton in this analogy. We are the sharks, and the Tea Party is BP.

[HolyCity2012]

29. Laugh Out Loud!

Welcome to Democratic Underground!

Did you register an account all because of lil'ole me?

I hope you join your friends the next time they attempt to take on the Tea Baggers at Tea Bagger level.

[Cherchez la Femme]

21. With all due respect

bullshit.

Sure, there are many ways he could have tried to get information out, for instance setting up a booth
--but did you notice it seemed he was only allowed on the sidewalk?
Kinda hard --and illegal-- to set a booth up on a sidewalk, don't you think?

Nor is it likely that these mouth-breathers would listen, respond or otherwise engage in professorial quiet, civil discussion.

The truth is we don't know what options were open to him.


Bottom line: your "tact and respect" = Doormat

[HolyCity2012]

22. Mahatma Gandhi = DOORMAT

[WhiteTara]

46. ?

[Cherchez la Femme]

10. WHY didn't they have the assaulters arrested?

You don't go up slapping, kicking, punching someone because of differences in politics for God's sake!

Bunch of freaks -- we need to find & get out those peoples names.

[lilbethm]

13. How about the comment

"you're a coward because your an intellectual" Intellectual is a dirty word now!!! :+

[Cherchez la Femme]

16. because knowledge is Bad

wisdom is even worse!

You're to follow 'your betters' (the wealthy), know your place and don't get uppity;
peon :eyes:


I would have laughed so hard at that idiot man in black, not just because he deserved it
but because laughing at those who truly believe they are Walter Mitty-like is the best way to irk them.

[WhiteTara]

47. One of the first genocides I remember was Biafra

and the first people they killed were the teachers and intelligensia. At the time (about 35 or 38 years ago) I wondered how this could happen. Now I see it before my very eyes. Blaming the teachers, hating public worker/servants. We're close to some awful thing. I hope we choose well and stop the hate mongers.

[damienqui]

28. Lisa Carole Bamberger is the woman's name

The woman's name is Lisa Carole Bamberger of St. Petersburg. Born 5/22/1967. White, red hair, and guess who's limo she left in? I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with "Darko Dubio"

[Fuddnik]

12. Kick and Rec!

And the woman doing the assault was later seen getting into Rubio's limo when the event was over.

[RevStPatrick]

14. That was not intended to be a factual statement...

...I assume?

[Fuddnik]

15. Yes, it was.

Although I was not there, I know very credible people who were.

[RevStPatrick]

23. Interesting...

I thought you were kidding.

[SugarShack]

25. Police were to sympathize with Teabaggers, but keep resisting when told assualt is on tape!

Keep kicking...we need this to go viral! Thanks DU!

[lilbethm]

26. kick

[SugarShack]

30. The first time he went to rally and spoke he was very well received! Now, repubs are running them

[SugarShack]

31. The story of the rally in the media is nothing like what you see on the video!

[PotatoChip]

32. What a bunch of mean spirited jerks these baggers are. nt.

[SugarShack]

33. Well with "Blackwater Guy" in suit, it's clear they aim to intimidate.

This is what people need to see. That is not a professional org., it is something for the media to feed people that is not real. It's just the republican party reinvented, hiding behind the tea partiers because the repub party went into the crapper.

[KansDem]

35. "Communist?"

We're still calling people "communists?"

Hey, Marine-guy, check your undies...see if they weren't made in...Vietnam, Cambodia, China, or some other country we went to war with because they were "communist."

[SugarShack]

36. Ha! Funny and true. Blackwater Guy is a fake in a suit, and the healthcare worker is real !

[Billy Burnett]

37. Hell yes. Even DUers throw that "accusation" around here.

Head on over to DU's Latin America forum, or any Cuba/Venezuela threads here. Defenders of Cuba's and Venezuela's sovereignty are routinely called communists (as an attempted put-down), by and large the mods are OK with it.
I've experienced it here on DU countless times since 2001.


:hi:

[KansDem]

39. I've noticed that!

Head on over to DU's Latin America forum, or any Cuba/Venezuela threads here. Defenders of Cuba's and Venezuela's sovereignty are routinely called communists ...

President Chavez impressed me with his action to provide heating oil for low-income Americans in 2006:

When you�re a U.S. Congressman and 25,000 constituent families can�t find affordable heating oil this winter, you tend not to care where help comes from. That�s at least how U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia felt last week when Citgo — the U.S.-based company owned by the government of Venezuela�s left-wing President Hugo Chavez — delivered 5 million gallons of heating oil at a 40% discount to low-income Philadelphia residents. Fattah says he doesn�t understand the objections of many congressional conservatives who feel U.S. cities should not be helping improve the image of Chavez, one of President Bush�s most strident critics. "The U.S. buys 1.5 million barrels of oil from Venezuela each day at full price," says Fattah, "so why would anyone complain about getting some at almost half price?"

That�s a question the Bush Administration — whose feelings for Chavez are certainly mutual — has struggled to answer ever since Venezuela initiated the Citgo program last November. While the heating oil gesture has certainly allowed Chavez to tweak Bush�s nose, it is also being recognized inside and outside of Washington as a public relations coup for Chavez�s Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America�s 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar).

As a result, it�s growing well beyond its original scope: Philadelphia, Boston, the Bronx and cities in Maine, Vermont and Rhode Island have received a total of 45 million gallons of the subsidized Citgo fuel, and other cities are slated for another 5 million soon. That�s a small percentage of the heating oil Venezuela exports to the U.S. each year, but Citgo says it has set aside about 10% of its refined petroleum products for the program. Says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., "Unfortunately for the Bush Administration, Chavez is proving to be a more inventive thinker in terms of hemispheric politics."

--more--
Time

Yet, he's a "commie." But he did a helluva lot more than what Bush or the Saudis did...

[Fuddnik]

38. Kick and Rec!

And the sorry-assed media in the Tampa Bay area still continue to talk like the baggers are some kind of mass movement. TV, radio, even the supposedly "liberal" St. Pete Times.

Now, they're upset because they're starting to just catch on that they've been used by the Republican Party, and being played for the suckers that they are.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/tea-parties-ask-just-whos-behind-tea-party-in-action/1165048

And then to rub salt into their wounds, the Republican legislature is pretty much trying to outlaw them or any other third party from getting recognition as a party, and being able to put candidates on the ballot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42697519

But, it's not surprising. Listen to the radio interviews with them on the WMNF tape linked at the Kos article. These idiots couldn't find their ass with both hands, a coon hound and a GPS!

[SugarShack]

40. Thanks for the links to tie it all together!

:puke:

[wxgeek7]

41. MF thug

Who is that MF thug in the suit!? F him!! He comes up and says that Russell's wife (holding camera), "assaulted the woman with her head"??! Then he TRIES to debate with Russell, but resorts to calling him names and poking fun! A typical coldhearted-thug-conservative asshole!!!

And what also is F'd up, is that fact that even security/cops seemed to be hostile towards them! UnF'n-believable!

[SugarShack]

42. You are correct so keep this kicked!!!

[Fuddnik]

43. But Russell's wife is so very threatening.

Her imposing figure weighs in at probably a whopping 98 pounds soaking wet!

[SugarShack]

44. Sure she is...while holding a camera and filming her husband!

[SugarShack]

45. Here is a message from John Russell in the video!!

From John Russell... I am heartened by the very positive response to both the events depicted in the video as well as the efforts that we made to provide a new and exciting perspective to those in attendance at the rally... including the speakers. I believe that any way we can puncture the cocoon of MIS-information that is being fed to these people by their "leaders" will in the end prove beneficial to moving the debate on to more level ground. Thanks again to all you DU'ers. John Russell and Chyrisse Tabone Russell

[HolyCity2012]

48. Noam Chomsky on Tactics

This excerpt is from the 2011 Noam Chomsky's UCL Rickman Godlee Lecture.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x576926

[SugarShack]

50. Thanks for posting

[Ian David]

51. More TeaTerror.

http://tinyurl.com/TeaTerror2

[SugarShack]

52. The MSM is not showing this side of the tea party...people need to know the truth!

Thanks for posting!

[SugarShack]

53. Those who were there have contacted the nooze to show them this, and they responded

"we have already reported on the rally"

the original article that said 5000 people showed up????????????????????????????