Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies

[Kadie]

Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies

By VALERIE BAUMAN, Associated Press Writer Valerie Bauman, Associated Press Writer – 56 mins ago

ALBANY, N.Y. – Opponents of the fiscally conservative tea party movement say they plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic.

Jason Levin, creator of http://www.crashtheteaparty.org , said Monday the group has 65 leaders in major cities across the country who are trying to recruit members to infiltrate tea party events for April 15 — tax filing day, when tea party groups across the country are planning to gather and protest high taxes.

"Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, 'That's right, he's an alien from outer space!'" Levin said.

Tea party members said the backlash comes from ignorance.

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"Do I think every member of the tea party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not," Levin said. "Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely."

The site manifesto says they want to dismantle the Tea Party by nonviolent means. "We have already sat quietly in their meetings, and observed their rallies," the site said.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100412/ap_on_go_ot/us_tea_party_crashers_3

[The Northerner]

1. It appears that the freepers know about this as well

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2490291/posts

[Divine Discontent]

26. maybe because they created this shit! like a Dem would waste time doing what THEY ALREAD DO at their

klan rallies!?!!

[Posteritatis]

72. They're turning that into "proof" that all the bigots are just liberal spies. (nt)

[Better Believe It]

76. You're 100% right. Fricken idiots! Can someone talk some sense into them?

[Turbineguy]

2. Some advice to these infiltrators:

Spell your signs wrong. Look dumb. Laugh at inopportune moments, like when someone tells a racist or homophobic story.

[liberal N proud]

13. Wear wife beater tee shirts

[KathieG]

14. Consider sporting a mullet.

[maxsolomon]

3. THINK THIS THROUGH VERY CAREFULLY

1. notice that the writer called them "fiscally conservative", and not "crazy old crackers".
2. they don't need help in appearing racist, homophobic, or moronic.

being scattered amongst them won't have nearly the ironic street theatre effect of billionaires for bush or the church of stop shopping.

[laughingliberal]

84. +1 nt

[Kingofalldems]

4. Fox blond Megan Kelly did something on this today

She had a whole segment with a RW talker, also blond, with glossy lips.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. This would be hilarious if it worked

But I doubt it will.

[devilgrrl]

6. "fiscally conservative tea party" - oh get the fuck out of here!

:nuke:

[unpossibles]

9. yeah when I saw that I asked myself

if there was another Tea Party movement I did not know about, because the one I do know about has done nothing conservative, fiscally or otherwise.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Republicon teabaggers are borrow-and-spend FAIL freaks

As they have amply demonstrated, and not just at wide-stance, Family Values faux diaper lesbian bondage shows...but through the 8 years under AWOL Bush & Five Deferments Cheney when they laid waste to the American economy

[Lerkfish]

7. parlock

they never come up with any new tricks.

like there isn't racism in the group already... they have to start blaming it on libruls.

[unpossibles]

8. I smell a double blind troll (not the OP, the idea)

Look, the Teahadists want nothing more than to be able to blame any racism and bigotry (and bad signs) on Liberals, so this does nothing but help them. Horrible idea, honestly, as they make themselves look bad already.

It's like dressing like a fish to prove that a tuna is a fish. Just dumb, completely unnecessary, and will backfire. Which is why I suspect that this story is nothing but a BS attempt to allow them (the teabaggers) to point and say "see, I told you it was them librals not us hugh paytriates this whole time!"

I've got $20 that says Levin is actually a conservative.

[Electric Monk]

15. Bingo. That's my thought as well, this is teabaggers making excuses. nt

[FatDave]

17. Thirded.

Exactly what I was thinking. Now they can disregard every time they accidentally let their true colors be seen.

[pepperbear]

18. bingo...I think you're absolutely right....

this doesn't sound like something a real progressive would do simply because it's redundant. They've already proven that they are racist and ignorant. the public at large even knows their true nature, which is why it would be convenient to have a deflection.now every time a racist appears on camera at a tea party, the powers-that-be can go back to this website and claim that their presence was merely a liberal tactic.

[leveymg]

21. This goes along with the "Democrats can begin fire teabaggers" posts seen today.

We're b-a-a-a-a-d people. Worse than Nazis. This proves it.

[Demoiselle]

23. I think I smell it too....

Yesterday I read about this on one of the right wing blogs...maybe the dreadful Lucianne (yes, I check them out once in a while.) So I googled 'crashtheteaparty' or whatever it was supposed to be called, and found nothing...really...nothing. Today, Voila. Here it is.

[leftynyc]

54. Absolutely

I'm on liberal sites all the time and I've seen nothing about this - only on puke/right wing sites. I want this brought up by everyone who leans left on TV - who started this and on what grounds are they assuming it's coming from the left.

[alfredo]

55. If you are going to infiltrate, you do not let on. If you wanted

to increase paranoia within an organization, say that you are going to infiltrate but you don't.

It's better to do a whisper campaign that there are FBI/CIA/Illuminati infiltrators. Feed their paranoia and watch them tear each other apart.

[unpossibles]

65. good point since paranoia is what feeds the teahadists

and other militia/survivalist types anyway. It's really common among right wing fringe types I've talked to, that they think they are in constant danger of being taken over by the NWO, or teh ghey agenda, or liberal brainwashing, or non-white poor people, or fill-in-the-blank. I wish I were joking, although I do know that I am generalizing a little.

[alfredo]

74. One problem is if we increase their paranoia, they might

become more violent. The paranoia, if we were to exploit it, should be directed toward their own.

[RadiationTherapy]

63. You can tell by the 'alien from outer space' comment.

Not creative and not subversive enough to actually achieve the stated goal.

Not creative = conservative 90% of the time.

[name not needed]

Found the registration info for the site on another forum.

"Created On:03-Apr-2010 22:52:43 UTC
Last Updated On:06-Apr-2010 17:20:20 UTC
Expiration Date:03-Apr-2012 22:52:43 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:CR45137659
Registrant Name:Ben Franklin
Registrant Street1: 3 chestnut lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Philadelphia
Registrant State/Province: Pennsylvania
Registrant Postal Code: 19115
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: [phone]

1. Interesting how this "demonic organization" only took a couple of days to reach ALL conservatives...especially when it's such a new site.

2. Registrant's name is "Ben Franklin"...and we all know it's those damn demoncrats that love to bring up founding fathers.

3. The address given is a Sheraton hotel...because we all know those dirty liberals on the unemployment line...stay so much at Sheraton hotels that they know their address by heart.

4. The phone # given is for a Sheila Lamonsoff...a 65 year old from PA. And we all know 65 year olds are a core demographic for people who hate the tea parties.


Here is a list of all domains that are linking to that site:

1. http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/...u-fear-us-now/ - republican site, posting about those damn dirty liburals.
2. ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com - site times out
3. http://blogwonks.com/2010/04/09/can-you-fear-us-now/ - reprint of #1
4. http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/pr...ur-mad-hatters - republican blog posting about agent provocateurs
5. http://simplybecauseitis.blogspot.co...ay-be-our.html - a republican blog posting about enemy plans
6. http://www.dailypaul.com/node/130902 - republican comment in a blog post warning about the crashers.
7. http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/poli...-crashers.html - a forum post warning people about dastardly liburals
8. www.lucianne.com - can't seem to find where they are linking
9. http://morgans2cents.blogspot.com/20...a-parties.html - another republican bitching about the dastardly left wanting to crash the tea party
10. http://marklevin.ning.com/profiles/b...arty-dot-org-a - a posting about Hannity warning about the scum sucking left wanting to crash the tea party
11. www.resistnet.com - times out
12. http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/politics/90415064.html - fox posting about the site's existance
13. http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/08...comment-917974 - a commentor mentioning the dastardly left wing post.



missing: any left leaning blogs, forums, posts posting about this group.
missing: the hardcore leftie founder, posting on forums/blogs asking people to join his/her new movement.

so basically the only sites/people even talking about this...are tea partiers themselves.

Next we move on to the site itself. It's pretty basic no? Let's look at the code:

<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11">"

[unpossibles]

71. good finds

So in addition to humor, apparently they also can't seem to do subterfuge very well. I suppose both require the kind of intelligence which would preclude one from ever being a Teabagger in the first place.

[Countdown_3_2_1]

10. On the other hand, Tea Baggers can now blame infiltrators for

shouting racist comments and stirring things up. The prefect excuse is on the net for all to see.

Do y'all really expect Tea Baggers to play fair?

Frankly I would rather invade a 1000 boards with common sense. 100 progressives sign on two forums a week and spam them with truth. Not in a trollish way, but in a loving way. An American way. We could reach the educated (and voting) people that way.

[Arctic Dave]

11. Why do they have to pretend to be racist, homophobes when they are full of them already.

All this will do is give the baggers a way to deflect their idiocy by saying they were set up.

The circular firing squad is already forming, why interrupt.

[bergie321]

12. This story smells fishy

"Opponents of the fiscally conservative tea party movement say they plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic."


"Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, 'That's right, he's an alien from outer space!'" Levin said.

So the birther isn't racist but the person claiming he is a space alien is?

The website looks like it was created by a 12 year old, lending more weight to the idea that this is a teahadist a double-reverse false flag group.

Real liberals LOVE the teabaggers. They are driving moderates to the Democratic party in droves.

[HipChick]

16. of course...Levin is now being harassed by these folks..

free speech is only for them..

[zbdent]

20. basically, all you have to do to expose them as homophobes, racists, or morons

is to bring a video camera to their event, and agree with 97% of what they say ... like any "I'm not racist" or "I don't hate gays" statements they make, you don't have to actually believe what you spout ...

[RM33]

22. This is not cool.

People should be allowed to express their political opinions. If it is a bad idea, we should trust the democratic process to resolve the issue. Not shout down someone who is different.

[MUAD_DIB]

25. Ignorance, bigotry and hate are not valid political opinions to be tolerated.

Just because one has an irrational hatred for a particular group does not make their hatred of that group a valid anything.

[Lance_Boyle]

57. People should be allowed to express whatever views they hold - 1st amendment.

If the Klan can have rallies (letting the world see them for what they are), then so can the teaparty twits. Silencing anyone's speech is more offensive than the most offensive speech ever could be.

[laughingliberal]

83. There is speech that is not legally protected

For instance, advocating the overthrow of the government is also known as inciting seditious activity. I've seen them tread pretty close to this line.

I certainly believe in 1st amendment rights but people are mistaken to think it allows anything to be said anywhere. There are limits.

[csziggy]

30. Yes, we do not need to look like the tea party guys that shouted down

Everybody at the health care town halls. But oddly enough, nothing in the link in the OP said anything about "shouting down" the tea party people, just being on hand to point out their racist, homophobic, ethnocentric views. If the tea party people cannot handle that, perhaps they should keep their demonstrations to private areas so they will not be disturbed by other's political opinions.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[unpossibles]

36. actually, I agree for that reason as well

I don't have a problem with counter-protesting, but I don't necessarily believe in abridging their rights any more than I'd want them to do to me (which some of them do, sadly).

The problem is when political "opinion" is not only fabricated, but persists despite considerable proof otherwise, and is promoted by the "sympathetic" media.

[Name removed]

52. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Javaman]

53. You mean like how the tea party idiots shout down us? nt

[muffin1]

67. Is that you, Megan Kelly?

She likes to drone on and on about democrats shouting people down. Funny, she was all for it while the teabaggers shouted during the health care town hall meetings. She said THAT was 'patriotic'. Hmmm...wonder what the difference is...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

80. Do a search by author. It shall be enlightening. -nt

[laughingliberal]

81. I think the point here is this is, likely, a false flag op

I believe the teabaggers have finally become aware their idiot, misspelled signs are showing up on the news and internet along with their overtly racist message and this is meant to divert the blame to 'libruls.' Teabaggers have been exposed as the mouth breathers they are and it's upsetting them.

[annabanana]

24. Phooey. They're just trying to make their fringiest fringe "not theirs".

Any nutball who has the exact same signs that teabaggers have been carrying all along are going to get blamed on "interlopers".

[misanthrope]

27. This sounds very, very Rovian...

...It's a ploy to divert criticism from the animus of the actual members to "infiltrators."

[miscsoc]

31. seconded

i posted something to the same effect further down but i see you beat me to it.

The language on the site is extremely unconvincing. There is no way this is genuine.

[chrisa]

28. If real (which I doubt) this is one of the stupidest ideas ever.

Yelling racist and moronic things not only makes you own that crap you're shouting, but creates the idea that evil outsiders are trying to wrongfully harrass teapartiers. I don't care what you believe. Writing racist crap on a sign makes you a racist - it's not funny or helpful - it's just stupid. (Note: When I say 'you', I don't mean the OP; but rather these "crash the teaparty!" loons.

Worst idea ever. So bad, that I'm not buying that there's not an alterior motive to this.

[miscsoc]

29. this is some rovean false flag ju-jitsu

be warned, the people pulling the strings are smarter than you think.

think about it. the tea party "movement" is based on the exploitation of stupid white people. Stupid white people have a habit of saying things that don't look good on tv, it's all but impossible to train ALL of them to code their racism in politically correct terms like Sarah Palin. A fake leftist infiltration allows you dismiss unfortunate (though inevitable) verbal outbursts as the work of communist/jihadi saboteurs.

[lunasun]

35. I agree

The best thing to do is ignore the teabaggers! and say a little prayer at night that all the medias do too. That website seemed to have a lotta fake minorities to me ... Yep maybe going back to playbook terms like "communist infiltrators" eeeegads

[Odin2005]

32. This has the smell of Rovian RW thug tactics

"Disrupt Tea Party rallies and blame it on the Left..."

[chollybocker]

33. To the baggers, this is known as "grass roots support."

;)


"...by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic."

No sane person would ever think they needed any more help...with...that... :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

39. It's like throwing a snowball into an avalanche

They're not going to make any impact whatsoever on the final effect.

[Skittles]

34. FUCK THAT "fiscally conservative " label

that is a fucking LIE

[Bjorn Against]

37. This story appears to be based on a right-wing hoax, I just posted a thread with the details...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8139422

[Electric Monk]

42. ^^^ READ ^^^ THIS ^^^ POST ^^^

[Hekate]

60. Right Wing Hoax indeed. The names of the registered users are a sickening alert. nt

[stuntcat]

38. They don't even need to, the people are being incredible idiots already

not that anyone's caring, since apparently our citizens have lost 20 IQ points on average since 2000.

[chollybocker]

40. Oops. Just noticed the original source = A/P.

:eyes:

And so, to recap; the fix is in.

[Alcibiades]

41. Visit their website

Nothing but trolls, people pretending to be liberals while really being trolls, etc.

[yellowcanine]

43. I smell a big fat dead rat. This is a tea bagger disinformation campaign to explain away the

crazies who always show up at their rallies.

[progressoid]

69. Yep. And sadly, the media will push that angle too.

It'll be because the liberals made them look bad. :eyes:

[ehrnst]

44. Yep, Rovian. I smell an inside job.

Especially since the web page has "Are you a Capitalist, or are you a Socialist" hyperbole that is so teabagger.

[LeftinOH]

45. That website looks like it was slapped together in 5 minutes; it's highly suspect-

and who is this Jason Levin, exactly? I get the O'Keefe-dressed-like-a-pimp vibe just by reading this.

[HipChick]

46. Agree..+1000...Especially when the Jason Levin is supposed to own a technology firm...looks like

something slapped together in his mother basement

[Mad_Dem_X]

47. "By nonviolent means"

That's the difference between liberals and teabaggers, in a nutshell. We do not want to scare or maim or kill.

[ehrnst]

48. Jason Levin "outed" on a RW website:

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2010/04/13/guess-who-is-behind-the-crash-the-tea-parties-website/

Does anyone else have any ideas on how accurate this outing is?

[HipChick]

56. It's a plant...almost every RW site/blog has same info..

stinks high of BS...

http://www.infowars.com/tea-party-agent-provocateur-outed/

[Javaman]

49. You will know us by our correctly spelled signs.

:rofl:

[Minnesota_Lib]

50. His infiltration "plot" would require secrecy to be sucessful, yet he publizes it. I call BS.

I can see it now: all of those YouTube videos showing these morons mouthing ignorance and insanity will be followed by posts claiming the subjects are just posing as teabaggers to make the movement look bad and linking to that website and AP story as "proof." All the talking heads on Faux and elsewhere will attribute every televised teabag nutcase to this "plot"....and they have all the proof they need.

I also love the way in which this plot was hatched just last week and then Mr. Levin amazingly managed to recruit at vast network of "operatives" in every major U.S. city in a matter of days LOL! Sorry, not buying it.

This guy is either a PR guy working for rightwing corporate interests, a GOP "Rovian" dirty trickster...or a complete idiot and tool.

[laughingliberal]

82. I agree. I think it's a red herring meant to give them cover for the more idiotic displays at their

rallies.

[mstinamotorcity]

51. That line in the op-statement by Jason Levin

That's right he's an alien from outer space. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Even if it don't work, its funny as hell. I would love to be the one saying that line with a pair of thick glasses on and a walmart shopping bag with a flower skirt and a striped sweater. But even with that my suntan wouldn't fool them. I bet a lot of people could come up with a crazy line that would drive them crazy. Like his grandparents are really salmon who swam in the wrong direction during spawning season.:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[KansDem]

58. And this "news" is worthy of the Associated Press?

When did it become the "information clearinghouse" of the Teabag movement?

[Turborama]

59. And now this "trolls shifting the blame with disinformation" is spreading across YouTube

Second comment down on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUN0QoxL5-Y

Posted here in the videos forum by Joanne98: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x454759

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

61. This is stupid.

There is no need to make them "appear" to be racist. They are. I question this Levin character and wonder if this is double agent black-ops.

[jenmito]

62. Whether it's really made of "infiltrators" OR RWers, it's making the teabaggers crazy...

judging by one freeper's comment:

"People that attend should bring some zip ties and make citizen’s arrests when they see anyone getting violent or using racial slurs. Turn them over to the police immediately. It will be evident who is to blame.

If you do not, look to have a riot break out and racial slurs thrown right into the waiting arms of the MSM cameras.

Prepare for this or the Tea Party Movement is over."

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The infiltrators say they will NOT use violence. So the teabaggers may very well be "arresting" other real teabaggers. They'll be shooting themselves in the foot. Either way, a wrench has now been thrown into the teabaggers' rallies and I like it.

[HipChick]

64. I'm really hoping they start turning on themselves...

[gatorboy]

73. Soon Tea Baggers will be asking you for your "papers"

[GoCubsGo]

85. To which I would reply...

..."You first. Put up or shut up."

[Contrary1]

66. Kind of like they infiltrated and disrupted the town hall meetings...

How's it feel?

[HippieCowgirl]

68. Take your infiltration and run with it

(xposted from a similar thread)

The teabaggers are gearing up for "tax freedom day" and are holding rallies, most likely on the 17th. Check your local wingnuttery for details.

So here's what you do.

Go to the rally, just like any True Patriot would. Get other friends to go along, or meet you there.

Look for people with misspelled or racist signs.

Loudly and angrily begin denouncing them for being a liberal communist infiltrator to your group, "Out to tarnish REAL AMERICANS and the TRUTH THEY BELIVE!! You ain't one of us!! You're tryin' ta make us look like idiots! You spelled that wrong so you could get your picture in the LIBERAL PRESS so everyone will THINK WE'RE DUMB! WE AIN'T FALLIN FOR THAT NO SIREE!!"

You get bonus points for every non-friend who joins in.

[Enrique]

70. AP got punked

65 leaders in major cities my ass. It's one guy and a website, and the freepers somehow got the AP to bite on this garbage.

[fascisthunter]

75. so this is now being used as cover for their own racism

since non of them have problems with those with racist, sexist signs, I'd say they all accepted it... can't distance yourselves from this one, chumps.

[unpossibles]

77. mission accomplished?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tea_party_concerns;_ylt=AsG6KOdB4DNIUsaMVGpz6Gas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtaTgyMWU1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDE1L3VzX3RlYV9wYXJ0eV9jb25jZXJucwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzExBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawN0ZWFwYXJ0eWxlYWQ-

Look at the comments - there's already at least one claiming to have seen these "liberal" websites recruiting people to make them look bad. If it were not so transparent, it would be funnier.

[lonestarnot]

78. Wouldn't be me. Gas masks give me the heebie jeebies.

[Tailormyst]

79. It's fake. The guy "is" a RWer.