When Lefties Stalk
I posted a couple of days back about a man who entered the home of a complete stranger and assaulted him and his roommates. The attacker did so because one of the occupants of the house was a Republican. The man got the address off of Facebook, apparently. Michelle Malkin Has heard from one of the victims of the assault. And guess what?
The attacker wasn't a conservative.
At this point, Stone politely stood up, shook my hand, and told me that he had found my address on facebook. He asked if I was a College Republican as it said on my account, I told him yes. He then asked me "Oh, so that means you support the war, right?" and I responded with a yes. He then said that since I was for the war, if I was interested in signing up for the army. At this point I was sure he was a recruiter, and I told him that I'd definitely look into it as soon as I graduate (I'm a junior political science/econ major right now at UMW). This is where something changed in his eyes and he started getting aggressive. He took a step towards me and said that I support the war, yet don't want to fight in it.
At this point my roommate, Matt, stepped into the room and told him he was being disrespectful, and that it was time to leave. I told Matt that I could handle the guy (I've gotten into debates like this before). Stone responded to Matt by saying that "I'm not done talking to your roommate, he's a pussy and can't back up anything he believes in". At this point I, not politely, told him to leave our house. He refused, saying he was not done talking with us. He threw the military literature he had at me, which turned out to be United States Air Force literature. He said that I would never make it in the army and that was why he brought over USAF literature (implying he came over in a sinister manner–not only have I never seen/spoken to him before, but what if I had said that I had wanted to join up, right then and there? Oops, take this Air Force literature…).
My roommate Matt pushed Stone's shoulder towards the door at this point, and the second that happened Stone swung and struck Matt in the side of the head. Both exchanged several punches to the face/body and then I jumped in, throwing them both onto our couch. My other roommate called the police while both Matt and I tried to restrain him on the couch, but he kept hitting us. Both of us were yelling at him to leave, but he kept screaming that he wanted to fight us one on one like men, that we're "pussies" for not being in Iraq, and that we're hypocrites. He going crazy. Both of us struck him several times while he was on the couch. We finally dragged him off of the couch and forcibly pushed him out of the door. He then forced his way back into the house, where he struck Matt several more times. We both pushed him outside and went outside with him, where he would not leave our porch, and he continued to strike us both. Matt ended up pushing him over the railing, but fell along with him face first, with Stone holding onto my right arm as he did so.
Please take a look at some of the posts Stone put up recently Malkin has them, I won't post that language on this site). He is over-the-edge deranged at Republicans in general and mirrors - exactly - the extreme rhetoric of the left. But he also acts on it. This is the danger of that kind of hysterical incitement. Seriously, some folks better start dialing it back or incidents like this will get worse.
By John F. Opie, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 1:45 pm
Hi -
You don’t understand: this is EXACTLY what the folks agitating want. They want blind, unreasoning rage, it’s the perfect political tool for them to advance their agenda.
And this could be a page out of one of the classic agitprop books from the late 1960s: enrage your populace with lies and agitation, channel the released energies, control the anger and it will take you very, very far indeed.
Watch for the coming presidential elections: there will be a re-enactment of the “Days of rage” that made such a mess of the Chicago convention.
This is just the start.
By cfaller96, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 3:00 pm
If this story is true, then I condemn this man’s actions. You are right, Gaius, our country doesn’t need this.
I take offense at the idea, however, that this man is representative of the left, or that he “mirrors the rhetoric of the extreme left.” Gaius, you’ve tolerated my drop-ins over the past few months- have you seen me engage in this type of crap? Come on. Just because one lefty looneytoon loses it on some chickenhawks, doesn’t mean we’re all “coming to get you.”
There are nutballs on the Net, just like there are nutballs on the street. And these nutballs represent all points on the spectrum. Best for all of us to disavow them and disengage from them.
By Polimom, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 3:24 pm
I have to agree with CFaller — this world we’re living in is clearly studded here and there with highly suggestible nuts, but the incitement comes from both extremes.
I also wholly agree with this:
That is my primary problem with
this politically charged viper pit we’re dwelling inthe tone of the political blogosphere.By jdawg, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 3:28 pm
I hate to break this to you, but it is far more common among the left than anyone realizes. The MSM doesn’t report on it, because it would put liberals in a bad light, and, well, we all know the MSM couldn’t have that. Check out this page:
http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/003801.htm
and then do a little research on your own. The libs are pushing this violence, and one day, it will explode in their faces. Literally.
By Gaius, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 4:03 pm
cfaller,
The reason you comment here is because you are not engaging in this kind of insanity. There are a number of very bad examples of the extreme rhetoric out there. You should know I don’t mean everyone.
By cfaller96, Thursday, 22 February , 2007 @ 5:49 pm
Fair enough, Gaius, but then I invite you to ignore the nutballs, and engage the reasonable ones (i.e. don’t post about what’s his name, post about somebody else). After all, there’s no reasoning with a crazy person, so why waste your time?
And JDawg, there are crazy people on both sides. If you want to make a judgment about a side’s rhetoric in general, then you must start by looking at what the leaders of each side are saying, and go from there. I don’t think any of us really want to do that.
Trust me, you do not want to start comparing the rhetoric of, say, Michelle Malkin, Glen Reynolds, and Ann Coulter against Markos, Glenn Greenwald, and Al Franken. Let’s just not go there, ok? Otherwise, we’ll just resort to throwing pies at each other, and that’s not productive.
I disagree with Gaius on just about everything, but I try (I really try) to keep it polite. Otherwise, what’s the point? We’re all in this together, so we might as well work towards figuring out how to get along…