Tea Party activists plan to burn Reps. Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
Tea Party activists plan to burn Reps. Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
The Danville TEA Party organization in Virginia is holding a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally next Saturday where it will be “burning Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy in response to the passage of landmark healthcare legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman said that the group’s members feel like they have “no representation in Congress.” Periello, however, met with the organization in the past. On Nov. 5, he had a conversation with several of the TEA Party members, attempting to explain his position while they talked over him:
In July, protesters also hung Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil (MD) in effigy outside his district office. (HT: Blue Virginia and Firedoglake)
These shocking and despicable acts are becoming all too common at extreme right-wing Republican rallies. Hanging Members in effigy or displaying images of Nazi concentration camps on the steps of the Capitol have no place in any debate and Republican Members of Congress must condemn these actions.
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Yeah, you guys do that. Nothing say ‘Classy’ more then burning effiges. Man, the ‘Tea-Baggers’ are truly destroying the Repug Party. Do these people think Independants and young people will respond positively to this? Oh, that’s right. They don’t THINK at all.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:06 pmYou are represented, by the MINORITY party of scum sucking fascist bigots racists and criminals.
You lost, get over it dirtbag.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pmIn counterprotest, I am going to drown a teabag in a pot of steaming hot water.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:08 pmP.D. you took the words right off my keyboard. “Classy” is the way to say it.
I think there’s something about democracy these clowns just don’t get.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:09 pmNothing like persistently acting as a bloodthirsty, irrational mob to ensure that your movement will appeal only to those who “think” solely with their reptilian brain.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:14 pmralph@4, I don’t think these people know what Democracy is. I honestly think these people are the most ignorant people on the planet. They make all Americans look bad. I ask myself, how could people like Bachman and Palin get elected? Are Americans that intellectually lazy? It makes me fear for our Country’s future. I don’t think we can go on with the Bachmans and Foxx’s and Palins’ in power.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:14 pmAnd yet in their mind it’s the progressives who are the “haters”.
There is your Cognitive Dissonance, folks.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:15 pmThey are confusing Tyranny with losing
The teabaggers are looking forward to a 28 Day Later scenario, when all government has ceased to exist and only the shattered remnants of society remain. ‘Cause then, they can keep their guns and their beliefs and no one will be around to hassle them.
Except zombies and/or people more insane than they are.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:16 pmThey’re alwaws yelling “Freedom” while endeavoring to destroy it.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:19 pmNothing says “intellectual debate” like the burning of an effigy.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pmI believe there is a troll in our mist. The vote downs are obvious.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:20 pmtea baggers are terrorists.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pmWe “real Virginians” (to coin a phrase…) consider Danville to be a part of Tennessee… Dave N.: can I get an amen on that?
November 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pmWhen are the tar, feather and hanging partys going to begin. Everyone who is sane will be rushing to associate themselves with this group. Can you say NY 23?
November 13th, 2009 at 3:22 pm.
When did outrageous displays of unpatriotic acts become acceptable?
I mean sure, vote Pelosi out. But burn her in effigy? That’s what extremists do in other countries.
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November 13th, 2009 at 3:23 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Be great if the EPA or fire dept. rained on their baggers-ball.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:24 pmNot hard to figure out the mentality they are playing to is it?
They think this is a successful strategy though. I say let them go for it.
We will follow Obama’s lead and quietly point out how little they really have to say.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:25 pmOh little vote-down lurker troll: come out of your mommy’s basement and debate in person, or get out. Your childish little vote-down tantrums really don’t work, in case you haven’t noticed…
So if you have something intelligent to say (unlikely), then have at it. And then go away, or we shall taunt you a second tahhhmmmm…
November 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pm“…no representation in Congress” The ones the voted for lost. That’s what it’s about.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pmWill the leaders of the Repug Party be there? You know Bachman and Rep. King? This is their kind of venue. All the ‘Tea Baggers’ need are some racist signs and awful immages the Holocaust and Viola! The Repug leaders will flock in droves.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:27 pmHmmmm — let me guess .. the tea partier’s chosen candidates did not win in fair elections — therefore they have “no representation.” Perhaps I’m living in bizarro world, but isn’t that the way a representative democracy is supposed to work? What is it about representative democracy that these people hate so much?
Just saying . . .
November 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pmTea-baggers: racist, sexist, terrorist pigs. Right-wing extreme terorists– arrest these creeps who want to kill Americans.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:28 pmI used to like playing with fire when I was a little kid.
But I grew up.
Unlike the teabagging right, apparently.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pmIf you play with fire, you’ll wet the bed.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:30 pmThe teabaggers are represented by the 215 no votes.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:31 pmThey just lost…..again.
OK, conservative guy, tell me how burning an effigy (a symbol of a US government official) is any different than burning a flag (a symbol of the US government)?
November 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pmThis all goes back to President Obama getting elected.
They cannot handle a black President.
Can’t wait to see a person with a “Spanish” background getting elected, and what the “American” response is to that by the teabaggers.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pmCan citizens ALSO hang and burn Bush and Cheney in effigy?
If so, counter-demonstrators should do exactly THAT.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:34 pmApparently conservative guy or his hidden friend would rather vote me down than answer my question. Coward.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:34 pmTerrorists/Teabaggers do not deserve congressional representation.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pmBe sure to ask your inbred hick of a filthy mother first.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm” Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman said that the group’s members feel like they have “no representation in Congress.”
tough tittie, teabagging traitor. from 2000-2008 i felt as if my views weren’t represented from the white house.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:36 pmconservative guy says:
“I’ll bring the matches.”
i got a “match for you dooshbag: my ass and your face.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:37 pmHang Cheney and Bush for TREASON against the USA.
Then BURN their effigies NEXT to them.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:39 pmDanville? Is that in Tennessee or North Carolina? Tom Perriello is the best thing that’s happened to that backwater hick town. Virgil Goode (ex-ConservaDem turned RebubliScum) was run out on a rail.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:39 pmSo…how long will it be before some wingnut conservative terrorist throws gasoline on a Democrat somewhere and lights them on fire – for real???
This shit scares me.
Oh – and speaking of scaring people, isn’t that exactly what TERRORISTS do?
November 13th, 2009 at 3:39 pmI do not understand all this chaos. I do not understand why a group of people hate so much…so much that they would defy our democracy. Barack Obama won the election by a majority of people. What is about “majority” that these people do not understand?
It’s almost scary to think they could win and what our lives would be like.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian says:
In counterprotest, I am going to drown a teabag in a pot of steaming hot water.
SNORT!! At least I was drinking water this time and not orange juice.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:44 pmIgnoranceIsNotBliss says:
I apologize. Maybe TP needs to have special warning format button to protect against such occurrances. Without the humor of TP, the political landscape would be much more unbearable.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:47 pmso, the teabagging filth feel like they don’t have representation in washington? perhaps they should form their own party and funnel off votes from the repukeliscums. yeah, that’s the ticket…
November 13th, 2009 at 3:47 pmconservative guy must be conserving his brain cells for his next barely intelligible post. I guess it’s asking too much for an actual conversation, to say nothing of a debate.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pmYou can’t debate stupid.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pmi hope the department of homeland security has started extensive files on these domestic terrorists.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:52 pmYou have representation in Congress. His name is Tom Perriello. He got the majority of the votes in your district. You don’t like it? Vote him out next November. That’s how democracy works, ‘necks.
People who don’t have representation are the citizens of Washington, DC – they are the ones who should be up in arms.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:52 pmIf you’re looking for a little fun with trolls, aaronk is performing on the thinkfast thread.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:54 pmRepublicans Burning Effigies. How ‘Middle East’ of them.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:54 pmMaybe the We Party (the party of us) needs to do something as dramatic, such as
November 13th, 2009 at 3:55 pmpublic spankings of dummies representing Cantor, Bachman, Bush, Gingrich and others
They’re right, they have no representation in Congress. The Dems and GOP are the servants of Big Pharma, Federal Reserve Bank owners, The Military-Industrial Complex.
How may Dennis Kuchinich’s are there? Not many. There are only a few Ron Paul’s, Mike Gravel’s, Cynthia McKinney’s, the Senate and all our Presidents since JFK have been in the pocket of the Bilderbergers, Trilaterals and CFR goons.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:56 pmroboticus says: You can’t debate stupid
You can, but it’s kind of like that commercial where the little girl only has a small rectangle in which to ride the test bicycle.
November 13th, 2009 at 3:56 pm“Fired up for Bush/GOP fascism,” more likely…
Calling these brain-less morons “reptilian” is truly an insult to snakes and lizards everywhere…
O/T: Talk about screaming? Listen to the right-wing chicken-hawks and imperial bullies take fright at the notion of holding criminal trials for accused terrasts on the mainland US. Why, they’ve morphed their bullying selves into frightened little powder puffs…
November 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pmWhat a truly pathetic spectacle…
The teabaggers have better representation than anyone else in the world:
November 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pm35,000 corporate lobbyists in Washington, with the same agenda.
Odd that you didn’t mention Obama, Biden or Ted Kennedy.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pmHow do we teach these people who think education is a vast left wing conspiracy that ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. When your side loses you don’t get to take seats back because you’re angry.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:04 pmThe teabaggers are anarchists who have decided that what they cannot achieve by the ballot, they will destroy by intimidation. The best thing that could happen is for a lot of teabaggers run for office in 2010. When a good number of the candidates lose, the teabaggers will lose many supporters and disappear as a political force. Meanwhile, they are destroying the Republican party whose leaders still believe they can control these people. The Dems, if they can get it together, need to capitalize on this opportunity.
November 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pmLet them have their fun burning them in effigy…Then arrest them for arson!!
November 13th, 2009 at 4:33 pmAs one of Periello’s constituents, that’s absolutely disgusting to me! Tom isn’t a Waxman but is definitely more independent and conscientious than the know-nothing Blue Dogs. And with the Bachmann-Beck campaign of dehumanizing of democratically elected lawmakers, protesters bringing weapons to rallies and dangerously loose seditious and inflammatory rhetoric at tea parties, I fret to think what’ll happen if the fuse stays lit.
November 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pmThe police and fire departments will NOT be happy about that.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pmPatrioticLiberal is an oxymoron.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:42 pmWhine, whine, whine. You have no representation in Congress because you keep sending anal-retentive, backwards, mouth-breathers to represent you. And you’ll keep doing it because you’re incapable of learning that anti-immigration, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-anything is not a reason to vote for a politician.
November 13th, 2009 at 6:43 pmYou paid with your votes, so suck it up, buttercups. You wanted your lipstick-on-a-pig and tanning-bed politicians in Congress. Now you’ve got ‘em, do deal with it.
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And U.S.MARSHALS and local POLICE MUST begin to ARREST the mobsters, on suspicion of inciting riot.
And organize now preparations to ARREST said-and-certain broadcast personality PROGRAMMERS while they are on-air, for the same suspicion of inciting mass riot.
Hold them for questioning overnight and release them the next day no charges filed.
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Which is all sort of s.o.p. at all times and places except when the U.S.Marshals and local Police are rightwing-bent anti-democracy goons, as their inaction and mute objection so exhibits they are.
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November 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pmHave you ever watches repoters ask simple questions of these band of morans teabaggers and get some of the stupid remarks from then most do not know it,s being controled by phoney fake companeys who supply money and buses and there to stupid to know better.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:34 pmI’m surprised they’re not going to gang rape and torture these effigys, because isn’t that what the right wing fringe (conservatives) support? Shocking that they’re choosing burning instead…
November 13th, 2009 at 8:34 pmI think this is hilarious. Maybe with a little bit of voodoo Nancy Pelosi might end up being bar-b-qued in her bed tomorrow. She would look better.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:09 pmConservaTROLL
Why havent you killed yourself yet PUNK? Save all those who would be tortured by being in your putrid presence the pain and just go kill yourself
November 14th, 2009 at 12:23 amConservaTROLL
Conservative=TRAITOR. Just kill yourself punk
November 14th, 2009 at 12:24 amAlan
Just join ConservaTROLL and kill yourself. The WORLD will be a lot better once YOU arent in it anymore
November 14th, 2009 at 12:25 amRemember MoveOn.org’s Patraeus/Betray Us ad. That was meek compared to the shit the repubs are pulling not. But, do you also remember how many so called Democratic legislators voted to approve the condemning resolution slamming MoveOn.org.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MoveOn_and_the_U.S._Congress
Now that was a fascist moment for the U.S. of A!
November 14th, 2009 at 12:45 amThese tea party activists are nothing more than ugly sore losers. Fortunately, what ugliness and dispicable acts they do will only come back to them, that is Karma’s law.
November 14th, 2009 at 8:48 amThought I peek in to see if conservative guy responded to my question. No, but he did find time to post that my screen name is an oxymoron – like that’s an original comment! And like he has the market on patriotism!
November 14th, 2009 at 11:10 amOn this matter we can be almost sure what George Washington would say.
I remember clearly that two things Washinton forbid his troops from doing at least two things
1) being openly gay.
2) burning guy fawkes in effigy.
So there you have it Washington would be against the teabaggers.
November 14th, 2009 at 1:39 pmI felt like I lacked representation in Washington during all the Bush years. And Ronald Reagan “the teflon man” made me sick with his Reaganomics, demonization of government, the unions and the poor. I know how the tea baggers feel!! I was motivated to get involved in local, state and federal elections. I had to put up with Gov. Bob Ehrlich (r) and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (r) for 4 years. The damage they did to my state is still being cleaned up. So, the teabaggers are just bullies and real cowards. They don’t want to work for change, they want to give FOX, the Becks and Limbaughs ammunition to spew hatred. Acutally, it is becoming almost a badge of honor to be pilloried by the teabaggers. Perhaps, we dems need to find a way to “praise” those who are attacked.
November 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pmWhy don’t we come up with an award for the dems pilloried. Remember a time when a Senator used to award “wasteful” government programs with a FICKLE FINGER. I think we need a ” Brass Balls” award for dems and others who have the courage to do the right thing. I nominate Senator Bernie Sanders for the first Brass Balls award.
November 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pmNo doubt these guys are idiots, but who gives an f*? Last time I checked, I didn’t have a physical/mental attachment to a cardboard box with a face on it. Burning crap is ridiculous, but burn it if you want to burn it. It dosn’t matter if it’s Pelosi, Perriello, Bush, Hitler, Jesus, American Flag, etc..
End Result = They’re still morons. Queue chuckle and head shake.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:56 am