After ‘getting a lot of flack,’ Tea Party protesters rethink burning Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
After ‘getting a lot of flack,’ Tea Party protesters rethink burning Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
On Saturday, the Danville Tea Party in Virginia plans on holding a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally. The group originally boasted that it would be “burning Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy in response to the passage of landmark healthcare legislation.” Even after significant media attention and criticism, Tea Party organizer Nigel Coleman vowed on Friday to move forward with their plans. Yesterday, however, Coleman said that those plans are now “up in the air” because the group is afraid of counter-protesters:
But Coleman said Sunday that some members of his group were “uneasy” with the idea of counter-protesters and that people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent. Coleman compared the event to similar acts of protest in the nation’s history, such as opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765. [...]
“I still would like to do it,” Coleman said, “but it’s still up in the air at this point. We’ve already started stacking firewood and building the effigy …we will have a bonfire. Burning someone in effigy was just gonna be part of it.” [...]
“We were using it as a symbol of how things are similar to that (colonial) period in history,” he said. “Things have gotten out of hand … the more real we get, the more unreal it gets.”
Coleman added that the public reaction to the group’s plans has been “kinda strange.”
"We will not be going forward with the plan,” a crestfallen Coleman told me by phone moments ago. “We had to cancel it. The property owner won’t allow us to do it. The media attention was something that he didn’t want.”Coleman said he was upset that people had gotten the wrong idea about his plan. “I'm disappointed that the story got out of hand and people misinterpreted something we thought would be a little historical lesson,” he said. “They made people believe that we were committing an act of violence,” in a reference to the “liberal blogs.”
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Really?? You think? People MIGHT think the ‘Tea parties’ are violent? Promoting to burn effigies, the racist signs? The awful imagery and NOW you are worried? Sorry dude, that train left the station.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pmAfter ‘getting a lot of flack,’ Tea Party protesters rethink burning Periello and Pelosi in effigy.
They are now considering the real things ………There’s that “Compassionate Conservatism” hard at work again ……..
November 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pmWill they be wearing white robes & hoods?
If you think public reaction has been ‘kinda strange’ up to this point, just wait to see what happens at your event.
Neo-Nazis may show up with RPGs, for God’s sake.
Burning at the stake went out with the Salem witch trials, bozo.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:25 pmuh oh, teabaggers are backing down. Maybe being the biggest dicks on the planet wasn’t such a good idea eh fella’s?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:26 pm“Things have gotten out of hand … the more real we get, the more unreal it gets.”
If you can’t stand the heat, maybe you should stay home.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pmdoes anyone else find it annoying that some people are so uptight they have to plan out their emotional outbursts ahead of time.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pm….and that people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent..
Why would they ever get that idea… ? I mean – you know, besides the burning of effigies, the holocaust posters, the rifles, the way you act, talk, walk… and numerous videos we have right here on file..? Other than that.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:28 pmThe Sons of Liberty were violent. They destroyed private property, and tarred and feathered people. Thankfully, there were also colonists who supported petitions, boycotts and other peaceful methods to protest Parliament.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:29 pmI guess they don’t want to come off as extremists or something…
November 16th, 2009 at 3:29 pmMr. Coleman doesn’t know his history very well. He’s afraid that people might get the idea that his teabaggers are violent, then compares them to the Stamp Act protests. Hey, buddy, I’ve got news for you. The Stamp Act protests BECAME VIOLENT.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pmThese guys are collasping on themselves you know. Already the leaders are infighting. The ‘Tea-Baggers’ are attracting the ‘Neo-Nazi’ movement. Pretty soon, they will disolve in splitter groups. I don’t know if that is good or bad.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pmack.. P.D. you took my response – shoulda read comments first.. but there were only two when I clicked.. and I wanted to be close to the top =)
November 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pmYeah, and you might be a little more careful who you hand the microphone over to also dumbasses.
I’d be uneasy too if I were half as dumb as these hicks.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pmBut Coleman said Sunday that some members of his group were “uneasy” with the idea of counter-protesters and that people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent.
1) It’s about damn time someone start talking about the counter-protesters.
2) Might, MIGHT, mistake the tea party patriots for being violent? What’s the MIGHT crap?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pmColeman added that the public reaction to the group’s plans has been “kinda strange.”
Really? Have these people no awareness filter? Burning people in effigy seems so third worldish…
Even though I was never a fan of Bush, watching other countries burn him in effigy was disturbing. Thank goodness no one in this country had the disrespect to burn an effigy of Bush although.
For a political movement to even consider such an act seems unnecessarily violent and threatening to the safety of Periello and Pelosi.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:32 pmthey’re gonna burn Columbus instead.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:34 pmrepublicans aligned with America’s number one terror threat.
burning someone in effigy is a threat.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:34 pmSoory about the disappointment conservative guy. Maybe you can use your matches to burn down the old mill…
November 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pmlux212, LOL! Don’t worry about it. What stuns me is that these ‘Baggers’ honsetly think they are winning a PR battle. They AREN’T. I guess they watch to much Faux news, huh?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pmPerhaps they could just hurl their shoes at a poster of the Speaker of the House.
Oh, wait. then they’d have to gimp home in stocking feet…
Never mind.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:39 pmThey would look more authentic with pitchforks to go along with their torches…
November 16th, 2009 at 3:40 pmThey should do what they normally do on the weekends – burn a cross.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pmToo funny…this numbskull doesn’t get why the lynching & burning effigies of politicians might cause some people to get ‘uncomforatable’.
Jon Stewart’s material just writes itself….
November 16th, 2009 at 3:41 pmTranslation of Coleman’s statements:
We are afraid there will be more counter protesters than teabaggers which will embarrass us.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:42 pmI guess they miss the point that burning someone in effigy is what violent people do.
They’ve already been associated with violence and this is not the first time.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:43 pmColeman compared the event to similar acts of protest in the nation’s history, such as opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765.
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The Stamp Act?? THE STAMP ACT??? Is he kidding?
Opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 mostly had to do with taxation without representation (the Act was passed by a legislative body — the British Parliament — where the colonists being taxed had no representatives there).
If I’m not mistaken, every American citizen living within the borders of the country is represented in the House of Representatives — the body that passed the health care bill. If they’re trying to make an argument about how disenfranchised they are, they’ll have to be more convincing.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pmpublic reaction to the group’s plans has been “kinda strange.”
They think that people repulsed by these cretins plans is “kinda strange.”?
The stupid train just won’t let the teabaggers off.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pmBut Coleman said Sunday that some members of his group were “uneasy” with the idea of counter-protesters and that people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent.
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So — which is it? Is it that some teabaggers are saying that burning someone in effigy is vulgar, tasteless, violent, and sends the wrong message? Or is it that they’re cowards who are afraid of counter-protesters?
If it’s the latter, I guess the message is “violence is OK if we do it, but not when it’s reciprocated.”
November 16th, 2009 at 3:48 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Yeah …nobody could’ve seen *this* coming.
*eyes rolling*
November 16th, 2009 at 3:52 pm“I’m disappointed that the story got out of hand and people misinterpreted something we thought would be a little historical lesson,”
You MUST think more about what the f(ck you’re doing. Don’t see it happening. It is hysterical though!
November 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pmI’m baffled at this public. First they vote against the guy who said he didn’t know as much as he should about Economics. Second, they harrass our precious republican senators after they voted against rape victims, and now this.
Why can’t America see that my party has so much to give?
November 16th, 2009 at 3:53 pmRufus
So you think incest SEEMS like a good idea. Seriously. Seek immediate help. You are not only stupid you are seriously disturbed
November 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pmNobody could have seen this coming.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:54 pmSomeone is trying too hard again….
November 16th, 2009 at 3:55 pm“They made people believe that we were committing an act of violence,” in a reference to the “liberal blogs.”
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Um…since when is burning someone in effigy not an act of violence? Violent imagery is violence.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:55 pmWait, wrong talking point.
Let me try again …
Everybody knew what was coming down the pike. Why didn’t Baraki Obami do something?????????????????????????
November 16th, 2009 at 3:56 pmSince my party is down to a bunch of cavemen, you can’t be surprised that fire is always our solution.
November 16th, 2009 at 3:59 pmColeman’s observation that public reaction to his plans is “kinda strange” is quite revealing. Coleman does not understand the public reaction, but admits that it is significant. He is taken aback that an unanticipated public reaction has forced him to change his plans. Coleman is learning a bit more about Liberty than the conservative movement likes to acknowledge, namely that people NOT in the conservative movement have and deserve Liberty, too. The First Amendment, indeed all the Amendments and the whole Constitution, applies to everybody, not just him.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:00 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The best you can do is vote down my statement of the obvious? Wouldn’t you rather discuss it?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pmI know. It’s so hard to believe that these people could ever be mistaken as “violent.” Outrageous! lol
http://www.political-buzz.com/
November 16th, 2009 at 4:04 pmThey’re afraid that because they burn two people in effigy people might mistake them for being violent?
This comment perfectly encapsulates the IQ of the tea party people.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm*
dbadass says:
Someone is trying too hard again….
Don’t blame me, I vote him down every time he shows up.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:06 pmGuessing that the tea baggers probably realized that if the flames grew to big then they have to call for the socialist fire department. and then that means those dam cops as well.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmNothing says rational political commentary better than getting together with some friends and burning someone in effigy. Then you can all dance in the streets and fire off your AK47s while you chant about burying the Great Satan. A long established American tradition.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:07 pmI reckon getting burned in effigy by a teabagger would be quite an honor. Something to brag about, like being on Nixon’s
November 16th, 2009 at 4:09 pmenemies list, or one of Olielly’s pinheads.
“They made people believe that we were committing an act of violence,” in a reference to the “liberal blogs.”
Hey, it’s just a symbolic lynching, murder and burning of the carcas. What’s violent about that?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmWas it something I said?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pmJeez, is ‘health care for all’ soooo repugnant to these fake Christians??
These ‘tea party DEVOID OF FACTS’ people look to be the same group who lined up for hours to attend the Palin/McCain rallies, you know, THE REAL AMERICANS . .
November 16th, 2009 at 4:54 pmHARD-CORE TEA BAGGER
TEABAGGER: cutesy tech neologism: they included “teabagger” as one of their Word of the Year finalists.
According to the release, they define “teabagger” as “a person who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as ‘Tea Party’ protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773).”
Now, as a hard-core teabagger and each has there own INDEPENDENT opinion, there is no difference between all you Democratics and Republicans, one is just as crooked as the other, Graft, Greed, Corruption is the craft and trade of each party. And what have either of your parties given this country, all the jobs shipped out to China and India, under [NAFTA], a rapidly devaluing dollar, your Democratic Media Messiah President bowing to the royality of every nation on the face of the earth against US Protocal, continued Wars of Stimulus/ Blood of Oil/ Market and Resources, [70] Seventy days without talking to his Military about an on going war [Af-Pak] and then ordering them to make no public statements without his permission, while running off to Asia asking for a way out, The Japanese no longer refueling American Ships and wants all troops out of Japan, Double Digit Unemployment, and the list goes on.
The tax’s go up, the unemployment goes up, the value of the dollar goes down, the military hasn’t won a war since World War Two, and Pelosi said what [4] four years ago, elect a Democratic and we will bring the troops home, YA Right!
The only thing you Democratics and Republicans are good at is taking Wide Stances in Public Utilities, and tossing large sums of cash into freezers, and Democratics are especially good at name calling and attacking individuals but never the content of the message.
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones.
HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN
November 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pmTRIATHLON @ 51,
What I have noted in your diatribe is the blanket dismissal of the entire American system. Second, you fault the Democrats in particular for the present state of the union.
What the hell is your point?
November 16th, 2009 at 8:39 pm“…people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent”
MISTAKE??? No mistake there, you hate-filled, violence-inciting, racist, ignorant pigs.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:46 pmColeman noted the public reaction was kind of strange.
The property owner opted out of the rally because of media attention.
This is the state that elected Republicans to the top three major offices in the state government.
You may have won the election Mr. Coleman, but it appears you have assumed too much thinking the people of Virginia bought into the Republican crassness and rhetoric. It’s time your party thinks of what’s next, because this approach is turning people off.
November 16th, 2009 at 8:50 pmFLIGHT SAYS:
What I have noted in your diatribe is the blanket dismissal of the entire American system. Second, you fault the Democrats in particular for the present state of the union.
What the hell is your point
TRIATHLON REPLYS:
First of all Flight, diatribe or statements of facts, check your tone sir, and the record of the so called American System speaks volumes in lost live, and torn bodies spread across the globe which continues with each passing day.
Democratic don’t get it any worse from this Tea-Bagger than the Republican when they have the control if they don’t take there positions of leadership as servants of the people and their responsibility to this nation FIRST, and not set up SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS, above the interest of the nation.
And without using Democratic Profane Language, the point is those who throw stones shouldn’t live in a glass house, or you better look in the mirror before calling someone else ugly. Sir!
HERCURLE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN
November 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pmHARD-CORE INDEPENDENT TEA-BAGGER
TRIATHLON @ 55,
You speak in platitudes with moral indignation. In the course of 10 months you hold the Democratic Party and President Obama to a higher standard, than the Republican Party and the illustrious 8 years preceding.
The Republicans have vowed to see Obama and the Democrats fail, and they are doing everything they can to that end. Obama’s appointments have gone unfilled, majoring stonewalling in the congress and an opposition party that puts party first, the country be dammed.
The least I can do is to give Obama 3 or 4 years before I make a judgment. I have already made a judgment with regards to the Republican Party (traitors).
November 16th, 2009 at 9:32 pmI know conservatives don’t like progress or change, but c’mon, can they at least copy protests from the 20th century, rather than something from 1765? Are they that mentally lazy, or are those the good ol’ days they want to return to?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pm