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Snipers and Riot Police Confront Tea Party Protesters in Quincy

[Updates at the bottom of this post as of 4-29-2010 at 8:24pm]

Apparently President Obama is doing his best to paint the Tea Party movement as a group of extremists and racists.

Witness the video below as an army of riot police in full riot gear and snipers on rooftops wield their weapons to intimidate the Tea Party protesters.

Apparently 80 year-old grandmothers holding Rosaries have unnerved our dear leader that he felt the need to bring in extra protection.

At least the peaceful protesters against the new Arizona immigration law are shining examples of democracy on display!

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(Biretta tip: Jim Hoft of Big Government)

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Update I: What’s behind the anti-tea party hate stories?  Byron York of the Detroit News points to the Southern Poverty Law Center of ‘crying wolf’ one too many times.

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Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:33pm

[…] (Cross-posted at The American Catholic) […]

Donald R. McClarey
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Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:37pm

You never know when those grannies might go berserk!

Eric Brown
Eric Brown
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:50pm

Well not adherents of this new Tea Party is racist or extremists; indeed, I’d argue that the majority are not. But I have seen signs bearing the “n” word (which was humorously misspelled) as well as other strong racial remarks.

In the same way, the activity at protests against the Arizona immigration law does not characterize everyone who opposes it.

Every group has its extremists.

Phillip
Phillip
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:56pm

“You never know when those grannies might go berserk!”

Now you’re granny profiling. Shame.

Tito Edwards
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:58pm

Eric,

I don’t have cable so I rely on rabbit ear television and what I saw in my old hometown of Phoenix was a riot.

Rocks and all sorts of debris being thrown by hooded delinquents unnerved me.

Yes there are extremists on both sides, but the coverage is disproportionate to what is actually happening on the ground.

Especially when there have yet to have any ‘racist’ verbiage captured on audio or video tape from the ObamaCare protests outside the capitol a few weeks ago.

Tito Edwards
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 3:58pm

Donald,

You’re nothing more than an anti-grannite!

Jim
Jim
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 4:32pm

Scrolling Byline – – – Tense moment at the White House this morning when Obama daughters discovered having a tea party in their room

Karen
Karen
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 4:50pm

Jim,

You’re funny . . .

Elaine Krewer
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Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 7:02pm

Before you all get bent out of shape — I was at Obama’s announcement of his presidential run at the Old State Capitol in Springfield in 2007 (at the request of a newspaper I used to work for, to cover the event) and there were plenty of snipers on rooftops then too.

Now bear in mind that was a highly friendly crowd — not tea partiers, no visible opposition outside of a few pro-life protesters — and Obama wasn’t even president yet (just a candidate), although at that point he became entitled to Secret Service protection. This is probably routine at ANY large event he attends with crowds outdoors.

Paul Primavera
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 7:48pm

Elaine,

I hope you’re right. BUT the guilty start to get scared when their sins are brought to the light of day and that is exactly what the Tea Partiers are doing to Obamolech.

Tito Edwards
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 8:20pm

Elaine,

I also hope you’re right, but I don’t remember seeing riot police in Portland protecting President ‘W’ when his own limousine was attacked by leftist wingnuts.

So until I get hard evidence, ie, I”ll believe it when I see it, then it isn’t true.

President Obama is inane enough to do this and has no compulsion to the expense he will incur.

Considering his romp to New York on the government dime after inauguration for a “dinner” with his wife and his one and a half day foray to Copenhagen on the government dime, he wouldn’t hesitate to pull these kind of stunts hoping to provoke tea partiers if cost is any consideration.

Robert
Robert
Thursday, April 29, AD 2010 11:05pm

Jim I am going to use that one for sure – hahah!

But I mean seriously… snipers? At a tea party? For what? Sheesh…

Donald R. McClarey
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Friday, April 30, AD 2010 6:21am

The Quincy Police Department has issued a CYA statement (Commentary by Gateway Pundit):

Oops! The Quincy Police Department released a bogus statement calling the SWAT Team on the the protesting grandmothers yesterday. Unfortunately, they forgot about the army of videographers that filmed this incident.

The Quincy Police Department released a statement today following the embarrassing incident yesterday when they called in the SWAT squad to quash the peaceful tea party protest outside the convention center during Barack Obama’s visit.

During President Obama’s address, at approximately 1530 hours, the MFFT was deployed. A group of individuals positioned themselves on the south side of York Street near 3rd Street. This was within the area that was to be kept secure at the request of the U. S. Secret Service agents in charge of the site. Prior to the event only ticketed individuals were to be in this area; during the event it was restricted to the general public completely. Secret Service personnel requested these individuals leave the area and to go back to the north side of York Street. They did not comply. Quincy Police Department personnel made the same requests and again they did not comply. At that time the MFFT was deployed to stand post between the individuals and the site and, if necessary, remove the individuals. Once the MFFT was in place, the individuals agreed to move. Once everyone complied and the site was again secure, the MFFT returned to their staging point. No physical force was used during this deployment.

Of course, this ludicrous statement is a complete fabrication. We are currently contacting the police department to retract their statement.
We strongly object to these points.

1. Prior to the event only ticketed individuals were to be in this area; during the event it was restricted to the general public completely.
From the videos below it is clear that the restricted area was not roped off or marked as restricted. The protesters repeatedly checked with the police to make sure that they were not being disruptive.

2. “Secret Service personnel requested these individuals leave the area and to go back to the north side of York Street. They did not comply.”
We have at least three videos below that prove that the protesters asked and double-checked with the police to make sure we were following orders.

3. “Once the MFFT was in place, the individuals agreed to move.”
Once again the video shows that we were already moving from the corner to the middle of York Street before the MFFT marched into place.

The first video produced by Adam Sharp shows Adam checking and double-checking with the police to make sure that we are in the correct area. You’ll also notice that Adam was polite at all times.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/04/oops-quincy-pd-releases-bogus-statement-lashes-out-at-violent-granma-protesters-forgets-about-army-of-videographers/

What happened here is that the Quincy Police Department hugely overreacted and went into full Barney Fife mode. Ludicrous.

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