They had their protest tables on Bainbridge Island's Town & Country market last Saturday. They were baiting motorists by yelling "Shame on you!" as their troll tactic. Annoying fucks. I bet they also have big Romney photos with Hitler mustaches ready just in case he becomes president.
@8: You called it. The LaRouchies are dickheads, but as I commented on another thread I have friends in the Midwest whose pro-Democrat yard signs have been removed or vandalized in the past, and who get shit from some of their neighbors just for having them.
Hateful as the Obama/Hitler crap is - and the lady's age and surname make me wonder if she doesn't have a little more personal opinion about that fucking little moustache - tearing it down from private property is a no-go.
They used to hang out at the post office on 145th and Aurora. I got into it with them more than once, but the best thing I ever saw was the elderly Jewish gentleman with his concentration camp numbers on his arm berate them over their signs and shoving those numbers in their faces.
Yeah, unfortunately, what @5 said is true. I saw a couple larouchebags outside the Admiral Safeway just yesterday. Not sure why they moved from the West Seattle post office to there. I wish they would at least have the decency to scum up the Eastside instead of actual Seattle...
While I disagree with the LaRouchies, I find their Obama/Hitler imagery far less infuriating than the fawning, unconditional support Obama gets from so-called progressives. "Obama's our guy! Pay no attention to the extrajudicial executions, indefinite detention, remote-control slaughter of civilians in Pakistan, extraordinary rendition (i.e. outsourced torture), torture of Bradley Manning, aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers, prosecution of child soldiers, oil drilling in the Arctic, crackdowns on medical marijuana (he won't prosecute torturers, but he will prosecute those who try to relieve people's suffering), etc." Obama may not be as bad as Hitler, but he is a repulsive piece of exreme-right-wing shit. In Pakistan, the latest tactic is to launch a drone strike, wait for rescuers and loved ones to come to the aid of the injured and dying, and then launch another strike, killing the rescuers (this seems to have been borrowed from "Mockingjay"). If you oppose Dick Cheney but support Obama, you are a supporter of hypocrisy, because the only difference between Cheney and Obama is that Cheney is far less of a hypocrite. Given Obama's hatred for civil liberties, I guess it's not surprising that his supporters would celebrate an assault on the LaRouchies' freedom of speech.
I don't often say it, but I really wish Paul was liking this ironically.
There is nothing cool about crapping on another person's free speech. Yes, these people suck. Shout them down. Show them how they are wrong. Destroying their signs is below even their level.
@14 thats a complex statement, with a complex reply due. I dont have the time at the moment. In short though, while I do not disagree with your assessment, it is also true that in so many other ways Obama is not as whole-heartedly evil as the Republicans.
sheesh... what is this with you americans and your misconception of what free speech is, free speech means you have the right to say what you want and the government shouldt infinge on that. i as an individual though reserve every right to be offended and kick you in the nuts for what you say or do. i dont care what you say about obama but like #10 also noticed i think this lady and I share a special opinon about these godwin'ing assholes.
and @ 17, dont call larouchies communists, you clearly have no clue what a communist looks like, larouchies are nothing more than a conspiracy nut libertarianism meets personality cult now a days
They set up at 23rd and Jackson by my apartment a few times in the spring/early summer. Then one day there was a fistfight over it. Took the police like an hour to sort the whole mess out.
What would be awesome would be to get some big-ass photos of Larouche himself, and Hitlerize him with a little mustache... Wear two of these front-n-back like signboards, and march up and down and all around the LaRoucheDouches whenever and wherever they set up shop.... It would be an outlay of a bit of cash, and would take some commitment, but man...
How awesome would that be, having 3 or 4 folks hurling that shit right back at them, confronting them with giant pics of their idol, Hitlerized....
@25: Even better: we go protest some neo-Nazis with that tactic. Oh wait.
My conservative friend once insisted to me that the Tea Party doesn't have a racism problem. According to him, the people with "Obongo" signs are all just LaRouchies hanging out with the Teabaggers.
I think Ms. Lack's actions here are an understandable act of civil disobedience. Hitlerizing somebody could even conceivably fall under "fighting words" doctrine.
who pee'd on monorail's cornflakes? must have been one o them pot smokin' hippies, cause HOO-WEE that poor boy HATES the Obama and LOVES hime some hitler-stache!
Sure, ya, the LaRouchies are idiots, but what is so awesome about using the violence of forced theft against them? Is that really the best we can fucking do? Are they really even worth it.
What the fuck is hard about giving everyone the freedom to believe what they want and share it with others. Personally I'd rather the left not do the same damn thing they accuse the right of doing.
Yes, [LaRouche supporters] suck. Shout them down. Show them how they are wrong.
@16: First, they'd have to be capable of actually forming a coherent thought and listening to reason. If they were capable of either, they wouldn't be supporting Lyndon LaRouche.
A difference between this lady and the goobers who generally steal or deface signs: She took her lumps for it. She dared them to find her, got arrested, and didn't whine about it. She accepted the consequences of her actions and didn't run away and hide like a coward.
Two points here.
First, Dutchie is absolutely wrong about the nature of The Roach's cult. It started out back in the sixties as one variety of socialist, then for a while they claimed to be Democrats and ran in their primaries. There is no connection, and never has been, to the Libertarian Party. I've known of them since the late sixties, and have been a member of the LP since the early seventies, so I know this as a fact.
Second, the Larouchies -- idiots that they are --have the same rights as anyone else. The Government cannot suppress their otherwise lawful speech, and if some citizen tries illegal ways of opposing them, they can expect to be arrested. Ms Lack's action was understandable, but illegal. Dutchie's reaction is understandable, but again he is wrong. While he has every right to be offended, he has NO "right" to commit assault and battery, no more than the Taliban had a "right" to shoot a schoolgirl because they disagreed with what she said.
Poor West Seattle ...
Seriously, almost as annoying as Randites.
Hateful as the Obama/Hitler crap is - and the lady's age and surname make me wonder if she doesn't have a little more personal opinion about that fucking little moustache - tearing it down from private property is a no-go.
Never see them in Utah though....
There is nothing cool about crapping on another person's free speech. Yes, these people suck. Shout them down. Show them how they are wrong. Destroying their signs is below even their level.
THIS
I hate LaDouchies as much as the next guy, they are communist after all, but both Obama and Romney are selling this nation down the drain.
I haven't seen them since.
How awesome would that be, having 3 or 4 folks hurling that shit right back at them, confronting them with giant pics of their idol, Hitlerized....
I doubt they'd be able to restrain themselves!
My conservative friend once insisted to me that the Tea Party doesn't have a racism problem. According to him, the people with "Obongo" signs are all just LaRouchies hanging out with the Teabaggers.
Meh
Filth is filth
POOR LAROUCHIES, BOO-HOO!
What the fuck is hard about giving everyone the freedom to believe what they want and share it with others. Personally I'd rather the left not do the same damn thing they accuse the right of doing.
Try this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch…
And this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch…
Oh, and your pretentiousness is showing.
Paul says it's awesome!!!
@16: First, they'd have to be capable of actually forming a coherent thought and listening to reason. If they were capable of either, they wouldn't be supporting Lyndon LaRouche.
I once took all the reading material on a Larouchebag's table and threw it in the busy street.
Fuck these cultists.
First, Dutchie is absolutely wrong about the nature of The Roach's cult. It started out back in the sixties as one variety of socialist, then for a while they claimed to be Democrats and ran in their primaries. There is no connection, and never has been, to the Libertarian Party. I've known of them since the late sixties, and have been a member of the LP since the early seventies, so I know this as a fact.
Second, the Larouchies -- idiots that they are --have the same rights as anyone else. The Government cannot suppress their otherwise lawful speech, and if some citizen tries illegal ways of opposing them, they can expect to be arrested. Ms Lack's action was understandable, but illegal. Dutchie's reaction is understandable, but again he is wrong. While he has every right to be offended, he has NO "right" to commit assault and battery, no more than the Taliban had a "right" to shoot a schoolgirl because they disagreed with what she said.