Terran Franklin

I seen this come out of the Post-Dispatch site:

UPDATE: St. Louis County police say six people were arrested. Two of those were arrested on suspicion of assault, one of resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. Carnahan was gone when the ruckus started.

Kenneth Gladney, a 38-year-old conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the emergency room of the St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, where he said he was waiting to be treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face that he suffered in the attack. Gladney, who is black, said one of his attackers, also a black man, used a racial slur against him before the attack started.

“It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” he said.

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I’m particularly curious over the list of people who were arrested, outside of the Post Dispatch reporter.  Especially if the person who slurred and then assaulted Mr. Gladney is among the list.  If those five were all the troublemakers from the Acorn camps, then the cops were definitely serving the public, pepper spray notwistanding.

But that doesn’t alleviate the problem we have with all the partisan bickering.  It is not a recent trend for an grassroots efforts to be squashed by the two political parties trashing each other at such volumne that the people in the middle, the citizens of America of all stripes of life that are in these Tea Parties and 9-12 movements, get drowned out and pressed back to their bradaljina and brittiany stories.

(Why am I thinking that somebody intentionally OD’ed Michael Jackson just so they can have three weeks of the King of Pop reports to steer the public away from their so-called ‘Health Care Reform’ and their ‘Wise Latina’ Justice (which is so full of Fail, if you see her record) as if we were such sheeple?  It reeks of a wacko conspiracy theory but it did cross my mind.)

<mantra>Never blame malice when stupidity is more applicable</mantra>

Reference:  Violence Erupts at Rep. Castor’s Health Care Town Hall in Tampa, Florida

Snippits:

As Rep. Kathy Castor was introduced, the reaction was overwhelmingly against her, with boos and chants of “You work for us.” And in the lobby, the counter of Planned Parenthood representatives shouting, “Healthcare Now.”

Shortly thereafter, violence erupted, where there were 2-3 big goons came out and started pushing those in line, and roughing up one in the corner (see top left screen) as well as another being put in a choke hold. Directly in front of the gentleman in the plaid type shirt, is one of them in a flower print. (eleven o’clock from the camera phone in the scene.) To right of the phone, another in a white shirt. Keep your eye on him, as he then goes for the choke hold on one of the people.

Deep in the corner of your upper left screen, there’s a gentleman in a green shirt, whose is getting roughed up, as these two are pushing others. A police officer enters the seen, (Dark blue uniform, short, and a black officer.) You still see the gentleman getting roughed up. The cop not doing anything. They then let the guy go, as they slam the door shut. Later in the video, you see the officer conversing with the gentleman who got roughed. After a brief description from myself, the cop walks away.

Truthiness say that this is just a slight rumble before the big explosion.  I hate it when I’m right about these things, and I hate it even worse when I’m proven right in advance.

This is getting scary.

This just came from YouTube recently, about a so called Town Hall in the St. Louis Area.

Question:  When is a Town Hall, not a Town Hall?

Answer:  When they don’t allow the public in and only allow people who are a combination of Goosesteepers and Yes Men in.

Carnahan and the other congressmen—both Democrats and Republicans—are no longer listening to the people they will later demand their vote.  And this isn’t an isolated incident, There’s a multitude of this massive discounting of the people all throughout the country.  Folks, this is a dangerous thing.  There’s going to be a riot over all this eventually.  You can’t just put people who don’t agree with you—who aren’t being assholes about it, play the next video to see what I mean…

…And compare it to this video, where you have real life version of Internet Trolls…

…and keep in mind the difference—and publicly dismiss them as fringe, fake, and puppets.  This king of anti-debating is not going to end well, folks, and I don’t want to be anywhere near grown zero when things start getting ugly.

Another watchdog topic I’m claiming is something that hits very close to home for me, Internet Harassment or Cyberbullying.  As someone who’s famous “without having anything really positive being said about him” (According to TV Tropes.com) I had more than my share of trolls and sites who seem to get their enjoyment out of life at my expense.  And I’m apparently not alone on this, which is why Lori Drew deserved every ounce of backlash, denigration, and ostracization for driving Megan Meier to suicide with her fake Myspace page.

Now someone actually hired this psycho hose beast and she’s asking legal permission to use the internet, again?!

Just like with that bank that fired their hero teller, I wouldn’t go to the business who has the ‘brains’ to give this bitch a job.  Especially with her rep.  Who knows who she’ll drive to kill next. Lori Drew should never be allowed to touch a computer ever again, much less one that’s connected to anything beyond a mouse and keyboard.

Every now and then I’m reminded of a little project i planned on doing, which I’ve entitled “So Not Teh Draema.”  It’s an counter-cyberbullying guidebook written by someone who pretty much understands what it is to be cyberbullied at levels above and beyond the pale.  I especially will focus on how to keep the assholes at arms length and to make sure that sites like Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, or even—please excuse me here—TV Tropes from commandeering public opinion of yourself.  (Hint:  Learn how to effectively block and hide flames, and have a business card-like web page with a yourname.com style domain.)

I haven’t really started on this book yet, mainly because I have other projects way ahead on it.  It’s something I do intend on writing because I feel it’s needed in this day and age.  I especially want to encourage the other Megan Meiers of the world and tell them that there is still hope, that the trolls do not have the monopoly on your image, especially your self-image, and that there are people out there who will not believe the same thing as the bitch who’s demanding that you should become an hero.

And before you ask, the grammatical error is intentional.

This sort of shit pisses me off to no end:  http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/bank.teller.stops.robber/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

If you’d remember what I written down on the remixed Nine Principles, I changed the idea of “If you do the crime you do the time” to a karmatic “Whatever you do, for good or for ill, comes back to you in kind.”  If you do bad, bad things happen, evil is punished.  I also added something I doubt Glenn thought of until he sees something like this:  If you do good, you should be rewarded.

Seeing someone losing their job because they took the chance to stop a robber or shoplifter really raises my ire.  It should be the topic I’d be watchdogging.  That banker should be given a medal but now he’s getting unemployment checks and will be called a fucking worthless parasite by the very bank that employed him until recently.  Those kind of businesses don’t get my business, and I’d love it if everyone in Key Bank in Seattle just cancels all their accounts in masse.

Just like I said, nothing can be more damning to a person than the thought that they might get in trouble for doing a good deed.  Trouble by their employer, trouble in the courts, trouble by the police, it’s just wrong.  Not only does it show that the world is run by an hyper-litigious cadre of lawyers that I doubt bleed red when you cut them, (They probably ooze out black tar while dragging you to court and ripping everything you’ve ever owned from you, including clothes and body hair, and quite possibly organs—God, I wish I was making this up.) but we already have societies in America where such a trend is the rule and not an exception:  Connecticut.  Where you can get run over by a speeder and people would just leave you to die.  And maybe you’ll get lucky and some yackoff’ll snap a picture of your dying moments on their cell phone and post it to the tubes.

I ask you, if this the kind of world you’d want to be in?  A world where if you help someone, you catch holy hell?  Heck, I’d rather go on welfare then work for someone who fires their heroes instead of pinning metals on them to the applause of the people they saved.  Company Policies be damned.