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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Here's a Charming Souvenir of the Reston Town Hall

posted on windshields at town hall mtg.jpg


A number of people left last night's polite and information-packed "town hall" meeting in Reston to find these stuffed under their car windshields. We've cropped out the URL at the bottom to avoid giving these folks any more attention than they deserve.

15 comments:

  1. So... am I allowed to call the people behind this flyer -- idiots... or, must I just agree to disagree with their opinions...

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  2. Could be the same group that gave us this.

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  3. yup -- guess freedoms of expression are key here... I may not like them, but this is America

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  4. NO! Freedom of expression only means the the GOVERNMENT can't pass a law to shut them up. You, as a private citizen, can tell them to shove themselves and their "opinions" without violating a thing, in as colorful language as you like as often as you feel like it.

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  5. well, be careful... using profanity in public, is breaking the law in VA... but, yes, technically, you are correct...

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  6. motherfuckers. If bush was still in office he would have the people who created this rounded up and sent to gitmo-- it is was W's head. and he wasn't on vacation.

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  7. A typical leftist trope. Right out of отдел агитации и пропаганды, the old Soviet Department for Agitation and Propaganda. William Ayers (who co-wrote Dreams from My Father) has some of this in his Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism.

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  8. Anonymous 6:13 -- so was that a good thing for Bush to round them up and send them to Gitmo? I mean, they're insulting Obama...don't liberals want that avenged? My understanding reading the average Reston residents' rant is that it's okay to trash Bush but that Obama is untouchable.

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  9. I don't care what you want to rant on -- your right (or left :O) ), just don't infringe on my personal space or leave physical propaganda on my personal property...

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  10. I'm sure that none of them wear US Flag lapel pins. In all of the pictures that I've seen it would seem thay only Democrats do that.

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  11. Anonymous 8:18 Cite please? You are full of misinformation. Did Rush Limbaugh tell you that about Ayers in between bouts of Oxycontin induced stupors?

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  12. Here's the funny thing about this... the URL that was on these flyers is actually for a blog that's critical of the teabaggers, and that has explored, among other things, how they're being cynically manipulated by business interests. It posted the picture presumably to embarrass these folks.

    Which begs a question: Did the racist clowns who put these on people's windshields in Reston the other night purposefully add the URL of that blog to discredit it, or were they just too jacked up to notice?

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  13. Anonymous 10:55 You has disregarded one cite already.
    Your emotional desire for unpleasant truths to be declared "not the narrative" hints that Paul Linebarger's book Psychological Warfare (1948) is beyond you. For a more accessible book read: Sword and the Shield (1992) by Vasili Mitrokhin. Note the techniques on disinformation. One of many examples is how the KGB increased racial tension in the US in the 1960's by forging KKK hate letters sent to black leaders.

    On Ayers, you may discount any cite, so note the use of language of the sea and sailors in the book Dream of my Fathers. Ayers was a sailor for a short time. Obama never was.

    Never listen to US radio. Or Rush Limbaugh.
    Anon 8:18

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  14. My, this post is certainly getting a lot of attention! We'll happily stand by our decision to crop out the URL from this lovely piece of race-baiting artwork. Who knows what the person who decided it would be a good idea to put them on people's cars was thinking, but the site behind it doesn't deserve a single hit -- whether it's liberal or conservative, or just plain crazy.

    Besides, we've already bravely established our conservative credentials. See you in the FEMA camps!

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