{"id":1028,"date":"2008-10-22T07:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/arty-changes-venue\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:25:33","slug":"arty-changes-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/arty-changes-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Arty changes venue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"Gazette\"<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

October 21, 2008<\/p>\n

POLITICAL TERRORISM
\nVandals seek to silence voices of opposition voters<\/p>\n

Recently, the Obama Campaign for Change Office in Elizabeth experienced an act of vandalism. Every window in the office was smashed out. This comes on the heels of incidents where local Democratic candidates have had to deal with signs being torn down and\/or destroyed around the county and Obama\/Biden signs being removed along Elbert Road.<\/p>\n

Elbert County is a very conservative, Republican county but about 1\/6 of its citizens happen to be registered Democrats. The lack of tolerance and the disrespect shown toward Elbert County Democrats is extensive. Beyond that, the smashing of windows at the Obama office is a clear act of intimidation; in fact it is an act of American terrorism, designed to threaten those who would stand up and be counted in the political process. Those who perpetrated these acts are attempting to deny local Democrats the political rights conservative Republicans are so eager to defend and promote on battlefields around the world.<\/p>\n

I call on all decent Republican candidates to issue statements deploring these actions. I also wish to gain the attention of those of you who are undecided or independent in the upcoming election. I want you to notice what some of your neighbors will do to stop you from noticing that you have a choice to vote for Democratic candidates in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n

Arty Smith, Elbert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arty considered it impolitic to mention the Democrat provocation<\/a> for the vandalism.\u00a0 Note that in the first paragraph, the window breakage was accurately described as an act of vandalism.\u00a0 Yet in the second paragraph Arty’s true gripe emerges.\u00a0 The refusal of the majority to tolerate and respect Democrats is an act of American terrorism intended to prevent Democrats from “standing up and being counted.”\u00a0 So, evidently, the vandalism at Obama headquarters somehow interferes with Democrats’ voting franchise.\u00a0 And people in the majority who don’t tolerate and respect Democrats for, I guess, being alive and consuming water and food, are American terrorists.<\/p>\n

I, for one, am glad Arty cleared this up.<\/p>\n

In the third paragraph we find Arty prescribing the content of speech from “decent Republican candidates,” —\u00a0 if they fail to issue statements deploring these actions they are not “decent.”\u00a0 Now, it’s one thing to be measured by the content of your speech, that’s only reasonable, however, apparently in the new regime, silence is also grounds for condemnation.<\/p>\n

As Bill Maher likes to say, “new rules!”<\/p>\n

Arty, and Democrats in general for that matter, seem to think that their willingness to show up for the political process guarantees them a seat at the table — i.e. they should be “tolerated and respected.”\u00a0 Au contraire mon fraire, it is the content of your character plus the viability of your ideas that earn you tolerance and respect.\u00a0 Even if one grants Democrats the first element of that test, they’ve got a long way to go on the second.<\/p>\n

It is in that second element that America is about to get a painful lesson.\u00a0 Socialism has never worked, can’t work, and won’t work under an Obama administration.\u00a0 As for all the marxist revolutionary characters involved with Obama, let’s hope he keeps them out of his administration so we don’t have to endure another national drama, like what the Clintons put the country through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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