Shots fired at Mobile County Democratic Party Headquarters
MOBILE, Alabama --
Shots were fired Wednesday morning at the Mobile County Democratic Party Headquarters on Government Street. At least one bullet hit the front windows of the office and caused damage. None of the volunteers or party officials present were injured. Police are on the scene and currently investigating.
The Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee is scheduled to meet tonight at 6:00 PM at the Headquarters. Chairman Napolean Bracy reiterated that the local Democrats would not be slowed down. “Our efforts to elect Democrats up and down the ballot in Mobile County will not be deterred. Our meeting tonight will go on tonight as scheduled.”
http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2012/sep/26/shots-fired-democratic-hq-mobile-ar-4631281/
This is 10 blocks from my office. I just drove through the scene. Wow.
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that is scary. in my apartment complex the other day there was a pickup truck with bunches of bumper stickers and a big hand made sign that purported to portray the president "wiping his ass with the constitution." one of the bumper stickers was this:
any wonder some low info pissed off person with a gun would do this. makes me so sad.
i wonder if this post will be alerted. please know i am only sharing what i saw on this person's truck, not what i believe.
An example was the Rwandan Genocide. I hope we will never reach that point, but this hate has been preached for over twenty years now. It's loading one group with all the sins of the world. We've been drowning in irrational hatred from the right for years. The media affected Rwanda:
According to recent commentators, the news media played a crucial role in the genocide; local print and radio media fueled the killings while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground.[23] The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis, which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators, anti-Tutsi hate speech "...became so systemic as to seem the norm." The state-owned newspaper Kangura had a central role, starting an anti-Tutsi and anti-RPF campaign in October 1990. In the ongoing International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the individuals behind Kangura have been accused of producing leaflets in 1992 picturing a machete and asking "What shall we do to complete the social revolution of 1959?" – a reference to the Hutu revolt that overthrew the Tutsi monarchy and the subsequent politically orchestrated communal violence that resulted in thousands of mostly Tutsi casualties and forced roughly 300,000 Tutsis to flee to neighboring Burundi and Uganda. Kangura also published the infamous "Hutu Ten Commandments", which regulated all dealings with Tutsis and how Hutus were to treat them. It communicated the message that the RPF had a devious grand strategy against the Hutu (one feature article was titled "Tutsi colonization plan"
.[24]
Due to high rates of illiteracy at the time of the genocide, radio was an important way for the government to deliver messages to the public. Two radio stations key to inciting violence before and during the genocide were Radio Rwanda and Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines. In March 1992, Radio Rwanda was first used in directly promoting the killing of Tutsi in Bugesera, south of the national capital Kigali. Radio Rwanda repeatedly broadcast a communiqué warning that Hutu in Bugesera would be attacked by Tutsi, a message used by local officials to convince Hutu that they needed to attack first. Led by soldiers, Hutu civilians and the Interahamwe attacked and killed hundreds of Tutsi.[25]
At the end of 1993, the RTLM's highly sensationalized reporting on the assassination of the Burundian president, a Hutu, was used to underline supposed Tutsi brutality. The RTLM falsely reported that the president had been tortured, including castration (in pre-colonial times, some Tutsi kings castrated defeated enemy rulers). There were 50,000 civilian deaths in Burundi in 1993.
From late October 1993, the RTLM repeatedly broadcast themes developed by the extremist written press, underlining the inherent differences between Hutu and Tutsi, the foreign origin of Tutsi, the disproportionate share of Tutsi wealth and power, and the horrors of past Tutsi rule. The RTLM also repeatedly stressed the need to be alert to Tutsi plots and possible attacks. It warned Hutu to prepare to "defend" themselves against the Tutsi.[25] After April 6, 1994, authorities used RTLM and Radio Rwanda to spur and direct killings, specifically in areas where the killings were initially resisted. Both radio stations were used to incite and mobilize populations, followed by specific directions for carrying out the killings.[25]
The RTLM had used terms such as inyenzi (cockroach in Kinyarwandan) and Tutsi interchangeably with others referring to the RPF combatants. It warned that RPF combatants dressed in civilian clothes were mingling among the displaced people fleeing combat zones. These broadcasts gave the impression that all Tutsi were supporters of the RPF force fighting against the elected government.[25] Women were targets of the anti-Tutsi propaganda prior to the 1994 genocide; for example, the "Hutu Ten Commandments" (1990) included four commandments that portrayed Tutsi women as tools of the Tutsi people, and as sexual weapons to weaken and ultimately destroy the Hutu men.[26] Gender-based propaganda also included cartoons printed in newspapers depicting Tutsi women as sex objects. Examples of gender-based hate propaganda used to incite war rape included statements by perpetrators, such as "You Tutsi women think that you are too good for us", and "Let us see what a Tutsi woman tastes like."[26]
To promote an informed population and democracy in Rwanda, international agencies had promoted development of the media during the years leading up to the genocide.[27] It appeared that promoting one aspect of democracy (in this case the media) may, in fact, negatively influence other aspects of democracy or human rights. After this experience it has been argued that international development agencies must be highly sensitive to the specific context of their programmes and the need for promotion of democracy in a holistic manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide#Media_propaganda
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It was a handmade decal - and very poorly at that. 
You libruls are soooo... touchy.
clever. 
I used to live in Mobile and now live about an hour away in Pensacola. Things are getting pretty bleak for Mitt's chances to win this thing fair and square. I imagine that as this is starting to sink in, the crazies are going to start coming out from behind their bunkers to let the rest of us know they are still among us. Eeekkkk.
One for sure, we cannot let these people dissuade us from exercising our rights as citizens. Vote we must, no matter what we have to do to make sure that happens. I do not doubt for one minute that they will pull every nasty trick in the book up until election day to scare us and make us afraid to show up to vote. I am voting absentee because I started doing it when I was caring for my elderly mother and it was very difficult to vote at the precinct. The nice thing about that was I could sit at my kitchen table and very carefully and deliberately read the amendments and other stuff on the ballot without holding up a long line of others waiting to vote. I could also check and double check my ballot to make sure it was accurate. The most important thing I had to do was make sure I followed ALL THE RULES that were included with that ballot. They tell you everything you need to do, you just need to make sure you do what is required.
No matter what, we cannot let the Wing Nuts, Crazies, Loonies and Determined Cheaters stop us from voting. 
Sure hope they catch the bastards that did this. My bet is they will, because jerkoffs who do stuff like this tend to brag about it when they get shitfaced. 
NOTE - Just went back to read the link - an "update" has the MPD denying the window was broken by gunfire. Am I reading this correctly?
Another edit - someone who knows guns should watch the video in the link and tell us if the damage to the window is a bullet hit or whether it "broke itself". If it is a bullet hit, the police should have found the bullet inside the building somewhere. ??????
