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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:16 PM
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TN Man Enraged By Obama Sticker Slams SUV Into Car With 10 Year Old Child Inside
TN Man Enraged By Obama Sticker Slams SUV Into Car With 10 Year Old Child Inside

By Logan Murphy Friday Mar 26, 2010 10:00am



As hate radio, corporate right wing media and GOP politicians ramp up the violent rhetoric against Democrats, the nutjobs who follow them like zombies are becoming more and more unhinged and posing a threat to society. Case in point - a man so enraged by seeing an Obama/Biden bumper sticker on a car that he repeatedly rammed his SUV into it, while a 10 year old girl was inside:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville man says he and his 10-year-old daughter were victims of road rage Thursday afternoon, all because of a political bumper sticker on his car.

He said Harry Weisiger gave him the bird and rammed into his vehicle, after noticing an Obama-Biden sticker on his car bumper.

Duren had just picked up his 10-year-old daughter from school and had her in the car with him.

"He pointed at the back of my car," Duren said, "the bumper, flipped me off, one finger salute."

Once he started driving again, down Blair Boulevard, towards his home, he said, "I looked in the rear view mirror again, and this same SUV was speeding, flying up behind me, bumped me."

Duren said he applied his brake and the SUV smashed into the back of his car.

He then put his car in park to take care of the accident, but Weisiger started pushing the car using his SUV.

Duren said, "He pushed my car up towards the sidewalk, almost onto the sidewalk." Read on...


I don't think it's a matter of if, but when, one of these nutjobs are going to seriously injure or kill a Democratic politician or citizen. Apparently, that's what it will take before we see some form of crackdown on the violent propaganda being thrown around by Republican politicians and their media outlets.

Remember what happened to the last American who was labeled a "baby killer" by the right? Yeah, he's dead...
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:18 PM
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1. Now, if Duren had a gun in the car...
:popcorn:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:22 PM
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3. That ten year old really should have been better prepared to defend himself.
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:22 PM
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2. Duren's on Thom's show right now.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:23 PM
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4. Old people...
Should lock them up somewhere.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:25 PM
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5. Thom Hartmann interviewing the assault victim now!
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:25 PM
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6. Sounds like a case of attempted murder to me.
Reckless endangerment ain't the half of it. that might apply if the car had been empty (shunting a car around using your SUV ain't exactly responsible behavior), but with people inside it? That's not reckless endangerment, that's a deliberate attempt to cause harm to someone.

Scary enough for an adult - absolutely terrifying for a child. This asshole is lucky that the father didn't drag him out of the car and kick the shit out of him.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:36 PM
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7. That's terrible & all the rhetoric needs to be tamped down.
admit it's worse now, but it's the reason I never put a bumper sticker on my car here in Ga. Even before the 2008 campaign began and Shrb was prez, people where having their cars keyed, tires flatened or slashed, etc. if they had an anti Shrub sticker displayed. A nurse was pulled over andticketed for displaying what the cop called an unacceptable bumper stcker on her car. The cop was ultimately reprimanded & the ticket was tossed, but it created qyute a turmoil around here. Who kno what would happen if I put an Obama one on my car!

The RW have been turning more & more violent in recent years.
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AllyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 12:56 PM
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8. Book 'im
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 01:04 PM
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9. I had some wingnut thugs tailgate me all the way home because of my Obama sicker
It happened right after the election.

When I got home the car stopped and the thugs stared me down trying to intimidate me. I yelled, "What the hell do you want?" and they just took off. It kind of freaked me out, but that was the extent of it.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 01:05 PM
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10. I hope he gets the maximum.nt
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 01:09 PM
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11. I'm sure Harry Weisiger will be hailed as a "liberty driver" on FOX.
:eyes:
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