Further Evidence that Party of Love is Unhinged
From the Washington Post:Several hundred people stormed the small yard of President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, yesterday afternoon, pounding on his windows, shoving signs at others and challenging Rove to talk to them about a bill that deals with educational opportunities for immigrants.
Protesters poured out of one school bus after another, piercing an otherwise quiet, peaceful Sunday in Rove's Palisades neighborhood in Northwest, chanting, "Karl, Karl, come on out! See what the DREAM Act is all about!"
Rove obliged their first request and opened his door long enough to say, "Get off my property."
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The protest was organized by National People's Action, a coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago.
Leaders said they want Bush to advocate for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a bill that would permit immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years to apply for legal resident status once they graduate from high school. The measure would eliminate provisions of current federal law that discourage states from providing in-state tuition to undocumented student immigrants.
Matt's Chat
Thuggery will get you folks no where. If this group really wanted a conversation with Rove, as the article suggests, they wouldn't have ambushed him at home. And they wouldn't have been behaving like immature, arrogant, small-minded hamsters.And after about 30 minutes of goading by protesters in English and Spanish, Rove agreed to meet with two members of the coalition on the condition that the rest of the protesters board their buses and leave his street. The group obliged.I hate to break it to these folks, but just becuase we have the freedom of speech doesn't mean anybody has to listen. We have rules in this country (some of us like to call them laws) and if you want to change those rules, you play by the book. Karl Rove isn't going to get the DREAM Act passed (actually, I'm pretty sure that if it were up to Rove it wouldn't get another hearing at all - especially now). Congress is where that fight needs to be played out.
Rove opened his garage door and allowed Palacios and Inez Killingsworth to enter. The meeting lasted two minutes and ended with Rove closing the garage door on Palacios while she was still talking.
Palacios said that Rove was "very upset" and was "yelling in our faces" and that Rove told them "he hoped we were proud to make his 14-year-old and 10-year-old cry."
A White House spokesman said one of the children was a neighbor.
Palacios, trembling and in tears herself, said, "He is very offended because we dared to come here. We dared to come here because he dared to ignore us. I'm sorry we disturbed his children, but our children are disturbed every day.
"He also said, 'Don't ever dare to come back,' " Palacios said. "We will, if he continues to ignore us."
I am left wondering if perhaps the Party of Love (tm) isn't encouraging this kind of insanity. They get plausible deniability and get to make some noise at the same time. I can't wait to hear what John Effing Kerry has to say... Afterall, I'm sure, he voted voted for it before he voted against it.
Mark's Remarks
See what you are encouraging, John Kerry, Howeird Dean, Terry McAwful, by your hatespeech? You are encouraging this terrible treatment of people in their private lives....where is the condemnation? Where is the respect for people's privacy? Oh wait, you aren't allowed to have that if you are or work for a Republican, in the eyes of you sanctimonious, arrogant, elitist nuancers (read LIARS).
