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Scott
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 Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject: American from Germany says the shoe fits... |
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From PowerLine on political intimidation in Colorado:
| Quote: | Whether one sees the political mayhem going on hereabouts as an ominous attempt to suppress free speech, or as “harmless civil disobedience” to quote Vail Daily writer Matt Zalaznick, has been a hot topic in the county newspapers’ editorial pages.
But for some, the issue has become all too real.
Virginia Rose, an octogenarian who’s been a county resident for 27 years, likes to socialize with her friends at the Senior Center in Eagle where she’s been hearing some pretty disturbing talk lately.
“Somebody with a Bush bumper sticker had their car window broken out,” she says, “and now others are saying they’re afraid to have signs and stickers for Bush.”
The cars of Eagle-Vail resident Gunther Schmidt and his daughter had their Bush-Cheney bumper stickers scratched off, but he just stuck new ones right back on. Originally from Germany, Schmidt knows well the history of Hitler’s fascist movement and says the analogy fits.
“It starts kind of slow and easy with little things but can escalate into something more,” he comments. “I can see people being threatened by it, and becoming afraid that someone will do something to them. I thought we lived in a free country where you could express your opinion in a nonviolent way, without being punished for it.”
Schmidt advises standing firm and defying the attacks. “I would say to continue to show your support for whoever you are supporting – don’t give up because we can’t allow this country to go backwards.” |
Is the DNC website selling brown shirts yet?
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FreeFall
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Michael Savage talks a lot about this on his radio show, that the Democrats are now resorting to Nazi tactics of intimidation and bullying.
For the last few days, I lost track of how many Bush/Cheney campaign offices have been broken into. |
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Spiess
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:07 am Post subject: Re: American from Germany says the shoe fits... |
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| Scott wrote: | From PowerLine on political intimidation in Colorado:
| Quote: | Whether one sees the political mayhem going on hereabouts as an ominous attempt to suppress free speech, or as “harmless civil disobedience” to quote Vail Daily writer Matt Zalaznick, has been a hot topic in the county newspapers’ editorial pages.
But for some, the issue has become all too real.
Virginia Rose, an octogenarian who’s been a county resident for 27 years, likes to socialize with her friends at the Senior Center in Eagle where she’s been hearing some pretty disturbing talk lately.
“Somebody with a Bush bumper sticker had their car window broken out,” she says, “and now others are saying they’re afraid to have signs and stickers for Bush.”
The cars of Eagle-Vail resident Gunther Schmidt and his daughter had their Bush-Cheney bumper stickers scratched off, but he just stuck new ones right back on. Originally from Germany, Schmidt knows well the history of Hitler’s fascist movement and says the analogy fits.
“It starts kind of slow and easy with little things but can escalate into something more,” he comments. “I can see people being threatened by it, and becoming afraid that someone will do something to them. I thought we lived in a free country where you could express your opinion in a nonviolent way, without being punished for it.”
Schmidt advises standing firm and defying the attacks. “I would say to continue to show your support for whoever you are supporting – don’t give up because we can’t allow this country to go backwards.” |
Is the DNC website selling brown shirts yet? |
I worked for Eagle River Water And Sanitation for 2 years and found that the Influx of Out of staters seemed to bring the worst kind of liberal garbage to Eagle valley. All the Liberal bags of barf moving to the Colorado Mountains to get the Rocky mountain high is sickening. Some of the worst Offenders are not classable as they range from the snoobs that wear thier Vail 99 hats and assume themselves "intellectuals" to the lowly crew in Redcliff.
The Vail Daily is a rag that insites this type of behaviour I am not surprised. |
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msindependent
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| A huge number of people from California have moved in, it's unreal. Then you still have the hippie hermits, with blown out brains from the 60's, but they usually can't find the polling sites. |
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Spiess
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:17 am Post subject: |
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Some of those at the water facility I worked at used to really complain and try to come down on me about being Republican. What really sent-em over the edge is how I reminded them that they would not have employment had it not been for Nixon and the clean water act.
You are correct though the California people have truelly tarnished the "Gore Valley". |
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Cazador
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: Gore Mountain? |
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Hello Spiess,
Do you know how Gore Mountain got its name? I've always wondered about that.
Cazador |
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Knighthawk
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| FreeFall wrote: | Michael Savage talks a lot about this on his radio show, that the Democrats are now resorting to Nazi tactics of intimidation and bullying.
For the last few days, I lost track of how many Bush/Cheney campaign offices have been broken into. |
Does it have something to do with his Global Test?
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Barbie2004
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That picture says it all! 
Hey, Knighthawk; how did you insert that picture? |
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Spiess
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: Gore Mountain? |
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| Cazador wrote: | Hello Spiess,
Do you know how Gore Mountain got its name? I've always wondered about that.
Cazador |
Actually I do not know but I will see if I can find out. |
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