Politics by their preferred means

As you’ve most likely heard and seen, some Rand Paul campaign workers decided that the best way to deal with a protester they didn’t like the look of was to throw her to the ground and stomp on her head.

The stomper is not a nobody who happened to be at the debate.  He was a county coordinator for the campaign.

You might also have heard that he wants an apology from the woman.  He also wants people to know that he had to stomp on her head because he has a back problem that prevented him from bending down to help his fellow thugs hold her down.

Appalling on the face of it, but there’s something else in what he says.

He says that the reason he had to take action against the woman is that the police weren’t.  He apparently believes he and his buddies had the right to behave like goons if the cops won’t do the job they, the goons, think needs doing, which in this case was shutting up someone whose views and style of protest they didn’t like.

They’ve granted themselves the authority to decide who gets to exercise their civil rights and who doesn’t and to enforce their decisions with violence.

Please pass this one around.

Comments

[Doug K]

so the libertarian utopia turns out to be 1984,
a sneaker stamping on a human face..

[Sherry Chandler]

He's from my county. I am so ashamed.

The paper says he's "retired" at 53. I wonder if he's on disability for his back problems.