Woman's head stomped on by Teabagger before Rand Paul Debate

Woman's head stomped on by Teabagger before Rand Paul Debate

by Sanjuro | Published on October 26th, 2010, 6:59 am | News

According to reports, the woman was a member of moveon.org and was going to present Rand Paul an "employee of the month award" from "Republicorp" as a form of protest. Reports vary but it seems she might have stepped on someones foot and was then held down to have her head stomped into the pavement. Good times...

As the candidates arrived, a group of Paul supporters pulled a female MoveOn member to the ground and held her there as another Paul supporter stomped on the back of her head and neck.

Video below:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/male-rand-paul-supporter-stomps-head-of-female-moveon-member-outside-debate.php?ref=fpb

TEABAGGER ANGRY! TEABAGGER HIT WOMAN!

This two guys better be in jail for assault.

Here are some pics of the guy, if anyone knows his whereabouts please contact the police:

via

"Dont tread on me" being almost hilariously ironic.

An individual, isolated incident? Or an outgrowth of the whole atmosphere of polarization and demonization that is growing in our country? I expect a little of both. If this yahoo hadn't been steeped (tea-bag... get it?!) in the rhetoric of hate for anyone who disagrees with him, if his chosen founts of "Truth" had made clear that opponents should be treated with civility and respect at all times -- would he have acted this way? I bet the chances would have been far lower.

But no, the radio mouths and TV talking heads have to make everything as stark and threatening as they can, in order to cut off any lines of communication, to dehumanize opponents. I see this as yet another danger sign for our society as a whole. Because even IF this guy was mentally unstable and had no business being out in public without a leash -- he was acting out what we hear all the time from the denizens of Farright Town. That's some bad mojo to be playing with, people.

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:An individual, isolated incident? Or an outgrowth of the whole atmosphere of polarization and demonization that is growing in our country? I expect a little of both. If this yahoo hadn't been steeped (tea-bag... get it?!) in the rhetoric of hate for anyone who disagrees with him, if his chosen founts of "Truth" had made clear that opponents should be treated with civility and respect at all times -- would he have acted this way? I bet the chances would have been far lower.

But no, the radio mouths and TV talking heads have to make everything as stark and threatening as they can, in order to cut off any lines of communication, to dehumanize opponents. I see this as yet another danger sign for our society as a whole. Because even IF this guy was mentally unstable and had no business being out in public without a leash -- he was acting out what we hear all the time from the denizens of Farright Town. That's some bad mojo to be playing with, people.

Well, I joke about it a lot, but there is also a danger in demonizing or labeling all teabaggers with such a broad brush by painting them as "ignorant" or "stupid". In reality, these people ARE pissed off, and honestly for good reason. It's a shame that the right wing has been able to craft such convincing lies by placating to their emotions.

They are pissed off -- but at the wrong people. They have no clue, otherwise, they wouldn't be supporting the likes of O'Donnell and Palin. Their anger is blind and being directed toward the wrong people by skilled propagandists. The atmosphere is rapidly getting more and more like Germany of the late 20's. All this country needs is the wrong leader to go up in flames and take 2/3 of the world with us.

To this point, a very interesting comment by Noam Chomsky:

So take right now, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances. I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them. I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is. Well Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you—they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.

Well, you know, the reaction we should be having to them is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany. Hitler was appealing to groups with similar grievances, and giving them crazy answers, but at least they were answers; these groups weren't getting them anywhere else. It was the Jews and the Bolsheviks [that were the problem].

I mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now." That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left. So, there's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything—a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one thing to be done is don't ridicule these people, join them, and talk about their real grievances and give them a sensible answer, like, "Take over your factories.""

Via

The alternative answers are available. Have been for decades. But the people who are angry have spent decades ignoring those answers. How could the left wing entice them to follow when they've been blindly following the right wing all their lives?

IMO, these people have been (as your quote said) shafted for decades, but they happily ignored that shafting all along. Now that the Democrats have a majority (not a working form of rule for them), the shafting of the decades is suddenly a tool for the right wing to pull out and use to their advantage.

The fact that this insanity is working speaks volumes about the voting population of this country. We have fallen far as a people, but it looks like we will have a lot more falling to do yet.

There's another video now

According to the account, the 'foot stepping' was a separate incident.

In a separate incident, according to the Kentucky Post, "a Conway supporter stepped on the foot of a female Rand supporter, who recently had foot surgery. The woman was wearing a surgical boot, but after the injury, her incision was cut open. Police say she refused medical treatment and also filed an assault report."

I would have got up and kicked their arses.

That was uncalled for definitely. However, I certainly wouldn't characterize that as a "head stomp". It looked more like a step on the shoulder. Certainly wasn't a kick.

On a related note, you guys call the teabaggers ignorant. How stupid and ignorant was this person to show up at a passionate rally where it is certainly known you're not wanted?

BecauseHeLives wrote:That was uncalled for definitely. However, I certainly wouldn't characterize that as a "head stomp". It looked more like a step on the shoulder. Certainly wasn't a kick.

On a related note, you guys call the teabaggers ignorant. How stupid and ignorant was this person to show up at a passionate rally where it is certainly known you're not wanted?

Point one... no matter how you try to dress it up, it is called "Assault"

Point two... Both supporters had a right to be there.

Sanjuro wrote:
BecauseHeLives wrote:That was uncalled for definitely. However, I certainly wouldn't characterize that as a "head stomp". It looked more like a step on the shoulder. Certainly wasn't a kick.

On a related note, you guys call the teabaggers ignorant. How stupid and ignorant was this person to show up at a passionate rally where it is certainly known you're not wanted?

Point one... no matter how you try to dress it up, it is called "Assault"

Point two... Both supporters had a right to be there.

Just because you have the right doesn't make it "right" and certainly doesn't make it smart. See Westboro Baptist "church".

Yes, it was assualt. I don't think anybody disputed that.

Looks like it's possible one of them might have been located.. (the one who pinned her to the ground). Then again, the overweight goatee looks isn't exactly uncommon in the teabagger movement. If it is him, I hope he cooperates with authorities.

http://butlerteaparty.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=88740240

BecauseHeLives wrote:How stupid and ignorant was this person to show up at a passionate rally where it is certainly known you're not wanted?

If you're suggesting that only one side's supporters should dare to show up at a public rally for a politician you are forgetting a few things

1) This event was a debate between Paul Rand AND Jack Conway. Supporters for either side should expect to able to attend.

2) Protesting is neither stupid not ignorant. Dangerous perhaps.

3)
They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

, I certainly wouldn't characterize that as a "head stomp". It looked more like a step on the shoulder. Certainly wasn't a kick.

Word meanings are always a challenge for you. Stomp is not synonymous with kick

Here's what your bête noire the Oxford English Dictionaryhas to say:

stomp
[no object, with adverbial of direction]
tread heavily and noisily, typically in order to show anger:
Martin stomped off to the spare room
[no object] (stomp on) tread heavily or stamp on:
I stomped on the accelerator
[with object] chiefly US deliberately trample or tread heavily on:
Cobb proceeded to kick and stomp him viciously

I'd say he deliberately trod heavily on her neck and head.

He's been identified as Tim Profitt a campaign coordinator with the Rand campaign, and it's the fault of the police for not arresting her for being a Democrat

Associated Press
The volunteer with Rand Paul's Republican U.S. Senate campaign who stepped on the head of a liberal activist and pinned her face to the concrete said Tuesday the scuffle was not as bad as it looked on video and blamed police for not intervening.

"I'm sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand's safety," Tim Profitt told The Associated Press.

The other guy who pulled her down and held her for Tim to stomp her is Mike Pezzano, another Rand volunteer and a promoter of open carry for when the girls get too rough for him to wrestle.

He was concerned for his alpha's safety? Because a woman had an embarrassing sign?? Sounds completely lame to me.

A Person wrote:There's another video now

That video has been removed by Youtube. Wonder why...

Lucky for me, the Daily Show had a copy to show in last night's broadcast. And I agree, the woman from Moveon WAS assaulted, and she was treated in a manner that I would think should be easily considered criminal. The people who were shouting for the police to be brought in, I wonder if they thought they were going to have the woman arrested as a potential assassin, or if they thought the woman needed protection from insane attackers.

Tim Profitt would like an apology from Lauren Valle for assaulting his foot with her head.

http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Paul ... 33648.html

As for Profitt, he remains defiant. "I don't think it's that big of a deal," Profitt said.

And when asked if he would apologize to Valle. "I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you," Profitt said.

You see he had to step on her because he couldn't bend over as he has a bad back.

"I put my foot on her, and I did push her down at the very end, and I told her to stay down," Proffitt said, "I actually put my foot on her to... I couldn't bend over because I have issues with my back."

And if only the police had done their job and rounded up those uppity Conway supporters he wouldn't have had to take the law into his own hands

Lexington Police began an assault investigation identifying Profitt as a suspect. "Well I'll just say it, if the police had done what they were supposed to do, it would have never happened," Profitt said.

In the Tea Party world the First Amendment only applies to those people you agree with.

Here's a another clip that's still working

A Person wrote:In the Tea Party world the First Amendment only applies to those people you agree with.

LOL... sounds like the way atheists act when discussing evolution!

BecauseHeLives wrote:
A Person wrote:In the Tea Party world the First Amendment only applies to those people you agree with.

LOL... sounds like the way atheists act when discussing evolution!

HOPOMaster wrote:
BecauseHeLives wrote:
A Person wrote:In the Tea Party world the First Amendment only applies to those people you agree with.

LOL... sounds like the way atheists act when discussing evolution!

Oh I don't know. I think he means that when atheists discuss evolution, we evaluate the evidence and do our best to reach a reasonable conclusion. It's a compliment, see?

:roll:

The Kentucky Stomper has been charged with assault.

Oh boy. Now the campaign will have to have ads about Good Ol Boys being made "political prisoners" just for exercising their right to free speech.

As it turns out, the Valle, has a criminal record. The whole story has not been told.

Excerpt:

"Disguised in a blonde wig and donning a sticker on her sweatshirt that read “I’m a Rand Fan”, Valle is said to have initially blended into the crowd in an attempt to get close to Rand Paul. Apparently, when she lunged toward the direction of Paul, supporters surrounded and attempted to block her from getting near him. As CNN affiliate WDRB-TV in Louisville, KY captured, bystanders held Valle down on the ground and shouted, “Get the cops. Get the police out here.In the flurry of the chaos in an attempt to hold her at bay, as WDRB describes, Tim Profitt “stomps on her shoulder with his foot, which then lands on the side of her head ” It was an unfortunate – and inappropriate -response. Everyone’s condemned it. And as of this afternoon, police say that Profitt is being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge. At the same time, I don’t think it’s unreasonable for one to examine and question the motives of a paid activist from MoveOn.org who disguised and then planted herself in the middle of an already large and passionate crowd, and then tried to get up right next to Rand Paul.As I’ve noted, this is not Ms. Valle’s first brush with the law.”

It appears to me Profitt and others around him, felt threatened, for a moment, when Valle lunge herself through the crowd as she did and can be seen in the video. The element of surprise startled everyone for a moment and that to me would explain the reactions of Profitt and the others that wrestled her to the ground. It appears to me they were merely protecting Paul from harm by a stranger lunging themselves up near the door of the car. I don't think Profitt had malicious intent as the leftist goons are trying to suggest. It is unfortunate and a gross miscarriage of justice for Profitt to be charged.

http://bigjournalism.com/libertychick/2010/10/27/rand-paul-protesters-shady-past-from-beijing-olympics-to-ny-to-nola/

Monday, May 24, 2010
Activists Face Felony Charges - Sgt. Lesley Hill Peters

Activists Face Felony ChargesSheriff Craig Webre and Harbor Police Chief John Callais announced the arrest of seven Greenpeace activists in Port Fourchon. A complaint came in at approximately 12:45 PM stating the seven had boarded a vessel at Port Fourchon and painted messages with an unknown substance on different areas of the ship. The messages were directed to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. A representative for Salazar was at Port Fourchon this morning while other dignitaries congregated in Galliano with Secretary Salazar and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano regarding the ongoing oil spill impacting the Louisiana coastline. Those arrested were:

• Lindsey Renee Allen (W/F, DOB 9/3/81, 149 Clayton Circle, Vacaville, CA)
• Lauren Valle (W/F, DOB 5/4/87, 415 Shorewood Drive East, Falmouth, MA)
• Emma Cassidy (W/F, DOB 6/4/85, 3653 13th St. Northwest, Washington, DC)
• David Pomerantz (W/M, DOB 8/23/85, 45 Beechwood Road, Irvington, NY)
• Georgia F. Hirsty (W/F, DOB 3/19/85, 1114 F Street, Northeast, Washington, DC)
• Scott Cardiff (W/M, DOB 6/9/77, 1215 Quincy Street Northwest, Washington, DC)
• Paul Kelley (W/M, DOB 2/20/84, 1114 F Street Northeast Apt 103, Washington, DC)

The seven had been seen in the area for the past week and had been repeatedly warned by law enforcement not to hamper clean up operations and not to trespass. Greenpeace is known for pre-planning and coordinating similar protests to bring attention to environmental issues. Pictures of the vandalism appeared on the Greenpeace website within minutes of the arrest of the activists.

All seven will be transported to the Lafourche Parish Detention Center where they will be booked with unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure (R.S. 14:62.3) and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling (R.S. 14:62.3). The New Orleans Joint Terrorism Taskforce is reviewing today’s incident and all seven could face additional charges.

Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office-Thibodaux, LA
http://www.lpso.net/pressrelease.asp?id=927

"Video proof: leftwing activist lied about events leading up to incident"
http://www.breitbart.tv/video-proof-left-wing-activist-lied-about-events-leading-up-to-incident-at-rand-rally/

I don't believe she has a 'criminal record', that would require a conviction. But it's irrelevant.

One thing is clear, she is an active protester, protesting pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, oppression of Tibetan people, big banks funding strip mining, and political corruption. But it is also clear she has eschewed violence as a tool, so the suggestion that she is an 'ecoterrorist' or dangerous is a fabrication.

In this incident she was 'armed' with a cardboard sign, offered no resistance when assaulted, didn't fight back, scream or call her attackers names. She was manhandled, thrown to the ground and deliberately stepped on yet remained calm and composed. Unlike her attackers.

Peaceful, non violent protest is a legitimate way to get your message out. Throwing someone to the ground and stepping on them isn't. The excuse that 'she was a protester' does not mean she deserves to be beaten. There were no 'leftist Goons' as you claim, just white middle aged men, out of control and assaulting a 5'5" girl.

Just as wearing a short skirt is not an invitation to rape, being a protester is not an invitation to assault.

So yes he deserves to be charged. Not a miscarriage of justice, simply a consequence of his violent behaviour. Bad back and all.

A Person wrote:I don't believe she has a 'criminal record', that would require a conviction. But it's irrelevant.

Indeed. I know that convicted felons lose their right to vote, but even those people do not lose their right to free speech. Summy seems to think that speech should be limited, and that it was heroic for these men to grab this woman and throw her to the ground and step on her head. Pretty sad if that's actually the case.