Shot in the Dark

Puppy-Stomping

Ed points us to this story, where a bunch of BDS-addled cretins counterprotested…

…a bunch of daycare kids:

“What an opportunity this is for our children,” center director Liz Burkhard said while herding children ages 4 to 6 into a compact, orderly row behind the yellow police tape lining Stony Battery at Church Street.

One group of protesters quickly descended on the happy cluster, however, chanting and singing their own songs to drown out the children’s voices.

“Stop brainwashing children to support a president who doesn’t deserve our support,” one man yelled through a bullhorn.

Now, let’s reiterate: I’m a greater proponent of free speech than any of my critics.  Always.

But this story touches on something in a piece I’m writing for Monday, about the self-centered narcissism that’s behind so many “protesters” – how their ends justify their means, no matter who they crap on in the process.

Ed said:

When children greet a President, they’re not endorsing policy or campaigning for his vote. They sang because of the office, not the person. Whomever would scream at children through bullhorns to promote their own hatred and obsession really needs some psychiatric care. Can you imagine how these children felt when a group of adults descended on them, screaming and shouting through bullhorns?

Scared out of their minds, I bet.

But no matter; to the BDS-addled “protester”, it’s all about them.  As Katherine Kersten pointed out earlier this week, indeed, it’s a pathology of some academic interest:

Robert Lichter of the Center for Media and Public Affairs has studied protest movements…In his psychological studies of ’60s-style radicals, Lichter discovered two revealing things: They scored high on the power scale, exhibiting a strong need to feel powerful. They also scored high on narcissism — the need to call attention to themselves, to get public notice.

Not surprisingly, Lichter says, protesters often latched onto high-sounding motives to justify their self-absorbed actions. “You can’t take expressions of love for humanity at face value,” he explains. “They can serve as cover for aggressive feelings and tendencies.

“It’s all about meeeeeeeeeeeeee”

Scumbags.

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15 responses to “Puppy-Stomping”

  1. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    But antiabortion protestors screaming at women heading into clinics is still OK, right? And camping outside a hospital to try to force-feed pizza to a brain-dead woman against her husband’s wishes – that’s still OK I hope.

  2. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    But antiabortion protestors screaming at women heading into clinics is still OK, right?

    It’s a bit unseemly, but on the other hand, the people going into the clinic did something (whether you think it’s murder or not), and they’re mostly adults.

    What did the kids do?

    And camping outside a hospital to try to force-feed pizza to a brain-dead woman against her husband’s wishes – that’s still OK I hope

    Only if it was good pizza.

    Because bad pizza makes comas worse.

  3. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    ALDaily had a link to an review of Todd Gitlin’s latest book in CRB. This paragraph is dead on:

    But by the same token, the claims of critical detachment have their limits, both practically and morally. For one thing, there needs to be a clear and responsible statement of what those higher imperatives are. And even then, the habitual resort to the ideal of dissent “against the nation for the nation” can easily become indistinguishable in practice from yet another manifestation of the Great Refusal, in which the second “nation” is a purely imaginary one to be “achieved”-and the “troops” one “supports” are entirely distinct from the actual causes for which they are risking their lives, and such “support” shows no respect for the series of conscious choices that made them into “troops” rather than civilians. When we make our commitments to on

  4. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    Oops! here’s the rest of the

    When we make our commitments to one another entirely contingent, then we have made no commitments at all. There will always be reasons to hold back, always sufficient reasons to say No, if the standard against which one judges the nation is an ahistorical and abstract and imaginary one, and the only consideration in view is the purity of one’s own individual position.

  5. Terry Avatar
    Terry

    . . . Which is too say, my lefty friends, that if your indignation at the current state of politics in the US leads you to believe that this “isn’t America anymore” or “Bush is not my president” you have no more right to claim the mantle of patriotism than Timothy McVeigh or William Luther Pierce.

  6. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    It will be funny to watch you wingnuts eat your words when Hillary’s president. Oh lordy, the wailing and gnashing of teeth with cause Angryclown much merriment!

  7. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    It will be funny to watch you wingnuts

    to bring meaning to someone’s life. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.

    You’ve given me a gift greater than gold.

  8. buzz Avatar
    buzz

    If Hillary becomes president and I have the chance for my kid to meet her, I wouldn’t hesitate. Since she would be the president and all. I would still disagree with a great deal, but I wouldn’t disrespect the office, since both I and Hillary are Americans. Maybe things are different in clownworld. What am I saying, of course things are different there.

  9. Chad The Elder Avatar
    Chad The Elder

    I can’t wait until Hillary is President so we can read stories about wingnuts shouting down four-year-olds lining up to see her. I’m sure that will happen, right AC?

  10. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    Think back to when her husband was president, buzzkill. You wingnuts are capable of anything.

    Hey look, it’s Ann Coulter saying women shouldn’t vote!

  11. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    Sorry, buzzkill, that was meant for Chad the Old Guy. I’ll have to sack the girl that types my blog comments for me.

  12. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    You wingnuts are capable of anything.

    But unlike the opposition, we restrain ourselves.

  13. Lady Logician

    Childish Adults…

    What do you do when you are a bunch of adults intent on protesting the man you hate most in the world and you see a bunch of children who are simply there to sing a song for the man? Why you gather ’round them to yell at them! (HT Captain Ed and……

  14. swiftee Avatar
    swiftee

    Only a completely brain-dead moron like Assclown could compare a group of innocent children with an adult woman heading off to commit infanticide.

    Like many things that look bad at first glance, Assclown’s lack of a brain is actually a good thing. Imagine the deep depression he’d continually suffer if he was actually cognizant of how utterly, irretrievably stupid he is.

    And if you doubt my analysis, consider the fact that Feckless Jeff once attempted suicide (he botched it, natch).

    Coincidence? I think not!

  15. angryclown Avatar
    angryclown

    It’s clear you’re older than Roe v. Wade, Swift One. No woman could look at you on a sonogram and not want to have you vacuumed out in small pieces ASAFP.

    Given their gene pool, it’s amazing your kids have GPAs as ordinary as the ones you reported on this blog, Swift One. Those special ed teachers can really work wonders.

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