{"id":1405,"date":"2007-10-05T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2007-10-05T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:10:21","slug":"puppy-stomping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Puppy-Stomping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed points us<\/a> to this story<\/a>, where a bunch of BDS-addled cretins counterprotested…<\/p>\n

…a bunch of daycare kids:<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

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

“Stop brainwashing children to support a president who doesn’t deserve our support,” one man yelled through a bullhorn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, let’s reiterate: I’m a greater proponent of free speech than any <\/em>of my critics.\u00a0 Always.<\/p>\n

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 <\/em>ends justify their <\/em>means, no matter who they crap on in the process.<\/p>\n

Ed said:<\/p>\n

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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scared out of their minds, I bet.<\/p>\n

But no matter; to the BDS-addled “protester”, it’s all about them<\/em>.\u00a0 As Katherine Kersten pointed out earlier this week, indeed, it’s a pathology of some academic interest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Robert Lichter of the Center for Media and Public Affairs has studied protest movements…In his psychological studies of \u201960s-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 \u2014 the need to call attention to themselves, to get public notice.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Lichter says, protesters often latched onto high-sounding motives to justify their self-absorbed actions. \u201cYou can\u2019t take expressions of love for humanity at face value,\u201d he explains. \u201cThey can serve as cover for aggressive feelings and tendencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“It’s all about meeeeeeeeeeeeee”<\/p>\n

Scumbags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}