I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
to control crowds so Bush won't have to see them!
To make America safe from free-thinkers!!
Or else, maybe he really doesn't have OBL yet and is looking for any answer he can find...
for democracy, of course
and besides, with a $200M campaign bankroll, that's just pocket change.
Probably to go after that orgiastic hippy Ashton Kuchner.
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So many blogs to troll 24/7 can't be cheap.
The Bush HQ in Arlington VA occupies several floors of an office building, and upscale office buildings such as this one typically provide security for their tenants.
the office building in question is next to the Arlington County Courthouse, around the corner from the police department and a heavily protected area
So many blogs to troll 24/7 can't be cheap.
Then we have another group of overpaid repug operatives who aren't very good at what they do.
D*I*R*T*Y T*R*I*C*K*S
for boobies?
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We used to hire Pinkertons for this kind of thing, at least in the salad days of the shrubbery, but they dont go in much any more for organised, pay-as-you-go thuggery. At least not the kind that Rove holds, apparently, so dear.
Oh my. I'm coming parlously close to defamation. Gee.
Maybe the first step in privatizing the Secret Service....
We are so out of brown shirts. Why is everyone buying brown shirts? That's so, like, Sopranos or something.
This is, like, so weird.
Dirty tricks is right. I predict that they're planning mischief for the republican convention- they know protests are planned.
John Kerry announced today that he is selling several of his houses and firing 50 servants so you fuck heads don't have to send him any more money.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Alex Polier.
Alex Polier, who?
You know -- Alex Polier, the chick John Kerry was banging and then paid off to keep quiet.
Slightly OT
But has anyone seen this Pravda article?
Bush envies Putin
..."Democracy is an evolutionary process. I would like to congratulate Mr. Putin and the delegates of the State Duma with their victory. I would like to learn how we could reach the same level of support for Republicans and President Bush for the elections in our country," said Lott.
How to do it?
1. Bring all televised media under state control.
2. Ban all public political discourse - this blog would be illegal in Russia (not joking).
3. Silence all opposition candidates, kill if necessary ("helicopter crashes" and "street crime" work well in this regard)
4. Remember, Putin invented the "flight suit photo-op", but Bush has already used it.
This is seriously scary Sh-t.
since someone asked yesterday, you coud send the Daily Kos post and URL to:
info@ap.org
atc@npr.org
onlinenewshour@newshour.org
evening@cbsnews.com
nightly@nbc.com
mtp@nbc.com
politicalunit@abcnews.com
nightline@abcnews.com
Sounds like the seeds of ratfucking (see "All the Predsident's Men")
Or maybe it is just to get the thug patrol prepared for another Florida fiasco.
Hello, trolls? The Alex Polier story has been pretty much debunked -- that's why it's been on the news so much lately -- NOT!
Do you guys ever feel the stupid seeping out of your heads?
do not feed the trolls
The question is, what for?
for bustin heads
Can I have "inciting violence in protests at the Republican convention" in the office pool? I'll take low odds.
No, Jane: John's pals gave me big bucks to shut up apout all the fucking we did together.
Then you're a skank for talking about it, arn't ya?
Please. Echoes of McCain 2000....
I can think of one semi-legitimate use for this largess. Payment in advance for a contract to do bodyguard duty for all the muckity-mucks at the convention in NY.
I bet the republicans are scared shitless that the angry peasant hordes are going to attack them in NYC. The secret service will only guard the super top muckity mucks, and the second tier muckity mucks are probably balking.
It's a theory. My second guess is straightforward ratfucking.
Well, Ms. Polier, you took the money. Doesn't that make you a 'ho?
Oh great, on top of it all, Shrub has now hired a Praetorian Mall Cop brigade.
"It's a theory. My second guess is straightforward ratfucking."
With a way to deduct the cost off somebody's taxes - dont forget how important that is.
Oh great, on top of it all, Shrub has now hired a Praetorian Mall Cop brigade.
too funny for words
They're planning to off Georgie when things start to look grim. They'll declare marshal law to deal with the "uprising," and that will be that.
Well, the rubber bullets and wooden dowels that protesters in San Francisco got shot with couldn't have been free.
For duck hunting. "Quack"
You know, John Kerry could fuck Hillary Clinton in Times Square and sell tickets to fund his campaign, at the same time burning the American Flag and spitting on mom, apple pie, and baseball. It still doesn't change the fact the George W. Bush has GOT TO GO.
Well SOMEONE has to score coke for W.
Dick will not do it after that whole 'oww, oww, my chest, I cant feel my left arm' incident trying to to score a key to keep Bush sweet for that last SOTU address . The big wuss.
It's been diverted to the CIA/DOD slush fund that goes towards developing the U.S Anti-gravity, UFO-like, vehicle research program out at Area 51.
MYOB'
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Why exactly is the Bush Campaign paying Benson Mineral Group for "deliveries"? What's an oil company delivering for them? They have any contracts in Iraq? Maybe they're delivering WMDs to be found.
And why do all of their staffers live at PO Box 10648, Arlington, VA? They don't appear to be paying Virginia income tax, since the campaign in sending payroll tax payments to other states.
Black shirts and leather boots don't come cheap anymore, you know.
hey, vance intl is hiring:
Tactical Security Officer
Start Date: TBD
Location: TBD
Duties: (1) Basic minimum requirements - All positions with APT require candidates to be at least 21 years old, agree to a thorough background investigation, and drug testing, as well as commit to extended work assignments of 45 days or more. APT candidates should be prepared to deploy rapidly, and maintain an extended work schedule. Most assignments require 12-hour days, six or seven days per week. (2) Selected applicants must complete a 5-day security orientation course covering constitutional law, report writing, first aid, self-defense, crowd control, and intense physical training. APT courses are conducted at various sites throughout the United States, and include transportation, meals and lodging. Candidates are not paid for training, wages begin the first day of deployment. (3) During deployment, APT provides transportation, lodging, uniforms, meals, and worker’s compensation insurance for job-related accidents or injuries.
Requirements: Tactical Security Officer: Candidates must have a minimum of two years military, law enforcement or security experience. APT security officers are paid hourly. A typical work day consists of a 12 hour day; 8 hours regular time and 4 hours overtime which usually totals $110 for those hours worked. Additionally, all hours worked over 40 in a week are paid at the overtime rate. Therefore, a 7 day, 12 hour day work week will total $833.16 earned.
To keep from seeing the MASSIVE CROWD expected this coming Thursday in Boston AT PARK PLAZA when Bush comes in for a $2K/plate fundraiser. But we'll give 'em hell anyway!! (If you live in the Boston area, please join us! Click here for some - albeit scanty - information).
My guess...
The Republican Convention in New York.
The president doesn't need extra bodyguards. But if one dreadlocked kid throws a rock the news media will how "Left Wing Violence" for years.
Vance is the kind of company that shows up, creates a vibe, scares the shit out of people, maybe even has a few agent provocatuers among the protestors, and knows how to spin events their way in the media. Not so much control of the crowd, as control of the coverage of the crowd and their action. If something goes down, it's 1/10 who did what, and 9/10 who manages the blame for what happened.
Alot of you on this site have been very dismissive of the IndyMedia crowd, but it should be noted that in Seattle they had organizations there to do nothing except film police and paramilitary brutality. They would take these videos and instantly duplicate them and condense them so they could be huzstled out of the area by bicycle or file transfer and gotten to the media. It worked to a point (There is an amazing documentary on the subject) and the only reason we know what happened there at all is these repots. But they rarely made "real" media. At one point the cops surrounded the duplicating office to stop the duping of these tapes, altho there was no violence anywhere near there. They were blocking the the duplicating and transmitting of evidence of cop brutality with lines of cops in riot gear.
The violence in Seattle was overwhelmly against peaceful protestors by overzealous, militarized cops. There are thousands of reports and hundreds of documented cases. But the media latched on to two or three vids of punk rockers trashing a Starbucks, and the Left was set back decades and labeled with a false charge of being street violent and anarchistic. The complaints of the anti-gloablization movement are sophisticated and well founded, but they have never been taken seriously because it is associated with violent protest. We've worked hard for two years to get the message about Bush to the media, and int he end it could go down in history as a vibe that existed only among violent street protestors and punk rockers and sucked the middle left in and discredited them (which would give Bush something of a pass for history).
New York will be a serious protest scene. Managed the wrong way, one or two ugly inciddents getting into the Mightly Wurlitzer, it could hurt us bad.
This... is could be why Vance is consulting with these guys. And this is why we need a support network even more sophisticated than IndyMedia to document what goes on there and make sure we don't end up on the losing side of history in what is almost certainly going to be the New York Convention "Riots" of 2004.
bkny -- Well, that $750k is obviously not going to the goon-squads-on-the-street, since Vance pays shit. $110/12h day day is like $9.16/hr. That tells me something else, too: Anybody who's doing that kind of thing is not doing it because they need the money...more like because they, uh, enjoy the work. Uh oh.
atrios still asking what for?!!
observed in earlier thread; compare to Kos.
Vance are strikebreakers. They create violence which is then blamed on protestors and used by the police as an excuse for cracking down.
(slowly so you catch it) NEW YORK
All security guard companies pay shit. They love it when unemployment is high; the quality of candidates who will work for low pay is better. In better times some clients wanted to pay so little for security that they would be told that the type of people they would get for those rates were the same people they were trying to keep out.
courtesy of 56k's link
VANCE IS OPENING AN OFFICE IN IRAQ
by way of 56k
RE: Bush in Boston.
Screw that "Demonstration at the Bandstand on the Common" shit!
The bastard is at the Park Plaza Hotel, not the Boston Common.
The demonstration HAS/NEEDS to be AT the Park Plaza Hotel.
Joe -
Your scenario is quite accurate. But the fact is whether there are 600 or 600,000 protesters, some in the media will find a wigged-out crazy to "represent" the anti-Bushites.
We must show up in such large numbers that at least the shear size of the crowd will speak to the world of our concerns. My biggest fear isn't that we will be labled "radicals". That will happen regardless. I am more concerned that the size of the protest will be significant enough to send the intended message.
Well, I hope and expect that there's going to be as little trouble as possible in NYC come August or whenever it is.
The omens from the protest today seemed good - but who can tell, I suppose...
Surely it'd be in everyone's interests to have as little trouble as possible - including Bush's?
Hmmmm, if Soros and other Daddy Warbucks types can't give more than $2K to Kerry, maybe they could help out by keeping an eye on Vance and their ilk. Hire a few investigators of their own. Chump change for these guys.
Are they minders of First Amendment Pens? Salted in amongst "enemies"? Maybe salted in amongst the Good and Faithful Potemkin Placard Holders, Just In Case? Ah, the fun of speculation!
Scorpio
http://scorpio.typepad.com/eccentricity
Sheesh, $110 for a 12 hour day? Thank goodness for my union!
Exactly right Slats. If its not huge it will be played that way by the media. I think these guys have a plan already in place to isolate the left as a bunch of crazies. Hell most of them been around since Nixon, you can think up some evil shit given a couple decades...
Slats, not that we don't agree, but that one prewar antiwar demonstraation was huge, it had a delegation on fucking Antarctica, it was truly on all continents. Bush isn't listening. John "40,000 more!" Kerry isn't really listening, although we will vote for him barring any name changes. We need a way to take the Democratic party back, or at least convince it to act like an opposition. In the sickeningly cynical analysis that has been so horribly right lately, the DLC Dems love Bush. They love this "we hate Bush so much we won't expect too much from Dems" crap. Blacks in Florida found out the hard way what it means to not really have a choice: they elected JEB in reaction to DLC bastards taking their support for granted and...well, you know what happened.
On fronts less practical: is there some way we could write a nonthreatening but nevertheless withering letter to Bush et al? Granted he'd never read them, or know they were pouring in, but imagine if an AP photographer could document mountains of nonthreatening HATE mail being trucked in for wahhabi al-Bushi?
He could get away with it. He could get away with everything like fucking Kenny Boy stealing eight billion dollars from CA and never getting fucking talked to by a cop. There was an old newsreel bit on Kaiser Wilhelm II living the rest of his life in a Dutch cottage and, according to the rather silly narrator, living long enough that the world forgot its anger at him. Of course, Bush is unaware of any anger and would be spending the rest of his life in the same old bubble, but same thing. Look at how that filthy bloodthirsty Nixon became an "elder statesman".
3WA
Any chance Vance International was recently in Haiti?
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