local6.com - Politics - Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando

local6.com - Politics - Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando

A group of protestors stormed and then ransacked a Bush-Cheney headquarters building in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, according to Local 6 News.
Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando protestors face possible assault charges after the group forced their way inside the Republican headquarters office.
While in the building, some of the protestors drew horns and a mustache on a poster of President George W. Bush and poured piles of letters in the office, according to the report.
"We told them to leave, they broke the law," Republican headquarters volunteer Mike Broom said.
Two protestors received minor injuries when the crowd stormed the building, including a Republican volunteer.
One of the protestors said she wanted to send a message.
"We want to send a clear message to Bush, we want him to take his hands off our overtime pay," protestor Esmeralda Heuilar said.
Local 6 News learned that most of the protestors were from the AFL-CIO and were taking part in one of 20 other coordinated protests around the country.
A spokesperson with the AFL-CIO told Local 6 News that the Orlando protest did not go as planned.

I had an article about that overtime pay which they protest. Sadly, these protestors don't even have the slightest idea what Bush changed in the overtime pay law. Someone told these people that Bush will take away their overtime pay. I wouldn't really doubt that it's AFL-CIO. My article is here. The AFL-CIO has actually been saying that Bush wants to beat workers. Seriously, they say he wants to allow companies to physically abuse workers, and is trying to weaken unions to allow this. They don't seem to realize that abuse is illegal in any situation. Very few people are actually being dropped from the guaranteed overtime pay list, while over 1 million workers will be added to the list.

But these protestors are idiots, and its no use trying to explain rational thought, especially since none of them will read this blog. This isn't the first time this type of thing has happened. Twice, bullets have been fired into GOP buildings. One event was right after the GOP convention, and the other was today or yesterday. Also, only a few days ago, a GOP office was raided and three computers were stolen (with some rather sensitive information that the GOP wants to keep private, for legitimate reasons). I can't believe this type of thing is actually happening. By election day, someone in a GOP office just may get shot or permanently injured. The right wing was sympathetic when Clinton got heart surgery. I simply wish the left wing can show the same respect, or at least ban those who go too far.

There is an excellent speech Reagan gave when a fellow politician (I think) was murdered. I'll try to dig it up. It is one of the best made-on-the-spot speeches I have ever heard.