Below is a report from David Sirota who was at this event that was disrupted by Lieberman Campaign workers below is a first hand account of what happened .Word has it that there is video that was caught of the disruptive Lieberyouth thugs blocking the door read the report below.SenatorWatch will try to get video when its available .
Lieberthugs in Hartford
(A report from David Sirota from the tour… more later on this and the great event in Enfield that took place later this morning – Charles)
I must say, it is quite a sight to see young people voiciferously cheer on a broken-down career politician who has used his position to insist that other young people continue to be killed and maimed in a war based on lies. And though I had heard a lot about Joe Lieberman small band of paid thugs from the primary, seeing it up close today was, in a word, frightening.
The moment the bus door opened today at the Hartford senior center at this morning’s first bus tour event, the wild-eyed group of Lieberthugs surrounded and screamed at Ned as he met with seniors. The group was pathetically small, although admittedly loud. They didn’t scream anything other than the word “Joe” – they didn’t chant about the war or any other issue. Just “Joe.”
That was, in poker terms, the “tell.” The fact that they weren’t there to push any issue but instead there to scream the name of a tired career politician – that was the giveaway that these were not impassioned volunteers motivated by a cause – these were mercenaries who have sold their soul for a piece of street money.
When I realized this, I suddenly understood why they were so wild-eyed: because something has to have short circuited in your brain to be a young person willing to so viciously attack someone like Ned Lamont whose candidacy, at its root, is about trying to prevent more young people from being maimed and killed in the Iraq War. Sure, the street money probably helps make this short circuit happen. And as Dan ”$30,000 a Month” Gerstein shows, Lieberman is having to pay people a lot of money to get them to remove their souls.
But still – money only goes so far, and it begs some questions: would the Lieberthugs be willing to sell off their souls if, say, they were on deck to be drafted for combat in Iraq? Would they still be taking Joe’s dirty lobbyist money and screaming “Joe” in the face of an honest war critic if it was their arms and legs that were at risk of being blown off in deference to Lieberman’s “stay the course” policy?
I would like to hope not. I would like to hope that even someone like Dan Gerstein who has proudly auctioned off his humanity for $30,000 a month would behave differently if, for instance, he or his family members were at risk of coming home in a body bag from a war his boss still smiles at and boasts about…
...but something tells me things have gone so wildly off the tracks at the Lieberman campaign asylum that, in fact, they wouldn’t behave any differently. And that gets us back to exactly why the Lieberman campaign is, as I said at the beginning, so frightening: because these people are very openly trying to define American politics as a place that is only about their own power and self-preservation – no matter how many of our troops die because of it.
- David Sirotain Hartford
(A report from David Sirota from the tour… more later on this and the great event in Enfield that took place later this morning – Charles)
I must say, it is quite a sight to see young people voiciferously cheer on a broken-down career politician who has used his position to insist that other young people continue to be killed and maimed in a war based on lies. And though I had heard a lot about Joe Lieberman small band of paid thugs from the primary, seeing it up close today was, in a word, frightening.
The moment the bus door opened today at the Hartford senior center at this morning’s first bus tour event, the wild-eyed group of Lieberthugs surrounded and screamed at Ned as he met with seniors. The group was pathetically small, although admittedly loud. They didn’t scream anything other than the word “Joe” – they didn’t chant about the war or any other issue. Just “Joe.”
That was, in poker terms, the “tell.” The fact that they weren’t there to push any issue but instead there to scream the name of a tired career politician – that was the giveaway that these were not impassioned volunteers motivated by a cause – these were mercenaries who have sold their soul for a piece of street money.
When I realized this, I suddenly understood why they were so wild-eyed: because something has to have short circuited in your brain to be a young person willing to so viciously attack someone like Ned Lamont whose candidacy, at its root, is about trying to prevent more young people from being maimed and killed in the Iraq War. Sure, the street money probably helps make this short circuit happen. And as Dan ”$30,000 a Month” Gerstein shows, Lieberman is having to pay people a lot of money to get them to remove their souls.
But still – money only goes so far, and it begs some questions: would the Lieberthugs be willing to sell off their souls if, say, they were on deck to be drafted for combat in Iraq? Would they still be taking Joe’s dirty lobbyist money and screaming “Joe” in the face of an honest war critic if it was their arms and legs that were at risk of being blown off in deference to Lieberman’s “stay the course” policy?
I would like to hope not. I would like to hope that even someone like Dan Gerstein who has proudly auctioned off his humanity for $30,000 a month would behave differently if, for instance, he or his family members were at risk of coming home in a body bag from a war his boss still smiles at and boasts about…
...but something tells me things have gone so wildly off the tracks at the Lieberman campaign asylum that, in fact, they wouldn’t behave any differently. And that gets us back to exactly why the Lieberman campaign is, as I said at the beginning, so frightening: because these people are very openly trying to define American politics as a place that is only about their own power and self-preservation – no matter how many of our troops die because of it.
- David Sirota
