The organizers of the upcoming Danville TEAParty in Virginia were surprised that their plan to burn life-size effigies of both the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and a moderate freshman congressman, Democrat Tom Perriello, in a massive bonfire, replete (presumably) with half-and-half cocktails of Everclear and lighter fluid, drew some attention in the Liberal Media. They are now reconsidering their protest options.
The chairman of the Danville TEA Party Patriots said Sunday he was unsure about whether the group will continue with its planned effigy burning of Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a bonfire rally Saturday in Blairs.
Hours after news of the bonfire hit the Internet on Friday, at least one national news outlet had the story on its Web site, among dozens of bloggers. Chairman Nigel Coleman said coverage of and public reaction to the event was “kinda strange.”
“We’ve been getting a lot of flack about this,” Coleman said, “about burning those two in effigy and a lot of people in the public are unhappy about it. The story has gotten so large, it’s kinda strange.”
Here’s one of the great paragraphs on the Internet right now:
But Coleman said Sunday that some members of his group were “uneasy” with the idea of counter-protesters and that people might mistake the TEA Party Patriots for being violent. Coleman compared the event to similar acts of protest in the nation’s history, such as opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765.
Oh yeah, just like the Stamp Act, from history books.
They might as well give up at this point. Publicity stunts are never cool when people know about them.
Danville TEA Party group unsure whether to burn Perriello, Pelosi in effigy [Lynchburg News & Advance]
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Kristalnacht anyone?
Oh, c’mon assholes. Don’t hide your lit fart under a bushell.
Iran 1979 anyone?
How about a Nancy Pelosi Pinata. … oh yeah, nm.
Southern people in a town called LYNCHberg plan to burn effigies. That won’t end badly at all. Don’t tell these tea party folk what Nancy Pelosi thinks of Mary Phegan.
Cover ‘em with stamps, then burn ‘em! Problem solved.
[re=459491]Fox n Fiends[/re]: Yeah, that too.
I totally support their bonfire. As long as they hold it inside their house.
What’s a TEAP? And how does a TEAP become arty?
Is the burning some kind of performance art that the arty TEAP was planning?
Their original plan of burning actual people never made it passed the drawing board.
Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 99 Jews were murdered and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Hitler Youth, Gestapo, SS and SA. Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews.
Not quite the same, I’d say.
Publicity stunts are never cool when people know about them.
Kind of like breaking the “Going Rogue” embargo. NOT COOL.
Torching a life-sized image of a person is considered “violent”? Who knew?
““We were using it as a symbol of how things are similar to that (colonial) period in history,” he said.”
Yep, things are so similar; I remember from history class how the colonists were all pissed off at Parliament’s plan to give everybody health care. And of course, Obama is violating the 3rd Amendment and following George III by forcing Americans to quarter British soldiers in their houses; that’s why the teabaggers are screaming that he’s tearing apart the Constitution.
I also love the response: “We had no idea such a stupid, divisive, bone-headed show of ignorance and intolerance would be so poorly received! Weird!”
It’s a bit like the 30 male GOPers who voted against the Franken Anti-Rape Amendment: “We completely miscalculated that people would not look kindly on us voting in favor of gang rape. In fact, it’s Franken’s fault because if he hadn’t come up with such a ‘gotcha’ amendment, we could have voted for rape anonymously, no one would have known, and we could have continued to pay lip service to equality and equity in government contracting!”
So, in closing, I’m truly sorry if you bunch of right-wing assholes somehow took my comments the wrong way, because I really didn’t mean to implicitly say that you’re all a bunch of dip-shits who can’t comprehend that racist, sexist, and just plain dumb behavior gets the response it DESERVES. Also.
Today, we are all kinda strange life-sized burning effigies.
They were thinking of an era of political unrest which was completely non-violent, like the one involving the Stamp Act. As I recall King George went on to produce his actual birth certificate, which proved he was not the rightful ruler of America. Embarrassed by this, he promptly apologized and sent our founding fathers a case of tea and crumpets to congratulate us on our newfound independence.
[re=459502]Chain Tattoo[/re]: How much art would a TEAP arty burn if a TEAP arty could burn art?
[re=459509]JMP[/re]: You know what would be cool? A counter-protest in bright red uniforms and muskets.
[re=459503]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Sadly, the latest comment to the article wishes they were doing just that in all apparent seriousness. It’s nearly impossible to parody the wignunts these days; the real thing always ends up worse.
Why not just hang up an erotic blow up doll with Nancy Pelosi’s name scrawled on it in feces, and have participants at the rally pay 50 cents for the chance to rape it’s mouth? Surely nobody would find that offensive.
[re=459504]mightycpa[/re]: It’s the first thing that came to mind, burning things whether books or effigies in a calculated fashion for political ends indicates a certain mindset.
Everclear and lighter should not be mixed and should not be mixed up.
VoE
(Voice of Experience)
If they’re really anxious to burn something, I would be happy to send them a couple hundred copies of ‘Going Rogue.’ I’m sure all the bullshit will make a purty blue flame.
1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
Militant Islamic students in Iran have stormed the US embassy in the Iranian capital,Tehran, and taken more than 90 people hostage. The students have demanded that the Shah of Iran, who fled the country in January, be extradited from the US, where he is currently receiving medical treatment for cancer, to stand trial in Iran.
It is reported that revolutionary guards and police did nothing to stop the take-over and Iranian television has indicated its support for the action by broadcasting live pictures of the siege.
Islamic militants burn an effigy of the deposed Shah of Iran outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Again, I would argue, not quite the same thing.
Oh dear God, I’m from there. It really pains me to think of how many people I know who will probably be in attendance.
Coleman was born to burn. The world is literally his briquet.
What a perfectly good waste of Everclear. Besides, for the price the TEA-Peepees would pay for one bottle of PGA, they could get three gallon jugs of Dark Eyes vodka which, as everyone knows, is a slower burn but a far better drunk.
[re=459509]JMP[/re]: If they’re so into recreating Colonial Times and the War of Independence, why don’t they just get it over with and volunteer to be war reeanactors? They can burn as many effigies, quote from the Founding Fathers, and pretend to shoot things in the name of “Freedom” as much as they’d like. And as for the rest of us, I think we’d all get a kick out of them have suffer through a winter in Valley Forge. Without health care.
OK, stamp act;
On August 14, 1765 Andrew Oliver, distributor of stamps for Massachusetts, was hung in effigy “from a giant elm tree at the crossing of Essex and Orange Streets in the city’s South End.” Also hung was a Jack boot painted green on the bottom (“a Green-ville sole”) – a pun on both Grenville and the Earl of Bute, the two persons most blamed by the colonists. The sheriff, Stephen Greenleaf, was ordered by Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson to take the effigy down, but was opposed by a large crowd. All day the crowd detoured merchants on Orange Street to have their goods symbolically stamped under the elm (the elm tree later became known as the “Liberty Tree”). At night, a crowd, led by Ebenezer MacIntosh, a Seven Years’ War veteran and current shoemaker, cut down the mock Oliver and took it in a funeral procession to the Town House where the legislature met. From there they went to Oliver’s office, tore it down, symbolically stamped the timbers, and took the effigy to Oliver’s home at the foot of Fort Hill where they beheaded and burned the effigy along with Oliver’s stable house and coach and chaise. Greenleaf and Hutchinson were stoned when they tried to stop the mob which then proceeded to loot and destroy the contents of Oliver’s house. Oliver asked to be relieved of his duties the next day.[43] This resignation however was not enough. Oliver was ultimately forced by MacIntosh to be paraded through the streets and publicly resign under the Liberty Tree. (Thanks, Wikipedia!)
I have no point, I just thought that was exceedingly weird.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: lookey lookey who figured out the wikipedia. The point is that this isn’t 1930s Germany or 1979 Iran and the tea baggers have regressed to those two places and times which is a damn shame…and very un’merican.
[re=459516]chaste everywhere[/re]: An arty TEAP would burn all the art he could, if an arty TEAP could burn art.
[re=459541]snideinplainsight[/re]: Yeah that’s pretty much how I saw the teabagger party about to play out.
Now they should be taunted for wimping out. Another “gimme”.
Ah, yes, because the Stamp Act protests were quiet, peaceful, and no violence occurred at all.
[re=459519]JMP[/re]: WE ARE TRULY A NATION OF WINNERS.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: See my previous post about your pedantic disagreement with my comparing this event to Kristalnacht.
[re=459555]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Whiners?
How will they defend their right to eat delicious ice cream with mix-ins if they can’t burn images of political figures in effigy?
[re=459540]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Considering how much of what the founding fathers actually said goes completely against wignut ideology, though, that might prove somewhat problematic. Still, they could simply follow their usual method of just making shit up.
Why are wingnuts always trying to imitate 250 year old Massachusetts liberals?
William F. Buckley, Jr. wouldn’t think anything of burning Nancy Pelosi in effigy, because WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. IS DEAD!!!
OMG, that just gets better every time I do it! Bring on Levi Hockey-stick!
[re=459551]Oldskool[/re]: APPEASEMENT!! BY NOT BURNING SAN FRAN PELOCI THEY ARE JUST LKE NEVILE CHAMBLAIN AT MUNICH!1!
[re=459544]takes12no1[/re]: And another thing, these “TEAParty” schmucks have a lot of sack comparing themselves to our Founding Fathers. Washington, Adams, Hancock, Franklin and company put themselves in real, honest to God mortal peril doing what they did. King George and his government would have happy to hang, draw and quarter them all for their acts. These dolts are chicken hawk, country club commandoes who rant and rave how the government is taxing them to death and taking over their lives and woe and betide the socialist menace taking over our country….and then take advantage of and fully expect all the advantages of the liberal society they decry. FUCK them. Assholes all.
[re=459569]Spike[/re]: A bunch of long haired liberals growing hemp and protesting against King George? 1775 Boston or 2005 Berkeley?
maybe we can all just agree that effigy burning is an automatic FAIL.
i mean… i haven’t researched effigy burning, but i’ve never seen one where i thought, “huh… i wish i’d thought of that.”
Gotta love the comments on that Lynchburg article. Burning flag = bad. Burning people = good. Lynchburg. Go figure.
there is gonna be a tea party at burning man?
I’ll bring my gunpowder green and some oolong
[re=459583]binarian[/re]: word.
Teabaggers: This is why dressing up in KKK costumes is worth the time. Then you don’t have to back down from anything. Plus they make you a like a superhero & you don’t have to wear underpants. Duh.
[re=459504]mightycpa[/re]: Has somebody pointed out yet how rather NSFW your avatar is?
This is proof that teabaggers are dumber than a bag of diapers:
“Tea partiers punk’d into supporting removal of white people from US -”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66qDqfZm7k
[re=459639]sati demise[/re]: Thanks. I tend to wax lyrical when outraged. There, I’m doing it again.
[re=459639]sati demise[/re]: keep your gunpowder green dry!
[re=459504]mightycpa[/re]: Good point. Of course, Obama’s not quite the same as Hitler, and the health care bill doesn’t quite equal the holocaust, either, but both have been repeatedly, loudly and publicly suggested by the teabag movement.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: Serious much? Get a (looser) grip. In fact, join “Concerned citizens of Danville united for freedom, fighting for America.” I know, they spell that T.E.A. for some reason, but cut ‘em some slack. But at least they’re running a special on trolls this week.
I think the Tea Party boys and girls would do well to read their history, before they start making comparisons Just like the Stamp Act Protests? How about ransacking houses?
“Out-of-door meetings were difficult to control. The line between liberty and license to riot was not easily maintained.
“This was never clearer than on August 26th, when a bonfire was lit on [Boston's] King Street (today’s State Street). A large and unruly crowd gathered. The object of their anger that night was [the King's appointed Lt. Governor] Thomas Hutchinson, a man whose arrogance, ambition, power, and wealth made him one of the most unpopular men in Massachusetts. The mob attacked his house, one of the city’s most elegant homes, where they proceeded to loot the contents and tear down walls and part of the roof, reducing the mansion to a mere shell. Several hundred people watched, without moving to stop the violence.”
Now these guys are getting scared over a few effigies, burned and beheaded. Sheesh. They just don’t make protests like they used to!
[re=459504]mightycpa[/re]: Holocaust concern troll is concerned about comparing things to the Holocaust. Thanks, Holocaust concern troll!
LOOKS LIKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS UNLEASHED A WAVE OF DITHERING ACROSS THE NATION. REMEMBER D-D-D, DICK DIDN’T DITHER.
methinks yon TeaBaggers have begun to take the bread and circuses a might too seriously.
[re=459583]binarian[/re]: Yep, sounds about right!
[re=459540]Hooray For Anything[/re]:
Good one.
That would kill two birds with one stone if each one were issued a
comic bookgraphic novel that explained how you can still freeze to death in spite of global warming.I think these people should be encouraged to get drunk and light large fires. I think this is a capital plan, indeedee!
So wait, after the tea parties and effigy burnings and whatnot, the colonists declared independence, right? So what are the tea baggers waiting for? SECEDE ALREADY.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: Concern troll is concerned.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: That’s true. As far as we know, Nancy Pelosi did not use the C.I.A. to overthrow the democratically elected government of Teabagging.
[re=460008]artpepper[/re]: It is also different because the teabaggers tend to almost always be white and Republican.
“Kinda strange” is probably the most inappropriate uses of words to describe the reaction to this. Someone get this man a thesaurus.
[re=459532]mightycpa[/re]: From the Oxford Dictionary website:
Satire /sattir/
• noun 1 the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. 2 a play, novel, etc. using satire. 3 (in Latin literature) a literary miscellany, especially a poem ridiculing prevalent vices or follies.
— DERIVATIVES satirist noun.
— ORIGIN Latin satira ‘poetic medley’.
You’ll get along much better with your fellow Wonketteers if you keep the above in mind at all times.
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