The New Orleans Beating: Real Violence, Real Evidence, No Media
Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, believes that the attackers picked their target. Bautsch had ventured to the front door of the restaurant when Brennan’s employees announced to the crowd the governors had left, which may have given the protesters a good look at her — and the perception that she was an organizer or official for the fundraiser. Considering that Villere had been chased while other attendees were allowed to exit but with a torrent of profanity and verbal abuse, Berning’s opinion warrants investigation.
After the attack, New Orleans Police officers arrived and arranged for EMS personnel to attend to the couple. But the initial report on the case was filed as a “fight,” rather than the second-degree battery it obviously was. (As an aside, New Orleans Police have recently been caught employing a practice designed to artificially improve the city’s crime statistics.)
As a result, no investigation began on the case until Monday, April 12 — three days after the attack.
NOPD detective Nick Gernon, the detective assigned to the case, didn’t speak with Brown until April 12 and with Bautsch until April 15 — six days after the attack.
Gernon, a veteran detective with a solid reputation, is believed to be investigating the protesters. However, as Villere has said he believes the attackers were likely “professional agitators” brought in from outside New Orleans, it’s quite possible the delays in opening the investigation have left Gernon little to work with.
The local media and national media have avoided acknowledging the potential political nature of the assault all along, even after revelations of significant circumstantial evidence.
The Iron Rail Book Collective, whose website and blog are covered with revolutionary and anti-capitalist rhetoric, hosted two flyers advertising the demonstration, and also an eight-page brochure filled with intense verbiage. It repeatedly stated that SRLC attendees were not welcome in New Orleans four years after Republicans had “drowned” the city, and called for “direct action” and “active resistance” against the conferees.
Members of the Iron Rail encouraged the protesters to join them in adjourning to Brennan’s, both through another set of flyers they issued on site and by use of a public-address system to “invite” their comrade demonstrators to march on the restaurant. That a relatively tame — if profane and obnoxious — protest turned unruly and dangerous at the eatery could be the result of strategic planning.
Bautsch has identified photos of an auburn-haired, “dirty-looking” protester from both the Hilton and Brennan’s demonstrations as looking “exactly” like the assailant the couple described to police, though she admitted she can’t positively identify the protester.
On the Iron Rail-produced brochure of the protest is a map of five hotels at which SRLC attendees were principally lodged during the conference. Two members of the Iron Rail Gang — Joanna Dubinsky and Daniel Mauch — took down YouTube videos and Facebook pages identifying them and their compatriots as having participated in the event last week after scrutiny of the Iron Rail commenced. Dubinsky is pictured in photos and video at both the Hilton and Brennan’s, speaking into the PA system while wearing a red-and-black anarcho-communist flag (which is also pictured on the Iron Rail website). Neither has come forward to deny having knowledge regarding the perpetrators of the attack.
None of this information seems to have piqued the curiosity of the local New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune. T-P reporting has focused on the NOPD’s initial police report, which is substantially incomplete. Local television and radio news outlets have shown a similarly incurious attitude toward the case. Outside of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, to date no traditional national outlet has deigned to investigate what seems to be a pin in the balloon of the “right-wing violence” narrative.
Della Berning is caring for her injured and traumatized daughter on a long-distance basis (she currently lives in Florida), with diminishing hope that the assailants who shattered her leg and put a rising career on a three-month hiatus will ever be brought to justice.
Bautsch and Brown have to date received no expressions of sympathy or support — or even vows to catch the attackers — from either outgoing New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin or Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu.
And the public is left to wonder whether the legacy media is at all concerned with finding the truth or investigating incidents of leftist violence.
One: My sympathy to the two victims and best wishes for a speedy recovery and return to politics. Thug tactics like those have no place anywhere, anytime in the US. Ever. Find the assailants. Try them. Jail them for a long time. And sue the entity for damages.
Two: wondering what NOPD was doing before the attack (and thanking my lucky stars for the LAPD which would have been there in seconds once the people congregated outside). Is it normal to have people harrassed in restaraunts like that in NO nowdays?
Three: CNN will feature “The tea PArty: Dangerous Rhetoric?” You won’t see this. After all, they were only republicans.
Four: The LA Times ran a short story on the “fight” mentioning that the young woman evidently “fell.” (Like demonstartors stood in front of Bull Connor’s hoses to cool off).
It is quite obvious that New Orleans is no longer a safe town. The police dept has no interest in protecting visitors.
It’s time to get out the word to everyone you know. Hit the SOB’s the only way we can, in the pocket book. Turn NO into a ghost town.
NOLA is never a safe town. The French Quarter, Warehouse Dist. and the Garden Dist. are fairly well policed, sometimes. The rest of the city? Go armed or don’t go.
FINALLY! Thanks PJ Media. ‘Bout time you guys showed up. You do realize that the iron rail anarchists are laughing their arses off(?) They might have been a bit nervous at first, but in light of the fact that the media is ignoring this story, I doubt they are now. So sad and so pathetic.
We were being careful; the first reports were pretty firmly against it being politically motivated.
Now we have good reason to think otherwise.
How the HECK can you have an anarcho-communist organization with anarchy being the absence of government and communism being the strongest form of centralized government power possible? They call OTHER PEOPLE stupid? What do they do at the Iron Rail Book thing-a-ma-bob, burn books instead of read them?
The anarcho-communists believe not just in the absence of govt, but the absence of private property as well. And they are willing to set up committees to ensure that nobody has any property. The fact that these “committees” are actually a form of govt has never managed to down on one of these cretins.
Where were the cameras or camera phones? If you go to an event that you know will have violent protests or once you find them there get some damn cameras at least. If they were being harassed like that the police should have been called immediately, especially with high ranking politicians present. Why no private security, especially given New Orleans’ corrupt reputation? The actions of the police and Mayor certainly do nothing to dispel that rep. This makes my blood boil.
There’s something terribly wrong when the interests of narrative outweigh justice. These thugs that brutally beat Bautsch and Brown deserve to be locked up. No doubt having a well-publicized account of the event nation-wide would make their capture that much more likely, especially if the accompanying suspect photos and descriptions were put to view. It infuriates me to see the media LIE about non-existent violence at tea parties, but ignore a truly reprehensible act of violence all in the name of their precious political narrative.
Now that the victims have issued their statement there can be no doubt that this is a truly heinous crime of political intimidation by Democrats and other Leftists. This nice young couple was just working hard for a Governor and the ideas that they believe in at SRLC, and the Democrats and other Leftists beat them so severely that their surgeons estimate a three month recovery.
Ask yourself: Can you ever again see any Democrat or other Leftist public figure that has not owned that their own broke Allee and Joe’s bones, condemned the attackers and their cohorts, and apologized without also seeing these pictures in your mind and thinking that they are just a little complicit?
Also ask yourself: Can anyone that continues to deny that this savage crime occurred or the political nature of it be far removed in character from those who committed it?
Wouldn’t it be nice if Chuck Norris had been leaving the restaurant? Bullies like this won’t stop until their own noses are broken, imho.
Except Chuck Norris wouldn’t be caught dead at an RNC fundraiser. You might have seen him if it were a fundraiser for Gov. Jindal’s reelection campaign, or a fundraiser for any Republican candidate for Congress, but not an RNC fundraiser. There are too many good old boys in the RNC for conservatives to support it.
I attended an antiwar march in Los Angeles in 2004. I was there as a counterprotester. There were about 50 or so others with me.
The 15,000 antiwar marchers were so outraged at our little group of 50 that we had to have police protection. We stopped the entire march by simply showing up and waving our American flags.
Even the “free-speech lawyers” in their bright green caps–there to protect the rights of the marchers–were shouting threats and profanity at us. There were weight-lifter goons with shaved heads challenging us to fist fights, and hysterical, dirty girls screaming “Murderers! Murderers!” A couple of times the cops had to help people move along by shoving them as hard as they could, at which point they would start wailing “Police brutality!”
It was an amazing, utterly repulsive combination of animalistic thuggery and infantilism. Never seen anything like it in my life.
Thus the left reveals it’s true nature.
There is no acceptance, only blind hatred towards anyone who gets in their way.
I wonder if any of our left leaning trolls will show up to express regrets and condolences?
How ya gunna spin this one, Skeeziks?
Skeeziks the Rat won’t poke his snout out of his filthy hole on this one, I’d wager.
Rats aside, this is one good reason why I never go anywhere unarmed. I have a CCW that’s honored in many states. Look for more of this sort of behavior from the monsters on the Left. And look for a vigorous and muscular response to it.
Thanks so much for asking . . .
“And both have said . . . they can’t prove the attack was an explicitly political one . . . ”
If I were you, I’d worry about the police state conservatards have created in Arizona. So much for your love of limited government. Any questions?
Skeezixs, if I were you I’d … no, that’s simply too horrible to contemplate.
Let me see if I understand. There are, by Obama’s estimate about 15 Million Illegal aliens in the country. You may call them “undocumented workers” I call them criminals. Because Bush and Obama have chosen to ignore the law regarding illegal aliens you are saying that the people of Arizona must comply? I disagree. If I break into your house and if the police don’t eject me, by your argument you can’t eject me either. Oh by the way while I’m in your house you have to pay my doctor, provide legal assistance, and feed me for the 10 or so years it takes to get me out. Sound good to you??
Try and focus on the point at hand, moho. Real political violence in this country is by a wide margin a product of the left. You can try and spin and distract all day with your inane nonsense, but nobody here is buying it.
Arresting illegals is the definition of a police state.
Interesting piece of non-logic there. Though about the best anyone could hope for from you.
Why be a goon and bring Arizona into it.That state has the best idea”lock and load” to dems and other antiamericans.
This is typical. Nobody wants to “pass judgment” without proof. Admirable and restrained, the way our justice system used to be. But these anarcho-communist “protests” always escalate to violence, whether property or personal, and that movement, if it may be called such, attracts the marginal and the violence-prone. The ideology matters very little. The whole point is to attack and destroy. So, yes, even if the perpetrators weren’t actually official protestors, they are responsible for the crime, and the “official” protestors are responsible for creating an atmosphere of violence.
For those who want to lay the same charge at Tea Partiers, I defy you to find similar incidences of Tea Partier violence, or even rampant bad manners. And no, shouting “Repeal Obamacare”, and waving Gadsden flags, are not violence.
By the way, is it at all coincidental that most of these “protestors” were university-aged whites? Should we conclude that they are racists because they oppose Indian-American Bobby Jindal? I say, maybe he’s not good at speeches, but by God, he’s pissed off all the right people.
But the initial report on the case was filed as a “fight,” rather than the second-degree battery it obviously was. (As an aside, New Orleans police have recently been caught employing a practice designed to artificially improve the city’s crime statistics.)
The police downgrading the crime is a distinct possibility. Brennan’s is in a high-traffic area and there is a police station a couple of blocks from where the attack occurred (or at least there was when I lived in New Orleans pre-Katrina).
I hope they find these scumbags and lock them up. I’d like to see the GOP have better security at events and gatherings.
If you believe Democrats about the origins of political violence, it’s the anti-capitalist, anti-conservative, anti-Republican rhetoric of “mainstream” Democrat politicians, not the anarchists, that fueled this incident.
If you follow the Democrat’s own logic, it’s the mainstream rhetoric that inflames the rhetoric and actions of the extremists.
CRUSH ON, OBAMA! NOW do you see WHY we need Universal Health Care? (Maybe THAT’s the angle to get Chris Matthews to cover this.)
Seems to me this is just the sort of fascist behavior that Olbermann should be decrying.
Hold before blaming the democrats. it may be the far left people identified in the story and not democratic party people: let’s not do a CNN.
Oh wake up.
Hatespeech had been turned into a crime because it INCITES VIOLENCE by DEHUMANISING people. The lawlessness of Barry’s America is the direct cause of this animalistic assault. This is what the politics of fear looks like in Indonesia or Saudi Arabia. With the tacit approval of the Chef of Cream of Nothing Soup in the White House, sectarian violence is sky rocketing already. Just look at how Barry’s dissing of Israel has brought the anti-semites out of the woodwork.
Can’t get much farther left than today’s Democrats. Karl Marx and Joe Stalin could fit right in as mainstream party officals.
where s the Democrats’ condemnation?
Silence equals consent. And this is according to the same pattern of leftwing violence and intimidation we’ve seen since the Black Panthers stood at Philly precincts with nightsticks, racism and obscenities.
If this gets around widely enough, well known Republicans and conservative activists will acquire handguns and will carry them wherever they go, no matter what the law has to say about it. If they can do so openly, they’ll be reasonably safe. If not, sooner or later some left-wing thug or union goon will get killed — and that’s when the trouble will really start.
Pray.
Allee Bautsch & Joe Brown deserve our best wishes for a quick and complete recovery and our best efforts to ensure that their story is not buried and justice denied.
If we need some motivation, I think that these pictures of this fine and brave young couple should help.
Allee & Joe in better times.
http://thehayride.com/?attachment_id=2687
Allee after the savage attack.
http://thehayride.com/?attachment_id=2819
One of the Left’s sick angles around the web on denying their own’s savage attack on Allee Bautsch has been that Allee was just smiling and drunk in the post attack photo. View the photo and form your own opinion about both Allee’s expression and the Left’s character.
The mental gymnastics required to find a SMILE in that photo defy comprehension. We have always known the left possesses a remarkable ability to delude itself, but this is over the top. It is time and past time people wake up to who and what these people are.
The tactics of the left in this nation are criminal.
That anyone would even try to claim that expression is a ‘smile’ chills my blood. There is a deep craziness with very deep roots. Scary stuff. I hope the GOP, and any conservative candidates, employ good security and make use of their 2nd amendment rights from now on.
Your future government, right there. Fight now or fight later, it’s your choice.
The far left is the democratic party now. There is no difference, with the Obama – Pelosi regime at the helm.
The connections between far left terrorism (including union thugs) and the democratic party has never been clearer.
These Anarchists have beaten people up, broken windows, spit, thrown stones,
overturned cars..and each time it gets worse. Where is the FBI? Hell, where are a few patriotic American men to crush these scum once and for all?
Why isn’t Jindal making a stink about this??
Having grown up near NO I can tell you that the cops and pols in that city are as corrupt as in Chicago. Any politician coming out of either city is a corrupt, violent Demorat. There are more felons on the NO police force than in NO jails. They probably know the assaulters by their first names.
Agree with 15.
The leftist violence and provocation will continue until someday, somewhere, a conservative loses it and hits back in front of a camera. That incident will become front page news and nightly headlines and derivative fictional media “articles” for weeks. If the event happens close to the November elections, it will spawn a continuous deluge of “related” garbage until after the polls close. Bet on it.
Maybe the GOP can organize another rent-a-riot to get even.
You may laugh..
but I have little doubt that “rent a riot” is what the Dems do on a regular basis.
The only rent-a-riots I have ever seen have been 100% liberal/Democrat affairs.
Has the SEIU killed anyone yet? It hasn’t been through lack of trying.
These hidden cams placed by citizens along the border, tracking the ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION, don’t fit the narrative either – http://www.BorderInvasionPics.com
“Hold before blaming the democrats.”
Smith, maybe you read a different article than I did, but I saw noone ascribing blame for the attacks to “the democrats.” I did see many references to the Iron Rail Gang and others who were protesting with them. While I feel one would probably be safe assuming that most of those protesting a GOP event would side and vote Democrat, this affinity certainly does not imply party approval or participation, nor do I see the author even implying such.
What I do see the author doing is drawing a contrast between the way these protestors and the violence quite possibly done by them is being treated by both the MSM and their political allies. To wit, you do not hear CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc. blaming the attacks on dangerous violent political rhetoric put out by the Democrats, but I have no doubt that had some thug beat up a Cindy Sheehan type it would be front page for months as GOP representatives were called up for censure.
Where is Jindal in this? One of his staffers? Why not a stink from his office? And where were the cellphone cameras? everybody’s got one…the quarters would have been full of people…
New Orleans is not safe. It was dubious before, but this really puts things over the line. One of the governor’s staffers… We will not be going near, esp the French Quarters where this took place, anytime soon.
Why did we NOT HEAR about this on Hannity, O’Reily, Beck????????
ak138 No. 20:
Governor Jindal is trying to cover it up. His aides have even started blaming the victim.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2496144/posts
Pretty sad, however,sooooooooooo Louisiana…..hushhushhush..blame the other guy…
Where are the reports that her leg was broken, except her mother’s account. I really hate to say this..but, okay, she does not look hurt …if my leg was broken,in 4 places???, I would be crazy. Her shoe is missing and she’s talking and boyfriend is sitting up talking with a broken jaw…the pictures do not bear witness.
Carol, go here, for a comprehensive running account.
It’s “The Hayride” blog –a well-known Louisiana presence in the politics and economics area. As you scroll down, you see the dilys as they were discovered and reported at the time. You can see the conclusions being arrived at, in fits and starts, day by day. Unless you are trying very very hard, unless you’re raising your standards of proof into fantasyland, you will find no problems with the conclusions.
thanks…seems like things are coming to light as we speak!! Pictures even..
He was never a serious contender to compete against Palin in 2012 and that right there clinches it for me. Nice way to say thanks to two front line political soldiers who have nearly died in the cause of freedom. Disgusting.
He was never planning to run in 2012 because the timing would require him to run for reelection as Governor while running for President. That doesn’t work very well.
As far as I’m concerned, this badly damages Jindal’s chances of getting my support should he ever decide to run for higher office.
Better learn to defend yourself.
As evidenced by this attack, the police will not help you and the msm is glad it happened.
Expect it to happen again.
I am stunned by the laziness and incompetence of the New Orleans police department. If they had their act 1/2 together, they would have known that the presence of the Republican group would attract this type of vermin and they should have prepared a unit for rapid deployment to limit anarchist ability to commit crime. New Orleans completely failed to protect visitors who were in the process of spending millions of dollars in their economy. Stunning.
I am supposed to be visiting the city for the first time in May to see friends. This incident has caused me to realise I need to rethink that visit. I was really looking forward to it, but it doesn’t seem right to spend money in New Orleans if visitors are not treated with enough repect to be protected by the local police.
New Orleans needs to be shunned by tourists if their saftey can’t be shown to be job one for a police force in a tourist city.
I’d be willing to bet a substantial number of NOPD quietly applauded this attack. The left have been well trained now to equate conservative views with evil. So this was all justified you see. Nobody would shed a tear if Hitler caught a beating right?
Hmmn.. may even have been Nagans cops who did this. There are plenty of pictures of them looting during Katrina.. just gettin’ thier fair share I am sure.
Never let the NOPD surprise you in their crooked path……like the “levee bosses”….
I love the French Quarters and surrounding area.
However, I have not been back since Katrina, and this Jindal thing is only the icing on the cake. Such a pity. We will not be going back.
Jindal should be called on the “carpet”..there needs to be a clearing of this story.
29. Samizdat – the New Orleans PD is not to blame here. While they are not that competent, there had been an exceptional number of murders earlier that weekend (by New Orleans standards, which means an incredible number per capita by the standards of any other city) so they were incredibly overworked during the entire period in question. Not to mention the political interference afterwards, due both to partisan political motivation by the corrupt Democratic city government, “protect the tourist trade” motivation by both city and state government in downplaying news of attacks on tourists, and the plain laziness and incompetence by Governor Jindal and his associates, who would rather not have to do anything about anything.
But you are entirely correct in thinking this means you should avoid New Orleans. Crime is astronomical there and you wouldn’t be safe. This is just an incident that got publicity. Few do unless someone is murdered. No one should go to New Orleans unless they have to. It’s that bad these days.
Allee Bautsch, how does it feel to be a tool?
when the Republicans need you, they are all around, but now that you need them, they are NOWHERE.
I hope you learn from this. You were used, by people who don’t care about you, your safety, or your life. You were so stupid.
Where is John Mccain, Sarah Palin? Where are the Senators, the Congressmen, getting on the Sunday news shows, demanding an investigation? Where are the protests at the Govoners home, the Mayors home? Not for you!
Why wern’t you armed? I know why… you live in a fantasy world of safety, and illusion. Thank the ones who hurt you, they taught you a valuble lesson that night. You mean nothing to the Republicans. They are cowards, all of them, who care only about money. Mccain, Palin, all of them, DON’T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME.
The true lesson here? The Republicans are cowards, who won’t defend even their friends. TIME FOR A THIRD PARTY, filled with patriots, WHO FIGHT.
To ak138. I called Jindal’s office today and asked that very question. They said someone would get back to me . Not as yet !!
If this had been a Democrat, Holder and his Civil Rights Division ( Perez ) would have been on the case like a chicken on a June Bug. I guess all the available FBI Agents are tied up investigatin NOLA police officers .
The class warfare shouts at the young couple could qualfy this as a hate crime ??
I have a permit to “carry”, although I very seldom do. ‘Bout time to start, I reckon.
As we keep moving Left in this country, the center moves Left, and the Left keep pushing a more and more radical agenda, after each success, its on to the next, and so on and so forth. A radical reactionary right is the eventual outcome.
Civil war is almost a certainty at some point in the future, because the Left will never quit pushing further and further Left, and eventually, that unstoppable force is going to come into contact with an immovable object.
The violence of the Western Left, like Islamic violence must be faced with reciprosity. You cant argue with thugs. They must be shown that you are willing to use superior force.
Mark Steyn beats around this bush, in one of his latest pieces…
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“In essence, PC enforcers like the wretched Allan Rock (see below) have gone a long way toward criminalizing ridicule and mockery. Given that a lot of comedy is mere pandering, most “satirists” understand that when you wander on to this terrain you’re lining yourself up for far more trouble than it’s worth. Better to stick to mocking those dumbass fundamentalist Christianists, right? When they’re waiting for you outside the stage door, it’s with a placard not a death sentence.
And Kathy’s right, too – that the jihadists shrug off jokes as a sign of western decadence, or at any rate an inability to understand what’s at stake. As I write in Lights Out:
Take the most devastating rapier wit you know – Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward – and put him on a late-night subway train up against a psycho with a baseball bat. The withering putdown, the devastating aphorism will avail him naught.
The quality of your argument is only important if you want to win by persuasion. But it’s irrelevant if you want to win by intimidation.”
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When Barack Hussien Obama’s thugs bring guns to a fight, you bring a grenade launcher.
Time to stand up to the Western Left and the Islamics. A renewed cultural confidence, one that isnt afraid to stand up for itself, by any means necessary.
Oops, here is the link…
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/3178/128/
You expect the Dems to be shocked – shocked!? Like the Iron Rail says: the GOP drowned Nawlins and then dawdled on helping out. So a couple of wimps got beat up – where’s the story.
Why do we use the innocuous MSM to define the unscrupulous press? How about referring to them as the BNM – Brown Nosed Mercenaries.
I lived in Harrison County, Mississippi from 1975 to 1987. This is seventy miles east of New Orleans. New Orleans has always been a rough-and-ready place. Many areas of the city were known to be such that you only went there in daylight, and only in groups. And the corruption of the New Orleans Police Department was legend; everything from petty larceny to targeted civil forfeiture to drugrunning to murder for hire. Just plug “New Orleans police corruption” into your favorite search engine and see what pops up.
This local link is in the title post but it may be a bit buried. This blog –The Hayride –a political-economic Louisiana-centric presence with (as far as i can tell) high standards and reputation –has been maintaining day by day progress of the investigation. You can scroll down back into the calendar and watch the conclusions as they build. Extensive links, and sourced info.
http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/
Why don’t we provoke them further? Hold a dinner at the same restaurant for any conservative activist that wants to attend, publicize it well, and DARE these punks to show their faces. Be as pugnacious and gratuitously offensive towards them and the Black Narcissus as possible.
“Black Narcissus”? Got racism?
Oh for Gods’ sakes, look it up.
You’ve gotta be kidding.
Tell us how he DOESN’T have NPD?
He’s only a textbook narcissist.
I apologize for this long quote from The Hayride, but, because there were three state governors at the event in the downtown area of a major American city, and because the beaten couple could just as easily been killed by the beatings they took from an apparently organized unit, it’s important to note that it is no stretch to say that the attackers, being supported by the Dep’t of Health and Human Services, are veering pretty close to the goings-on in 1930s Nazi Germany, where just these sorts of connections and events were taking control of the urban public spaces:
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UPDATE, 11:00 p.m.: When we were first starting to research who these Iron Rail Collective folks were, we were really trying to get some names more than anything else, and to hopefully figure out what the relationship was between the Iron Rail Gang and the protest that, as it turned out, produced not just the attack on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown but also the attempted attack on Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere as he tried to exit Brennan’s Restaurant out of the back door last Friday night.
So when we went to the “About” page on the Iron Rail website, we skimmed over the third paragraph, which reads:
Our lending library is one of the largest collectively-run radical libraries in the country. The Iron Rail was the first library in metro New Orleans to re-open after the disastrous failure of the government levees in 2005, and for several months were the only functioning library in the city. In 2009, we were invited to be the official bookseller for the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s 5th annual National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. We were super-duper stoked about this opportunity and we did a great job, because we’re awesome.
The emphasis on the part you see in bold is ours.
So, what’s the Family Violence Prevention Fund? Well, it’s one of your standard-issue leftist non-governmental organizations. We say that because they say they advance a cause – the prevention of domestic violence – that nobody could possibly disagree with, and yet on their website one will find a grab-bag of hard-left advocacy.
Like what?
How about banning of guns, chatting up unions about making employers put domestic abuse prevention programs in collective bargaining contracts and granting asylum to women on the basis of domestic abuse in the home country.
FVPF is also covered in George Soros’ fingerprints. The organization’s President is Esta Soler, whose bio says:
She has been a consultant and advisor to numerous public and private agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Soros Justice Fellowship Program, the Ford Foundation/Harvard University Innovations in American Government initiative, and the Aspen Institute. She was a member of the Violence Against Women National Advisory Council when it was co-chaired by Health & Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Attorney General Janet Reno.
And on the FVPF’s Board of Directors is Ellen Friedman, who is a vice president at the Tides Foundation, an outfit partially funded by Soros and whose board chairman is Wade Rathke of SEIU and ACORN fame.
So that’s who the Family Violence Prevention Fund is. Their 5th annual National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence was held in New Orleans. It says on the Conference’s web site that:
The Conference is primarily funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
(close quote –pls see many embedded links in the original quote @ the the URL)
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So, The Family Violence Prevention Fund is not so concerned about all violence, just “family” violence. I want to see the ‘best practices’ brochure –no doubt developed at enormous taxpayer expense –where we are taught how to ‘leave it at the front door, by the umbrella stand’.
Wtf kind of idiot republicans hold a conference in N.O.? Did they think welfare queens are going to vote repub because they had a 10,000 a seat dinner there? There’s just all kinds of stupid in regards to this story.
It’s nice to say don’t blame the victims, but they did everything wrong. They held event in democratic area known for it’s corruption and they called the N.O. police instead of taking responsibility for their own safety (ccw).
DOn’t know if you got the memo but NO is still part of the USA which is at least currently still one nation under God, answerable to the rule of law, not the rule of man or the rule of a mob. They can damn well eat where they please as can anyone else who pays their own way- in fact political class drones from either side of politics are a bad example of free enterprise, but the fact remains, they have the right given by God to walk anywhere free and unmolested, and it is a crime against the Constitution if we tolerate bad cops, bad policing, and Nazi thuggery.
#39. Mdter: You are the worst kind of punk. I am sure I am not alone when I hope you are the victim of a vicious group beating to give you some real world perspective. Making such statements reveals you to be a sheltered moron whose stupidity will only be tempered by experiencing violence firsthand. If you had the powers of thought to empathize with a victim, I would not wish violence on you
Why are we NOT HEARING FROM THE CHOCOLATE CITY MAYOR ON THIS INCIDENT???
The welfare queens voted the donothing back into office,,and he probably doesn’t want to offend them by helping a Republican…
I agree about the location of the convention…Not a good choice. However, as someone said this is still a part of the USA..sorta..
It’s like Chicago, corrupt..after all it’s a chocolate city..not a real city..take that any way you want to folks. Any way you do, it’s true ,good, bad or indifferent. I read that the State Police are chompin at the bit to get into the fray.
Gracie, i’m with you 100% on decrying racial double-standards, and that whole intensely psychologically corrupting world view. But there’s so many good decent conservative family-values black people in Louisiana, and New orleans (I grew up in Lafayette, not far from New Orleans), we can help push the good side forward while slowing the bad side down. IOW, the situation is not lost –its just that the other side is in full flood. And the other side likes nothing, nothing, better than to blow up politics along the race line. Let’s not bite!
I’m not trying to say that because the attackers were white the world’s race-hustling mayors are any better. Anyone in politics on the ‘divide the people by race’ card just sucks for all they’re worth. If people want to divide along any line they wish, that’s their business –but jeez we don’t leaders preaching the glory of it.
I live in a Conservative area, should we beat the hell out of anyone with a Obama sticker on their car?? If by Democratic city you mean lawless and dirty, what do you you offer America?
I agree,
What Republican organization would even consider a rally/meeting in New Orleans?
And not carrying a concealed 9mm with hollow points is unforgivable.
To echo John Skookum at 37,
If the police won’t protect law abiding citizens who have peacefully assembled, then those assembled have the right to defend themselves by replying to an assault or battery with appropriate force. We conservatives should learn something from this incident, the next time there is such an assembly the local police should be notified about potential trouble makers then security should be coordinated with the locals and privately hired help. It would be wise to extract a public promise of protection and cooperation from the local government before the event.
If violence is in the wind Jindal and company need to have alternative security present to handle it. Jindal bears some responsibility for this incident in my estimation. I have found him appealing up to now. He should know better than anyone the limitaions and biases of local law enforcement. He also should know who the opponent is. He fell down here.
Samizdat,
Gov. Jindal is showing he is a man without moral courage.
The attacks on Allee Bautsch by his aides show that Jindal has surrounded himself with like minded people.
Since honesty in high office requires both leadership & courage in the face of temptation, it is very likely that Jindal’s administration will go down in Louisiana history as yet another reformer gone bad.
What is disappointing for me watching Right Wing so-called alternate media like National Review, Hugh Hewitt, Hot Air and Michelle Malkin suffering “brand damage” from their refusal to cover this story.
If those alternate media outlets want to repair that damage, they should “out” those who are running the whisper campaign.
Most especially if the culprit behind the blame the victims whisper campaign is Gov. Jindal himself.
Jindal… Jindal; wait a minute. Isn’t this the guy that BHO invited to the WH to watch the Superball, this past February, together with Rambo?
And, isn’t Jindal the guy behind Landrieu’s “Louisiana purchase”?
Hmmmmmm, hmmmmm, hmmmm; I rather watch soccer.
One of the pics of red-haired rastaman clearly shows his hand being held by a child’s hand. So, if he’s one of the assailants, he’s either travelling to places of potential violence with his kid, or he’s a local. I’d say the latter is more likely.
Calls for carrying concealed 9mm’s and arriving “armed next time” are grossly irresponsible for PJMedia to allow. Hyper-vigilantism may heighten PJMedia’s visibility and power, but with power comes responsibility. PJMedia must be protected from censorship by opposing governmental powers, but cannot be allowed to shout “fire” in a crowded theater without shouldering responsibility for consequences.
Sir or Madam Congressive, “Shouting fire” is of course always the attack line on the First Amendment. I’m sure you realize that a person being gang-beat to a pulp won’t feel any better knowing that at least no one can accuse him or her of ‘shouting fire’. So, what you’re doing is basically hectoring PJM to stifle the First Amendment, right?
“Hyper-vigilantism may heighten PJMedia’s visibility and power, but with power comes responsibility. PJMedia must be protected from censorship by opposing governmental powers, but cannot be allowed to shout “fire” in a crowded theater without shouldering responsibility for consequences.”
It is not a crime, in the US, to shout fire in a crowded theater. The theater may be on fire. The ‘crime’ comes if the theater is NOT on fire–and it has more to do with the panic caused and damage done than with what was said.
But what the posters here are doing is not like that scenario at all. The posters are suggesting that, when one enters a dangerously flammable structure it is wise to carry a fire extinguisher–just in case.
Hyper-VIGILENCE rather than hyper-vigilantism.
Jack, take the wife and kids for an idyllic vacation in quaint New Orleans. Dress well and make certain to carry lots of cash. Make certain your life insurance is paid up.
Tom, I’m not sure what you’ere trying to say here–or why you’d say this particular thing to me as it appears you didn’t catch the fact that I was telling congressive that carrying a gun is the equivalent to having a fire extinguisher.
I am always armed.
Also, I HAVE taken the wife and kids on a vacation to New Orleans–several times, in fact. We have a great time. The art, the music, the food. I wish I was there right now.
It would be vigilantism if the people packing heat went and sought out those who committed this assault, and shot or otherwise assaulted them.
Carrying a concealed weapon, and using it against a mob of ragged, unwashed, black blocers is not vigilantism, it is self defense. Please learn the difference.
You left out the “hollow points” part of his advice. Good advice really, much better stopping power. Carrying does not mean taking on a John Wayne swagger and actually looking for trouble…….just being prepared for what goes on in the real world.
I have never been to NO, but from the way it is described by some here it sounds much like Atlantic City, which I made the mistake of visiting once. Go one block behind the Boardwalk and it is like suddenly being dumped in some third world country, with your life expectancy about the same as a dog on the freeway.
NOLA is still a cesspool. The city electorate had the opportunity after Katrina to clean up the ramptant politcal cronyism/corruption extant but chose instead to vote Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin back into office. Now Mitch Landrieu in as NOLA’s Mayor, big deal! The entire state of Louisianna has been slavish devoted to the Landrieu family, who are this states version of the Kennedy clan in MA (With all of the negative connotations that association implies.), for generations. Does anyone really think that a scion of the family that has wielded power for so long over the peons of LA will be the one to disturb the applecart of that family’s political base? I do feel sorry for the folks who were so visciously attacked there in NOLA, but I’m really not all that suprised that it happened. After all if you leave the cage doors at the zoo open, you shouldn’t be shocked to find wild animals roaming freely on the city streets. I wouldn’t step foot in that town if you paid me! I enjoy the thrill of gambling every once in a while, but only with spare cash, not with my life.
There was a period in Sydney in the 80′s when gay bashing was rife and it was a regular thing to read about a gay beaten to death in a park. Then some smart gay guy realised that he had a community with it’s fair share of fit young men with plenty of time to spend at the gym. In a matter of months you’d read about the gay bashers getting a beating instead of the gays. Same with the Muslim gangs in Sydney. The surfies took care of them and that was that. Bullies have to be stood up to, that’s what is Iraq all about and I’m sure there’s a large bunch of young Republican veterans who’d be more than happy and very able to help. In a decent, restrained, admirable way. End of problem.
I agree with some of the posts above this calling a few individuals here advocating to “go to guns” as being way out of line. So far out of line in fact that I have to wonder if they aren’t agent provocateurs. Just take a second and ask yourself what the Dems would like better than catching a “hot-headed-conservative” shooting a bunch of “noisy little dar’lns” just there to protest on video. Tell me please, put down your gun rhetoric for a moment and open you mouth and tell me what better would destroy the advantages conservatives have going into 2010?
I had a CCW in Las Vegas and was taught to take care to use my weapon only for obvious self defense or to stop a deadly attack on another. And in order to intervene in “other” disputes it had to be obviously deadly in nature.
This isn’t gun time, it’s thinking, organizing and voting time. Come on!!!
First, stopping many on one attacks is one of the first definitions given under “defense of others.”
Second, these Ailinskyite types are trained in how to get away with this kind of mob violence in criminal court by lefties lawyers. The name calling prior to the attack on Brown and Bautsch is a classic give away of Leftie lawyer tactics in this regard.
Too quote the from Hayride blog:
At this point we’ll repeat, though, that fundamentally while this is a political attack and a political issue, it’s not a left-vs-right affair – or shouldn’t be. It seems nearly inconceivable to us that the mainstream left should want to be protective of an anarchist commune which by a wealth of information appears to have incited violence against the mainstream right, but the direction this story continues to move in suggests that is indeed what is happening to a noticeable extent. The mere fact that the Iron Rail Gang was able to recruit supposedly mainstream Democrats to their SRLC protest at the Hilton was disturbing enough.
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We had contrasted this event with what the media’s likely response had it been staffers of Senator Mary Landrieu who were beaten. And also contrast this with how they reported the fictitious claims of racial slurs and spitting during Tea Party events.
So now are conservative activists legitimate targets to be attacked at will? We need to know the rules going in, we suggest.
It takes only one side to start a war and two sides to end it. That rule applies to Civil Wars as much as Foreign wars.
No matter how much “responsible” folks like Jindal, Michelle Malkin, the National Review, and Hugh Hewitt try to bury this story and put a lid on the violence. It won’t stop.
The folks that started this don’t want it to stop, because they think they are winning, and the leaders on the Democratic Party’s Left Wing (google the name John Durajczyk) will protect these yo-yos until some one starts plugging the Ailinsky-ite/SEIU street.
That would be a very sad turn of events as both Brown and Allee Bautsch have in their power the ability to really hurt the people behind the people who beat them down.
They both have victim standing under Federal civil racketeering, influence and corrupt organization (RICO) laws to take out the Iron Rail in Federal court.
Civil suits are under a “preponderance of evidence” and not criminal code’s “beyond a reasonable doubt” levels of proof. Leftie lawyer training will only save the Iron Rail types in court under the criminal code and not the civil.
The Free Republic has reported both Federal tax payer funds and Leftie Chicago money, including George Soros money, is flowing through the Iron Rail.
Federal funds require Federal record keeping be used to account for the cash.
The Eric Holder Justice Department won’t do a thing about Federal criminal fraud by Ailinskyites, but Federal civil fraud enables Taxpayer whistle blower law suits.
Taxpayer standing starts when the guilty start destroying the federally mandated records of their federal funding after the victim plaintiffs in the civil RICO suits start subpoenaing those records to establish the extent of the conspiracy. I.e., discovery proceedings in the civil suits motivate the bad guys into making the classic mistake -“It’s not the substantive offense which nails people, but their coverup.”
Civil RICO flushes the quarry for the real hammer – taxpayer suits.
What I don’t get is how do you have an anarchist commune? Isn’t that oxyMoronic? or just moronic.
peter38: You and other “turn the other cheek” people are setting us up for the fall no matter what we do. If we defend ourselves we are the provocateurs; if we carry guns we are the assailants; if we fight back we will be charged because the MSM will swing the story in that direction.
So what you are saying is that we should allow ourselves to be beat to a pulp and HOPE that the PO will charge and arrest the real assailants.
Look, no matter what we do the MSM and left will never see it as us being the victims. So we might as well defend ourselves the best we can and if that means CCW then by God we will.
Blotto, just go quietly to the trains.
Nagin (is/was) mayor when this happened. He should have been in control.
Oh, haha that was funny wasn’t it??
Our nation needs to split, or at least have a state, or five, secede on out. We are far too different now, we are not cohesive enough culturally to be a single nation.
Lets openly start talking about the idea of secession as much as we can, so we can go our separate ways peacefully while it’s still an option.
The time is really starting to run out. The anger and tension is palpable.
Totally agree. Elections will not matter because the left, if they allowed a loss, will not sit for the loss. They will react violently. We’ll see how the left reacts to this year’s elections.
There is a cultural or Second American Civil War looming. At some point the silent majority has got to awaken and take action. Like Yamamoto said: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Seccession is the only other alternative to an actual fight.
HotAir – “Describing this a political attack is a right wing lie.” Nevermind the mainstream media, the ostensibly conservative media can’t be relied on either.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/16/police-report-no-evidence-of-political-motive-in-beating-of-jindal-staffer/comment-page-1/#comment-3475325
I’m sure Ron Rosenbaum is outraged and will push the investigation.
Stupid Nelson Rockefeller Country Club Republican Party pansies!
No video, no police, no celphone images, no security, no sense, no balls.
And you can possibly believe that these dweebs and frat-boys can play big league thugball with the Demogoguic Party?
They don’t even know how to watch their back when they go out in the big city.
#51 pelaut: A very keen observation on your part! The old Republican Party of John McCain is as completely out of step with conservative America as Barry Sotero and his ilk are. No Democrat or Republican mucky-muck really seems to grasp that at the fundamental level this Tea Party revolution isn’t about Right vs Left, or Republican vs Democrat, rather it’s about Right vs Wrong! Look for a lot of ticket-splitting in this years elections because to most Americans a political party label now means squat if the candidate continues to espouse the old line BS that’s led us to this point in our history.
I want a return to the America I grew up in, a nation where it was safe for adults and children to walk the streets, a nation that called graffitti vandalism instead of free expression street art, a nation that incarcerated those who deserved it and executed those guilty of heinous crimes, a nation that would’ve beat the crap out of any creep stupid enough to protest the execution of a pig like Tookie Williams, a nation growing tolerant of ethic and religious diversity but rightfully intolerant of those who abused this quality in our society for nefarious purpose.
Neither political party espouses those views, and I think the Tea Party patriots will only vote for someone who does.
YouTube shows people getting roughed up and thrown out the doors at congressional town hall meetings. By Who? Left wing Democrat SEIU? YouTube shows police officers telling someone with a camcorder they will be arrested if they ask anyone a question. By Who? Democrat Cops protecting ACORN recruiters? Now protesters snap a persons leg in half. By Who? Left wing Democrats? And you have ill mannered and partial reporters like Matthews, Olbermann and Stewart calling Tea Party folks “Scary” and Beck and Palin “borderline sedious.” All I want to know is who buys this? I have some short sale property I need to dump.
The only concern the MSM has about liberal violence is how to keep a lid on it so they continue to tell their lies about how violenct the right is supposed to be.
The media has become nothing but propagandists for the Obama administration….
I guess this type of violence means if you have to go to the Hell Hole otherwise known as New Orleans a concealed carry permit is in order.
I’m not sure what the motivation for Malkin and other conservative sites to not give this story much time. I know she doesn’t want to blamed for “jumping to conclusions” before all facts are known, but c’mon…enough evidence is there to conclude there is definitely a political element to this attack. Besides there are other parts to this story like why it took NOPD so long to interview the victims and why is the victims boss (Jindal) saying so little. To her credit Malkin does link to sites that have covered this extensively, but for whatever reason she chooses not to.
I think it is time for concerned Americans to show up and take care of business hardcore.
I guess if we are going to use the same standard as the one the Tea Party is using for the verbal assault on 3 black congressmen, there is no proof this attack really happened. Where is the video?
Multiple fractures beats a video.
Were there thousands of people recording the event including 100s of MSM? If there was, then you have a valid point.
Where is the video? Well, in the late-night, side-street event, two of the people were busy trying to stay alive (and probably deeply unsure of that happening), and the other five didn’t exactly want to identify themselves. Not exactly the same deal as ten thousand witnesses and a thousand recording the event in broad daylight outside the Capitol Building on national TV, is it? Oh, and the injuries –faked? Would you need to have been the X-Ray tech to be convinced? When is absurd?
To bad Mitch Rapp wasn’t around to beat the crap out of these animals. Shameful of the MSM to ignore this, but you can bet your top dollar is this had been libs beaten short of death it would be headline news for weeks to come!!!
What goes around, comes around!
This is a rash, desperate act of the destitute who are left in America to fend for themselves without housing, food, health care, income, or a voice in the affairs of state. Perhaps this will be the wake-up call to the arrogant, greedy corporate power structure that the poor can not be starved and brutalized forever without consequences. So far, appeals to compassion have failed. Perhaps the threat of physical violence will finally convince the greedy, overfed pigs at the top to share.
Apostle,
Surely you jest.This thug and his buddies are part of the anarchists who go from city to city (usually wearing black bandanas), sponsered by “move on” and other radical left wing loons to foster these types of threats, violence, and intimidation. They are well funded and very violent.But you probably know that. When the top 10 percent of this country are already handing over 60% of their hard earned money to the “HAVE NOTS”, how much will be enough? Why don’t the hard working achievers in the US just give it all over to the liberal fascists? Who would pay the taxes and Federal extortion then?
I like to take people at their word. If somebody screams “white bitch” while beating a white female so severely they break bones, they have a serious hatred for white females. Why is this so difficult to acknowledge for what it is? When I was working in politics, I witnessed a gullet of such virulent misogyny directed specifically at white females, predicated by earth-shoe-wearing self-styled freedom fighters and their political allies on the far Left. Ugly stuff, systematically excused, utterly accommodated by the Huffington Post/Salon types who otherwise whine endlessly about the Right’s purported lack of appropriate cultural sensitivities. In fact, the two go hand-in-hand — look at Andrew Sullivan’s disturbed loathings, Tony Hendra’s sicko ranting, other leftists’ hateful screeds against Sarah Palin, always focussing on her body, her femaleness, her status as a childbearing woman.
These people belong on a psychiatrist’s couch. Some, in the prison infirmary. Meanwhile, wouldn’t it be nice if John Lewis spoke out against such extreme political violence?
Were is the Governor? Can’t he use their state police to investigate?
One thing to note about the Iron Rail bookstore: they supposedly have no specific owner and are “governed” via meetings where whoever shows up gets a vote and the majority vote wins… so if you want to shut them down, just arrange to show up with several hundred people to their meeting and vote to burn the building to the ground. It would be quite funny to see them backpedal from their ideals of community property and direct government by the people.
Or they could just vote to give away everything for free and cut all salaries to zero. See how long the anarchists stick to their principles, once those principles start costing THEM money.
I have done business in NO before and after Katrina and New Orleans is a mean, dangerous town. White people especially, have huge targets on their backs, but these neo communists put the targets on white Republicans. I would not even go there without being armed and if these two folks had been, the cowards who attacked them would be piping a new song. We conservatives and Republicans better arm ourselves (legally with permits to carry) and be prepared for these types of attacks. The liberals love accusing us of fostering violence, but they are usually the perps. Check their left wing anarchist riots and fascist environmental attacks (and criminal records) and see that they are the violent ones, but are cowards in the face of armed resistence.
Just confused. I myself am a “Right Wing ” Conservative, but in your post you site Left Wing Anarchists? What is that? Isn’t Anarchy the absence of all Government? Wouldn’t that be extreme Right, not Left? Do they want Less or more government?
Please explain
Just confused. I myself am a “Right Wing ” Conservative, but in your post you site Left Wing Anarchists? What is that? Isn’t Anarchy the absence of all Government? Wouldn’t that be extreme Right, not Left? Do they want Less or more government?
Please explain…
The Marxist controled MSM in America is running the show, Odumbo is just their lacky they keep covering up his wrong doings and lies so they can continue to destroy America.
As I’ve often blogged:”Scratch a liberal,find a Stalinist”! the stronger and more effective the tea party becomes, the greater the likelihood of media/White house-inspired violence against its menbers . That is why the tea party movement will inevitably need an armed wing to survive. I believe the foundig fathers called it a militia.