Michelle Malkin gets seriously accosted by a group of insane 9/11 truthers..
Monday, September 8th, 2008“Insane, 9/11 truthers..” Hmmm… Maybe I should have rethought that one, it’s kind of redundant..
Anyway, it was really a scary situation. These people don’t believe in debate, or form of honest discourse. Watching this video was pretty scary for me in that Michelle weighs about 100 lbs, & the nutcase 9/11 truther Alex Jones who got in her face, probably over 250 lbs. Then there were all of his cult who surrounded her entourage.
Personally I think she & her entourage showed tremendous restraint, as if I had been there, & they got into my personal space like that while chanting “Kill Michelle Malkin” & as soon as I heard “don’t let her leave” come out of their leader Alex Jones’ mouth, I might have pepper sprayed them all in their faces. They would have deserved it, because between saying “Kill Michelle Malkin”, & blocking her ability to move by surrounding her, they established enough intent to keep my conscience quite clear about protecting myself & anyone present.. Do you think if Jones pushed a cop like he pushed one of the members of Michelle’s group, that the cops wouldn’t have sprayed him in the face, & taken him down? You know it.
I would never do something like this without having my staff fully armed with pepper spray either. There wasn’t enough time there to figure out if they were serious about a mob attack or not, & I wouldn’t have given them the opportunity to make good on it personally.
Now with that said, I’m glad that nothing violent came out of it, as unlike the faux “peace protesters” that were there that day calling for the head of a 100 lb. or so female, truly peaceful people don’t say things like that in the first place, & therefore we don’t promote violence. We also don’t employ violence unless it’s in self defense. (Yes that does include striking first when the threat is imminent.)
What is so stupid about what Alex Jones & his Looney Tune friends did here, is that they made it hard to tell what their intentions were, & if violence did happen, it would have been because they certainly resembled an imminent threat. The Denver police for their part were pretty useless in this case. Their behavior & lack of intervention in my opinion should be reviewed by superiors. They should have separated the two groups, & allowed them to shout at each other from a safe distance. They should have moved to diffuse this, period.
On to the video, where you can judge for yourself. The confrontation is chronicled about 1/3 of the way through.
*update* Having just read Michelle’s comments on her website about this ugly event, it appears that someone in her crew may have possibly had pepper spray for protection. Good call Michelle!
~Dan lee