Senator Cruz and the protestors.

[S.A. Boggs]

What are options against this type of harassment? How would YOU have handled it? Please, no politicking on why the NSDWP are doing this.
Sam

[clintonhater]

If the harassers are women, there IS no option, except to get as far away from them as you can, because to attempt to challenge them as you would unruly men is to bring down the irrefutable charge (like the always irrefutable charge of being a racist) of being a rampant misogynist. "Complete equality between men & women," the feminist mantra, but as George Orwell pointed out long ago about supposedly equalitarian societies, "some are more equal than others." Women now have a man's right to dish it out like a man, but the man who tries to make a woman take it like a man is called a brute.

[jjrothWA]

I would just shout out: Jennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willie, etc.


Just to REMIND the harasser's of what they are - HYPOCRITES!

[TSimonetti]

Assuming I were someone who invited such targeting, I would walk away, but not before I told my attackers that their Party has managed to completely normalize harassment and threats to the safety of elected officials and their families based solely on public policy differences.

[clintonhater]

Assuming I were someone who invited such targeting, I would walk away, but not before I told my attackers that their Party has managed to completely normalize harassment and threats to the safety of elected officials and their families based solely on public policy differences.

Better have an ear-splitting megaphone in your hand. How else would you make yourself heard over a mob of ranting, hysterical, shrews?

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Assuming I were someone who invited such targeting, I would walk away, but not before I told my attackers that their Party has managed to completely normalize harassment and threats to the safety of elected officials and their families based solely on public policy differences.

Better have an ear-splitting megaphone in your hand. How else would you make yourself heard over a mob of ranting, hysterical, shrews?

[m1ashooter]

They are looking for a fight from my senator. He can't take the bait. However I believe his safety is at risk. I have written a letter to the Governor of Texas asking him that if the federal government doesn't provide security for the Senator of the Great State of Texas then he send a Texas Ranger to do the job.

Let them try this xxxx in Texas.

[TSimonetti]

Yep, you'd only need to send one Texas Ranger

[Vern Humphrey]

I would carry a folded up banner under my coat that I could display at need: "YOU ARE NAZIS!"

[bostonbound]

Too bad DC doesn't have a Stand Your Ground law.

Blowing away a few of these worthless wastes of air because "I felt my life was threatened by this vicious mob!" would likely tone down the rest.

[clintonhater]

I would carry a folded up banner under my coat that I could display at need: "YOU ARE NAZIS!"

A brilliant idea, actually, because the main objective of the mob is to make it IMPOSSIBLE for the victim to say anything in rebuttal; it's the same tactic that's worked wonderfully on college campuses to prevent any breath of conservative opinion from intruding into those bastions of left-wing radicalism. And the mob need not consist of scores or dozens (though it frequently does) to silence the object of their hatred--a half-dozen good screamers is enough to make any reply impossible. Furthermore, since these mob-scenes are always intended for the TV cameras, such a banner would be far more effective than anything that could be spoken.

Only one problem with this idea--where's the gutless Republican who'd do it?

[Vern Humphrey]

I'd follow up with another banner -- YOU'RE FAT AND UGLY!

[clintonhater]

I'd follow up with another banner -- YOU'RE FAT AND UGLY!

Some of them are, esp. the ones supporting Obamacare most vociferously, but most of the ones rioting against Kavanaugh are college age, or not much beyond their 30s, so "Nazi, Brown Shirt, Fascist" is more appropriate.

[Vern Humphrey]

That's why it would be the first banner I'd show.

Notice how the National Socialists on this forum claim that if you don't respond to their claptrap that somehow makes you a Nazi. They don't understand that freedom of speech includes the freedom to NOT agree, and even <gasp!> to ignore the Nazis.

[dryheat]

The banner idea is great. It's the best way to counter them. We just had a coven of witches demonstrate at our capitol this week. Seriously, they were wearing these Little Red Riding Hood outfits. They were parading around with this big sign and I thought, if someone just stood behind them with a counter-sign for t.v.

[Vern Humphrey]

Edward Albee wrote a book called "Desert Solitaire." It was about his experiences as a Summer Ranger at Arches National Monument.

Early one morning, he came out of his trailer, sat down on the steps and started to put his boots on -- and saw a rattlesnake between his feet! It was cold, and the snake was sluggish, so he managed to get away without being bitten. He went to the tool shed and got a shovel and scooped up the snake. You can't kill anything in a National Monument, so he took the snake a quarter mile out in the desert and dumped it.

The next morning, the snake was back. So he jumped over it, got the shovel and took it a half mile into the desert and dumped it.

The next morning, the snake was back. So he jumped over it, got the shovel and chopped the snake up into little bits.

The moral of this story is, you can only cut a rattlesnake so much slack.

And we've already gives these rattlesnakes too much.