Police Intervene, Arrest Ron Paul Backers at Missouri Caucus

[outby43]

I wish I could have made it.  Stupid job  .  Can't wait for some vids to get up on youtube.


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/police-intervene-arrest-ron-paul-backers-at-missouri-caucus/

Police and organizers shut down proceedings at one of Missouri’s largest caucuses today, as Ron Paul supporters feuded with local GOP leaders.

“It’s like the Hatfields and the McCoys around here,” St. Charles County’s former GOP chairman told ABC News, after police arrived on-scene with a helicopter and removed Paul backers.
In St. Charles, an exurb of St. Louis and one of the state’s largest GOP counties, Paul supporters sought to elect their own chairman and adopt their own rules when proceedings opened — both of which are part of standard caucus rules and procedure. But as they argued with the caucus chair, Paul supporters held video cameras — against caucus rules, according to a GOP official who was there — and things became contentious.

“It turned into a little food fight within the caucus, between the caucus chairman trying to control the caucus and certain elements, I guess with Ron Paul, trying to be heard,” said Tom Kipers, a former chairman of the St. Charles GOP, who attended the caucus at Francis Howell North High School.

An off-duty police officer, hired as security, eventually filed a trespassing complaint against the Paul supporters and notified on-duty police in the area municipality of St. Peters, who, along with police from other jurisdictions, arrested two Paul supporters and ended the caucuses early. A joint-jurisdictional police helicopter arrived on the scene. Kipers said about 10 officers arrived in total.

“Two people were arrested for trespassing after receiving numerous warnings to leave the school property,” the St. Peters police said in a press release. “Both subjects were transported to St. Peters Justice Center where they were booked for Trespassing and released on a summons.”
The St. Peters police identified the Paul supporters as Brent Safford, 45, of O’Fallon, Mo., and Kenneth Suitter, 55, of St. Charles.
Caucus business never really got started. The St. Charles GOP said in an official statement that it still plans to send delegates to the congressional-district and state conventions, but none were elected at the caucus on Saturday.

Saturday’s episode was a near repeat of 2008, when Paul backers succeeded in overwhelming other factions at the St. Charles caucus, according to Kipers. Their elected delegates were subsequently tossed from the congressional-district convention for being verifiable Libertarians (by primary voter rolls) and not Republicans, although Missouri has no voter registration by party.

At the state convention, in a spirit of reconciliation according to Kipers, they were reinstated and the officials who had barred them were themselves barred for having done so.

“Did I expect this to happen? Kind of,” Kipers said of Saturday’s episode. “That’s why we hired … policemen.”   Oh brother...

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How the fuck do people get arrested for trespassing at an event?
I mean WTF?
This is bad for our image though.... I kind of feel like this is what theyve been hoping for, to fuck Paul enough that eventually his supporters would do something drastic. That gives them all the excuse they need to paint Paul as a total nut with psychotic followers.

[outby43]

How the fuck do people get arrested for trespassing at an event?
I mean WTF?
This is bad for our image though.... I kind of feel like this is what theyve been hoping for, to fuck Paul enough that eventually his supporters would do something drastic. That gives them all the excuse they need to paint Paul as a total nut with psychotic followers.

I know dude.  It is like pushing someone so far and getting them frustrated enough to where they explode and then accuse them of having anger issues...lol.  If things do not change then these little incidents will become bigger in scale.  People are sick of the same BS.  In the next 20 years there will be change but not without going to the brink of civil war.

[Soul Crusher]

I know dude.  It is like pushing someone so far and getting them frustrated enough to where they explode and then accuse them of having anger issues...lol.  If things do not change then these little incidents will become bigger in scale.  People are sick of the same BS.  In the next 20 years there will be change but not without going to the brink of civil war.

I dread our future the way things are going.   My buddy at the gun store told e that there has been another run n guns in the last few weeks.