The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Ain't that America - under Bush/McCain. Let's see, the Republicans festivities have resulted in stereotypical police state violence for public consumption, and it isn't pretty. Bonus points are given for arrests and pepper spraying of journalists and politicos.
Journalists from Democracy Now -- Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were illegally arrested in St. Paul (they were just released) in a violent altercation near the Xcel Center as the police clashed with demonstrators:
All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest and back. Salazar's violent arrest by baton-wielding officers, during which she was slammed to the ground while yelling, "I'm Press! Press!," resulted in her nose bleeding, as well as causing facial pain. Goodman's arm was violently yanked by police as she was arrested.
Goodman's crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher told Democracy Now! that Kouddous and Salazar were being arrested on suspicion of rioting. During the demonstration in which they were arrested law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force. Several dozen others were also arrested during this action.
I was with Goodman earlier this afternoon, as she was reporting on the major anti-war demonstration. She and her crew were, as always, interviewing everyone they could in the calm, assured manner that has made the daily Democracy Now! program a widely-watched and well-regarded news programs on radio and cable television stations across the country
More arrests and Donna Brazile caught up in a pepper spray attack are below the fold.
Also arrested was Associated Press photographer Matt Rourke. He was actually covering the protestors'assault of some RNC Connecticut delegates. Alas, news photography has now become a "gross misdemeanor riot charge."
Associated Press reports that one o their photographers, Matt Rourke was arrested, "swept up as police moved in on protesters in downtown St. Paul." AP reports that "Rourke is being held on a gross misdemeanor riot charge.
A spokesperson for AP, assistant bureau chief David Ake, said he's concerned by Rourke's arrest, that "covering news is constitutionally protected, and photographers should not be detained for covering breaking news."
At one point, a group of about 200 protesters - many wearing black bandannas across their faces and some wearing black balaclavas - roamed through downtown, shouting and chanting and throwing street signs and concrete planters in the road. At another point, a police officer grabbed one of the youths. Others wrested him away, then appeared to knock the officer to the ground. On one knee, the officer released an arc of pepper spray.
...[A] prominent Democratic Party strategist, Donna Brazile, was hit by pepper spray while trying to walk around protesters outside the convention hall, Ms. Brazile said in an interview.
"I got a strong whiff - just toxic - and my head and throat are still hurting," said Ms. Brazile, who appears on CNN as a political analyst. "I'll avoid the protesters tomorrow."
OK, from the description of the protestors in the above NYT piece, certainly most journalists and TV political pundits don't walk around wearing black bandannas across their faces and black balaclavas, but they were all still swept up in the police action.
