Right wingers try desperately to misdirect the press away from their problems
Susan Collins is very frightened:
Sen. Susan Collins was confronted with a pro-abortion rights message Saturday night when an unknown person or persons wrote in chalk on the sidewalk outside her West Broadway home in Bangor, prompting a police response.
“Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess,” the message read, according to a Bangor police report.
WHPA refers to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify the right to abortion into law and ban restrictions on abortion access.
Bangor police responded to West Broadway at 9:20 p.m. Saturday to investigate a message written in chalk on a sidewalk, Bangor police spokesperson Wade Betters said.
“The message was not overtly threatening,” he said.
The sidewalk message was not visible on Monday afternoon.
“We are grateful to the Bangor police officers and the City public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home,” Collins said.
Poor Susan. She was terrified by that message on her sidewalk and had to call the police. Some people might have just hosed it off but…
Meanwhile, other Republicans are getting pummled for failing to bring in the SWAT team on protesters in front of the Supreme Court Justices houses.
Here’s an example of the mayhem:
They wingnuts are having a cow:
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is getting pummeled over his apparent failure to respond to the recent pro-choice protests outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
The protests first sparked this past weekend, just days after Politico revealed that the Supreme Court informally voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the watershed 1973 ruling that enshrined America’s constitutional right to abortion. On Monday, a group of around 150 demonstrators marched from a strip mall in Fairfax Virginia to Alito’s home, hoisting signs and chanting slogans like “When mothers’ lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back” and “Keep abortion safe and legal,” according to NBC News.
Youngkin said that his office has been “coordinating” with the Fairfax County Police Department and the Virginia State Police, to “ensure that there isn’t violence.”
“Virginia State Police were closely monitoring, fully coordinated with Fairfax County and near the protests,” he added. Advertisement:
But that posture did not sit well with conservative commentators, many of whom argued that Youngkin should have swept the protesters for what they felt was a clear violation of federal law.
“The protest itself – without violence – is illegal,” tweeted Yossi Gestetner, the founder of Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council. “What level of illegality is ok for you before moving from “monitoring” the intimidation to stepping in?”
“Antifa just crossed into a Republican-lead state and were allowed to target Alito’s family home. Glenn Youngkin did nothing,” echoed right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec.
Will Chamberlain, Senior Counsel at the Internet Accountability Project, suggested that the demonstrators should be imprisoned. “You know what will stop leftists from protesting at people’s private homes and intimidating their families?” he asked. “JAIL.”
Right-wing lawyer Matthew Kolken even claimed that the protests constituted a form of “terrorism.”
“Democrats use terrorism as a tool, and Youngkin failed to send a clear message that it won’t be tolerated in Virginia,” Kolken tweeted.
In arguing the protests are illegal, numerous right-wing commentators have adduced 18 U.S.C. 1507, which states that anyone “with the intent of influencing any judge … in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
Yes, these are the same people who defend the January 6th insurrection as a legitimate “protest.” It must be freeing to be so shameless.