Posted by
Doug on Friday, August 06, 2010 11:27:11 PM
LaRouchian WMV V9 from Doug Edelman on Vimeo.
On 8/6/10 in front of the Post Office in St Peters, MO, the LaRouche loonies set up this "Impeach Obama" location, featuring an image of Obama as Hitler.
As this is NOT the way the Tea Party and other Conservative Patriots work, I sought to get some information from this woman so as to draw the contrast between the Larouche organization and real grassroots conservatives.
As I approached her, I took a photograph. This set her off, and she began a tirade, stating that I had no right to photograph her without identifying myself. (While she is quite incorrect, as she had set herself up in a public place and made herself a public spectacle - thereby becoming NEWS... I did identify myself.) I then attempted to get SOME comment on video. (At this point she clammed up!) But that doesn't mean the video is uninteresting or uninformative!!
Not only was she uncommunicative - but after I stopped filming and while I was sending email on my Blackberry from my car before departing the parking lot - the police arrived (she had called them stating I was somehow intimidating or harassing her). Of course I explained that I was simply exercising my first Amendment rights and was attempting to get her to comment as she had made herself a public spectacle and therefore a story for a blogger and freelance reporter - and I was not intimidating or threatening her. (I think the video vindicates me of that charge!) They said they had no problem with me and did not hinder my departure... and as I departed, she was taking down her display in the presence of the cops!!