Assault by BTPers caught on video!

Cultists of the current Tea Party movement aren't exactly known for docility.

They're confrontational. After reports of racist invective and assaults on reporters that have defined the recent Tea Parties, it's important to catch their attacks on video. Not like the media will pick up the story, or that the BTPers' apologists will stop calling it a peaceful movement - but at least we'll have proof.

The video below is of an attack Saturday in Fort Lauderdale. In this movie, Tea Partiers violently confronted a group that supported immigration amnesty.

Now, immigration isn't an issue I usually get worked up over - unless raw racists try exploiting the issue. In that case, I come down hard against the racist exploiters. In this incident, Tea Party whack-a-doos decided to be confrontational about the matter:



Now here's the real bipper: Right-wing websites are trotting out this video and saying the Tea Partiers were actually the victims, not the aggressors!

Um, no.

When you get in someone's face in a threatening manner - as the Tea Party gent in this video did - the person being confronted has every reason to defend themselves.

The BTPers started a fight in a public place and had the nerve to cry that they were the innocent victims. Reminds me of a line in a Stevie Wonder song: "Yet you cry, 'Why am I the victim?'...When the culprit's Y-O-U."

In fact, that YouTube clip was posted by a right-wing activist! Isn't it odd that they just happened to be filming right before the confrontation started, like they knew what was going to happen? If the BTPers were at such serious risk of injury, why didn't the cameraperson jump in and help them?

I'm not the only one who knows this incident is a failed frame-up that ended badly for the BTPers. One YouTube commenter said, "Hate to say it. But it looks like the Florida Tea Party Protesters started it."

If the Tea Party crowd can't handle what happens when they physically threaten their adversaries, maybe they should have stayed home.