Blame the Victim

Well, blame the victim when you catch him doing self-hammerfication anyway.


This seems to be a recurring theme:

One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.

Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.

Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She tempered her statement after Schwenkler's political history was revealed.

"What I've been saying is there is a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides of the spectrum," Waak said. "That's what's been disturbing to me. People are saying a lot of things not appropriate for civil discourse."

For weeks, people on both sides of the health care debate have rallied across the country.

I'm not surprised that liberal kids with hammers expected to be able to blame Republicans for their carnage. We've recently had Lyndon LaRouche-ians lumped in with Tea Party activists, even though Lyndon LaRouche ran for the Democrat presidential nomination seven times. And we've seen black men with guns described as angry armed white people. Of course the liberal kid with a hammer thought he could blame Newt Gingrich for his crime.