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WASHINGTON – Friday night, during the “Tribute to Ronald Reagan Dinner”, radicals with the Occupy DC and a coalition of liberal groups tried violently to crash the Americans for Prosperity Defending the Dream Summit.

These radicals, some of whom carried black flags, wanted to supress rights of individuals to freely assemble and to intimidate conservatives into silence. Black flags often represent anarchy.

Many “Dream” attendees captured the violence on their smart phones.  and shared them with the mainstream media. By Saturday morning, the story had became national news.  CNN was the first to go national with the story, followed by other outlets.  Caleb Hayes, a College Republican  from Kansas, was interviewed by at least five different national news sources,  as they ran his video of an innocent bystander getting run over by a car from an “occupier”. According to witnesses,  the bystander had nothing to do with either group.

All Friday and Saturday afternoon, satellite trucks from media outlets circled the block around the Washington Convention Center, as both Republican Presidential frontrunners, Herman Cain and Mitt Romney, came to speak, along with other top conservatives.  The event would have made national news anyway, regardless of the violence that occured, by the Occupiers.

The protestors circled the convention center and tried to enter every single entrance.  Police did nothing despite reports that staffers at AFP called 911 four times.  However, some video does show police getting involved.   Security inside the building quickly moved to lock every entrance and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

KCC interviewed a wheelchair-bound woman who carried a small service dog.  When she was finally allowed to leave and go the two short blocks to her hotel, protestors grabbed her dog and tried to pull her from her chair.  Luckily, other conservatives came to her aid and security moved everyone from the center back to their hotels.  The dog was safely returned, unharmed.

Later, from her hotel room, your blogger could hear firetrucks blazing through the intersection, trying to reopen it to traffic, which KCC observed police NOT doing.  KCC does not blame the police officers, but rather their superiors who wouldn’t allow them to do their jobs.  Your blogger sensed that the DC leadership felt it might be “bad politics” to appear to be unfriendly with the “Occupiers”.

The entire situation is truly sad.  The staff at Americans for Prosperity, both here in North Carolina, and nationally, worked hard to bring us the best Summit yet.   Other than the attack, the event went off without a hitch and we bloggers had a lot of fun.

It was great seeing so many friends ride the busses from North Carolina and surrounding states, and seeing the friends we’ve made over the years at the various AFP events.

 Thank you AFP, and we look forward to next year!

Here are a number of article, posts and videos on the story: 

I Went Down To the Demonstration to Get My Fair Share of Abuse (The Other McCain – videos)

The Mob Who Came to Dinner (The American Spectator, by Robert Stacy McCain)

Under Occupation Friday Night (The American Spectator, by Laurel Buckley)

The Real Occupy DC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGa6tNml6Q

Occupy protest turns violent outside Washington Convention Center [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/05/chaos-video/

Occupy DC Protesters Try to Storm AFP Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmmT9FqmmE

OccupyDC Protesters Use Kids to Blockade Door During Violent Scuffle
http://mrctv.org/videos/occupydc-protesters-use-kids-blockade-door-during-violent-scuffle

Liberal Protester Uses Child As Human Shield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U20Cvetv17M

Occupy DC protester uses kids to block traffic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fuglmHlxk

OBAMA’S OCCUPYDC VICTIM SPEAKS OUT: ‘I WENT DOWN THOSE STAIRS BECAUSE I WAS PUSHED’
http://www.breitbart.tv/obamas-occupydc-victim-speaks-out-i-went-down-those-stairs-because-i-was-pushed/

OCCUPYDC PROTESTERS ATTACK CONSERVATIVE GATHERING; HARASS WOMEN AND CHILDREN
http://www.breitbart.tv/inside-the-chaos-incredible-videos-of-violence-mayhem-at-occupydc-demonstration/

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The nation has seen the problems of collective bargining with public employees.  They forget that they work for us, the taxpayers.  It seems that often, we give them an inch and they want a mile.  They complain about being “workers” and that they want “workers rights” and they forget that the taxpayers who pay their salaries are workers, too.  It doesn’t matter if you work with your back or your brain, as a ditch digger or a designer, we all work in some way.

Public workers forget that they do not contribute to the economny, they take from it.

Recently, we told you about a FreedomWorks leader, Tabitha Hale, who was attached by a union demonstrator.  Ms. Hale, who is a friend of KCC, was watching the demonstrations outside her offices, and decided to take her iPhone to video them.  She was  knocked down, all 5’1″ of her, while wearing a dress.  You can see her attacker, at the very end of the below video.  He’s the white bearded man in the bright red sweat shirt.

Ms. Hale, as does anyone, has the right to walk up the street. If people are demonstrating outside her office at FreedomWorks in Washington, she has the right to take video of them.  She did nothing to “deserve” her tumble from a man standing above her on a wall.  What makes these people so angry?  Why has decency slid so low?

Glenn Beck tells us that WE must be organized, too.

Here is just the way to do it:

EDITOR’S NOTE: Tabitha Hale and your blogger are both members of Smart Girl Politics, a non-partisan group that seeks to engage, educate, and empower conservative women.

Pandering Panda, Courtesy of FreedomWorks

My friend, Tabitha Hale, is fearless.  Here she is getting attacked while filming a union thug protesting outside her office at FreedomWorks.  Conservative America has rallied by her side.  Thank you, Tabitha, for all you do.  Just think, it wasn’t all that long ago, that you were a wonderful blogger living here in Raleigh.  You wanted to go where the action was, in DC, and you made it happen.

Hale is currently the New Media Director, and so much more for the FreedomWorks national office.  Conservative bloggers everywhere love her.    Check out the full story by our friend Fingers Malloy, at News Real Blog.

Ms. Hale had this to say:

Basically, it’s ridiculous. I’m a 5’1 female in a dress, and he was standing up on a garden wall above me in the courtyard. He hardly felt threatened. I was stunned, because generally protesters are there to, you know, get their message out. They don’t normally shy away from the camera. I’m very much okay, and very appreciative of the support from my fellow bloggers and activists today. I am, however, shaken up by the level of sheer hatred I experienced today. The look of fury on his face in the close up is appalling. I had not exchanged a word with him. He didn’t know who I was. He didn’t even know my name, what I do. He had probably surmised that I was with FreedomWorks and that was enough.

This just can’t be tolerated anymore. It’s one thing to be called a violent teabagger. It’s another to be called a violent teabagger while you’re being assaulted. They’ve been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Tuesday, Congressman Heath Shuler (D-NC, 11), will  start carrying a concealed handgun at public events in his  district in response to Saturday’s shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Reporter Bill Theobald wrote that Shuler has worked hard to raise his profile on the House floor as leader of the moderate Democrats, known as the “Blue Dogs”. ” However, nothing he has done has gotten him as much attention as this…”

Theobald also wrote that Shuler obtained a concealed carry permit in 2009 after his life was threatened.  ( The same happened to this blogger in 2007.)

Shuler was endorsed by the National Rifle Association in 2010, a group in which KCC is a longtime member.

Read the complete story, here.

From the North Carolina Federation of Women Republican Legislative Report (12/1/10), reprinted with permission, is this valuable timely information regarding Senator Richard Burr‘s sponsorship of the bad bill S 510.  Brenda T. Formo analyses the issue.

After working so hard for Senator Burr in the election, your blogger is extremely disappointed in him, as are other grassroots activists.

Read on:

Advisory:

Going to one of our NC beaches this week or weekend?

If so, do not go swimming in the ocean.  Enjoy the beautiful scenery instead.  Due to the Hurricane Earl passing offshore:

The rip tides are so strong, not even the toughest swimmer can beat them.  As someone who grew up at the beach, and lives there to this day, please watch your children and set the example.

Be safe!  Thanks and enjoy your long weekend.  God bless you all!

Check  here for current rip current information for most NC beaches.  Remember, even a low rip can kill.