Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news – web sites) made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West Virginia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
I bet he went on to lecture the 3 year old about peace, love, tolerance and the first amendment. Loser just like his candidate.
Must be a fake email, and a fake website, and a fake…..
The photo is credited to AP Photo/Randy Snyder. Mr. Snider has a number of other photo credits to him.
Would he really endanger his career by faking the documents?
Or has he figured “Well, if it’s ok by Dan Rather….”
What I want to know is what’s up with the 10 year-old (or so) kid on the right hand side of the picture who’s got his right hand balled up in a fist. Is he looking to take somebody out?
“Who cares, the father is a jerk.”
Sometimes, in moments of weakness, I think, “Gosh, does all this election stuff really matter? I, mean, after all, Kerry’s supporters are just regular folks like me.”
And then I see stupid and callous remarks like this, and I remember why I care. God, I am SO going to enjoy humilating these arrogant, self-righteous asshats. Again, and for 6 out of the last 9 times.
Have you noticed how each time the GOP wins, the Dens are shocked and devastated, since their guys are always so clearly suoerior in every way imaginable?…to them at least. It must be terrible to bray about how you’re “for the little people”, only to have to try to explain how they could let you down once again. heh
The guy and daughter look pretty harmless to me. It looks like the Democrats there are the classless hecklers.
Don’t confuse my point. I think the people that did this, a few democratic thugs, are complete idiots, and I agree with James Snell above that if someone did this to my daughter I wouldn’t be standing there doing nothing about it.
The kid is there as a prop, she doesn’t know what is going on. Of course one shouldn’t think this is being placed in harm’s way, but still this stuff does happen, what is the point of bringing your 3 year old daughter to a political rally.
Of course, again, I feel the party or parties responsible should be beaten until they cry as well.
It seems Mr. Phil Parlock doesn’t learn from experience.
In 2000, he and his 12 son took a dozen Bush-Cheney signs into an Al Gore rally with the same result. Didn’t get a picture then, I guess that the all-american little blond girl did the trick this time.
If you think this is BS. Check the Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia) from October 28, 2000, Saturday.
So knowing what he know from last time, he took his 3 year old into harms way. Really nice, Dad!
I stand corrected, Poor Phil had the same problem in 1996 when he showed up at a Clinton function with a “Remember Vince Foster” sign. Some people just don’t know when to quit. At least, according to the paper, in 1996 he didn’t endanger any of his children while trying to make his point.
So, you admit that Democratic crowds are so out of control, so fascist, so dangerous that merely taking a Republican sign near them is reckless endangerment?
I just can’t stop myself.
While you’re at it, compare the photo of the “Union Goon”to the little girl’s brothers. You may (or may not) see a family resemblence.
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/09/bogus-assault-father-freeper-of-year.html
Rance,
Read up a few posts will you? The union has admitted that the guy was one of theirs.
Here’s more of the discgraceful tactics by leftists. They are so hateful. It was also disgraceful what the First Lady had to endure in NJ yesterday.
Family Of Killed Soldier: Vigil Crowd Threatening
POSTED: 5:48 pm CDT September 9, 2004
UPDATED: 11:02 am CDT September 10, 2004
DALLAS — A candlelight vigil took place Wednesday night to remember U.S. war dead in Iraq during the week of the 1,000th casualty. One North Texas family whose relative — Chad Drake — was killed outside Baghdad on Monday, was among the mourners at Dallas City Hall Plaza.
The family friend’s message alleges Drake’s mother was “harassed and yelled at, booed and hissed, told her son died for nothing.”
Drake’s mother reportedly left the event in tears.
The family attended the vigil because they thought it was meant to honor U.S. casualties. The event was organized by the Dallas Peace Center, which opposes the war.
The director of the Dallas Peace Center said the event was not intended to be an antiwar rally, but said e-mail notifications of the vigil were sent to a broad audience. Because the venue is a public place, he said, a variety of people with various views on the war in Iraq attended.
He also said the event was planned to include political overtones, but the Drake family should have been informed.
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/3719681/detail.html
I do not indulge in the rumor on the post I linked to above about the union guy being a member of the victim’s family. That is just whacky liberals grasping at straws.
But come on, this guy’s got issues. And no one should have to be concerned about voicing their opinion without fear of being attacked or just having their signs ripped up. But that is in theory, and only liberals deal in theory. A conservative is bound by reality, and the reality is that there are idiots out there who will scream for free speech for everyone while shouting down and intimidating those that disagree with them.
Uh…Joey?
I’ve been to the pro-life rallys in washington when there were at least 200,000 people there & maybe a handful of abortion protesters. THEY WERE NEVER TREATED THAT WAY BY US. However, they were so in your face, they even started fights among pro-lifers. I saw them stike Cardinal O’Connor who was walking on the frontline.
SO GO SOAK YOUR HEAD! You have no right to tell people who they should protest against.
Another reason Bush will win!
BUSH/CHENEY 2004!
Ripping a sign away from a little girl and making her cry is nothing. What really takes stones is having the local Child Protective Services office give Mr. Parlock a talking-to.
At this time, you could probably get away with even bodily harm of a bloody sort. If Child Protective Services should ever get involved in this sort of thing, All. Bets. Are. Off.
LG: Lifeguard training from a former Marine working as an actual lifeguard and fireman for NASA.
I was applying that strategy to the woman who was protesting at a Republican gathering, who was grabbed from behind by her hair by an elderly security guard, and I didn’t suggest or attempt any scenario whereby she was “swimming” or otherwise in the water. Just that the elderly guy — not the spryest of fitness level, probably, when confronting a noticably younger and far more animated person than he was — took effectively fast and swift actions to avoid being struck at by the woman and to remove her while keeping her BEYOND her arm’s reach from himself…
Lifeguard training…approach someone in desperation in the water and swim around them inorder to make contact with them from their back and if necessary, grab their hair and start swimming with them in tow and then take closer hold when you’re both in motion toward a safe area.
If they follow you around circularly as you attempt to swim behind them, dive underwater, avoiding their legs and arms and approach their back from underwater, and then take them in tow.
I was never advised to tow someone fully by their hair but to not hesitate to resort to grabbing their hair if it wasn’t possible to get any closer than my arm’s length to them should they be posing a threat to my safety (and therefore to theirs).
Think about it: someone’s hair is far easier to replace than their life, or your own. You go for what works the most effectively and safely inorder to prioritize what you need to protect. In degrees of importance to the situation.
Such that, that elderly guy made a very, very effective grab of that woman and quickly brought her into a submissive enough response inorder to get her out of the sitution, avoided being harmed by her (remained out of her arm’s length grasping area) and by approaching her from the rear like that and finding the first available “tow hold” (in that case, her hair), he did the most effective thing he could do and as quickly as possible.
I’m not saying that grabbing anyone by their hair is a good thing. Or even acceptable under most circumstances. But, under THOSE circumstances — that young adult woman at that rally, making that protest, given her behavior and the situation (she did pose a threat to others and was not a peaceful person, just holding a sign or such, but was yelling and appeared potentially more violent than she already was), that guy (elderly, obviously of lesser fitness and possible strength than the protestor) did the right thing in the right way to achieve the right purpose.
And, as I wrote earlier, if the guy had tapped the lady on the shoulder, she could have, very likely (potential existed, is what I am saying) have harmed, even fatally, the security guy and/or anyone around her, even herself. No one had yet determined if she was carrying a weapon, wore a bomb, any of that and the most important thing in that moment was to grab the woman, remain out of contact from her and get her out of the area as quickly as possible.
Same theory of behavior choices applies to someone in the water, possibly drowning, or anywhere else that you need to “snatch and run” with someone else. It’s effective to grab them from behind and not hesitate to grab their hair to do so as a starting point if need be. Hair regrows, lives don’t. You have to make choices of method in miliseconds where safety is concerned.
ON THE OTHER HAND, attacking protestors just for the sake of aggression is what took place with the father and daughter. They posed no safety concerns to anyone, not themselves, to no one around them…so the actions that were taken were not based upon a save concern but a wanton infliction of aggressive violence on someone for the sake of violence alone.
-S-
It’s interesting that you know how violent the woman was and how peaceful the man was. I saw no reports either way.
I do know from reading old newspaper reports, the man is a political gadfly who has gone out of his way to provoke a response at election rallies and at least once in the past has involved his children.