WMR) — According to sources with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Army, and the White House, a number of members of violent pro-life groups are streaming into South Bend in anticipation of protests during the commencement address of President Barack Obama at Notre Dame. Obama is scheduled to give his address at Notre Dame on May 17.
In anticipation of Obama’s address and his being awarded an honorary degree from Notre Dame, a number of right-wing groups, including Catholic anti-abortion and anti-stem cell research groups, are ratcheting up tensions in South Bend, according to our sources.
WMR has learned from FEMA sources that the city of South Bend has indicated that due to its severe financial situation, it is unable to provide the necessary police security for Obama’s speech. Notre Dame campus security has apparently accepted responsibility for Obama’s security during his visit to the campus, although primary presidential security will be in the hands of the Secret Service.
What is worrying to some federal law enforcement and emergency preparedness officials is the violent groups that will be present both within South Bend and on the campus of Notre Dame during the president’s address to graduating students. And these groups are being egged on by well-financed conservative groups, including the Cardinal Newman Society and Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center. However, the real fear of federal security agencies is the rhetoric being voiced by professional troublemaker Randall Terry and perennial political candidate Alan Keyes. Terry and Keyes are both right-wing Catholics.[reference]
Surely you remember the violent wave that occurs wherever these two men speak. Oh wait. While I am not really a Randall Terry fan because he becomes the focus of events and upstages the real message – this kind of reporting is insane. What will be really happening is quite different. American Papist posted the following video from ndresponse.com.
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Terry’s something of a nut who is not really of any help to the groups on campus. I didn’t know Alan Keyes was around, though. He’s great (at everything but winning an election).
Wow. This is downright libelous.
It’s terrible to think that violent radical white supremacist thugs like Alan Keyes will be using giant albino Opus Dei ninjas to disrupt the pro-Catholic activities taking place on Notre Dame campus. The nerve of some people!
It’s interesting to me that the whole abortion issue isn’t as front and center in Madsen’s article as I’d expect from Jeff’s headline. Madsen’s headline (unlike Jeff’s) doesn’t talk about prolifers at all; to him, the biggest point is apparently that they’re anti-Obama.
His use of adjectives is interesting (if kind of repellent). He works quite hard to equate “Catholic”, “Republican”, “right-wing”, “anti-Obama”, and “violent”. (He’s got “prolife” in there too, but it doesn’t show up as much as the others.) Indeed, he labels the Georgetown protests over the covering of “IHS” as “anti-Obama rhetoric”, when it should be pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that covering “IHS” for any President would be deeply offensive to Catholics, whether or not we liked the particular President involved.
All in all, the article doesn’t really rise above the pathetic-squirt-of-bile level. For the sake of the country, I hope his purported government sources (assuming they exist) are less clueless than Mr. Madsen. Unfortunately, in the wake of Janet Napolitano’s DHS memo, I’m not nearly as confident on that as I’d like to be.
Peace,
–Peter
And they accuse CATHOLICS of hysteria because we were worried about FOCA???
This evening I heard a mental and physical midget, Robert Reich, tell Larry Kudlow (God bless him) that Obama bin Laden is a uniter.
Yes. He’s the only thing standing between the evil rich and the pichforks. He can abrogate contracts. And, if you try to defend your property rights, you’re to be destroyed by his press zombies.
Obama’s (the overt jihadi) a uniter and if you don’t unite you’re are an enemy of the state.
Do these filthy animals think we are stupid?
I’m sure FEMA will do as good at job at ND as they did at NO (New Orleans).