Another non-violent Tea Partier gets eight years in prison for assaulting Obama supporter with pool cue
Because, of course, Tea Partiers are just innately civil, nonviolent people who only want to reduce government spending:
Tea party member gets 8 years for attacking Obama supporter
A Gwinnett judge sentenced a tea party member to serve eight years in prison for attacking and hospitalizing a President Barack Obama supporter during a 2009 bar room altercation, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Jurors convicted Carnesville resident Larry Morgan, 39, of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated battery this week for smashing several bones in the victim’s face with a pool cue on Jan. 31, 2009 — a few days after Obama’s inauguration. Deliberations took only an hour.The single blow, which broke the pool stick in half, happened about 1:30 a.m. at Will Henry’s Tavern in Stone Mountain, said Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Taylor, who prosecuted.
The victim, Patrick O’Neill, then 24, was hospitalized for five days and endured a months-long recovery. He testified that he suffered numerous facial fractures, including a broken nose and orbital ethmoid bone, Taylor said.
“The pictures of his injuries were some of the most egregious pictures I have seen,” Taylor said. “(He) is very lucky to be alive.”
According to testimony, trouble began when Morgan was talking to other bar patrons about his negative feelings about Obama, when one of O’Neill’s friends said he had voted for the president.
Morgan replied, “Well, you are stupid as hell,” before making some racist comments or jokes, witnesses testified, Taylor said. All people involved were white, she said.
Later, O’Neill and his friend were laughing about or poking fun at Morgan’s comments when he became angry, fetched a pool cue and broke it across O’Neill’s face. The impact was so forceful that the victim had no memory of being struck or the circumstances leading up to it, Taylor said.
Morgan, who testified he considers himself a tea party member, told the court he was acting in self-defense. He claimed O’Neill and his friend had threatened “to beat him up in the parking lot,” Taylor said, recalling testimony.
There, you see! It's just another liberal plot to make Tea Partiers look like violent thugs.
All of these "isolated incidents" are taking the form of "hands across America".
Every pox is an isolated incidence.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
this is not his first conviction, or his first bar fight.
Nor his first beer.
Beer drinker != asshole
Beer drinker != violent
Beer Drinker + violent + asshole = Morgan
All I ever drink is just one more.
top, y'all.
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
I think yews guys in the N say y'all more than we do in the S - but the top is popped...
is Aardavarks and Ay-rabs, sonny. And don't go callin us north lessun
you want to swim back home when we catch you without them papers.
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
...where DID I leave that pool stick?
prison he's going to.
He'll be having enough "fun" while he's in there without it. *
He'd better hope and pray he gets isolated from the rest of the prison population, because I think that if they could vote, many of the inmates there would have voted for Obama. That's not exactly a plus for Bubba Morgan.
*And no, I'm not advocating male anal rape in prison. I'm just stating a fact.
I taught in a Maximum Security for years a few decades back. If I learned anything while I taught there, it's that I never wanted to end up there.
39? Was that his IQ?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
What makes it sad is, among other things, that this is not surprising. The entire toxic brew of xenophobia, racism, violence (however carefully couched in "plausible deniability), glorification of ignorance and flat-out insanity has been spewed for so long and such volume, that I wonder how many other of these "isolated incidents" go unreported.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
you racist cracker.
From FUX News:
A man was given a cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconstitutional, just for getting into a bar fight. Why, because the assaulter was a Tea Partier, the victim a liberal Obama supporter. Not that assault is okay. It's not, and the Tea Partier deserves to be punished. But 8 years for a mere bar fight? How often do liberals suffer the same punishment for the same crime? They are committed all the time by members of the radical left. Why, just the other day, a liberal was seen telling a conservative that he was not a nice person. This far leftist will suffer no penalty for that, even though it's the exact same crime.
From Corporate Newslike Nonsense:
There are reports today that a Tea Partier who assaulted an Obama supporter so badly that he broke facial bones was sentenced to 8 years in prison. We'll discuss the controversy surrounding the fight and the sentence. Here today are two members of the Tea Party, Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, and a moderate journalist. Folks, what do you make of this? . . .
From MSNBC:
Today the Tea Party just might have received a blow due to blows one of its own members had doled out. A self professed Tea Partier struck an Obama supporter in the face and head with a pool cue causing severe injuries, and was sentenced to a very tough prison sentence for it. Tea Partiers, who say they are just civil protesters in favor of freedom, well, perhaps that's not really the case. Here to discuss this with me is Pat Buchanan . . . .
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
LOL!
But you forgot CNN going to Erick Erickson for his unbiased opinion! And Michele Bachmann, too.
There is an appearance for Kirk Cameron in there too.
Victoria Jackson and Dennis Miller will contribute...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Oh that's good.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
His IQ is on par with the rest of the T-Baggers low,very low!
Dude looks pretty comfy in the mug shot zone. any details on this fat fuck's priors?
His cousin works for the sheriff's department and took the photo. She's his ex-wife.
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
It must suck to be that stupid.
The funny thing with people this stupid, is that they're so damned stupid they don't realize it. Most of these people think they're smart.
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
Yeah. I know I'm a largely ignorant creature. That's why I'm not.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
Nah... anybody that stupid, it goes clean to the bone... so much so they think they're intelligent...
Wallowing in self-delusion, happy as a hippo in the mud... and (gauging from the photo above), more truth than fiction in the latter, in so many cases, it seems...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
A bar fight?
The nationwide crime watch for anything involving "the Tea Party" must be getting really thin. What's it up to now? Around two dozen incidents over the course of three years in a nation of over 350 million people?
I'm sure there were far more bar fights involving Steelers fans just last Sunday. Does that mean all Steelers fans are inherently violent? How about those that listen to heavy metal or play violent video games?
This type of pseudoscience can be used to smear pretty much any group you choose.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Poplawski was probably a Steeler fan, too.
Of course it was the frequent exposure to bar patrons which caused this guy to join the tea party since it was not even a figment of anyone's imagination at the time of this incident.
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
No, it existed then. It just hadn't been co-opted by the Kochs at that point.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I stand corrected Oh Always Right One.
According the the Bible of the Internet, the Tea Party began a week before this incident, over a cause dear to Mr. Taylor's heart:
"January 24, Binghamton New York - Trevor Leach organized the first Tea Party of 2009 in response to newly proposed taxes on beverages containing less than 75% fruit juice."
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
Obviously that damned filthy communist liberal provoked him and then tried to get him arrested by bashing his own face against the pool cue.
Old Andy Capp cartoon... Andy was giving his statement to a bobby... "I thought he was going to hit me so I hit him back first"
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
...so much for a swift and speedy trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Since he's a tea-bagger, I'm surprised he's not mad that he had to wait so long.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
An uncontested guilty plea would have sped things up and saved the taxpayers a bundle of money. Isn't that at the very core of Tea Party philosophy?
"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
TEABAGGERS GONE WILD !!!
Harry Chapin wants you.
Violent is a violent does pal.
FYI, guys in prison like to play with broomsticks. They're kind of like pool cues.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
They pass through our town on the way to alaska in the summer. Some of them can't hide the fact that they're so upset that"that f*****g *****r" is president. Hey I seem to recall thatr a majority elected him tesbaggers
...is rooted and found on the left."- Rush Limbaugh-serial liar.
"Jurors convicted Carnesville resident Larry Morgan, 39,"
He looks a lot older than 39! Teabaggers lie about their age too?
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
All that hate eats one up from the outside... love enervates! (That's why I'm essentially 16 with a fake ID and a bad attitude! *big grin*)
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Probably have some nice WWII era tat's as well.
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
County Medal on Honor instead of eight years. Jesus, what kind of bouncer in a place called Will Henry's Tavern in Stone Mountain Georgia holds down a guy who has just given an Obama supporter his just desserts? Musta been prosecuted cause he broke the pool cue, right?
"We need to defend the morality of a system in American that says you are free to take risks, to make money, to create jobs and to do it however you want to so long as it's legal."
Paul "Vouchers" Ryan
This is just another example of what has been called "An endless parade of ugly" which, apparently has resulted in a "whole mess of stupid".
By the time he gets out of prison, Obama will have finished his second term.
Tea parties traitors to be shot at sunrise.
That guy is 39 years old? I am 38, and that guy looks as old as my 67 year old dad. Guess that's what a diet of TV dinners and Schlitz will get ya.
That stress from paying high taxes and fretting over losing your freedoms will do it to ya every time.
in terror of a parking lot dustup. Preemptive war, preemptive assault, preemptive dropping of the soap.
I hope the vic sues his Gooper ass. Gooper ASS.
I can see the same thing happening to a Democrat who gets mad at a Bush voter.
(Riiight)
Please replaceTea Party with...oooo, black people, mexicans...how do you NOT see your own crazy logic?
Is the point some people are violent? I am a student of history..lets talk a walk. JFK had to be careful going to Dallas because those violent right wing, gun carrying Texans may hurt the Prez. A left wing card carrying communist shoots our President, a Dallas Police Office is shot and killed trying to aprehand Oswald. So much for the violent conservatives on that one. His brother, Robert , killed by a member of the peace loving Muslims of Palestine, Sirhan Sirhan. The media was afraid for Robert, he was liberal, anti-Vietnam...you know how those violent conservatives are. MLK is shot down by a white racist. Pres Ford is shot at by a looney hippie(thats unfair) Manson follower. Pres Reagan is shot by a white mental patient. Pres Bush #1 is targeted for assination by Iragi leader Saddam, it never happens. President Anwar Sadat is assinated by a Muslim group closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Estimated 12 million Russians are killed during their Communist Led Govt. Mao's leadership oversaw 12-18 million chinese deaths. Pres Castro takes over Cuba after ousting US backed dictator Batista. Over the next 45+ years there are no free elections, hundreds of thousands are killed, gays & Aids patients are locked up. The US engages in 4 wars without a declaration of war as REQUIRED by our constitution ! Liberals, the Best & Brightest left & right , and conservatives wage war in violation of the US Constitution.The ONLY political party/movement demanding strict following of our laws in the Tea Party. Keep trying to knock them down with every stupid trick you can try. If our constitution had followed we would NOT have entered at least 2 of them. We would have a balanced budget, we would not be sending Americans money to prop up dictators around the world. As far as I can tell, the revolution in the US is the TEA PARTY. How does it feel to be the anti change voice?
Because nationality and race are not self-selected groupings. One has no choice about being a member of one's race or being born in a particular country. As such, members of a particular race or nationality are likely to be as diverse a group as the general population, running along a very similar bell curve.
Members of groups that are chosen, particularly groups chosen for a particular ideology, just aren't the same. Generalities about their beliefs and behaviors can be made much more readily and accurately. The teabaggers are self identified, self selected. They choose to affiliate with the teabagger movement for a reason. As such, they'll have a lot more characteristics in common in terms of beliefs that influence behavior than members of a race, nationality or larger culture.
Take the teabaggers out of the equation, and you should be able to see your own faulty logic. Instead of the teabaggers, let's use the KKK. (No, I'm not saying that the teabaggers and the KKK are one and the same.) Members of the KKK choose to be members of the KKK because of its ideology. Its ideology attracts a certain kind of mind. Calling members of the KKK prone to violence is not bigotry the way calling black people prone to violence is. One is a self-selected group that attracts people for a reason. The other is a quirk of birth that does not reveal much about any individual member in terms of his or her behavioral inclinations, with the exceptions of the very broad generalizations one can draw about a large culture.
If only the teabaggers actually understood the law they demanded be followed "strictly."
And no, they're not the only movement that demands strict following of our laws. There are other groups out there who want the Constitution followed according to its words, and they have a much better understanding of what those words actually mean. Only, they don't have a FUX News outlet to glorify their existence.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Yup, they are revolting all right. And thanks so little for a bizarre rendition of revisionist history. And I hope you have enjoyed your two hours of membership. Now get lost.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Ah jus luvs me ma bossman, he so gud 2 ME! Maybee if'n we jus kud whup us sum Obammy hippees, boss will send all the Messicans away an not moov the plant 2 Indjya? Ah drahvs me a gret BEEG ol' Cummin DEEsil what burn Mooslim blud, cas Baybee Jeesis dun tol me 'Merika rools hooRAW... we GOTS r kuntree bak! USA, USA, USA Fox and preechur man dun tol me tha Obamma is a munkee from KEEnya, an I gonna shoots me a hole buncha 'em libruls... Han me some more porkrins an moar gravy! We usta hav us peepul at work wat sassed bak and wuz mouthy an all, Fox sayd they was communis' nigra-lovin faggits and we dun show'd 'em... kin ah gits me uh AMEN??? Gits a KLU moran, speek gud Engleesh!!!
hell....
We have lots of guys that are like this guy around my hood....have the flag pole in the front yard, harley set up ready to go, all shiny, sitting in the garage....pickem-up truck with gun rack....and a cooler in the back....
..The guy he hit probably had just turned around and this John Wayne Gacy lookin fool swung the pool stick on em.....They just cain't hep themselves...theys daddy's was the same way, like theys daddys b4 em..
Run forrest, run!!!!!!!!!
confirms even more it's probably better to be legally armed and dangerous then to end up his victim.
no need to go to jail for shootin em...he'd be easy enough to run circles around...and smack down..
he's a heart attack waitin to happen...
Quit being afraid....these people are mostly posers....and they're not as bad as the pretend....they really are just scared, and want to be loud (and scared), that's why they have gun racks, wear camo and have a semper fi sticker in the rear window, even though they've never been around a marine base....his type is the first to run when the shit really hits the fan, cept he can't get far cause he weighs so much...
So not only is he a coward, he's also a liar.
Good riddance.
Larry doesn't look like a hater. He looks like a lover. Good natured fellow. I think he'll do fine in prison. Too bad he's only worth a couple packs of cigarettes, if that. And then as he gets worn out, like an old shoe, he won't even be worth a moist cigarette butt from the urinal. Good Times Larry, Good Times. Give all your new friends a big kiss for me will ya bud? Thanks
Okay Guys.
I have a somewhat large and looming issue with the title of this article, and with parts of the information in it.
Timing
The altercation in the bar happened 1/31/2009. The history of the Tea Party did not exist at that time. The first 'Tea Party' events were organized on 1/24/2009 in New York. The first actual Tea Party protest did not occur until February 2009.
So, sorry guys, he can't be 'considered' a Tea Party member, at least not when this incident in question occurred. He was just your average garden variety bigot and bully. He's latched on to the 'Tea Party' as HIS, after the fact.
Pedants United: Accuracy above Tact.
Dona means nobody no harm... Beets all U nevah saw. Bin in trubbel wid'D law since de day he wus borne! Jus looking fo'a home, jus-a-looking for a place to stay! Lets ROLL! Hoo RAW!!!! USA, USA...
Read my take on this case here
It was an interesting trial.
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