So, I Suppose This Is Also ‘Great Theatre’…*
Unfolding currently:
Man Takes Hostages At Clinton Campaign Office
POSTED: 1:14 pm EST November 30, 2007
UPDATED: 1:55 pm EST November 30, 2007ROCHESTER, N.H. — ROCHESTER, N.H. An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said.
Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was released by the hostage-taker.
“A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, ‘You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,'” witness Lettie Tzizik said.
There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.
“I walked out and I immediately started running, and I saw that the road was blocked off. They told me run and keep going,” said Cassandra Hamilton, who works in an office adjacent to the building.
Nearby businesses have been evacuated, and the St. Elizabeth Seaton School has been locked down.
“There are sharp shooters on the roof, and police are negotiating with someone in the building,” said another witness, who did not want to be identified. “The police are notifying all the business owners on the street to evacuate. There are fire trucks behind the Hillary Clinton office.”
Clinton, who is not in New Hampshire, is attending a National Democratic Committee meeting in Virginia. Presidential candidate Barack Obama also has an office in Rochester, and it has been evacuated. There were no reports of any injuries.
*Context below.
Update: Here come the Freepers. Major reactions:
1) Ha ha!
POPCORN…POPCORN…GET YOUR POPCORN HERE…..
200 posted on 11/30/2007 10:59:38 AM PST by SnarlinCubBear (“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” — Thomas Mann)
2) It is clearly a leftist conspiracy.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if some rabid Clinton supporter pushed some whack job to do this”
I think you’re right. My friends and are at work are saying that if it’s a plant, they most likely threatened him to release photos or some such, and promised him he’d be okay. In real life, I think this guy will have to end up having his brains blown out. You watch. He won’t be allowed to live. Mark my words. They couldn’t leave him alive to talk. He will be dead soon.
1,123 posted on 11/30/2007 1:05:11 PM PST by sulu
3) Unlike leftists, we take no pleasure in the suffering of others.
Because FR is not DU, where death and suffering are celebrated, prayers up for anyone in harm’s way. If this is actually a hostage situation, rather than a bomb threat as Rush is reporting, I can’t imagine too many things more terrifying.
35 posted on 11/30/2007 10:36:06 AM PST by lonevoice (It’s always “Apologize to a Muslim Hour”…somewhere)
4) Ha ha!
ROFLMAO
996 posted on 11/30/2007 12:45:54 PM PST by A. Morgan (Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter 2008 Thank me!)
Why can’t two hostages take down one sick, tired, and disturbed individual?
Oh, right—they’re Democrats.
1,361 posted on 11/30/2007 2:28:50 PM PST by Palladin (“How do we beat The Bitch?”–John McCain Supporter)
5) Shall we target and harass this man’s family?
Want his address and phone number? 😉
1,048 posted on 11/30/2007 12:52:27 PM PST by FishTale
6) Soon we will know the truth.
I think we’ll find that all the hostages were really “so-called” hostages….That he had no gun and that he told them it was not really a bomb at all “and proved it”.
That Monica “hostage” look a like didn’t have a bit of fear on her face when she walked out.
Let’s wait it out. Just remember…the “hostages” are Hillary boot lickers!! I’m sure she’ll gather them in one room, promise them compensation and an internship so they can continue their boot-licking careers.
1,518 posted on 11/30/2007 3:38:59 PM PST by Sacajaweau (“The Cracker” will be renamed “The Crapper”)
5 spot says the guy is either glibertarian or GOP.
What Hillary really needs to push her campaign for the Democratic nomination into inevitability is for some crazed loner to show up at one of her campaign offices and take hostages with a bomb strapped to his chest.
Thankfully, this is highly unlikely to happen.
Jesus. Either Clinton drives people insane, or the guy was insane to begin with and really hates the mushy centrism of Teh Hitlery.
And I don’t want to sound glib, but we wont know his motives until Jack Bauer shoots him in the leg.
Oh, that Hillary! What won’t she do to get attention?
Five bucks sez the wingnuts have already got the headlines written.
Also: “A woman and her baby told workers…”?! Precocious kid!
Sorry.
I’m sure the guy was inane to begin with. Probably so insane he voted for Bush. Twice.
We’ve reached a sick place in time when your first thoughts upon hearing this are, “You know the LGF’ers are excited about this.”
Here’s hoping everyone comes out of it okay.
You know, I’ve kind of missed this. The lone nuts finally warming themselves into action after a six-year collaboration with the Powers That Be to disrupt and intimidate democracy the old-fashioned way, through fear, violence and explosives.
I can say this much, it’s a white guy.
I’m positive this is somehow related to teh Clenis and / or Vince Foster and / or Sandy Burglar.
“5 spot says the guy is either glibertarian or GOP.”
Or possibly just nuts and chose Hillary due to her huge media presence; ie, more publicity and attention than the other candidates.
It’s kinda hard to tell.
Man, Bernie Kerik sure will do anything to divert attention from criticism of his don. But I’m sure Ann Althouse will blame it on the wacko’s envy of Clinton’s penis.
Put the popcorn on, this ones going to be good. Another day in the carnival of american politics.
If you stop caring, this is actually really amusing.
I think i shall put my money on this being the work of a paultard.
Or he has a problem with one of the campaign workers he’s holding hostage. Disgruntled husband or boyfriend (whether ex- or current) who has chosen an inappropriate way to manage his anger.
Ain’t nepotism grand?
Maybe it’s Hillary’s fault for putting her campaign office is such a dangerous place. I sure as shit wouldn’t want to be in New Hampshire with all those…pale faces.
I hear they even lots of Christian madrassas there.
Hey, stop suggesting I’m crazy. I’m simply following the instructions in Ecclesiastes where it clearly states that thick ankles are an affront to goodly men unless she has massive gazongas.
Why, WHY did this have to happen so soon after a GOP debate? Now we have to wait much longer for Rudy’s and Mitt’s armies of writers to turn out some jokes that will make the hyenas in the audience howl.
It’s the islamofascists!!!!111
It’s teh muslims!!!!11111one
OMG!!!!!
I can say this much, it’s a white guy.
Who wants to commit suicide today. Suicide by SWAT team.
Predicted piece in tomorrow’s Post:
The wildly jabbering attacker asserted that Senator Clinton was genetically engineered by Lord Galtrokk in his fortress on Titan, Jupiter’s largest moon, and that he had to blow up her New Hampshire office to prevent its homing beacon from providing landing site information to Galtrokk’s unholy horde of androids, giant insects and dildo monsters. Some deny these claims, but the fact that they are being discussed will continue to dog the Clinton campaign. Polls show that nearly 55 percent of Americans would not vote for an artificial life form from Jupiter were one to seek the Presidency.
It appears both hostages have been released. Now let’s hope they can calm the guy down so no damage is done to anyone.
Hee, I saw that too. At least the reporter has the excuse of being very excited.
So now it’s an older man known locally as having a history of mental illness. That narrows it down to John Sununu, Judd Gregg or Otis, the town drunk.
Countdown to Little Debbie Snackcakes wondering aloud if the hostage-taker is Muslim.
16…15…14…13…12…….
If it is John Sununu, Debbie could at least report that an Arab (gasp) is taking hostages.
Jake, not to be pedantic (OK, yes, absolutely to be pedantic) but Titan is a moon of Saturn.
If the perp dies, expect a whole other round of militia-nut Ruby Ridge BS about the one world government killing “patriots”.
“They shoot pot dealers all the time, but he was a Nazi, damnit!!!”
From Lard’s “Foreskin of Liberty”
First words out of Limbaugh’s mouth: ” wonder if this is another Clinton plant.”
Michael Medved?
So now it’s an older man
Subsequently described as “in his forties.”
[frowny face]
30 bucks says he used to volunteer for Lott.
The freepers are outraged, outraged that the Clinton campaign would stoop to staging a hostage crisis to boost her election. Alternatively he could be a:
A) Muslim jihadist
B) Obama or Edwards operative
C) Liberal plant sent in to frame Conservatives
Wish I wuz jokin’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932936/posts
New York Times has this:
Rodney Doherty, editor of Foster’s Daily Democrat, the major newspaper in the Rochester area, said in an interview at 3:15 p.m. that his reporters
had yet to confirm the identity of the hostage-taker, but that they were pursuing one particular lead. “We’re focused in on a fellow who has been a problem in the past,” Mr. Doherty said.
Gary Ruppert, is that you?
Awesome Freeper comment from pedestrian’s link:
I think I forgot to close my blockquote tag, is it breaking anything?How about now?
It could be Darryl, or his brother, Darryl.
Wait, is this a dream sequence?!
Even if it wasn’t a plant, it says a lot about us that we would even consider the possility.
Fixed your error there.
I’m guessing that Andrew Sullivan will run with the plant story.
Yikes – I suspect we’d better get used to this sort of thing.
Not ruling out the possibility that this has nothing to do with Clinton herself but rather one of the office staff, as Dan Someone mentioned.
But if it is about Hillary, I could imagine that it’s the result of wingnut lunacy about black helicopters and such being repeated like a mantra. Imagine if your worldview included a decade of warnings that the Devil
himherself were going to take over, and that the mighty Bush administration was doing the work of God and real Americans but was under threat by sneaky liberals…and it started looking like the queen of them all really had a shot of winning the Presidency. Not because Bush and his buddies so royally fucked up, but because of the scummy, backstabbing evil in the shadows. And once the liberals take over, it’s One World Order, your guns are taken away, your kids turned gay, and Teh Terrrists let loose the nukes that had been held back by sheer force of patriotic American will.Imagine further that you were halfway round the bend anyway – then this kind of thing makes “sense”.
I’m afraid a lot of that is going to happen in the next few years unless Rahm Emmanuel et al figure out a way for the Democrats to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in ’08.
Jake, not to be pedantic (OK, yes, absolutely to be pedantic) but Titan is a moon of Saturn.
I acknowledge that SOME say it is a moon of Saturn. I have now weighed both sides equally. That’s journalistic integrity.
Fox says it’s a guy named Troy Stanley. My Google search pulls up a phone number (I won’t publish it) and this incident which was a disorderly conduct arrest on November 6: “6:14 p.m. — Troy Alan Stanley, 44, of Rochester Hill Road, is arrested on a bench warrant for disorderly conduct.”
“Jake, not to be pedantic (OK, yes, absolutely to be pedantic) but Titan is a moon of Saturn.”
“I acknowledge that SOME say it is a moon of Saturn.”
I have neither the time nor astronomical background to figure out who’s right.
Even if it wasn’t a plant, it says a lot about her that we would even consider the possility.
kind of like the Code Pink rally picture, huh? funny that.
I wonder what this guy’s take is on the whole “Live Free or Die” motto up there.
Wow, what I really can’t wait for are the right-wing blog reactions to this one. Actually, I bet the Hannity Forum is already sporting some great commentary.
What’s sadder? That they honestly think it’s a plant or that we all knew they were going to say that before they actually said it? I guess there’s something to be said for predictability, especially when it comes to the certifiably insane.
“Jake, not to be pedantic (OK, yes, absolutely to be pedantic) but Titan is a moon of Saturn.”
“I acknowledge that SOME say it is a moon of Saturn.”
I have neither the time nor astronomical background to figure out who’s right.
Next week, it will be revealed that my source for all astronomical and astrological information was Dennis Kucinich.
Freepers said:
Yes, this is the perfect way to deflect the news from Debategate, which was surely about to destroy the Demoncrap party once and for all!!!
Even if it wasn’t a plant, it says a lot about her that we would even consider the possility.
Even if the Zebuloids from the 5th dimension weren’t actually coming to syphon our bodily fluids, it says a lot about them that we would even consider the posibility.
Notice how when things get hot for the Dems in the news(ala dem plants in CNN debate)
These people are so freaking nuts it’s hard to know where to begin. How had the debate “scandal” made things “hot” for Democrats? What’s internet shorthand for making the twirling-finger-around-next-to-head gesture?
Hmmm, “Troy Stanley” doesn’t sound like a Muslim name, but neither did Richard Ried…
Goddamn it. This is gonna have all the sheeple flocking to Senator War Goddess now.
Oh, I love the Rochester police blotter. Here’s one example:
10:28 p.m. – Three men have a beef with each other at McDonald’s. They resolve things by yelling.
“I can say this much, it’s a white guy.”
Don’t be so sure. They’re over by the coast (trivia – NH’s coastline is the shortest in the U.S., barely 12 miles long), and you never know who’s sneaking in on those tramp steamers.
Has Stalkin’ Malkin weighed in yet? Was the hostage-taker sorta brown or whitey-white? Was the alleged bomb duct-taped to his chest made in the USA or smuggled in by Muslimofascials? Has she zeroed in on how he’s voted in the past, where he lives, the nationalities of all known relatives for the past three generations? I’d click over and check for myself but viewing her site is against my religion.
10:30 a.m. — A Pug roams free on Mavis Avenue.
3:33 a.m. — A lady on Glen Street has asked two gentlemen to leave, but they have gone to sleep instead. It all works out.
8:34 p.m. — Someone calls to say he is cornered by a Beagle behind Arthur’s Market. The dog has a canine companion that is looking on.
10:30 a.m. — A threatening piece of metal lurks at the intersection of Winter Street and Columbus Avenue.
4:18 p.m. — Eggs are fired at a Moores Court residence. This is later downgraded to one egg.
Have I mentioned how much I love police blotters? We don’t have them in LA, sadly. Too big a city.
Wonderful, just wonderful.
*Applies for concealed weapon permit*
That LGF thread is just keen.
From the Rochester Times:
The suspect is an older man with a history of mental illness who reportedly told his son to watch the news today.
More breaking news…
Evel Knievel has died.
Right when the BBC were showing an interview with the man on Christmas Day? Holy crap.
No fair using quotes from conservatives to suggest that they might be mean, hateful and stupid!
You’re suposed to do what CNN and the Washington Post do: Quote a conservative leader saying the leftist bloggers are mean and hateful.
I think there’s a 20% likelihood that someone takes a shot at Clinton or Obama before the election next November. Obama was already getting enough threats that they started his Secret Service protection a year ahead of usual.
In my heart of hearts I hope it doesn’t happen, but I know my country, and the level of irrational hatred and violence fomented among the 28%ers is so high I fear it’s inevitable.
The “good” part of the freeper response is where they get confused by the whole conflicting reports on breaking news phenomenon.
Some of them are acting suspicious of there being two names reported, and that the hostages were either released or still inside.
I really want to leave the country.
…we wont know his motives until Jack Bauer shoots him in the leg…
No. Wrong. We will know the hostage are safe when Jack Bauer shoots him in the leg. We’ll need to wait an hour or so until he’s waterboarded to know his motives. Come on. You know the drill.
The most creative police blotter anywhere is in Arcata, Ca, where the city council is run by Greens. Check out the Arcata Eye Police Blotter
They’ve even put out a book of past blotters.
I’m just waiting for two words in wingy reactions: Reichstag Fire
It’ll happen. I’d put money on it, man.
Some civic service to consider. IF Rochester modelled their civic service groups like this, people would find better things to do than strap on bombs to threaten election volunteers.
OMG Kevin Hayden — police blotter incidents in limericks? My faith in the future of the human race is . . . well, okay, not restored, but still.
Maybe it’s Hillary’s fault for putting her campaign office is such a dangerous place. I sure as shit wouldn’t want to be in New Hampshire with all those…pale faces. I hear they even [have] lots of Christian madrassas there.
Also homeschoolers and former homeschoolers, most of them Xtian and all of them cranky. But most significantly, the New Hamsters have GUNS! Lots and lots and lots of lovely GUNS! In fact, the main reason I assumed from the start that this was a differently-sane person looking for media exposure (or suicide by cop) was that he didn’t wave one or more guns around. The duct-taped “bomb” is so media-friendly, it’s got to be a stunt, albeit an insane and dangerous way of getting attention.
Speaking of which, I’m surprised the Freepers haven’t already reminded us all that if only the Clinton volunteers had been armed, they would never have been able to take advantage of the “free publicity” of a police standoff. Typical wussy liberals, waiting for the nanny-state SWAT team to take care of every deranged bomb-waver that drops by!
I’m just waiting for two words in wingy reactions: Reichstag Fire
I’m thinkin that Dick is saving that little homage for NEXT november, when the Capital Building goes up in flames, marshal law is declared and elections are canceled.
Sage advice from a Malkin poster:
“On November 30th, 2007 at 2:34 pm, TMoney said:
One more thing…I won’t harbor ideas that it is a setup, until MM tells me it was.
Treat it as a the real deal until we know different.”
Yes. Indeed.
Here yah go, Lex,
To: weegee
I am waiting for Hillary’s Reichstag moment.
1,350 posted on 11/30/2007 2:22:31 PM PST by Palladin (“How do we beat The Bitch?”–John McCain Supporter)
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Kevin, that Arcata blotter is the find of the week.
Thanks for that!
mikey
Leeland Eisenberg is the hostage taker.
I think there’s a 20% likelihood that someone takes a shot at Clinton or Obama before the election next November…
Confession time: Last year, in Steve Gilliard’s blog, I loudly & confidently & wrongly predicted that Hillary Clinton would not actually declare her candidacy, because the odds ran so high in favor of multiple assassination attempts. Apart from all the 28-Percenters who are going into black-helicopter-high-anxiety mode already, there are just too many lost and damaged souls wandering around pre-programmed with the meme that even a threatening enough attempt will get the would-be assassin the media attention that every good American is supposed to crave as a birthright. Much like, it seems, the subject of today’s newsflash. *sigh*.
It’s going to be a long year for those of us with PTSD. And I wish I didn’t have an image of Karl Rove’s little helpers giving out handguns instead of “Vote Hitlery” placards on Super Tuesday…
Some say the NH Clinton “bomber” has the surname Stanley, others give it as Eisenberg. I’m hoping it’s Eisenberg, just so I can run around shouting “The Judaists are coming.”
“Mr. Restraino”?!!?!!
sounds like a politically-correct superhero.
CNN now saying: New Hampshire Department of Safety Assistant Commissioner Earl Sweeney said the hostage-taker is known to local police and supposedly was upset with the mental health care situation in the United States.
Notice how when things get hot for the Dems in the news(ala dem plants in CNN debate), that within 1-3 days something else conveniently hits the airwaves to take the press away?
Dude. You call that hot? Guiliani love nest in the Hamptons? Trent Lott’s gay boy toy? Mitt Romney’s mind changing faster than…. oh, I don’t even know.
More projection from the right.
It seems the freepers also find it veeeeeery suspicious that this happened while Clinton was away from the HQ. Suspicious indeed. What excuse will she use, that she’s “campaigning” for “President?”
You’ll have to try harder than that, Hitlery!
They’ve also convinced themselves that the hostage taker is a dead man, since the KKKlintons can’t leave him alive to talk. Part of the vast Clintonian conspiracy is their direct control over the nation’s SWAT teams, donchaknow.
it veeeeeery suspicious that this happened while Clinton was away from the HQ.
Ummm….how much time do they think the candidates spend in local storefront offices, anyway?
Ummm….how much time do they think the candidates spend in local storefront offices, anyway?
These are the kinds of people who are SHOCKED and APPALLED to find that Emeril isn’t personally drizzling the sauce on their BBQ shrimp. I’m not surprised that they think Hillary’s usually hanging out in local strip malls.
From the Seattle Times:
The office, in a town of 30,000, is one of many Clinton has around New Hampshire.
I first read that as “…people would find better things to strap on than bombs to threaten election volunteers with.” Maybe I was influenced by that comment upthread about dildo monsters.
And thanks for the police blotter link. I love that stuff. One of my favorites (from Santa Barbara, many years ago):
“A nurse at Cottage Hospital reported to police that she wasn’t sure, but she thought someone might have moved her car two parking spaces to the left.”
First “Bin Laden” and his “I am responsible for 9/11” audio pushing Rudy’s corruption cavalcade off the front page and now Hillary’s HQ in the thick of things means there is a misdirection of some sort taking place as we speak. As is the cliche in almost every horror movie made, “I got a real bad feeling about this.”
The judge said that since Mr. Restraino owns the property in question, he had the right to inspect it, but then had to stay away until after the court hearing in two weeks.
Typical fucking landlord, his tenants need a restraining order against him.
Kill them all!! (The landlords, I mean, not the tenants. Is that one of those threats that can’t be made here?)
Oh yes, Arcata is just full of freelance socialists.
We have a good hoot now and then. Usually it’s limericks, sometimes it’s haiku.
Brad–yes!! Where the heck did you find that gem? See, I should’ve put money on it.
I can’t stop laughing about “Mr Restraino”.
I for one welcome our new dildo monster overlords.
Domo Arigato, Mr. Restraino….
mikey
Mr. Restraino? I bet he has a fine collection of wetsuits.
He wasn’t drunk; he was exhausted from staying up drinking for 72 hours.
Boy, I’m shocked it was Lee Eisenberg. He wrote some of my favorite episodes of The Office.
Tell me more of these ‘police blotters’. If there is a little picture of Sting printed on each square, I don’t know if I could bring myself —
Oh, I see.
I’m digging this Sodra chick who is all over my blog. My fault, I told her to go at it and comment to her heart’s content. I like to encourage the madness, I suppose. But please let me share some real gems, please, please please?
“Why take the dregs of society who have tolerated systematic abuse for centuries and transplant them here? What possible benefit could come of that? Where’s the quid pro quo?”
and
“I support forced deportations. So did the namesake of your blog. I do not support rounding people up and exterminating them.
When you import the third world into your back yard, you get the third world. In your backyard.
If I wanted to live in Mexico City, Medellin, Riyadh, Islamabad, or any other third world hell-hole I would move there.”
This gal’s a winger goldmine! Thanks for letting me share. Now, back to the Close Encounters of the Sodra Djavul Kind.
I am waiting for Hillary’s Reichstag moment.
Won’t happen. The Reichstag moment has already happened.
You’re already effectively living in a one party state.
More breaking news…
Evel Knievel has died.
Where was Hillary at the time?
Clearly, the death of Evel Knievel is the signal for Hitlery KKKlinton to announce the overthrow of the government and the institution of Sharia law.
My shrimp burito at lunch was only so-so. Will the Klinton’s evil influence ever end!?!?!?!
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