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RicTresa

Location: Key Center, Washington, USA
Birthday: October 11

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Bio: Born 1952. ________________________________________ We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda ________________________________________ Because of some medical malpractice imposed on my body in 1996, a minor on the job accident left me crippled and with a rare bone disease called, Osteonecrosis. Osteo=Bone.. Necrosis=Death.. And that is what I have. ________________________________________ Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy Shit.. What a ride!" ________________________________________ I create all of my own graphics including some you will find on this blog, the pictures in my profile and banner are me. I use an Apple computer and wouldn't switch back to a PC for all the tea in China. ________________________________________

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AUGUST 11, 2009 10:25PM

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Our very own, Joan Walsh did a very good piece, today, about that nut-job, William Kostric.. who thought it cute to come packing a piece to an Obama Town Hall. Why the Secret Service didn't lock him up on the spot is WAY beyond me.

The one thing I find very interesting is the T. Jefferson quote him, (and the other nutbags are so fond of.. the tree of liberty.)

Another very famous so called American Patriot/Anti- Big Government whack job, Tim McVeigh was arrested wearing a T-shirt with the very quotation from that sign that William Kostric is seen holding above.

Have we such short memories that we can't recognize dangerous nutbags? I say we lock him up now and throw away the key, before it is to late. -Ric

QUOTE JOAN WALSH: "On Tuesday afternoon MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked Kostric why he carried "a God-damned gun" to a meeting with the president, "given the violent history of this country with regard to presidents and assassinations," and whether he supported the Birther movement. Kostric insisted his intentions were peaceful, and that he's not affiliated with Birther groups.

But at least one of those statements doesn't seem to be true. A right-wing activist named "William Kostric," who's left a lot of footprints around the Web, is listed as a "team member" of the Arizona chapter of We the People, the far-right group best known for joining a lawsuit challenging Obama's right to be president based on his not being a U.S. citizen. Kostric told MSNBC he recently moved from Arizona to New Hampshire. (Kostric did not reply to Salon's e-mail request for an interview.)

And on his MySpace page (h/t Lavender Newswire), Kostric also lists as one of his heroes Robert Schultz, the anti-tax activist and We the People founder who spent a ton of his own money on ads promoting the Birther movement. At a press conference in December, Schultz told reporters: "This nation is headed towards a vortex of a Constitutional crisis. While on the one hand, the Obama citizenship issue is so simple a schoolchild could grasp it, if left festering and unanswered, it possesses the potential to send our nation into a time of great peril."

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Here is another good read along this, Nutbag tag line written back in March:

Yes, Glenn Beck, militias can be very ordinary-seeming. That's their purpose.

RicTresa

August 11, 2009 10:33 PM

Ok...you guys... I mean Americans...with all the guns and I hate my neighbour stuff...you really scare us...us being the rest of the world. Really. this is pretty scary stuff. Not you Ric, but the story. Gah.

JK Brady

August 11, 2009 10:41 PM

You wrote, "I say we lock him up now and throw away the key," We can't because that would make to much sense.

I Do and Did

August 11, 2009 11:17 PM

Well, lock him up now or wait till he kills somebody or blows up a building.. Then lock him up $pend millions on court and lawyers.. appeals and then lethal injection.. Money, money, money.

RicTresa

August 11, 2009 11:21 PM

I'm not sure where patriotism fits into this incident, just seems like a nutcase with a gun.

Robin Sneed

August 11, 2009 11:40 PM

That's why I say, so called patriot.

RicTresa

August 11, 2009 11:46 PM

The only thing he could be locked up for is carrying a weapon near the President. I am sure there are laws against that.

And he is actually pretty lucky. The Secret Service does not play around, nor should they. He's lucky he didn't get knocked to the ground by a bunch of automatic weapon toting Secret Service agents and possibly much more.

Tony Wang

August 11, 2009 11:47 PM

I saw his interview on Hardball and I ended up tossing my dinner. When Obama was in Espanola last September, we had to go through tons of security to see him - even being told to leave our bags and purses in the car. Why was this nutjob allowed near the president? Do they think their job would be easier if they didn't have a president to protect?

RenaissanceLady

August 12, 2009 12:23 AM

That guy just looks sick in the head. I find some folks hard to swallow and this is one. SICK!!.
Good post Ric.

Mission

August 12, 2009 07:43 AM

Thanks for this one, Ric. It is my understanding that the guy was outside the town hall protesting and left long before Obama arrived. I doubt that he will go off the SS radar anytime soon.
After reading Joan's column, this guy is even scarier than I first suspected. It only takes one nutcase and one bullet.

Michael Rodgers

August 12, 2009 08:37 AM

After seeing Kostric's interview, it is obvious the guy is a few beers short of a six pack. As for Secret Service ineptitude, you can bet an SS counter sniper team had him in the crosshairs the entire time. It would have been good PR for the SS if they had ended up drilling his ass, as it is, he will be under constant surveillance from now on.

rwnutjob

August 12, 2009 09:03 AM

Ric, thanks for the info about this 'nutter' and his sign. I think the only reason Kostric was not arrested, is the fact that he was within his legal rights to carry such a weapon in public & to a public forum. But bet your life the Secret Service agents were watching his every move. And know have him on their "most watched' list.

The scary thing about all of this is that New Hampshire has such a law on the books. Now don't take me wrong... I believe in the Second Amendment, but it has responsibilities & use of Common Sense written between the lines.

I do think your point about acting before something happens is something all law enforcement should look consider. Even in a free society, these fringe groups need to be watched & intercepted before they do act upon their rhetoric.

Great post (I had not read Joan’s exceptional article)
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gmgaston

August 12, 2009 09:07 AM

Ya know? I've been sitting here trying to come up with something to say, but this has me completely dumbfounded.

Boomer Bob

August 12, 2009 10:14 AM

Hey, this guy wasn't the only one toting a gun! When these nuts were throwing their "Tea Parties" our local Repub Head Honcho, and his wife were packin. It scared the bejesus out of me! When I tried to shoug them down, he actually pointed his shotgun at me.

Kenny1948

August 12, 2009 11:20 AM

Let me tell you what bothers me most about all this, isn't the extreme nuts, it's the not so extreme right wing that have joined up with them. I have friends who are RWers and they don't see anything wrong with these wacky movements, these birthers and knucklehead teabaggers and all that. In fact, they seem to perceive them as patriots, people who love this country. And there is nothing futher from the truth. Because they refuse to acknowledge that our political cycle has moved somewhat to the left. They refuse to acknowledge that we have elected a Black president and they do it by refuting his citizenship of all things! They base their arguments on either total lies, fabrications or strawmen. And they will - like nazi brownshirts - threaten and strongarm our public meetings and not permit us to even have a dialogue, a healthy debate about pros and cons of our vitally important issues of the day.

I am worried about our country.

foolish monkey

August 12, 2009 01:21 PM

You know, guys, I think this Kostric is as ugly and nutty and dangerous as the rest of you do, but do you really think preventive detention is the answer? Sounds kinda Bush- and Cheneyesque, doesn't it? Sort of like invading a country that doesn't have much reason to like us and might have the capacity to attack us in a hundred years or so. Or like throwing Jose Padilla in the brig, or holding hundreds without trial at Guantanamo. If you're not willing to take the risks of living in a more or less free society, vote the straight National Socialist ticket.
And keep something in mind about the damn wingnuts and birthers and devotees of Faux News. Given the shit the government--OUR government--has got away with over the years, given the fact that we have the best congress money can buy, given the fact that we can blow away a million Vietnamese or a hundred thousand Iraqis, why should anybody rightie or leftie, trust the Gee? Those who wouldn't sell us all down the river in a heartbeat (and have a perfectly progressive excuse for doing so) are a vanishingly small group in DC, I'm sorry to say.

Bobby the Lip

August 12, 2009 03:18 PM

I meant to say "blow away a million Vietnamese or a hundred thousand Iraqis WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT"...

Bobby the Lip

August 12, 2009 03:21 PM

I'm afraid that Bobby is right. We can't just lock somebody up because we are afraid that they MIGHT do something. If that were the case I would have been locked up years ago because the cops have thought on many occasions that I was suspicious enough to stop, question and run my name through every computer they could think of and ALL were amazed I wasn't in any of them, (and I never had a gun strapped to my leg at the time.)

Personally I HATE, HATE and HATE the fact that the politician comes out shakes hands and kisses babies to get elected and then once elected turns right around, screws us hard and keeps on screwing until the next election cycle comes back around and they need us once again. But I guess somebody could read what I just wrote here and say, "Jeebers.. that RicTresa is a closet nutbag, mayhbe we should lock him up in case he does something?"

Yep! It is a very sticky wicket indeed. Thanks for the input Mr. Lip.

RicTresa

August 12, 2009 03:40 PM

Ric--
It would be an honor to share a cell with you.
--Bob

Bobby the Lip

August 12, 2009 04:32 PM

I say we wait until he does something and then when he does, we can have endless interviews where people say, "I saw this coming, a long time ago." It's very post-active.

Beth Mann

August 13, 2009 08:16 AM

...or they say, "we never thought he could do something like that, he was such a nice man.. very kind. Loved animals." A person can kill 20 people and a neighbor of the nutbag will always comment the same way.

RicTresa

August 13, 2009 09:49 AM

Great post, Ric, if horrifying! I'm tempted when I read stories of Americans like these, to just huddle under my lovely quilt - but my kids have adopted it! Please tell Theresa we send best wishes to her and thank her from us for her fine crafts(wo)manship. I'm going to read Joan's article now, thanks for the heads-up!