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If nothing else, the planet's perpetually aggrieved that are uh, participating in the G-20 conference know they are in Pittsburgh and as such know they are in one of the premiere football towns in America.

Hey, what do you think the odds are of the streets getting cleaned up right quick if word got out amongst the 'Burghers that their city was being trashed by a bunch hoodlums outfitted in Dallas Cowboy and Baltimore Raven jerseys?

“Breaking out the windows of people you don’t like – does that sound familiar in history to any of you?”

For all you paranoid right-wingers, anti-government and tea-baggy types with a martyr complex who fell for that Right-wing extemist assessment gag and are curious as to when the DHS memo from that wacky broad, Janet Napolitano will be issued warning of the rise of “left-wing extremists”, don’t hold your breath. Why? Because it’s un-needed as the “rise” has arrived – in fact it’s been around for years.

CHAPEL HILL -- UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.
Hundreds of protesters converged on Bingham Hall, shouting profanities and accusations of racism while Tancredo and the student who introduced him tried to speak. Minutes into the speech, a protester pounded a window of the classroom until the glass shattered, prompting Tancredo to flee and campus police to shut down the event.

And as Legal Insurrection notes:

When fascism comes to America, it will not be wrapped in the flag or carrying a cross. It will look like it always has looked: Ugly and intolerant.

Video of the whole sad affair can be found at L.I. link above.

We’ll try not to engage in any excessive schadenfreude but in light of the release of that “assessment” and the coinciding tea parties, this could not have happened at a more appropriate time.