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bedsitter23In the midst of the Occupy ---- movement, the Iowa caucus has been threatened.
The hacker group Anonymous has made a video asking for everyone to shutdown the Iowa Caucuses.
Of course, everyone from the governor to the FBI to liberal activists have a problem with this.
There's a couple of things worth noting. First off, it's January in Iowa. If anything is going to shut down the caucus, my odds are on a blizzard. Still, with six feet of snow on the ground doesn't stop the most devout politically-minded Iowans, so it's hard to believe anything could.
Second, if you haven't been to a caucus, you don't really know that much about them. They are a small group of people getting together to pick a candidate. Caucuses are more similar to a bake sale or church bingo than anything that goes on Capitol Hill, Anonymous can wreak damage on the candidates and State websites, but they would have a hard time stopping the groups of Iowans in various schools, churches, and other meeting places.
Iowa has always had such unlimited access to candidates, that I suppose clashes with occupiers was inevitable. I have had some amazing experiences here- literally within feet of many of the big names in Presidential politics. If the Occupiers don't screw up that (or Popular Voters), it is probably still only a matter of time before people who joke about bombs on twitter or people who throw glitter do.
Occupy Iowa has been busy in the last couple of weeks- occupying Herman Cain's headquarters enough to disrupt a campaign announcement (or at least move it to a restaurant).
Since Romney did not have an office in Iowa (until just days ago), Occupy Iowaers went to the private business of Romney's main Iowa consultant and sat in.
Occupy Iowa has left Santorum and Bachmann, which no doubt should piss them off (if no one wants to protest you, your campaign is doomed). Obama got the Occupy treatment earlier in the month.
At Frank Luntz's Family Leader forum, about 100 protesters showed up, but Luntz made the offer that they could say their piece before the event, if they promised to behave during it. The Register reported no one took him up on the offer, although one guy got up and rambled on about the Federal Reserve for two minutes.
The occupy caucusers have rallied around a website (although it looks like only about 27 people care)- but the movement has been reported as a failure by most (Don't worry some still believe that it will lead massive panic and Willard/Obama conspiracies to bring the most liberal of policies down on us all).
The hacker group Anonymous has made a video asking for everyone to shutdown the Iowa Caucuses.
Of course, everyone from the governor to the FBI to liberal activists have a problem with this.
There's a couple of things worth noting. First off, it's January in Iowa. If anything is going to shut down the caucus, my odds are on a blizzard. Still, with six feet of snow on the ground doesn't stop the most devout politically-minded Iowans, so it's hard to believe anything could.
Second, if you haven't been to a caucus, you don't really know that much about them. They are a small group of people getting together to pick a candidate. Caucuses are more similar to a bake sale or church bingo than anything that goes on Capitol Hill, Anonymous can wreak damage on the candidates and State websites, but they would have a hard time stopping the groups of Iowans in various schools, churches, and other meeting places.
Iowa has always had such unlimited access to candidates, that I suppose clashes with occupiers was inevitable. I have had some amazing experiences here- literally within feet of many of the big names in Presidential politics. If the Occupiers don't screw up that (or Popular Voters), it is probably still only a matter of time before people who joke about bombs on twitter or people who throw glitter do.
Occupy Iowa has been busy in the last couple of weeks- occupying Herman Cain's headquarters enough to disrupt a campaign announcement (or at least move it to a restaurant).
Since Romney did not have an office in Iowa (until just days ago), Occupy Iowaers went to the private business of Romney's main Iowa consultant and sat in.
Occupy Iowa has left Santorum and Bachmann, which no doubt should piss them off (if no one wants to protest you, your campaign is doomed). Obama got the Occupy treatment earlier in the month.
At Frank Luntz's Family Leader forum, about 100 protesters showed up, but Luntz made the offer that they could say their piece before the event, if they promised to behave during it. The Register reported no one took him up on the offer, although one guy got up and rambled on about the Federal Reserve for two minutes.
The occupy caucusers have rallied around a website (although it looks like only about 27 people care)- but the movement has been reported as a failure by most (Don't worry some still believe that it will lead massive panic and Willard/Obama conspiracies to bring the most liberal of policies down on us all).
