Beck-backing protesters raise ruckus outside much-publicized elementary school

By Stephen C. Webster
Monday, October 12th, 2009 -- 1:24 pm
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teabaggersprotestatschool Beck backing protesters raise ruckus outside much publicized elementary schoolA group of protesters have taken it upon themselves to gather outside the school made famous by conservative media after a group of children were filmed singing the praises of President Barack Obama.

A collection of about 60 or 70 protesters, reportedly affiliated with Glenn Beck's "9/12 Project" and the "tea party" groups, stood in front of New Jersey's B. Bernice Young Elementary School on Monday morning.

"The protesters sang patriotic anthems and chanted slogans such as 'Free children, free minds,'" the Associated Press noted.

The South Jersey Courier Post Online added: "The school district, in a statement, said that it 'does not believe that protesting in front of an elementary school in session with four to seven year old children is appropriate.'"

Nevertheless, the group's event went off without incident. They kept off school grounds and were observed by about a half-dozen local police.

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"A smaller group of counter-protesters watched and occasionally heckled them," AP added.

Superintendent Christopher Manno told the Burlington County Times that he had met with the rally's organizer and notified parents of what would be happening on Monday.

"We certainly don't want our families to be alarmed," he said. "... Participants in the rally will not be permitted on school property."

According to 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia, the school "houses kindergartners through second-graders."

The teacher who oversaw the class of students who sang about the president in honor of Black History Month has since retired. According to the school, parents were notified about the assembly and the song's lyrics had been sent home with the kids.

Everett Mitchell, executive editor of the Cherry Hill Post-Courier, told Fox's Greta Van Susteren during a Sept. interview that "no parents objected to [the song] prior to the assembly, during the assembly or after the assembly."

This video is from 6ABC Action News in Philadelphia, broadcast Oct. 12, 2009.

Photo sample credit: Courier Post Online.

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  • no_bullshit
    WAKE UP DAMMIT!
    Until all of you Obamabots, Glenn "Judas Goat" Beck Fans, Rush- "the fat drug addict hypocrite" Limbaugh Fans and CNN propaganda victims ALL realize that the Real Enemy is the 1% of Elitists who have successfully divided and conquered the Middle Class and made us their bitches, this country will continue to go down the toilet. How do these Scumbag Billion and trillionaires continue to keep their power and give the crumbs to the rest of us? By making all of you "liberals" and "conservatives" bitch at each other about health care, BS race issues, etc. Who is dying in these wars? Who is worried about the economy? Who is losing their Rights? The middle class, not the bankers who installed this puppet in the white house and the Congress, with the help of the CNN, Fox News, Raw Story and Drudge Report. Wake Up America, you are being Screwed!
  • allenallen
    This is why we boycott all Fox shows. Murdock is raking it in by rousing the rabble. He's reduced our once fine news outlets to be Professional Wrestling shows. (Apologies to Professional Wrestling)
  • Name
    When Beck aired on CNN, he couldn't draw an audience with a sketch pad, but after he moved to Fox "news", he was discovered by millions of Americans who worship at his clown feet. What does that say about Beck, Fox and America? It's a sad line of thought.
  • nobodyforpresident
    Get a life, morons.
  • SSpeedracer
    too bad the teacher retired. should have stuck it out as an example for those kids.
  • CadGuy
    These folks do not understand that the vast majority of us are just as sick and tired of these racist fascists.

    Keep it up and we will give you that war and more.

    Payback will be a bitch.
  • PC
    Glad that they protested, but the patriotic songs stuff I am not a fan of. My problem is that the lyrics to the song were so factually incorrect that it is the equivalent of saying that the sky is lime green. Anyone who know anything about philosophy, about political philosophy, about the many and the few and so on, know that the lyrics to the song are absolute nonsense and downright idiotic. Brainwashing kids usually is the place of schools but should never be. I also am against the pledge of allegiance for many reasons, but the comparable is example is calling us a republic that stands for freedom which is an outright joke. If the schoolboard didn't want to take heat for it they should have thought twice before allowing this stunt. If a public school wanted to teach that Jesus road on dinosaurs to church two thousand years ago there would be an uproar, and rightly so, the bullshit and propaganda in that song was no different.
  • Thomas Jefferson
    corporate sponcered water carrying dullards. they march in lock step with their twittered orders in hand.
  • Virtual Denizen
    I would have no problem if these *adults* showed up at a board of ed meeting or called meetings with the teachers and/or principal. That is the proper platform to use for stating likes and dislikes in a classroom. But for heavens sake, these were circa 6 year olds the big bad adults just terrorized! Yes, terrorized! How do you think these children felt knowing there was a mob of adults outside yelling and screaming about something they did??? Every last one of them should have been arrested.
  • flowerguerrilla
    I think they're all racists...it's nothing else..
  • flowerguerrilla
    It's illegal to protest near a school in a manner loud enough to disturb students, or so I'm told.
  • AnaHadWolves
    Let me guess: All these "protesters" were white, conservative, right-wing folks who didn't vote for President Obama. Well, duh! They still can't believe that America transcended race and elected the best person for the job...and, that person just happens to be bi-racial.

    Grow up and join us in the 21st century, people...
  • Glenn Beck is a clown
    Are they gonna protest at schools that teach the kids the Earth is 6000 years old?
  • damixaustex
    amen, brother.
    They should protest the Texas School Board of Education and its infiltration by groups trying to influence content of the nations textbooks.
  • paullohan66
    Yeah that's cool, scare the kids like you try to scare old folks about healthcare & Medicare. You A-Holes had congress from1994-2007 and the White House for eight years,look at the mess were in.
    Now you want to fix healthcare? BS, these protesters are hate filled,uneducated laughable nut-jobs, and the one's that are laughing the most are the wealthy Insurance companies.
  • Tramp620
    Rush and the rest of the idiots should follow Rush's own advice, "I'm tired of these Democrats acting like they won the election. Somebody needs to stand up and say, "When you win the election, you pick the nominees. Until then, shut up! Just shut up! Just go away! Bury yourselves in your rat holes and don't come out until you win an election. When you win an election, you can put all these socialist wackos, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, all over the court, but until then, SHUT UP! You are really irritating me."
    Guess what? We won. Go away.
  • Elim
    Let's not all be too quick to support Obama over this. Personally, I don't believe we've had a real election since the beginning of the last century. The person whom our corporate masters want is chosen for us. And it doesn't matter which candidate wins, your friendly corporations have chosen them both for you. Either way, they win.

    Were school children singing songs for and about George Bush? Bill Clinton? Bush the First? Reagan? If not, then they shouldn't be singing for Obama, either. When I read the crap that I sometimes see dribble from posters' fingertips--as an excuse--"but, but, he's our FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!" Well, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? That because white America has shown itself to be more tolerant than anyone ever thought she could be, that things can now be done for, or on behalf of THIS president that have been bestowed upon no other? Like a Nobel Peace prize? Like entering a two-year period of national service, because HE says it's good for America?

    Yeah, when I hear someone say "he's our first African American president" for the reason of excusing any excess, any gaffe, any failure to act, obfuscation or prevarication by this man, I just think the person who uttered (or typed) those words is already indoctrinated, and cannot be reasoned with.

    That is a why a black man was caused to be elected in this country. So we'll accept these little adoring songs our kids sing to him, and a whole lot more, all in the name of 'racial harmony'. Mark my words, this is anything but.
  • davidrvelasquez
    Bullshit.
    After weeks of taking hits against his admin, his nationality and even own family someone decided to sing a song of encouragement.
    Wtf,... who's indoctrinated here?
    Like as if you're incapable of context.
    He also the first president to have his nationality and eligibility challenged on the basis of a rumour campaign, he is also the first to be heckled on the floor of the Senate or to have the opposition encourage guns being carried to his appearances...the firsts of mounting disrespect for the office add up. And yes, it is all race related.
    I don't let him slide on his policies like covering up for the Bush regime or continuing it's policies of secret renditioning, domestic spying or even the continuation of the war, nor for the bank bailouts.
    But I'm not going ignore the race baiting taunting by rightwing hate and fear merchants like Beck, Limbaugh and Drudge.

    If you choose to... then that's your own indoctrination speaking.
  • damixaustex
    Please oh please, if these folks gather again someone ask some of them their views on creationism as science. Or maybe what they think about Machiavelli

    @Elim asked
    Were school children singing songs for and about George Bush?
    yes
    Bill Clinton?
    yes
    Bush the First?
    yes
    Reagan?
    yes

    My school sang a song to fucking Nixon, but that was pre-youtube.

    Did Obama administration have anything to do with the song of these children?
    no

    So how has it come to be seen as indoctrination? Who's the "they" in "they're indoctrinating our kids?

    The only reason it's an issue now is because of a lunatic fringe fueled in part by a bad economy, maybe some latent racism and war repulsion... sentiments tapped into by some opportunistic political commentators with well funded soap boxes.

    Democracy in action, not the end of our nation as we know it.
  • starvapor
    These pathetic idiots are so horrified that somehow a "Darkie" actually got into the "White" House, that now they're openly playing out their low-level-mental-meltdown-thresholds in public.
    If they don't like it here anymore, there're plenty of other countries where they can move which still have the "White" leaders that they prefer.
    Accordingly, if any of thees clowns actually believe that 4 to 7 year old kids would understand their actions, let's hope that somehow they're not allowed to have children of their own.
  • knot
    Glenn Beck sure seems like a degenerate.
    didglennbeckrapeandmurderayoungcowin1990.com
  • knot
    Glenn Beck sure seems like a degenerate. I can't imagine they would let him near children.
    didglennbeckrapeandmurderayoungcowin1990.com
  • genep34
    This is sedition plain and simple. These people are facists and racists.
  • lewscannon
    Yeah, these people haven't been indoctrinated into Beckism at all.
  • wiseturtle
    Mindless, racist skanks!!
  • lousgirl84
    I personally, am sick of sharing the planet with these fricking crazy people.
  • davidrvelasquez
    What a bunch of childish bullying fuckwits!

    Yes, they gave advance notice of their action but it is still an act of political intimidation against a group of schoolchildren.
    And why? ...because either they still can't get over having a black president, or because they're tools of the insurance lobby.

    If the classroom had sang the praises of George W Bush...you wouldn't hear a peep from these hypocritical brainwashed racist morons.
  • dave
    the insane are envied , loved, and imitated. how terribly sad and frightening. satan laughs in hell.
  • asiliveandbreathe
    Bush and Beck are ultra liberals, meaning they wish to liberally use the federal government in our everyday lives. I'm shocked that reporters use the word without knowing the meaning. Conservative means people who don't want big government in our homes. Most people whether Democrat or Republican tend to NOT want federal government interference. Tha a-holes in the photo above are ultra liberals, they want laws to keep Obama out of the classroom yet want laws to force public schools to force feed our children "evangelical" values counter to our beliefs.

    Choose "libertarian" for God's sake. Google it.
  • shag11
    This is shameful. These arrogant assholes have nothing better to do than to create controversy where there is none.
  • dennycrane
    OK , it's time to "pepper" the mormon church to "revoke" this guy that wears "the magical underwear." That is, "if" he has a "temple" recommend, which allows him to wear them. I'm hitting their sites tonight. Gotta find out where his church "ward" is so I can contact his bishop's executive secretary. "Baghdad-Beck" is definetly a "mormon-moron-gone-wild."
  • luschnig
    My family lived in Nazi Germany. They told stories of how vicious Nazi mobs would harass groups and people they hated. Now I am not likening these Tea-baggers to the Nazis in any other way than their bullying, hysterical tactics. There is a significant difference between the German mobs and the baggers. The Germans both hated and had a vision of a society that they wanted to create. Whereas the tea mobs just hate and want to destroy society. Why do they hate so viciously?
  • Ovid
    Welcome to the United States of America
    where freedom isn't free
    where thinking for yourself is a crime
    where psychopaths become T.V. and radio celebrities

    where you have to actually worry about saying what you really believe because you never know when one of these foxnews nuts might be lurking around and decide to turn violent "for the cause".
    Everyday it just gets a little worse.
  • CarolAll
    How like Glenn Beck to encourage utterly stupid and inappropriate behavior from his audience!
    What a bunch of ignorant jackasses!

    The children sang this now much-maligned song during Black History Month in Feb. 2008, shortly after the first black man was inaugurated President of the U.S.. Last February was a lifetime ago for the young children involved in the program. At the time, most Americans were very proud that the election had reflected on racial progress in our country, and NJ is and for years has been a blue state.

    After 8 months and now well into the next school year, conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck has his audience all ginned up about "Obama's indoctrination of our youth." So people are standing out in front of the school while it's in session, making fools of themselves for cable TV news.

    It's another phoney "grassroots effort" promoted by media clown Beck's continuous spew of hate and lies to people who are easily led. This nonsense is the result of the right just not able to deal with losing to a black man and the Democratic majority. The GOP has given up leadership to the likes of Limbaugh and Beck and leaves it to them to do their partisan dirty work for them. This is all for the sake of capturing video to give Glenn Beck his bragging rights and boost his ratings.

    School children and their teachers do not deserve this distraction during their school day. These folks should attend a school board meeting, but it is richerTV fodder to appear outside the school. Children are never helped by adults modeling poor behavior. Shame on them.
  • chabuka
    If any one should be allowed to indoctrinate and warp the minds of our children, it should be the crazy tea party, Beckerheads..right..? Descendants of the Puritans, perhaps?....gleefully burning witches, murdering Indians and persecuting any one who did not agree with them....(or "crossed" them in some way..the Salem Witch Trials, come to mind)
  • shag11
    I like that, "Beckerheads."
  • starvapor
    Allowing these mentally unstable wing-nut-loon-clowns that worship Beck's rants, to gather anywhere near a school where children are in attendance, is no different that allowing pedophiles or NAMBLA members in proximity of kids.
  • terrymo1
    Just had to bring up rush limpballs and hannity!!!
  • Noperiod
    Disgusting, belligerent, always whining, malcontents.

    If they don't love the USA they should get the HELL OUT. If they can't find something positive to say then they should stay home and cry into their pillows.

    If such scum had normal responsibilities like regular Americans, such as jobs and families they would have time to throw tantrums in public.

    Hose that filth off the street.

    Feels good to dish it out.

    F***ing TERRORISTS
  • So, which party must always bend the knee to that which they've decided is politically correct even to the point of disrupting little kids ?
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