Craaaazy news out of Missouri, everybody. You will not believe which of their politicians was arrested eight times at abortion clinics, then got himself elected to the state legislature. Would you believe it was Sen. Todd Akin (R-Uterus)?
It was!
As hard as it might be to believe, the guy who got all scandalized after he decided to talk about “legitimate rape” is not just supportive of anti-abortion legislation, he was (ahem, allegedly) also so voceriferously abusive to women at clinics that the police had to carry him away. What dedication! Most people just donate to Richard Mourdock — Akin finds ladies and insults them, personally!
From National Journal, with a big assist from Right Wing Watch:
Akin was arrested on October 26, 1985, April 19, 1986 and February 28, 1987 for trespassing. A December 27, 1986 arrest was for “trespassing and peace disturbance.” The arrests reported by the Post-Dispatch came in the same period, between March 1985 and May 1987, but occurred at other clinics. Three were in St. Louis and one in Granite City, Illinois. The paper said protesters tried to block access to the clinics and refused to leave. In one case, Akin was carried out by police.
Good job, Todd! That will solve your abortion problem — instead of pursuing responsible courses of action like “sexual education,” just berate pregnant women until armed officials forcibly remove you, on account of it is the women’s constitutional right to be there. Weren’t you the one who was so concerned about our Constitution being raped? (It’s OK — if the Constitution gets raped, its preamble has ways to “shut that whole thing down.”)
How did Akin’s camp respond to all of this?
Akin campaign spokesperson Rick Tyler declined to comment on the new arrest records. Tyler has dismissed past Akin arrests as “something that happened a quarter century ago”…
Oh. Hm. Well, it appears there is a statute of limitations on first-degree shitbaggery, so we’ve got to forget about public, illegal woman-shaming. But has the statute of limitations run out on Hanging Out With Insane People?
Akin was arrested with members of an anti-abortion group later taken over by Tim Dreste, who pushed aggressive action against abortion clinics and was arrested hundreds of times at anti-abortion protests. In one case Dreste held a sign referencing a doctor in Florida who was murdered by protestors…
In 1999, Dreste lost a civil lawsuit that charged he threatened to kill pro-choice plaintiffs who sued him in 1995. He was then censured by the St. Louis Country Republican Central Committee and forced to resign from a seat on the committee.
That is a pretty tenuous connection, you might say. Akin probably doesn’t know that guy at all.
But, turns out, he totally does! I know, right?
In 1993 Akin contributed to Dreste’s longshot state house campaign. After Dreste started a militia group, Akin was listed as a speaker at a 1995 rally held not long before the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, though he apparently did not address the rally…
Whoa! Good thing Akin did not address that militia, otherwise he would have had a crazy and weird connection to groups that believe in blowing people up to defend liberty, like good old Timothy McVeigh. Phew!
Oh. Uh… take it away, Riverfront Times:
In August 2012, Akin–as he has done repeatedly over the years–dismissed any connection to the group that believed in their right to bear arms to defend against violations of the Constitution…
But that wasn’t true. In an article that appeared in the Springfield News-Leader on May 5, 1995, Akin readily admits that he is well acquainted with the 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia and personally reviewed their paramilitary “unit”…
Todd Akin defended Moore’s group and said that the young movement could be an asset to federal law enforcement (Akin said this, by the way, a month after the Oklahoma City bombing).
Ah, whatever. Akin probably never even met that Dreste guy, right? It’s just a coincidence — right, National Journal? Right?
Tyler said Akin now has no relationship with Dreste. But in 2011, shortly before Akin announced his widely expected Senate run, Dreste registered eight Akin-affiliated domain names, such as “ToddAkinFor Senate.org.” People for the American Way also cited a picture posted by Dreste’s wife on Facebook showing Akin and the couple’s daughter.
If Akin’s arrests on charges of haranguing women aren’t allowed to be a big deal, how about his death-threating friends in the militia movement, with whom he apparently has daughter-friends? Is that off the table too? Should we just vote for him? He seems like a nice guy. We probably should. [National Journal]
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You will not believe which of their politicians was arrested eight times at abortion clinics
For stealing embryos from the dumpster? Romney must have thrown a fit, Akin cutting into his profits like that.
So what you're saying is, Claire McCaskill murders babies.
And Obama is a muslin kenyan.
In his defense, it was just vagina-ed Americans. Not like it was white dudes or anything, which, as we all know, is totally not ok.
To be fair it's also a big deal if it's a white college girl from an affluent suburban family. But of course they don't go to abortion clinics, their rich Republican doctors take care of those little 'indiscretions".
What, no Three Strikes law in Missouri?
They could at least have a "three strikes and you're an asshole" law applied to anti-abortion nutters. Then they could tatoo a scarlet A bisecting a farting ass, or something.
His bail was likely posted by my fetus fanatic cousin and her hubby.
But now that the sluts can get free birth control, these Senators-to-be are going to have to find a new hobby.
So it's God's will that Akin is an asshole?
Hail to the Akin, baby!
Akin readily admits that he is well acquainted with the 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia and personally reviewed their paramilitary “unit”
Say, you know which other extreme right-wing politician "personally reviewed" a paramilitary unit… ?
Barry Goldwater?
Mark Foley?
No, that was a prepubescent unit.
Ronald Reagan?
Roberto D'Aubuisson?
Tim McVeigh?
Ian Paisley?
Thumbs up for contributing to the Irish paramilitary theme of the day.
Dick Cheney?
Eva Peron?
John Sununu?
Oliver Cromwell?
Nathaniel Bedford "Has a Fucking Statue in Selma" Forrest?
he didn't just review them…they formed a clubhouse where they drank beers and whined about how unfair it is that the Yankee-man would subjugate the superior white Southern man…then they decided it was all black peoples faults and went and hung some for it.
So, were those clinics he protested at legitimate or not?
Could you imagine, if people started protesting gun stores? Sure, stand your ground laws would tilt in the favor of the patrons who wear their 2nd Amendment rights on their hips, but if it were en vogue to attack other legally protected rights. . .
Obviously they were legitimate because the law came and "shut all that down" while arresting the douchecanoe. I wish Aiken had gotten sent to prison over it all, though…
Finally a politician with consistent views, it is a little troubling however that his views are consistently horrible.
The obvs solution for women, incorporate your uterus because as it's been established the repubs respect the privacy of corporations, which are people too. And maybe voters as well. Nevada has the best tax set up for this, but you might need to show proof of citizenship to enter the state.
But what if Bain attempts a hostile takeover of my uterus? They will offshore the job of being my fetus.
Shorter Todd Akin: QUIT MAKING ME LOOK LIKE THE TOTAL DERANGED WINGNUT I TOTALLY AM. Stop it! This is HARD!
Tyler has dismissed past Akin arrests as “something that happened a quarter century ago”…
Please say Akin has said *anything* about Obama's college days…
Oh, Jeebus, yes.
Word. These same guano-faucets who go "meh that fanaticism was years ago" regularly perform acrobatic fucking pirouettes off the handle at the idea of Obama smoking a joint in college.
Bet these protestors never get pepper sprayed.
Thought the headline said "legitimate rapper" Todd Akin…
I like rape babies and I can not lie
All you sinners gonna make me cry
And so forth.
I think I just scared the dog from laughing so hard at this.
You win the interwebs for the day.
when a girl walks into the abortion place
with a round belly in your face
you get sprung.
He's too legit to quit!
How to maek babby?
"In 1999, Dreste lost a civil lawsuit that charged he threatened to kill pro-choice plaintiffs who sued him in 1995. He was then censured by the St. Louis Country Republican Central Committee and forced to resign from a seat on the committee."
I'm sure he's back by now, though.
What I love best about that story is how he hid the news about those arrests because he was arrested under his real name. Todd is his middle name and he started using it when he entered politics.
And the "media" fell for that??? Nice investigative reporting, guys…
Too bad his middle name wasn't Hussein.
Akin readily admits that he is well acquainted with the 1st Missouri Volunteer Militia and personally reviewed their paramilitary “unit”…
*cheap British jazz music swells*
"Nice…unit…you got there, soldier. Mind if I…handle…it?
probablt "reviewing" the unit through a hole in the locker room wall
Glory Holelujah! Can I get an A-man?
Playing with your privates is strictly forbidden. Or not, I forget.
Tyler has dismissed past Akin arrests as “something that happened a quarter century ago”…
Dude, that argument works for explaining how you got caught with a dime bag of pot on your way back from spring break. It doesn't work for causing other people trauma in a premeditated group effort eight times.
Ah, but what is a mere 25 years when you want to turn back the clock by at least a century?
I demand fact based governance. I want logic and rhetoric taught starting in the fifth grade. I want this party of innumerate mentally challenged ideologues ground into dust.
Move to Yurrup.
Soshalest!
I want a threesome with B.D. Wong and Jason Scott Lee, but unfortunaely that isn't happening anytime soon either…
Again with the "shocker." Again I giggle like a college sophomore.
Even the rapists thought this guy was creepy.
What's the over/under this asshole still gets elected? It's the (R). They don't care.
This shit will only improve his chances.
Nate Silver says McCaskill with an 88% chance.
For God's sake, everybody vote. We can't let these loons take over our country.
All Akin's friend needs is hatred of non-whites and I'll win Wingnut Bingo.
Here in Pensacola, the local abortionplex — where the doctor was murdered in 1994 and which was firebombed this year — has now been bulldozed. It was across the street from my liquor store. Have some fucking respect, anti-choicers! This is sacred ground!
Anyway, the clinic is now in another neighborhood, where the protesters disturb the dental patients next door. I'm working up plans to have large photos of periodontal surgery to wave in the protesters' faces while I scream at them to brush their teeth.
Most of these shrill knuckle-draggers don't got no teef
On the show Battleground (an excellent original series on Hulu about a WI senate campaign), one of the opponent's tactics is to open an abortionplex next door to their rival campaign's headquarters so they have to fight their way through protestors every morning and night. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't caught on in real life.
Sounds like he was pal'ling around with a domestic terrorist.
It's our Cocktober Surprise, a tad late and a trifle local. But we'll take it! Suck it, Todd–you know you want to!
I will never believe that a man who looks like a leather-bound dinosaur skull is anything but kind and good.
Fortunately, the electorate has a mechanism to shut Akin down.
Can he be raped first? With votes, of course.
Rusty chain-votes.
Funny how in these idiot's minds Bill Ayers is somehow relevant, but this Dreste fellow is virtually non-existent…
Well, Ayers did hang around with colored people…
Exactly!
Is it me, or does Akin need a transvaginal probe attached to a telephone pole shoved up his mangina?
True fact: Todd's real first name is "William". He only started going by Todd when he realized his arrest record could be easily avoided by doing so.
Ol' billy, Todd akin
You know he ain't fakin
He's a comin to set those fetii free.
Ol billy Todd akin
Knows about baby makin
Rape babies, as far as the eye can see!
This all just goes to prove the words of wisdom in that American classic "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"
Earworm. DAMN YOU.
I thought Akin was all wrapped up with making his name in BJ and the Bear and the Further Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo back in those days.
Claude, Todd, I can see how you'd get them confused.
So Missouri might elect an actual terrorist to the Senate, it's OK; like all the other anti-abortion and militia anti-government terrorists, he has white skin and therefore our media will never use the word terrorist.
However please note that since he's an anti-abortion lunatic, the operative word shall be "protestor", whereas if he were only an anti-government militia creep, he would would be a "lone nut", even though, by definition, anti-government militia groups are, umm, groups.
Come on, Mizzou. Please do not elect this awful, awful dirtbag.
Duke! In all seriousness, I established the look of the character when he moved from sidescroller to 3D.
Election poster fail champion for 2012:
"Akin for new leadership"
huh. the only person i know who's been arrested 8 times is currently residing in san quentin. yet here we have "todd" akin, airing exciting new theories on women's reproductive functioning, inspecting paramilitary "units," and vying for a position as a public servant. country of opportunities, indeed.
Todd Akin likes to review units. No wonder he hates women so much.
He was so particular sometimes he resorted to white glove inspection. Sometimes he dispensed with the gloves entirely. Other times he would inspect the units with his anus.
@Post Pic: Doc Savage Libel!!
Please. If these were legitimate death threats, the judicial system has ways to shut that whole thing down.
"…a picture posted by Dreste’s wife on Facebook showing Akin and the couple’s daughter."
How old is she? I just…ew. I hope Claire kicks this guys butt.
In 1993 Akin contributed to Dreste’s longshot state house campaign. After Dreste started a militia group, Akin was listed as a speaker at a 1995 rally held not long before the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, though he apparently did not address the rally…
I'm holding my breath as I wait for Sarah Palin to bitch about Akin 'palling around with terrorists'. Still holding.
Are we forgetting that she married a secessionist?
She and McCain apparently did.
And Little Billy Kristol, whom I will never forgive.
How dare you question St. Sarah's patriotism based on some little activity of her husband, when Obama kind of knew Bill Ayers decades after the Weather Underground was a thing!
I don't buy that these people are truly upset about the killing of unborn babies. Their actions don't match their words.
Preborns get oooohs and aaaahs,
Postborn, eh, not so much.
Pro-life folks who protest the death penalty, unheard of.
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"Respect human life, or I'll kill you!"
Well we all know the life of a (potentially white male) fetus is worth more than the life of its mother. At least until it's old enough that we can tell for sure if it's a boy fetus or a girl fetus.
Republicans are doubling down on crazy.
Akin and his spokesman didn't like questions about his illegally-harassing-women past, so they shut it down.
At least he's consistent?
Waiting for Akin's views on "legitimate murder".
No one could have predicted this many tenuous (read: rock solid) connections between Todd Akin and other misogynistic pricks.
He's Republican, of course he personally reviewed their paramilitary “unit”. All of them, Katie.
Gotta brain cramp here, help me out:
Just what heinous, inhuman, mind-crizzling act could a Republican commit that would dissuade Republican voters from electing him?
I'm stumped. Pissing on the bible, followed by gutting and eating raw a kitten on live TV would simply be brushed off as a fake perpetrated by dem/darky/libs/gays/muslins, that being the kind of thing we do on a regular basis.
In Missouri, almost nothing would dissuade them. However, there is some slight hope for that awful state: they elected a dead guy over Ashcroft. But otherwise, I see no hope. All you really need to know about the state is that Donny and Marie regularly perform there and have a home there. That's what the people between St. Louis and Kansas City are like.
Bummer that he didn't steal a couple of slices of pizza. Then it would've been life in prison.
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!
Militias? Sooo 1993. And those ARE Bugle Boy jeans he's wearing.
In his defense, Todd explained, off the record, that he wasn't protesting, just trolling for pussy.
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