The French Quarter Fracas: D-Bloc (Updated, 8:45 a.m, 4-21-10)
UPDATE, 8:45 a.m. (April 21, 2010): It’s possible we may have found out who “D-Bloc” is.
If you’ll recall, “D-Bloc” is the lead blogger on the Iron Rail Book Collective’s web site. He’s the guy who has bragged about vandalizing banks in the French Quarter and he was the guy who boasted on Gambit Weekly’s Blog Of New Orleans that on April 9 the protest went well because:
Tons of direct confrontation. New Orleans bared its teeth and snarled, and the rich plutocrats shat themselves in fear.
Also in the same comment section, D-Bloc posted a few days later, when the blogosphere began to pick up the story of the attack on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown, that:
Look, some flea-bitten right-wing blog is linking! FYI, any out-of-town republicans reading this, I’m just sorry y’all weren’t at the corner of Royal & Canal Saturday night.
For those who aren’t aware, on the corner of Royal and Canal Streets on the night of April 10, eight people were shot in a senseless act of violence unrelated to the Allee Bautsch case.
Originally, we found a MySpace page which looked like it might belong to the D-Bloc in question. That wasn’t the guy, so we’ve taken that report down. With a reasonably high degree of confidence we think “D-Bloc” is someone named Dylan Barr.
The evidence that this guy is the one we’re looking for is piling up fast, and we’re going to have an entire post on him shortly.
UPDATE, 7:35 p.m.: Not a lot of developments today, but we are reliably informed by very well-placed sources that the official investigation does, in fact, have as part of its focus the angle of the protest and its organizers. Furthermore, the YouTube videos that Daniel Mauch made private (isn’t it just a little ironic that an anarcho-communist who wants to destroy the concept of private property is engaged in attempting to deny the public the use of his intellectual property?) have been captured and downloaded and are in the possession of the authorities.
This is not to say that an arrest is imminent. But while the political angle to the attack is being downplayed by official channels, it is without question a major part of the investigation, which is heating up.
UPDATE, 10:55 p.m.: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Allee Bautsch’s boss, gave WWL-TV in New Orleans a no-comment comment this evening…
Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday he isn’t going to comment further on the investigation into the recent French Quarter attack that left his chief fundraiser and her boyfriend injured.
Allee Bautsch, 25, suffered a broken leg, and her boyfriend suffered a broken jaw, nose and concussion.
When asked about the incident on Monday, Jindal said the couple is now recovering at home after receiving “serious” injuries.
“We’re going to refrain from commenting on it. We certainly keep her in our thoughts and prayers,” Jindal said. “I know she appreciates many people asked about her. She is home, which is a positive step.”
The rest of the WWL report is an embarrassing rehash of the dinosaur media whitewash we’ve grown very irritated with while this case has stagnated. We could say more about the asinine treatment this case has received by the recently-exposed cowards and frauds in the state’s newspapers and other “traditional” media, but our readers already know our position on the subject.
Meanwhile, Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin gave us this statement in response to a question about the potential role of the Louisiana State Police in this investigation:
“State Police has been in regular communications with the NOPD to get updates on the investigation. While the NOPD is the lead investigative agency, State Police detectives are supporting the NOPD’s efforts.”
UPDATE, 4:40 p.m.: From a high-res version of Jack A. Neal’s photo of the scene of the April 9 beating of Joe Brown and Allee Bautsch comes this close-up of Allee.
Still think she was smiling on the scene?
Still think so?
LOOK AT IT.
UPDATE, 4:20 p.m.: New Orleans CityBusiness actually had a reporter on the scene of the Brennan’s protest, and he shot a good five minutes of video of it.
See just below:
UPDATE, 3:20 p.m.: We’ve got so much information coming in on this story now, it’s hard to keep track of it all. So rather than craft some sort of elegant narrative of this thing, we’ll stick to bullet points.
- Nobody from the New Orleans Police Department talked to Allee Bautsch at any length until Thursday of last week.
- The picture at left, of which we now have several shots, is of an individual who, if he isn’t the prime suspect in the beating of Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown, sure ought to be. Bautsch told me via e-mail this morning that the suspect she and Joe Brown described to the police “looked exactly like that, and so did the rest of them (with different color hair).” She took pains to say that she can’t make a positive identification of this man as one of her attackers, but he fits the description they gave to the New Orleans police. This is someone who needs to be questioned about the attack; there are two YouTube videos still available on which he appears.
The first one is of the protest as it marched from Lafayette Park to the Hilton.
And the second one is of the protestors as they marched to Brennan’s.
He was on the scene, he was part of the protest and the victims say he looks “exactly” like one of the assailants, right down to what he was wearing.
- Hayride contributor Walter Abbott writes on Lincoln Parish News Online that the police didn’t arrive on the scene of the Brennan’s protest until 9:30 on the night of April 9. Security for the event appears to have been dangerously thin. Video shot by the protestors and since taken down showed one NOPD officer at the scene shooing protestors away. Within an hour and a half or so, Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown were hit. Abbott’s update has another attendee at the fundraiser describing the crowd at the Brennan’s protest as “unruly” and “were crowded up against the front door of the restaurant.” The protestors were also asking to be let in so as to use the bathroom; we understand that one female protestor was allowed to do so but not without a Brennan’s employee escort.
- Bautsch had accompanied a Brennan’s employee outside of the restaurant while the protest was going on, and at that time the Brennan’s employee had told the protestors that all three of the governors had left and there were no elected officials still in the restaurant to hear their complaints. The significance of this is the protestors got a look at Allee Bautsch in advance of her leaving the restaurant, which she and Joe Brown did through the front door. The fact that she was with the Brennan’s employee as that announcement was made to the demonstrators would have given the impression she was in a position beyond just that of an attendee at the fundraiser; since we know that Louisiana GOP chairman Roger Villere was chased into a cab by protestors an hour or so before Bautsch and Brown left the restaurant, one could well make an inference that some of those demonstrators were bent on attacking people in charge of that fundraiser.
- We’ve been trying to contact Sgt. Nick Gernon, the detective on the case, for a couple of days. Hopefully we’ll get in touch with him today and a report on that conversation will be forthcoming if it turns up any news. We’ve been told Gernon is first-rate. His normal caseload, though, usually involves crackheads and drug-related crime in the 8th District; whether that would put him in a position to have the contacts for this case is a question that remains to be answered.
- As of now, it does not appear that the Jindal administration has asked the Louisiana State Police to get involved in this investigation. This has created something of a stir, in that we’re told the state troopers want in on it big-time. The practice of downgrading cases by the NOPD to make the crime statistics look better is something many law enforcement officials statewide are extremely unhappy about and have been for a long time; that it almost assuredly happened in the case of the governor’s chief fundraiser has the LSP very uncomfortable, to put it charitably. The reader is free to form his/her opinion as to whether the state police should have already been on the case.
- We’re told that a couple of busboys from the Royal House Oyster Bar, which overlooks the scene, were overheard saying they saw the entire attack on April 9. Hopefully we’re not getting this information in advance of the NOPD; if we are, maybe we can pass that along to Sgt. Gernon.
We expect to have another update on this later today, as there are lots of balls still in the air here. But so far, it is of major concern here that unless some added priority is added to this case either by the political officials involved or the law enforcement agencies who are or could be involved, the trail will go cold. And it is unacceptable to think that a member of a sitting governor’s staff (campaign or otherwise) could be put in the hospital less than two blocks from a major fundraiser and the assailants not found; this is an outrage and a scandal which will only grow until some measure of progress is made on delivering justice for Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown.
UPDATE, 11:45 p.m.: Friday, Allee Bautsch’s mother Della Berning appeared by phone on Fox News to speak about the events of last weekend on behalf of Allee and her boyfriend.
Video of that interview follows:
Earlier today, Yahoo! News posted a story with another interview with Ms. Berning in which her confirmation of a political cause for the attack on her daughter and her boyfriend is more explicit:
Contrary to our initial report, the NOPD is now saying that it does not know whether or not the attacks were politically motivated and the police report lists the motive as unknown. However, Allee Bautsch’s mother, Della Berning, has now joined a friend of Bautsch’s in telling Yahoo! News that, contrary to what Brown initially told police, Bautsch and Brown do believe that the attackers were a group of political protesters who followed them after they left the event. Their recollection is not conclusive, of course, and they admit to having no knowledge of the attackers’ underlying motivations.
According to Berning, Bautsch and Brown are recovering from their injuries and the trauma of the attack, and so are not speaking directly to the media. However, the couple authorized her to come forward with their account of the attack. Berning told Yahoo! News that she reconfirmed with her daughter each detail of the account she offered via email and phone.
For the most part, the police report and Berning’s account of the assault on Bautsch and Brown line up. Bautsch and Brown attended a Republican Party fundraiser that coincided with the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that happened in New Orleans that week. The event drew protesters, some of whom remained after it concluded.
And a little more:
The police report and the subsequent account of the attack that Bautsch and Brown gave to Bautsch’s mother mainly differ on the question of whether the attackers were from the group protesting the fundraiser. According to the police report, Brown told them that he “was unsure if the attackers were protestors.” Berning says her daughter and Brown believe that they were.
Berning explained that on the night of the attack, because of the furious nature of the assault and the late night, the two didn’t want to say for certain that they knew the identity of the attackers. “You don’t want to say something like that to the police” and get someone in trouble with the law, she explained, “unless you’re absolutely sure.”
But while they don’t claim certainty, Bautsch and Brown believe the attackers did come from the group of protesters. Berning said the two felt followed immediately after leaving the restaurant where the protesters were, and the attackers looked like some they had seen in front of the restaurant.
But while the Yahoo! News story appears to grudgingly admit the obvious, that the protestors at Brennan’s produced the attack, reporter Bret Michael Dykes still manages to inject an obnoxious and insulting paragraph toward the end of the piece:
Of course, even if Bautsch and Brown’s recollection is correct and the attackers did come from the group protesting the event, they can’t know for sure what their motives were. Their account of the non-political nature of the verbal assault matches the one Brown gave police and the homophobic, misogynistic nature of the insults would be unusual coming the kind of person one might expect to protest a Republican fundraiser.
So anarchist thugs who attack people on the streets for their political beliefs are still morally superior because only Republicans are homophobes and misogynists? Seriously? This actually made it into a story Yahoo ran on their site?
(Hat tip: Pat Dollard)
UPDATE, 1:15 p.m.: The Times-Picayune has a story today which sheds some light on why the entire weekend passed without any news of the beating of Joe Brown and Allee Bautsch coming to light on the police blotter. It seems that the incident might have fallen initially into a rather dishonest practice of which some have accused the New Orleans Police; namely, that of “downgrading” criminal incidents so as to massage crime statistics and make the city look safer:
But the sequence of the NOPD’s response to an attack that left Bautsch with a broken leg and Brown with a fractured jaw and nose, raises questions about why the department didn’t deal with the incident as an assault from the get-go. Subsequent police statements and reports about the incident note that officers did respond to the scene, calling an ambulance to take Bautsch and Brown to the hospital.
NOPD spokesman Bob Young said the explanation is simple: The responding officer didn’t know the extent of the couple’s injuries. That officer knew the couple needed help and was told that Brown had been in a fight, but concentrated on getting them medical assistance, he said.
If the officer had known how badly they were hurt, the case would have been reclassified immediately as some kind of battery, Young said.
That would have allowed police to begin their investigation more quickly — for example, rounding up potential witnesses at the scene on a night when the area was crowded with French Quarter Fest revelers.
Police realized the seriousness of the pair’s injuries the next day, when Baustch called and said her purse was missing, Young said. An officer went to the hospital to take a report on the missing purse and learned both Bautsch, 25, and Brown, 29, had suffered significant injuries, he said.
That officer notified a supervisor, who assigned Sgt. Nicholas Gernon to the case, Young said. Gernon wrote in his initial incident report that he was assigned the case at about 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
Peter Scharf, a criminologist with Tulane University, said the incident is just one case, but merits further review to see if it is an example of so-called downgrading — or classifying a crime as minor so that it isn’t counted in crime statistics.
“Was it sound judgment, getting it right after the dust settles, or was it another case of trying to fix something?” Scharf asked.
Police documents showing the list of crimes in the French Quarter each weekend are typically sprinkled with the signal numbers that indicate beatings: “35″ for simple battery, or “103F” for a fight, often with addresses near watering holes on Bourbon Street. In all such cases, officers write reports.
Young noted that the likely alternative assessment of the officer on scene — if he hadn’t concluded it was merely a medical call — would have been to categorize the incident as a fight. Fights are not included in “uniform crime reports,” or the tally of serious crime, such as assaults, that are released publicly by the department each quarter and given to the FBI.
After his initial investigation, Gernon concluded that both Brown and Bautsch were victims of second-degree battery, which would fit the FBI’s definition of an assault that should be reported to the public. The detective, along with 8th District Lt. Eddie Selby, interviewed Brown on Monday evening at Oschner Hospital. They did not immediately interview Bautsch because she was on pain medication.
Whether the case can be determined as a “downgrade” or just an initial mistake is for the reader to decide; either someone at a desk in the NOPD thought they could get away with pushing the statistics or the officer on the scene botched things badly; either way it would have been highly preferable to have begun the criminal investigation sooner than Monday afternoon.
Thankfully there is an internet trail leading to the organizers of the protest so that they can be questioned and mined for leads in the case. That trail is a bit colder since some of those organizers have taken down portions of that presence. The fact that the Times-Picayune still seems utterly incurious about the most obvious persons of interest in the case given reporting this blog and others have done is, however, disheartening:
Monday was also the day news reports and blogs began chattering about the attack, sometimes laden with the juicy possibility the attackers were anti-Republican protesters.
The initial incident report does not resolve the question of whether Bautsch and Brown were attacked by protesters, who had picketed the restaurant they were in earlier that night.
UPDATE, 11:00 p.m.: When we were first starting to research who these Iron Rail Collective folks were, we were really trying to get some names more than anything else, and to hopefully figure out what the relationship was between the Iron Rail Gang and the protest that, as it turned out, produced not just the attack on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown but also the attempted attack on Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere as he tried to exit Brennan’s Restaurant out of the back door last Friday night.
So when we went to the “About” page on the Iron Rail website, we skimmed over the third paragraph, which reads:
Our lending library is one of the largest collectively-run radical libraries in the country. The Iron Rail was the first library in metro New Orleans to re-open after the disastrous failure of the government levees in 2005, and for several months were the only functioning library in the city. In 2009, we were invited to be the official bookseller for the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s 5th annual National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. We were super-duper stoked about this opportunity and we did a great job, because we’re awesome.
The emphasis on the part you see in bold is ours.
So, what’s the Family Violence Prevention Fund? Well, it’s one of your standard-issue leftist non-governmental organizations. We say that because they say they advance a cause – the prevention of domestic violence – that nobody could possibly disagree with, and yet on their website one will find a grab-bag of hard-left advocacy.
Like what?
How about banning of guns, chatting up unions about making employers put domestic abuse prevention programs in collective bargaining contracts and granting asylum to women on the basis of domestic abuse in the home country.
FVPF is also covered in George Soros’ fingerprints. The organization’s President is Esta Soler, whose bio says:
She has been a consultant and advisor to numerous public and private agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Soros Justice Fellowship Program, the Ford Foundation/Harvard University Innovations in American Government initiative, and the Aspen Institute. She was a member of the Violence Against Women National Advisory Council when it was co-chaired by Health & Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Attorney General Janet Reno.
And on the FVPF’s Board of Directors is Ellen Friedman, who is a vice president at the Tides Foundation, an outfit partially funded by Soros and whose board chairman is Wade Rathke of SEIU and ACORN fame.
So that’s who the Family Violence Prevention Fund is. Their 5th annual National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence was held in New Orleans. It says on the Conference’s web site that:
The Conference is primarily funded by the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACF’s staff bio page is a mixed bag with some people who actually look like professionals in the field of social work and others whose backgrounds are not so appetizing. Its Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Mark Greenberg, is a veteran of the Soros-funded/John Podesta-led Center For American Progress.
The fact that the Iron Rail Book Collective was the “official bookseller” for that FVPF conference in New Orleans probably bears further research. The obvious question one would imagine is whether that title afforded to the Iron Rail Gang came with a grant or fees from the conference – because if in fact that did happen it would signify taxpayer funds indirectly making their way to an anarchist commune which brags about vandalizing banks in the French Quarter, holding book-study groups to teach The Coming Insurrection and organizing demonstrations which turn violent against people they don’t agree with politically.
And that would be worse than the idea that an outfit tied into George Soros would be directly providing funds to just such an anarchist commune.
UPDATE, 4:17 p.m.: Hayride contributor Walter Abbott has an update up at his Lincoln Parish News Online blog which is worth passing along:
In an interview this afternoon, Louisiana GOP Chair Roger Villere, Jr. told Lincoln Parish News Online he and several others were pursued by protesters last Friday night after a political fundraiser, but managed to get into a cab and avoid the mob. “We started to leave out the front door after the event, but the protesters had us blocked – there were six of us in our group – so we went out through the kitchen,” Villere said. Once they got outside, the protesters spotted them and began to pursue them, but they managed to get into a cab and avoid confrontation.
Abbott also reports that Villere thinks “professional agitators” infiltrated the protest. The chairman might be right. Whether this is relevant or not you can decide for yourself, but it just so happened that Amnesty International held their Annual General Meeting in New Orleans last weekend, and there were protestors at SRLC holding Amnesty International signs in front of the Hilton throughout the conference. None of these guys looked much like the violent type, though it was somewhat interesting to see an African-American individual wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt out there on Friday.
A copy of the police report was posted today as well, and you can see it here. Most of what’s in there has already been reported here and elsewhere.
UPDATE, 2:08 p.m. We’re linked from Yahoo News, whose report contains an account from a friend of Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown which might be of interest:
The friend, who declined to be named because the attackers are still at large, described the group who descended on Bautsch and Brown as “some weird Bobby Jindal protesters” there in opposition to the state’s governor. The friend confirmed the earlier reports that Bautsch “got caught in the middle” of the altercation as she tried to break it up. Bautsch’s friend also reported that she’s in “loads of pain” with “rods in her leg and ankle,” but that she was also “released yesterday from the hospital and is resting at her home in Baton Rouge.”
But the Yahoo News story also has a resurfacing of NOPD Public Information Officer Bob Young, the source of blogger Pat Dollard’s report confirming a political motive to the attack yesterday who seems to be in a rather regretful and disquieted mood:
Bob Young, though confirming that the question of political motivation is a part of the investigation, is denying Dollard’s report that he said the attacks were of a “political nature” to Politico’s Ben Smith and saying Dollard’s account of what he said is “completely incorrect.”
Dollard, as of this writing, has not weighed in about the Ben Smith entry with Young’s denial. But on his site today, he does have this:
UPDATE: I just had another very interesting conversation with Governor Jindal’s press secretary Kyle Plotkin. He was friendly and helpful, up to the point where I began pressing him with questions as to how he knew that neither Allee or Joe had been wearing Sarah Palin pins. Was he there? Did they tell him? He refused to say how he knew, and in fact refused to answer any questions about the incident whatsoever, except to very emphatically repeat, about a dozen times, “They were NOT wearing Palin pins!” , especially after I told him about Rantburg’s post of today, citing an unnamed witness who absolutely contradicted the Governor’s position about the pins. He also asked me for information as to how to get to the Rantburg post, and I gave it to him…
Why all this obsession with denial about the pins, is beyond me. I can only speculate that Governor Jindal is quite passionate about the truth, and/or quite passionate about the fuse of the powder keg of this country not being lit in his state, at least not at a time when front line elements of the warring parties are still co-mingling in the French Quarter.
It should be noted that the “Rantburg” post is a re-hash of our initial report about the Palin pin issue. We have a source who says the couple were wearing Palin pins, and Jindal’s spokesman Kyle Plotkin denies – pretty vigorously, as it happens – that they did. We’re prepared to go with Plotkin’s account, since the photo of the incident doesn’t show them. Subsequent disclosures about the incident, including the Fox News interview with Allee Bautsch’s mother which we’ve summarized below and Human Events’ Connie Hair has transcribed in full, substantiate the underlying meaning behind the “Palin pin” issue, namely that the attackers identified Bautsch and Brown as attendees at the Brennan’s fundraiser and descended upon them for that reason. The Palin pin is a relatively inconsequential detail, in our view.
To add to Dollard’s last bit we can offer the fact that on two occasions while conversing with Plotkin we asked him if he could offer a description of the nature of the Brennan’s protest. On both occasions he did not respond to the questions. While it is without question proper for the Jindal administration to proceed with caution on so politically charged a story and unlike others in the conservative blogosphere we don’t have a problem with a muted public persona by the administration until such time as individuals involved are found, it’s a choice which has not gone unnoticed.
At this point we’ll repeat, though, that fundamentally while this is a political attack and a political issue, it’s not a left-vs-right affair – or shouldn’t be. It seems nearly inconceivable to us that the mainstream left should want to be protective of an anarchist commune which by a wealth of information appears to have incited violence against the mainstream right, but the direction this story continues to move in suggests that is indeed what is happening to a noticeable extent. The mere fact that the Iron Rail Gang was able to recruit supposedly mainstream Democrats to their SRLC protest at the Hilton was disturbing enough.
UPDATE, 12:40 p.m.: Fox News has finally picked up the story. Megyn Kelly just did an interview with Allee Bautsch’s mother Della Berning, in which several pieces of information came out.
Ms. Berning did NOT want to discuss the political nature of the attack, though she de-emphasized rather than disputed the political angle. She did, however, confirm that from the time Brown and Bautsch left Brennan’s they were subjected to insults by a group of people who were lingering around, and as they turned the corner onto St. Louis Street and entered an area a little darker and more secluded than Royal Street where Brennan’s is, they were attacked.
She also said, without going into specifics of what was said, that “it was all about money.”
Allee Bautsch has seven screws in her leg and five surgical scars. She didn’t just fall down, she was stomped on.
Ms. Berning also said something we’d like to emphasize. She didn’t want to talk about politics; she noted that what’s important is finding out who did this. That is what we’re most interested in as well. We think, based on all the research and reporting we’ve done, that the answer to this crime is to be found in the people who were protesting at that Brennan’s event, and we want to shine light on the organizers of that protest in an effort to force evidence to the surface.
This isn’t a left-right thing, at its core, unless members of an anarchist commune can be accurately described as members of the mainstream left in America. Frankly, we think anarcho-communists ought to be just as despised by Democrats as Republicans; white supremacist groups are, after all. If you think Republicans are worse company than people like the Iron Rail Gang, then you’re part of the problem.
UPDATE, 11:05 p.m.: A frequent reader and usually reliable source to the Hayride passes along a possible explanation of how the attack happened (and this substantially fits with what we’ve been told by a couple of other people we’ve talked to on background):
You might be interested in a comment that showed up under the Times-Picayune’s last article which contained that photo of the crime scene. A commenter who calls himself lernedlesson and who is usually in the know posted that he heard from a co-worker who knows Joe Brown and has talked to him since the incident. Brown confirmed that it was a political attack and that he thought the culprits had been at the protest. There were five of them, and when they started trash-talking to the couple he told her to run for the car. She was attacked by one of them and the other four went after him.
Sure enough, we went to the Times-Picayune story and found this:
Posted by lernedlesson
April 15, 2010, 9:38PM
Yes, there is more to this story. A co-worker, who went to college with the boyfriend, was relating what he was told when he talked to him. It WAS political, as the attackers were recognized as protesters at the fund-raising event, and there were 5 attackers, not 3. The couple realized they were being stalked after being berated for their political affliations and support of Jindal. The bf told the gf to run for their car; 4 of the attackers lit into the bf, beating him to the point of concussion; and the last tracked down the gf. She broke her leg when he bashed her to the ground.
We would prefer to have more on this, and the principals involved aren’t talking so far. Can’t blame them. As said above, however, the basic points of this account do seem to square with what we’ve had on this story, with the exception of the troublesome business of the Sarah Palin pins our first source gave us. The fact that this one purports to have come from Joe Brown, while our first source represented an account from Allee Bautsch, is a little bit helpful.
Take this for what it’s worth.
UPDATE, 5:10 p.m.: From one of our readers, a New Orleans-area attorney who had posted a link to this article on Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Facebook page last night, comes a rather interesting phone message (watch the profanity on the back end)…
A lot to unpack here, but let’s just say the caller seems to be either quite forceful in his speculation or possessed with some knowledge of the attack. Our reader decided to call us at the same time he notified the police.
UPDATE, 3:30 p.m.: Hooray! The Times-Picayune has noticed the story again:
There have been no news updates since New Orleans police issued a press release Tuesday asking for the public’s help in finding suspects who participated in a French Quarter fight Friday that led to the injury of a campaign aide to Gov. Bobby Jindal, as well as the aide’s boyfriend. But someone identifying himself as Jack A. Neal, has published a photo on the governor’s Facebook page showing the couple talking with police shortly after the attack.
The Picayune goes on to say…virtually nothing other than what they’ve already reported. And no byline is given for their article. Given the hard-hitting investigative journalism involved in reading Facebook pages and government news releases while ignoring the wealth of research and story leads the New Media has been producing for them since Monday, that’s not much of a surprise.
For earlier updates on this story, feel free to use the links below…
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Original Story
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Initial Reactions
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Official Denials
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Tuesday Morning Tales
The Brennan’s Beatdown – The Police Speak
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Draining The Swamp
The Brennan’s Beatdown – A Cast Of Characters
The Brennan’s Beatdown – A Bit Of Clarity
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Illumination By Video
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Unsung Victims
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Daniel Mauch
The Brennan’s Beatdown – A Photo From The Scene
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Going Dark
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Follow-Ups And New Video
The Brennan’s Beatdown – Police Confirmation, Of Sorts
Filed under: Bobby Jindal, SRLC2010, The Left
Can't wait to find out the real story on this. I am really suprised nothing of subtance has leaked on this
I'm certain that those 250 protesters could have cleaned up a complete city block in the Treme or 9th Ward or NO East in about half the time they took out of their day to protest.
[...] pm Posted by Steven in National 0 Comments The Hayride, a blog focused on Louisiana politics, writes that an aide to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and her boyfriend were chased and severely beaten by a mob because they were wearing Sarah Palin [...]
I doubt they would have Palin pins on, he being a Jindal staffer. However, I most certainly don't doubt that it was a politically motivated mod attack.
[...] Hayride: The Brennan’s Beatdown By Walter Abbott From The Hayride earlier today. UPDATE, 9:50 a.m.: Two people at the Brennan’s event have now confirmed that the [...]
[...] Hayride blog has several links to local reports, video of the leftist protest and quotes of the leftist vitriol [...]
[...] French Quarter Beatdown Posted on April 13, 2010 by nuke Allee Bautsch, a Bobby Jindal fundraiser, and her boyfriend Joe Brown were assaulted in the French Quarter Friday night for “wearing a Palin button,” according to a story pieced together by the Louisiana news blog The Hayride. [...]
[...] The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons: [...]
[...] Hayride: The Brennan’s Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story Two people at the Brennan’s event have now confirmed that the protest had largely broken up by [...]
Anarchists in this day and age are nothing more than rotten young asshats. Most of them either live at home leeching off Mom and Dad, or leech off the public trough. Here in the Twin Cities they tried to kill people amongst other bad acts during the Republican Convention.
I don't think they really actually give a crap about the politics. I believe they are just looking for a reason to commit violence. Like other vermin, there ought to be a bounty on 'em.
I love outspoken communists and socialists. It allow exposure of various political world views. I detest these creeps. They are modern Brown Shirts. Rabid. Incorrect. Illiterate. Hateful. [feel free to add your own]
[...] blog The Hayride has tracked all the developments since the incident took place and notes that the SRLC had [...]
[...] was a three-day delay in releasing the fact that the couple were attacked outside of the event. The Hayride however has the disgusting information as to why the attack occurred. It wasn’t just some [...]
You've got that right. There was an idiot on Thursday with an Amnesty International sign who had a Che Guevara shirt on as well. Either these people are too dumb to understand who Che Guevara was…or worse, they think everybody else is.
[...] one. (The Hayride, which was pushing the political angle heavily yesterday and has now updated its post to reflect the new info, sounds more circumspect today.) Mediaite has picked up the story and the [...]
[...] The Brennan’s Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story (Updated, 2:15 p.m) | The Hayride. Categories: Uncategorized Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [...]
[...] Anarchist report, via Louisiana’s premier conservative blog, The Hayride mentions that protesters marched down to the restaurant: Anarchists took to the streets in New [...]
Great investigative work in piecing this under-reported story together. You should receive a Pulitzer prize.
Nah, that would require you become a rabid Liberal. You're better than that.
Ooohhh, they're ANARCHISTS. Well, if they're true to that philosphy then it's fair game for me to come to New Orleans and beat up the guy with the best looking girlfriend, kidnap the girl in his car and raid his bank account while he's out. Viva la Anarchy !
[...] 3: The Hayride provides a time line of the assault and the reporting on it. There’s also a reminder that [...]
This is journalism so shoddy you should work for Fox news.
[...] Michelle Malkin A cautionary note about the beating in New Orleans; Update: No Palin pins involved The Brennan’s Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story (Updated, 2:15 p.m) | The Hayride Jindal Campaign Official Hurt In French Quarter – WWL – AM870 | FM105.3 | News | Talk | Sports [...]
[...] not quite as bad as Harry Reid celebrating unemployment. Okay, maybe it is. It’s like a drunk on a binge who boasts that he only drank two bottles of [...]
[...] their latest update- The Hayride still insists that the attack was politically motivated. Comments [...]
[...] mention of Andy Stern and the SEIU….yet. Political Beatdown Thanks Michele Malkin for the link to The Hayride blog. [...]
[...] The Brennan’s Beatdown: Piecing Together A Story (Updated, 6:45 p.m) [...]
[...] ANOTHER UPDATE: More blogging. [...]
A comment from the "Help welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee" post that you linked to – I don't know if it's from the "D-Bloc" mentioned in this report or if it's someone hijacking his handle:
"D-Bloc on April 13th, 2010 at 4:34 pm #
Look, some flea-bitten right-wing blog is linking! FYI, any out-of-town republicans reading this, I’m just sorry y’all weren’t at the corner of Royal & Canal Saturday night."
Too bad that Jindal is such a meek and weak wuss. Won't he even go after the police for letting this happen and can't he at least conjure the outrage to speak out against the DNC's commie thuggery?
Is the Governor scared of DNC pissant thugs? That's inspiring leadership, Jindal. He's the Governor – what use is he if he won't even conjure public outrage against violent political attacks on his supporters!
[...] blogs, Gateway Pundit and The Hayride, are piecing together report on the SRLC protest march that led to a confrontation with donors [...]
Pics or it didn't happen.
dude she is diseased but the money would be clean.
[...] politically motivated, and may in fact have been precipitated by the victims wearing Palin pins: http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-br…ether-a-story/ __________________ Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably [...]
[...] The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons: [...]
[...] for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, were brutally attacked leaving Brennan’s Restaurant, where a $10,000 a plate Louisiana Republican Party fundraiser [...]
[...] if it had been Mary’s People? By Walter Abbott What if the dastardly attack last Friday night against Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s chief fundraiser Allee Bautsch [...]
[...] this morning Dakota Voice published an opinion piece speculating on reports that Allee Bautsch, a fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown [...]
[...] blog The Hayride has tracked all the developments since the incident took place and notes that the SRLC had [...]
[...] on the internet that this attack might have been politically motivated. Free Republic reports: The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were [...]
Several elements seem to be at play, and while it’s risky to speculate, that’s all we can do until facts are unearthed. It appears that these attacks were not muggings as nothing of material value was taken, and it appears that they were politically motivated due to the protest group’s ties to groups opposing budget reductions in education and healthcare that Jindal is constitutionally mandated to impose. The MSM is not reporting on this because it’s radical group violence imposed on conservatives, the opposite of what they want to report, and the governor’s office is downplaying it in order to hold out hope of luring the GOP convention to NOLA in 2012.
[...] The Hayride has several videos posted of the threatening crowd outside of Brennan’s Restaurant late in [...]
"…you’ll find that she had an abortion in December of 2008 and wants her readers to know about it."
I'd like to personally thank her for that.
Sure! Read yesterday's 8:17PM update.
[...] if the dastardly attack last Friday night against Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s chief fundraiser Allee Bautsch and [...]
Still think they're just opponents, not enemies?
Yes ANARCHISTS insisting on more Government.
Douchebags dont even know what they are backing
i just heard who did it from an NOPD friend of mine:
he says it was a fight between allee's boyfriend, who was drunk, and another group of drunk GOP delegates who made a lewd comment about allee.
so much for these conspiracy theories.
When the author states "That red “A” with a circle around it on a black flag? It’s an anarchist flag. Specifically an anarchist-communist flag." I had a good chuckle.
Note: Anarchy and Communism are polar opposites. That's almost liked saying Palin is an Christian – Satanist, It just doesn't compute.
What do you suppose the real story to be? Looks like a bunch of obama's junior attack clowns.
obama's attack clown army.
Is it all that important whether or not the Victims of obama's attack clowns were wearing Palin pins? Inexcusable in either case. it was a political attack encouraged and paid for by the wacky left wing demo gang.
Really? Your computation skills reflect your ignorance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism
Maybe the MSM isn't so hot on the trail of this story because Jindal's press secretary released a statement saying, in part, "While there were protestors around at that time, we are not aware of any evidence that the individuals involved in the altercation were protestors"?
This is francisnblake. I met Mick Wright outside the Hilton on the evening of the 9th while we were both observing the protest. As we were both involved in indepedent journalism and had more than a passing interest in politics, we spoke for almost an hour concerning various subjects related to the obvious subject at hand. At the end of the conversation, I gave him the address of my youtube channel (because he hadn't got the chance to see the protests earlier that day) and information on a local workers' collective (because he had never observed one in operation before). I wrote these things on a protest flyer because it was what I happened to have in my pocket at the time.
Yesterday's 8:17 PM update only makes the connection between the Iron Rail and the Brennan's protest – a connection that it does not appear that anyone is making an attempt to hide. Still zero evidence of the protesters being involved in the attack (as noted by none other than Jindal's press secretary).
We'll see. thehayride is going to look a lot more like theclowncar if this turns out to be an everyday French Quarter drunken brawl.
I stand corrected. Thanks wiki!!!
Hands off my mediacare!
NOPD is looking for "one of the suspects, who was described as a white man who appeared to be dirty, in his 20s, about six feet tall with a thick build and thin face. He had a beard and auburn-colored hair in a pony tail."
This is a GOP delegate? Try again.
Jeebus…once again the moronic wingnuts spew ignorant, uninformed accusations before they know what actually happened. Damn, it must suck to constantly be oppressed.
Yeah… aren't these the same people that spout about global warming? lol
[...] The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons. [...]
"Idiot" is the operative word there…
What few reports I have been reading about the brutal beating in New Orleans have mentioned The Hayride.
Congrats!
Wait til the medical report is made public. Then the truth will come out. These two were beaten with clubs or pipes. the injuries will bear this out.
May God shelter Ms Bautsch and Mr Brown from further harm. And may God help the NO police find the courage to prosecute the responsible party this despicable crime.
First they burn down the court house cuz they thought the tape was there, next the race baiters began a smear campaign against the Tea Party Patriots and now this.
Everything they accused the side side of doing, they were guilty of committing.
It's going to be a hot summer.
maybe it was that pesky Bush fellow again?
Who is "D-Bloc?" Would that be you?
Screw the statists. Sooner or later, we'll rock 'n roll—-and my side's the one that believes in the Second Amendment. Know what I mean, Vern?
Will, fights like that happen all the time, but they don't end up with the girl getting a broken leg.
"Doesn't it seem a bit odd to you that we have heard NOTHING from the principals involved after three days? " Isn't it interesting that the left cannot understand why no information is forthcoming until it's correct, factual information? They just can't understand a delay in information until all facts are in – unfathonable in leftyland where it's so much easier to fictionalize, jump to conclusions and incite violence. Can you say PROJECTION?
Someone has just posted a picture of Allee from the scene of the crime on Bobby Jindal's Facebook
[...] this group so that I might share the info, as well as a photo I took. More to come… Via The Hayride. Allee Butsch suffered a broken bone in the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan’s [...]
i agree with you! bunch of idiots!
Tomorrow's Quote Of The Day.
All of the roaches connected to the Iron Rail Book Collective need to be dragged into the light. I love seeing this story told and will follow to see how it plays out. The man and woman prominantly mentioned as having a hand in savage beating, directly or indirectly, need to be questioned. I find it very telling that they seem to have disappeared and are laying low somewhere.
. here is a quote from Che regarding blacks
"The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent. —Che Guevara, upon returning from Africa."
If they also sell drugs, it should be open season.
[...] Jack A. Neal posted this photo and comment on Bobby Jindal’s Facebook page tonight: Hi folks. I was in New Orleans this past Friday night. I was dining within a half block of where the incident involving Allee Butsch happened. I joined this group so that I might share the info, as well as a photo I took. More to come… Via The Hayride. [...]
I will wait for that. If that proves to be incorrect, I trust you will have the character to return to this space and admit you were spouting off in total ignorance?
By "A delay in information until all facts are in," you mean not spewing nonfactual unsupported cow pies like the Palin-pin claims originating on this very site? I'm not asking why the police haven't said anything; I am asking why the victims haven't said anything. I think we can safely assume they are in possession of the facts of the incident, right?
Same ones?
Here's cache of Daniel Mauch FB http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...” target=”_blank”>:www.facebook.com/daniel.mauch+Daniel+Mauch%2Bfacebook&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Here's a cache of Joanna Dubinsky FB http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=ca...” target=”_blank”>:www.facebook.com/joanna.dubinsky+oanna+Dubinsky&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
http://www.solidarity-us.org/warathome
Dear Hayride,
I don't think "recant" means what you think it does. "Recant" is what you should have done about your post that they were attacked for wearing Palin pins.
Why haven't the couple said anything? New Orleans is notorious for purse snatching thugs who will beat the crap out of you for 5 bucks.
Can't someone go to the hospital or whatever and get some facts from them? It is like they are hiding something??? Was anything stolen from them?
If nothing stolen, then political motives rank very high. Police are stonewalling. I don't know what to make of it. But it sure smells.
[...] For full updates: http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/ [...]
Hey check out the video after the last video you posted "Protest outside Sean Hannity Show in New Orleans (SRLC 2010)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdxtdP5MD9o&fe...
Check out the guy right at the end – tall, with beard and orange ponytail. Isn't wearing a light t shirt but it is light blue.
google the name Brandon Darby– he's from Austin, and a former anarchist who helped foil the plot to assault the convention there in 2008– he's considered a traitor in their circles now, but should of course be thought of as reformed patriot……
I'm sorry for not not obsessively following your comments and requests; so, I can promptly spoonfeed you information every time you ask for it.
Since you seem to have drawn that conclusion anyway, why don't you sift through D-Bloc's inane ramblings (I certainly don't have the time to do it) and attribute some of the gems to me.
It may not be the truth, but it would be entertaining. Isn't that the point of websites like this, anyway?
Since you like this game of determining identities and aliases, I will admit to also being the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the Second Gunman on the Grassy Knoll. Leak this through the blogosphere: the world must know!
[...] Meanwhile, the latest developments on the crime are in today’s The Hayride. [...]
I just found this:
Breaking: Exclusive New Orleans Beat-Down Update Via My Interview With The NOPD – “It Was Of A Political Nature”http://bit.ly/d4pm5J
What a bunch of bullshit propoganda, what thourgly worthless ass hats you are.
I think it is time Republicans strike back, and start targeting those who would do its base harm. Why is our media not going after the people who commit violent acts against Republicans, I hope to GOD one day it will be them or someone they love, that would be justice. Can you imagine if members of the Black Panthers were targeted because of the voter intimidation bit they pulled last election. Or even the brown shirt thugs being targeted, constant surveillance on their holes of gatherings. Apparently we will not get justice from the media, the police or judicial system. Even more so now that noboma has his tentacles out.
Agreed. While we are at it, let's round up all tea baggers to find out who yelled n*&^er and fa(*^&ot, amongst other less than charming epithets during their protests at the healthcare vote…oh and Palin for inciting violence, and achieving same, with her 20 target list. Albeit these were not physical attacks, just vandalism and derogatory, thus far. The Iron Rail is not the problem, they orchestrated the protests, not the violence.
They probably disappeared because y'all are harassing them. Jesus, this is some bogus backyard journalism. I would be nervous about having my identity touted around and associated with this incident too.
By all means, let's do that. Perhaps we should find some actual evidence it happened first. We do know that Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown were attacked, however, and we also know that they told police that their attackers gave evidence to them that the attack was based in politics.
The rest of your post is typical of the kind of bilge left-wingers such as yourself traffic in willy-nilly. You have no place to whine here.
Typical; liberals are ignorant cowards. 5 of them beat up on a couple dressed up for a night out. If they weren't such sniveling cowards, they would go mano-a-mano. But then, they'd get their wimpy asses kicked back to their mommies…
Here's an idea… since the Iron Rail makes all decisions by vote, maybe a bunch of conservatives should show up one night and vote to tear the place down.
I'm outraged by the violent attacks commited by these asshole communists ya'll have to put up with in New Orleans.
If I had been attacked and my girlfriend's leg broken as soon as I got out of the hospital I would find the assholes and make them disappear. Two positives would result: (1) the disappeared assholes, by definition, would be unable to commit any more attacks; (2) the other assholes, who we all know just have orgasms experiencing the delicious frisson of oh-so-neat-n-trendy la resistance (knowing of course that they're perfectly safe) juuuuuust might have some seconds if a few of their pals disappeared.
Am I advocating violence against these communists assholes? Oh, absolutely, it's the only language they understand and the only way conservatives can EVER expect justice in a town like New Orleans run as a fiefdom by a corrupt leftist claque.
LM
St Louis
Your presentation would be more impressive if you could spell a relatively simple word like "thoroughly" or "propaganda."
Get a life you guys.
So this guy got beat up in the Quarter. It must have been the protesters, because no drunk guys ever get beat up in the Quarter.
I was at the protest. People chanted, like they do at most protests. There was no violence, or threats of violence. We're damned angry with the cuts to public services and Bobby Jindal's general failure to serve the people of Louisiana. But we're not a bunch of nut-jobs who bring guns to protests, like the Tea Partiers do.
If you knew any of these anarchists, you'd realize that they are dramatic but harmless. Ironically, they share a hostility to the government that you guys should find familiar. Difference is, they are opposed to war and corporate welfare, not public services that actually benefit people like healthcare and education.
But most of who I saw were UNO students, who want to keep programs running and qualified professors teaching at their university.
We will not be intimidated.
This is a truly heinous crime of political intimidation by Democrats and other Leftists. This nice young couple was just working hard for a Governor and the ideas that they believe in, and the Democrats and other Leftists beat them so severely that their surgeons estimate a three month recovery.
Take a good look at those pictures and ask yourself: Can you ever again see any Democrat or other Leftist public figure that has not owned that their own broke Allee and Joe's bones, condemned the attackers and their cohorts, and apologized without also seeing these pictures in your mind and thinking that they are just a little complicit?
I never will!
It is past time to start going armed in that city.
If somebody is breaking your girl's leg, the only appropriate response is:
Double tap to center mass, one to the head.
[...] Read about the ongoing investigation at The Hayride. [...]
Around here we call them 'trustafarians' as they all seem to be tie-dyed with dreads living off mom and dad's bank accounts.
[...] rousing speech … and even hinted at running for the presidency in 2012: The local Louisiana blog The Hayride, which reports that the attack was politically motivated, has details and updates. But other than [...]
[...] The French Quarter Fracas: Another Possible Piece (Updated, 11:05 p.m) [...]
Can't find my post. Anyhoo, You're linked at Corndog.http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com/2010/04/whats...
[...] and the last tracked down the gf. She broke her leg when he bashed her to the ground." The French Quarter Fracas: Another Possible Piece (Updated, 11:05 p.m) | The Hayride __________________ Illegitimi non [...]
[...] Jack A. Neal posted this photo and comment on Bobby Jindal’s Facebook page tonight: Hi folks. I was in New Orleans this past Friday night. I was dining within a half block of where the incident involving Allee Butsch happened. I joined this group so that I might share the info, as well as a photo I took. More to come… Via The Hayride. [...]
[...] that the assault “was of a political nature.” Eyewitnesses to the incident have variably described the assailants as appearing to be left-wing activists or anarchists. While attention has recently focused on threats and anger among conservative activists [...]
[...] Allee Butsch suffered a broken leg from the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans. She had her leg operated on over the weekend and it will take her months to recover. Her boyfriend Joe Brown suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw, and a concussion. They were attacked after leaving the Southern Republican Leadership Conference dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant. (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) [...]
[...] (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) [...]
[...] As Breitbart rolled off noted examples of left-wing violence against conservatives, he neglected to mention the most recent example - the brutal beating of a Governor Jindal staffer and her boyfriend in New Orleans, this past weekend, which is increasingly looking like it was politically motivated. [...]
[...] [...]
So Daniel, as in Daniel Ryan Mauch (sorry, I mean, francisnblake aka Saint Francis the Drunkard), when did you move from Ekalaka, MT to New Orleans? Did you graduate from Carter County HS in 1999, or drop out? How do you like NO so far?
Interesting selection of anarchists on your playlist, such as these guys: http://www.myspace.com/linternationale
Ah, the wonders of Google caching. You weren't quick enough, Daniel. Enjoy your interview with the NOPD.
[...] [...]
Don't You Make Chicken Colonel/
Actually, you're completely wrong, they were listed as anarcho-communalists in the article. Anarchism is all about the destruction of government, something a supposed tea bagger like you should just love. Revel in your stupidity, embrace it!
YES. You are a pluralist, and I respect that immensely. We should be able to engage in civil debate in a democracy, regardless of political views.
You're and idiot. You know nothing yet so how about you just shut your stupid piehole huh?
Thats meaningless you moron. We will see, but I'll bet that if this turns out to be letf-wing nutjobs (which I think it will be) you will be running for cover. Dimwit!
[...] Leadership Conference dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant. (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) NOLA.com is reporting: A report on Yahoo! News says an attack last Friday that left Gov. Bobby [...]
I first read of this savage attack on Pat Dollard's site, and have followed the story there as it went untold elsewhere. Dollard had a witness, who also posted a similar story at Snooper Report, to his interview with young and stands by his story. He, also, notes Young's attempt to retract his initial answer that the vicious attack on Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown was political as the interview continued.
I really have nothing to add to my post, because in it, I make it quite clear that Mr. Young ended the conversation retracting his original statement. I also make it quite clear that I have a witness to the phone call who verifies my report. As far as I know, Mr. Young, does not.
[...] In other developments, the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) released the preliminary report of the crime. Also today, Fox News interviewed Della Burning, mother of victim Allee Bautsch. More updates are also available on The Hayride. [...]
It looks like Daniel Mauch there (http://www.tncon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/daniel-mauch-photo.jpg) is wearing a Keffiyeh. Is he protecting himself from the glaring sun, shielding his face from the blowing sands, displaying his avant-garde fashion sense, or perhaps wearing it out of some ideological sympathy for certain Islamic groups?
[...] SRLC Brennan’s Beatdown Looking Politically Motivated April, 16, 2010 — nicedeb (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) [...]
[...] link. The one which has been covering this story most diligently is the one originally linked to. The French Quarter Fracas: Information Solidifies (Updated, 2:08 p.m) | The Hayride Also active have been this one… Gateway Pundit Check that one out for sure. It might be your [...]
[...] is coming from slowly-issued public statements by the victims and/or their relatives, and by a local media source (The Hayride) that’s provided the most information, including a New Orleans law [...]
Other attendees of the same event were stalked, pursued, and blocked from escape; but managed to elude the protesters assaulting them:
"Louisiana GOP Chair Villere: “Protesters came after us, but we managed to get away in a cab.”
In an interview this afternoon, Louisiana GOP Chair Roger Villere, Jr. told Lincoln Parish News Online he and several others were pursued by protesters last Friday night after a political fundraiser, but managed to get into a cab and avoid the mob. “We started to leave out the front door after the event, but the protesters had us blocked – there were six of us in our group – so we went out through the kitchen,” Villere said. Once they got outside, the protesters spotted them and began to pursue them, but they managed to get into a cab and avoid confrontation.
Later in the evening Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown were brutally beaten on the sidewalk outside the Louisiana State Supreme Court building, mere steps away from where protests had taken place.
Villere opined that what started out as a peaceful protest was infiltrated by “professional agitators” who were in New Orleans to protest the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) that was held last weekend."
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2010...
[...] account is “completely incorrect.” However, eyewitnesses to the incident have variably described the assailants as appearing to be left-wing activists or anarchists. While attention has recently focused on threats and anger among conservative activists opposing [...]
[...] even entertain the possibility that the attacks may have had a political motive, despite some very strong evidence to the contrary. Further, some have used an early, errant rumor (the “Palin pins“), or [...]
I'm not quite sure where you got the impression that "a big deal was made" out of Palin pins. We stated that a source related that to us. The significance of Palin pins was that they identified Bautsch and Brown as Republican attendees of a high-dollar fundraiser in the area where the assailants were. Since the statements of Bautsch's mother and the release of the police report both indicate that the assailants immediately seized upon the couple verbally upon their exiting the restaurant, the point behind the question of Palin pins – that they were attacked out of a political motive – has been satisfied.
Given that, the question of Palin pins is an inconsequential one.
[...] Photo: The Hayride [...]
[...] of the story in order to keep quiet what is going on and growing in his State. Follow this link http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/ thanks to Ms. Behaved which will lead you to a very long but fantastic investigation as to that [...]
And the YouTube videos were pulled down, why?
[...] The French Quarter Fracas: A Loose End Or Two [...]
THis is what the left is HOPING for. That some conservative when attacked will blow some asshat like some of the names mentioned here away. THAT attack will be all over the Brown SHirt Media and and the "poor, poor victim" will be turned into a clebrated martyr and then Zero will bring the "Night of the Long Knives". This is what folks like Mauch know and that is why they are there. They are hoping to be "that martyr" and someday there will be images of them in profile on black over red t-shirts.
Well, we have been ready for this scenario for decades and it may not end the way some folks think.
[...] Photo: The Hayride [...]
how many square miles of deep swamp land do y'all have down there in your neck of the woods, and how many 'gators?
good idea jason, i'm not a "fed" or l.e.o. of any description, but i am armed, "for all lawful purposes", which do include self defense, whenever i'm out in public.
I pray that these perps are identified and justice is served. Have been following this story on Hayride since I found the sight and am concerned with the latest post about the investigation losing momentum. Hope that NOPD does a thourough job this time.
Great blog from down home. I have it on my favorite reading list now.
Thanks,
NOLA Native in GA
So….someone sent you a protest flyer with a handwritten address, and that's all the proof you need to condemn an organization that works extensively with non-violence groups and provides a bookstore and library to their community? That's all you need to condemn the entire organization with knowing about, encouraging and executing this attack? And the George Soros connection, good lord, get over yourself. This is an attempt to smear an organization you don't care for based on nothing more than your own partisan views. By the way, anarcho-communism is something you made up to try and make "anarchism" sound even scarier to your rather partisan audience.
and he wouldn't have any money.
[...] who actually reads Scott’s primary post on the topic can reasonably deduce that they were attacked because they were leaving a GOP fundraiser. If you [...]
I do understand if you're receiving unsavory comments. Two people were brutally assaulted. But on YouTube, you can disable the comment function. Everyone with an account knows this. Generally because when you upload a video, you must choose how you want your comments handled. For example, if you want to be notified of new comments via email, or if you want comments disabled altogether. You knew that videos could be privatized, so it's clear that you had to know of these functions as they are located on the same page.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. And the moral of this story has nothing to do with a messenger. It has to do with truth. None of which can be found in anything coming out of your mouth. Perhaps if you turned over those videos, if you stopped lying and hiding the truth, people wouldn't be suspecting you.
[...] New Orleans, Louisiana police initially dismissed the savage attack on GOP official Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown in the French Quarter. They reported it as a medical call and did not even interview the couple about the savage beating until Monday. Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg from the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans. She had her leg operated on over the weekend and it will take her months to recover. Her boyfriend Joe Brown suffered a broken nose, a broken jaw, and a concussion. They were attacked after leaving the Southern Republican Leadership Conference dinner at Brennan’s Restaurant. (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) [...]
True dat, Chuck. I don't think theses big government anarchists could even tell you what anarchism is all about. These idiots today believe it is all about big government – specifically big government dictating to you their ideals.
Unfortunately their ideals are nothing more than a by product of the liberal brainwashing they have endured over the entirety of their lifetime.
Anarchy would probably be fun for a little while – until some non-anarchist nation decides that you are a bunch of unorganized wussies unwilling to fight for the freedoms that Republicans adamantly stand up for – with force.
….which would all bring us back to a conservative state with smaller government, less federal interference in your lives and the ability to protect and expand these freedoms to the rest of the world.
Then again, nobody ever accused anarchists of having a well thought out plan.
Exactly. The day after millions of Tea Party people gathered peacefully to demonstrate against this rush to socialism BJ Clinton compared us to the OK City bombers.
WTH? Is BJ blind to what happened in the FQ?
"Of course, even if Bautsch and Brown’s recollection is correct and the attackers did come from the group protesting the event, they can’t know for sure what their motives were. Their account of the non-political nature of the verbal assault matches the one Brown gave police and the homophobic, misogynistic nature of the insults would be unusual coming the kind of person one might expect to protest a Republican fundraiser."
That's idiotic. Look at the banner these creeps were sporting at the protest for crying out loud. It reads "Republicans geaux home" with a gold "o" sprayed over the "e" in the word home.
"This isn’t a left-right thing, at its core, unless members of an anarchist commune can be accurately described as members of the mainstream left in America. Frankly, we think anarcho-communists ought to be just as despised by Democrats as Republicans; white supremacist groups are, after all. If you think Republicans are worse company than people like the Iron Rail Gang, then you’re part of the problem."
put your glasses on stupid! they were described as "members of an anarchist commune " – "anarcho-communists ". there is no such thing as an anarcho-communalist. and where did you pick up the term tea bagger – from watching your slut mother or your homosexual brother? or did your boyfriend teach you? go crawl back under your rock – you slug!
Anyone that denies, impugns or avoids the victims statement is victimizing Alle Bautsch and Joe Brown again; and is little better than those Leftist thugs that did so on that dark New Orleans street.
[...] (Photo from Jindal’s Facebook Page via The Hayride) [...]
Now, if you were involved or knew who was involved or were protecting those who were involved, you would be doing just the opposite. Which, strangely enough, is what you're doing right now. You're shutting down your sites, attempting to erase any footprints leading to you or your organization and hiding the videos of those who attended the rally. You're also lying about the reasons for doing these things.
Basically, acting guilty.
I don't want to believe you're a sniveling little coward. I'd like to believe you're a decent guy who just wants poor people to be able to see a doctor and get an education. Do the right thing and post the videos so the people who did this can be identified and brought to justice. If you keep hiding those videos, you are as guilty as if you broke that girl's leg yourself.
This isn't going away.
[...] Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has remained mute about one of his employees and her date who were viciously attacked by protesters over a week ago in New Orleans’ French Quarter. They were attacked and beaten [...]
[...] Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has remained mute about one of his employees and her date who were viciously attacked by protesters over a week ago in New Orleans’ French Quarter. They were attacked and beaten on [...]
[...] After visiting them in the hospital and hearing the details of the attack, a friend of the victims reported to a local blog that the attackers had yelled: “They’re wearing Palin pins!—let’s get ‘em!” That report, however, has since been contradicted. Still, the political motive for the attack appears likely to all who’ve dug into the issue. And none have dug as deeply and as effectively as Louisiana Hayride. [...]
The French Quarter Fracas: More Clarity, And More Insults…
The French Quarter Fracas: More Clarity, And More Insults…
So far the political aspect of the attack has been played down by the family and police although there was some mention of it in the beginning by the NOPD spokesperson. Yet the apologigists for the perps are automatically dismissing any link to the protestors or empathy for the republican aides injuries and/or situtation.
The anti wealth, anti capitalist rhetoric from the protestors and the perps (as reported-all about money) at least points to some silmilarity or suspicion that the protestors possibly could be involved. You cannot automatically rule out that protestors from "the collectives" were not involved.
The question is why are the apologists diregarding this link? A few possible reasons could be: they themselves are anarchists, accomplices, democrats, or liberals. My guess would be all of the above.
[...] Some of Miller’s photos of the commotion can be seen here. Scenes of the mob and its activity have been well documented on The Hayride. [...]
Judging by how the crowd was acting that night, I don't think it's a huge stretch of the imagination to think that some of those people could have resorted to that kind of violence.
I found this video – note the people who have covered their faces. Why do that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JamlN971AY&fe...
(The update above does mention people going outside and telling the crowd that everyone is gone. This video shows that happening.)
[...] details at The Hayride. The good news is she has made a preliminary ID of her [...]
[...] April 19: A lot of new information has come out regarding the Allee Bautsch attack, and ALL of it supports the position described in this article. Possibly related posts: [...]
Can you please check with the NOPD and confirm they are holding as evidence the wristwatch pictured on the ground near the cop’s foot in the mauling scene photo. Also please check to see if Miss Bautsch retrieved her purse and post your results here, thank you.
I love the logic behind the protest. Since the state's budget is short and there isn't as much money for UNO, we'll disrupt a convention and hurt the New Orleans economy and discourage any other conventions by yelling at the Republicans to go home. That way, with less money available in sales taxes, the state will have even less money to give to higher ed. Retards.
Apparently, her purse was stolen as she was being put into the ambulance — not during the initial attack. I don't think she's gotten it back. Her mother mentioned that in one of the interviews.
Thank you Hayride for the great investigative work. Now please hand deliver this to the NOPD,N.O. District Attorney's Office, State Police and US Attorney Jim Letten and the FBI. Out of all these legal enforcement entities, surely someone will go out and start bringing in these suspects for questioning.
And Governor Jindal, I am a Republican and deeply dissapointed in your response to this crime. You would have done tourism more good by demanding answers and a clean up to the crime than being silent. What would Sarah Palin have done??
Hayride, you have done what others are being paid a salary to do but aren't. Thank you.
Thanks Hayride
[...] photo shows the look of horror on Allee’s face after she was stomped on by the thugs. Via The Hayride: Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg from the beatdown outside to the SRLC dinner at Brennan’s [...]
[...] Why does it take a small blog to point out the news? We don’t have the budget the MSM seems to be using on photo ops at tea party conventions where they can’t even differentiate between a real teaparty activist and someone from Lyndon Louche. On Friday April 9, 2010, GOP official Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown attended a Republican dinner at Brennan’s restaurant in New Orleans. When they left this event the young Republicans were followed from the restaurant by a group of five white men who hurled insults at them calling Allee a “little blond bitch” and calling Joe a “f**king f*ggot.” They savagely beat and stomped on the young Republican couple just blocks from the restaurant. Photo Credit The Hayride: [...]
As a recently retired police detective I know too well the "fudging" departments do to keep the stats down. More, I also know that N.O. has a reputation of corruption and poor professionalism. In fact one fellow officer who came from Louisiana laughed as he explained how the New Orleans Parish had its own set of laws outside that of the rest of the state.
All that said, this is example of how the left wants to keep you off balance by claiming you are violent, while heaping violence on you. If you want to know where they learned this you must read the book Mao's Last Revolution. It should be in your library. I posted a number of excerpts from it on my website www. truthandcommonsense.com.
In addition, you should check out my new novel "REVOLT" (www.revoltthebook.com). In it I talk about a time when the country is under attack by a left wing radical President intent on ruling it. Part of his agenda included creating a civilian defense force made up of unions, gangs and other criminals. What you saw happen here is what that group was designed to do. Keep the civilian population afraid and under control.
Guys, this is only going to get uglier.
[...] http://thehayride.com/2010/04/the-brennans-beatdown-piecing-together-a-story/ [...]
[...] her latest interview with Yahoo News (via The Hayride, h/t Pat Dollard) Berning went a bit further, saying her daughter Bautsch and her daughter’s [...]
[...] The Hayride continues to be on the leading edge of this story, and if you’re interested in it at all, you’ve already been checking their blog for updates. If not, do so now, because there is no longer any question that this was a politically motivated attack. [...]
Louisiana news blog looks at possible assailant of Jindal aide http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercoole...
Hayride – You are doing SUCH an amazing job on this story. I am one of the chickens who have not yet written about this, waiting to see if it was in fact political. Every bone in my body tells me it was, especially after reading all your coverage, and seeing the latest video of the protesters outside the restaurant….(I think I'm going to do something on this after all…)
Keep up the great work, and when this story explodes, you will be the champ!
I hope the two kids are doing ok.
Remember when the missing case of Douglas Schantz was solved by surveillance cameras followed him to the river front? What do the cameras in the Brennan's area tell us?
OK, I covered this.
http://sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/big-e...
[...] of 8:00 AM today, Gernin had made no effort to return McKay’s phone call. McKay posted on his news blog thus: The picture at left, of which we now have several shots, is of an individual who, if he [...]
[...] This photo shows the look of horror on Allee’s face after she was stomped on by the thugs. Via The Hayride: [...]
[...] reluctant to discuss that aspect of the assault. In her latest interview with Yahoo News (via The Hayride, h/t Pat Dollard) Berning went a bit further, saying her daughter Bautsch and her daughter’s [...]
What gets me is that if this had been done to a Democrat it would have had the State Police and the FBI all over if as a HATE crime and been all over CNN, MSMBC. There was language used that the Left love to rally around and call it a hate crime, but if it happens to a Republican it not a hate crime.
Typical of the hoods and ghetto trash that work for the Obama Administration…. New Orleans POD had better work overtime to find these guys before they attack anymore innocent people. You media people are more worried about the Tea Partiers than you are about these kind of thugs or the Black Panthers who are protected by the Obama Administration … sad State of Affairs in America. Hope this poor girl and her boyfriend recover quickly and see justice done t othese punks.
[...] This photo shows the look of horror on Allee’s face after she was stomped on by the thugs. Via The Hayride: [...]
if the beating victims had been democrats coming from a democrat event, you can bet your beehind there would already be FEDERAL CHARGES against the thugs who did this, and we would know them all by their first names, because the MSM would be running this story repeatedly………but oh wait– they were REPUBLICANS, so I'm sorry, that just isn't "newsworthy"………
I will never visit New Orleans.
How many of the protesters are gang members. How many are convicted felons?
Jindal should be ashamed to show his face in public, maybe it's the fear keeping him tongue tied.
As to his aide, she should sue.
So predictable. What a spectacle. No surprise the MSM is not on this. Thank God for the dedication of some bloggers, most notably The Hayride. Sadly, I don't see the higher-profile Conservative blogs following this either. WTF? With the exception of one mention on Fox News, and a few bloggers, have ANY other media sources anywhere been following this? Holy Crap!
Obama Brown Shirts in action and its probably just the beginning,and by Nov comes around elections will need to be canceled
The prima facie absurdity is that these people hate themselves. These people have been on the sidelines for years, until a true Marxist shows up in the White House and now their dream come true. B. Hussein Obama hates America and so do these people and is applying his Marxist theory on government molded in his formative years at college and sitting at services with Rev. Wright. This aligns himself with a non-American and a hate America culture. He wants to destroy the free enterprise system. I say reward the successful and punish the unproductive. The reality is that these disenfranchised people are lazy and do not want to work the system and would rather be handled from cradle to grave. They want to live a champagne lifestyle with someone else to pay for it (the taxpayer). Tea partiers are those who embrace the American system and worked hard and saved all their lives only to have. It is time for revolution and the American people MUST stand up and fight not with our fists but with our brains and Vote in November.
have fun trying to round up people when the comment was never made in the first place…. it would be better to see those lying Congress critters being charged with making false charges instead…. eh what?
I will bet that you… Will K… was the one who attacked Allee, stomping on her leg… you sound just like the person who would use such disgusting language towards a woman.
so you were at the protest…. did you beat up Brown or did you stomp on Allee? It would be one or the other because you are crowing about your own crime.
and since you were obviously one of the perpetrators tell me did you stomp on the girl or were you busy beating up the boyfriend? Or just using that foul language that comes from true guttersnipe anarchists?
and now we have another attacker piping up with the gloating.
The George Soros connection is obvious when it comes to anarchy… Get over yourself….
So which did you attack? Did you stomp on Allee's leg or did you join with the others attacking Brown?
It may take awhile, but the truth will eventually come out. They can run, but they can't hide
They had banners that were obviously racist, reading "Bobby Jindal go home"….
then they have the nerve to make false claims about the TEA movement people – a group made up of Independents, Democrats and Republicans.
If and when arrests are made you'll hear that "anarchists hate all government, so this is not political". These people were anti-Jindal protestors first and foremost. Poltical.
So predictable. What a spectacle. No surprise the MSM is not on this. Thank God for the dedication of some bloggers, most notably The Hayride. Sadly, I don't see the higher-profile Conservative blogs following this either. WTF? With the exception of one mention on Fox News, and a few bloggers, have ANY other media sources anywhere been following this? Holy Crap!
( sorry for the duplicate post )
[...] That’s pretty yucky. But at least one of the prime suspects isn’t a trustafarian neo-hippie dickbag, [...]
Keep digging and keep the pressure on the police. With the election season about to heat up and Democrats screaming racism at every turn, we need to get these evil doers and make an example of them in the courts. Election violence is on the rise and it must be stopped before someone gets killed.
[...] Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and the rest of the MSM and political class to give the New Orleans beating the coverage it [...]
[...] District 93 race. His Facebook page also (at least at one time) found itself friended by infamous Iron Rail Book Collective members Dylan Barr, Joanna Dubinsky and Daniel Mauch – a relationship, however tenuous, which [...]
[...] Thomas and St. Bernard developments and with collaborative efforts with far-left groups like the Iron Rail Book Collective, several of whose members Perry was Facebook friends with as of a month ago, to rebuild Charity [...]
[...] was only the first act. A short time later, fundraiser Allee Butsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown emerged. They were evidently followed and then attacked a few blocks away by at least five people. Both [...]
whats the latest on this story? where are the police on the investigation or has it been covered up already?
Are there any updates? Any arrests?
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