{"id":32717,"date":"2012-11-06T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32717"},"modified":"2012-11-06T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:06:24","slug":"get-out-the-vet-to-face-down-voter-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32717","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Get Out the Vet&#8221; to face down voter intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former special operations troops are going into Philadelphia today to counteract the effect of any Black Panther folks who might be tempted to repeat their performance of the last election there and try to intimidate voters since the Justice Department doesn&#8217;t seem willing to protect voters, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2012\/11\/01\/seal-team-november-6-philadelphia-black-panthers\/\">Philly Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Navy Captain Benjamin Brink is leading the operation. \u201cThe nation saw the video of members of the Black Panthers in Philadelphia intimidating people trying to vote in 2008,\u201d Brink told me when I interviewed him during my radio show on IQ 106.9. \u201cWe are going to try and make certain that nothing like that happens this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brink claims to have over a hundred former Army Rangers, Navy Seal, Delta Force, Green Berets and others who have volunteered for duty. The idea of Navy Seals and Black Panthers getting into it at a Philly polling site gives a whole new incentive for casting a ballot. \u201cOur guys aren\u2019t easily intimidated,\u201d adds Brink.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let the bravado fool you. The mission, according to the Captain, is to observe and report, not to engage. \u201cWe are going to watch for intimidation, videotape it, if possible, and report it to the proper authorities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Philadelphia will be one of the cities where the organization &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/getoutthevet.com\/\">Get Out the Vet<\/a>&#8221; will have poll watchers, they&#8217;ll be spread out across the country. Brink claims that you probably won&#8217;t notice the folks watching your polling place &#8220;These men are trained to be ghosts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Barnabas for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former special operations troops are going into Philadelphia today to counteract the effect of any Black Panther folks who might be tempted to repeat their performance of the last election there and try to intimidate voters since the Justice Department doesn&#8217;t seem willing to protect voters, according to the Philly Post; Former Navy Captain Benjamin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-8vH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}