Rand Paul official campaign co-ordinator tackles, then stomps hard on neck of nonviolent satirical protestor - They knew who she was when they assaulted and battered her.

Here is Rand with Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul campaign official who's endorsement Paul had bragged about in an advertisement just one day before his assault and battery of this humorous protestor.  A man who says it was ok to stomp on the neck and head of young small female nonviolent protestor, because she was trying to attract media attention and because he has "back problems".  He is going to court for assault and battery, but he says "I would her to apologize to me"

The way Rand Paul's political rhetoric treats women (he claims to be a libertarian, but he admits he would vote for a constitutional amendment criminalizing women who have abortions, even if they are 12 years old and their father raped them.

In college as we all know, he and a friend tied up and blindfolded a woman without her explicit permission and tried to force her to take bong hits and pray to Aqua Buddha.

Now an official campaign co-ordinator and a group of other campaign workers have targeted a woman who has been protesting at a number of Rand Paul events as part of the humorous satire campaign "Republicorp" which uses methods very similar to street theater protesters The Yes Men, or for that matter less aggressive but similar to what's done by Daily Show correspondents 4 nights a week.

She showed up at a debate the night before last and tried to hold up a satirical sign "supporting" Rand Paul on behalf of "Republicorp" and tried to get a picture taken near him, in a crowd of supporters and opponents closely surrounding his path into the debate.

Three men identified her, and dived on her, roughly wrestled and tackled her to the ground, where one or two men held her down while another, the campaign co-ordinator Tim Profitt first put his boot on her shoulder, then after a moment while the other held her down, he gave a second stomp directly down on her head and neck, already pressed flat on the sidewalk curb.

This type of move is called a "killing move" in the fighting arts and could easily have caused her death or full body paralysis. Everyone involved is extremely lucky she was not more badly hurt. Even a moderate concussion, as we have learned from the recent wars and new science of football injuries, can have lifelong and devastating impact on the brain.

This is targeted political violence against an unarmed diminutive woman, who the thuggish campaign officials knew was a political prankster and not a threat.
Watch the video reports below and judge for yourself.





Here's victim Lauren Valle's side of the story:

"I have been at a bunch of events before, the previous debate, and the Rand Paul campaign knows me and they have expressed their distaste for my work before. What happened last night was that about five minutes before Rand Paul's car arrived they identified me and my partner, Alex, who was with me. They surrounded me. There was five of them. They motioned to each other and got behind me. My partner Alex heard them say 'We are here to do crowd control we might have to take someone out.'

When Rand Paul's car arrived a couple of them stepped in front of me so I stepped off the curb to get around them to get back out front. At that point they started grabbing for me and I ran all the way around the car with them in pursuit. The footage is after I've run all the way around the car and I'm in front of the car and that is when they took me down. One or two people twisted my arms behind my back and took me down... It was about two-to-three seconds after that that another person stomped on my head. And I lay there for 20 seconds or so and my partner Alex came and got me up and that's the point where there is the media clip of me speaking."

Here's Tim Profitt's side of the story (from Nick Wing at the Huffington Post):

"I don't think it's that big of a deal," Profitt told WKYT. "I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you."

While the victim, Lauren Valle, said Tuesdaythat she believed the campaign workers' violent reaction to her presence there was "premeditated," Profitt told WKYT that he thought Valle was following a strict protocol with the intent of creating controversy.

"She's a professional at what she does," Profitt said, "and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing."

He then blamed the forceful downward motion of his foot on the head of Valle as a function of chronic back pain, a claim he has made before:

"I put my foot on her, and I did push her down at the very end, and I told her to stay down. I actually put my foot on her to -- I couldn't bend over because I have issues with my back," Profitt said

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Political violence is increasing from Tea Party Republican candidates, between Alaska's Joe Miller having a reporter put in handcuffs by his unlicensed and illegal off duty military staffed private security team for 25 minutes because they didn't like the questions he was asking the candidate at a town hall, the endlessly repeated violent rhetoric from their leaders, such as Sarah Palin's reckless incitement to mass political violence in her "don't retreat, reload!" mantra and Sharron Angle's oft repeated statement that if Republicans don't win the election they should resort to "2nd amendment remedies... to the Harry Reid problem" and other such thinly veiled threats of murder and assassination, to the Texas candidate who says violent overthrow of the government is "on the table... in 2010"

When the leaders lead with violent words, the followers follow with violent deeds.
The tea party are for the most part, not Nazis. But when they were campaigning to come to power, this is exactly the type of violent behavior that was used to intimidate others into silence so their genocidal party could seize an unprecedented level of control.

Never again. Get out and vote!