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Did Romney Impersonate a Police Officer?
Thursday, July 5, 2012 6:55 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote: In another questionable display of his inner prankster, it now appears that Romney was also reportedly fascinated with police uniforms, which he sometimes put on to carry out elaborate practical jokes. According to a report from National Memo, Romney was open about this practice, telling fellow students at Stanford University, where he studied for two years, that he "sometimes disguised himself as a police officer." According to classmate Robin Madden, Romney once brought a group of classmates up to his dorm room where he showed them his Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.
Thursday, July 5, 2012 7:36 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: Mitt Romney loves Police unfiorms. Michigan State Police Uniform is his favorite. Mitt's favorite thing to do was dress up as a police officer when he wasn't bullying kids. Romney used to attatch a light to his silver Rambler and routinely pulled people over. Mitt Romney doesn't feel the same about military uniforms apparently, he avoided the draft on 4 separate occasions. Two eye witnesses give their accounts in the "National Memo" and Associated Press. In Michigan this is a felony, just one of the many felonies Mitt Romney has been accused of but arguably the most bizarre felony he has committed or been accused of committing to date. http://www.rollitup.org/politics/534498-college-mitt-romney-would-dress.html according to some, it wasn't just cop uniforms he liked:Quote:According to The Daily Caller report, a teenaged Mitt Romney dressed in what a witness called “gangland fashion,” and pretended to rob the Princeton Prep Shoppe in Birmingham, Michigan. The four teens wore “trench coats with turned-up collars and wide-brimmed fedoras,” [store owner Ben Shaw] told The Daily Caller in an interview. The pretend gangsters made a beeline for the storefront. One knocked the door open while two others “stood menacingly with their hands in their pockets.” Shaw instantly pegged the fourth member of the team as Romney. The boy “shoved his way in,” he said, wielding a toy Tommy gun. “This is a stick-up,” Shaw recalls Romney saying, adding that he “proceeded to ‘spray’ the entire store as sparks from the toy flew from the muzzle.” In the blink of an eye, the pranksters jumped into their getaway car and sped away. Shaw also recalled another prank, in which Romney appeared at his store late at night — dressed “in full Bloomfield Township fireman’s regalia.”Quote:“He had on the waterproof cape, the fire helmet, and he was carrying a bona fide fire ax,” Shaw told TheDC, and barged into the store screaming, “Where’s the fire? Where’s the fire?” The costumed Romney paraded through the store — all the while yelling about a nonexistent fire while swinging the ax over his head — and walked out the unlocked front door. And as quickly as he had barged in, he vanished.Romney claimed that he got his Michigan State Trooper’s uniform from his father; while The Daily Caller story gives no indication of how he received the fireman’s uniform, it seems likely that the Governor of Michigan provided it for him as well. When asked to comment by The Daily Caller, a Romney campaign spokesperson did not dispute the stories — but claimed that Romney was not armed with a toy Tommy gun in the first incident, and that he carried a fire hose instead of an axe in the second. Shaw claims that one of his employees responded to the stick-up by labeling Mitt as “a crazy goofball.” Given Romney’s pattern of playing dress-up and his well-documented “prank” on a gay classmate at the Cranbrook School, however, his former Stanford classmate Robin Madden’s reaction of “Wow, that’s pretty creepy” seems more appropriate. http://www.nationalmemo.com/not-just-a-cop-mitt-pulled-pranks-dressed-as-fireman-mobster/. Also:Quote:Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.AND apparently his harrassment of the gay student isn't the only occasion he showed he knew some of his clssmates were gay:Quote:Friedemann and several people closest to Romney in those formative years say there was a sharp edge to him. In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!” Teachers were also the butt of Romney’s brand of humor. One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, ws nicknamed “the Bat” for his diminished eyesight. As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of life’s indignities.More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html repeat: They want this prankster for Prez, eh?
Quote:According to The Daily Caller report, a teenaged Mitt Romney dressed in what a witness called “gangland fashion,” and pretended to rob the Princeton Prep Shoppe in Birmingham, Michigan. The four teens wore “trench coats with turned-up collars and wide-brimmed fedoras,” [store owner Ben Shaw] told The Daily Caller in an interview. The pretend gangsters made a beeline for the storefront. One knocked the door open while two others “stood menacingly with their hands in their pockets.” Shaw instantly pegged the fourth member of the team as Romney. The boy “shoved his way in,” he said, wielding a toy Tommy gun. “This is a stick-up,” Shaw recalls Romney saying, adding that he “proceeded to ‘spray’ the entire store as sparks from the toy flew from the muzzle.” In the blink of an eye, the pranksters jumped into their getaway car and sped away. Shaw also recalled another prank, in which Romney appeared at his store late at night — dressed “in full Bloomfield Township fireman’s regalia.”Quote:“He had on the waterproof cape, the fire helmet, and he was carrying a bona fide fire ax,” Shaw told TheDC, and barged into the store screaming, “Where’s the fire? Where’s the fire?” The costumed Romney paraded through the store — all the while yelling about a nonexistent fire while swinging the ax over his head — and walked out the unlocked front door. And as quickly as he had barged in, he vanished.Romney claimed that he got his Michigan State Trooper’s uniform from his father; while The Daily Caller story gives no indication of how he received the fireman’s uniform, it seems likely that the Governor of Michigan provided it for him as well. When asked to comment by The Daily Caller, a Romney campaign spokesperson did not dispute the stories — but claimed that Romney was not armed with a toy Tommy gun in the first incident, and that he carried a fire hose instead of an axe in the second. Shaw claims that one of his employees responded to the stick-up by labeling Mitt as “a crazy goofball.” Given Romney’s pattern of playing dress-up and his well-documented “prank” on a gay classmate at the Cranbrook School, however, his former Stanford classmate Robin Madden’s reaction of “Wow, that’s pretty creepy” seems more appropriate. http://www.nationalmemo.com/not-just-a-cop-mitt-pulled-pranks-dressed-as-fireman-mobster/. Also:Quote:Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.AND apparently his harrassment of the gay student isn't the only occasion he showed he knew some of his clssmates were gay:Quote:Friedemann and several people closest to Romney in those formative years say there was a sharp edge to him. In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!” Teachers were also the butt of Romney’s brand of humor. One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, ws nicknamed “the Bat” for his diminished eyesight. As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of life’s indignities.More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html repeat: They want this prankster for Prez, eh?
Quote:“He had on the waterproof cape, the fire helmet, and he was carrying a bona fide fire ax,” Shaw told TheDC, and barged into the store screaming, “Where’s the fire? Where’s the fire?” The costumed Romney paraded through the store — all the while yelling about a nonexistent fire while swinging the ax over his head — and walked out the unlocked front door. And as quickly as he had barged in, he vanished.
Quote:Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. In The Real Romney, a biography published by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman this year, another former friend recalled how Romney had “put a siren on top of his car and chased two of his friends who were driving around with their dates.” The two friends were in on the scheme, but the girls were not. There was beer in the car trunk, according to a prearranged plan. Mitt told his two counterparts to get out of their vehicle and into his car. Then they drove off, leaving the girls behind.
Quote:Friedemann and several people closest to Romney in those formative years say there was a sharp edge to him. In an English class, Gary Hummel, who was a closeted gay student at the time, recalled that his efforts to speak out in class were punctuated with Romney shouting, “Atta girl!” Teachers were also the butt of Romney’s brand of humor. One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, ws nicknamed “the Bat” for his diminished eyesight. As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of life’s indignities.More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html repeat: They want this prankster for Prez, eh?
Thursday, July 5, 2012 7:49 AM
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