Politics & Government

La Rouche Activists Try to Stir Up Locals' Political Views

Members of the La Rouche Political Action Committee could be seen near both Bristol and Warren's Post Office on Tuesday.

Two members from the La Rouche Political Action Committee camped out across the street from the Bristol and Warren Post Offices on Tuesday to spread a message. 

"Let's get this dic-tator out of the white house," activist Frank Mathis yelled to passing vehicles and people who walked in an out of the post office. 

Mathis says the group is mobilizing a mass movement accross the nation for people who are angry, but not violent, about the way the country is being run. But some locals who disagreed with the campaign's sidewalk sign depicting President Barack Obama with an Adolf Hitler mustache, were anything but peaceful.

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"What is this? This is pathetic," one man said as he walked by and kicked the sidewalk sign across the parking lot. After running his errands, the man returned again to pick up the sign, carry it a few feet and throw it across the parking lot. 

Mathis retrieved the sign and returned it to an upright position and continued trying to flag cars down. 

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"People have nothing else to do but to come over and do things like that," he said. "It's inconsequential. It's an outlet to get angry."

But the man who threw the sign and drivers who passed by and yelled profanities and things like "you should be ashamed of yourselves!" won't deter Mathis from coming back to spread his belief. 

"This isn't our first time in Warren, and it won't be our last," he said. "It's interesting because Warren is like 50/50. Walkers and drivers around here all want to talk, whether it's because they agree with us or not. And if they don't agree, we just let them rant, but at least they are talking."


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