Rand Paul assaulted at Kentucky home (UPDATE: 6 broken ribs)

[osan]

I'm pretty sure if I slapped Nancy Pelosi across the face I'd be in jail for a very long time

I'm pretty sure you're on the money.

I'm also pretty sure that if you slapped her like that and I had billions, I'd cover your lawyers fees.

 

[jllundqu]

Found this article and it was very vague but said this:

Bowling Green, KY -
Senator Rand Paul is recovering after a man assaulted the Senator at his Kentucky home on Friday November 3rd.

According to Senator Paul's Press office, "Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault. The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police. Senator Paul is fine.”

Kentucky State Police say the Senator was not transported to the hospital.

Police tell WNKY News 59 year old Rene Boucher of Bowling Green was arrested for the assault.

He's charged with one count of Assault 4th - minor injury. Boucher remains in the Warren County Detention Center.

WNKY has learned that Boucher is the Senator’s neighbor. The FBI believe that the attack was politically motivated.

http://www.wnky.com/story/36764458/senator-paul-assaulted-at-home-in-bowling-green

 

[jct74]

h/t AllahPundit

 

[angelatc]

Muh property rights. Muh NAP

 

[eleganz]

Punishment is gonna be even more harsh for assaulting a sitting senator.

I bet Rand is gonna do something smart like only pressing charges for attacking him as a person and not elected official.

 

[charrob]

Fences make good neighbors.

It appears the dividing line between properties was a small creek where Rand's sons sometimes played:

New Details on Rand Paul Assault: Sneak Attack, Possible Political Dispute

by KASIE HUNT and DARTUNORRO CLARK
NOV 6 2017

Disagreement between Rand Paul and his neighbor over the senator's politics and his property line were possible motives in the Sunday attack that left the Kentucky lawmaker with five broken ribs, a source told NBC News on Monday.

Paul was wearing headphones while mowing his lawn in Bowling Green, Kentucky, when he was attacked from behind by Rene Boucher, 59, on Sunday afternoon, two sources said. Paul suffered five rib fractures, including three displaced fractures.

Paul managed to throw Boucher off of him and they exchange words, sources said.

The two men had not spoken several years and a rift between pair possibly stemmed from Boucher's distaste for Paul's politics, as well as those of his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a source said.

[highlight]Paul and Boucher also had a previous disagreement about a property line involving a creek behind the lawmaker's house where Paul's sons would sometimes play, the source added.
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Boucher's lawyer denied that politics had anything to go with the fight.

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read more:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...eak-attack-possible-political-dispute-n818021

So if the dividing line is the middle of the creek, a fence doesn't seem be applicable to this situation.

What an awful thing to have happen to such a good person. Congress is filled to the brim with corrupt, paid-off awful people and this guy chooses to attack one of the very small handful of people that are there for principle and a general desire to improve this country. I so much hope Rand will heal and these injuries will not come back to haunt him later on in life as chronic pain.

I don't know but then again, I don't believe you particularly help society by locking up individuals for a very long time. It costs money and when they get out, have they become better people or better criminals ?

Most U.S. prisoners are in prison for crimes where they did not physically harm other human beings: in those cases I completely agree with you. If they are not a physical threat, there are better methods of rehabilitating people. But in cases where a human being has actually physically harmed another human being, I disagree with you. They need to keep them away from society and from attacking others, including re-attacking their original victims. If they actually released from prison all of those who are there for reasons not including attacking other people physically, I think the price to taxpayers would come down dramatically; people involved in taking illegal substances, protesting, etc., and even theft where physical altercations were not involved, should not be put in a cage imho.

It's not restitution either, it's pure revenge. So no, let him pay the medical bills, any lost income and a big sum as restitution.

It's not pure revenge. It's taking someone who is dangerous to innocent people away from those people so they cannot be physically harmed.

 

[Identity]

Tolerant, peaceful Left at it again.

 

[tod evans]

Punishment is gonna be even more harsh for assaulting a sitting senator.

I bet Rand is gonna do something smart like only pressing charges for attacking him as a person and not elected official.

I personally hope he doesn't press charges...

Takes a big man to avoid using the vile kourt system....

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Yeah, that's not really my cup of tea. But Boucher seemed to think it was a good option.

In biology, it's not how you play the game. Mother Nature, like honey badger, just don't care. It's whose group can most effectively turn food and resources into children. He who does so, wins the future. It's crush and destroy or be crushed and destroyed.

And there is, of course, far, far more than one way to crush and destroy. But then you knew that. Or did you?

It's not about killing people.... at least not always. It is always about keeping them from having babies, or at minimum from having babies anywhere near you.

Are white people with French ancestry a target group now? I'd better make sure I'm carrying my papers.

No, socialists. Sorry, different thread, that you haven't seen.

Basically, active socialists -- that is, criminals intent on looting property -- should be deported.

Don't make it about race, man! What are you, a racist?

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Tolerant, peaceful Left at it again.

Indeed. So, why do we tolerate them, again?

 

[helmuth_hubener]

h/t AllahPundit

Yeah, right. Fake news. Nice try. [Edit]

 

[Crashland]

Hope to hear more from Rand soon, he must be pretty out of sorts or busy with doctors if he's not chatting up twitter.

 

[Crashland]

Yeah, right. Fake news. Nice try, Jews!

Could you not?

 

[phill4paul]

I personally hope he doesn't press charges...

Takes a big man to avoid using the vile kourt system....

The victim cannot "press charges." Only the prosecuting attorney can, it is up to their discretion and theirs alone, after a "complaint" has been filed. Which evidently it already has. Whether by Rand or, more likely, the police that investigated.

 

[timosman]

The victim cannot "press charges." Only the prosecuting attorney can, it is up to their discretion and theirs alone, after a "complaint" has been filed. Which evidently it already has. Whether by Rand or, more likely, the police that investigated.

You are talking about criminal charges. A civil lawsuit is another matter.

 

[Suzanimal]

According to Robert Wenzel at Target Liberty...

UPDATE 18

Both Capitol Police and the FBI are now investigating the incident.

http://www.targetliberty.com/2017/11/hot-hot-breaking-rand-paul-physically.html

 

[Murray N Rothbard]

I'm sure they HAVE been "sparring over yard waste," or whatever, for years. That can be "politically motivated", too.

'If "XYZ party" transgresses on my property then I shrug it off. But if it's "ABC party" I'm gonna flip out!'

This stupid MSM wants to treat everything in a vacuum, as if nothing interferes with anything else. Of COURSE politics was involved here.

 

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

Well they would say, she's a woman...

Of course that would be a lie, but that's what happens anymore.

Didn't she have a part in They Live ?

SOmeone please know what I am referencing and post the pic up

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I'm sure they HAVE been "sparring over yard waste," or whatever, for years. That can be "politically motivated", too.

'If "XYZ party" transgresses on my property then I shrug it off. But if it's "ABC party" I'm gonna flip out!'

This stupid MSM wants to treat everything in a vacuum, as if nothing interferes with anything else. Of COURSE politics was involved here.

After a decade of demonization by MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, a brainwashed and incited leftist attacks Rand because politics? Ludicrous!

/s

+rep

 

[Krugminator2]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/...rivial-dispute-lawyer-says.html?smid=tw-share

According to Rand's neighbor who spoke to Rand the day after the incident:

“He is still unsure why he was attacked,” Mr. Porter said. “I don’t know if he knows why he was attacked.”

Mr. Paul had just stepped off a riding lawn mower on Friday when Rene Boucher, a retired anesthesiologist who lived next door, charged and tackled him. Because Mr. Paul was wearing sound-muting earmuffs, he did not realize Mr. Boucher was coming, according to one of the Kentucky Republicans and a friend familiar with the altercation.

“Rand never saw him coming or heard him coming,” said the friend, Robert Porter, who visited Mr. Paul on Saturday.

Asked about long-leveled allegations that Mr. Paul had disregarded neighborhood regulations, Mr. Skaggs, who is also a former member of the county Republican Party, said that the senator “certainly believes in stronger property rights than exist in America.”