Republican candidates for office and media talking heads have been free in their calls for Second Amendment Solutions. While I doubt that the terrorist attack against Raul Grijalva’s office in Tucson was perpetrated by Republican operatives, The Republican Party shares culpability, because their repeated calls for violence, rhetorical or not, prompt individuals unbalanced by fear and hate to action.
White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him Thursday afternoon.
It was not confirmed exactly what substance was mailed to Grijalva’s offices, located at the 800 block of East 22nd Street, NBC affiliate KVOA reported.
A staff member called Tucson Police earlier Thursday after finding an envelope containing the suspicious white powder. The offices were locked down by Tucson Police, and the FBI arrived to assist in the investigation, KVOA said.
An envelope arrived with swastikas drawn on the outside and a white powdery substance on the inside, Adam Sarvana, Grijalva’s spokesman, told the Arizona Daily Star newspaper.
It’s not the first time his office has been the target of threats, the Daily Star said… [emphasis added]
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Grijalva is particularly hated by Republicans, because he is the progressive Democrat who first called for the boycott of Arizona when Jan Brewer signed the unconstitutional racial profiling law against Latinos.
I’ve seen on a recent update that the powder is indeed toxic, but still do not know what it is.
2 Responses to “Raul Grijalva: A Republican 2nd Amendment Solution?”
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The Repubs themselves might as well have put the contents of the envelope in his food. The Teabaggers have readily accepted white supremicist groups into their fold to increase their numbers. This is a very dangerous and highly violatile problem that we have here, spurred on by the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, et. al. 😈
Exactly my point. 🙂