{"id":957,"date":"2010-03-24T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2010-03-24T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T09:54:55","slug":"gop-hate-and-violence-on-a-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/gop-hate-and-violence-on-a-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hate and Violence on a Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I wish that this insanity would stop, the GOP continues to encourage and defend their Teabagger storm troopers.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"hate\"<\/a> Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that several Democratic offices around the nation had been vandalized in the days surrounding the House health care vote. Vandals have struck the Tuscon office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the Monroe County Democratic Committee headquarters in upstate New York, Rep. Louise Slaughter\u2019s (D-NY) Niagara Falls office, the Knox County Democratic headquarters in Ohio, and the Sedgwick County Democratic Party headquarters<\/a> in Wichita, KS. The local Rochester ABC affiliate now has more information on the upstate NY vandalism, including an assassination threat<\/a> against the children of lawmakers who voted for health reform: <\/p>\n

No one was inside when the brick was hurled through the Democratic Patry Headquarters on University Avenue. Attached was a note quoting conservative Barry Goldwater: \u201cExremism [sic] in defense of liberty is no vice\u201d.<\/span> […]<\/p>\n

[Rep. Louise] Slaughter has been at the center of the push for reform. Last Thursday she received a chilling recorded message at her campaign office. \u201cAssassinate is the word they used\u2026toward the children of lawmakers who voted yes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI is now investigating.<\/p>\n

Pictures of the note attached to the brick thrown at the Monroe County Democratic Committee headquarters: <\/p>\n

Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars [GOP hatemonger delinked] is taking credit for inspiring the vandalism, saying that he\u2019s urging people to break Democratic offices\u2019 windows<\/a>. He insists that he\u2019s not advocating violence… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Prior Vanderboegh\u2019s bragging admission, GOP pundits claimed that these were isolated incidents.  They were not.  Rachel Maddow covered this story and tied it into other GOP threats of violence.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Even the GOP\u2019s most exalted leaders, such a the tweeting tundra twit, Sarah \u2018Hand Job\u2019 Palin are in on the act.<\/font><\/p>\n

Even before this story broke, Keith Olbermann made it clear that there is nothing random about this GOP push toward domestic terrorism.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Had I not been so indisposed, I would have put up his special comment yesterday.  The GOP is directly responsible for this insanity, because there are too many isolated incidents<\/em> for them to be anything other than a directed pattern.  I admire Keith\u2019s olive branch, but I see little chance that the GOP will acknowledge it, let alone act on it.  Therefore, every Republican in office is one Republican too many.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As much as I wish that this insanity would stop, the GOP continues to encourage and defend their Teabagger storm troopers. Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported that several Democratic offices around the nation had been vandalized in the days surrounding the House health care vote. Vandals have struck the Tuscon office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}