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Democratic lawmakers facing death threats after health bill signed
Posted: March 24, 2010, 9:58 AM by Ron Nurwisah
U.S. Politics, health care

A number of Democratic congressman are enraged due to a series of
threats leveled not just at them but also at their families just
days
after the controversial health care bill passed through the House
of
Representatives and was signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter reported that her office was
damaged by
vandals, and received phone calls threatening her children and
grand
children. Similar threats were leveled at Michigan Democrat Bart
Stupak
and Ohio's Steve Driehaus.

From Politico:

Slaughter, a Democrat who chairs the House Rules Committee, said a
caller to her office last week vowed to send snipers to “kill the
children of the members who voted yes.” Her office reported the
call to
police, who were dispatched to provide protection for Slaughter’s
grandchildren. She has also been in touch with the FBI and U.S.
Postal
Service inspectors, who intercepted a letter en route to her home
in
upstate New York.

Stupak, the Michigan Democrat whose last-minute compromise on
abortion guaranteed passage of the bill Sunday, said callers have
left
messages for him saying, “You’re dead; we know where you live; we’ll
get you.”

Rhetoric in the final days and hours of the debate around the
health
care got particularly heated. Texas representative Randy
Neugebauer
received both condemnation and praise after shouting 'baby killer'
allegedly at Democrat Bart Stupak. Neugebauer later said the
insult was
hurled at no one in particular.

Earlier during the weekend, a number of black Congressman reported
that
protesters hurled racial slurs at them. One congressman, civil
rights
leader James Clyburn, claimed that some of the faxes he received
included an image of a noose and racial slurs. Prominent
Massachusetts
Congressman Barney Frank, one of the only openly gay members of
Congress, was the victim of homophobic insults.

Tea Party and GOP leadership has condemned these racial slurs.

From Fox News:

Republican National Chairman Michael Steele and one of the
organizers of Saturday's Tea Party rally strongly condemned the
racial
slurs that some black lawmakers alleged were yelled at them by
some
health care protesters as they headed for a procedural vote at
Capitol
Hill.

"I absolutely think it's isolated," Amy Kremer, the grassroots
coordinator of the Tea Party Express, told Fox News on Sunday.
"It's
disgraceful and the people in this movement won't tolerate it
because
that's not what we're about."

Read mo
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/b...0/03/24/de...-

News nets are now reporting the above, with interviews of a number
of
elected officials who have received threats.

The conservative way...shoot 'em all.

What a country this is.
Has this country been as divided as it is now, since the civil war?
Don't know. Just askin.

What difference does it make if it's better or worse than at some
point
in history.... Why don't you blame the Democrats for it. Instead of
where
it really belongs... racial slurs, spitting on people, death
threats,
actually murdering doctors.

Do you really think that would help? Probably not. The blame game is
a
liberals thing anyway.

The blame game is the fear-based tactics of the right. Have at it.

It seems you have run out of steam. I'll check in with you sometime in
the future. Ta Ta

Newman.

The threats of violence were predictable. The Republican leadership, its
hate-mongering media personalities, and the racist right-wing trash in
the teabaggers movement have been flaming the fires among their moronic
followers.

To quote a great American (Goldwater): "Extremism in defense of
liberty is no vice" and I posit a corollary: "Any defense of tyranny
is a vice".
Attacks on individual freedoms by a majority have no legitimacy
regardless of whether they are blessed by a court or not.

So, then I guess you condemn all the racial slurs, the spitting, and Sarah
Palin targetting in Democrats with cross-hairs and telling her followers to
"reload."

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Nom=de=Plume