[mdlug-discuss] [Fwd: [Offtopic] Obamanites get violent in support of the agenda]

[Raymond Ingles]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last Saturday, a brick bearing the message "stop the right wing" smashed
> through the window of the Republican Party headquarters in Marion, Ohio.
> An Obama campaign contributor was arrested last week after threatening
> to kill Rep. Cantor and his wife because they are Jews. The registered
> voter in the "Christian militia" arrests turns out to be a Democrat.

 Thanks to Michigan's primary laws, of course, quite a few people
register under a party specifically to vote in that party's primaries
and pick the *weakest* candidate. Party registration is not prima
facie evidence of party affiliation in Michigan.

> Fill in your own incident – the real dangerous political violence in
> America is coming from the Obamanite left.

Well, a simple search can turn up similar cases on the "other side":

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/03/19/993040/brick-thrown-through-window-in.html
"Sometime early this morning, someone threw a brick through the front
window of [U.S. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter's] Pine Avenue office."

 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x449601
 Man rams car with his SUV because the car had an "Obama" bumper sticker.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032402122_pf.html
 "The pitched battle over health care has unleashed a rash of
vandalism and attacks directed at politicians, with at least 10 House
Democrats reporting death threats or incidents of harassment or
vandalism at their district offices over the past week...Over the next
24 hours, thrown bricks shattered the glass doors and windows of party
headquarters from Rochester, N.Y., to Cincinnati. A propane gas line
at the Charlottesville home of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother was
severed Tuesday after a self-identified "tea party" activist posted
what he believed to be the Virginia Democrat's address on a Web site
and urged opponents to "drop by" to convey their opposition to his yes
vote on the health bill."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0406/Let-the-violence-begin-death-threats-against-Sen.-Patty-Murray
"A Washington State man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he
repeatedly threatened to kill US Sen. Patty Murray because of her
support of the recently passed healthcare reform law."

Do we have actual *statistics* on this sort of thing? Or just
anecdotes? I've only seen the latter.

Even then, of course, it's wise to remember Niven's Observation:
"There is no cause so noble it will not attract some kooks."