A thought on health care...

[justicefire]

YOU FUCKING LOST. If it is criminal the courts will repeal it or when the apparent landslide victory for the GOP that will replace all the dems happens the laws can be repealed. Death threats, vandalism, and racist slurs is not how this should proceed. I am venting.
Drew

Comments

[johnbutler]

Who exactly are you venting at, Drew? Is someone threatening you? Vandalizing your property? Calling you a racial slur? If so, by all means, name names.

venting

[justicefire]

I'm venting to my livejournal. I am venting ABOUT a bunch of people who have made some grossly inappropriate responses. I dont see that they have to be doing something directly to me for me to be upset. I think they are bringing an already badly damaged political dialogue down even further.
Drew

Re: venting

[johnbutler]

If it's this non-story you're referring to:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/24/congress.threats/index.html

It amazes me, that in this age of ubiquitous cameraphones with video, I have yet to hear or see any of these alleged incidents documented. We're now three days out, and all I see is allegations, lectures, and admonitions. Not a second of footage of anyone actually doing any of these things. I've no doubt that it is happening (probably not any more than normal) but am just surprised that no one can back up the allegations.

Republicans are used to insults, slurs, and yes, vandalism and death threats. I suppose the difference is the Republicans are more likely to take advantage of their Second Amendment freedoms. I recommend gun ownership to any law-abiding citizen who feels threatened. Leverage that right while you still have it.

Most threats are talk, and all talk is cheap. Some are more than that... Nidal Malik Hasan, for

Re: venting

[justicefire]

So you are contending that because it wasnt recorded it didnt happen?
How about a tea party member who posted the WRONG address of house of rep democrat and the next day the gas lines at that person's house had apparently been severed?

As for the republicans being used to this that is sooo true. After all it's poor downtrodden religious right wing zealots who have gay people yelling slurs at them, abortion clinic workers calling in bomb threats at their Klan rallys, etc.

Drew

[monstermustdie]

Burn it down, burn it ALL down!

[_gothfather_]

When Jim Bunning (R-Ky) was holding up the extension of the jobless benefits a couple weeks ago because (God forbid) he wanted someone to say how it was gonna be paid for, all we got was that he was holding up extension of jobless benefits. Hence, there were a number of threats to him that, along with the poor reporting of his holding up the benefits (i.e. the actual reason), were not reported by the mainstream media. This kinda goes along with the reporting months ago of the Tea Party rallies out west where someone attending was shown with a rifle over their shoulder, and the person's arm ( which turned out to be the arm of a black man) was edited out. Oh, and I almost forgot about the reporter for The Weekly Standard who was knocked down by one o' them Service Employees Union "Purple Shirts" while trying to get comments from Martha Coakley just before her loss to Brown in the Mass. Senate seat special election. Yeah, most unfortunately, there is a lot of inappropriate behavior going on around the political arena these days...

funny

[justicefire]

while both reps and dems were distancing themselves from him I thought "He may be being a dick about it but hes not exactly wrong". Actually everything I saw reported about Bunning reported his stated reason but also pointed out his current situation politically. I think across the board everybody needs to take a chill pill.

[johnbutler]

the reporting months ago of the Tea Party rallies out west where someone attending was shown with a rifle over their shoulder, and the person's arm (which turned out to be the arm of a black man) was edited out

Yeah, you can see the uncropped photo of that guy and his rifle here:

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This brings us back to the surrounding story, which to me personally is rendered all the funnier because it was published at 7:42am this morning, ten and a half hours after my comment on Drew's post from last night. Breitbart is essentially echoing my own original point about so many cameraphones, so little evidence (I somehow actually caught something ahead of a national opinion piece) but ups the ante by offering a bounty for concrete primary-source evidence of racial slurs during the CBC's pathetically staged Selma Moment Invocation. The perps had their own personal cameraphones rolling (watch and believe) and were unable to capture anything, nor were any of the 40,000 people gathered there