Danville Tea Party leader Nigel Coleman was one of the activists who posted the home’s address online Monday.I suppose the only thing better then a internet fuckhead is an internet fuckhead without the strength of his convictions.
Coleman said he is "shocked" and "almost speechless" at the possibility that someone would sever the propane line to Perriello’s brother’s house.
"I obviously condemn these actions," he said. "I would hope that people aren’t thinking about doing anything crazy. We just wanted people to get close to the congressman and have their voices heard. Violence is not going to answer anything. I’m a little shocked and amazed."
Coleman added that he is not certain that the incident is related to the posting of the home’s address. "Of course, we don’t know this is a related event," he said.
In other words, they are hardline wingnuts who think the Republican Party has gone squishy. And if the GOP can’t get them to behave, it will be NY-23 — all over the country.posted by octothorpe at 1:03 PM on March 24, 2010 [6 favorites]
"Polls aren't always right, but the Gallup Poll is generally one of the nation's most respected. And a new Gallup Poll released this afternoon finds an immediate and dramatic shift in public opinion toward the newly enacted health-reform law."Hey, Teabaggers! You're a minority. Watcha gonna' do now that we know the "sky isn't falling" and more-and-more Americans are realizing the bullshit lies you and others have been telling have all along been LIES? Fucking morans.
First, contrary to what Coulter seems to suggest in a brief phone interview with Macleans.ca scribe Colby Cosh, it was not the police who "shut it down." I spoke with Ottawa Police Services media relations officer Alain Boucher this morning, and he told me, in no uncertain terms, that it was her security team that made the decision to call off the event. "We gave her options" -- including, he said, to "find a bigger venue" -- but "they opted to cancel ... It's not up to the Ottawa police to make that decision."posted by ericb at 1:44 PM on March 24, 2010 [1 favorite]
"They are less educated but more interested in politics than the average..."There is something very unsettling about that.
"Troxel, a 2005 graduate of Liberty University, added “I was a journalism major in college, so I have every reason to believe my research is accurate.”"Yup. I'm sure the journalism program standards are rigorous at Liberty Crazypants University.
Emphasis ours, because why not emphasize the funniest sentence ever?
symbioid: The antisocial reptilian cortexWhoa, does David Icke know about Metafilter?!
I'm sure the journalism program standards are rigorous at Liberty Crazypants University.
They marched (publicly), organized sit ins (publicly), demonstrated (publicly) and were willing to go to be arrested to make their point.
Bedford County school teachers wore black armbands to class the day after Obama was elected.
"Rep. Jim Moran, a fiery Virginia Democrat, got a visit from tea party activists at his office earlier this week. Aides got between the burly lawmaker and the activists. The activists, according to the congressman, asked whether he needed 'bodyguards' to protect him.posted by ericb at 9:12 AM on March 25, 2010 [10 favorites]
'We’re not protecting him from you,' the aides said, according to Moran. 'We’re protecting you from him.'"
Ronald Reagan did not invent the anti-tax movement whose slogans he co-opted as his own. But he certainly recognized its potency & made great use of its potential. And he appears to have understood that the fundamental premise of the tax revolt, the right’s great perception about the 1960s that still drives that movement to this day, is that we are not ourselves. Government isn’t us, it’s not even about us, it’s about Them.posted by treepour at 9:24 AM on March 25, 2010 [3 favorites]
They are the people who have “invaded” “us.” The hippie commie queers, the blacks who “snuck in” on slave ships, Africans, Asians & Latin Americans who took Emma Lazarus at her word. Ultimately, I think that this is what all this lack of comity is about – one group of Americans (largely tho not entirely white males) look in the mirror & what they see does not look like America, although they may pretend that it does. That other America of difference & diversity has in their view wrested control of the government. Which of course is why everything government does has, for them, become illegitimate. (Tho they would like government, such as the courts, to do whatever it can to preserve their dying stranglehold on power.)
Time will, of course, resolve this precisely because these demographics are headed for change. If the tea-party Mad Hatters think that the socious today looks bizarrely non-white, non-male & non-straight, wait till they look at it circa 2020 or 2050. But between now & then, we can anticipate that this same cluster of conservative – or at least reactionary – values will only get more upset, more hyperbolic, more dislodged from reality, more extreme, and definitely more dangerous. The whole “Obama birth-deniers,” for example, aren’t complaining nearly so much about where the president was or was not born as they are expressing their incomprehension that a man with an African father & who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia could become president. That is the unimaginable & everything else just flows from that.
The threats, potential acts of violence, and violence against those who voted against the health care legislation must be condemned. They are neither helpful to those seeking repeal nor the acts of a civilized society. I comfortably say I speak for all the front page posters here condemning the violence and threats. The people who think this country has descended into the darkness do in fact send us down a dark path themselves with these actions.posted by scalefree at 10:18 AM on March 25, 2010
Clear? Good.
There are a great many Americans who truly believe the Republicans shredded the constitution on Sunday night. I’ve said for weeks I was a bit fearful of what would happen as a result. I sincerely pray we are not on the cusp of some group of angry and now unhinged mob lashing out at congressmen for a vote in the Congress. But something seems to be brewing and I frankly don’t think the Republicans should at all be surprised.
Acts of violence against congressmen for behaving as congressmen are wholly inexcusable. We should be vigilant to police our own side because as we’re already seeing through a series of breathless and inaccurate reports, the press and Republicans are going to be quick to run most any story and the retraction will never be as significant as the initial report.
But let’s not act surprised. The only people surprised by the rage are the ones who refused to venture outside Washington to understand first hand what the voters were actually thinking before congressmen voted.
"He said that a bullet was fired through the window of his office in Richmond, Va., but declined to provide additional details. 'I will not release them because I believe such actions will only encourage more to be sent,' Cantor added."Bullshit excuse.
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