Latest nutball debate tactic – smashing windows!
Kristallnacht returns as a right-wing tactic
Democratic offices in at least three states have reported instances of vandalism that party members say possibly were tied to Sunday’s historic vote on health care reform.
Early Monday morning, a glass panel at the Tucson office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, was shattered, spokesman C.J. Karamargin said. It wasn’t clear how the window was shattered, but visitors have to go through a gated courtyard to enter the office, and staffers suspect someone may have shot a pellet gun at the glass, he said…
In upstate New York, two similar incidents were reported before Sunday night’s vote, according to CNN affiliate WHEC. A brick was thrown through the window of the Monroe County Democratic Committee headquarters in Rochester, and another was tossed through a window of Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter’s office in Niagara Falls early Friday…
Another incident was reported earlier in the weekend by the Sedgwick County Democratic Party in Kansas. Party Executive Director Lyndsey Stauble told CNN that a brick with anti-Obama and anti-health care messages was thrown at the headquarters sometime late Friday or early Saturday. Nothing was taken, and no one was injured, she said, adding that a bakery next door called police…
An Alabama-based blog…says it has launched a “window war” against Democrats and has kept a tally of the recent incidents of damage, including the ones in New York and Kansas.
Michael B. Vanderboegh of Pinson, Alabama, told CNN…he called for people to break windows at Democratic headquarters at the city and county level. He said he didn’t call for the damages to congressional offices because, “I didn’t want to be responsible for anybody breaking a federal law…”
“My answer is violence, by getting their attention,” he said, adding, “If we can get across to the other side, that they are within inches of provoking a civil war in this country, then that’s a good thing.”
The most corrupt political vermin gravitate to their own kind. Threats of violence escalate to overt acts of violence – and those who excuse such behavior are as corrupt as the dimwits they encourage.
Regulars here know what contempt I have for so-called anarchists who commit cruel and stupid acts of violence in the name of their purity. The history of American bigots is laced with as much violence and more. Do the bosses of the Republican Party think their reliance on mob threats would result in anything different?
OK. I calmed down a little bit. I watched a useful discussion, last night, among educated adults which included Ed Rollins. I hope his is the opinion, the guidance followed by his fellow Republicans. His description of the people I generally refer to as nutballs – is that they are despicable bigots and deserve no voice whatsoever in American politics.
I wait for Boehner and McConnell, good ol’ boys like Haley Barbour who wants to be president so bad he can taste it – to stand up like men and denounce these prototype Nazis – or will they put their hands in their pants and mumble something about how we all need more understanding?
Because that won’t stop the idiots who repudiate democracy, who would deny people’s right to vote and speak out.
BTW – It took Boehner and McConnell 3 days to stand up on their hind legs and denounce the vandals. Update: 25th March.
Can anyone here recall the last time Republicans lost a major vote and admitted that democracy rules?
The creeps who have taken over the mantle of American conservatism could care less about universal suffrage, equal opportunity or the rule of law.
Power and control is their only commodity – and they expect to be paid well for it.
keaneo
March 23, 2010 at 6:10 am
Are they so ignorant, they don’t understand the meaning of “Kristallnacht“?
A lot of Americans freely gave their lives, so that sort of thing would never happen again.
Don’t these people honor their very own parents, grandparents and great-grandparents?
I’m left hoping this is simply abysmal ignorance.
Cinaedh
March 23, 2010 at 6:38 am
“The most corrupt political vermin gravitate to their own kind”, this is so true.
If Boehner and McConnell do not man up and denounce such actions it will further expose their endorsement birthed thru their motivational acts (lies and provocations) and their ABSENT leadership qualities. I don’t think it is ignorance that can be used as an excuse, I think it is their desire for power, votes and their secret hope that this violence will continue because they think it helps their cause. These elected officials certainly seem not to uphold the law and are clearly not patriots in any way shape manner or form. Their actions or inactions as the case may be are completely deplorable. Yep, it is all about power and control – how to keep it, how to abuse it, and how to manipulate that which is just in an effort regarding personal motives, greed and agenda. Clearly for some Republicans who cannot accept that democracy rules, they remain attached to a credo of my way or no way – bullys whose followers and supporters resort to violence. It’s a scary time in the United States akin to Hitler’s Germany prior to a World War. The entire Republican leadership would do well to man up and denounce this behaviour, immediately. Prove their patriotism at a time that it needs to be proven.
Would a solution that would get their attention possibly be AG Holder now indicting Republican war criminals? Perhaps that sort of action may get the Republican leaderships attention in a way like none other. It is not all right to break the law.
This violence is sickening abhorant and absolutely and completely illegal, threatening, and unacceptable.
Those who do not seek to end it are complicent and should be held accountable.
E Trams
March 24, 2010 at 4:11 am
When I used the word denounce I did not mean some sort of lapsidazical disclaimer (with a wink and grin), I meant make a huge call for an end to such violent activity – a call for prosecution of those who have committed crimes which include such violence.
E Trams
March 24, 2010 at 4:20 am
So, uh, anyone see a statement from Boehner or McConnell about Republican vandalism?
Actually, before the vote, Boehner singled out one Ohio Democrat and said “he’s a dead man!”
keaneo
March 24, 2010 at 6:21 am