House members offered more security after vandalism attacks, death threats, Hoyer says

WashingtonPost ^ | 3/24/10 | Philip Rucker and Ann Gerhart

[Kartographer]

At least 10 Democratic members of Congress have been offered increased security attention in the wake of last weekend's health-care vote, House leaders said Wednesday, after some Democrats received death threats and others' congressional offices and Democratic Party campaign offices were vandalized.

At least 10 Democratic members of Congress have been offered increased security attention in the wake of last weekend's health-care vote, House leaders said Wednesday, after some Democrats received death threats and others' congressional offices and Democratic Party campaign offices were vandalized.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

They keep stepping on angry people, they better get used to it.

[TigersEye]

” ... as Steny Hoyer said, ‘Silence is consent.’ “

[sonofagun]

The "Red Guard"?

Gestapo?

Speznaz?

[dforest]

I want proof. I want folks arrested. They need to be forced to put their money where their mouthes are.

[July4]

“I would only condone violence in the most extreme circumstances. I would never condone violence toward worthless pieces of excrement who aren’t work the prison time.”

AGREED! But I can’t resist reminding our Marxist majority that while you don’t need to worry about us, God will not be mocked.

[reader25]

Soon they will criminalize all opposition speech. This is a well documented method for silencing all opposition; and will be applied to those who question the new “Hope and Change” program. Hitler and Stalin did the same thing to silence opposition. Welcome to the United Socialist States of America where your freedoms are dictated by party affiliation.

[jerri]

Gee, they leaked the names of people who received bonuses so that they would be harassed into giving the money back.

Now they are whining about being threatened and harassed for voting socialist BS into law.

[Marty62]

All that security is sure going to cramp their usual habits.

[Reagan69]

Why don’t the Repubs go crying into that meeting and say they are being threatened too.

Tit for tat. We’ve got to start playing their games.

[hattend]

“Hoyer says...”

So you know the charges are true.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Sigh. Well, look on the bright side...it should create about 100 new jobs, or overtime for some. You think THAT’S what Speaker Pelosi meant when she said the Health Care Reform bill would create new jobs?

[ducdriver]

This should be investigated for veracity. Let them produce evidence. Let’s find out exactly who is behind it. Glen Beck had a segment today on making threats, how it’s exactly what the leftist/Communists want us to do. I submit that because we won’t resort to violence, they will manufacture it and try to place the blame on innocent people. I believe that is what they are up to. It’s the leftists who are violent and that’s borne out by their history.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Turning criminals into victims. More Alinsky chit.

[Bigg Red]

Hey, DemocRATS, you lie!

[Lady Jag]

I heard they were calling and threatening each other.

That must be it.

{/s}

[onemiddleamerican]

I posted this on another thread about the poor leftist babies on Capitol Hill, but it fits here, too:

Fox News Radio break on-the-hour mentioned that politicians are worried, and Pelosi and others feel threatened by signs over the weekend showing their faces "inside a gunsite".

Awww. Poor babies.

Poor babies.

Where was the liberal and media outcry over this when it was conservatives who were hanged in effigy, shown on protest signs as dead/decapitated, etc.?

Other side of this SanFranNan constituent's sign:

Another "piece of art" from a Californian:

And that's just a few of the many, that I could find with a quick search.

And here's an oldie but goody article from Patterico, listing many, many instances of hate "free speech" from prominent leftists.

It's not hate speech when it's from the left.

Barney Fag can call conservative protesters "teabaggers" and that's A-OK. But let one person call him a teabagger and it's all-of-a-sudden anti-gay bigotry.

Poor babies.

Poor babies.

[Humble Servant]

We need to remind each other of the importance of denying the enemy the pretext for martial law. That means not doing things without thinking through the consequences just because we can’t control our anger, and FILMING, FILMING, FILMING EVERYTHING WE DO, and broadcasting it. Also, filming everything THEY do, and broadcasting it. It’s going to be a long uphill battle. The media is against us, and this Administration’s objective, I am now certain, is to provoke a pretext for suspending the Constitution. This is going to call for an awful lot of hard, SMART work.

[Thank You Rush]

“”have been offered increased security attention “”

Call me uninformed but I wasn’t aware we provided security to 535 congress critters! I don’t even want to know what costs!

[jerri]

I am not willing to commit violence against my neighbors or their property because of their political beliefs. Is that the wrong attitude to hold?

I have plenty of neighbors and friends that are dims and I would not commit violence against them. I don't condone violence either.

However, our neighbors are not in DC destroying our Constitution. The people in DC are outright sh!*ing on us by doing exactly what we don't want.

[onemiddleamerican]

Ooooh! Did I really say "Barney Fag"?

Shame on me!

Where do I turn myself in for this terrible, terrible crime?