Posted on 08/26/2010 9:03:57 AM PDT by Qbert
One of Washington's principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey's FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.
"FreedomWorks and Dick Armey receive dozens of threatening and harassing calls and E-mails each day. Many imply violence and use of weapons," spokesman Adam Brandon tells Whispers. "As we get closer to the election we expect the harassment to increase."
He says that FreedomWorks will hire additional security, meaning less money for its election-eve, get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, campaign. "Unfortunately, we may have to use resources for security guards that we would rather use for GOTV," he said.
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Look for the Union Label
When I watched the vid yesterday.....it made me so angry it almost brought me to tears. I can’t believe how he was treated.
My new bumper sticker!......
TEA-A-PHOBIA...
Nothing to worry about, libs are all about free speach and tolerance. Especially when it comes to porn, violence, and any kind of derangement.
Is this classified as a hate crime?
They want to use the international community’s template on treating Israel on the TEA party. Threaten, commit acts of violence against them, force them to respond and then watch as the entire country (world) condemns the reaction while ignoring the provocation.
“First of all, The DICK ARMY group is NOT the Tea Party. Dick Army is nothing more than a leach who sees the Tea Party as his opportunity to become relevant again. IMO.”
Fair enough- I would view this as “a” group and not “the” group (obviously). Like Gingrich, I think Armey has some insights to offer...and some views with which I completely disagree. I guess, take the good, and discard the rest...
I couldn’t sleep last night.
I kept thinking about that man having survived the National Socialist Workers Party (FASCIST pigs) and for the 2nd time in his life coming face to face with the very same hate. I hope he doesn’t have a hert attack from the shock.
Many imply violence and use of weapons = union label
Oh but these threats don’t count! Normal people are fair game. Hating them is OK is today’s politically correct world.
bump
“The left wants violence.
They might get it.”
I really, really hope things don’t escalate violently because of the deranged left. They project their violent fantasies onto everybody else...which is why they’re so obsessed with talking about violence all the time, and so paranoid about assumed “threats”.
But what am I supposed to say? People are allowed to use reasonable means in self-defense. The law says so.
They truly are deranged individuals. It is a mental disease! I look at them with scorn and derision.
Publish them all, unredacted. I’ll bet not more than ten percent of the senders know how to use anonymizers.
Publish them all, unredacted. I’ll bet not more than ten percent of the senders know how to use anonymizers.
If they start it they will get it. I hope no one on our side starts anything. That would be a huge screwup.
Closer ever closer comes the Social War.
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