Posted on 07/27/2018 10:22:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
Republican Rep. Jason Lewis told Fox News he has contacted the police over threats to him and even his daughters in the wake of reports about controversial statements he made as a radio show host.
"It was serious enough for my office to alert the Capitol Police," Lewis told Fox News.
The Minnesota congressman said his daughters were threatened in sick messages received by his office. It marks the latest in a wave of threats against not just Republican lawmakers themselves but their families.
Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., also revealed threats against his daughters this month, telling Todd Starnes that some of the stuff that has been said has been quite sick and the number of threats has increased dramatically since the last election.
Total reported threats against congressmen doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to the House Sergeant at Arms.
In Florida last month, a man was arrested after allegedly telling the staffers of Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., that, if you are going to separate kids at the border, Im going to kill his kids." The arrested man reportedly had called the congressman's office 478 times.
Agency heads' families are another target. In June, a man was arrested and charged for threatening to kill FCC commissioner Ajit Pai's family after he ended "net neutrality" regulations. "I will find your children and I will kill them," a man wrote.
The threats against Lewis came after multiple CNN reports about comments Lewis made while a radio show host, in particular comments he made in 2012 in response to Rush Limbaugh calling activist Sandra Fluke a "slut."...
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Precisely. The ANTIFA ARE the fascists. Yet they pretend we are.
Keep your powder dry.
Arrest those who threaten our elected officials from governors to congress people and President Trump and Vice President Pence.
Try them in court and send them to jail for about 20 years after they are found guilty.
Then, send them to a federal prison hellhole for twenty years without any parole.
I really liked Jason Lewis when he filled in for Rush. He was nearly as good as Rush.
I agree...Arrest, prosecute and when found guilty give them max sentences in a fed slammer and make them serve the entire sentence.
That should serve as a deterrent to other nutjobs as well as the ones locked up.
I’m a student of the events that led up to Hitler’s reign. I’ve watched a lot of films of the Brown Shirts, as a minority group, acting out. They look just like the recordings we see of the left acting out, except they are in blurry black and white.
I see these people for who they are and, collectively, they are very dangerous. And their leadership wants to take away our guns. Go figure.
Republicans have already been injured even before all this latest nutjobbery, at their practice for a softball game. Steve Scalise is still living with the aftermath.
If that could happen even before the likes of Maxipad Waters started calling for the harassment of her own colleagues, just think how much worse will happen now.
I believe when we start to fight back a little bit it will end quickly. Of course, the media will portray ANY pushback as racist, homophobic, whatever. We have to get over being called names. “Taking the high road” does not have an effect on our enemy other than to encourage their childish behaviour.
So have I. It was Ernst Rhom and his ilk beating up and killing those who disagree with national socialism. Once Hitler was completely in charge
he had Rohm and the leaders of the SA killed in the night of the long by knives. Hitler did this to get the Wehrmacht on his side. Then the SS took over the role the SA had
Are you familiar with the after school special that aired around 1980 called “The Wave”?
I know of it. Cant say I remember seeing it.
It’s on youtube now. It’s less than an hour and blurry. I saw it during its original broadcast and it was one of the most thought provoking things I’d ever experienced. It opened my mind to just exactly how such a thing as Nazi Germany could happen. It helped that by then I’d already been reading a lot regarding what actually DID happen, filling in blanks the show didn’t discuss.
I'm afraid CWII is coming.
I'm an old man. Maybe the Lord will take me before it starts. I'll have a ringside seat from upstairs :)
I am at the point where the only way that the media can be dealt with is to burn it down and start all over again.
The monster who shot up Republicans at the charity softball practice wasn’t even an extremist.. He was an average run-of-the-mill Democrat.
The more America Wins, the more Dangerous they get!
He was a local guy in Charlotte for some time. I always listened whenever I could.
RCO comes to mind.
If any violence comes to any politician of their family Maxine Waters should be charged with collusion at the least!
Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER!!
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