Posted on 09/03/2022 11:11:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Rep. G.K. Butterfield was proud to be in Congress. Some years ago, the veteran Democrat installed a vanity message on his congressional license plate, broadcasting the district he represents: North Carolina 1.
In recent years, the number of menacing threats against sitting members of Congress has ballooned, forcing the Capitol Police to launch thousands of investigations; prompting a flood of new funding for lawmaker security back home and in Washington; and impelling lawmakers to take remarkable precautions to ensure they don’t become the next target of political violence.
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It’s about time!
Hogwash! Total BS! It’s always the hand wringing, pantywaist dems making this bull shiite up. Keep crying wolf asswipe
rhetoric such as heard during Biden’s rant from the gates of hell have nothing to do with it.
As long as they don’t play in a baseball game they should be fine
It’s been a long time since Congress has functioned as it’s suppose to - the mood of the public overall is they’re fed up with Congressional career fat cats who suck off the taxpayers money with no favorable results to the country or it’s people.
Conressional leaders need to stop looking at the public as a thorn in their side rather that they are suppose to be working FOR us.
It’s only the FBI making the threats. Why are they so upset?
Illegitimate governments always turn into fortress security states.
Damn right! The bastards ought to be looking over their shoulders all the time.
Funny how it’s always against Republican politicians who are accused of targeting Dem’s.
That rant didn’t give the latest examples of MTG being swatted..
Guess it was written before those events.
This is all to SET UP A FALSE FLAG
Like the SWAT raids on Trump and his supporters?
How do they think 70+ million voters feel after Biden’s threats to us all last week, culminating in calling us a “clear and present danger” on Thursday night?
How many have spoken up in Majorie Taylor Greene’s defense after being swatted at home three times in one week.
So, spare me the whines of elected officials who have taxpayer funded, non-stop armed security and fences surrounding them.
Congress forgets it was hired to a job and when they make people mad look out
In a representative republic, government SHOULD fear the people. In a dictatorship, the people fear the government.
Is AOC hiding her head under her desk and wiggling her ass in the air?
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
If lawmakers were afraid you’d think they’d start behaving themselves more
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