[2ndDivisionVet]

[PapaBear3625]

Part of the email:

Gerhart’s email demands that Branan give the measure a hearing, “or I will make sure you regret not doing it.”

“I will make you the laughing stock of the Senate if I don’t hear that this bill will be heard and passed,” the email said. “We will dig into your past, your family, your associates, and once we start on you there will be no end to it.”

Sounds like First Amendment protected speech to me.

[bigheadfred]

anything to silence dissent

[golux]

“I will make you the laughing stock of the Senate if I don’t hear that this bill will be heard and passed,” the email said. “We will dig into your past, your family, your associates, and once we start on you there will be no end to it.”


Yep, that is a real threat, and it's personal. I received such a threat once, and am grateful I got the police involved. Sorry - but the court is right to rule that if it was sent by the accused, the sender acted criminally (and made a record of it.)

[WildHighlander57]

OK, it would be interesting to see the full text of that email.

If there is nothing overt in there, then they have criminalized our right to petition our government for redress of wrongs.

But, if there IS anything overt in there, then some folks need to cool their jets ....

[RitaOK]

Not a helpful report. What a dunderhead, but acting like a criminal enterprise is gravy for the media dogs and a set back for a near flawless performance by TP.

We’ve beat back outright lies and innuendo perpetrated by the Pelosi styled media. Sadly a bone has been thrown to them. Just, dang.

[Ken H]

Online poll at the link.

Did Sooner Tea Party co-founder go too far with the tone of his email?

No. The email is political speech protected by the First Amendment. (78%, 527 Votes)

Yes. The email was over the top and amounts to blackmail. (22%, 148 Votes)

Total Voters: 675

[AlexW]

I have been expecting this...Obumbo’s war on the true patriotic Americans. He can not have them messing with his turning the USA into the USSA, the new Marxist state.

[VerySadAmerican]

Just warning everyone to back off.

[Renegade]

What’s his crap about voting against HIS will? He is supposed to represent the will of the PEOPLE not his own desires!

[TLI]

The senator told an investigator that Gerhart was in a “Rolodex of crazy people” — not the first time tea party members have been classified in such a manner.

A “Rolodex of crazy people.”

Really?

Who has this "Rolodex of crazy people?"

Who puts a name in it?

Who specifies the classification?

"The senator (Sen. Cliff Branan) told an investigator" is not evidence nor is it proof of any crime.

It is simply someone’s opinion.

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[americas.best.days...]

So “the Chicago way” can only be used by democrats.

We’d better learn to fight as dirty as them, or we’ll get

nowhere. For future reference, probably better to just

implement the threat, not announce it with a paper trail.

[oldbrowser]

Now what did Obama say? If they bring a knife, we bring a gun.
Trumpka : something about smashing us in the mouth?
There have been all kinds of threats against conservatives which were actual attempts to incite violence. And violence has been done against us and nobody seems to mind.

[Let's Roll]

Uh, Sen. Branan, your actions are the intimidating ones. !

[Darren McCarty]

I'll have to see the email in its entirety before I comment.

That aside, if someone went after my family, I'd have to qualms about "taking care of" the situation as soon as the situation is known by any means necessary. Go after me all you want. Family? I'll do what I have to do - and it will never be in the threatening person's favor because now it's personal.

[outofsalt]

HHS has told employers that background checks are discriminatory. The president has obscured his so...

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

We have become a nation of fags.

[VRWC For Truth]

The pen is mightier than the sword. The judge is just protecting the state he gets paid by. The King of England did the same nonsense to colonial Americans. Invest in guillotines, cause there is gonna be great demand.