(Crossposted from Red Green And Blue)
The Tea Partiers said “If ballots don’t work, bullets will.”
Today, Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was cut down by a gunman at a “Congress On Your Corner” event at a Tuscon Safeway. Federal Judge John Roll was killed in the same incident, along with a 9-year-old girl. Giffords is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head, but her surgeon is optimistic for her recovery. Nine others are reported injured.
Giffords’ opponent, Kathy Kelly, had a “Get on Target for Victory” fundraiser that involved firing an M16.
Sarah Palin had also “targeted” Gifford, using crosshairs on a map. In response to today’s shooting, Palin posted on Facebook: “My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona.”
Read the full story at our sister blog, Red Green and Blue.
The Tea Party and its members have made it very clear they would use some form of violence to gain what they want.
They are anti environment- have little respect for anything but their own needs. The air can be polluted, the waters filled with mercury, and the atmosphere with C02- and the Tea Party does not care.
Two of my state rep’s were on this list,this pisses me off! Excuse my Lang. This what the TEA PARTY is all about pure hate. I have a family member who is a Tea Party member. She speaks of a revolution! Is this how they plan on taking our country back,by killing children? The posts on our local news are pretty bad,against her. The way I see it is our state voted them into office after they signed the Healthcare bill. She has no right to put a hit on anyone in my state,or any other. Dang I’m mad! What is it gonna take for the Feds to nail the Tea Party,Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for terror threats?
excellent points & questions.
As you so concisely state, “the TEA PARTY is all about pure hate.”
the comments made by Palin, Beck, & the like go beyond opinion and stimulate this sort of thing. it is really crime