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I can't believe anyone would really take this seriously...(I don't mean the the cutting of the gas grill tubes) I mean your believing the TeaParty is involved.
Nita
I agree with you. The majority of tea partiers aren't violent, and do not advocate violence in any way to affect change. But some members of the Tea Party movement aren't so moderate. Anyone who publishes the personal addresses of their political opponents, hoping to harass those political opponents, is behaving irresponsibly.
Not my point. Here we go with the Nazi comparison again. My point is that disagreeing with something doesn't give anyone the right to threaten anyone else - period. How is the use of fear going help those who are actually trying to rationally make a point?
There are nuts on every side of this issue. Some of them are incredibly dangerous. Really, how many times to we have to see "incidents" which prove this case before we realize that these kinds of actions are getting us nowhere? Here's an idea: Vote. Vote them out - kiss them goodbye...put our "money where our mouths are" and get off the couch on election day.
Attend a meeting, but instead of silently simmering with steam coming out of our ears, and saying "hear hear!" when others stand up and scream, plan ahead and prepare a well-written statement that makes the point (oh, and get over the 9th-grade fear of public speaking while we're at it).
This trainwreck didn't happen the day before yesterday. I'd say it's about high time to pay attention even if what the controversy is doesn't pertain to us personally.
It's no different than a band of "pro-abortion" (or whatever the "politically correct" term for it is now) people picketing and threatening those who speak out against abortion, or those who are "pro-life" threaten (and have murdered) physicians. Sorry, it's hypocritical anyway we slice it.
I know plenty of "tea-partiers" who are perfectly rational people. I also know a variety of rational conservatives and liberals. Most take the time to educate themselves beyond one or two jaded news sources before flying off the handle.
Those I take issue with are the ones who work themselves into such fits of rage (often over things that have been proven to be false in short order) and who feel that they're right and everyone else is wrong.
I think this (if it is indeed true btw) is a good example of a situation where someone failed to educate themselves on the ownership of the very home that was supposedly being targeted.
Excerpt from link:
"The incident is being viewed as an attempted threat to a member of congress, sources said. Two members of the conservative Tea Party groups in Danville and Lynchburg posted the home’s address online Monday, mistakenly believing it belonged to the congressman. The home actually belongs to Bo Perriello, the congressman’s older brother."
The Elephant in the Room: No way to preach tolerance | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/10/2010 (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/83994767.html - broken link)
Apparently the Tea Party is publishing the addresses of Dem lawmakers. Why? Obviously so that some right wing radical can locate and attack the lawmakers, and that is exactly what happened. Only the TP accidentally published the address of a lawmakers brother who consequently had his gas grill tubes cut by a right wing radical/terrorist. That could have led to a fatal explosion if the brother had tried to use the grill.
Is the Tea Party radicals taking this a little too far?
Feel free to open a new thread about your other issue. Prop-8 has absolutely nothing to do with this.
And I don't care is some left wing lunatic used violence in the past. It does not make it OK with RW radicals to use violence today. Anyone who does so needs to be arrested and taken to court. The fact that the RW crowd here defends these criminals says a lot, and the fact that the Republicans have failed to uniformly condemn the crimes says a lot too. There has been several "R"s who have come forward to condemn it, but most of them just say "there are a lot of angry people out there". That is very irresponsible.
"The fact that the RW crowd here defends these criminals says a lot, and the fact that the Republicans have failed to uniformly condemn the crimes says a lot too."
The fact that you have already labeled them as criminals before they have had a fair and impartial trial says even more. Have they been arrested? If so, what are the charges? Was our spitter arrested? NO? Why not? Prove any of these people have done anything illegal. Otherwise it is simply slander.
Get back to me when the left owns its own dysfunction.
"The fact that the RW crowd here defends these criminals says a lot, and the fact that the Republicans have failed to uniformly condemn the crimes says a lot too."
The fact that you have already labeled them as criminals before they have had a fair and impartial trial says even more. Have they been arrested? If so, what are the charges? Was our spitter arrested? NO? Why not? Prove any of these people have done anything illegal. Otherwise it is simply slander.
Get back to me when the left owns its own dysfunction.
As far as I know NOT ONE single poster here has been able to POST any proof of the ALLEGED happenings.
They want to give terrorist rights but want to take away rights of US citizens. Amazing how the left think.
If anything, I can see the idiot Lewis doing the spitting myself.
When will Obama and the DEM CONGRESS ask the left wingers NOT TO BE SO MEAN, HATEFUL, AGGRESSIVE AND STUPID?
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