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To: longnshort who wrote (165012)	3/25/2010 2:19:52 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) of 173976

House Republicans decry threats against lawmakers Apparently, the GOP leadership thinks it is serious enough to issue calls for calm from their 'constituents' - otherwise known as the raging mob... Good thing we have congressmen like John Lewis, who has been through a tougher wringer of violence and hatred during the Civil Rights era. By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer Jim Abrams, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 51 mins ago WASHINGTON – Republicans took to the House floor Thursday to plead with those who oppose the Democratic health care overhaul to refrain from violence and threats. Opposition to the health care bill that President Barack Obama signed into law Wednesday is "no excuse for bigotry, threats or acts of vandalism and I condemn such things in the strongest possible terms," said Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, the House's third-ranked Republican.Some of the anger spilled over in a flood of threat-filled phone and fax messages to the office of Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich. Stupak vowed to oppose the health care package unless given greater assurance that it would not allow federal funding of elective abortions. He voted in favor after the administration agreed. ... Stupak's office released some of the messages, declining further comment. "I hope you bleed ... (get) cancer and die," one male caller told the congressman between curses. A fax with the title "Defecating on Stupak" carried a picture of a gallows with "Bart (SS) Stupak" on it and a noose attached. It was captioned, "All Baby Killers come to unseemly ends Either by the hand of man or by the hand of God." The vandalism and threats surprised a researcher at a think tank that monitors extremist groups. "I think it is astounding that we are seeing this wave of vigilantism," said Mark Potok of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

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