To: ChinuSFO who wrote (69555 ) 2/18/2010 12:13:42 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to This is not an isolated example.......threats of violence and actual violence are happening all too frequently these days. Its becoming all too common to hear that someone like Mitt Romney got punched on a plane. We are following the same path that Weimar Germany followed on its way to the Third Reich.THE RIGHT'S VIOLENT PROCLIVITIES REAR THEIR UGLY HEAD.... In July and August, it became unnervingly common for far-right activists to use nooses and swastikas to protest ... whatever it is that makes far-right activists so enraged. Lawmakers received death threats. Another was hanged from a noose in effigy in front of his district office. A tea party gathering in Asotin County, Washington turned more than a bit ugly on Saturday when a featured speaker actually called for the hanging of Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash), the fourth ranking Democrat in the Senate and a vulnerable re-election candidate. There's a sense, most notably among some reporters at major news outlets, that angry conservatives are just well-intentioned folks concerned about deficits and taxes. To ignore the extreme, ugly, and borderline-violent undercurrent is to overlook what makes some of these activists so worrisome.
