House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that officials from the FBI and Capitol Police briefed Democrats on how to handle perceived security threats.
Hoyer said at least 10 lawmakers who feel that they are at risk of harm are getting attention from the proper authorities.
"Tea Party organizer" posted what he thought was Tom Perriello's (D-VA)home address, encouraging people to harass the lawmaker at home. The address ended up being the home of Perriello's brother's family, but the activist, Mike Troxel, took it in stride, saying, “I was a journalism major in college, so I have every reason to believe my research is accurate.” Laugh if you want, but this is precisely how the "journalism" works, circa 2010.
CBS News reported: "Congressman Stupak, you baby-killing mother f***er... I hope you bleed out your a**, got cancer and die, you mother f***er," one man says in a message to Stupak.
"There are millions of people across the country who wish you ill," a woman says in a voicemail, "and all of those thoughts that are projected on you will materialize into something that's not very good for you."
Health Care Reform opponents reacted with dignity and maturity by calling for a fatwa on socialist windowpanes. The call went out from some "militia leader" named Mike Vanderboegh, who said: "“We can break their windows...Break them NOW. And if we do a proper job, if we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democrat party headquarters across this country, we might just wake up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.”
Station WHAM (Rochester, Niagara Falls) reported: "Last Thursday [Louise Slaughter (D-NY)] received a chilling recorded message at her campaign office. 'Assassinate is the word they used…toward the children of lawmakers who voted yes.'"
Representative Louis Gohmert (R-Tex.) was apparently disturbed enough by this past weekend's events that he decided to call for the repeal of the 17th Amendment and return to state legislatures the right to appoint Senators.
Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyom.) got a little bit ahead of himself when he accused Representative Jim Matheson (D-Utah) of casting his vote for health care reform in return for his brother Scott Matheson getting appointed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The only problem with Barrasso's logic is that Representative Matheson voted against health care reform.
Wiley Drake, a pastor from Orange County sent an email out to his parishoners "telling them that all 219 Democrats have been placed on the “imprecatory prayer list.” That means that these churchgoing folks will be asking for God to kill those who voted for the reform package, in accordance with Psalm 109, which reads, "May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership...May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
Sarah Palin has suggested targeting Democrats in swing districts. Her map of the U.S. is decorated with crosshairs as to where those districts are.
A Twitter post on Sunday,by a Solly Forrell became internet famous for tweeting: "ASSASSINATION America, we survived the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. We'll surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head." He followed that up with "The next #American with a #clear #shot should drop #Obama like a bad habit."
A series of tweets by Jay Martin lead off with 11 F-Yous followed by "You should be assassinated @ Barack Obama" and other posts, as noted by Gawker: http://gawker.com/5498712/meet-the-obama-death-tweeter-who-will-be-arrested-today
A series of tweets by Jay Martin lead off with 11 F-Yous followed by "You should be assassinated @ Barack Obama" and other posts, as noted by Gawker: http://gawker.com/5498712/meet-the-obama-death-tweeter-who-will-be-arrested-today
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