Posted by: ST on August 10, 2009 at 1:50 pm
And the escalting rhetoric from the left just keeps getting worse and worse:
[Baird] said a “coordinated national effort” to disrupt public meetings with shouts and demonstrations, which he said Republican leaders were “egging on,” was reminiscent of the kinds of things that drove Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
“He believed himself to be a patriot fighting against an oppressive government,” Baird said of McVeigh, whose act killed 168.
Asked for an example of violence in recent demonstrations, Baird said someone warned that Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., might die and that another demonstrator wielded a tombstone bearing a member of Congress’s name.
“It does violence not to the member per se, but it does violence to the process of civic discourse,” Baird said.
Jim Geraghty responds:
Beyond that, yes, death threats are inexcusable and ought to be investigated. The tombstone is stupid, and showing up with a sign depicting your congressman with devil’s horns means you’re showing up with your anger already turned up to eleven. But Nazis, McVeigh, etc. killed people, and certain members of Congress are choosing not to engage with the arguments against their sweeping, untested proposals by insisting that the primary motivation of the opposition is murder.
Of course they are. It’s so much easier to broad brush your opponents rather than give answers that go beyond the misleading and oftentimes untruthful talking points, right?
BTW, speaking of Rep. Miller, ST reader Donna sends along some pictures from a protest concerned citizens took part in in front of Miller’s NC office last Friday. Randy’s Right has more photos and video. Love the “Babs Boxer Rebellion” photos!
Gee, I wonder where all the broad-brushing was when Ayers and company (a.k.a.- Weathermen) were actually bombing and killing? Why weren’t all war protesters painted as such then?
Oh, because it would be unfair to paint everyone against the war as a bomber/killer/terrorist, you say?
Well, duh. As in Duh-1.
Are these the very same Liberals who shouted and yelled, wrote books of lies, insisted Bush lied, & trashed the President at every venue when Bush was in the WH??? If our elected officials are not planning to use this National Health Care program–why should we? It appears to me that the only persons advocating violence here are the community organizers–Union thugs & ACORN.
I think Washington politicans have forgotten who they work for!
And as a Vietnam-era veteran, military widow, and patirot–I resent the comparison!
And Mr. Baird reminds me of a stinky little cockroach scurrying to get out of the light. Kinda like his savior is wanting to do.
Of course, WA politics is filled with his kind of vermin, starting with the Guv.
Since when has the Democratic party every stood for honor, openness, honesty, integrity, a willingness to hear arguments from the other side, etc.??? I’m just waiting for these ‘I’d vote for an actual jackass as long as he’s a Democrat’ die-hard Dems in their late 70′s and 80′s to get a load of what’s coming their way under Obama”CARE”. Passive euthenasia–it’s good for the economy. Sift out the deadwood and continue the indoctrination of the ignorant masses via public education. Besides, free-thinking is overrated and life is for the young indoctrinees.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Racists. Nazis. Teabaggers. Un-American. Fascists. Yada yada yada.
All these clowns have done is wring the last remaining meaning from those words, so that the only remaining definition is “a person who disagrees with me.” What do they do when confronted by actual evil?
Oh, right, they “bear witness.” While simultaneously sucking up to it.
German soldiers in WWII were not in fact necessarily evil, but they were the face of it that was to confront our soldiers.
Likewise, I’m sure the thugs of SEIU, the unions and ACORN are not necessarily evil in and of themselves; they just happen to be the face of it that the likes of the real evil, Pelosi, Reid and Obama (amoung others) hide behind.
Not buying it, Carlos. The “But I vas chust followink orders!” line doesn’t work for a union goon beating up a protestor.
That was my point, Steve. The goons/thugs are just following orders. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are pure evil like our glorious leaders, it just means they aren’t smart enough or moral enough to determine the moral good or evil in a specific set of circumstances when set against the problems of retaining a job so they can pay the mortgage, buy food, etc.
Some, however (and I have met some of this type) really do enjoy the thuggery and should never be let to wander the streets without restraint.