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March 26, 2010

Placing Blame For 'Politically-Inspired Violence'

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The sobering reality about our politically-inspired violence problem and who bares the blame is that when one examines the plethora of examples of hate speech/violence/threats those on the left have aimed at Republicans and conservatives, the left's charges (and those of the left-wing media) are not only clearly refuted, but their motivation and agenda is subsequently exposed.

After providing numerous links documenting that this is indeed the case, Lorie Byrd aptly sums up the situation: [

...] Democrats have seen the pure, raw force of American freedom of expression. They have seen it rise up against them and they are scared spitless. They realize how unpopular they have become and they have to fight back to survive. It is hard to fight back against elderly people with walkers at town hall meetings, and mothers holding infants at tea party rallies, and peaceful, clean cut, tax paying American citizens. So they have to vilify them -- just like they have vilified Republicans all these years. It is just harder to do now that people have cell phone cameras and Twitter and blogs and YouTube and talk radio and Fox News, etc.

I predict this is gonna blow back on them big. Even with the help of those in the media, the reality of what is happening is getting to the people. The little people. And now instead of beating up* on rich Republican politicians, and fat cat CEOs, they are beating up* on the little people who don't give a crap about party or politics. They just want their voices to be heard. They care about their pocketbooks, their childrens' futures, their freedoms and the future of their country. They don't care what letter is behind your name. They want representatives in Washington who will listen to them. Vilifying those people, calling them names (such as teabaggers), questioning their motivations, accusing them of being racists and just generally beating up* on those people, just because they disagree with the Democrat/Obama agenda, is just downright ugly. So much so that not even the MSM will be able to spin it as anything but that. When I think about it in those terms, I begin to understand why the Democrats are doing what they are doing. It doesn't make it any less ugly, but at least it helps me to understand.

*The slang term "beating up on" is not meant as literal, physical violence. It is a term us little people use to refer to any type of abuse, whether it be physical, verbal, etc. I think 99.9999 percent of the people reading this know that, but for the others I just wanted to make that clear.

Looking at only one of the supporting points in Lorie's post, that of Mary Katharine Hamm's Weekly Standard report about violence in the town hall meetings that includes the following bit of information that seems particularly relevant considering this weeks' events, Lorie's points are put into a sobering (for the left) perspective:

One public calendar, compiled by RedState.com, lists more than 400 congressional town hall meetings in the month of August. It's likely not an exhaustive list, but it represents an average of more than 13 live town halls conducted per day in America during the monthlong span. At these meetings, there were fewer than ten documented incidents that could be described as violent, and most of them involved very little physical contact.[...]

In more than 400 events: one slap, one shove, three punches, two signs grabbed, one self-inflicted vandalism incident by a liberal, one unsolved vandalism incident, and one serious assault. Despite the left's insistence on the essentially barbaric nature of Obamacare critics, the video, photographic, and police report evidence is fairly clear in showing that 7 of the 10 incidents were perpetrated by Obama supporters and union members on Obama critics. If you add a phoned death threat to Democrat representative Brad Miller of N.C., from an Obama-care critic, the tally is 7 of 11.

Although Mary Katharine's report is but one example of the many available through links in Lorie's post, there can be little doubt that at the very least, the incidents of violence are on both sides of the political spectrum, and when one takes the time to actually look at the facts, the left is not only the source of the majority of the politically-inspired violence going on in our country, but is carrying it out for the most nefarious of reasons - "beating up" (verbally when not physically) on elderly people with walkers at town hall meetings, and mothers holding infants at tea party rallies, and peaceful, clean cut, tax paying American citizens in order to cover up their gross political errors and socialist agenda.

Posted by Abdul at March 26, 2010 7:43 AM

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