Think Progress » REPORT: ‘We Will Overthrow The Government’ — Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices »
More and more calls for violence against the government.
More and more calls for violence against the government.
Crying wolf is dangerous because when combined with jingoistic rhetoric, citizens (including law enforcement personnel) take it upon themselves to “fight for their country back.”
From HuffPo:
Philadelphia’s police department is investigating why an officer used his police car’s computer to run a criminal background check on President Barack Obama.
Daily Kos diarist nobody at all examines the number of recommended diaries about the “increasing violence in public discourse” over health care reform being executed ”with the familiar ingredients of violence, ultra-nationalism, misinformation, historical revisionism, racism, corporatism, silencing of dissent, and fear.”
Since members of Congress have been returning home to their districts for the August recess, a consortium of industry-backed right-wing groups have been planning ambushes to harass Democrats for supporting health care reform. ThinkProgress obtained a leaked memo from a volunteer with Tea Party Patriots, a website sponsored by lobbyist-run groupsAmericans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, that details how members should be disrupting town halls and “rattling” Democratic members of Congress.
