A Republican member of Congress has received a terrorist threat and the man has been arrested. This certainly puts a damper to the Government Run Media theme that being part of the Health Care protest is somehow out of the mainstream or contributing to violence. All those housewives and working men, they might hear MSNBC talk about how somebody screamed “nigger” or “kill em” and, even though none of the slander is corroborated, this tabloid journalism in the name of the Social Democrats is allowed to stand. There’s a cancer afflicting this country called socialism and the media is trying to concentrate on athletes foot to distract. What a shame.
Norman Leboon will be charged with two federal counts: threatening to kill a member of Congress and interfering with his federal duties, and posting video online containing such threats. He is scheduled to appear in federal district court in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon.“Remember Eric at our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given,” according to a transcript of the video in the affidavit. “…You’re an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer’s abomination.” read more
Now remember, the media has also been trying to cast aspersions on this terrorist threat, some going so far as trying to ridicule the victim. Some even called the attack “Hilarious“. Where is the sensitivity? Gone. After all, its just an American being attacked. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see. Move along…
Let’s take a little trip along memory way… Remember the Republican Convention in 2008? You had these left wing nutters throwing bricks through the buses of windows, sending elderly election delegates to the hospital. You had terrorizers throwing sandbags off of highway overpasses. Fortunately, no one was killed.
Can you imagine if Tea Parties were dropping sandbags off overpasses??? How quickly the radicals think we forget. I’ve been to a Republican convention, though not that one. Conservatives would have to undergo a dramatic metamorphosis in clothing, piercing, drug use, costumes and body paint to equal the irrational drama of those crowds.
I think Stupak staged the calls, maybe had guys like Vern make them so they could blame the Conservatives.
Extremism or advocating, inciting violence FROM ANY side is wrong, and it undermines our civil society.
Pointing to one or more examples on either side, does not excuse the other side.
I am concerned, as any citizen should, about the hate and fear mongering of certain groups (no matter from which side).
Two local examples come to mind:
CCIR; and Barbara Coe.
1) Barbara Coe – identified as a racial white supremacist:
Mr. Jim Gilchrist, the Founder & President of the Minutemen Project wrote an “Open Letter” as part of a comment to an article, stating that based on his experience CCIR, Barbara Coe, and others were “white supremacist racists”. Post seems very legitimate.
1A) Please see section 3, (post dated 3/15/2010 8:47 PM.)
http://www.ocregister.com/news/census-239006-immigration-reform.html
posted under “minutemanproject”.
1B) and the Southern Poverty Law Center – SPLC (which tracks race and hate identified groups)
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/california-coalition-for-immigration-reform
2) I also suggest looking up SPLC’s Hate Watch site, because there are several hate identified groups in OC.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=CA
Francisco Barragan
Orange County
Of course, anyone with eyes and a brain knows that I was ridiculing Cantor’s claim last week that somebody “shot a bullet through his window.” That claim is still hilarious, if you want to see why, click on my story:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2010/03/the-hilarious-anti-semitic-assault-on-eric-cantor/
Shortly after that, some deranged person called Norman Leboon threatened on YouTube to kill Cantor (in other videos he has threatened Obama and Biden, even though he apparently contributed to their campaign.) The FBI has apprehended him. This is not hilarious.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/man-threatened-to-kill-cantor-in-youtube-video.php
The authorities have not made a connection between the Leboon video and the bullet that landed in Cantor’s Richmond campaign office early in the morning last Tuesday after what police described as an act of random gunfire.
That incident occurred the day before Leboon allegedly made the video. Cantor described the bullet incident in a press conference Thursday, March 25.
But of course Terry’s main stock in trade is obfuscation. See more:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2010/03/the-crowley-peewee-dodge/
PS. Half of what made it hilarious last week was Crowley (alone among propagandists) calling the whole thing “anti-Semitic” just because Cantor is Jewish. Almost forgot about that!
PPS meet Leboon. I suppose he comports with Crowley and middleground’s conception of a leftist. He’s a full-on lunatic. This is the video where he threatens Obama & other Dems:
We’ll see, as facts come out, I doubt he was anywhere near Virginia last Tuesday morning. That shot was fired straight up in the air from a nearby neighborhood, according to the police’s ballistic experts. I will go this far though: after that random gunshot, and then getting this video, Cantor may have actually conflated them and been legitimately worried.
Let’s take a little trip along memory way… Remember the Republican Convention in 2008? You had these left wing nutters throwing bricks through the buses of windows, sending elderly election delegates to the hospital. You had terrorizers throwing sandbags off of highway overpasses. Fortunately, no one was killed.
remember? i doubt it. lib history only goes as far back as last sunday’s nyt.
i remember it though. and anyone that says the left is tolerant is FOS. they happen the be the most intolerant group of people you’ll ever meet. many are psychotic.
Can you imagine if Tea Parties were dropping sandbags off overpasses??? How quickly the radicals think we forget. I’ve been to a Republican convention, though not that one. Conservatives would have to undergo a dramatic metamorphosis in clothing, piercing, drug use, costumes and body paint to equal the irrational drama of those crowds.
the really sad thing is that these “people” are allowed to vote.
Hey middleground,
There are psychotic, intolerant a**holes on BOTH sides of the political aisle. This kind of “your side is worse” stance, regardless of who it emanates from, is really quite adolescent. Grow up.
Leboon is certifiable, he should be locked up for a real long time.
Everyone will be safer with him off the street. Cantor, Obama, China and the world in general.
Cantor’s other incident is still under investigation I would assume. I suspect it may have been someone shooting up in the air for fun or something like that, but let’s wait and see, if it was on purpose then that person should be locked up for a long time also.
I cannot condon actions of violence and threats from either side of the asile and punishments should be equal.
This should not be a contest where your nuts are bigger than ours nuts. I thought we left that behind in grade school