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After Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Saturday, Congressman Danny Davis' (D-IL) office reportedly received a threatening email warning that "Danny Davis is next."
Davis, a Democrat from Chicago's West Side who has represented Illinois's 7th congressional district since 1997, said he would normally ignore a threat such as this, but thought he should take action in light of the recent shooting.
"You know some things are cranks, some things are pranks," Rep. Davis told The Chicago Tribune. "Some things you simply don't know about, but I think in this climate it pays to be as cautionary as one can be."
"I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for."
- Rush Limbaugh, Denver Post, 12-29-95
"Get rid of the guy. Impeach him, censure him, assassinate him."
- Rep. James Hansen (R-UT), talking about President Clinton
"We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs."
- Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), Mother Jones, 08-95
"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
- Ann Coulter, New York Observer, 08-26-02
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
- Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, 02-26-02
"Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the past - I'm not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew how to deal with potential trouble - recognized that the families of objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a crime to be the wife or child of an 'enemy of the people.' The Nazis used the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, 'clan liability.' In Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished 'to the ninth degree': that is, everyone in the offender's own generation would be killed and everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed."
- John Derbyshire, National Review, 02-15-01
"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."
Originally posted by whaaa
www.rawstory.com...
Rush, Beck, Bork, Sean, Coulter, Savage, Levin, Medved, Mancow Hal Turner, ORilley and Ingraham have planted the seeds and now the Rhetoric is bearing fruit.
Originally posted by damwel
They need to be arrested and sited with Inciting a crime. This is way beyond free speech what they have done. Obama is Hitler, Democrats are destroying the country because they want children to have healthcare. It has been ridiculous for years and yes it is coming home to roost finally. How could anyone be surprised when Palin and Bachmann are even telling people to get their guns ready. It needs to be stopped and the first step is to bring some responsibility to those who use these tactics. Jail them.
Originally posted by freedish
Originally posted by whaaa
www.rawstory.com...
Rush, Beck, Bork, Sean, Coulter, Savage, Levin, Medved, Mancow Hal Turner, ORilley and Ingraham have planted the seeds and now the Rhetoric is bearing fruit.
um...what?
Do you have any idea what you're talking about? When did any of these people 'plant a seed'? You sir are deranged. Maybe you like to assassinate dissenters...but 'normal' people don't. Seek help.
I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for."
- Rush Limbaugh, Denver Post, 12-29-95
Originally posted by Plugged
The OP is saying that all of those listed individuals have openly urged others to commit acts of violence. . . .
Originally posted by white_raven
you really think what these politicians/entertainment hosts said are the cause of what happened Saturday?
dude, way off base here, have you looked into the shooters background? at all?
Originally posted by whaaa
reply to post by Erongaricuaro
For the record, I don't believe that Palins poster incited anyone to violence per se; but the implication of violence in press, radio, films, www. from any side does not serve this country well.
Originally posted by white_raven
Ok fair enough, then, what exactly are you trying to say, that politicians in general are inciting violence and people are going through and enacting them?