[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

[Reggie Holmquist]

Your faulty argument is based on the false premise that there is an equal
amount of hate speech and violence coming from both sides.  Please consider
this short list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false equivalency.

-Reggie

*July 27, 2008*—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive
church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it “a symbolic
killing<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>”
because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate & House, the
100 people in Bernard Goldberg's
book<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>,”
but was unable to gain access to them.

*September 18, 2008*—Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of *District
of Columbia v. Heller*, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding
firearm-related legislation. Heller’s written, submitted testimony states,
in part: "‘We the people,’ armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the
Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is
the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED
CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our individual
neighborhoods<http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/HELLER%20TESTIMONY%209-18-08.pdf>
.”

*September 22, 2008*—The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama
website <http://www.gunbanobama.com/>, which predicts that Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama, “if elected…would be the most anti-gun
president in American
history<http://www.gunbanobama.com/Default.aspx?NavGuid=99ac1df3-2e0b-454c-a039-dffd66849533>.”
The
website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit Obama.

*December 9, 2008*—FBI teams investigating the murder of white supremacist
James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find supplies for a crude
radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives in his home. Cumming's
wife, who shot him to death after being abused by him repeatedly, explains,
"His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to
kill President Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our
moter home <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>
."
*
**February 5, 2009*—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on
Fox called “We Surround Them <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKUfmFL3Cs>,”
a “grassroots effort to wake up our Nation's leaders and let them know what
many, if not most, Americans truly believe in and stand for.”

*February 20, 2009*—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a
2014 civil war scenario called “The Bubba
Effect<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8La5xLYo2-s>.” It
involves citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the
U.S. government.

*March 3, 2009*— FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity
spokesman Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, “Somebody
asked me this morning, they said, ‘you really believe that there's going to
be trouble in the future?’ And I said, ‘if this country starts to spiral out
of control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really
starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a
totalitarian country … Americans will, they just, they won't stand for
it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.’ And they said,
‘where's that going to come from?’ And I said, ‘Texas, it's going to come
from Texas <http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>.’”

*March 9, 2009*—NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial
published at WorldNetDaily:  “How much more will Americans take? When will
enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen
or will history need to record a second American
Revolution?<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103>
”

*March 11, 2009*—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative
Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers
understood that the guys with the guns make the
rules<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAWQ-TMF3I>
.”

*March 21-22, 2009*—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she
wants residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the
energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a
revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people—we the
people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our
country<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html>
.”

*April 4, 2009*—Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police
officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend
Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban
that’s on its way<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>”
and “didn’t like our rights being infringed
upon<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>.”
Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if
anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna’ stand by what his
forefathers told him to do <http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001115/>.”

*April 7, 2009*—The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence
and Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United
States. The Department notes that “the economic downturn and the election of
the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing
radicalization and recruitment <http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>.”
Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, the Department
speculates, “The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the
return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into
their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups
or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent
attacks<http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>
.”

*April 15, 2009*—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after
he openly states on Twitter <http://twitter.com/citizenquasar> that he is
going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City “Tea Party” into a bloodbath. Two
months earlier, Hayden had written online, “The only thing that is keeping
the New World Order from destroying this nation is the presence of over
100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns are outlawed, only criminals
will have guns. Since we are already criminals in the eyes of the New World
Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and to kill those of us who will
NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE gun "laws" and keep your guns
(AND ammo) handy<http://www.jackbloodforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=22193&p=123690#p123690>
.”

*April 19, 2009*—The Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/>, an
anti-government group made up of current and former law enforcement and
military personnel, holds its first "muster" in Lexington, Massachusetts,
the site of the opening shots of the Revolutionary War. The groups' members
pledge to disobey ten different orders that they deem
"unconstitutional<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>"
and "immoral<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>,"
the first of which reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American
people<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>
."

*April 25, 2009*—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National
Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to
arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing
gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely
disturbed<http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwright-16963-elizabeth-deputies.html>"
that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward
Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia groups and weapons
training <http://cbs2.com/national/police.shooting.sheriffs.2.995014.html>."

*May 2009*—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats
to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the past
six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in
2008<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402931.html>.
Federal officials blame a number of parties, including the "sovereign
citizen" movement—an unorganized grouping of tax protesters, white
supremacists, and others who don't respect federal authority.

*May 21-22, 2009*—We The People
<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a
gathering of 30 "freedom keepers" in Jekyll
Island, Georgia. The meeting plays "a key role in launching the current
resurgence of militias and the larger anti-government 'Patriot'
movement<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>."
One of the participants, former Texas militia leader Jon Roland, claims the
federal government has "been engaging in warlike activity against the
American people<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>
."

*May 31, 2009*—Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an
abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,
Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical
anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka,
Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate.  Police found a
military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound
can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car.

*June 3, 2009*—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
blogger/radio host, is arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling
for the deaths of two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they
sponsored a bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman
Catholic parishes from priests and bishops to lay members.  “While filing a
lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle
things<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>,”
he wrote, “we at TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a
group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach.  It's too soft.
 Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve
tyranny: The Second Amendment.  TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take
up arms and put down this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police
department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I
suspect we have enough bullets to put them down,
too<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>
.”

*June 10, 2009*—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a “hardcore
Neo-Nazi <http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/dc.museum.shooting.suspect/>,”
walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and shoots
and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western civilization was
going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI
GOVERNMENT<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>”
that would “confiscate private
weapons<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>”
in order to accomplish its goals.*
*
*June 24, 2009*—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three
Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had
issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing
on his blog, Turner says, “Let me be the first to say this plainly: these
judges deserve to be
killed<http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/06/hate_blogger_hal_turner_arrest.html>,”
and includes photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers of
the judges, as well as a map of Chicago’s federal courthouse which points
out its “anti-truck bomb” pylons.

*July 13, 2009*—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,
Texas, with an assault rifle
<http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7db_1247676436>. Police
were responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at utility
workers in the area. Police searching Ortez’s mobile home after a 10-hour
standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi drawings and extremist
literature; and several additional firearms.*

July 15, 2009*—Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia
House of Delegates in the state’s 99th District makes headlines by calling
on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the country.
 Appearing at a “Tea Party” rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick
Henry and then states, “We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot
box before we have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our
Second Amendment right.  I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of
firearms for hunting.  But make no mistake.  That was not the intent of the
Founding Fathers.  Our Second Amendment right was to guard against
tyranny<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604070.html>.”
 This thought is reinforced on Crabill’s campaign website, where she states
the Second Amendment “was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and
more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed
citizenry<http://www.catherinecrabill.com/catherine_crabill_for_del/issues/>
.”*

July 31, 2009*—On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob
Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions ammunition, target practice,
and Barack Obama<http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1026150.ece>.
Haa
tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to save it for the
administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the Secret Service.***

August 11, 2009*—William Kostric is filmed openly carrying a handgun outside
of President Obama's health care reform town hall meeting in New
Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF
LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of
liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and
tyrants<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/thomas-jefferson-and-the_b_273800.html>
."*

August 17, 2009*—Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15
semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix,
Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across
the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, “What do you
think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British
weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us the
way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked them
out of our country, and *we will forcefully resist people imposing their
will on us through the strength of the majority with a
vote*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA>
.”

*
**August 25, 2009*—During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls, Idaho, an audience
member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010 Idaho Republican Primary, a
question about "Obama tags" during a discussion about state-issued tags for
wolf hunting. Rammell responds, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of
those<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>."
In a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the law
knows I was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting
tags in Washington,
D.C.<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>
"

*August 26, 2009*—At a secessionist rally on the state capitol steps in
Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina states that, "We are
aware that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war. We are
aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered with
the blood of tyrants and
patriots<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#32635648>
.”
*
September 9, 2009*—With President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol to
address a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform,
Joshua Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia, attempts to drive his Honda
Civic into a secure area near the building. U.S. Capitol Police stop him
and, searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of
ammunition<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/josh-bowman-man-with-gun-_n_282397.html>.
He
is arrested on weapons charges.

*September 25-26, 2009*—Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the “How to Take Back
America” Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience, “If we had our guns
[during the time of the Nazis’ reign in Germany], we would have fought a
bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy
ammunition. Take back America. Don’t let them take the country into
Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler’s party was National Socialism. And
that’s what we are having here right now, which is bordering on
Marxism<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/werthmann-nazism-socialism/>
.”*

September 28, 2009*—Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman of the Second
Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “domestic enemy of the
Constitution<http://blogs.onlineathens.com/node/1425>”
at a health care reform town hall meeting.

*September 29, 2009*—An
editorial<http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf>at
the Newsmax website calls for a military coup to oust President Obama.

*September 30, 2009*—The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio program
on Sirus, takes a call from “Jim” from Oklahoma, who claims that he and 200
others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against President Obama. Jim says
they want to restore their "a right to bear arms" and bring the country back
to where it was 400 years ago, before slavery was abolished.

*October 18-19, 2009*—Reports emerge that the Secret Service has received an
unprecedented number of death threats against President
Obama<http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/new-report-find-secret-service-overwhelmed-by-increased-threats.php>.
Ronald
Kessler's account of presidential security, *In the President's Secret
Service<http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Secret-Service-Behind-Protect/dp/0307461351>
*, states that there has been a 400% increase in such threats in comparison
with Obama’s predecessor. Another source of these reports is an August 5,
2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which finds:  “The [Secret]
Service’s protection mission has increased and become more ‘urgent’ due to
the increase in terrorist threats and the expanded arsenal of weapons that
terrorists could use in an assassination attempt or attacks on facilities.”

*October 21, 2009*—John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard,
is arrested for making terroristic threats against President
Obama<http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/newark-security-guard-john-brek-arraigned-on-3-charges-for-threats-against-president-obama>.
Authorities
find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a stolen rifle. Brek, a
National Rifle Association member, is also found to be in possession of
illegal hollow point bullets.

*November 2009—*Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri,
that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges Missourians to
"LIVE FREE OR DIE" and  "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt government. The
billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County Republicans
website<http://lafayettecountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-i-70-billboard-replaces-famed.html>
.

*November 11-22, 2009—*More than 100 delegates from across the country
attend a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The
People<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>.
Attendees include Neo-Confederate secessionists, "Common Law Court"
enthusiasts, adherents of the "Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia
backers, and other radicals. Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll
Island, the Congress issues a document entitled the "Articles of
Freedom<http://www.alamogordo2atf.com/AOF_20100128.pdf>"
which declares that the federal government "now threatens our Life, Liberty
and Property through usurpations of the
Constitution<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>
."*

**November 29, 2009—*Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart
tweets, "Capital
punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high
treason<http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911290004>."
Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted
researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who has
called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global warming.
*
December 23, 2009**—*Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a
federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns,
including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that
includes convictions for lewd and lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old
and attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a
parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the
stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of
Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government
taking over the right to bear
arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091225/ap_on_re_us/us_hostage_situation_post_office>
."

*January 2010**—*A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in
Ravalli County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a "
questionnaire <http://ravallirepublic.com/123/militia_petition/petition.pdf>"
pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory vaccinations, allow
citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose (including fully automatic
machine guns), and require federal government employees to get written
approval before approaching "any Citizen" in the county. The questionnaire
is organized in part by Celebrating Conservatism, a group with direct ties
to the militia movement<http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2009/08/18/conservatismor-extremism>
.
*
January 2, 2010**—*More than 300 people attend a rally in Alamogordo, New
Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots and Second Amendment
Task Force <http://www.alamogordo2atf.org/>. The purpose of the rally is to
protest health care reform, and many of the rally's participants openly
carry handguns and/or rifles. One attendee states that his handgun is a “very
open threat <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>” to the “socialist
communists <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>” in the Obama
Administration. “The government fears the people, and a disarmed people are
slaves <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>,” he says. “Political
power comes from the barrel of a gun ... They’re pushing us to our
limits<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>
.”

*January 12, 2010**—*Mark Campano of Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty
to charges of possessing destructive devices not registered with the federal
government. Law enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November
2009 after he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two
fingers. They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of
rounds of ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor states, "He
was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to
anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was some kind
of radical, and he didn't believe in the
government<http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/law_enforcement_investigating.html>
."

*January 12, 2010**—*Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former Marine with ties to
Tea Parties and far-right-wing organizations like Oath
Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>,
is arrested at his home on charges of raping a 7 year old-girl. Sheriff's
deputies find several firearms inside Dyer's home and a Colt M-203 40mm
grenade launcher, which was stolen from a military base in Fort Irwin,
California, in 2006. Dyer had been an organizer of militia groups in
Oklahoma and told one interviewer, "I'm going to use my training and become
one of those domestic terrorists that you're so afraid of from the
[Department of Homeland Security (DHS)]
reports<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNNiGwUDJs>."
In another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly calling patriots,
veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have to say is you’re
damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that endangers our
rights and the Constitution of this
republic<http://www.irehr.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43:tea-partying-militia-leader-arrested-for-rape-possessing-a-grenade-launcher&catid=9:news&Itemid=23>
."

*February 9, 2010**—*Gregory Girard of Manchester, Massachusetts, is
arrested for weapons charges after police find 20 firearms, thousands of
rounds of ammunition, and explosive devices in his home. Girard's wife says
that her husband recently told her, "Don't talk to people, shoot them
instead <http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_041222314.html>."
In a January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with the Tea Party
movement, Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war and state of
emergency of some time for decades uninterupted ... The entire body of these
War Powers and 'continuity of gov't' plans render our concept of a
Constitutional Republic to be little more than thin veil of civility and
justice layered over a monsterous, diabolic dictatorship that would break
out of political cage but for Americans vigorously exercising their 2nd
Amendment rights ... As it stands today at start of 2010, there is never a
time that our gov't would find itself without some excuse, no matter how
perverse, as the justification for unleashing their murderous 'War Powers'
monster upon the public, in an attempt to subject us to
tyranny<http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2734278%3ABlogPost%3A154819&commentId=2734278%3AComment%3A154896&xg_source=activity>
."

*February 13, 2010**—*An unidentified speaker at an event organized by the
Lewis and Clark Tea Party Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the
audience, "How many of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What
happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's
what I want to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty
Murray<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/idaho-tea-party-speaker-h_n_466261.html?ref=fb>
."

*February 18, 2010**—*Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine
plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing
one and wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with
the federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on the
bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand
what they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is. If this is not
the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is
the answer, it is the only
answer<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/joe-stack-statement-alleg_n_467539.html?page=1>
."

*February 19, 2010**—*Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, is arrested
and charged with making threats against the president after his poem titled
"The Sniper" is found on the website NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S.
Secret Service. The poem reads, in part:  "As the tyrant enters his cross
hairs the breath he takes is deep. His focus is square on the target as he
begins to release. A patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his
life. But for his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The
bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration
on the casing reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the trigger
releasing all his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as he seals that
monkey's fate. The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death.
And where there was once a face there is nothing left. Two blood covered
agents stare in horror and dismay. Looking down toward the ground where
their president now lay<http://www.wlky.com/download/2010/0219/22615404.pdf>
."

*February 2010**—*Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort
Drum and member of Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>, tells a
reporter that he and five fellow service members at the Army base are
preparing to take on the U.S. government when it declares martial law, and
will turn their guns on their fellow soldiers should it become necessary. "I
know their tactics <http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>,"
says Pray. "I know how they...work their convoys—if we attack this vehicle,
what the others will do ... If the government continues to ignore us, and
forces us to engage, I'm willing to fight to the
death<http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>
."

*March 2010**—*The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009
saw a dramatic increase in the number of new anti-government "Patriot"
groups in the United States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups
jumped from 149 (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in
2009*—*a 244% jump<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right>
.

*March 2, 2010**—*FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly, speaking about
the *McDonald
v. Chicago *case before the Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff Otis
McDonald's inability to own a handgun in Chicago amounts to
"tyranny<http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."
Predicting that four justices on the Court will side with the city of
Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's interesting that in America today the far
Left that wants the government to call the shots, not the folks. In the
past, Right-Wing extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront
of state control. But with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are
primarily on the Left <http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."

*March 4, 2010**—*John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels to
Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the entrance to
the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic firearms and "many
[ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers before he is killed by
return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the
U.S. government had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963
coup. In an Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many
murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of
thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as
a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric
control<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCKwXk17aAr3T_8Z9nN4iUwQPnngD9E8KP283>
."

*March 19-22, 2010**—*During consideration of health care reform legislation
by the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in
Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New
York; and Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the
Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting
a blog on March 19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,
thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might
just make up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a
rifle unnecessary<http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html>."
Several Democratic members receive death threats, including Rep. Louise
Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill the children of the members
who voted YES <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>"; Rep.
Bart Stupak (D-MI), who receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know
where you live; we'll get
you<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>";
and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller, "Better
hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a
gun<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/markey-got-threatening-phone-calls-before-vote.php>."
House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus
(D-OH), says he "may be a dead
man<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>
."*

March 21, 2010**—*As the U.S. House of Representatives enters a final round
of debate over a controversial health care reform bill, Conservative blogger
Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the assassination of President Barack
Obama on his Twitter account. In two separate postings, Forrel writes,
"ASSASSINATION!
America, we survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln & #Kennedy. We'll
surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next #American with
a #Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad
habit<http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/>
."
*
March 21, 2010**—*Russell Laing, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and
making terroristic threats after a four-hour standoff with police at his
home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers were responding to a 911 call
after Laing called a friend and said he couldn't walk. When police responded
to the call, Laing pointed an assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.
After Laing was arrested, officers recovered approximately 150 guns and
15,000 rounds of ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't
explain it. In my 40 years, I've not seen that type of
collection<http://www.wpxi.com/news/22903086/detail.html>,"
said McCandless Police Chief Gary Anderson.

*March 23, 2010**—*After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel
Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of
Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop
by<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34843.html>,"
someone deliberately
cuts<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35040.html>a propane
gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is targeted by the Tea Party
activists because of his vote in favor of health care reform. Perriello's
brother and his wife have four children under the age of eight.
*
March 24, 2010**—*After voting for health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart
Stupak (D-MI)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/stupak-receives-threatening-fax-with-drawing-of-noose.php>and
Rep.
James Clyburn (D-SC)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/clyburn-says-photo-of-noose-faxed-to-his-office-after-hcr-vote-video.php>receive
faxes with drawings of nooses.

*March 25, 2010**—*Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care
reform legislation, receives a package containing white powder and an angry
letter telling him to "drop
dead<http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/White-Powder-Package-Sent-to-Congressman-Weiners-Office-89136827.html>."

*March 26, 2010**—*Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care reform
legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it will take a
few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected you for
assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington, D.C., we will
get you in Little
Rock<http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=121037.54928.133165>
."

*March 26, 2010**—*NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment
on FOX News' "Your World" program: “I’m the expert on the health care bill
because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas and
seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to help out
American pigs … We gotta’ kill the
pig<http://video.foxnews.com/v/4125942/nugent-new-independence-day-in-november?category_id=86858>
.”

*March 29, 2010**—*A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged
with threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38,
is arrested by the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he referred to
Cantor's family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your
heads<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-the-fbi-busts-youtube-terrorists-in-under-a-day.ars>."
Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes, and
threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the Democratic
Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long history of mental
illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun permit in
Pennsylvania<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100329_Phila__man_charged_with_threatening_GOP_congressman.html>,
which alarmed his family.

*March 29, 2010**—*Nine members of the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian
militia are arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to
deploy weapons of mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill
a law enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices
(IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted federal
officials, members of the law enforcement
"brotherhood<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>"
and other participants in the "New World
Order<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>
."

*March 30, 2010**—*Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an
extremist anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free
Republics<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html>.
The letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or "they
will be removed<http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2136993,extremist-group-governors-removal-040210.article>"
from office. A page on the group's website entitled "Rationale" reads, "For
those who are concerned about opening the door to satanic forces, permit me
to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated with great sobriety the
wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to World War III
continues<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/rationale.html>
."

*April 1, 2010**—*CNN commentator Erick Erickson, questioning the legality
of the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), makes the
following comment on WMAC-AM radio: “We have become, or are becoming,
enslaved by the government ... I dare ‘em to try to come throw me in jail. I
dare ‘em to. [I’ll] pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS
twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my
property<http://www.macon.com/2010/04/06/1084164/erickson-draws-fire-for-gun-comment.html>
.”

*April 1-20, 2010**—*Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury
(AGJ) <http://americangrandjury.org/>, attempts to effect a citizen's arrest
on grand jury foreman Gary Pettway at the Monroe County courthouse in
Madisonville, Tennessee, and is arrested. Nineteen days later, on the day
that Fitzpatrick is scheduled to face trial, Oath
Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>member Darren Huff is pulled over
by Tennessee state troopers as he attempts
to drive to the courthouse to arrest county officials he calls "domestic
enemies of the United States engaged in
treason<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/right-wing_extremists_take_on_local_law_enforcemen.php?ref=mp>."
Huff is armed with a Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400
rounds of ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in
interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in
commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder.

*April 6, 2010**—*Authorities charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah,
Washington, with threatening a federal official after Wilson makes several
phone calls to the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed
handgun permit holder in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for
health care reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her
back.<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html>"
He also told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and some
bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at risk, dear
... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between
your...eyes<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html?source=mypi>
."

*April 7, 2010**—*Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San Francisco, California, is
arrested for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi dozens of times, recited her home
address, and told her that if she wanted to see it again, she should drop
her support for health care reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of
mental health problems <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>" and his
mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox News and all of those that are
really radical <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>."

*April 7, 2010**—*Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on
charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement
officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from
an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker
over for a traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led
officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and
escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the
authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American
citizen<http://articles.courant.com/2010-04-07/business/hc-manhunt-winsted-0406_1_troopers-state-police-bail>."


*April 10, 2010**—*At a "Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut
Citizens Defense League <http://www.ccdl.us/>, Martha Dean, the
Republican-endorsed candidate for Attorney General in Connecticut, tells
those in attendance, "If government is legitimate and truly is the voice of
the people, it need never fear the people themselves when they’re armed.
Only a government that uses secrecy and force to impose improper laws [to]
which the people do not consent need fear the wrath of its law-abiding
citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately, with arms … Our right of free
speech and to back it up with arms if necessary if our government becomes
tyrannical and unjust as King George’s was to the colonists are the most
essential of the rights we as Americans have ... I will oppose all efforts
to create nonsensical distinctions that are nowhere supported by our
constitutions between different types of firearms. Nowhere in the
Constitution does it say that the government gets the effective firearms and
the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere in our Constitution does it say
that the government gets the modern firearms and the citizens only get the
antiquated ones<http://aconnecticutlawblog.com/2010/06/martha-deans-land-of-screwy-habits/>
."

*April 13, 2010**—*Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and
Rep. Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to discuss
the formation of a new "volunteer
militia<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>"
to defend against what they see as improprer federal infringements on state
sovereignty. Brogdon states that the Founding Fathers "were not referring to
a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren't even talking about us
having the ability to protect ourselves against each other. The Second
Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear
arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal
government<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>."
One Tea Party leader involved in these meetings, J.W. Berry of the
Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the Militia to "launch a thousand
guerrilla attacks on the plans that these people have to ruin us and our
country<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_TQvZwccGEcJ:www.okfortea.com/documents/NewsLetterNo4.doc+site:okfortea.com+militia&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us>
."

*April 19, 2010**—*Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies in the Washington,
D.C. area to demonstrate their opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian
government <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36108>." Among the
featured speakers at the events are current and former militia leaders and
others with ties to extreme, anti-government groups. The choice of date is
significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary of the first shots being
fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington/Concord, the
fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and the 1995 bombing of the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. At the "Second
Amendment March" in the District of Columbia, Larry Pratt, the Executive
Director of Gun Owners of America, states, "We're in a war. The other side
knows they are at war, because they started it. They are coming for our
freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are coming for
everything because they are a bunch of
Socialists<http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/second.amendment.rally/>."
Mike Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for
several instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes on
health care reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort
Hunt National Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the
legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or
to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a
state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further
obedience ... This is what the other side doesn’t understand! We are doing
backing up! Done! Not one more inch<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAJDVEpsdQ>
."

*May 4, 2010**—*A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks speaker
Rep. Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us
vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside
enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would he have to do differently
to be defined as a domestic
enemy?<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>"
After smiling and stating that "no one thinks that the president is a
domestic enemy <http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>,"
Cantor is booed by several members of the audience.

*May 6, 2010**—*Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South
Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she holds
an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the Second
Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights ... The
Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to ensure that our
limited government stayed limited and that we would be able to enforce those
limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign people. A sovereign people is
an armed people <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHJihLaQBw>."

*May 15, 2010**—*At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful Newt
Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in defense of
hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not in defense of
collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of freedom from the
State<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>."
He goes on to make the following reference to Thomas Jefferson's "The tree
of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots
and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's historically honest has to admit [the
Founding Fathers] understood the right to bear arms because they routinely
carried arms. These were tough people in a tough time in a tough country
doing tough things and the idea that they would allow some D.C. city
government or some Washington federal bureaucrat to get between them and
their Constitutional rights, they would have said in Jefferson's terms was
the legitimate justification for a political revolution in every generation
which was what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,
the arrogance, and the obsolenscence that government would invariably
have<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>
."

*May 15, 2010**—*Referring to a controversial new anti-immigration law in
Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells the 2010 NRA Convention, "Let's
talk a minute about a 'well-regulated militia' and why you might need one
because the government isn't doing their job. Let's meet people in Texas,
Arizona and California<http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/appearances/Glenn-Beck-2010-NRA-Speech/>
."

*May 20, 2010**—*Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally
shoot two Arkansas police officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a
routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed
during an exchange of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90
minutes later<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/kane_west_memphis_arkansas_shootings.php>.
Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long
history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for driving
with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a
"sovereign citizen" and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance
scams.

*May 27, 2010**—*The *Washington Times* publishes an editorial claiming that
a United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade in
smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of personal
firearms<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>"
in the United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all insurgencies
are bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is
to rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as
Syria, Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone endorse gun control
... Governments are a bigger threat to most people than their
neighbors<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>
."

*May 30, 2010**—*Sharron Angle, a candidate for the Republican nomination
for U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the *Reno Gazette-Journal* that a recent
increase in gun sales nationwide "tells me that the nation is arming. What
are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of government?
They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second
Amendment kinds of
ways<http://www.rgj.com/article/20100530/NEWS19/5300350/1232/Sharron-Angle-s-conservative-credentials-wins-support-of-activist-army>."
These comments echo ones made by Angle in January, when she told
conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our Founding
Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that
was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.
And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a
revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but, you
know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking
toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do
to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is
take [U.S. Senator from Nevada] Harry Reid
out<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/sharron_angle_floated_possibil.html>
."

*May 31, 2010**—*Oath Keeper <http://oathkeepers.org/> Rex Nichols, a
candidate for sheriff in Montana's Lincoln County, makes reference to
federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993 and
promises to keep them out of the county if elected. "I am going to take my
deputies and stand in the middle of the road and tell them to get the hell
out<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>,"
says Nichols. "And if they want a war, they got
it<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>
."

*June 2010**—*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
which he dicusses contemporary political issues with America's Founding
Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach
him<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>"
and rails about the "progressive income
tax<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>,"
the Internal Revenue Service, and health care reform, a Founding Father
replies, "Gather your
armies<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>."
Several Founding Fathers are depicted as being armed with pistols.
*
June 9, 2010**—*Addressing the Obama administration and the
Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says, "Tea
parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the
principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot
me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the
head if you try to change our government. I will stand against you and so
will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most
in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and
brought in wearing sheep's clothing—change the pose. You will get the ends.
You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have
called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the
head<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101220005>
."

*June 9, 2010**—*Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening
to kill a federal official after making two calls to the office of U.S. Rep.
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's opposition to
Arizona's controversial new immigration law and threatened to come to the
Congressman's office and “blow everyone's head
off<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36281.html>
."
*
**June 27, 2010**—*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
which he compares taxation and "the tyrannical health care
bill<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"
to slavery and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in
perilous times ... We are all becoming slaves to our
government<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>,"
Barber warns. The "army of voters<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"
depicted in the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with guns. In a
follow-up editorial in the *Washington Post*, Barber makes reference to "the
possibility of evil conducted on a grand
scale<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>"
and states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to
serfdom is a long one, but I fear that we are well on the
way<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>."


*July 2, 2010**—*The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax
collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing
animosity<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>"
toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise Tax
Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that "crossed the
line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than any place
... I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has
experienced some animosity ... I don't want to put my people at
risk<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>
."

*July 3, 2010**—*Joyce Kaufman, a conservative radio hosts on WFTL in
Florida, tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party event, “I
am convinced that the most important thing the Founding Fathers did to
ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment.
And if ballots don’t work, bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say
I’ll put my microphone down on November 2nd if we haven’t achieved
substantial victory, I mean it. Because if at that point I’m going to up
into the hills of Kentucky, I’m going to go out into the Midwest, I’m going
to go up in the Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I’m going to gather
together men and women who understand that some things are worth fighting
for and some things are worth dying
for<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>
.”

*July 6, 2010**—*Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of
America<http://gunowners.org/>,
tells *Religion Dispatches*, "If you have a people that has basically been
disarmed by the civil government, then there really isn't any effectual
means available to the people to restore law and liberty and that's really
the purpose of the right to keep and bear arms—is to defend yourself against
a tyrant<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>."
Titus goes on to cite the "totalitarian
threat<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"
posed by "Obamacare<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"
and "what Sarah Palin said about the death
panels<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>
."

*July 11, 2010—*Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe Miller openly carry
assault rifles and handguns during a community parade in Eagle River and
Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march alongside
them<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGdoBcnjWQ>.
Miller, who is running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican
primary, was endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described
him as a “true Commonsense Constitutional
Conservative<http://community.adn.com/node/151885>.”


*July 18, 2010—*California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams,
45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired.
Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in
and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long
gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives
because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that
he was on his way to San Francisco to "start a
revolution<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/21/MNMN1EHB37.DTL>"
by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says
her son was angry at "Left-wing
politicians<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>"
and upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these Left-wing
agenda items<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>
."

*July 26, 2010—*A proposed ordinance that would prohibit residents from
firing air rifles and other low-powered weapons within 500 feet of a
building (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from consideration in
Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of Supervisors receives a
number of angry and threatening phone calls from gun owners. Citing a
National Rifle Association "Action Alert" that claimed Exeter supervisors
were "consider[ing] a broad and overreaching attack on our Second Amendment
freedoms <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>," Exeter Township
Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was totally false information
that was put out. The anger was building, and I was concerned that someone
might actually get hurt <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>."

*July 28, 2010—*U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district
office in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of the
office's windows. Authorities also
report<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40423.html>that U.S.
Judge Susan Bolton receives hundreds of threats at her Phoenix
offices after issuing an injunction on Arizona's controversial new
immigration law.

*July 29, 2010—*Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed Project (which is
dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size
target out to 500 yards), explains that Americans should own an AR-15
assault rifle "because they want to tell us what to do. And we don't want
them to tell us what to
do<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>."
James Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that, "the government has quite
literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the principles outlined in *The
Communist Manifesto*. It's completely out of control from city to state to
federal to international law. All predicate their existence on plundering
the individual and his rights. The only thing to do now is to organize
citizens into a militia to abolish this
government<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>
."

*July 30, 2010—*Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64, is charged with
robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death
at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.
Investigators follow Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms:
Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen
from the range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also
arrested and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other
crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the
purpose of overthrowing the federal
government<http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/UPDATE-Guards-charged-in-shooting-suspended/T7TywdSx-0efWskrT3nupg.cspx>
."

*August 14, 2010—*Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack—who gained fame in
anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the federal
government over the Brady Bill requirement that state law enforcement
agencies conduct background checks on gun purchasers—tells those in
attendance at the American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom Action Natonal
Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for the day that the first sheriff in
this country is the one to fire the shot heard 'round the world and take out
some IRS agents!<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/-willing-to-kill-in-gatherings-over-t>
"

*August 17, 2010—*Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of
Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to ignite
gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his truck. Sharp is
armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a
12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an exchange of gunfire with police
arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,
Eric McClellan describes him as "a great
guy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>"
and states, "We're Texans. We have a right to bear
arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>
."

*August 19, 2010—*Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County, Florida, is arrested
after threatening to "bear arms
against<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcwXt1-hso>"
local law enforcement officers who were trying to serve him with a warrant.
Authorities recover a letter that Fornof had tried to serve the deputies
with, which reads, "I have the right to bear arms against such unlawful
entities, up to and including the President of the United States, that are
coming against me unlawfully, lethally, and
genocidally<http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/19/feds-pasco-man-vowed-bear-arms-against-deputies/>
."

*August 23, 2010—*Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he attempts to bring a
fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook County
courthouse<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facing-foreclosure-man-br_1_n_692749.html>.
Pidegon was supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing that day. His home was
to be sold to a lender in North Carolina after New York-based BNY Mellon
filed an action against him in the county.

*September 1, 2010—*James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery
Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with two
starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices. After pointing a gun
at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical
environmental activist, had previously issued 11 demands through a
webpage<http://savetheplanetprotest.com/>that Discovery was to meet
"immediately." The demands involved the content
of programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his
MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"

*September 13, 2010—*Police stop Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic
violation in Webberville, Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover
bumper stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a
loaded handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is
arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful
possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a member of the
Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with McLeod
*
September 16, 2010—*Patricia Stoneking, the President of the Kansas State
Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to arm themselves, We have
the right to put limits on our government, and that's what [the Second
Amendment] does<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>."
Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the amendment, she
says, "They
knew government could become tyrannical. We have the right to defend
ourselves from a rogue
government<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>
."

*September 30, 2010—*Kevin Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a
group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted
thugs <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>" of
Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree militia members
earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of citizens out there in
the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to miracles I do not understand
that civil war did not break out right
there<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>
."

*September 30, 2010—*Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in
Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent
conflict<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>"
with federal agents if "they are doing something I believe is
unconstitutional<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>
."

*October 15, 2010—*Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck lays out a
hypothetical scenario on the air where the government is considering taking
his children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu
vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his response to the government would
be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson<http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150025>
."

*October 21, 2010—*Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in
Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is an
"option<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>"
that remains "on the table <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>."  "Our
nation was founded on violence <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>,"
states Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the
table as it relates to our liberties and our
freedoms<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>
."

*October 22, 2010—*Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for a
missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on
Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an
AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He
told us to get off the property or he would kill us
all<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>."
Later that afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search
warrant and an armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens
fire on the vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot
and kill him. Police find guns and "many rounds of
ammunition<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>"
in Granger's house. They also find the body of Clements, buried in a shallow
grave on Granger's property.

*November 2, 2010—*On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional
candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob Filner
(D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego following the
announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a damn liar. You should
be ashamed of yourself<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>,"
Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other Popaditch supporters
yell "You're
a scumbag!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
"Jew!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
and "Don't tread on me,
Bob!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"
Another Popaditch supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the face.

*November 3, 2010—*James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested on
the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law enforcement
authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle barrel, a .22
caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition, and
propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock
former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated the president. He hated
everything. He said if he got a chance he would shoot the
president<http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13448240>."
Patock tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle
Association<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110407609.html>
.

*November 4, 2010—*On his radio show, conservative host Glenn Beck
fantasizes about President Obama being decapitated during a trip to India,
saying, "If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they
think he was a Muslim over there because he left his religion for
Christianity, death sentence, behead
him<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>.”
Beck then tells his listeners that "God
forbid<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"
this should happen, as there would be a "New World
Order<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"
overnight in the United States.

*November 4, 2010—*Fox News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a
Washington Post reporter while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we
can behead Dana
Milbank?<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>"
O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think you and I should go and
beat him up<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>
."

*November 9, 2010—*U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida's 22nd
Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman
as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party
supporters, “I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding
Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a
Second Amendment. And if ballots don’t work, bullets
will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>
."

*November 9, 2010—*Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee, 69, of
Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street for
disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden with
expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President Barack Obama,
blacks in general, Jews and the nation of
Israel<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."
Officers also seize literature from Lee that details "the most expedient
means of killing law enforcement
officers<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."
The November 9 arrest follows an October 19 arrest for assault after Lee
kicked and swung his signs at a group of girls between the ages of 12 and
14.

*November 10, 2010—*Public schools in Broward County, Florida, go into
lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is sent
to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she made at
a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots don't work, bullets
will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>").
The email expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment and says
that to further "their cause...something big will happen at a government
building in Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a
school<http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Possible-Suspect-Questioned-in-Massive-School-Lockdown-Threat-107271123.html>."
A phone call is then received at the station, allegedly from the emailer's
wife, warning that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines school and open
fire.

*November 23, 2010—*Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of
America, writes an editorial in *The Register Citizen* in which he calls for
state and county sheriffs to organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on
the unconstitutional exercise of federal
power<http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/11/23/opinion/doc4ceb3b593f453721919056.txt>
."

*November 29, 2010—*U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on
the House Energy and Commerce Committee, circulates a PowerPoint
presentation to his colleagues in which he compares the Obama administration
to the Nazi regime in Germany and likens himself to Gen. George Patton,
bragging, "Put anything in my scope and I will shoot
it<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/powerful-republican-calls-assassination-president-obama/>
."

*December 3, 2010—*At "Roe & Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday
Extravaganza" promoting "Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee
Emery (famous for his depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal
Jacket") tells those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to
point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot
to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it until
they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and
we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're
destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so that they can
impose socialism on
us<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/full-metal-jacket-drill-instructor-apologizes-calling-americans-rise-up-obama/>
."

*December 31, 2010—*An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and Raves"
section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a citizen
activist who has requested—under Alaska’s Open Records Act—work-related
emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while governor of the state. The
threat states, "I think Andre has used up to much oxygen. So I have my scope
cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her
last <http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/death-threat-palin-critic>."
The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL account of an Anchorage
woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she is the one who is responsible
for it.
*
**January 6, 2011—*John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set
fire to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his
staff. The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about
his Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and
"may go to terrorism<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>."
"I'm just going to come down there and shoot you
all<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>,"
he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.

*January 8, 2011—*Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle
Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a
Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal
judge John Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the head.
Loughner has an extensive history of mental illness and substance abuse, yet
is able to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity ammunition magazine
legally at Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video
posted in December 2010, Loughner states, "You don’t have to accept the
federalist laws ... Nonetheless, read the United States of America’s
Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous
laws<http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10>
."
*January 8, 2011—*Fearing violence from tea party activists, Arizona
Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia
Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger Dickinson, and former district spokesman
Jeff Kolb resign from their positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for
anyone<http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html>,"
says Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts from tea
party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign worker for
U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in which a
detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at him.


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> Your arguments would have more veracity if you named people on both the
> right and the left, but you continue to harp on only Palin and the Tea
> Party. Talk about hate speech, no one has been on the receiving end of it
> more than Palin. She has been hanged in effigy. Do you condone that?  I
> suspect that if she were to be assassinated there would be very little
> condemnation of it from the left. Most likely the comments would be "good
> riddance" or "she had it coming".
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800
> To: Dan Carscallen areaman at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health
>
> > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting: "This can’t be blamed on
> rhetoric,
> > nor on extremists from either side of the aisle.  The blame lays solely
> on a
> > sick man who obviously needs help.  And, perhaps, the “blame” lays on the
> > freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the United States of America."
> >
> > First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric, or
> Palin,
> > or anyone, or anything. No one that I know who has talked about the
> > connection between violent rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ
> > shooting has used "blame" talk. So let's get that straight.
> >
> > Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,
> let's
> > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What can
> we
> > do to prevent shootings like this from happening in the future? Your
> opinion
> > seems to be that we can't do anything, that shootings like this just
> happen
> > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in societies that have the
> kinds
> > of "freedoms" that our society has. That we should accept them because we
> > can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive people of their
> > "freedoms."
> >
> > Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical for my tastes. I
> > think we CAN do something about these kind of shootings. What can we do?
> I
> > don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are some
> > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the solution, I'm just
> claiming
> > that we can do something if we put our minds to it and come up with a
> plan.
> >
> > The claim that violent rhetoric and gun laws and even Palin's poster have
> > NOTHING to do with the shooting, that the explanation for the shooting is
> > unrelated to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and others,
> is
> > an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical issues. You have to
> > back up such an extreme claim -- a claim like the claim that violent
> > rhetoric has NOTHING to do with violence in America. Here are a few
> reasons
> > why I think you can't back that claim up.
> >
> > You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than in
> almost
> > any other country; why the violent rhetoric apparently works when it
> comes
> > to getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of success
> in
> > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of Republican
> > victories during the last Bush era) yet has NO other impact on human
> > behavior; why a lot of the violence from "lunatics" is directed toward
> folks
> > on the left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the
> > explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're so certain that
> > there is NO connection between violent rhetoric and actual violence. I'm
> > pretty sure you have no formal training in psychology or sociology, so
> I'm
> > unsure what your basis is. I don't think the explanation has anything to
> > with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision of a society that is both
> free
> > and nonviolent is an absurdity.
> >
> > I think it is clear that there is SOME connection between violent
> rhetoric
> > and actual violence. The real questions are how much of a connection is
> > there (what is the nature of the connection) and what can we do about it?
> I
> > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Vizzz peeps,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We live in a free society.  One of the prices we pay for living here is
> > > that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any
> minute> Should they be?  Probably not, but who is to say when and how these
> folks
> > > should be rounded up and treated?  Sure, I think all of us can talk
> about
> > > the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are
> we
> > > supposed to do?  Call the cops and have them haul him in because he
> doesn’t
> > > fit society’s norm?  I think there are a lot of folks, right here on
> the
> > > Vizzz even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”.   But we go along
> and
> > > live our lives in our free society.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors, and they said “yes, he
> > > seemed like a nutjob”, but what were they to do?  They watched him,
> kept
> > > their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could.  Unfortunately, he
> > > “slipped through the cracks”.  Should he have been prevented from
> buying a
> > > pistol?  Maybe, but in a free society, how?  He wasn’t a convicted
> felon, he
> > > answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money.  It’s not a
> > > speedy process, no matter who or where you are.  Even with a concealed
> > > weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by any
> means.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This can’t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side of
> the
> > > aisle.  The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.
>  And,
> > > perhaps, the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of
> the
> > > United States of America.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Your pal
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > DC
> > >
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