[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

[Andreas Schou]

Gary --

You've said this before, and you're wrong. Both Beddell and Stack had
clear connections to the American right. Stack was a member of a
militia-affiliated tax protest group, and Beddell was an Objectivist
anarcho-capitalist who operated a blog about Austrian economics. He
was unaccountably registered as a Democrat, but that seems entirely
unrelated to the reasons he fired on the Pentagon.

-- ACS

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, the lockshop <lockshop at pull.twcbc.com> wrote:
> An impressively lenthy, but highly suspect list. (one can't help but wonder
> from where it might have been cribbed) Several problems throw the entire
> lists veracity into question, chief among them is the inclusion of Joseph
> Stack, John Patrick Bedell, and Jared Loughner as individuals with some
> conection to the right. Next time it might be a good idea to review (and
> cite) the material you choose to cut and paste. Using non-factual
> information to back up your faulty assertion that another fellows argument
> is flawed makes you look foolish.
>
> g
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reggie Holmquist
> To: lfalen
> Cc: vision 2020
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health
> 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” because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate &
> House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book,” 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.”
>
> September 22, 2008—The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama
> website, which predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama,
> “if elected…would be the most anti-gun president in American history.” 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."
>
> February 5, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on
> Fox called “We Surround Them,” 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.” 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.’”
>
> 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?”
>
> 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.”
>
> 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.”
>
> 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” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.”
> 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.”
>
> 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.” 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.”
>
> April 15, 2009—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after he
> openly states on Twitter 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.”
>
> April 19, 2009—The Oath Keepers, 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" and "immoral," the first of which
> reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people."
>
> 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" that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County
> Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia
> groups and weapons training."
>
> 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. 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 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." One of the participants, former Texas
> militia leader Jon Roland, claims the federal government has "been engaging
> in warlike activity against the American people."
>
> 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,” 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.”
>
> June 10, 2009—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a “hardcore
> Neo-Nazi,” 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” that would “confiscate private weapons” 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,” 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. 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.”
>  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.”
>
> 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. 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."
>
> 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.”
>
> 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." 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."
>
> 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.”
>
> 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. 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.”
>
> 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” at a health care
> reform town hall meeting.
>
> September 29, 2009—An editorial 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. Ronald
> Kessler's account of presidential security, In the President's Secret
> Service, 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. 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.
>
> November 11-22, 2009—More than 100 delegates from across the country attend
> a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The People. 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" which declares that the federal
> government "now threatens our Life, Liberty and Property through usurpations
> of the Constitution."
>
> November 29, 2009—Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart tweets,
> "Capital punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high treason."
> 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."
>
> January 2010—A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in Ravalli
> County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a
> "questionnaire" 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.
>
> 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. 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” to the “socialist
> communists” in the Obama Administration. “The government fears the people,
> and a disarmed people are slaves,” he says. “Political power comes from the
> barrel of a gun ... They’re pushing us to our limits.”
>
> 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."
>
> January 12, 2010—Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former Marine with ties to Tea
> Parties and far-right-wing organizations like Oath Keepers, 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." 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."
>
> 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." 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> February 2010—Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort Drum
> and member of Oath Keepers, 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," 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."
>
> 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.
>
> 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."
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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."  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"; Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who
> receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know where you live; we'll get
> you"; 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." House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus
> (D-OH), says he "may be a dead man."
>
> 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."
>
> 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," 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," someone
> deliberately cuts 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) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) 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 ."
>
> 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."
>
> 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.”
>
> 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."
> 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,
> 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" and other
> participants in the "New World Order."
>
> March 30, 2010—Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an extremist
> anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free Republics. The
> letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or "they
> will be removed" 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."
>
> 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.”
>
> April 1-20, 2010—Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury (AGJ),
> 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 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." 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." 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."
>
> 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" and his mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox
> News and all of those that are really radical."
>
> 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."
>
> April 10, 2010—At a "Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut
> Citizens Defense League, 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."
>
> 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" 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." 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."
>
> April 19, 2010—Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies in the Washington, D.C.
> area to demonstrate their opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian
> government." 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." 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."
>
> 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?" After smiling and stating that "no one
> thinks that the president is a domestic enemy," 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."
>
> 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."
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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. 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" 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."
>
> 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." 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."
>
> May 31, 2010—Oath Keeper 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," says Nichols. "And if they want a war,
> they got it."
>
> 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" and rails about the
> "progressive income tax," the Internal Revenue Service, and health care
> reform, a Founding Father replies, "Gather your armies." 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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" to slavery
> and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in perilous times
> ... We are all becoming slaves to our government," Barber warns. The "army
> of voters" 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" 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."
>
> July 2, 2010—The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax
> collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing animosity"
> 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."
>
> 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.”
>
> July 6, 2010—Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of America, 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."  Titus
> goes on to cite the "totalitarian threat" posed by "Obamacare" and "what
> Sarah Palin said about the death panels."
>
> 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. 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.”
>
> 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" by killing employees of the
> ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says her son was angry at
> "Left-wing politicians" and upset by "the way Congress was railroading
> through all these Left-wing agenda items."
>
> 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," 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."
>
> 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 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." 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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!"
>
> 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" and states, "We're Texans. We
> have a right to bear arms."
>
> August 19, 2010—Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County, Florida, is arrested
> after threatening to "bear arms against" 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."
>
> August 23, 2010—Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he attempts to bring a
> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook County courthouse. 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
> 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." 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."
>
> September 30, 2010—Kevin Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a
> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted
> thugs" 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."
>
> September 30, 2010—Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in
> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent conflict" with federal agents if
> "they are doing something I believe is unconstitutional."
>
> 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."
>
> 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" that
> remains "on the table."  "Our nation was founded on violence," states
> Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as
> it relates to our liberties and our freedoms."
>
> 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." 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" 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," Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other
> Popaditch supporters yell "You're a scumbag!" "Jew!" and "Don't tread on me,
> Bob!" 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." Patock
> tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle Association.
>
> 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.” Beck then tells his listeners that "God forbid" this
> should happen, as there would be a "New World Order" 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?" O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think
> you and I should go and beat him up."
>
> 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."
>
> 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." Officers also seize
> literature from Lee that details "the most expedient means of killing law
> enforcement officers." 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"). 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." 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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."
>
> 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." 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." "I'm just going to come down there and shoot you
> all," 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."
>
> 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," 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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