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Here's a letter from my dad to the press regarding PSR services the state is considering cutting & shared with the Viz with his permission. Don Edwards <BR><BR><BR><BR>From:<SPAN class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="mailto:gedward@roadrunner.com"><FONT color=#0068cf>gedward@roadrunner.com</FONT></A><BR>To:<SPAN class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="mailto:editor@cdapress.com"><FONT color=#0068cf>editor@cdapress.com</FONT></A>;<SPAN class=ecxApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A href="mailto:editor@spokesman.com"><FONT color=#0068cf>editor@spokesman.com</FONT></A><BR>Subject: Email sent to JFAC re Opposition to Mental Health Cuts 1/26/2011<BR>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:35:45 -0800<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Here’s a brief history of mental illness treatment.<SPAN> </SPAN>Before the 1970’s mentally ill persons were largely confined to large, inefficient, expensive institutions such as the Mental Hospital in Orofino.<SPAN> </SPAN>When miraculous advances in drug therapy came along in the 1970’s the mental health emphasis switched to community based treatment at mental health centers with patients receiving drugs for treatment of symptoms.<SPAN> </SPAN>Then, in the 1990’s private home based agencies sprang up to provide patients with supervision so they could live in their own homes without hospitalization mostly through Case Management services (CM).<SPAN> </SPAN>Then, in the 2000’s the state of Idaho minimized CM services and switched to more expensive time consuming treatment called PSR.</DIV>
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> From: vision2020-request@moscow.com<BR>> Subject: Vision2020 Digest, Vol 55, Issue 227<BR>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:12:39 -0800<BR>> <BR>> Send Vision2020 mailing list submissions to<BR>> vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR>> http://mailman.fsr.com/mailman/listinfo/vision2020<BR>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>> vision2020-request@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>> vision2020-owner@moscow.com<BR>> <BR>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>> than "Re: Contents of Vision2020 digest..."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Today's Topics:<BR>> <BR>> 1. Re: apologists for violence (Art Deco)<BR>> 2. Re: that Jared guy and mental health (Reggie Holmquist)<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:59:37 -0800<BR>> From: "Art Deco" <deco@moscow.com><BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] apologists for violence<BR>> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID: <B317ACDBB5A14217A40D6306EE5A4002@LocalHost><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>> <BR>> Is there an echo in here?<BR>> ----- Original Message ----- <BR>> From: lfalen <BR>> To: Joe Campbell ; Paul Rumelhart <BR>> Cc: vision2020@moscow.com ; roger hayes <BR>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:36 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] apologists for violence<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> You say that Michael O' nastiness is wrong and it should't happen. Just how is he any nastier than Chapman, Brock or White? I suspect the difference is that you agree with them bu not O'Neal. You along with a lot of people on both the left and the right excuse obnoxious comments made by those you agree with but get all bent out of shape when is directed at those you like. Again it is a matter of perspective. <BR>> Roger<BR>> <BR>> -----Original message-----<BR>> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe@gmail.com<BR>> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:19:29 -0800<BR>> To: Paul Rumelhart godshatter@yahoo.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] apologists for violence<BR>> <BR>> > I don't see that you're responding to the points that Roger made as much as<BR>> > talking past them.<BR>> > <BR>> > One issue is, Should certain speak -- say violent rhetoric -- be restricted<BR>> > by law?<BR>> > <BR>> > Another very separate issue is, Should people use violent rhetoric?<BR>> > <BR>> > Another very separate issue is, Should violent rhetoric be criticized?<BR>> > <BR>> > My answers are "No," "No," and "Yes." I think all points are worthy of<BR>> > debate.<BR>> > <BR>> > Certainly you think it is OK to criticize folks who criticize violent<BR>> > rhetoric, so you should be fine with criticizing violent rhetoric. I don't<BR>> > see how Roger's points are, in that respect, any different from yours. He's<BR>> > not advocating passing laws restricting speech. He's advocating having a<BR>> > conversation about it, which is JUST MORE SPEECH.<BR>> > <BR>> > Also, you should be able to step away from your love of free speech for one<BR>> > minute and say that Michael O'Neal's nastiness is wrong, that it shouldn't<BR>> > happen. You should be able to separate the issue of freedom of speech and<BR>> > the restriction of speech from criticism of speech.<BR>> > <BR>> > Folks SHOULD be critical of O'Neal's writing. He's insulting and insulting<BR>> > is just wrong. That we all do it is no excuse. We should all be openly<BR>> > critical of O'Neal and try to encourage him not to spew insults and<BR>> > distortions about his political opponents. Having a conversation about that<BR>> > is a good thing, the kind of thing that should happen in a civil society. It<BR>> > is not governmental intervention; it is merely another form of free speech,<BR>> > people using their words to try to solve problems rather than resorting to<BR>> > the kind of actual violence that nasty speech like O'Neal's bi-weekly rants<BR>> > encourage.<BR>> > <BR>> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com>wrote:<BR>> > <BR>> > ><BR>> > > I didn't read Michael O'Neal's editorial, but I do want to comment on<BR>> > > this topic.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I am a strong advocate of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.<BR>> > > When I end up defending particular examples of speech that are being<BR>> > > argued against, I'm almost always defending speech that I disagree<BR>> > > with. The reason for that is that speech I agree with is hardly ever in<BR>> > > danger of being suppressed in today's society. The main reason that I<BR>> > > defend speech I disagree with has to do with not wanting to give our<BR>> > > government the club that they can use to beat us into submission.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I would love it if there was less violent talk surrounding politics, and<BR>> > > that there were fewer racial slurs and put-downs and just generally rude<BR>> > > behavior on-line, on talk radio, and on the street. However, it's a<BR>> > > better situation than giving our leaders the ability to determine what<BR>> > > is acceptable and what is not in this area. I don't trust those<BR>> > > currently in power not to abuse this, and even if I did I wouldn't trust<BR>> > > their unknown replacements not to abuse this after those in power were<BR>> > > voted out or ran up against their term limits.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > If you are repulsed by political candidates flinging violent rhetoric,<BR>> > > imagine how much you would hate it once they have the power to tell you<BR>> > > what you can and cannot say.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I would like others to tone down their rhetoric and I would love for<BR>> > > them to use reasonable logic and debate rather than trying to incite<BR>> > > people emotionally, but I'm not willing to unleash a demon in order to<BR>> > > get them to stop.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > In my opinion, if we want to stay a free country (assuming we still are<BR>> > > one) then we need to push back against governmental control on speech in<BR>> > > every way possible and make sure that the exceptions are extremely clear<BR>> > > and well thought out.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Paul<BR>> > ><BR>> > > roger hayes wrote:<BR>> > > > Regarding Michael O'Neals recent editorial.<BR>> > > > I am repulsed by so many people defending the right to scream "Fire!"<BR>> > > > in crowded theaters. We need to understand what we do when we incite<BR>> > > > people to riot or violence. I don't give a hoot from which quarter<BR>> > > > the rhetoric is flung, telling people "Don't retreat, Reload" and the<BR>> > > > thousands of other vindictives being hurled at the public is nothing<BR>> > > > but sedition at worst, and trash talk at best. It is designed to<BR>> > > > prick at the raw nerves of fear and hate in which modern life seems<BR>> > > > to be so rich these days. How does the rest of the world view us? Do<BR>> > > > they hear the angry and often violent talk of media baboons<BR>> > > > advocating death sentences on people with whom they disagree. Do<BR>> > > > they get wind of ridiculous racial slurs against world leaders and<BR>> > > > languages other than English? Do they fear to visit the United States<BR>> > > > out of worry for their personal safety because of our growing<BR>> > > > reputation for violence and anger?<BR>> > > > A civil and healthy debate about our responsibility as citizens, and<BR>> > > > particularly as media or governmental figures to rein in our language<BR>> > > > is a good thing. Shish, we need to take back our dignity!<BR>> > > > Sincerely,<BR>> > > > Roger Hayes<BR>> > > > Moscow<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > =======================================================<BR>> > > > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> > > > http://www.fsr.net<BR>> > > > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > > > =======================================================<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > ><BR>> > > =======================================================<BR>> > > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> > > http://www.fsr.net<BR>> > > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > > =======================================================<BR>> > ><BR>> > <BR>> > <BR>> <BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>> http://www.fsr.net <BR>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> =======================================================<BR>> -------------- next part --------------<BR>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20110131/5bb67cd5/attachment-0001.html <BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 2<BR>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:12:16 -0800<BR>> From: Reggie Holmquist <reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu><BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health<BR>> To: lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><BR>> Cc: vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>> Message-ID:<BR>> <AANLkTimajwbpk-87tOj35CDOJ+VQKqe_uYzyH-5W_COS@mail.gmail.com><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<BR>> <BR>> Your faulty argument is based on the false premise that there is an equal<BR>> amount of hate speech and violence coming from both sides. Please consider<BR>> this short list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false equivalency.<BR>> <BR>> -Reggie<BR>> <BR>> *July 27, 2008*?Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive<BR>> church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it ?a symbolic<BR>> killing<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>?<BR>> because he really ?wanted to kill?every Democrat in the Senate & House, the<BR>> 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's<BR>> book<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/knoxville-church-shooters-manifesto>,?<BR>> but was unable to gain access to them.<BR>> <BR>> *September 18, 2008*?Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of *District<BR>> of Columbia v. Heller*, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding<BR>> firearm-related legislation. Heller?s written, submitted testimony states,<BR>> in part: "?We the people,? armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the<BR>> Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is<BR>> the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED<BR>> CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our individual<BR>> neighborhoods<http://www.csgv.org/storage/documents/HELLER%20TESTIMONY%209-18-08.pdf><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *September 22, 2008*?The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama<BR>> website <http://www.gunbanobama.com/>, which predicts that Democratic<BR>> presidential candidate Barack Obama, ?if elected?would be the most anti-gun<BR>> president in American<BR>> history<http://www.gunbanobama.com/Default.aspx?NavGuid=99ac1df3-2e0b-454c-a039-dffd66849533>.?<BR>> The<BR>> website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit Obama.<BR>> <BR>> *December 9, 2008*?FBI teams investigating the murder of white supremacist<BR>> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find supplies for a crude<BR>> radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives in his home. Cumming's<BR>> wife, who shot him to death after being abused by him repeatedly, explains,<BR>> "His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to<BR>> kill President Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our<BR>> moter home <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html><BR>> ."<BR>> *<BR>> **February 5, 2009*?FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on<BR>> Fox called ?We Surround Them <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKUfmFL3Cs>,?<BR>> a ?grassroots effort to wake up our Nation's leaders and let them know what<BR>> many, if not most, Americans truly believe in and stand for.?<BR>> <BR>> *February 20, 2009*?FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a<BR>> 2014 civil war scenario called ?The Bubba<BR>> Effect<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8La5xLYo2-s>.? It<BR>> involves citizen militias in the South and West taking up arms against the<BR>> U.S. government.<BR>> <BR>> *March 3, 2009*? FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity<BR>> spokesman Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, ?Somebody<BR>> asked me this morning, they said, ?you really believe that there's going to<BR>> be trouble in the future?? And I said, ?if this country starts to spiral out<BR>> of control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really<BR>> starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a<BR>> totalitarian country ? Americans will, they just, they won't stand for<BR>> it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.? And they said,<BR>> ?where's that going to come from?? And I said, ?Texas, it's going to come<BR>> from Texas <http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/22220/>.??<BR>> <BR>> *March 9, 2009*?NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial<BR>> published at WorldNetDaily: ?How much more will Americans take? When will<BR>> enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen<BR>> or will history need to record a second American<BR>> Revolution?<http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91103><BR>> ?<BR>> <BR>> *March 11, 2009*?NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative<BR>> Political Action Conference and announces that ?Our Founding Fathers<BR>> understood that the guys with the guns make the<BR>> rules<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAWQ-TMF3I><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *March 21-22, 2009*?Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she<BR>> wants residents of her state to be ?armed and dangerous on this issue of the<BR>> energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ?having a<BR>> revolution every now and then is a good thing,? and the people?we the<BR>> people?are going to have to fight back hard if we?re not going to lose our<BR>> country<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *April 4, 2009*?Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police<BR>> officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend<BR>> Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared ?the Obama gun ban<BR>> that?s on its way<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>?<BR>> and ?didn?t like our rights being infringed<BR>> upon<http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pittsburgh-shooter-poplawski-didnt-o>.?<BR>> Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because ?if<BR>> anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna? stand by what his<BR>> forefathers told him to do <http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001115/>.?<BR>> <BR>> *April 7, 2009*?The Department of Homeland Security?s Office of Intelligence<BR>> and Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United<BR>> States. The Department notes that ?the economic downturn and the election of<BR>> the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing<BR>> radicalization and recruitment <http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf>.?<BR>> Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, the Department<BR>> speculates, ?The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the<BR>> return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into<BR>> their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups<BR>> or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent<BR>> attacks<http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *April 15, 2009*?Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after<BR>> he openly states on Twitter <http://twitter.com/citizenquasar> that he is<BR>> going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City ?Tea Party? into a bloodbath. Two<BR>> months earlier, Hayden had written online, ?The only thing that is keeping<BR>> the New World Order from destroying this nation is the presence of over<BR>> 100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns are outlawed, only criminals<BR>> will have guns. Since we are already criminals in the eyes of the New World<BR>> Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and to kill those of us who will<BR>> NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE gun "laws" and keep your guns<BR>> (AND ammo) handy<http://www.jackbloodforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=22193&p=123690#p123690><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *April 19, 2009*?The Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/>, an<BR>> anti-government group made up of current and former law enforcement and<BR>> military personnel, holds its first "muster" in Lexington, Massachusetts,<BR>> the site of the opening shots of the Revolutionary War. The groups' members<BR>> pledge to disobey ten different orders that they deem<BR>> "unconstitutional<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>"<BR>> and "immoral<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/>,"<BR>> the first of which reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American<BR>> people<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *April 25, 2009*?Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National<BR>> Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to<BR>> arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing<BR>> gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely<BR>> disturbed<http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/cartwright-16963-elizabeth-deputies.html>"<BR>> that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County Sheriff Edward<BR>> Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia groups and weapons<BR>> training <http://cbs2.com/national/police.shooting.sheriffs.2.995014.html>."<BR>> <BR>> *May 2009*?Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats<BR>> to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the past<BR>> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in<BR>> 2008<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/24/AR2009052402931.html>.<BR>> Federal officials blame a number of parties, including the "sovereign<BR>> citizen" movement?an unorganized grouping of tax protesters, white<BR>> supremacists, and others who don't respect federal authority.<BR>> <BR>> *May 21-22, 2009*?We The People<BR>> <http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a<BR>> gathering of 30 "freedom keepers" in Jekyll<BR>> Island, Georgia. The meeting plays "a key role in launching the current<BR>> resurgence of militias and the larger anti-government 'Patriot'<BR>> movement<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias>."<BR>> One of the participants, former Texas militia leader Jon Roland, claims the<BR>> federal government has "been engaging in warlike activity against the<BR>> American people<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 31, 2009*?Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an<BR>> abortion provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,<BR>> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical<BR>> anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka,<BR>> Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate. Police found a<BR>> military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound<BR>> can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car.<BR>> <BR>> *June 3, 2009*?Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling<BR>> for the deaths of two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they<BR>> sponsored a bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman<BR>> Catholic parishes from priests and bishops to lay members. ?While filing a<BR>> lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle<BR>> things<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3>,?<BR>> he wrote, ?we at TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a<BR>> group of tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft.<BR>> Thankfully, the Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve<BR>> tyranny: The Second Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take<BR>> up arms and put down this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police<BR>> department or court thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I<BR>> suspect we have enough bullets to put them down,<BR>> too<http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/northbergen/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1244183127151340.xml&coll=3><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *June 10, 2009*?James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a ?hardcore<BR>> Neo-Nazi <http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/dc.museum.shooting.suspect/>,?<BR>> walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and shoots<BR>> and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western civilization was<BR>> going to be replaced with a ?ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI<BR>> GOVERNMENT<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>?<BR>> that would ?confiscate private<BR>> weapons<http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/06/10/von_brunn/index.html>?<BR>> in order to accomplish its goals.*<BR>> *<BR>> *June 24, 2009*?Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three<BR>> Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had<BR>> issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing<BR>> on his blog, Turner says, ?Let me be the first to say this plainly: these<BR>> judges deserve to be<BR>> killed<http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/06/hate_blogger_hal_turner_arrest.html>,?<BR>> and includes photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers of<BR>> the judges, as well as a map of Chicago?s federal courthouse which points<BR>> out its ?anti-truck bomb? pylons.<BR>> <BR>> *July 13, 2009*?Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,<BR>> Texas, with an assault rifle<BR>> <http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7db_1247676436>. Police<BR>> were responding to reports that Ortez or his wife had fired shots at utility<BR>> workers in the area. Police searching Ortez?s mobile home after a 10-hour<BR>> standoff find more than 100 explosive devices; Nazi drawings and extremist<BR>> literature; and several additional firearms.*<BR>> <BR>> July 15, 2009*?Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia<BR>> House of Delegates in the state?s 99th District makes headlines by calling<BR>> on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the country.<BR>> Appearing at a ?Tea Party? rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick<BR>> Henry and then states, ?We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot<BR>> box before we have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our<BR>> Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of<BR>> firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the<BR>> Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against<BR>> tyranny<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604070.html>.?<BR>> This thought is reinforced on Crabill?s campaign website, where she states<BR>> the Second Amendment ?was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and<BR>> more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed<BR>> citizenry<http://www.catherinecrabill.com/catherine_crabill_for_del/issues/><BR>> .?*<BR>> <BR>> July 31, 2009*?On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob<BR>> Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions ammunition, target practice,<BR>> and Barack Obama<http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1026150.ece>.<BR>> Haa<BR>> tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to save it for the<BR>> administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the Secret Service.***<BR>> <BR>> August 11, 2009*?William Kostric is filmed openly carrying a handgun outside<BR>> of President Obama's health care reform town hall meeting in New<BR>> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF<BR>> LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of<BR>> liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and<BR>> tyrants<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/thomas-jefferson-and-the_b_273800.html><BR>> ."*<BR>> <BR>> August 17, 2009*?Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15<BR>> semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix,<BR>> Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across<BR>> the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, ?What do you<BR>> think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British<BR>> weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us the<BR>> way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked them<BR>> out of our country, and *we will forcefully resist people imposing their<BR>> will on us through the strength of the majority with a<BR>> vote*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *<BR>> **August 25, 2009*?During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls, Idaho, an audience<BR>> member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010 Idaho Republican Primary, a<BR>> question about "Obama tags" during a discussion about state-issued tags for<BR>> wolf hunting. Rammell responds, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of<BR>> those<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html>."<BR>> In a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the law<BR>> knows I was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting<BR>> tags in Washington,<BR>> D.C.<http://www.idahostatesman.com/2009/08/28/880461/idaho-gop-leaders-condemn-rammell.html><BR>> "<BR>> <BR>> *August 26, 2009*?At a secessionist rally on the state capitol steps in<BR>> Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina states that, "We are<BR>> aware that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war. We are<BR>> aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered with<BR>> the blood of tyrants and<BR>> patriots<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show#32635648><BR>> .?<BR>> *<BR>> September 9, 2009*?With President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol to<BR>> address a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform,<BR>> Joshua Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia, attempts to drive his Honda<BR>> Civic into a secure area near the building. U.S. Capitol Police stop him<BR>> and, searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of<BR>> ammunition<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/josh-bowman-man-with-gun-_n_282397.html>.<BR>> He<BR>> is arrested on weapons charges.<BR>> <BR>> *September 25-26, 2009*?Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the ?How to Take Back<BR>> America? Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience, ?If we had our guns<BR>> [during the time of the Nazis? reign in Germany], we would have fought a<BR>> bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy<BR>> ammunition. Take back America. Don?t let them take the country into<BR>> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler?s party was National Socialism. And<BR>> that?s what we are having here right now, which is bordering on<BR>> Marxism<http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/28/werthmann-nazism-socialism/><BR>> .?*<BR>> <BR>> September 28, 2009*?Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman of the Second<BR>> Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House<BR>> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a ?domestic enemy of the<BR>> Constitution<http://blogs.onlineathens.com/node/1425>?<BR>> at a health care reform town hall meeting.<BR>> <BR>> *September 29, 2009*?An<BR>> editorial<http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf>at<BR>> the Newsmax website calls for a military coup to oust President Obama.<BR>> <BR>> *September 30, 2009*?The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio program<BR>> on Sirus, takes a call from ?Jim? from Oklahoma, who claims that he and 200<BR>> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against President Obama. Jim says<BR>> they want to restore their "a right to bear arms" and bring the country back<BR>> to where it was 400 years ago, before slavery was abolished.<BR>> <BR>> *October 18-19, 2009*?Reports emerge that the Secret Service has received an<BR>> unprecedented number of death threats against President<BR>> Obama<http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/new-report-find-secret-service-overwhelmed-by-increased-threats.php>.<BR>> Ronald<BR>> Kessler's account of presidential security, *In the President's Secret<BR>> Service<http://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Secret-Service-Behind-Protect/dp/0307461351><BR>> *, states that there has been a 400% increase in such threats in comparison<BR>> with Obama?s predecessor. Another source of these reports is an August 5,<BR>> 2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which finds: ?The [Secret]<BR>> Service?s protection mission has increased and become more ?urgent? due to<BR>> the increase in terrorist threats and the expanded arsenal of weapons that<BR>> terrorists could use in an assassination attempt or attacks on facilities.?<BR>> <BR>> *October 21, 2009*?John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard,<BR>> is arrested for making terroristic threats against President<BR>> Obama<http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/newark-security-guard-john-brek-arraigned-on-3-charges-for-threats-against-president-obama>.<BR>> Authorities<BR>> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a stolen rifle. Brek, a<BR>> National Rifle Association member, is also found to be in possession of<BR>> illegal hollow point bullets.<BR>> <BR>> *November 2009?*Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri,<BR>> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges Missourians to<BR>> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt government. The<BR>> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County Republicans<BR>> website<http://lafayettecountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-i-70-billboard-replaces-famed.html><BR>> .<BR>> <BR>> *November 11-22, 2009?*More than 100 delegates from across the country<BR>> attend a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The<BR>> People<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/>.<BR>> Attendees include Neo-Confederate secessionists, "Common Law Court"<BR>> enthusiasts, adherents of the "Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia<BR>> backers, and other radicals. Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll<BR>> Island, the Congress issues a document entitled the "Articles of<BR>> Freedom<http://www.alamogordo2atf.com/AOF_20100128.pdf>"<BR>> which declares that the federal government "now threatens our Life, Liberty<BR>> and Property through usurpations of the<BR>> Constitution<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/midwifing-the-militias><BR>> ."*<BR>> <BR>> **November 29, 2009?*Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart<BR>> tweets, "Capital<BR>> punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high<BR>> treason<http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911290004>."<BR>> Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted<BR>> researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who has<BR>> called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global warming.<BR>> *<BR>> December 23, 2009**?*Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a<BR>> federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns,<BR>> including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that<BR>> includes convictions for lewd and lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old<BR>> and attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a<BR>> parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the<BR>> stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of<BR>> Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government<BR>> taking over the right to bear<BR>> arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091225/ap_on_re_us/us_hostage_situation_post_office><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *January 2010**?*A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in<BR>> Ravalli County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a "<BR>> questionnaire <http://ravallirepublic.com/123/militia_petition/petition.pdf>"<BR>> pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory vaccinations, allow<BR>> citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose (including fully automatic<BR>> machine guns), and require federal government employees to get written<BR>> approval before approaching "any Citizen" in the county. The questionnaire<BR>> is organized in part by Celebrating Conservatism, a group with direct ties<BR>> to the militia movement<http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/IndyBlog/archives/2009/08/18/conservatismor-extremism><BR>> .<BR>> *<BR>> January 2, 2010**?*More than 300 people attend a rally in Alamogordo, New<BR>> Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots and Second Amendment<BR>> Task Force <http://www.alamogordo2atf.org/>. The purpose of the rally is to<BR>> protest health care reform, and many of the rally's participants openly<BR>> carry handguns and/or rifles. One attendee states that his handgun is a ?very<BR>> open threat <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>? to the ?socialist<BR>> communists <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>? in the Obama<BR>> Administration. ?The government fears the people, and a disarmed people are<BR>> slaves <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc>,? he says. ?Political<BR>> power comes from the barrel of a gun ... They?re pushing us to our<BR>> limits<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjVWifq4Kc><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *January 12, 2010**?*Mark Campano of Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty<BR>> to charges of possessing destructive devices not registered with the federal<BR>> government. Law enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November<BR>> 2009 after he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two<BR>> fingers. They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of<BR>> rounds of ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor states, "He<BR>> was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to<BR>> anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was some kind<BR>> of radical, and he didn't believe in the<BR>> government<http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/law_enforcement_investigating.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *January 12, 2010**?*Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former Marine with ties to<BR>> Tea Parties and far-right-wing organizations like Oath<BR>> Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>,<BR>> is arrested at his home on charges of raping a 7 year old-girl. Sheriff's<BR>> deputies find several firearms inside Dyer's home and a Colt M-203 40mm<BR>> grenade launcher, which was stolen from a military base in Fort Irwin,<BR>> California, in 2006. Dyer had been an organizer of militia groups in<BR>> Oklahoma and told one interviewer, "I'm going to use my training and become<BR>> one of those domestic terrorists that you're so afraid of from the<BR>> [Department of Homeland Security (DHS)]<BR>> reports<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CNNiGwUDJs>."<BR>> In another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly calling patriots,<BR>> veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have to say is you?re<BR>> damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that endangers our<BR>> rights and the Constitution of this<BR>> 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><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *February 9, 2010**?*Gregory Girard of Manchester, Massachusetts, is<BR>> arrested for weapons charges after police find 20 firearms, thousands of<BR>> rounds of ammunition, and explosive devices in his home. Girard's wife says<BR>> that her husband recently told her, "Don't talk to people, shoot them<BR>> instead <http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_041222314.html>."<BR>> In a January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with the Tea Party<BR>> movement, Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war and state of<BR>> emergency of some time for decades uninterupted ... The entire body of these<BR>> War Powers and 'continuity of gov't' plans render our concept of a<BR>> Constitutional Republic to be little more than thin veil of civility and<BR>> justice layered over a monsterous, diabolic dictatorship that would break<BR>> out of political cage but for Americans vigorously exercising their 2nd<BR>> Amendment rights ... As it stands today at start of 2010, there is never a<BR>> time that our gov't would find itself without some excuse, no matter how<BR>> perverse, as the justification for unleashing their murderous 'War Powers'<BR>> monster upon the public, in an attempt to subject us to<BR>> tyranny<http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2734278%3ABlogPost%3A154819&commentId=2734278%3AComment%3A154896&xg_source=activity><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *February 13, 2010**?*An unidentified speaker at an event organized by the<BR>> Lewis and Clark Tea Party Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the<BR>> audience, "How many of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What<BR>> happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's<BR>> what I want to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty<BR>> Murray<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/idaho-tea-party-speaker-h_n_466261.html?ref=fb><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *February 18, 2010**?*Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine<BR>> plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing<BR>> one and wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with<BR>> the federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on the<BR>> bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand<BR>> what they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is. If this is not<BR>> the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is<BR>> the answer, it is the only<BR>> answer<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/18/joe-stack-statement-alleg_n_467539.html?page=1><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *February 19, 2010**?*Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, is arrested<BR>> and charged with making threats against the president after his poem titled<BR>> "The Sniper" is found on the website NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S.<BR>> Secret Service. The poem reads, in part: "As the tyrant enters his cross<BR>> hairs the breath he takes is deep. His focus is square on the target as he<BR>> begins to release. A patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his<BR>> life. But for his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The<BR>> bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration<BR>> on the casing reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the trigger<BR>> releasing all his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as he seals that<BR>> monkey's fate. The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death.<BR>> And where there was once a face there is nothing left. Two blood covered<BR>> agents stare in horror and dismay. Looking down toward the ground where<BR>> their president now lay<http://www.wlky.com/download/2010/0219/22615404.pdf><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *February 2010**?*Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort<BR>> Drum and member of Oath Keepers <http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>, tells a<BR>> reporter that he and five fellow service members at the Army base are<BR>> preparing to take on the U.S. government when it declares martial law, and<BR>> will turn their guns on their fellow soldiers should it become necessary. "I<BR>> know their tactics <http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers>,"<BR>> says Pray. "I know how they...work their convoys?if we attack this vehicle,<BR>> what the others will do ... If the government continues to ignore us, and<BR>> forces us to engage, I'm willing to fight to the<BR>> death<http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *March 2010**?*The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009<BR>> saw a dramatic increase in the number of new anti-government "Patriot"<BR>> groups in the United States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups<BR>> jumped from 149 (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in<BR>> 2009*?*a 244% jump<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring/rage-on-the-right><BR>> .<BR>> <BR>> *March 2, 2010**?*FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly, speaking about<BR>> the *McDonald<BR>> v. Chicago *case before the Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff Otis<BR>> McDonald's inability to own a handgun in Chicago amounts to<BR>> "tyranny<http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."<BR>> Predicting that four justices on the Court will side with the city of<BR>> Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's interesting that in America today the far<BR>> Left that wants the government to call the shots, not the folks. In the<BR>> past, Right-Wing extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront<BR>> of state control. But with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are<BR>> primarily on the Left <http://mediamatters.org/research/201003030001>."<BR>> <BR>> *March 4, 2010**?*John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels to<BR>> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the entrance to<BR>> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic firearms and "many<BR>> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers before he is killed by<BR>> return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the<BR>> U.S. government had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963<BR>> coup. In an Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many<BR>> murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of<BR>> thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as<BR>> a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric<BR>> control<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCKwXk17aAr3T_8Z9nN4iUwQPnngD9E8KP283><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *March 19-22, 2010**?*During consideration of health care reform legislation<BR>> by the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in<BR>> Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New<BR>> York; and Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the<BR>> Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting<BR>> a blog on March 19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,<BR>> thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might<BR>> just make up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a<BR>> rifle unnecessary<http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-all-modern-sons-of-liberty-this-is.html>."<BR>> Several Democratic members receive death threats, including Rep. Louise<BR>> Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill the children of the members<BR>> who voted YES <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>"; Rep.<BR>> Bart Stupak (D-MI), who receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know<BR>> where you live; we'll get<BR>> you<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html>";<BR>> and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller, "Better<BR>> hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a<BR>> gun<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/markey-got-threatening-phone-calls-before-vote.php>."<BR>> House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus<BR>> (D-OH), says he "may be a dead<BR>> man<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34907.html><BR>> ."*<BR>> <BR>> March 21, 2010**?*As the U.S. House of Representatives enters a final round<BR>> of debate over a controversial health care reform bill, Conservative blogger<BR>> Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the assassination of President Barack<BR>> Obama on his Twitter account. In two separate postings, Forrel writes,<BR>> "ASSASSINATION!<BR>> America, we survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln & #Kennedy. We'll<BR>> surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next #American with<BR>> a #Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad<BR>> habit<http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/><BR>> ."<BR>> *<BR>> March 21, 2010**?*Russell Laing, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and<BR>> making terroristic threats after a four-hour standoff with police at his<BR>> home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers were responding to a 911 call<BR>> after Laing called a friend and said he couldn't walk. When police responded<BR>> to the call, Laing pointed an assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.<BR>> After Laing was arrested, officers recovered approximately 150 guns and<BR>> 15,000 rounds of ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't<BR>> explain it. In my 40 years, I've not seen that type of<BR>> collection<http://www.wpxi.com/news/22903086/detail.html>,"<BR>> said McCandless Police Chief Gary Anderson.<BR>> <BR>> *March 23, 2010**?*After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel<BR>> Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of<BR>> Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop<BR>> by<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34843.html>,"<BR>> someone deliberately<BR>> cuts<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35040.html>a propane<BR>> gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is targeted by the Tea Party<BR>> activists because of his vote in favor of health care reform. Perriello's<BR>> brother and his wife have four children under the age of eight.<BR>> *<BR>> March 24, 2010**?*After voting for health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart<BR>> Stupak (D-MI)<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/stupak-receives-threatening-fax-with-drawing-of-noose.php>and<BR>> Rep.<BR>> 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<BR>> faxes with drawings of nooses.<BR>> <BR>> *March 25, 2010**?*Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care<BR>> reform legislation, receives a package containing white powder and an angry<BR>> letter telling him to "drop<BR>> dead<http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/White-Powder-Package-Sent-to-Congressman-Weiners-Office-89136827.html>."<BR>> <BR>> *March 26, 2010**?*Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care reform<BR>> legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it will take a<BR>> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected you for<BR>> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington, D.C., we will<BR>> get you in Little<BR>> Rock<http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=121037.54928.133165><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *March 26, 2010**?*NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment<BR>> on FOX News' "Your World" program: ?I?m the expert on the health care bill<BR>> because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas and<BR>> seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to help out<BR>> American pigs ? We gotta? kill the<BR>> pig<http://video.foxnews.com/v/4125942/nugent-new-independence-day-in-november?category_id=86858><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *March 29, 2010**?*A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged<BR>> with threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38,<BR>> is arrested by the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he referred to<BR>> Cantor's family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your<BR>> heads<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-the-fbi-busts-youtube-terrorists-in-under-a-day.ars>."<BR>> Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes, and<BR>> threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the Democratic<BR>> Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long history of mental<BR>> illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun permit in<BR>> Pennsylvania<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100329_Phila__man_charged_with_threatening_GOP_congressman.html>,<BR>> which alarmed his family.<BR>> <BR>> *March 29, 2010**?*Nine members of the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian<BR>> militia are arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to<BR>> deploy weapons of mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill<BR>> a law enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices<BR>> (IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted federal<BR>> officials, members of the law enforcement<BR>> "brotherhood<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html>"<BR>> and other participants in the "New World<BR>> Order<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901541.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *March 30, 2010**?*Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an<BR>> extremist anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free<BR>> Republics<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/front-page.html>.<BR>> The letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or "they<BR>> will be removed<http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/2136993,extremist-group-governors-removal-040210.article>"<BR>> from office. A page on the group's website entitled "Rationale" reads, "For<BR>> those who are concerned about opening the door to satanic forces, permit me<BR>> to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated with great sobriety the<BR>> wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to World War III<BR>> continues<http://guardiansofthefreerepublics.com/rationale.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *April 1, 2010**?*CNN commentator Erick Erickson, questioning the legality<BR>> of the U.S. Census Bureau?s American Community Survey (ACS), makes the<BR>> following comment on WMAC-AM radio: ?We have become, or are becoming,<BR>> enslaved by the government ... I dare ?em to try to come throw me in jail. I<BR>> dare ?em to. [I?ll] pull out my wife?s shotgun and see how that little ACS<BR>> twerp likes being scared at the door. They?re not going on my<BR>> property<http://www.macon.com/2010/04/06/1084164/erickson-draws-fire-for-gun-comment.html><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *April 1-20, 2010**?*Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury<BR>> (AGJ) <http://americangrandjury.org/>, attempts to effect a citizen's arrest<BR>> on grand jury foreman Gary Pettway at the Monroe County courthouse in<BR>> Madisonville, Tennessee, and is arrested. Nineteen days later, on the day<BR>> that Fitzpatrick is scheduled to face trial, Oath<BR>> Keepers<http://oathkeepers.org/oath/>member Darren Huff is pulled over<BR>> by Tennessee state troopers as he attempts<BR>> to drive to the courthouse to arrest county officials he calls "domestic<BR>> enemies of the United States engaged in<BR>> treason<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/right-wing_extremists_take_on_local_law_enforcemen.php?ref=mp>."<BR>> Huff is armed with a Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400<BR>> rounds of ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in<BR>> interstate commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in<BR>> commerce a firearm in furtherance of a civil disorder.<BR>> <BR>> *April 6, 2010**?*Authorities charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah,<BR>> Washington, with threatening a federal official after Wilson makes several<BR>> phone calls to the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed<BR>> handgun permit holder in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for<BR>> health care reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her<BR>> back.<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html>"<BR>> He also told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and some<BR>> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at risk, dear<BR>> ... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between<BR>> your...eyes<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417979_murray06.html?source=mypi><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *April 7, 2010**?*Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San Francisco, California, is<BR>> arrested for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<BR>> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi dozens of times, recited her home<BR>> address, and told her that if she wanted to see it again, she should drop<BR>> her support for health care reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of<BR>> mental health problems <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>" and his<BR>> mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox News and all of those that are<BR>> really radical <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201004070058>."<BR>> <BR>> *April 7, 2010**?*Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on<BR>> charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement<BR>> officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from<BR>> an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker<BR>> over for a traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led<BR>> officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and<BR>> escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the<BR>> authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American<BR>> citizen<http://articles.courant.com/2010-04-07/business/hc-manhunt-winsted-0406_1_troopers-state-police-bail>."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> *April 10, 2010**?*At a "Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut<BR>> Citizens Defense League <http://www.ccdl.us/>, Martha Dean, the<BR>> Republican-endorsed candidate for Attorney General in Connecticut, tells<BR>> those in attendance, "If government is legitimate and truly is the voice of<BR>> the people, it need never fear the people themselves when they?re armed.<BR>> Only a government that uses secrecy and force to impose improper laws [to]<BR>> which the people do not consent need fear the wrath of its law-abiding<BR>> citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately, with arms ? Our right of free<BR>> speech and to back it up with arms if necessary if our government becomes<BR>> tyrannical and unjust as King George?s was to the colonists are the most<BR>> essential of the rights we as Americans have ... I will oppose all efforts<BR>> to create nonsensical distinctions that are nowhere supported by our<BR>> constitutions between different types of firearms. Nowhere in the<BR>> Constitution does it say that the government gets the effective firearms and<BR>> the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere in our Constitution does it say<BR>> that the government gets the modern firearms and the citizens only get the<BR>> antiquated ones<http://aconnecticutlawblog.com/2010/06/martha-deans-land-of-screwy-habits/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *April 13, 2010**?*Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and<BR>> Rep. Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to discuss<BR>> the formation of a new "volunteer<BR>> militia<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>"<BR>> to defend against what they see as improprer federal infringements on state<BR>> sovereignty. Brogdon states that the Founding Fathers "were not referring to<BR>> a turkey shoot or a quail hunt. They really weren't even talking about us<BR>> having the ability to protect ourselves against each other. The Second<BR>> Amendment deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear<BR>> arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal<BR>> government<http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/oklahomas-rightwing-lawmakers-aim-create-antifederal-militia/>."<BR>> One Tea Party leader involved in these meetings, J.W. Berry of the<BR>> Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the Militia to "launch a thousand<BR>> guerrilla attacks on the plans that these people have to ruin us and our<BR>> 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><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *April 19, 2010**?*Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies in the Washington,<BR>> D.C. area to demonstrate their opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian<BR>> government <http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36108>." Among the<BR>> featured speakers at the events are current and former militia leaders and<BR>> others with ties to extreme, anti-government groups. The choice of date is<BR>> significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary of the first shots being<BR>> fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington/Concord, the<BR>> fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and the 1995 bombing of the<BR>> Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. At the "Second<BR>> Amendment March" in the District of Columbia, Larry Pratt, the Executive<BR>> Director of Gun Owners of America, states, "We're in a war. The other side<BR>> knows they are at war, because they started it. They are coming for our<BR>> freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are coming for<BR>> everything because they are a bunch of<BR>> Socialists<http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/second.amendment.rally/>."<BR>> Mike Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for<BR>> several instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes on<BR>> health care reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort<BR>> Hunt National Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the<BR>> legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or<BR>> to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a<BR>> state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further<BR>> obedience ... This is what the other side doesn?t understand! We are doing<BR>> backing up! Done! Not one more inch<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAJDVEpsdQ><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 4, 2010**?*A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks speaker<BR>> Rep. Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us<BR>> vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside<BR>> enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would he have to do differently<BR>> to be defined as a domestic<BR>> enemy?<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>"<BR>> After smiling and stating that "no one thinks that the president is a<BR>> domestic enemy <http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/04/cantor-event-heritage/>,"<BR>> Cantor is booed by several members of the audience.<BR>> <BR>> *May 6, 2010**?*Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South<BR>> Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she holds<BR>> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the Second<BR>> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights ... The<BR>> Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to ensure that our<BR>> limited government stayed limited and that we would be able to enforce those<BR>> limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign people. A sovereign people is<BR>> an armed people <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHJihLaQBw>."<BR>> <BR>> *May 15, 2010**?*At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in<BR>> Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful Newt<BR>> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in defense of<BR>> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not in defense of<BR>> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of freedom from the<BR>> State<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0>."<BR>> He goes on to make the following reference to Thomas Jefferson's "The tree<BR>> of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots<BR>> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's historically honest has to admit [the<BR>> Founding Fathers] understood the right to bear arms because they routinely<BR>> carried arms. These were tough people in a tough time in a tough country<BR>> doing tough things and the idea that they would allow some D.C. city<BR>> government or some Washington federal bureaucrat to get between them and<BR>> their Constitutional rights, they would have said in Jefferson's terms was<BR>> the legitimate justification for a political revolution in every generation<BR>> which was what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,<BR>> the arrogance, and the obsolenscence that government would invariably<BR>> have<http://news.yahoo.com/video/charlottewcnc-15750615/raw-video-newt-gingrich-speech-19869240;_ylt=AqiFpCtr9aIHoXoHhFkjPNuz174F;_ylu=X3oDMTEwazJwMzJvBHBvcwM1BHNlYwNjbGlwcwRzbGsDcmF3dmlkZW9uZXd0><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 15, 2010**?*Referring to a controversial new anti-immigration law in<BR>> Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells the 2010 NRA Convention, "Let's<BR>> talk a minute about a 'well-regulated militia' and why you might need one<BR>> because the government isn't doing their job. Let's meet people in Texas,<BR>> Arizona and California<http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video/appearances/Glenn-Beck-2010-NRA-Speech/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 20, 2010**?*Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally<BR>> shoot two Arkansas police officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a<BR>> routine traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed<BR>> during an exchange of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90<BR>> minutes later<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/kane_west_memphis_arkansas_shootings.php>.<BR>> Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long<BR>> history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for driving<BR>> with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a<BR>> "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance<BR>> scams.<BR>> <BR>> *May 27, 2010**?*The *Washington Times* publishes an editorial claiming that<BR>> a United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade in<BR>> smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of personal<BR>> firearms<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/>"<BR>> in the United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all insurgencies<BR>> are bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is<BR>> to rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as<BR>> Syria, Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone endorse gun control<BR>> ... Governments are a bigger threat to most people than their<BR>> neighbors<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 30, 2010**?*Sharron Angle, a candidate for the Republican nomination<BR>> for U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the *Reno Gazette-Journal* that a recent<BR>> increase in gun sales nationwide "tells me that the nation is arming. What<BR>> are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of government?<BR>> They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second<BR>> Amendment kinds of<BR>> ways<http://www.rgj.com/article/20100530/NEWS19/5300350/1232/Sharron-Angle-s-conservative-credentials-wins-support-of-activist-army>."<BR>> These comments echo ones made by Angle in January, when she told<BR>> conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our Founding<BR>> Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that<BR>> was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.<BR>> And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a<BR>> revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but, you<BR>> know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking<BR>> toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do<BR>> to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is<BR>> take [U.S. Senator from Nevada] Harry Reid<BR>> out<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/sharron_angle_floated_possibil.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *May 31, 2010**?*Oath Keeper <http://oathkeepers.org/> Rex Nichols, a<BR>> candidate for sheriff in Montana's Lincoln County, makes reference to<BR>> federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993 and<BR>> promises to keep them out of the county if elected. "I am going to take my<BR>> deputies and stand in the middle of the road and tell them to get the hell<BR>> out<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80>,"<BR>> says Nichols. "And if they want a war, they got<BR>> it<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iBaWAQ_JhXPNbueFC6eg2sV0tYwAD9G1OBU80><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *June 2010**?*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in<BR>> which he dicusses contemporary political issues with America's Founding<BR>> Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach<BR>> him<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>"<BR>> and rails about the "progressive income<BR>> tax<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>,"<BR>> the Internal Revenue Service, and health care reform, a Founding Father<BR>> replies, "Gather your<BR>> armies<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/alabama-tea-partier-defends-gather-your-armies-tv-ad-video.php?ref=fpa>."<BR>> Several Founding Fathers are depicted as being armed with pistols.<BR>> *<BR>> June 9, 2010**?*Addressing the Obama administration and the<BR>> Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says, "Tea<BR>> parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the<BR>> principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot<BR>> me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the<BR>> head if you try to change our government. I will stand against you and so<BR>> will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most<BR>> in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and<BR>> brought in wearing sheep's clothing?change the pose. You will get the ends.<BR>> You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have<BR>> called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the<BR>> head<http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201101220005><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *June 9, 2010**?*Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening<BR>> to kill a federal official after making two calls to the office of U.S. Rep.<BR>> Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's opposition to<BR>> Arizona's controversial new immigration law and threatened to come to the<BR>> Congressman's office and ?blow everyone's head<BR>> off<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36281.html><BR>> ."<BR>> *<BR>> **June 27, 2010**?*Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in<BR>> which he compares taxation and "the tyrannical health care<BR>> bill<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"<BR>> to slavery and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in<BR>> perilous times ... We are all becoming slaves to our<BR>> government<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>,"<BR>> Barber warns. The "army of voters<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg>"<BR>> depicted in the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with guns. In a<BR>> follow-up editorial in the *Washington Post*, Barber makes reference to "the<BR>> possibility of evil conducted on a grand<BR>> scale<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>"<BR>> and states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to<BR>> serfdom is a long one, but I fear that we are well on the<BR>> way<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904257.html>."<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> *July 2, 2010**?*The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax<BR>> collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing<BR>> animosity<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html>"<BR>> toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise Tax<BR>> Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that "crossed the<BR>> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than any place<BR>> ... I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has<BR>> experienced some animosity ... I don't want to put my people at<BR>> risk<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_8ca58b45-3fd5-5dec-9ed4-8552bf189280.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *July 3, 2010**?*Joyce Kaufman, a conservative radio hosts on WFTL in<BR>> Florida, tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party event, ?I<BR>> am convinced that the most important thing the Founding Fathers did to<BR>> ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment.<BR>> And if ballots don?t work, bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say<BR>> I?ll put my microphone down on November 2nd if we haven?t achieved<BR>> substantial victory, I mean it. Because if at that point I?m going to up<BR>> into the hills of Kentucky, I?m going to go out into the Midwest, I?m going<BR>> to go up in the Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I?m going to gather<BR>> together men and women who understand that some things are worth fighting<BR>> for and some things are worth dying<BR>> for<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs><BR>> .?<BR>> <BR>> *July 6, 2010**?*Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of<BR>> America<http://gunowners.org/>,<BR>> tells *Religion Dispatches*, "If you have a people that has basically been<BR>> disarmed by the civil government, then there really isn't any effectual<BR>> means available to the people to restore law and liberty and that's really<BR>> the purpose of the right to keep and bear arms?is to defend yourself against<BR>> a tyrant<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>."<BR>> Titus goes on to cite the "totalitarian<BR>> threat<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"<BR>> posed by "Obamacare<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/>"<BR>> and "what Sarah Palin said about the death<BR>> panels<http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2910/gun_ownership%3A_%E2%80%98an_obligation_to_god%E2%80%99/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *July 11, 2010?*Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe Miller openly carry<BR>> assault rifles and handguns during a community parade in Eagle River and<BR>> Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march alongside<BR>> them<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAGdoBcnjWQ>.<BR>> Miller, who is running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican<BR>> primary, was endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described<BR>> him as a ?true Commonsense Constitutional<BR>> Conservative<http://community.adn.com/node/151885>.?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> *July 18, 2010?*California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams,<BR>> 45, after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired.<BR>> Officers had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in<BR>> and out of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long<BR>> gun. Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives<BR>> because he is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that<BR>> he was on his way to San Francisco to "start a<BR>> revolution<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/21/MNMN1EHB37.DTL>"<BR>> by killing employees of the ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says<BR>> her son was angry at "Left-wing<BR>> politicians<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/>"<BR>> and upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these Left-wing<BR>> agenda items<http://www.alan.com/2010/07/19/oakland-police-stop-suspected-right-wing-terrorist-who-was-angry-at-left-wing-politicians/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *July 26, 2010?*A proposed ordinance that would prohibit residents from<BR>> firing air rifles and other low-powered weapons within 500 feet of a<BR>> building (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from consideration in<BR>> Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of Supervisors receives a<BR>> number of angry and threatening phone calls from gun owners. Citing a<BR>> National Rifle Association "Action Alert" that claimed Exeter supervisors<BR>> were "consider[ing] a broad and overreaching attack on our Second Amendment<BR>> freedoms <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>," Exeter Township<BR>> Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was totally false information<BR>> that was put out. The anger was building, and I was concerned that someone<BR>> might actually get hurt <http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=237176>."<BR>> <BR>> *July 28, 2010?*U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district<BR>> office in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of the<BR>> office's windows. Authorities also<BR>> report<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40423.html>that U.S.<BR>> Judge Susan Bolton receives hundreds of threats at her Phoenix<BR>> offices after issuing an injunction on Arizona's controversial new<BR>> immigration law.<BR>> <BR>> *July 29, 2010?*Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed Project (which is<BR>> dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size<BR>> target out to 500 yards), explains that Americans should own an AR-15<BR>> assault rifle "because they want to tell us what to do. And we don't want<BR>> them to tell us what to<BR>> do<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all>."<BR>> James Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that, "the government has quite<BR>> literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the principles outlined in *The<BR>> Communist Manifesto*. It's completely out of control from city to state to<BR>> federal to international law. All predicate their existence on plundering<BR>> the individual and his rights. The only thing to do now is to organize<BR>> citizens into a militia to abolish this<BR>> government<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/magazine/01Appleseed-t.html?pagewanted=all><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *July 30, 2010?*Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64, is charged with<BR>> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death<BR>> at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.<BR>> Investigators follow Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms:<BR>> Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen<BR>> from the range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also<BR>> arrested and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other<BR>> crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the<BR>> purpose of overthrowing the federal<BR>> government<http://www.whptv.com/mostpopular/story/UPDATE-Guards-charged-in-shooting-suspended/T7TywdSx-0efWskrT3nupg.cspx><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *August 14, 2010?*Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack?who gained fame in<BR>> anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the federal<BR>> government over the Brady Bill requirement that state law enforcement<BR>> agencies conduct background checks on gun purchasers?tells those in<BR>> attendance at the American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom Action Natonal<BR>> Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for the day that the first sheriff in<BR>> this country is the one to fire the shot heard 'round the world and take out<BR>> some IRS agents!<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/-willing-to-kill-in-gatherings-over-t><BR>> "<BR>> <BR>> *August 17, 2010?*Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of<BR>> Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to ignite<BR>> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his truck. Sharp is<BR>> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a<BR>> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an exchange of gunfire with police<BR>> arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,<BR>> Eric McClellan describes him as "a great<BR>> guy<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting>"<BR>> and states, "We're Texans. We have a right to bear<BR>> arms<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_police_station_shooting><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *August 19, 2010?*Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County, Florida, is arrested<BR>> after threatening to "bear arms<BR>> against<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAcwXt1-hso>"<BR>> local law enforcement officers who were trying to serve him with a warrant.<BR>> Authorities recover a letter that Fornof had tried to serve the deputies<BR>> with, which reads, "I have the right to bear arms against such unlawful<BR>> entities, up to and including the President of the United States, that are<BR>> coming against me unlawfully, lethally, and<BR>> genocidally<http://suncoastpasco.tbo.com/content/2010/aug/19/feds-pasco-man-vowed-bear-arms-against-deputies/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *August 23, 2010?*Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he attempts to bring a<BR>> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook County<BR>> courthouse<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facing-foreclosure-man-br_1_n_692749.html>.<BR>> Pidegon was supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing that day. His home was<BR>> to be sold to a lender in North Carolina after New York-based BNY Mellon<BR>> filed an action against him in the county.<BR>> <BR>> *September 1, 2010?*James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery<BR>> Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with two<BR>> starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices. After pointing a gun<BR>> at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical<BR>> environmental activist, had previously issued 11 demands through a<BR>> webpage<http://savetheplanetprotest.com/>that Discovery was to meet<BR>> "immediately." The demands involved the content<BR>> of programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his<BR>> MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"<BR>> <BR>> *September 13, 2010?*Police stop Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic<BR>> violation in Webberville, Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover<BR>> bumper stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a<BR>> loaded handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is<BR>> arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful<BR>> possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a member of the<BR>> Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with McLeod<BR>> *<BR>> September 16, 2010?*Patricia Stoneking, the President of the Kansas State<BR>> Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to arm themselves, We have<BR>> the right to put limits on our government, and that's what [the Second<BR>> Amendment] does<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms>."<BR>> Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the amendment, she<BR>> says, "They<BR>> knew government could become tyrannical. We have the right to defend<BR>> ourselves from a rogue<BR>> government<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/09/16/second-2nd-amendment-kansas-initiative-would-reaffirm-right-bear-arms><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *September 30, 2010?*Kevin Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a<BR>> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted<BR>> thugs <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html>" of<BR>> Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree militia members<BR>> earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of citizens out there in<BR>> the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to miracles I do not understand<BR>> that civil war did not break out right<BR>> there<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516,00.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *September 30, 2010?*Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in<BR>> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent<BR>> conflict<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html>"<BR>> with federal agents if "they are doing something I believe is<BR>> unconstitutional<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-5,00.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *October 15, 2010?*Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck lays out a<BR>> hypothetical scenario on the air where the government is considering taking<BR>> his children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu<BR>> vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his response to the government would<BR>> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson<http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010150025><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *October 21, 2010?*Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate for U.S.<BR>> Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in<BR>> Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is an<BR>> "option<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>"<BR>> that remains "on the table <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>." "Our<BR>> nation was founded on violence <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs>,"<BR>> states Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the<BR>> table as it relates to our liberties and our<BR>> freedoms<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqBkWj4YVSs><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *October 22, 2010?*Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for a<BR>> missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on<BR>> Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an<BR>> AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He<BR>> told us to get off the property or he would kill us<BR>> all<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>."<BR>> Later that afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search<BR>> warrant and an armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens<BR>> fire on the vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot<BR>> and kill him. Police find guns and "many rounds of<BR>> ammunition<http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x1149338339/Former-Gov-son-found-dead>"<BR>> in Granger's house. They also find the body of Clements, buried in a shallow<BR>> grave on Granger's property.<BR>> <BR>> *November 2, 2010?*On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional<BR>> candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob Filner<BR>> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego following the<BR>> announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a damn liar. You should<BR>> be ashamed of yourself<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>,"<BR>> Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other Popaditch supporters<BR>> yell "You're<BR>> a scumbag!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>> "Jew!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>> and "Don't tread on me,<BR>> Bob!<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-...political-madness/69530/>"<BR>> Another Popaditch supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the face.<BR>> <BR>> *November 3, 2010?*James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested on<BR>> the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law enforcement<BR>> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle barrel, a .22<BR>> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition, and<BR>> propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock<BR>> former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated the president. He hated<BR>> everything. He said if he got a chance he would shoot the<BR>> president<http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13448240>."<BR>> Patock tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle<BR>> Association<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110407609.html><BR>> .<BR>> <BR>> *November 4, 2010?*On his radio show, conservative host Glenn Beck<BR>> fantasizes about President Obama being decapitated during a trip to India,<BR>> saying, "If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they<BR>> think he was a Muslim over there because he left his religion for<BR>> Christianity, death sentence, behead<BR>> him<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>.?<BR>> Beck then tells his listeners that "God<BR>> forbid<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"<BR>> this should happen, as there would be a "New World<BR>> Order<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/beck-fantasizes-obama-beheaded-leaving-islam/>"<BR>> overnight in the United States.<BR>> <BR>> *November 4, 2010?*Fox News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a<BR>> Washington Post reporter while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we<BR>> can behead Dana<BR>> Milbank?<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html>"<BR>> O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think you and I should go and<BR>> beat him up<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110906643.html><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *November 9, 2010?*U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida's 22nd<BR>> Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman<BR>> as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party<BR>> supporters, ?I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding<BR>> Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a<BR>> Second Amendment. And if ballots don?t work, bullets<BR>> will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *November 9, 2010?*Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee, 69, of<BR>> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street for<BR>> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden with<BR>> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President Barack Obama,<BR>> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of<BR>> Israel<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."<BR>> Officers also seize literature from Lee that details "the most expedient<BR>> means of killing law enforcement<BR>> officers<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/nov/17/walhalla-protestor-requests-jury-trial/>."<BR>> The November 9 arrest follows an October 19 arrest for assault after Lee<BR>> kicked and swung his signs at a group of girls between the ages of 12 and<BR>> 14.<BR>> <BR>> *November 10, 2010?*Public schools in Broward County, Florida, go into<BR>> lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is sent<BR>> to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she made at<BR>> a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots don't work, bullets<BR>> will<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB7g3y597fs>").<BR>> The email expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment and says<BR>> that to further "their cause...something big will happen at a government<BR>> building in Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a<BR>> school<http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Possible-Suspect-Questioned-in-Massive-School-Lockdown-Threat-107271123.html>."<BR>> A phone call is then received at the station, allegedly from the emailer's<BR>> wife, warning that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines school and open<BR>> fire.<BR>> <BR>> *November 23, 2010?*Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of<BR>> America, writes an editorial in *The Register Citizen* in which he calls for<BR>> state and county sheriffs to organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on<BR>> the unconstitutional exercise of federal<BR>> power<http://www.registercitizen.com/articles/2010/11/23/opinion/doc4ceb3b593f453721919056.txt><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *November 29, 2010?*U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on<BR>> the House Energy and Commerce Committee, circulates a PowerPoint<BR>> presentation to his colleagues in which he compares the Obama administration<BR>> to the Nazi regime in Germany and likens himself to Gen. George Patton,<BR>> bragging, "Put anything in my scope and I will shoot<BR>> it<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/powerful-republican-calls-assassination-president-obama/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *December 3, 2010?*At "Roe & Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday<BR>> Extravaganza" promoting "Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee<BR>> Emery (famous for his depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal<BR>> Jacket") tells those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to<BR>> point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot<BR>> to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it until<BR>> they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and<BR>> we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're<BR>> destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so that they can<BR>> impose socialism on<BR>> us<http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/full-metal-jacket-drill-instructor-apologizes-calling-americans-rise-up-obama/><BR>> ."<BR>> <BR>> *December 31, 2010?*An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and Raves"<BR>> section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a citizen<BR>> activist who has requested?under Alaska?s Open Records Act?work-related<BR>> emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while governor of the state. The<BR>> threat states, "I think Andre has used up to much oxygen. So I have my scope<BR>> cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her<BR>> last <http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/death-threat-palin-critic>."<BR>> The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL account of an Anchorage<BR>> woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she is the one who is responsible<BR>> for it.<BR>> *<BR>> **January 6, 2011?*John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set<BR>> fire to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his<BR>> staff. The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about<BR>> his Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and<BR>> "may go to terrorism<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>."<BR>> "I'm just going to come down there and shoot you<BR>> all<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/john-troy-davis-facing-as_n_806928.html>,"<BR>> he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.<BR>> <BR>> *January 8, 2011?*Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle<BR>> Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a<BR>> Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal<BR>> judge John Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the head.<BR>> Loughner has an extensive history of mental illness and substance abuse, yet<BR>> is able to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity ammunition magazine<BR>> legally at Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video<BR>> posted in December 2010, Loughner states, "You don?t have to accept the<BR>> federalist laws ... Nonetheless, read the United States of America?s<BR>> Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous<BR>> laws<http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10><BR>> ."<BR>> *January 8, 2011?*Fearing violence from tea party activists, Arizona<BR>> Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia<BR>> Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger Dickinson, and former district spokesman<BR>> Jeff Kolb resign from their positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for<BR>> anyone<http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html>,"<BR>> says Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts from tea<BR>> party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign worker for<BR>> U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in which a<BR>> detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at him.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com> wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Your arguments would have more veracity if you named people on both the<BR>> > right and the left, but you continue to harp on only Palin and the Tea<BR>> > Party. Talk about hate speech, no one has been on the receiving end of it<BR>> > more than Palin. She has been hanged in effigy. Do you condone that? I<BR>> > suspect that if she were to be assassinated there would be very little<BR>> > condemnation of it from the left. Most likely the comments would be "good<BR>> > riddance" or "she had it coming".<BR>> > Roger<BR>> > -----Original message-----<BR>> > From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe@gmail.com<BR>> > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800<BR>> > To: Dan Carscallen areaman@moscow.com<BR>> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health<BR>> ><BR>> > > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting: "This can?t be blamed on<BR>> > rhetoric,<BR>> > > nor on extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely<BR>> > on a<BR>> > > sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps, the ?blame? lays on the<BR>> > > freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the United States of America."<BR>> > ><BR>> > > First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric, or<BR>> > Palin,<BR>> > > or anyone, or anything. No one that I know who has talked about the<BR>> > > connection between violent rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ<BR>> > > shooting has used "blame" talk. So let's get that straight.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,<BR>> > let's<BR>> > > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What can<BR>> > we<BR>> > > do to prevent shootings like this from happening in the future? Your<BR>> > opinion<BR>> > > seems to be that we can't do anything, that shootings like this just<BR>> > happen<BR>> > > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in societies that have the<BR>> > kinds<BR>> > > of "freedoms" that our society has. That we should accept them because we<BR>> > > can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive people of their<BR>> > > "freedoms."<BR>> > ><BR>> > > Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical for my tastes. I<BR>> > > think we CAN do something about these kind of shootings. What can we do?<BR>> > I<BR>> > > don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are some<BR>> > > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the solution, I'm just<BR>> > claiming<BR>> > > that we can do something if we put our minds to it and come up with a<BR>> > plan.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > The claim that violent rhetoric and gun laws and even Palin's poster have<BR>> > > NOTHING to do with the shooting, that the explanation for the shooting is<BR>> > > unrelated to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and others,<BR>> > is<BR>> > > an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical issues. You have to<BR>> > > back up such an extreme claim -- a claim like the claim that violent<BR>> > > rhetoric has NOTHING to do with violence in America. Here are a few<BR>> > reasons<BR>> > > why I think you can't back that claim up.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than in<BR>> > almost<BR>> > > any other country; why the violent rhetoric apparently works when it<BR>> > comes<BR>> > > to getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of success<BR>> > in<BR>> > > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of Republican<BR>> > > victories during the last Bush era) yet has NO other impact on human<BR>> > > behavior; why a lot of the violence from "lunatics" is directed toward<BR>> > folks<BR>> > > on the left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the<BR>> > > explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're so certain that<BR>> > > there is NO connection between violent rhetoric and actual violence. I'm<BR>> > > pretty sure you have no formal training in psychology or sociology, so<BR>> > I'm<BR>> > > unsure what your basis is. I don't think the explanation has anything to<BR>> > > with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision of a society that is both<BR>> > free<BR>> > > and nonviolent is an absurdity.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > I think it is clear that there is SOME connection between violent<BR>> > rhetoric<BR>> > > and actual violence. The real questions are how much of a connection is<BR>> > > there (what is the nature of the connection) and what can we do about it?<BR>> > I<BR>> > > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman@moscow.com><BR>> > wrote:<BR>> > ><BR>> > > > Vizzz peeps,<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > We live in a free society. One of the prices we pay for living here is<BR>> > > > that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any<BR>> > minute> Should they be? Probably not, but who is to say when and how these<BR>> > folks<BR>> > > > should be rounded up and treated? Sure, I think all of us can talk<BR>> > about<BR>> > > > the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are<BR>> > we<BR>> > > > supposed to do? Call the cops and have them haul him in because he<BR>> > doesn?t<BR>> > > > fit society?s norm? I think there are a lot of folks, right here on<BR>> > the<BR>> > > > Vizzz even, that don?t necessarily follow the ?norm?. But we go along<BR>> > and<BR>> > > > live our lives in our free society.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > The media talked to this Jared guy?s neighbors, and they said ?yes, he<BR>> > > > seemed like a nutjob?, but what were they to do? They watched him,<BR>> > kept<BR>> > > > their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could. Unfortunately, he<BR>> > > > ?slipped through the cracks?. Should he have been prevented from<BR>> > buying a<BR>> > > > pistol? Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn?t a convicted<BR>> > felon, he<BR>> > > > answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money. It?s not a<BR>> > > > speedy process, no matter who or where you are. Even with a concealed<BR>> > > > weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it?s not quick by any<BR>> > means.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > This can?t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side of<BR>> > the<BR>> > > > aisle. The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.<BR>> > And,<BR>> > > > perhaps, the ?blame? lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of<BR>> > the<BR>> > > > United States of America.<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > Your pal<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > DC<BR>> > > ><BR>> > > > =======================================================<BR>> > > > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > > > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> > > > http://www.fsr.net<BR>> > > > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > > > =======================================================<BR>> > > ><BR>> > ><BR>> > ><BR>> ><BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> > List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> > http://www.fsr.net<BR>> > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > =======================================================<BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what<BR>> the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be<BR>> replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. 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