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saorsa Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:51 AM
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Indiana Deputy Attorney General tweets " use live ammunition" against demonstrators
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Source: Mother Jones

A conservative deputy AG let his emotions get out of hand. It wasn't the first time.

— By Adam Weinstein


Wed Feb. 23, 2011 12:01 AM PST
On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn't end up happening—one Twitter user sent out a chilling public response: "Use live ammunition."

From my own Twitter account, I confronted the user, JCCentCom. He tweeted back that the demonstrators were "political enemies" and "thugs" who were "physically threatening legally elected officials." In response to such behavior, he said, "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." He later called me a "typical leftist," adding, "liberals hate police."

Only later did we realize that JCCentCom was a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana.

Read more: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/indiana-official-jeff-cox-live-ammunition-against-wisconsin-protesters



So now even mild mannered middle / working class union supporters are not safe from entrenched death worshipping nut jobs like this gentleman from Indiana. He wants to relive the good old days when unions were broken the old-fashioned way, by murder.
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