"This is naked, raw terrorism."

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/22/12523/099

You Have the Right To Bear Arms

by Steven D
Mon Oct 22nd, 2012 at 12:52:03 PM EST


The 2nd amendment allows you to purchase and own a firearm. That doesn't give you the right to use that shoot at signs advocating for a political candidate you dislike intensely, in this case Barack Obama. From Lubbock Texas:

“Hundreds of Obama yard signs have been stolen from neighborhoods all across Lubbock,” Lubbock Democratic Party chairperson Kenny Ketner said at a press conference Sunday. “We have had over half a dozen of our large 4×4 and 4×8 signs stolen, vandalized, or shot. And as of about 1 a.m. this morning, we can add hate crime to the list, as two of our 4×4 signs at 26th and University Ave. were vandalized with the n-word written multiple times and mustard sprayed all over the signs.”

This is naked, raw terrorism. Because nothing sends a message that people shouldn't exercise their first amendment rights of free speech, particularly political speech, than bullet holes through through their signs supporting a political candidate, any candidate. We've already seen a non-political business owner receive death threats for refusing to allow the Romney campaign to use his restaurant for a campaign event. We have seen bullets fired through the Denver office of the Obama campaign. How soon before someone is wounded or killed by someone for standing at on a street corner with an Obama sign or knocking on someone's door distributing campaign literature? All I know is that we are getting awfully close to crossing the boundary into territory that no one with any conscience at all would find agreeable.

Daily, our airwaves and the internet are inundated with messages of hate, racism and even the advocacy of violence from conservative politicians, conservative media and anyone with a Twitter account, a Facebook page or the ability to post to a comment to a website who repeats the offensive propaganda that is now taken as holy writ by a not insignificant portion of our population. Don't tell me that this mass of negative, demeaning, hateful and often inaccurate and false "speech" by partisans on the right does not stoke the fever of individuals who then take matters into their own hands. Don't even try. When you, my conservative and Republican brethren persist in stoking the flames of hate and outrage, sooner or later, it has consequences. For life, for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness.

Stop going down this path.

And by god, stop brazenly lying about what's happening:

In a separate post Monday morning, Ketner said Carl Tepper, head of the local Republican Party, accused the Democrats of vandalizing their own signs during an interview with a local radio station.

[drm604]

1. They accused the Democrats of vandalizing their own signs?

That makes my blood boil, and it's not isolated.

I posted a picture of a guy at a Romney rally wearing a "Put the White Back in the White House" shirt on a different message board. A few of the right-wingers there insisted that the guy had to be a Democratic plant trying to make Republicans look bad. They insisted that that had to be the case.

Sometimes I can't tell if they're sincere, or just trying to cover up the hatred in their party.

[Cha]

3. I think they know better but are fighting back with the

only way they know how. LIES.

[Tigress DEM]

24. Actually maybe they really can't believe some of their own would do this.

I think they need to confront their own like we would though and quite being in denial about it.

[Cha]

2. Yeah right.. terrorize Democratic Signs and accuse them of

shooting up their own signs. There's got to be a way to counteract these brainwashed, pushed towards violence, people?

How soon before someone is wounded or killed by someone for standing at on a street corner with an Obama sign or knocking on someone's door distributing campaign literature? All I know is that we are getting awfully close to crossing the boundary into territory that no one with any conscience at all would find agreeable.

Thanks babylonsistah

[Qutzupalotl]

4. We couldn't have shot our own signs

because we gave all our guns to our beloved leader, Fidel Castro.

[freshwest]

5. Needs to said... And keep saying it.

[The Wizard]

6. Republicans are

the American Taliban.

[Ricochet21]

14. You got that right

[L0oniX]

7. If Romney wins these racists will be thinking their racism and hate crimes helped.

[babylonsister]

9. Funny you mentioned that...

I just read this, and it's applicable to your comment.

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/why_a_romney_win_would_be_bad_for_america/

Why a Romney win would be bad for America
It's not necessarily about ideology: It's about the destructive opposition party behavior his victory would reward
By Steve Kornacki

[sevenseas]

8. We noticed this, too-

that the Far Reich media are advocating violence. Thank you for posting this.

We need to keep highlighting this so when something happens we will be able to prove they encouraged it to happen.

THEY KNOW there are a lot of weak-minded people out there who listen to them and take these things they say as marching orders.

If anyone is killed, the blood will be on their Far Reich Republican Teabag Brainwashing Pundit hands.

[former-republican]

10. this is pretty scary

If it's happening the same through out the town it suggests that it's the same person or small group of people.

It wouldn't be hard to set up a game cam to catch them.
I'm surprised no one has yet.

[Marinedem]

11. I've shot politcal signs hundreds of times.

I just make sure I've taken them to the rifle range before I do it.

Seriously though, there isn't a better disposable target holder in the world. I pick them up by the dozen after the elections and have a good supply all year.

I'd be hurt if anyone called me a terrorist because of it though.

[former-republican]

17. I think they mean in peoples yards

[elchicote]

12. the real problem

The real problem was not the sign being shot up by a shotgun. The real brouhaha were the two large Democratic signs that had the word n***ger written all over them. We had a news conferenc,... the video is at KJTV and KLBK Tv in Lubbock... good footage of reaction. This is called racism by some. I call it the REAL REPUBLICAN PARTY. Believe me, this is what they're all about down here, and all across the Southland, and they need to be called out so the wavering voters outside the south will know what they're voting for if they vote for Romney.

[KurtNYC]

13. Are there NO video cameras in Texas?

100s of signs vandalised and shot and they have not one image of any of the perpetrators?

This is how it's done:

[Generic Other]

15. For white supporters of Obama

the past 4 years and this election cycle have really given them a taste of what the racism a man of Obama's stature puts up with everyday in America. Many African Americans shrug it off and ask what's new. It is the white Democrats who seem angriest. I suspect it's because they have never experienced racism firsthand in the same way Obama has.

Racism by proxy. Ugly. Maddening. Infuriating.

[lunasun]

21. ah ..... maybe just a taste...

[Generic Other]

22. for some it's a new sensation

and very bitter on the tongue. A daily lesson. Especially for those who naively believed race was not as much an issue for Americans anymore.

Certainly, I have never witnessed such a constant barrage of blatant and stupid racism as Obama has endured. I have been angry for his sake. And even at times at him for not punching back harder.

But mostly I have been shocked at the extent of the racism that thrives in this country.

For some reason, not many people are willing to have this discussion in the media.

[Tigress DEM]

25. See now, I think we can see the "chops" of Obama's "diplomatic" abilities...

Having lived in America all these years as a black man and as President for 4 years and not having DECKED one of these supremicist lunatics shows considerable restraint and intelligence.

As a white person who believes racism is wrong, HELL YES I am more angry than my minority counterparts, because I CAN BE, because I SHOULD BE.

This is like *ush going after Iraq for Osama Bin Laden when he KNEW the reason was bogus. HE KILLED PEOPLE IN MY NAME.

These white a**holes make a mockery of everything that decent white folks have tried to do for hundreds of years. They TIE ME to racism and murder and hatred by having the same color of skin I do and thinking that makes them above the law. NOT IN MY NAME!!

[The Old Creak]

16. It's ground game time

We beat these racist scum by voter turnout. It's our turn at the plate!

[99th_Monkey]

19. +10 nt

[99th_Monkey]

18. Will there be guns brandished at the polling places as well?

I wouldn't be very surprised if they were, given how nutty these fanatics are
getting.

[ffr]

20. A sign is just a symbol. Vote out the Republicans and this behavior will stop.

Simple as that.

Vote in overwhelming numbers and these battles won't make a difference in winning the campaign.

[Tigress DEM]

23. How about NICE DEMs with a TWIST?

Let's round up all their R signs and Hate signs and deliver them BACK to their headquarters? IN A HUGE PROTEST MARCH?

If they ask us why, let's just say their candidates are defective and we are helping them with their recall of product that is harmful to the environment.