Gabrielle Giffords Re. Palin's Gunsight Crosshairs: "There’s Consequences To That Action" (03/25/10)

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“Are you afraid? Are you fearful today?”

“You know, I’m not. We’ve had hundreds and hundreds of protesters over the course of the last several months. Our office corner has become a place where the Tea Party has congregated. And the rhetoric has become incredibly heated. Not just the calls, but the emails, the slurs. So things have really gotten spun up. But you gotta think about it. Our democracy is a light, a beacon really around the world because we effect change at the ballot box, and not because of these outbursts — of violence in certain cases, and the yelling, and it’s just … you know, change is important, it’s a part of our process, but it’s really important that we focus on the fact that we have a democratic process.”

“I think it’s important for all leaders, not just leaders of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party … community leaders, figures in our community to say, ‘Look, we can’t stand for this.’ I mean, this is a situation where people really need to realize that this rhetoric, and firing people up, and even things … For example, we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list, but the way she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district. And when people do that, they’ve gotta realize that there’s consequences to that action.”

“In the years that some of my colleagues have served, twenty, thirty years, they’ve never seen it like this. We have to work out our problems by negotiating, working together, hopefully Democrats and Republicans.”

–Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, March 25, 2010.

http://studentactivism.net/2011/01/08/gabrielle-giffords/

[dhill926]

1. hope this is reported.................n/t

[madrchsod]

2. this is what was going on in chicago this week...

white supremacist threating a juror trial

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-internet-threat-20110103,0,1502842.story

he was convicted.....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-supremacist-juror,0,4371647.story

this will be a very interesting case that will wind through the appeals court. if this conviction is upheld could the feds use this against sarah`s pac?


during the sixties several of my friends cars were targeted by the kkk in chicago. their cars had lefty signs on them so the kkk put decals of a bullet hole with the words "we`re watching you" funny how some 40+ years sarah`s pac is using almost the same thing.

[Turborama]

3. Thanks for the links, hadn't heard about that

It's such a shame it takes so long to bring these bastards to justice.

[Turborama]

4. .

:kick:

[Turborama]

5. Just found the video of her saying what was transcribed in the OP

During an interview on MSNBC in March last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7046bo92a4