You are very correct...threats and terrorism are not the answer. By their silence, or late and contrite responses, where they still try to spin to make the democrats look bad shows their complicity or, at least, silent acceptance of these actions. What they need to be doing is making strong denouncements of these actions and letting their followers know that this is not acceptable behavior and this is not how Americans act as part of our political discourse. Their silence on this is deafening.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 2:53 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Surprise, Surprise. Tea Party leaders prove to be dangerous AND stupid Well, I never subscribe to one-brush stroke fits all. Except for the French, of course. I would make a couple of other distinctions. For me, organizer/leader != supporter. One is in charge. One follows. I seldom fault a leader for the action of a single or few supporters. More than a few, and I look for trends, and see if the trends are caused or exacerbated by the leaders. But reading about this guy, he is literally certifiable. And therefore possibly dangerous. If he sent the threat based on Obama's (or his mouthpieces') rhetoric, then Obama should be held accountable. No doubt. I personally have already sent a letter to the White House complaining about both the use of the recent violence as a fundraising opportunity, and as importantly for his people for being so disgustingly mealy-mouthed about it on the Sunday news shows. I also sent one to my Senator Scott Brown, calling him out for the disingenuous fundraising letter last week, and more, for fundraising MOSTLY outside of Massachusetts. That ain't right, either. FWIW, I am very happy this guy was taken off the street, and that Rep Cantor is OK. There is no excuse for this behavior. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > So how does this play into the one brush stroke fits all? > > Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Rep. Eric > Cantor< > http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/man-charged-with-threatenin g-eric-cantor.php > > > > Eric Cantor is the Minority Whip and Jewish. > > The man charged is Norman Leboon. > > So is Mr Leboon a tea party organizer. No. He's an 0bama supporter. > > He contributed twice to Mr. 0bama's campaign > > Norman Leboon, Accused of Threating to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to > Barack Obama's Presidential > Campaign< > http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/03/norman-leboon-accused-of-threating.h tml > > > > So, if the one shoe fits all model is going to be used, we can assume all > 0bama supporters are violent people who want to kill republican > congressmen. Or maybe he wants to kill the Jewish congressmen. I think we > can safely assume both since it's okay to make wide accusations based on a > few people. > = ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314271 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
