What If Tea Partier Had Said It: Wis. GOP Given Detailed Death Threat for Union Vote
Picture this scenario: hours after the vote on Obamacare a Tea Party protester sent an email to leading congressional Democrats with a detailed description of plans to murder both those legislators and their families. The sender claimed to know where those Democrats lived, and said he had planted bombs in various places, including the capitol building.
What do you suppose the media reaction would be?
Odds are it would be a whole lot louder than the near-total media silence thus far over an email sent to Wisconsin Senate Republicans Wednesday night that states plainly: "You will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions." The email goes on to describe in detail how the sender plans on killing Republican members of Wisconsin's State Senate, who voted last night to enact Gov. Scott Walker's proposed reforms to public employee union collective bargaining. Read the full text of the email below the break, via 620 WTMJ's Charlie Sykes.
From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Rea below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.
WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it's going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records. We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn't leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so "high" on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them because that's just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it's necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will "get rid of" (in which I mean kill) you. Please understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel that it's worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
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So, this is
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 12:42pm.
the "new civility" that Ears wants? Besides being totally unhinged, this clown that wrote it needs to learn that conservatives don't scare nearly as easily as people like Gerry Rivers, Sergeant Schultz and Tingles. Or, the average DU dweller.This is way beyond hyperbole
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:28pm.
If that is a real email, it's so far beyond hyperbole, exaggeration, and crudeness. It's well written, clear, not filled with vulgar words, misspellings, and just plain dumbness. No, it's coldly thorough, and scary. This surely has to be the offense of communicating threats, a felony. I hope the authorities in Wisconsin find out who sent this message (or the FBI if it came from out of state), arrest the person, jail him, try him, convict him, and throw his sorry ass in prison for a long stretch.Nahhh...
Submitted by C-townGiant on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:50pm.
I hope they tie his sorry ass to a pole in front of a firing squad. Come to think of it, a quick death is too good for idiots like this. Let's instead just put a .45 slug in the gut, and let them dies slowly and painfully. I STILL cannot believe how the MSM has been allowed to get away with spinning this issue the way they have. What has happened to us? Why are allowing this country to be led around by the nose by these idiots at ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/(P)MSNBC, NPR, et. al.? Anyone with a third grade education can see this was the right thing to do. Collective bargaining is not a "right." Firing substandard teachers, irrespective of their "tenure" status, is the right thing to do. I weep for this country and its future if we cannot stop the radicals from disrupting society.So, the peaceful left has
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:57pm.
So, the peaceful left has spoken. Don't know who wrote this, but it must be a teacher. To well composed to be a commoner.Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Freedom of speech?
Submitted by Sigman on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 2:03pm.
Some libby will think so. The panthers were ok in their threats, freedom of speech it was called. The media wont even try to shed light on this because a conservative didn't make the threat.Has any law enforcement
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 2:04pm.
Has any law enforcement agency looked into the whereabouts of Ed Schultz during the time period in which these death threats occurred?
It wouldn't be the first time Ed made terrorist death threats, not even the first time this year as a matter of fact.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
"By Any Means Necessary"
Submitted by ljacone on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 3:00pm.
Need I say more? Once a violent radical always a violent radical. Disgusting.Justice Dept must be yucking it up over this letter....
Submitted by thescoots on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 3:13pm.
great news for democrats....the target of these threats is Republicans...so you won't have to worry about the US Justice Dept spending any of its resources investigating it. They have already filed the entire matter in the "NHP" file....That is..."Not Holder's People".....now we can move on to more important matters like Charlie Sheen or Lindsay Lohan.....These people are not only thugs ...
Submitted by NL207 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 3:32pm.
They are beyond ignorant, perhaps even delusional.In other words, they voted
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 3:40pm.
In other words, they voted for Obama.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
LYING LIBERAL COWARDS.........
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:09pm.
They COWARDS at the (IN)Justice Department only care if the people being threatened are "THEIR PEOPLE" so no they won't do anything... Reminds me alot of the Reno (IN)Justice dept!Where is the president of the
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:33pm.
Where is the president of the United States of America? Why is he not speaking out against these terrorist threats being leveled against these Wisconsin lawmakers?
Kind of makes him appear guilty. Sort of like his administration at the very least, or possibly he himself is behind this terroristic plot to kill off his parties opponents.
He's always been unable to keep his mouth shut whenever he feels the slightest inkling of an injustice against one of his own, even when he admits to not knowing the real story. Now we have 18 fellow American politicians recieving multiple death threats and our president is MIA.
Very suspicious behavior, even for Barack.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
Prime example of the
Submitted by ninerdog on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:42pm.
Prime example of the tolerance of the left. The media is tolerant of this letter because the author is a liberal. Hence they do not see themselves as hypocrites they are tolerant… They just never finish the sentence. They are tolerant if you’re on their side.How deep into Google?
Submitted by phryingphish on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 4:52pm.
I wanted to see just how deep I would have to dig into Google to find a Main Stream Media story on this. 6 screens later I found MSNBC posting a reprint from a station in Madison Wis.
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WTMJ-TV and JSOnline.com updated 3/10/2011 10:46:34 AM ET 2011-03-10T15:46:34 Share Print Font: + - The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature's move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights. MADISON - The State Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating several death threats against a number of lawmakers in response to the legislature's move to strip employees of many collective bargaining rights. Among the threats the Justice Department is investigating is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night. Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email.
[/QUOTE] (Emphasis mine)
And then a reprint of the E-Mail. That was it, NOTHING ELSE. It was like they were delivering the message.