Tea Party Violence

In the March 28th issue of the Arizona Republic Mr. Eugene Robinson’s (“Tea party rant not harmless”) plea to those who lead the tea party movement and those who “exploit it” start acting like responsible adults. Mr. Eugene Robinson your bemoaning the violence and the threats of violence on the right is so absurd it set my hair on fire. You identify several supposed threats, some of which may actually have occurred. However, did you ever object to even one of the thousands of threats, really bloody ones, that were openly demonstrated against our own President Bush. There were thousands of posters suggesting he be hanged, at least once by an image of Saddam, one by Bin Laden. There were hundreds of images of his being burned in effigy. Listed below are only a few of the most heinous posters.
“Kill Bush. Bomb his f------n house.”
“Hang bush for war crimes.”
“Bush is the disease. Death is the cure.
“I’m here to kill Bush. Shoot me.
“Bush, the only dope worth shooting.
“Death to worlds #1 terrorist pig. Bush and his sheep.”
“Death to extremist Christian terrorist pig Bush.”
Some of the pictures were absolutely grotesque, one of Bush with a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead, blood dripping down his face. In one picture his severed head is held aloft blood oozing from the raggedly gashed throat. Many posters had him brought to the guillotine, one called the Bush whacker.

Can you imagine the furor if even one such poster depicting violence against Obama appeared at a tea party? You scorn Sarah for her imagery, but were apparently not disturbed at all that John Kerry suggested we “kill the bird in the White House.” I go to tea parties. They are Sunday School picnics. The only violence you’ll see is the violence of your socialists friends, Mr. Robinson, who try to disrupt our peaceful gatherings. Speaker Palosi, was supposedly moved to tears remembering the violence of the protestors on the left. It was quite an act, wasn’t it? If we see violence on the right, we help you prosecute the perpetrators. You reward your violent protestors with lucrative government jobs. I know you’re following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, attacking the character rather than the ideas of your opponents, and if you can keep the rest of America away from the tea parties so they can’t see the truth, it may work.