Take a look at this or this or this, and tell me how it is different from the comments cited in this diary or this or the numerous references in my diary from a couple of weeks ago.
Oh yeah, the latter ones are directed against the President of the United States and elected Democratic officials.
Now, is this different from suggesting that someone should poison a Supreme Court Justice, or to call for sleeper cells to rise up and rebel against our own Government?
There is a word that was used by these same fucking lunatics, rightists a few years ago to describe behavior that was much more tame and much less threatening – what was it again?
Right.....treason.
But on a serious note, this went on during the campaign unchecked and it has gotten more out of control over the past few months. Make no mistake – someone will do something boldly stupid in the name of "saving the country" or some other crap if it isn’t stopped. Based on the overwhelming chest-thumping chickenshit behavior by so many on the right who were cheerleading for more bombing, more invasions and more war from the safety of their computers, it likely won’t take more than rounding up a few (and preferably a couple of very high profile) wingnuts and throwing their asses in prison as "enemy combatants" (after all, that was perfectly ok when the last administration had that power) to put much of this to rest.
OK, so maybe that is a stretch. But it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch – how long can a large group of people be advocating violence against their President and government – with the gleeful approval and encouragement of some very high profile and (at least to these psychopaths) influential figures without any checks or sanity? How many more people have to get vaguely threatening emails that can easily be viewed by the FBI as worthy of investigation?
Ironically, the same people who called others traitors or treasonous are the first to advocate violence when "their side loses". The first to go way beyond what anyone other than the most radical of people ever think about – let alone say (or act on). And this isn’t new by any stretch - I wrote about this in December 2007.
The only way for it to stop is for someone to get hauled off and imprisoned. Or charged and investigated for their threats – even if they are "just kidding".
If not, the consequences will be immeasurable.