In 2001, I was called a traitor kicked out of an MSN community, because I posted a message expressing concern that GW Bush would use the 9/11 attack as an excuse to invade Iraq and curtail the civil liberties of US citizens.  In 2003, I was called a traitor and kicked out of two MSN Communities, because I posted messages that I thought Bush was manufacturing evidence to invade Iraq  and curtailing the civil liberties of US citizens.  Today candidates for our nations highest offices are proposing the violent overthrow of the government of the United States, if they do not get their way in the coming elections.

Stop being mean! All Americans respect democracy!

Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.

In a rambling exchange during a TV interview, Broden, a South Dallas pastor, said a violent uprising "is not the first option," but it is "on the table." […]

In the interview, Brad Watson, political reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8), asked Broden about a tea party event last year in Fort Worth in which he described the nation’s government as tyrannical.

"We have a constitutional remedy," Broden said then. "And the Framers say if that don’t work, revolution."

Watson asked if his definition of revolution included violent overthrow of the government. In a prolonged back-and-forth, Broden at first declined to explicitly address insurrection, saying the first way to deal with a repressive government is to "alter it or abolish it."

"If the government is not producing the results or has become destructive to the ends of our liberties, we have a right to get rid of that government and to get rid of it by any means necessary," Broden said, adding the nation was founded on a violent revolt against Britain’s King George III.

Watson asked if violence would be in option in 2010, under the current government.

"The option is on the table. I don’t think that we should remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms," Broden said, without elaborating. "However, it is not the first option."

Like Sharron Angle and her "Second Amendment remedies", the intent is clear — if democracy doesn’t give the teabaggers the result they want, then violence is on the table… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Daily KOS>

I’ve heard yammering in his intent and on what he meant, but what he said is crystal clear.  Keith Olbermann and David Corn discuss.

The entire Republican Party is complicit in this.  They are endorsing his position through their silence.  You can believe that, if today’s Republicans take power, they will jump to call us traitors at the slightest complaint about their abuse of power.  And that abuse will be so severe that we will remember Crawford Caligula as a saint, by comparison.

If you’re not familiar with Art Robinson, read my article Republican Art Robinson Makes O’Donnell Seem Almost Sane.  The man makes extreme appear mild.  Here in Oregon, Peter DeFazio is well respected, but he has been pummeled with attack ads from Concerned Taxpayers of America.  It turns out that this secretive shadow group is just two men and exists to attack two candidates.  In the process of putting this article together, I learned something else that completely blew me away!

First the main subject:

At least Peter DeFazio knows now who’s gunning for him.

The nemesis of the Fourth District congressman is a low-profile hedge fund manager and model train enthusiast named Robert Mercer of Stony Brook, N.Y. Federal records show he poured at least $200,000 into advertisements that attack DeFazio, who is running for re-election against a marginal Republican candidate named Art Robinson.

Mercer is one of two listed contributors to an obliquely named super political action committee called Concerned Taxpayers of America. The other contributor is a concrete company called Daniel G. Schuster Inc. of Owings Mills, Md., which has spent $300,000 to attack Frank Kratovil Jr., a first-term Democratic congressman who represents Maryland… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Oregonian>

DeFazio led the charge to close the myriad of tax loopholes in the financial sector, especially the one that allows hedge fund managers to be taxed at the lower capital gains rate.  Mercer does not want main street leaders in Congress.  Rachel Maddow and Frank Rich provide coverage.

When I heard that closing segment, my jaw bounced off my chest.

Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bankroller Koch Industries has sparked a mild debate over judicial ethics.

On Tuesday evening, the New York Times reported that an upcoming meeting in Palm Springs of “a secretive network of Republican donors” that was being organized by Koch Industries, “the longtime underwriter of libertarian causes.” Buried in the third to last graph was a note that previous guests at such meetings included Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, two of the more conservative members of the bench… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Huffington Post>

That’s right.  SS Scalia and Teabag Thomas were hunkering down with uber-rich Republican donors in a closed-door strategy meeting, after which they helped in crafting the Citizens United decision, designed to assist Republican donors to buy the upcoming elections.  Does this scream conflict of interest to you too?

Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%!

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Republican candidates for office and media talking heads have been free in their calls for Second Amendment Solutions.  While I doubt that the terrorist attack against Raul Grijalva’s office in Tucson was perpetrated by Republican operatives, The Republican Party shares culpability, because their repeated calls for violence, rhetorical or not, prompt individuals unbalanced by fear and hate to action.

White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him Thursday afternoon.

It was not confirmed exactly what substance was mailed to Grijalva’s offices, located at the 800 block of East 22nd Street, NBC affiliate KVOA reported.

A staff member called Tucson Police earlier Thursday after finding an envelope containing the suspicious white powder. The offices were locked down by Tucson Police, and the FBI arrived to assist in the investigation, KVOA said.

An envelope arrived with swastikas drawn on the outside and a white powdery substance on the inside, Adam Sarvana, Grijalva’s spokesman, told the Arizona Daily Star newspaper.

It’s not the first time his office has been the target of threats, the Daily Star said… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <MSNBC>

Grijalva is particularly hated by Republicans, because he is the progressive Democrat who first called for the boycott of Arizona when Jan Brewer signed the unconstitutional racial profiling law against Latinos.

I’ve seen on a recent update that the powder is indeed toxic, but still do not know what it is.