It’s likely you have already seen the headlines about recent events involving Congress people and their families being preyed upon by the angry and disgruntled.
In case you have not-here is a smattering of the most recent ones:
Threats linked to health votes prompt security
Rep. Slaughter: FBI Investigating Vandalism at NY Office, Incident was “Dreadful”
Vandalism at Gifford’s office after vote
In no way am I surprised by these events, and nor should you be. The wave has been building since the GOP Convention of 2008.
Since then the Southern Poverty Law Center reports the following;
The SPLC documented a 244 percent increase in the number of active Patriot groups in 2009. Their numbers grew from 149 groups in 2008 to 512 groups in 2009, an astonishing addition of 363 new groups in a single year. Militias – the paramilitary arm of the Patriot movement – were a major part of the increase, growing from 42 militias in 2008 to 127 in 2009.
Anyone who thinks the actions of the swiftboatbirthbaggers is in any way unrelated to these statistics is smoking something we ought to be taxing.
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