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Democrat urges protestors to "get bloody"

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PeshakJang

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http://nhjournal.com/2011/02/23/dem-rep-to-unions-time-to-get-‘bloody’/

A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”


“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members.


Capuano’s comments come at a time when there is heightened sensitivity to violent rhetoric in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-Az.) shooting in January.


Capuano is considered a leading contender to take on Sen. Scott Brown in 2012.


This is not Capuano’s first brush with violent rhetoric. Last month Capuano said, “Politicians, I think are too bland today. I don’t know what they believe in. Nothing wrong with throwing a coffee cup at someone if you’re doing it for human rights.”
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Another example of the left's self-righteous rhetoric, in which violence, racism, hate, or any other form of less-than-civil discourse must be condemned on the Right, but is acceptable to those with the moral justification of the left.


So where will this lead? When WI passes the bill, what will happen? Will these protesters accept it and disperse? Or will the continued stoking from big Union bosses, politicians, and pundits lead to actual violence? There are already reports from around the country that anti-protesters are being assaulted, as has been the case in the past... where does it go from here?
 
Fox is referring to the demonstrators in WI as mobs, funny they never referred to the Tea Party rallys that way. I really think the right wing is hoping for violence.

One guy's statements do not a party's platform make.
 
soundforbjt said:
Fox is referring to the demonstrators in WI as mobs, funny they never referred to the Tea Party rallys that way. I really think the right wing is hoping for violence.
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They're acting like it.

When 99% of historic protest violence in the last 10 years has come from the left, a pattern it does make.
 
soundforbjt said:
Fox is referring to the demonstrators in WI as mobs, funny they never referred to the Tea Party rallys that way. I really think the right wing is hoping for violence.

One guy's statements do not a party's platform make.
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That's because the Tea Parties never acted like mobs. The same can't be said for the Unions in Wisconsin and their leftist supporters like Mike Capuano.
 
Anyway, back on track, will the left call out this Dem's call for violence as uncivil discourse?

What happened to a new era of civility?

What happened to dangerous political rhetoric?

Palin uses clip art and is called an accomplice to murder... this guy and many others are explicitly calling for violence in the streets, and it disappears.
 
soundforbjt said:
The protesters in WI are acting like a mob??? Got any facts to back that claim up?
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/7772968/threats_of_violence_rock_wisconsin.html?cat=62

Finally, Walker advised Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald that the physical safety of the members of the assembly could no longer be guaranteed. There had been reports of death threats against Wisconsin lawmakers throughout the week.

Meanwhile, the Cyber News Service is reporting that concerns are being expressed about the physical safety of Walker, who has been the subject of death threats and has been the subject of incendiary signs carried by the protesters comparing him to Hitler and Hosni Mubarak. Other signs have shown Walker's face with the cross hairs of a rifle sight super imposed on it.
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Protests at the private homes of politicians, signs calling for Walker's death, signs calling him Hitler.

Just a couple examples
 
Calls for violence, skipping the state/filibustering, banning prostitution...it's all good when it comes from the Left.
 
I'm not at all sure what inspired Capuano to make that moronic statement, but on it's face it is not an express call to INSTIGATE violence, but rather a call to be prepared to suffer violence as a result of civil disobediance. Anyone who has any experience with civil disobediance knows that police violence ("to restore order") is unfortunately frequent. Our country's history is certainly replete with numerous bloody, even murderous anti-union/anti-strike actions.

Capuano is certainly no Ghandi, however, and his stupid talk plays right into the hands of Faux News and their legions of pundits. It goes to show that Bachman, et al are not alone in their stupidity.
 
PeshakJang said:
They're acting like it.

When 99% of historic protest violence in the last 10 years has come from the left, a pattern it does make.
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Without addressing your "statistics", there was a republican president for 8 of the last 10 years presiding over a controversial war...your protesters are likely going to be of opposing political party. So your sample is a bit skewed imo.

As for intemperate violent rhetoric, it's good there's none on your side.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/26966614/detail.html
 
jonks said:
Without addressing your "statistics", there was a republican president for 8 of the last 10 years presiding over a controversial war...your protesters are likely going to be of opposing political party. So your sample is a bit skewed imo.
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Well remember, the right only sees what they want to see. Someone who isn't all that prominent makes a very bad taste statement that quite frankly the Left disagrees with, and they're the voice of the Left. People who are the most prominent members of the Tea Party make multiple statements regarding using Second Amendment rights, and they do their best not to talk about it.

It's just like how the Right wants to pretend that the first session of Congress during the Obama admin didn't have an obstructionist minorirty. But fails to realize that that minority filibustered more than any 2 other Congressional sessions in history combined!

Of course we on the Left are against statements like this and we're against violence as a means to an end. But we're also against the state using bullying tactics to quash the rights of the everyday workers. This isn't all that different than when unions first formed and companies hired thugs to threaten and bully people away from forming them.
 
thraashman said:
Well remember, the right only sees what they want to see.
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Yes, the left doesn't suffer from that at all...

This isn't all that different than when unions first formed and companies hired thugs to threaten and bully people away from forming them.
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Shortly after which the unions sent thugs to beat people up who didn't want to join the union.

You are no different than your enemy. You're disgusting.
 
PeshakJang said:
They're acting like it.

When 99% of historic protest violence in the last 10 years has come from the left, a pattern it does make.
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Only if you conveniently forget things like Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Oklahoma Federal Building! I think I prefer a little brawling with the police and ramming whaling ships.
 
thraashman said:
Well remember, the right only sees what they want to see. Someone who isn't all that prominent makes a very bad taste statement that quite frankly the Left disagrees with, and they're the voice of the Left. People who are the most prominent members of the Tea Party make multiple statements regarding using Second Amendment rights, and they do their best not to talk about it.

It's just like how the Right wants to pretend that the first session of Congress during the Obama admin didn't have an obstructionist minorirty. But fails to realize that that minority filibustered more than any 2 other Congressional sessions in history combined!

Of course we on the Left are against statements like this and we're against violence as a means to an end. But we're also against the state using bullying tactics to quash the rights of the everyday workers. This isn't all that different than when unions first formed and companies hired thugs to threaten and bully people away from forming them.
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Switch a few words around, and a right-winger can use much the same post.
 
Hello out there? Don't any of you know the history of unions? I'm sure he means to get out there and take your lumps, not to bloody anyone else. That is the only meaning that came to my mind when I read what he said.

Unions had a long history of awful violence done to them when they gathered in the past.
 
jackschmittusa said:
Hello out there? Don't any of you know the history of unions? I'm sure he means to get out there and take your lumps, not to bloody anyone else. That is the only meaning that came to my mind when I read what he said.

Unions had a long history of awful violence done to them when they gathered in the past.
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Funny, because I remember Union members seriously hurting people (physically chasing and beating to a pulp) constantly that went to work when they were striking to get their way. It really can't be taken any other way than to incite violence among a historically violent group.
 
Next the governer will come out to announce he will fight to the death while holding his umbrella 🙂 Like the good little rightwinger that he is
 
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