A Day in the Life of Tea-Party-Inspired Violence and Terror

     You know how Tea Party and Republican politicians, like Sarah Palin, have been using language saturated with veiled and not-so-veiled calls for violence against the U.S. government and elected officials (Democrats).  Well the past few days have been bearing fruit.  And as their Jesus said, you shall know a tree by its fruit. 

     In the embedded video below, Rachel Maddow reports on the fruit of the Tea Party's labor.  Here are the highlights.

• A Washington man has been arrested for threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-WA) because of the healthcare reform bill that was passed. (FOX News reports "Man in Murray threat wasn't an intimidator." Big surprise.)
• Congressman John Lewis (Democrat-GA) released an example of the threats he's been getting.  The phone message is in the coverage embedded below.  It involved repeated use of the both the f-word and the n-word, and repeated Tea Party lies about the health reform killing people.
• Erlyndon J. Lo, a 27-year-old man from Plano, Texas, was arrested after saying he'd use physical and deadly force to stop abortions at a clinic in Dallas.  (Remember Bill O'Reilly's call to arms against George Tiller, who was murdered last year while in his church?)
• Conservative guns rights advocates are planning an armed March on Washington, D.C., on April 19th.  They will march in Virginia as close as they can get to the National Mall legally armed.  They are planning various armed protests in state capitals.
• In Virginia, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell just declared April to be Confederate History Month.

     I guess the question of these good Christians is now "Who Would Jesus Terrorize?"
    

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