Mission Accomplished, Liberals: Death Threats for Tucson Tea Party Leader

Posted 12 Jan 2011 in hypocrisy, intolerance, liberals

Within minutes of the Tucson shooting, Leftists like Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas began a ghoulish campaign to blame Conservatives for the actions of Jared Lee Loughner.

Over the weekend, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was running off at the mouth, blaming the Tea Party and Rush Limbaugh for the murderous rampage of a deranged lunatic. And right on cue, hordes of Liberal dimwits gathered on Twitter to vent their hatred of Sarah Palin.

Now, even though it’s become clear that there is absolutely no connection between the Right and the Loughner’s murderous rampage, some “Progressives” are still following the advice of Democrat talking heads and taking their hateful invective into the very realm they accuse their ideological counterpoints of inhabiting: actual death threats.

Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest tea party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally intended to unify Tucson after six people were killed in the tragedy.

Humphries says he’s been getting threats at his home from people who seem to hold him and his organization partially responsible for the shootings Saturday. Humphries told TPM he thinks Obama’s visit will help put an an end to the political debates and let Tucson refocus on healing after the deaths of six of its citizens. Humphries told TPM he’s called the Sheriff’s department more than once in the past few days to make them aware of threatening phone calls.

“We got a not-so-veiled threat,” Humprhies told me. “The Sheriff’s deputies told me to stay away from public places.”

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Humphries said the threats have coincided with Saturday’s shooting and began nearly right away.

“We had people say, ‘too bad it wasn’t your family that was killed,’” Humphries told me. Other angry calls have come in as well. “‘The blood of that little girl on your hands,’” Humphries recalled one message saying.

But it was a new call that came in this week that Humphries said had him staying out of public view for a while.

“It was something like ‘we hate you and we’re going to stand against you and we’re going to use our First and Second Amendment rights to stop you,’” Humphries told me.

Exactly what I’ve come to expect from Liberals; intolerance, vitriolic rhetoric, and a heaping helping of hypocrisy. Making death threats and carrying them out are the actions of a maniac, and whoever is making these new threats is just as dangerous as Jared Lee Loughner. If Sheriff Dupnik could stop making public statements and get back to enforcing the law, perhaps he could prevent another round of violence — this one motivated by politics in addition to mental illness.

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

1 Comment

  1. Mad Jack
    13 January 11, 4:15pm

    I was wondering when this crap was going to happen. You know, it just never fails. Whenever there is a tragedy, the moonbats congregate in droves and start a screed about just how the rest of the world should live. Now they're resorting to threats and personal hate speech.

    One thing to keep in mind is that if these are actual liberal idiots, they are very likely to be unarmed. Ergo, pack your gat.

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