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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Haley Stevens calls on Capitol Police to investigate MTG's threat against Democrats
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@HaleyLive·
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I am concerned about the mental health of my colleague from Georgia and would like
@CapitolPolice to address her dangerous threats in my workplace.
Just as we would in any school or job site, we cannot let calls for gun violence go unchecked.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,498 posts)What will this woman claim?
Freedom of Speech. It was just words that drove someone to harm a colleague.
liberalgunwilltravel
(318 posts)Wouldn't it be karmic justice if the one she got killed was herself?
hadEnuf
(2,150 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)Just see how the SORE LOSER and his ilk are trying to cannonize Ashli Babbitt -- the terrorist who was shot while trying to climb into the Capitol. Or they were until her violent past came to light recently.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ashli-babbitt-jan-6-insurrectionist-portrayed-as-martyr-by-some-had-violent-past
ShazzieB
(15,960 posts)She sounds like a real charmer. Yikes.
housecat
(3,121 posts)Lovie777
(11,992 posts)MiHale
(9,593 posts)Once again we come to a if I did that moment. She has to be at very least censured, its a slap on the wrist but its a slap instead of nothing.
Go, Haley, go!
doc03
(35,151 posts)The next morning the county Sheriff was waiting for him in the parking lot when he came to work.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Disgusting.
JI7
(89,186 posts)Probatim
(2,459 posts)Soooo many punchable faces.
ShazzieB
(15,960 posts)So, you want to run for office on the GOP ticket? Well, let's check your qualifications...
US citizen? ✔
Heart full of hate? ✔
Experienced with lying, cheating, and being an all around snake in the grass? ✔
Punchable face? ✔
Congratulations, it looks like you're good to go!
Probatim
(2,459 posts)Other than that, it's a solid list.
ShazzieB
(15,960 posts)I swear, I had it in mind to include that. It just got lost in the shuffle.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Totally!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I swear that woman would nail Jesus to the cross with glee if she could do it
calimary
(80,700 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)nt
NQAS
(10,749 posts)Every. Single. Time.
Exercise second amendment rights. File every single piece of paper required to have this threat investigated.
Target, crosshairs, killshot, destory. I repeat. File every single piece of paper required to have this threat investigated.
Not only with Capitol Police. Make sure the report of the threat is sent to every relevant federal law enforcement agency. Post the reports on their website. Call their hometown newspapers and make sure this is reported in their districts and states. Talk to newspaper editors and encourage them to publish editorials calling these terrorists out. Because that is what they are: terrorists.
From the Patriot Act: A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Every single republican who spouts violence and implicitly endorses threats and intimidation, like thos emichigan idiots and the yahoos at the Capitol ought to be held to this standard. They all supported it when Scary Brown Islamic people and "Lefties" were the targets.
Prosecute them and use this. Make use of Gitmo for these terrorists.
I am tired of the angry, loud, violent minority.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Fortunately the Domestic Terrorism Unit recently has been formed at the DOJ to handle this type of activity. Will it?
gab13by13
(20,883 posts)What about Secret Service or FBI?
RandySF
(57,661 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)Isn't she a Christian?
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)We (and she) are keenly aware of how attentive the GQP crowd is in discerning not-so-subtle dog whistles. She should be held to account for any violence that breaks out in the wake of these highly incendiary comments.
JT45242
(2,173 posts)She would have been escoted out by security and visited by the local police (who might sympathize with her -- if just to keep up appearnces).
That people in Congress get away with this and have no real consequences.
Aren't there laws against threatening members of congress.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts).. and that she hopes to "never see a civil war in this country."
Of course she doesnt! But if it happens, well
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)and escorted out for questioning by law enforcement. How the fuck do these people get away with it?
ShazzieB
(15,960 posts)Has this woman even read the 2nd amendment? Because last time I checked, it mentioned the right to "keep and bear arms," not the right to kill people.
Asking for a friend.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)niyad
(112,444 posts)personage are welcome there. Apparently even Hell has standards.