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Galraedia

(5,025 posts)
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:02 PM Jan 2012

Democratic Operative's Cat Slaughtered, 'Liberal' Painted On Corpse

WASHINGTON -- The race for the Arkansas' third congressional district took a gruesome turn on Sunday, when the campaign manager for Democratic challenger Ken Aden came home and found his cat slaughtered with the word "liberal" painted on the corpse.

According to a press release sent out by the Aden campaign, "The family pet, an adult, mixed-breed Siamese cat, had one side of its head bashed in to the point the cat's eyeball was barely hanging from its socket. The perpetrators scrawled 'liberal' across the cat's body and left it on the doorstep of Jacob Burris' house."

Burris, Aden's campaign manager, told The Huffington Post that it was his 5-year-old son who first saw the atrocity. He had taken his children out to fill the family car with gas before going to church, and the young boy was the first one out of the vehicle when they returned.

Burris has contacted the FBI and is further pursuing the matter with local law enforcement. The police officer who originally investigated the matter, according to Burris, said he wasn't sure whether the cat's killing could be construed as a threat. He was planning to file a report and said he would note that Burris was Aden's campaign manager.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/democratic-operative-cat-liberal-slaughtered-pet_n_1224095.html?ref=politics

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Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)
1. I don't think there is a word to describe the depth of my loathing.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:13 PM
Jan 2012

Suffice it to say, I hope that this person is caught before he/she escalates their madness.

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)
6. Stories like this make me...
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:27 PM
Jan 2012

want to put a big sign on my shirt with LIBERAL in big letters. They need to know how many grey headed grandmothers are out here thinking "liberal" thoughts.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
7. How many incidents like this have to take place before people realize what kind
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:33 PM
Jan 2012

of vile bastards compose the machinery of the Republican party?

ArnoldLayne

(2,067 posts)
8. I have 2 cats of my own and if I found out who did that I would wait about 1 year so the're would
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 05:47 PM
Jan 2012

be no suspicion at all. I would throw a brick through his window, followed by a Molotov Cocktail. I would firebomb his house and if the law was closing in on me I'm going out, simply put but not alone!!

 

Autumn Colors

(2,379 posts)
10. If they find out who did this...
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 06:05 PM
Jan 2012

I hope 4chan decides to teach this SOB a lesson. They HATE people who mistreat animals, esp. cats.

applegrove

(118,642 posts)
11. I had a cat go missing at around the time a psychopath was messing in my life. I didn't
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 11:21 PM
Jan 2012

know it at the time, though.

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