USA: Political Violence Encouraged

One Year’s Brief History of Leftist Political Violence and Harassment Against Conservatives & Republicans

10-29-18, * -- Liberal leftist Democrat leaders and media encourage violence against conservatives and Pres Trump's staff. Following is a list of 2018 attacks:

1. In July, in Tennessee, Clifton Ward was indicted for threatening to kill Rep. Diane Black. In New York, Martin Astrof allegedly tried to run over one of Rep. Lee Zeldin’s campaign workers who had been recognized for feeding rescue workers at Ground Zero after 9/11. Ian Nicholas Nix was arrested for threatening to kill South Carolina state Rep. Steven Long. Nix called Long “right-wing scum” and warned him, "You’re a ____ dead man.”
2. Also in July, a man who threatened to chop up Senator Rand Paul and his family with an axe was arrested.
3. In August, Carlos Bayon was arrested for threatening House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers. “We are not going to feed them sandwiches, we are going to feed them lead,” he declared. Law enforcement found bomb and assassination manuals in Bayon’s house.
4. Around the same time, DeReal Finklin, a registered Democrat, was charged for sending death threats to Rep. Christopher H. Smith. DeReal had also posted, "Anybody outside of my blood in Monmouth or Ocean County on my Facebook account, you are dead."

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1. September 9, 2018 Rudy Peters, the Republican running for Congress in the 15th District in California, was attacked by Iranian Clinton supporter, Farzad Fazeli who was wielding a knife shouting, "F___ Trump".  He had previously posted, “Don Trump won’t clean his own house, so he’s too dirty to know right from wrong. Impeach/incarcerate him before more children die. P.S. complacency is worse than being the shooter.”
2. #1 in October 2018, Shane Mekeland, a Republican running for the Minnesota House of Representatives, suffered a concussion after being punched in the face at a restaurant as his assailant shouted at him: “You f____g people don't give a s___ about the middle class.” Mekeland is back on the campaign trail, while still recovering from the assault. “The media and the likes of Maxine Waters, Hillary, and Eric Holder as of late is driving this behavior," he warned. "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, at a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere," Rep. Maxine Waters had urged an angry leftist mob.  Eric Holder, Obama’s attorney general and a possible 2020 candidate, had urged, “When they go low, we kick them." He had tweeted at Democrats, urging them to, “Use the rage.” Hillary Clinton had told CNN, "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about."
3. #2 in October 2018; also in Minnesota, State Rep. Sarah Anderson, a Republican, was punched by a man when she tried to stop him from vandalizing her campaign signs.
4. #3 in October, Kristin Davison, the campaign chief for Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for governor in Nevada, was left with pain and bruises after a confrontation with a Democrat operative. Her alleged assailant faces a charge of misdemeanor battery.

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1. ​May to June, 30 Republican members of Congress were attacked or threatened. These included, Christopher Michael McGowan who warned Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s staff, "I am not making a joke. I will kill him." It included Steve Martan, a "pacifist", who threatened to shoot Rep. Martha McSally. E. Stanley Hoff was arrested for leaving a message for Rep. Steve Stivers warning the Ohio Republican, "We're coming to get every g_____n one of you and your families. Maybe the next one taken down will be your daughter." Messages aimed at Rep. Tom Garrett threatened, "This is how we're going to kill your wife", and "This is what I'm going to do to your daughters." And Rep. David Kustoff was nearly run off the road.
2. #1 in June, James Hodgkinson, a passionate Bernie Sanders supporter, opened fire at a Republican charity baseball practice, seriously wounding Republican Rep. Steve Scalise, and Zack Barth, an aide to Rep. Roger Williams. Even though Hodgkinson had a hit list of conservative Republicans, the following denied it was politically motivated: Rep. Mo Brooks, South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan and Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Rep. Jim Jordan, Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais and Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith, the FBI denied that it was a political assassination.
3. #2 in June, Laurence Wayne Key, a Democratic Party of Marin County volunteer, was arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Brian Mast’s three children. “I’m going to find the Congressman’s kids and kill them. If you’re going to separate kids at the border, I’m going to kill his kids,” the Planned Parenthood supporter threatened.
4. #3 in June, in Florida Steve St. Felix was charged with threatening to kill Rep. Jose Felix Diaz. “Ill kill your ass and you better not show up to the next rec meeting,” St. Felix, who can be seen grinning widely in his booking photo, warned.

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After months of this, the media did not relent; it poured more fuel on the fire. The media called this “activism” denouncing Republicans for warning of “angry mobs”. Democrats and their media allies have sanctioned violence against Republicans. They have embraced and celebrated the hate groups; the mob culture they have brought forth is fundamentally changing the rules of American politics.
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The Left has made it its mission to destroy America. In academia, there is glib talk of overturning Western civilization. However, without civilization, there is only savagery. The hectoring media has made millions from it. Fortunes have poured into the war chests of radical Democrats. They can make it stop or they can go on feeding the beast while blaming conservatives. Apparently they have chosen the latter.

*Excerpted and adapted full original message from Daniel Greenfield here
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