We read today that Andrew Shirvell, the Assistant to Michigan Attorney General, has been fired because of cyber bullying a gay student at the University of Michigan for the only reason that he was gay.
To no surprise Mr. Shirvell is a Republican.
The reason I mention his party affiliation is because we have seen during the last 18 months and especially during the campaigns of 2010 that the Republican Party has used methods of brutality, bullying and intolerance. The examples of this were in Alaska when candidate to the US Senate Joe Miller was being questioned by a reporter and one of his bodyguards (ala Sopranos) handcuffed the reporter, only because Mr. Miller felt uncomfortable with the questions. We also saw violence by employees of Rand Paul’s campaign towards peaceful demonstrator, pulling the woman to the ground and then kicking her head.
Since Obama has been sworn in as president we have also seen right wing militia arming itself. We also saw fanatics come to public events armed with AK47s, semi-automatic guns and all kinds of other weaponry. These do not belong at public events unless their owners have other plans, and are considering making use of them.
The amusing thing is that the right in this country says that these things happen to both sides.
I challenge Fox News, who stands to right of Attila the Hun, together with out-of-the-mainstream people such as Rush Limbaugh to show examples of events organized by or for Democrats where these things happen.
If memory doesn’t serve me wrong the last president assassinated in this country was a Democrat and he died to the hands of former marine.
Again, if I am not mistaken, the biggest domestic attack by an American was also a former marine, Gulf War veteran.
It is not a coincidence, I am only interested in the facts, or like former Senator Patrick Moynihan would say: your entitled to your opinion but not to your own facts.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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