"Either by ballots or by bullets we are going to get you out of office."

[Robb]

This is who you stand with when you stand against gun safety legislation.

For the second time in a month a man has been arrested, accused of sending threats to a state lawmaker because of their stance on gun control measures.

David Cassidy has been charged with harassment and attempting to influence a public official after he allegedly left a threatening voice mail for Sen. Andrew Kerr, a Democrat representing Lakewood.

Kerr said he believed this message crossed the line: "Andy Kerr, you and the rest of the communist Democrats are going to regret what you’re doing. Either by ballots or by bullets we are going to get you out of office."

Read More: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/03/28/man-arrested-for-allegedly-theatening-lawmaker-extreme-reaction/

[mercuryblues]

1. hmmm.

http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005

Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.

[Archae]

2. He sure got old!

[loudsue]

5. And ugly!

Not a chance!

[LiberalLoner]

33. LOL!

[MineralMan]

3. Lock him up. Jail terms for all death threats would

cut down on the number of such threats, I'm quite certain. Make sending a death threat a felony, too. That way, after being convicted, the assholes wouldn't legally be able to own firearms at all.

Not enough room in the prisons? Release everyone who is in there for simple possession of drugs. That's easy. Fill the prisons with violent assholes who terrorize people with threats.

[nomorenomore08]

44. +1000

You have an uncommon level of common sense!

[HughBeaumont]

4. Yet another Angry White Guy still fighting The Cold War.

Because wanting fairness and equal rights = The Soviet Union.



How many of these stains do we still have roaming around?

[Gore1FL]

6. I had a former friend (Paul-style teabag) post a Vladimr Putin quote on how to treat minorities.

When I suggested that the U.S. shouldn't take it's civil rights queues from the former head of the KGB he unfriended me.

In my experience with this type, they don't know history. They don't know definitions, either. They are stimulated into "Chicken Littles" by digesting a steady diet of fear.

I know I am taking a long way around to answer your question of "How many of these stains do we still have roaming around?" My answer, based on the 2012 election, approximately 56,145,950 people.

[HughBeaumont]

19. Oh, ho ho . . if there's one thing they DON'T know, it's definitions.

I had to defriend some simian knuckle dragger who kept calling the president "Obammie" and would freely post racist/Soviet caricatures of him. Oh, and he was a Paulbot. The funny thing about Paulbots is how they say they don't subscribe to either party yet spend 95% of the time insulting and calling for insurrection against ONE party (hint: It's the one that DOESN'T start with "R&quot . It's unbelievable.

[Gore1FL]

39. This one defriended me

It seems he got pissed off at me always pointing out he was wrong and providing links obtained from an easy google search.

[KansDem]

30. "They don't know definitions, either"

Many think "socialism" and "communism" are synonymous, thanks to the likes of FOX Spews...

[raccoon]

36. And many think "communism" or "socialism" when the right word is totalitarianism.nt

[Gore1FL]

40. They throw in "nazi" and "fascism" from time to time too.

because those are all the same as "socialism" and "communism" too...

I don't understand the brain that's first tendency is outrage rather than skepticism. It's amazing that all anyone need do is toss out a word with negative associations, and rather than grabbing a dictionary, they grab pitchforks.

[vrp]

34. Cold war my ass...

This lunatic is still fighting the Civil War.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Democrats are communists?

Why the hell do I never get updated on party policies??!?

[Robb]

12. I know, right?

[mountain grammy]

14. Yeah, nobody tells us nothin'

[Aristus]

8. In-breeding causes some fucked-up phenotypes.

These guys always look the same. As if they hailed from a family whose tree didn't fork...

[ReRe]

17. I gather you didin't see the report yet...

... where scientists have found bones of an ancient indiviidual whose parents were one human and one neanderthal. My theory is that all Republicans came from that branch of inbreeds. You know...the missing link.

link to article: http://www.democraticunderground.com/122817026

[libodem]

24. It's those close set beady little eyes

That give the fetal alcohol syndrome look to those cro magnum types. Does look like some genetic subendowment problems there.

[Flashmann]

9. "Either by ballots or by bullets we are going to get you out of office."

I worked with a guy,years ago,who was arrested and charged with "making terroristic threats",after telling a school bus driver who had slapped his little brother,that if he ever did it again,he (my co-worker)would kick drivers butt.Serious charge.Very serious,and with serious prison time for conviction.

I can't understand how threatening the use of bullets is not the same.That David Cassidy has been charged with harassment and attempting to influence a public official,is well and good,but I'm not sure those charges carry the appropriate weight they should,as would making terroristic threats.

The making terroristic threats charge my co-worker faced,which later were downgraded,was a very serious felony.I believe harassment is a misdemeanor and I suspect attempting to influence a public official might be also.

So this guy pays a fine comparable to a parking ticket.Maybe picks up a little trash along a roadway for a few hours.Then goes right back to making threats.Or worse.Actually carries out his threats.

What the hell!?!?!

[JimDandy]

23. My sentiments also.

I think the words in the bus driver's threat didn't really meet the qualifications for the charge of "making terroristic threats", and the threat was over an individual incident, which is probably why his charge was downgraded.

David Cassidy's words, on the other hand, (in my layman's opinion) do rise to the serious level of "terroristic threat", because they are aimed at a legislator in his function as a member of a group (legislator) and the words used involve a threat of death.

I hope the prosecutor upgrades the charges.

[Botany]

10. Great mug shot!

That is real fear on that man's face. I hope he gets a chance to show "his new friends"
in jail what a tough ass he is .....

Communists?

[talkingmime]

11. He's got those Dubya eyes.

[FailureToCommunicate]

26. Yes! 'Lifeless eyes. Like a doll's eyes.'

[talkingmime]

31. Well, that too, but I meant beady and set too close together. Tunnel-vision.

It's a common problem with Republicans.

[RockaFowler]

13. Wow that happened here in Florida too and the woman wasn't arrested

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I'm glad he was, but Joyce Kaufman should have been arrested, too. She incited a riot down here - and still does on a daily basis with her hate-filled talk show.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Not only that, she was almost appointed as Rep. Allen West's (R-Crazytown) Chief of Staff

That is, until the video came out and outrage predictably followed.

I loved how Kaufman claimed she was "taken out of context". I watched all eight minutes of that filth and I can't see any way she didn't mean anything other than what it looks to mean.

[drm604]

21. Do these people hear what they're saying?

In that video she says "if ballots don't work, bullets will".

Apparently they believe that if your candidate doesn't win, you have a right to start an armed revolution.

[firenewt]

27. If they start shooting, I'm shooting back. I have training and am a very good shot. So there......

[wandy]

37. What is sad is that weather misguided or well paid, people like this .........

are simply whoring for the corporate state.
They think their victory will bring liberty.
It will bring something very different.

[mountain grammy]

15. But, hell, folks, he didn't mean it. He was just jawin' with the folks..

Geez, after Newtown, nobody can take a joke anymore.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. G*d Don't Like Ugly

n/t

[Javaman]

20. Well, I hope he gets the help he needs.

It's obvious he has anger issues on top of a steamer trunk full of others.

[City Lights]

22. Ya sure got a purdy mouth.

These home-grown terrorists are creeping me out.

[marble falls]

25. Jail and revoke gun owning privlages for life for criminal actions as well as being stupid.

[titanicdave]

28. Watch this jackass

be interviewed by Faux Noise Network or as Jon Stewart so aptly named it.......Bullshit Mountain News

[The Wizard]

29. Wondering if he

will learn to squeal like pig. eeeeeeeeeeee....

[dmr]

32. Is this one of those responsible gun owners the NRA talks about?

One of those gun owners that must have his rights protected so he can threaten those he disagrees with?

"... Either by ballots or by bullets we are going to get you out of office."

This is a perfect example of why regulation is needed.

[Tender to the Bone]

35. That man is heading to life in prison, with no possibility of parole.

Good job, numbnuts!

The Colorado gun-nuts who continues to threaten lawmakers needs to be removed from society and placed into prison for life, with no chance of parole.

[freshwest]

38. The Ruff, Tuff Cream Puff recanted his threat:

...In fact, he called Kerr a week later to try to explain himself, “I’m not threatening you in any way. I’ve never threatened you in any way.”

“What I said was meant in a figure of speech. I meant it as a hyperbole. It could have very well been, ‘We’re going to remove you from office by hook or by crook,’” said Cassidy.

Police believe otherwise and investigated the voice mails which resulted in charges against Cassidy...

I can just hear the quiver in that weaseling voice now...

[Initech]

41. Hate radio has been responsible for breeding these douchebags.

[Hekate]

42. Another political assassin in the banana republic

And some of you thought this only happened in other countries.

[Rex]

43. He listens to Rush and agrees with everything he says.

nt.

[sibelian]

45. These people aren't political, they're just *disturbed*.

It's time to stop treating them as political opponents. They clearly are interested in politics only as an expression of their selfdom.