Rep. Vic Snyder Reports Threat Over Health Care Vote (assassination letter intercepted by Police)

[sabra]

Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK - U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder of Arkansas says a letter saying he's a target for assassination was intercepted by U.S. Capitol Police.

Snyder says he was told about the letter Tuesday by Capitol Police. It was postmarked in a Western state - not Arkansas - and misspelled his name as "Vic Synder."

Snyder read from a copy of the original saying: "It is apparent that it will take a few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected you for assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington, D.C., we will get you in Little Rock."


Read more: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=121023.54928.133165

[fascisthunter]

1. right wing terrorism

[sakabatou]

5. Exactly

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Things continue to spiral out of control..

Where there is smoke...Sooner or later there will be fire.

[47of74]

3. The person who wrote this needs to go some place like Marion

For the next 20 years.

[aquart]

20. I'm good with that.

This is terrorism. McVeigh his ass.

[zonkers]

4. I heard it was the lousy spelling that tipped cops off.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-morans.htm

[Raschel]

8. Thinkin' the same thing. Keepin' it consistent. It's gotta be a tbagger.

[chrisa]

11. The fact that it was written with crayons on construction paper also helped.

Gotta watch out for those sophisticated terrorists.

[No Elephants]

6. A Democrat, of course.

[SocialistLez]

7. This is my rep

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I'm sure his wife is really upset.
They have three young triplets and this isn't the first incident of Rethuglican harassment.

Once when they were out at a restaurant, some rich Rethuglican wife of a Rethuglican Doctor came up to the table and started going off on him AND his wife.
No class whatsoever.

The classless (expletive) even bragged about it in an email to her friends.

[Jennicut]

9. Rethugs clearly have no class or morals. They scream about values but obviously lack some of their

own.
I am very worried about these Reps. I think the tea partiers realize the Senators and Congressmen are easier targets the President (who has 24/7 Secret Service protection).

[spotbird]

12. Not the first harassment

A quiet dinner out

Local Republicans are circulating an e-mail, on the jump, from a doctor's wife happy about getting in U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder's face over his health care vote during dinner with his wife at Graffiti's.

Tonight was something straight out of the movies! Nine of my girlfriends were out in Little Rock for a couple of birthday celebrations at our favorite restaurant, Graffiti's. We had been there about one hour when Vic Snyder walked in with his wife Betsy and of course looked around the room as if everyone loved him. My friend Morie said, give him a chance to sit down and order a drink and I am going to tell him what I think about his "yes" vote on Saturday night for the Health Care amendment. I said "don't go without me!" All of a sudden Morie rose and walked off and I jumped up and followed her. Morie went up to him and shook his hand and said how disappointed she was in his vote, Vic just smiled and said "thank you for your opinion". I shook his hand and told him my name and that I was married to Glenn Davis, a physician and that we were going to do all we could to see that he was not re-elected. His wife Betsy sat there with her mouth open. Betsy and I have known each other for several years and have served on the Arkansas Hospice Board together. After we sat down three of our friends got up about 15 minutes later to tell him what they thought and he said " my wife is in tears because of the other two women who were so rude and we do not want to hear anymore. My girlfriend, Linda, whose son is a Marine pilot said " they were not rude, they just wanted you to know that you were wrong in voting yes". Vic and Betsy got up to leave but she stopped at our table to tell us how disappointed she was that we chose to interrupt their dinner and that we should call his office. I looked her in the eye and said " Vic works for me and I can say whatever, whenever I want and he should be ashamed to vote yes for this bill. I said we would like to have the same health care plan they and their four kids have, one boy and a set of triplets(under a year old), at their age, who is paying for that? Betsy ran off and Vic paid the bill. Everyone at the table said to him, hope you enjoyed the dinner we just paid for. It was so great! Vic had no response and I cannot tell you how many people came to our table and thanked us for what we did. Keep after these people, they are so out of touch with America ! Janet

I happened to have heard about this episode earlier from the other side of the fence. In that account, Snyder paid his own bill and went on to Vino's.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2009/11/a_quiet_dinner_out.aspx

[vduhr]

15. Snyder chose to take the high-road, but..

he should have complained to the management and had her and her classless friends thrown out of the restaurant. Snyder gets paid for doing a job, just as she does. I guess it's ok for her to buy her dinner with her earnings, but not Snyder? Rethugs are rude, classless pigs!

[47of74]

21. Agreed

[MineralMan]

10. This one is absolutely a direct death threat.

The FBI needs to be involved, and put their lab to work on identifying this cretin. A big public arrest and perp walk should be done, so all the other cretins can see it.

[CLANG]

13. Luckily these people are not very bright, so should be easy to track down.

[Jefferson23]

14. This is appalling, and the Republicans continue to deny their role.

When did ANYONE in the Congress receive death threats for their vote to invade Iraq? I have been trying to track down information that
would answer my question, so far, I have found none.

[Krashkopf]

16. GOP denials piss me off, too.

GOP leaders, like Boner in the House, and Limpballs on the radio, whip the GOP base into a fearful, hate-filled, frenzy, and then claim to be "shocked, shocked" when a T (is for Terrorist)- bagger acts out in a fearful, hate-filled, frenetic way.

God forbid someone is seriously hurt, or killed, but, if it happens, GOP leaders will have blood on their hands.

[Jefferson23]

17. I agree, and I suspect that once again, the Independents will reject

the Republicans once more...just the same way they rejected Palin when she came on board with McCain.

[Heywood J]

18. The letter writer is eligible for the DP if his buddies follow through.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000351----000-.html

§ 351. Congressional, Cabinet, and Supreme Court assassination, kidnapping, and assault; penalties
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(c) Whoever attempts to kill or kidnap any individual designated in subsection (a) of this section shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.
(d) If two or more persons conspire to kill or kidnap any individual designated in subsection (a) of this section and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be punished
(1) by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, or
(2) by death or imprisonment for any term of years or for life, if death results to such individual.

As it is, the writer is on the hook for any number of felonies.

[Gman]

19. I guarantee you

the FBI already has the DNA off of where the envelope was licked and any other trace evidence that has someone's own personal signature on it. They will find him.

[live love laugh]

22. "...misspelled his name as "Vic Synder." Fucking morans. nt

[classysassy]

23. The silence of the republican leadership

Reign in your thugs .