What is the count now? Democrats have been singled out for murder or intimidation since Kennedy.

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John Kennedy -- Assassination
Bobby Kennedy -- Assassination
Tom Daschle -- Anthrax
Patrick Leahy -- Anthrax
Paul Wellstone -- Mysterious crash
Rep. Giffords shot in Tucson

I want to know more about this guy who shot Giffords. Right now I'm holding out on the theory that it's domestic terrorism because it will affect all Democratic politicians.

On edit: We still don't know if the Maryland package sent to Napolitano is also on this list, but it's now suspect.

[villager]

1. How long will the delusion of "bipartisanship" persist with these killers?

n/t

[shraby]

2. MLK qualify for the list?

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4. I'm going with sitting politicians.

People who could push forward programs, just like the one that MLK believed in.

[robinlynne]

34. Martin was much bigger than any sitting politician. especially any sitting now.

[pintobean]

3. OMG. Here we go.

:popcorn:

[tabatha]

5. I was going to say the same thing.

Another Dem shot.

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6. I just don't see the same things happening to the Republicans.

Reagan was shot by a known head case.

I want to know more about the guy who shot this congresswoman, because if it turns out he's right-wing I wouldn't have any trouble reaching the conclusion that right-wing politics are driving people to violence.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Is there still any doubt?

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13. Every opportunity to paint that party as the party of loonies can only

help to open everybody's eyes.

[FrancisTreptoe]

14. We don't need this guy to know that some right-wingers are violent.

Just listen to Glenn Beck. The man oozes of violence when he constantly talks about being fed up with liberals and progressives.

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16. Until we can match up consequences with the words, they'll keep

using free speech as a cover. Only when we can show a correlation between their hate talk and these kinds of events, will we manage to get them to rethink their violent rhetoric.

[Dave From Canada]

7. That 6 people over a 50 year period. And how can you have Wellstone on that list? It was a plane

crash in the same manner as Ted Stevens. What about Republicans? I noticed you don't have Reagan's shooting on the list. Or Eric Cantor's death threat from last year. I understand where you're coming from. But partisan picking and choosing is annoying.

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8. By all means, make a list.

Though I think that they all get death threats at one point of another. Let's make a list and compare.

[jonnyblitz]

18. you left out Squeaky Fromme's attempt on Gerald Ford.

just sayin. :hi:

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21. Was that politically motivated?

Fromme was a loon, wasn't she?

[treestar]

27. Yes, a follower of Charles Manson

Republicans seem to attract the loons.

[treestar]

26. Cantor's was discredited, if I remember right

[WinkyDink]

38. Your annoyance is duly noted. Now, you have Reagan and Ford---both of whom survived.

Yes, I said "you."

[LynneSin]

10. According to the idiot doing the news on MSNBC it was 'random'

sorry, not buying it

[WinkyDink]

39. The judge and child, maybe. Giffords, no possible way.

[charlie]

11. Jesse Helms told a newspaper

that if Clinton came to North Carolina, he'd better bring a bodyguard.

Ann Coulter wrote in one of her books that the only choices left with Clinton were "to impeach or assassinate".

Neither, of course, were frogmarched away for some quality time with the Secret Service.

It's part of the Republican Exception. They can get away with that sort of shit.

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12. We need to keep this open until we know more about the gunman.

[LonePirate]

15. It is naive and foolish to think this violence is anything but politically motivated

Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Fox News, Boehner, McConnell and their ilk all have blood on their hands now. They now have their first shot in a new civil war.

[cynatnite]

17. Would Napolitano count?

She was sent a package here recently that ignited.

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19. We might be seeing a pattern.

Thanks for bringing that up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/package-addressed-janet-napolitano-ignites-washington-dc-post/story?id=12570617

[RegieRocker]

20. Jim Brady?

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22. Same as Reagan. Shot by a known loon.

It was not politically motivated.

[janet118]

23. Shot by a known loon . . .

closely associated with Neil Bush.

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28. Never knew that.

[WinkyDink]

40. "Not politically motivated"?! HA! And just WHO would've become President??

Hinckley family-friend BUSH.

[MadMaddie]

24. I think you have to broaden your scope - Anyone who attempts

to improve the lives of the common man.

Martin Luther King
All other Civil Rights activist
and the list goes on

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30. MadM, you and I both know that nothing happens in this country unless

actual politicians feel threatened.

[steelmania75]

25. Then they killed other notable leftists like MLK and Lennon.

[apocalypsehow]

29. Except, JFK's assassin was a self-professed Marxist, and Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian nationalist

Further, Paul Wellstone didn't die in a "mysterious crash": both the FBI and the NTSB concluded that it was an accident, and no foul play of any kind was involved.

Please try again.

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31. The FBI also allowed the bin Laden's to leave the country after 9/11

without questioning them. I read Against all Enemies.

The point is, their credibility is iffy.

[Xicano]

33. JFK's assassination

Review this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-223865000828471342#

[mistertrickster]

35. I used to believe that too. However, when one looks at the evidence,

it's easier to believe that Oswald himself worked for the CIA.

He "defected" to the USSR, renounced his US citizenship, publicly claimed to tell the Soviets state secrets and then was welcomed back to the US two years later with no trial at the height of the Cold War.

Does that make sense?

He said he was a Marxist when he pretended to work for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee . . . what he effectively did was to discredit them, as ordered.

[WinkyDink]

41. What flavor is your Kool-Aid?

You have a lot of reading to do.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

42. Keep on sippin' that KoolAid

:eyes:

[Xicano]

32. The count is more.

John Kennedy -- Assassination
Bobby Kennedy -- Assassination
Tom Daschle -- Anthrax
Patrick Leahy -- Anthrax
Paul Wellstone -- Mysterious crash
Rep. Giffords shot in Tucson

Here are more Democrats who have been singled out for murder since Kennedy:

Harvey Milk San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- Gunshots to chest and head
Allard Lowenstein New York Congressman -- Gunshots
Tommy Burks Tennessee State Senator -- Gunshot to face
Bill Gwatney Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman -- Gunshots


Very sad day today, very sad.

:cry:

[PurityOfEssence]

36. To be fair, it's not just Liberals who get targeted

although they're by far the majority.

George Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer during the 1972 campaign when Wallace was challenging Nixon.
George Lincoln Rockwell was shot to death in 1967, probably by a former supporter.
Gerald Ford was shot at by Sara Jane Moore in San Francisco in 1975, not long after Squeaky Fromme pointed a gun at him.

[WinkyDink]

43. It's mostly Liberals who DIE, though, ain't it? Curious, that.

Don't even try to show "equality" with this topic.
Mayor Cermak
JFK
RFK
MLK, Jr.
Medgar Evers
Fred Hampton
Malcolm X
Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
Viola Liuzzo
Kent State

Off the top of my head.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

37. and on the other side: Ford and Reagan

Any others?