Michael Collins: Death Panels, Palin’s Targets, and Political Assassination

[EFerrari]

Death Panels, Palin’s Targets, and Political Assassination
Michael Collins



The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords raises the bar for political lies and hate to a new level. Previously, incendiary political lies stopped just short violent imagery. Sarah Palin’s Take Back 20 campaign presented a violent threat in the form of rifle site crosshairs placed over the congressional districts of 20 Democratic supporters of health care reform.

Ironically, Giffords sent Palin a clear message to end the violent allusion in the ads. In this brief video, she warns:

“… we’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list but the thing is that the way she’s had it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun site over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize that there consequences to that action.” Rep. Giffords

The appeal had no effect. It took the events of Saturday, January 8 at a shopping mall in Tucson, Arizona to finally get Palin to pull down her crosshairs studded map marking 20 Democrats for defeat as punishment for support of health care reform.

Political Assassinations and Assaults

Months before the JFK assassination, right wing zealots in Dallas demonstrated against the dangers posed by the Kennedy administration. The pseudo mug shot (image below) accused Kennedy of treason. It appeared on the streets of Dallas, Texas prior to the assassination. The soon to be murdered president was accused of turning the Constitution over to a Communist United Nations; failing to register Communists; invading a “sovereign state” with U.S. troops (e.g., supporting court orders for the racial integration of schools); appointing “Anti-Christians” to government positions; and lying about his “previous marriage and divorce.”

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[northoftheborder]

1. I remember all of that. It also was about Earl Warren - huge.....

.....billboards in Dallas area, demanding his impeachment. It was really all about segregation and civil rights.

[EFerrari]

2. At the time, it was also about Catholics and the Pope and for some,

it was also about Irish.

[Supersedeas]

3. SPOT ON -- exactly the type of reporting that pulls these issues together (K&R)

[EFerrari]

5. "While at Fox, Palin began a campaign to get rid of 20 Democrats in the House of Representatives."

autorank hits ALL the right keys.

[mzmolly]

4. K

and R.

[leftstreet]

6. K&R

[walldude]

7. What really killed me about that interview was when

the woman "journalist" asked if the Democrats were complicit in this as they keep bringing it up to the media.

As I have been saying, it's not the fact that they are doing this that is the problem, it's the fact that we are complaining about it.

[EFerrari]

8. Like wife beating, incest and cancer, RW violence is our family secret.

:puke:

[EFerrari]

9. .