ANOTHER Violent Democrat-Communist Arrested for Threatening to Kill Maine Republican Governor
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 7, 2011, 5:37 AM
A self-professed liberal democrat and communist (There’s a difference?) was arrested this week for sending threatening letters to politicians including Maine Republican Governor Paul LePage, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker and Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa.
Hoft goes on to quote The Online Sentinel.
Authorities also found a gun and an ammunition clip in Michael Thomas’ desk drawer when he was arrested Friday, FBI Special Agent Pamela Flick testified; and Thomas told her that if they had showed up later, he would have launched a shootout with police.
LePage received three letters attributed to Thomas, saying among other things that the author was willing to sacrifice his life to shoot the governor. Thomas told agents on Friday that he would follow through on the threats if he had the means, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Stacey Neumann.
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Thomas admitted sending threatening letters similar to those sent to LePage to U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., as well as Walker, Snowe and Collins, she said. Thomas described himself as a liberal Democrat and a communist and said he is a strong proponent of gun rights.
How long until this news, including Thomas’ politics, is widely disseminated in the lamestream media? (I know, never gonna happen, doesn’t fit Teh Narrative.)
This does stand out, in stark contrast to the vast numbers of armed and dangerous Righties trying to cause trouble!
Statistics FTW!
Leftist lying propaganda claims “vast numbers of armed and dangerous Rightis trying to cause trouble” since the statistics does not even come close to bearing out that pack of lies. But the leftists constantly try to blame Conservatives for violence, only to throw their false accusations down the memory hole when the violent people turn out to be leftists or insane leftists. Such as Jared Loughner and the lamestream media’s blood libel of Sarah Palin and the TEA Party.
Let’s compare. Since 7/08: http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern
Oh, and blood libel means something else. I assume no media has accused Palin of drinking the blood of Christian children as an excuse to murder her. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Get one thing straight, naggy. Crooks and Liars has been proven to be a lie-filled site that will double down on their lies when they’ve been proven to be pushing a lie.
Oh, and blood libel means just what Sarah Palin used it as, as many knowledgeable Jews agreed.
No. You don’t get to dismiss every bit of evidence or argument because a site had one journalistic mistake.
Or… if you still want to…
Do you deny this, because it is on that site?
Well, sure. But at least here you didn’t selectively quote a post or forget to link to it.
Nevertheless, the point here, as usual, goes right over your pointy head: That instances like this noted here by Hitch aren’t (or are rarely) picked up by the MSM because it (as mentioned) doesn’t fit The Narrative. Just like the MSM attempted, futilely, to link the Right Wing to the Giffords shooting and clamored for “civility,” only to fall silent and cover their collective ears and mouths to the outright “progressive” hate and violence seen in Wisconsin.
There was progressive violence in Wisconsin? Is that the Wisconsin with palm trees?
From Patterico:
Dana, quit posting your 20,000 anecdotes and pay attention to the radical leftists’ 2 data points.
Not really. The interesting thing is that Allen West is a black conservative, Republican, Christian, warrior, patriot. Now who, other than a commie, pinko, marxist, anti-American, racist would even want to threaten him? Oh wait, perhaps the NZ’er? How do I spell BINGO?
All one must do is see who is visiting the White House and who are the unaccountable czars of BO, and the use of dubious regulations to get around Congress.
Cap and trade fails, EPA goes outside its bounds and incorporates by regulation and fiat
Look at Obama scare. Six pages of the law produced 429 pages of regulations.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fundamental-transformation-andy-stern-speaks-out-against-checks-and-balances/
Yes,here’s our friend of BO, Andy Stern expressing his hate of how the government works. No wonder the Far, Far, Far Left Obama wished he could run the country like China. No pesky laws to get in your way.
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Fundamental Transformation? Andy Stern Speaks Out Against Checks and Balances
Posted on April 8, 2011 at 8:06am by Jonathon M. Seidl
Editor’s note: this opinion piece would usually appear on the blog. We have decided to feature it on our story side.
Is this what fundamental transformation looks like?
In an op-ed on the Huffington Post, former SEIU president Andy Stern decided to get all “Founding Fathers” with his audience. He went back, way back, to the time of male, powdered wigs and the Federalist Papers. His thesis: you know those checks and balances the old guys put in place? Yeah, they’re just kind of getting in the way of change.
“American democracy has layers of power and responsibility, which James Madison rationalized in Federalist, no. 51 as a check against possible tyrannical rule,” Stern writes. “Our Founding Fathers saw fit to divide power between two strata — state and federal. Then, within the federal structure, they codified a trifurcation of power to ensure that no single branch came to dominate government; and while power has ebbed and flowed between branches, the system of checks and balances has provided stability, and kept tyrannical rule at bay.”
But today, he goes on to say, that system is just so, well, old:
Now, however, in the midst of the transformative change of globalization and this third economic revolution, those layers have become an impediment to making the changes necessary to keep America competitive in the world economy. Today, America crawls along at a snail’s pace. [Emphasis added]
I think he just said that our system of government, as laid out in the Constitution, is hampering his vision of a global economy. That would make sense, since Stern in the past has been all about the world coming together, so to speak. Remember, he’s the one who trumpeted the old Marxist phrase, “Workers of the world, unite!”
Stern goes on to name the problem “demosclerosis,” a term he once read in a book. That term means the “government’s progressive loss of the ability to adapt, credited as a side-effect of the postwar pluralist political system.”
See, it seems in Andy’s world America is outdated: It’s a 1776 runner trying to compete in a 2011 race. All we need to do is update a little. Give it some new legs. Hint hint. Wink wink. Nudge.
“Our democracy is frozen, calcified like arteries beset by arteriosclerosis,” Stern writes near the end. His remedy is to “recommit ourselves to both the common good, and common sense, rather than self-interest.”
Sure, that may sound nice, but it’s anti-capitalist. Anyone who’s taken an economics class knows that our system is based on self-interest rightly understood (SIRU). Marxists and communists have destroyed countries trying to get rid of self-interest. What Stern and the communists don’t understand is that self-interest in and of itself isn’t evil. It can be used for much good. And yes, selflessness is important, too — and we see it all over the place. But you can’t base an economic system on men being good and generous, because we’re naturally not.
Side note: doesn’t a lesson in selflessness from a former union boss, whose underling (Stephen Lerner) is now trying to collapse the economy, seem out of place? Just a thought.
Stern never returns to his earlier comments on checks and balances. It’s more like a seed, planted early in hopes that one day it will spring up. I’m sure we can expect some watering later. But it seems the more and more we uncover this whole hope and change thing, the more foreign it appears.
Foreign, now that’s a funny word. In Stern’s future, once we’re all “united” and together, it probably won’t exist. Just like the wisdom of those old powdered wigs.