My former Rep. Idiot Baird has accused the healthcare protesters of encouraging domestic terrorism. He is implying that exercising ones constitutional right to petition their Government for a redre...
My former Rep. Idiot Baird has accused the healthcare protesters of encouraging domestic terrorism. He is implying that exercising ones constitutional right to petition their Government for a redress of grievances is going to somehow inspire people to blow up buildings. He forgets that these are just normal hard working Americans out there; they're not like Obama's friend William Ayers, who really was a domestic terrorist, and who really did blow up buildings.
According to the news report below: Baird said his office has also received menacing phone calls, some talking about death and the other with less "overt threats." So now: Baird, who has held more than 300 town hall meetings since being elected 11 years ago, has not scheduled any in-person town hall meetings during this summers congressional recess, in part because of protests over health care reform that have disrupted town hall meetings by members of Congress across the nation.
What a chicken chit this guy is. I'm glad he's no longer my Rep., because if he were, I would go and protest outside of whatever building he was in. I would be on him like chicken chit on a Baird. This guy is an embarrassment to the people of the third congressional district of Washington. He needs to be defeated next time around.
The people of his district need to find him and protest his every move. Tell him how you feel about his ideas on creating a bigger and even more intrusive government to take what liberties you have left away. Tell him what you think! jbranstetter04
Washington State's Baird chooses to skip 'town halls' this year
WASHINGTON — The same week he compared angry protestors at town hall meetings to a "lynch mob," U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Vancouver, said Friday he has received a faxed death threat and menacing phone calls. Baird, who has held more than 300 town hall meetings since being elected 11 years ago, has not scheduled any in-person town hall meetings during this summers congressional recess, in part because of protests over health care reform that have disrupted town hall meetings by members of Congress across the nation. The congressman said Friday his office in Washington, D.C., had received a fax with a picture of President Barack Obama wearing makeup like the kind actor Heath Ledger wore while playing the Joker in the movie "The Dark Knight." A drawing of the hammer and sickle was drawn on Obama's forehead with the message "Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!" The hammer and sickle was the symbol of the former communist Soviet Union. Baird said his office has also received menacing phone calls, some talking about death and the other with less "overt threats." Some of the phone calls were from the congressional district, but many of them were from elsewhere, he said. U.S. Capitol Police were notified of the fax and the phone calls by Baird's chief of staff, said Garrett Russo, a spokesman for the congressman. Russo said the information was then apparently turned over to the Secret Service, which investigates threats against the president. A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman, Sgt. Jessica Baboulis, said Friday the unit that investigates such threats hadn't received information about the threats Baird had received. At least one other congressman, Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., has reportedly received a death threat since the controversy over the town hall protests erupted. None of the others Washington state congressmen or senators had received any threats. Baird showed no indication of backing down Friday, adding the protests were being orchestrated and fueled by conservative activists and bloggers and some of his Republican colleagues. "What's troubling is some of my colleagues on the other side are throwing gas on it," Baird said in a telephone interview. "They think it is funny. This is out of control and things are getting worse." Since making his comments, Baird has been interviewed on CNN and on the MSNBC Rachel Maddow show. Baird said the only reason to hold an in-person town hall meeting now would be to "allow people to yell." On Friday afternoon, he did hold a remote telephone town hall that he said involved more than 4,000 people. People are invited to participate by a computer-generated call to their home phones. At one point, a woman who identified herself as Nan Malin, chairwoman of the Pacific County Republican Party, said she would hold a town hall meeting for Baird in her living room. "I will be your bodyguard," she said. Baird agreed to attend. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/polit...
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Call a spade a spade! Yes, when right-wing freaks bring guns to presidential events, call public officials Nazi's & traitors, show pictures on them hanging from a tree, their gravestone, etc.. (all Democrats of course..the Rethugs are beyond reproach and the tea-baggers corporist-masters) then THAT is the violence Rep. Baird is warning of!
In the year 2000, Houston Texas at the republican convention, a squad of left wing black panthers showed up in uniform carrying AK-47 rifles. The media except Fox ignored it. Also the guy in Phoenix who the media showed an arm and the AR-15, then presented it as possibly racist. The man whose face was not shown was black and a staunch libertarian.
Wow..one tiny incident ..compared to the daily, endless outrages by the right-wing..anyhow when have the black-panthers ever been maintream left-wing as the Bleck, Limbaugh, Palin tea-bag crowd is for the right today... Totally nonsensical comparison.
Typical left wing response, its all right if the liberal whackos show Bush with swastikas or hanging and it is acceptable for someone to show up at a political event armed if they are of your persuasion. You are the tea bagger or at least latent, the protests are called TEA party meaning taxed enough already but as your peers always do, try to demean the opposition. We have been hammered with the left wing agenda for as long as I can remember, I am glad there is another Source.
It's funny, Hitler was a vegetarian and believed people shouldn't eat animals. A ton of vegetarians are militant anti-humans who chastise other humans for eating meat. Wasn't Hitler supposedly anti-human too?
Like SEIU goons beating up healthcare protesters? Like Maj. Hasan, the card carrying democrat and huge Obama fan gunning down un-armed soldiers in Ft. Hood? You mean all the violence coming from the Left, not the Health care protestors of course.
...You cannot possibly understand someone's entire political perspective on the basis of a comment as vague as the one of mine that you responded to. If you want to have this argument, I suggest you find someone that actually holds this view of "sympathizing with terrorists" because I can assure you, I do not. This aspect of your comment does not apply to me.
...accused of being a terrorist solely on the basis of their race? Of course. Do I get offended if a convicted terrorist has their feelings hurt? Not at all. I don't know where you are getting this idea that I sympathize with terrorists, you really have no justification for this. Don't put me in a group with people you disagree with just because you disagree with one thing I said...
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