Is anyone tracking the violence of the past week against Dems?

[cynatnite]

1)Authorities discovered Ashley Turton, former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), dead in a burnt-out car Monday. Turton's husband was Dan Turton, the White House liaison to the House of Representatives.

2)a well-heeled former chief of staff to the president of Arizona's state senate was found dead of a gunshot wound in mid-December. Police were investigating it as a homicide.

3)On Thursday, packages addressed to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and his secretary of transportation flashed, smoked and caused minor injuries.

4)A similar incendiary device addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited in a DC postal facility Friday.

5)The attempted assassination on Gabrielle Giffords

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/pattern-antigovernment-attacks-emerges-single-week/

[kestrel91316]

1. K&R. The RW HAS said it's war. They are sure acting like they mean it, it seems.

[Beartracks]

3. No, no, no. It's just "heated debate."

Or, uh, voting with bullets instead of ballots. Yeah, that's it. Totally what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

:sarcasm:

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[mimitabby]

2. wow, trolls, who would unrec this one?

[devilgrrl]

4. Surely there has to be violent attacks on Republicans - after all, both sides are just as bad!

:sarcasm:

[cynatnite]

5. In all honesty, I think the former chief of staff might have been a repub...

he worked for Cox Communications.