Is attempting to intimidate a public servant a crime?

[louis c]

Let me see if I can make my point here. If I, as a citizen, try to give an envelope with $20,000 in it to a Congressman to vote a certain way, that's an obvious crime.

Yet, these Tea Baggers brandished weapons, held signs with overt gun threats on them, to send what message? I posted a link to a March 20, 2010 rally protesting health care reform in which signs were held up that said "If Brown can't do it (newly elected Senator Scott Brown) a Browning Can" with the depiction of a hand gun. How is this legitimate political discourse?

I don't know if Sarah Palin or Sharon Angle or the Tea Baggers directly influenced this deranged killer. That's not the point. When were guns and violence made a proper debate argument? I must have missed that class.

I go to a lot of Union rallies and we are instructed, in fact I do some of the training, is which we make sure that people's passion is in check. No one can carry an unauthorized sign and participate because it is a reflection on the entire organization, becomes counter productive and defeats the purpose.

Yet these Right Wing Tea Baggers encourage these intimidating signs, use violent rhetoric laced with gun analogies and even put violent, gun references on their political web-sites. Don't I remember some protesters going to the most northern portion of Virginia, carrying arms to demonstrate that this is as close as you can get to Washington D.C. with concealed weapons?

I'm passionate about the issues I support, yet I have never referenced guns or advocated violence in anything I've written or in my speech.

Again, when did gun violence become part of America's accepted lexicon in political persuasion?

Link to gun signs at Tea Baggers' March 20, 2010 Rally against Health Care:
http://www.thinkprogress.org/2010/03/20/code-red-gun/

Link to Northern Virginia Gun Rally, April 2010:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/gun-rally-second-amendmen_n_542872.html#s82466&title=undefined

[Little Star]

1. You ask a good question.

[azul]

2. This country is gone nucking futs.

If you as a citizen, or even foreign national, and hand $50k to a business, then it can make that money talk, secretly. Not illegal.

Inversely, a corporation can pay citizens to act crazy and threaten politicians to do their bidding. The legal tricks of indirect action and corporate rights have institutionalized corruption.

[louis c]

3. I just don't get it

This guy was anti-government, that's for sure. He didn't get that from people like me, who want more government protection, such as Health Care for workers, Workers' Free Choice Act, Banking and Wall Street Regulations, work place safety (OSHA), stronger social security and additional taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

Let's see, what political persuasion wants less government and distrusts government? Like me think who they could be.