Immediately following the House vote on the health care bill Sunday, several representatives that voted for the bill received death threats, menacing photos, and vandalism to their homes and offices. New York Rep Louise Slaughter received a message concerning possible sniper attacks against the members of the House that voted for the bill. Arizona Rep Gabrielle Giffords' office was also vandalized. Now, while I understand that people may be upset about the passage of the bill, I certainly don't think it calls for death threats - the bill is about health care for god's sake. It just doesn't make any sense. How dimwitted and anti-democracy do you have to be to send death threats to people elected to vote according to their own judgement. What would those people prefer? A government that is run by one person's decisions, and only if that person is a Republican? It's just so uncompromising and truly anti-American if they expect everyone to bend to their will and yet they show no compromise or concession in return.
Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/health/policy/25health.html?ref=politics
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