Looney Liberal Emails Of The Day

The events of yesterday in Arizona, in which a U.S. Congressional representative was shot in the head, with a bullet going through her brain, and a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl, a young man at the beginning of a wonderful professional career and preparing for his wedding, and, reportedly, three senior women who could have been any of us were shot and killed brings the culmination of the hate-mongering that has been building in this country for too long. We do not know yet the disturbed shooter’s motives, but we can see every day the climate that led up to his brutal acts. We see and hear the hate speech every day on Fox “news” and hear it on “hate radio,” nationally and locally. We hear the hate speech spewing forth from the mouths of the right in an incessant drumbeat of “hate the President,” “hate Congress,” “hate the courts,” “hate your government,” “hate liberals,” “hate Democrats,” “hate immigrants,” “hate gays,” “hate environmental wackos” – HATE, HATE, HATE. We’ve seen it an teabagger rallies nationwide, we’ve seen and heard it in recent political campaigns.

We in West Chester have experienced the right’s hate-group language, visuals, and smears incessantly for three years now on the corner of High and Market every single Saturday morning at The Chester County Peace Movement’s peace vigils (now running every Saturday for 8 years). I’ve been called every vile name you can imagine, including a “Soviet.” Our own President Barack Obama has been called a Muslim, and horrible pictures defiling his image held up on posters by our local hate wackos. These people have never even tried to disguise their hate, with too many intimations of potential violence and use of weapon imagery. Three years ago, I had to change many of my own personal habits out of threats from our own homegrown right-wing wackos – I don’t park in West Chester’s indoor parking lots any more, I cross the street if I see one of the wackos coming, I don’t take my beloved walks after dark in West Chester any more, I am on constant alert for what I know can happen at any time. (Not to worry – I’m not afraid; these days, it just comes with the turf, it’s part of life.) We used to have many children at our peace vigils – parents don’t bring them any more because they don’t want them subjected to the hate speech and visuals, but they also don’t want them physically threatened. Many people, particularly older ones, who used to come to peace vigils, simply just don’t come any more. It’s too dangerous, they fear. We used to have more musicians, more peace music – some of our musicians also felt threatened or just didn’t want to be part of the vitriol. So yesterday’s tragic event could have happened anywhere. We in CCPM know it could just as easily happen here. In the midst of the many “honks for peace” we hear every Saturday, we also get the angry faces, full of hate, that yell taunts and jeers at us as they speed by in their cars; we also get the middle fingers; we also get the hate-filled and hateful faces that we know could become something more at any moment. Every public official, every activist in this county faces the dangers of the hate-filled right-wing fanatics every day. It’s something we just learn to live with. But why should we? Why should those people yesterday have been killed or wounded? Why? We are all asking that this morning. Karen Porter, Esq., Director The Chester County Peace Movement* Daily Local News Community Blog: [url=http://chestercountyleftbank.tumblr.com/]http://chestercountyleftbank.tumblr.com/[/url] Someday, when my great-grandchildren ask, “Why didn’t someone try to stop the madness?” I hope my son and my grandchildren can answer, “Your great-grandmother tried, with all her heart.” See Progressive Network of Southeast PA [url=http://www.progressivenetworksepa.org/]http://www.progressivenetworksepa.org/[/url] Your Key to the Progressive Community! CALL (800) 828-0498 for Senators/Congressional Rep. *CCPM, P.O. Box 803, West Chester, PA 19381

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:39:44 -0600 Subject: Sarah Palin. From: credo-help-3524681-ZwcqKUx@list.credoaction.com Thanks for taking action. Here are some ways you can spread the word to make sure Sarah Palin gets the message that violent threats have consequences and that they have no place in American democracy. If you are on Facebook, click here to post the petition to your Wall. If you have a Twitter account, click here to automatically tweet: Tell @SarahPalinUSA Threats of violence have no place in our democracy [url=http://bit.ly/i2Rkxo]http://bit.ly/i2Rkxo[/url] @CREDOmobile You can also send the following e-mail to your friends and family. Spreading the word is critical, but please only pass this message along to those who know you — spam hurts our campaign. Thanks for all you do. –The CREDO Action Team Here’s a sample message to send to your friends:

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