{"id":9800,"date":"2010-03-24T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9800"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:17:59","slug":"terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9800","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how this can be viewed as anything less than a failed assassination attempt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Law enforcement authorities are investigating the discovery of a cut propane gas line at the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello\u2019s (D-Va.) brother, whose address was targeted by tea party activists angry at the congressman\u2019s vote for the health care bill.<\/p>\n

An aide to the congressman confirmed to POLITICO that a line to a propane tank behind his brother’s home near Charlottesville had been sliced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The address was listed by teabaggers<\/a> angry at Perriello for voting for health care reform; the address was said to be that<\/a> of the Congressman himself, rather than his brother.<\/p>\n

Again, this has to be viewed flatly as terrorism and political violence. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and I am no expert on whether anyone was put in serious jeopardy by this. But you don’t slice a propane line without some understanding that you’re venting a flammable gas into the air. I think it’s clear that the person who did this knew their actions could cause injury, or worse — and not just to Rep. Perriello himself, but to anyone who happened to trip across the line.<\/p>\n

This is what comes from months of claiming that health care reform is tantamount to Stalinism. When health care reform is seen as literally a communist plot to destroy America, there will be people who decide that violence is a justifiable response. Those on the right who spent the past year demonizing Democrats own this attack. I hope — likely in vain — that they will recognize this, and speak out strongly against violence. I misdoubt, however, that they will continue to use violence in their very rhetoric<\/a>. They’ve given us no reason to expect better of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how this can be viewed as anything less than a failed assassination attempt: Law enforcement authorities are investigating the discovery of a cut propane gas line at the Virginia home of Rep. Tom Perriello\u2019s (D-Va.) brother, whose … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15306,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}