Tea Party Members Distancing Themselves From Death Threats

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Digital News Report – Although the Tea Party is not really a party, members have garnered attention. Mostly conservative, some consider it a splinter group off the Republican Party. None of their candidates were able to unseat incumbents in the last Texas primary, but they are still making their presence known.

Many in the movement have tried to distance themselves from the extremists, according to Kenneth Vogel of Politico. “The condemnations mark a more forceful response and indicate a keen awareness of the damage that being linked to them could do to the tea party brand,” Vogel said.

Not all threats are being linked to Tea Party members, although many Tea Partiers were outside the Capital when racial slurs and insults were yelled towards Congressmen entering the building.

Right after the House vote there was a threat against President Barack Obama made on Twitter. The FBI is currently investigating this threat and other threats made against Congresspersons who voted in favor of the bill.

Windows were shattered at Democratic offices in New York, Arizona and Kansas. A brick was thrown through the window of the Democratic Party office in Rochester, New York.

A Tea Party member is being accused of posting the address of Representative Tom Perriello’s brother online. A gas pipe was cut at the brothers house and there may have been a letter sent to the brother’s house.

In Missouri a coffin was placed on the front lawn of Representative Russ Carnahan.

Bart Stupak has received many messages including death threats. The FBI is investigating these threats along with the threats made against and Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter. There was a message left for her saying that snipers were being deployed to kill the children of those who voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Adam Brandon, a spokesman for FreedomWorks, says this can be problematic for the Tea Party movement, whether or not they made the threats. “If the movement gets tattooed as at all sympathetic to those (racist and homophobic) views, I won’t want to be involved in it anymore,” Brandon said. “It’s very distracting not only to our side but also to the debate and the country.”

By: Mark Williams

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5 thoughts on “Tea Party Members Distancing Themselves From Death Threats”

  1. The Tea Party is a TERRORIST organization, and should be treated just like Al Qaeda!

  2. Since their inception the Teaparty crowd (not a movement since they do have the numbers or clout) have been “haters not debaters”. In my opinion this is what the small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. They are good at “Follow the Leader” of their dullard leaders, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think? The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although some republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe most of them are just going along and fanning the flames.

    As for the window. This was staged by one of Cantor’s gun buddy, good try at being a victim but I don’t buy it, next.

  3. Thank god for the tea party. It is unreal how anyone on the Dem side is trying to but them down. They are true Americans who are using their first amendment right. If you look at the crowed they are mostly older citizens. We have to look back in time. The DEMENCRATS are a communist party. They believe they should decide our future and do not listen the the people.

    I think the recent actions are the start to the end of the Democrats.

    But the facts will be seen in 2012.

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