Michael Fanone is the D.C. police officer who was “dragged by a mob down the Capitol steps, beaten with pipes, stunned with a Taser and threatened with his own gun” (per Wikipedia, here) during the Jan. 6 insurrection. He never fully recovered and is no longer in police work. Kyle Young[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Political Violence’
September 27th, 2022 - 9:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Rioter who assaulted Officer Fanone gets 7 years in prison
The voting machine wars
Voting machines have been breached by Trump loyalists in at least three states. In all these cases, they gained physical access to the machines and/or obtained confidential software and data. The consequences: “Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting soft[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Hey, we’re all Trumpers here
Most of the time, not much happens in Delmont (photo, left), a bucolic hamlet where a couple of important highways intersect in Western Pennsylvania Appalachian coal country. Until some guy a 911 caller reported for driving erratically pulls off the highway, gets out of his car wearing a safety vest[...]
August 31st, 2022 - 12:48 pm § in Politics
Why GOP ex-voter’s “resignation letter” is a bad thing
An Arizona elections office recently received a letter that goes like this: “I am returning this ballot to you, because I no longer have confidence that your organization can conduct a legal, democratic and unaltered election …. To conclude, I demand that you remove my name from the voter rolls [...]
August 27th, 2022 - 7:58 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Road rage or political violence, this should be a felony
Evan McMullin is a familiar face in Utah. Many people would recognize him. He ran for president in 2016 as an independent and got 21% of the vote there. This year he’s trying to unseat Sen. Mike Lee (R), a far-right reactionary. Although McMullin is a libertarian, he’s supported by Democ[...]
August 18th, 2022 - 6:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
If you feel today’s GOP is dangerous, you’re not alone
It’s obvious the Republican Party has become dangerous; and saying so isn’t inflated partisan rhetoric, it’s merely recognizing what’s plain to see. The party is led by an unscrupulous demagogue who lies and incites violence; its lesser elected officials endorse his lies, and[...]
August 17th, 2022 - 2:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Missouri Trumper indicted for threatening Arizona election official
A Missouri man who left a veiled death threat in an Arizona election official’s voicemail is looking at federal prison time, and he should be. Walter Lee Hoornstra, 50, of Tecumseh, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for making an interstate threat and communicating it by an inters[...]
June 20th, 2022 - 11:20 am § in Politics
Are GOPers trying to normalize violence? Sure looks like it …
You expect it from the gutter-crawlers who populate the darker corners of the GOP; but Republican candidates are increasingly adopting violence as a campaign theme — and making it seem okay. The latest: Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens (who, himself, is a gutter crawler) in the camp[...]
May 16th, 2022 - 1:21 pm § in Politics
Ted Nugent again urges fans to assault Democrats
Read story here. And if you see this guy, punch him in the snoot. Hey, just kidding! I don’t really want anyone to actually do that, I’m just blowing off steam at a repeat offender. It’s not a crime for me to say that, because we have free speech in this country, and I have [&helli[...]
Portland police built a wall of silence around BLM mass shooting
When half a dozen people are shot all at once, it doesn’t normally take days to find out what happened and who was responsible. But a wall of police silence surrounds the act of fanatical political terrorism committed by a rightwing extremist in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 19, 2022[...]