Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Thin-Skinned Tea Party: Criticize the Tea Baggers, Get Threats

AltTulsa has been arguing for months that the Tea Party crowd is out of control. They're angry about, well, almost everything—and they don't mind using threats to make their point. 

The latest example comes from Tennessee, where a congressman criticized the Tea Party folks and got a email threat for his trouble.

Memo to Tea Party people: Violence is anti-democratic. If you are going to operate in a democracy, you have to follow the rules of democracy, which means you don't resort to arms or threats of violence.

Peaceful protest is democratic. Go for it. But spewing hate and threatening people is not.

Read more here.

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