Man Arrested For Threatening Rep. Jim McDermott’s Life 12JAN11

THE people making these threats against politicians and civil servants need to be investigated and charged and punished...nobody has the right to threaten our nation with violence from outside or inside...

Man Arrested For Threatening Rep. Jim McDermott’s Life

In the midst of a national discussion over the country’s political tone, a California man has been arrested for threatening the life of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), apparently because McDermott opposed an extension of Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans. Charles Turner Habermann of Palm Springs, CA was charged with threatening a federal official after he left disturbing voice mails at McDermott’s office on December 9:

In the first call, Habermann said he’d seen McDermott on television and was enraged by his comments opposing tax cuts for the rich.
“He’s a piece of human filth. He’s a liar, he’s a communist, he’s a piece of [expletive] garbage,” Habermann said in the recorded message, according to the criminal complaint. Habermann said George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other U.S. founding fathers would “blow his [McDermott's] brains out” if they met him.
Habermann then threatened to kill McDermott as well as his friends and family, the complaint says. In a second call, Habermann said he had “a lot of money” and “a lot of friends” and that McDermott was “going down.”

Yesterday, a Colorado man was arrested for threatening to shoot aides for Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO). John Troy Davis, 44, was apparently upset over his Social Security benefits and told staffers on the phone that “I’m just going to come down there and shoot you all.” According to police, Davis also threatened to set fire to the office and stated that he “may go to terrorism.” Threats against members of Congress have increased 300 percent in the first few months of 2010, and 400 percent against the White House since January 2009. The U.S. Marshals Service reports that “inappropriate communications” directed at the judiciary, U.S. attorneys and other court officers have risen from 1,111 in 2006 to 1390 in 2009.

Ken Buck Hammered For Supporting Repeal Of 17th Amendment (VIDEO) BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE JUST TOO STUPID TO CHOOSE 24AUG10

TEA-BAGGER and gop Senate candidate Ken Buck wants to be elected to the Senate by the people of Colorado, only to work to take away the people's right to elect their Senators by repealing the 17th Amendment! He would rather see his wealthy supporters control who is a Senator, because must be the people are just to stupid to decide who should represent them in the Senate. Hopefully the people of Colorado will show Ken Buck they aren't as stupid as he thinks they are and will elect Democrat Michael Bennett.
 
In its first expenditure in the Colorado Senate election, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is going after Republican candidate Ken Buck for supporting repeal of an constitutional amendment that establishes the popular election of U.S. Senators.
In a television advertisement released on Tuesday, the committee plays up remarks Buck made in June 2009 opposing the 17th Amendment, which allows the public, not state legislatures, to vote on who represents them in Congress' upper chamber.
"I don't know that we get [repeal] tomorrow," Buck told the Pikes Peak Economics Club in a speech that was unearthed earlier this month by the Huffington Post, "but I think we get there in the very near future when people understand just what a horrendous effect the 17th amendment has been on the federal government's spending."
The Colorado Republican and Tea Party favorite has since changed his tune on the matter, going so far as to tell the Huffington Post that he corrected his statement at the Pikes Peak Economics Club the day after it was made.
"It is not a position I still hold and it wasn't a position I held a day later when I called back the guy who asked the question and talked to him about the issue and reflected more on it," Buck said. "It doesn't make sense to repeal the 17th amendment and I have said it a dozen of times."
The DSCC, clearly, finds the 180 either insincere or immaterial. Buck may have joined a host of public officials who flirted with supporting repeal of the 17th amendment only to backtrack later (one Republican Senate candidate, Utah's Mike Lee, remains committed to repeal). But he clearly held that position at one point in time. And it seems quite likely that voters won't take to the idea that the candidate now asking for their support once held the position that they shouldn't have a direct say in Senate election's like his.
Here is the DSCC's ad: