Posted on 05/12/2023 6:58:47 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON - Death threats are a persistent part of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's life.
"I have to have regular conversations with my kids: 'What happens if I am killed?'" Omar said in an interview. "I have to have regular conversations with them about how to walk down the street, things to look for."
Since the Minneapolis Democrat won her congressional seat in 2018, two men have pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her. Omar's name, along with those of other prominent Democrats and some media figures, was found on a list put together by a man federal prosecutors warned "stockpiled assault weapons, studied violence, and intended to exact retribution on minorities and those he considered traitors."
In the most recent incident of threatening behavior, a man accused of starting fires at two Minneapolis mosques allegedly vandalized Omar's congressional office nearby and sent harassing emails.
When Democrats ran the House during her first four years in office, Omar said she could count on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure she had the help and protection she needed. She said she lacks that confidence with the new Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
"I don't know if I feel confident that if things were to rise to a dangerous level again if I can rely on the current speaker to take my safety and the safety of some of my other former vulnerable colleagues [seriously]," said Omar, the first Somali American and one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.
A spokesman for McCarthy responded in an email that the speaker "has made clear his expectation that politics must be separated from security and has empowered the House Sergeant at Arms to work with U.S. Capitol Police to protect all Members of Congress as they deem necessary."
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All her hateful rhetoric and she doesn’t pause to consider she is her own worst enemy. I’ve managed to not have her problem by simply not being an asshole. She should try it.
Plan B, go home to Somalia. Seems like that country could use some leadership as it deals with war, famine, starvation, and etc.. Why would she leave those poor suffering people, possibly her own family? For someone ostensibly eager to serve her people… she left ‘‘em high and dry.
When killed, this one goes directly to hell. The eternal lake of fire is not a good place to reside within.
What happens? We plant corn, use your sorry ass for fertilizer, and pray that it doesn’t cause the corn to die!!!
‘What happens if I am killed?’
Part and parcel
Something happened
Death, everyone has one.
“What happens if I am killed?”
You’ll be dead. 😏
You would become a good democrat, Mrs Omar.
Does that mean we get another “Fake” Federal Holiday like Juneteenth?
We all know that the REAL Juneteenth is celebrated as the day Traitors Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were EXECUTED for spying for the Soviets!!!
I thought these folks used their children as shields...whats the problem
‘What happens if I am killed?’ Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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You go straight to hell, do not pass Go. Everyone else has a nice day.
Free Target flat screens for a couple weeks?
I would support deportation for her and her ilk.
If she’s killed? I’d celebrate by eating some barbecue ribs.
Probably one of his house maid “refugees”.
If death threats in Somalia bothered her enough to make her run away like a coward from her home country, why hasn’t she left America yet?
Her real fear is she’s seeing America being turned into Somali by her parties actions the danger is real.
That’s between you and God, my dear.
No one should receive death threats, even your worst enemy.
A big celebration and party happens 🎊
I throw a keg party?
that, too
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