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Vandalism reported at offices of three Democrats
CNN ^ | March 22, 2010

Posted on 03/23/2010 11:50:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee

(CNN) -- Democratic offices in at least three states have reported instances of vandalism that party members say possibly were tied to Sunday's historic vote on health care reform.

Early Monday morning, a glass panel at the Tucson office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, was shattered, spokesman C.J. Karamargin said. It wasn't clear how the window was shattered, but visitors have to go through a gated courtyard to enter the office, and staffers suspect someone may have shot a pellet gun at the glass, he said.

Nothing was taken from the congresswoman's office, Karamargin said.

Staffers had stayed late at the office the night before because of the health care vote, but had left before the incident, he added. The office has never experience anything like it since Giffords' staff occupied the office in January 2007, Karamargin said, adding that staffers believe the incident was linked to the health care vote in Washington.

In upstate New York, two similar incidents were reported before Sunday night's vote, according to CNN affiliate WHEC. A brick was thrown through the window of the Monroe County Democratic Committee headquarters in Rochester, and another was tossed through a window of Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter's office in Niagara Falls early Friday.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: cwiiping; democrats; donebydemocrats; donttreadonme; obamacare; setup; socialisthealthcare; tyranny; windowwar
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1 posted on 03/23/2010 11:50:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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Stauble mentioned that a recent post on a blog encouraged people to throw bricks at local Democratic offices nationwide.

The Alabama-based blog, called “Sipsey Street Irregulars,” says it has launched a “window war” against Democrats and has kept a tally of the recent incidents of damage, including the ones in New York and Kansas.

Blogger Michael B. Vanderboegh of Pinson, Alabama, told CNN Monday that in a Friday blog — which he says was posted after the incident at Slaughter’s office — he called for people to break windows at Democratic headquarters at the city and county level. He said he didn’t call for the damages to congressional offices because, “I didn’t want to be responsible for anybody breaking a federal law.”

However, “I can understand how someone can be frustrated enough to throw a brick through a congresswoman’s window,” Vanderboegh said.

He said he feels the health care bill is “unconstitutional and tyrannical.”

“My answer is violence, by getting their attention,” he said, adding, “If we can get across to the other side, that they are within inches of provoking a civil war in this country, then that’s a good thing.”


2 posted on 03/23/2010 11:51:03 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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CW2 Ping


3 posted on 03/23/2010 11:51:33 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

Let them eat health care!


4 posted on 03/23/2010 11:52:03 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Travis McGee

MMMMMMMMMM! MMMMMMMMMM! MMMMMMMMMM!


5 posted on 03/23/2010 11:52:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Travis McGee

Here we go again... blame tea partiers with no proof, no claims, no nothing. Evil conservatives....


6 posted on 03/23/2010 11:52:44 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Travis McGee

Tempted to say, is this ALL?


7 posted on 03/23/2010 11:53:19 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Travis McGee

Violence is okay against an unjust government.

Didn’t Obama’s friend Bill Ayres teach us that?


8 posted on 03/23/2010 11:53:33 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Travis McGee

We need buckets of tar and barrels of feathers to do this right.


9 posted on 03/23/2010 11:53:37 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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Maybe strangely, maybe not so strange—I seem to have little problem with this little bit of civil disobedience.


10 posted on 03/23/2010 11:53:59 AM PDT by BamaAndy
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To: Travis McGee
I detest that phrase “Historic” that the lame media uses. How about Disastrous?
11 posted on 03/23/2010 11:54:11 AM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: Travis McGee

Nobody would have ever imagined middle class craftsmen actually taking up arms and trying to prevent trained troops from recovering a stolen cannon. And yet...

A few bricks through the windows will seem like kids play before this is all over, I fear. Obama will be judged a worse President than Buchanan. This is not going to end well for many, many people.


12 posted on 03/23/2010 11:54:14 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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LOL! Giffords was warned by 100’s of radio ads........


13 posted on 03/23/2010 11:54:57 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: Travis McGee

I condone all of this 100%

Keep up the good work patriots, and remember the Sons of Liberty.


14 posted on 03/23/2010 11:55:14 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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She didn’t listen.........this is stil the wild west ;-)


15 posted on 03/23/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: mikelets456
Here we go again... blame tea partiers with no proof, no claims, no nothing. Evil conservatives....

I have no doubt it's their own hench people.

Common RAT tactic.

16 posted on 03/23/2010 11:56:26 AM PDT by evad (OBAMA is a Clear and Present Danger to This Nation..and...He doesn't learn.)
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To: Travis McGee

As the anarchists love to say, “Property damage isn’t violence.” And if burning the flag is free speech why isn’t breaking the window of a Democrat party office?


17 posted on 03/23/2010 11:57:52 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Travis McGee
Stauble mentioned that a recent post on a blog encouraged people to throw bricks ...

Not realizing, of course, that the original "Window War" post is over decade old.

18 posted on 03/23/2010 11:58:30 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: evad

ACORN Operatives = =


19 posted on 03/23/2010 11:59:02 AM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: Travis McGee

Five (so far) in 24 hours.

You’re a busy man. ;-)


20 posted on 03/23/2010 11:59:28 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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