Is class warfare rhetoric to blame for Massachusetts arson?

examiner.com ^ | 12/13/2010 | Joe Newby

[FredJake]

The Blaze reports that upscale homes in Massachusetts are being targeted by arsonists with a clear political message.

In two incidents, the message “f*** the rich” was found, and "incendiary devices" were discovered in one home set ablaze.

As disturbing as these reports are, one aspect is not being examined - the impact of charged political rhetoric used by the left in attacking the compromise deal between the President and the GOP.

Liberal Democrats, like Washington's Jim McDermott, have engaged in class warfare in a concerted effort to demonize the plan.

McDermott went so far as to call the compromise Obama's "Gettysburg" and compared the GOP to the Confederate Army. "He's going to have to decide whether he's going to withstand Pickett's Charge ... I worry," McDermott said, according to Politico.

The President himself referred to Republicans as "hostage takers" - a clear reference to terrorists. Incoming Speaker John Boehner took offense at the reference and explained the time for rhetoric was over.

[FredJake]

You know if tea party lingo was used, or a gadsden flag was left behind, the media would be screaming for retribution.

[MrB]

Is it wrong to hope that these homes being targeted are wealth LIBERALS?

[Oratam]

anarchists

[MrB]

oops

Is it wrong to hope that these homes being targeted are wealthY LIBERALS?

[Huebolt]

We hope the asonists know that the WEALTHIEST areas are around WASHINGTON DC and Virginia where the government plutocrats keep their vast estates bought with the sweat and tears of hard working taxpayers...

Rousing the rabble has its risks.

"Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’m more inclined to think that arsonists are to blame for the arson. If I could rhetoric to create fire, I’d be yapping all winter.

[raccoonradio]

Fortunately Democrats like John Kerry are pretty impoverished so he need not worry.

http://liveshot.cc/billions_and_billions.htm

[buccaneer81]

Is it wrong to hope that these homes being targeted are wealth LIBERALS?

The odds certainly favor that scenario since these incidents occurred on the Cape.