So crazy it's true!

I couldn’t believe what I read this afternoon in the news. I read an article about the violent responses to the healthcare vote. This is no joke folks… someone opened-fire on a Republican campaign office. Bart Stupak (D, Michigan) has been receiving threatening phone calls. According to this article, fire marshals and the FBI are looking into the slashing of a propane gas line outside the home of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother. This happened after a Tea Party activist posted the brother’s home address online. What is happening out there people? Are you really ready to kill someone over this?


Actually, I take that back, I can see someone getting very worked-up about this situation. The situation has been so sensationalized that it taps into the emotions around the argument. When our emotions get involved, we tend to lose our rational thinking. Most of the people that are acting this way are people opposed to the bill. Let’s put it this way… More Democrats have been harassed like this than Republicans. Don’t get me wrong, I have friends that fall under the Conservative or Republican category. These are people that can get emotional, like me, and we know how to keep it under control. We have great conversations and debates. We enjoy having that opposite opinion to empathize with. What I am talking about are the extremist views on the subject. Severing gas lines, threatening phone calls, and an office shooting are all examples of dangerous and extremist behaviors.

I have a problem with organizations that justify, insight, and create intense anxiety to this extent. I could blame a certain television network (*cough FOX cough*) but they are not the real problem. Though, I wouldn’t mind pointing out the people who are living in a complete fantasy, like Glen Beck. The real problem is people out there that do not seem to know the line between reasonable and unreasonable. Extremist organizations, like the Tea Partiers, are helping (whether they mean to or not) to create a mob mentality. A mob does not have a sense of right or wrong and has no remorse about doing something that is ethically or morally wrong. In this way, your movement becomes perverted. [Perverted- (adjective) turned from what is right; wicked; misguided; distorted.] I am for everyone having a voice, but don’t use it to trample on others. Wake up, your non-violent protest, just got violent.

Here is the link to the article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/25/congress.threats/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn