From Mirriam-Webster dictionary:
terror - 4 : violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands
We have seen reports all over the news and around the blogosphere today regarding vandalism at several Democratic offices and threats made against Democratic members of Congress. These threats are being made by teabaggers and Republicans because they don't like the fact that the political direction of this country has changed.
Republican leaders and their talk-radio brethren have whipped these constituents for the last 2 decades using every boogeyman in the book, misinforming them daily and deliberately stoking their fears and discomforts of all things different. Now they have lost what remained of their tenuous grip on reality in addition to their self-control.
The Republican party must immediately repudiate these threats and acts of violence and distance itself from the inflammatory rhetoric which is giving rise to to a new generation of domestic terrorism in this country.
Republicans have one last chance to stop this, regain their sanity and rejoin the political discussion in a rational, logical, civilized manner. If they refuse to do so, they will be the instruments of their own self-destruction.
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