The kind of thug we're up against
Number one on the list of stories we won't be hearing on Fox:
Update [3/26/05]: Mickey Kaus seems to think that Democrats will now become the party of violence. Ummm...no, you ignorant dipshit. We're the party of peace, the constitution and due process of law. When a legal case doesn't go our way, we don't try to kidnap an invalid, pay someone to shoot the defendant or try to steal a firearm to make things right. We're the ones who send hundreds of thousands of people into the street in peaceful protest for civil rights and the biggest abuses of power in history. Gandhi would have been a Democrat. If you want to criticize us for anything, criticize us for building giant paper mache effigies when we know the Right Wing Corporate Media will only sniff at our peaceful protest.
We don't send in our political operatives as some kind of Brooks Brothers Brownshirts to disrupt an election.
Oh, and we don't kick someone when their down, and if someone does, you can bet that we'll be the ones to turn them in and march them to the cops.
A North Carolina man was charged by the FBI on Friday with offering a $250,000 bounty for the murder of Michael Schiavo, the husband of a brain-damaged Florida woman dying in a hospice after years of legal wrangling with her parents.The thing that amazes me here is imagining how this kind of wingnut accumulates that kind of money. So far, we've had two people trying to use force in this case, one robbing a gun store and one traveling to kill Michael Schiavo. I also remember this guy assaulting a female ACT-UP activist when she was down at the Republican convention. Despite the fact that he has been identified, caught on tape (and linked to the National Taxpayer Union), he hasn't been charged. Seriously. Can anyone think of a time in the last 20 years or so when a Democrat has assaulted anyone with anything more dangerous than a pie?
Richard Alan Meywes was arrested without incident at his home in Fairview, the FBI said. Tim Stutheit, an FBI spokesman in Charlotte, declined to give Meywes' age.
Meywes was charged in Tampa, Fla., with murder for hire and with the transmission of interstate threatening communications. He was being held in the Buncombe County Detention Center and faces a U.S. Magistrate's hearing Monday in Asheville. He will eventually be brought to Tampa to face the charges against him, the FBI said.
The suspect could not be reached for comment. His name was not listed in several published and online telephone directories.
Meywes is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty "on the head of Michael Schiavo" and another $50,000 to eliminate a judge who denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case, the FBI said in a prepared statement. The FBI did not identify the judge.
Update [3/26/05]: Mickey Kaus seems to think that Democrats will now become the party of violence. Ummm...no, you ignorant dipshit. We're the party of peace, the constitution and due process of law. When a legal case doesn't go our way, we don't try to kidnap an invalid, pay someone to shoot the defendant or try to steal a firearm to make things right. We're the ones who send hundreds of thousands of people into the street in peaceful protest for civil rights and the biggest abuses of power in history. Gandhi would have been a Democrat. If you want to criticize us for anything, criticize us for building giant paper mache effigies when we know the Right Wing Corporate Media will only sniff at our peaceful protest.
We don't send in our political operatives as some kind of Brooks Brothers Brownshirts to disrupt an election.
Oh, and we don't kick someone when their down, and if someone does, you can bet that we'll be the ones to turn them in and march them to the cops.
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