Details about threats to Democrats

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Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer e-mailed senators and staffers Wednesday telling them to "remain vigilant." He said in an interview that the warning was meant to "assuage people's fears." Despite the incidents involving House members, Gainer, a former Capitol Police chief, said there have been no reported incidents involving senators.

The vandalism began last weekend, when the House debated the health bill for final passage. In Wichita, Kan., someone broke the window of a storefront county Democratic Party headquarters with a brick that had "No to Obama" and "No ObamyCare" written on it. Lyndsey Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party, said she came to work Saturday morning to clean up the shattered glass strewn about her desk.

Over the next 24 hours, thrown bricks shattered the glass doors and windows of party headquarters from Rochester, N.Y., to Cincinnati. A gas line at the Charlottesville, Va., home of the brother of Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va., was severed Tuesday after a self-identified tea party activist posted what he believed to be the Virginia Democrat's address on a Web site and urged opponents to "drop by" to convey their opposition to his yes vote on health care.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., had a brick thrown through her Niagara Falls district office and received a threatening voicemail referencing sniper attacks. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., had the front door to her Tucson district office shattered. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., whose last-minute negotiations to bar federal funding of abortion helped secure the bill's passage, received a fax with a drawing of a noose and an anonymous voicemail saying, "You're dead. We know where you live. We'll get you."

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_14751967

[mediaman007]

1. Raise the Homeland Security Alert Level! We have terrorist sightings!

[Cetacea]

2. Keep this front and center

[DemoTex]

3. In like a lion, out like a lamb.

These are gutless chickenhawks for the most part. Like a properly exposed digital photo's histogram (approximating a bell curve), these asshats are off in the right side (which, ironically, is the WHITE side).

[MadMaddie]

5. Here's the thing

You are right but their are Timothy McVeighs out there waiting for their moment to kill Americans. They are domestic terrorist.

[DemoTex]

7. I agree .. but the ultra-right wraps around to the ultra-left (IMO)

The big hit could come from either side, although current goading is obvious.

[a la izquierda]

4. K & R

this is some really disturbing stuff.

[quiet.american]

6. Unbelievable. Sickening. These people are absolutely dangerously stupid. nt

[graywarrior]

8. I'm concerned about the people who do not have the protection the president has

People like Grayson, Barney Frank, Kerry, etc. I can't imagine what they are going through, feeling as if they are being stalked. Damn Palin and the rest of them for inciting this kind of violence.