Capuano urges union protesters to get 'bloody' one month after calling for calm

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By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff

US Representative Michael E. Capuano, who decried violent political rhetoric after last month’s shooting of his Democratic colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, used some belligerent language of his own at a union rally in Boston yesterday.

"Every once in a while you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Capuano told about 1,000 union workers who were protesting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at a raucous rally outside the State House.

The union crowd greeted Capuano’s exhortation with cheers, whistles and applause.

But his remark raised eyebrows elsewhere because Capuano was among the lawmakers who were calling for cooler political rhetoric after Giffords was shot in the head in a rampage that killed six other people in Tucson last month.

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[Mass]

1. Not the best way to phrase this, but the point he is making is clear. You need to fight for your

rights. It is not about hurting others. It is about risking to get injured.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. Things change. n/t

[rucky]

3. Get bloody implies risking injury to oneself

not making other people bloody.

[Poboy]

5. Exactly. it refers to self injury, not injury to others.

Taking one for the cause, as it were.

[Bandit]

7. When you are in a fight the odds of their blood being on you are just as good

as your own blood being on yourself. I take it as meaning don't back down even if it means some blood will flow no matter whose blood it is.

[blindpig]

4. It's what happens when we refuse to back down. n/t

[white_wolf]

6. I agree with his sentiment.

I wish he had stated it a bit differently though because I can already hear the Right wing propaganda arm screaming now. However I agree with his sentiment 110% we need to fight back with everything we can, because these Oligarchs are never going to stop until they are utterly defeated. We have to fight back with all we can.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He's backtracked on the remarks.