Acts of Political Violence Mount

President Obama has signed the Health Care Reform Bill which passed in the House of Representatives on a 219-212 vote.

Following is a list of the subsequent violence, verging on terrorism that took place after the vote:

Outburst of Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill.

Taunt of Rep. Randy Neueberger: it’s a baby killer.

Workers at the Democratic headquarters in Rochester, New York, found that a brick had been hurled through their glass door. The brick had a note on it that read: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.”

Window broken at Rep. Louise Slaughter’s Niagara Falls district office.

Door smashed at Tucson, Arizona, office of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford.

Leading Republicans seem to be encouraging their supporters to threaten violence against the majority in Congress and our fairly elected Democratic President.

I hope the violence stays at this level and doesn’t turn into shots being fired or an American Kristallnacht.*


*On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany's Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses were struck. This event came to be called Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets.