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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:35 PM Jun 2012

NH Tea Party leader wishes ‘colon cancer’ on Supreme Court justices

A New Hampshire Tea Party head has said that he hopes the majority justices in the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act get “get colon cancer,” according to the Merrimack Patch. Mike Malzone, founder of the Merrimack, New Hampshire Tea Party joined the ranks of conservatives who are heaping opprobrium upon the heads of the Supreme Court, who upheld the bulk of the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature piece of domestic legislation as constitutional on Thursday.

Conservatives have exhibited a veritable rainbow of bad reactions to Thursday’s announcement. Former Fox News personality Glenn Beck has taken to selling Chief Justice John Roberts T-shirts that say “Coward” on his website ($30 plus shipping and handling). Matt Drudge and others have been blaming the ruling on Roberts’s epilepsy medication, although presumably his ruling on Citizens United was not affected by the same factors.

Merrimack, New Hampshire libertarian and Tea Party president Mike Malzone has gone further than others in his outrage, declaring in a Facebook post on the Merrimack Tea Party page, “I hope the (5 supremes) get colon cancer.”

When the post was met with outrage, Malzone backtracked a day later, while waxing lachrymose.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/30/nh-tea-party-leader-wishes-colon-cancer-on-supreme-court-justices/

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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
6. When this country fractures, I wonder if these asses will take a bow. Some
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:50 PM
Jun 2012

countries would have closed down by now bastions of hatred, such as Glenn Beck, Fox News and the like as dangerous. I frankly think they pose a risk to this country.

I believe in free speech, all of that, but these people/organizations are liars spreading falsehood and lies. When do they eventually cross the line into un-American behavior. IMO they are trying to create significant civil unrest.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. I gotta say it, Glenny, with all his defects,
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:46 PM
Jun 2012

is a good business man. He is going to make a bundle from the usual suspects with those T-Shirts...

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
11. Yup, but not only does he KNOW the market
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:56 PM
Jun 2012

he helps to create it... credit, where credit is due...

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
8. This was unbelievably heartless
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:51 PM
Jun 2012

and insulting. People who have a loved one with colon cancer, would never ever wish this onto anyone else. Unbelievably heartless.

Are these words of someone with a rational mind? The Rhetoric since the ruling, just unbelievable.

I would hate to think if the ruling went the other way. Would we see posts on DU wishing Cancer on any human being. Would we been just as guilty?

This is the power of propaganda. Instead of concentrating on the problems this country is facing. We are screaming shit like this to one another. Meanwhile, the 1% rigs the system.

marmar

(77,097 posts)
9. It's not difficult to imagine these people in brown shirts and jackboots....
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:54 PM
Jun 2012

...... in a different time and place.


Historic NY

(37,454 posts)
10. I wish we could just round them all up and deport them to a whole different
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 07:55 PM
Jun 2012

continent like Antarctica.

longship

(40,416 posts)
12. May he be pecked by 10,000 penguins
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 08:01 PM
Jun 2012

Emporers, Adeilies, Gentoos, Chinstraps, and any others available, uncountable thousands of them.

TheCowsCameHome

(40,169 posts)
16. The spew hatred like no others
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 08:48 PM
Jun 2012

I can't believe they claim to be such "patriots" and "christians"

I'd befriend a Klansman before a teabagger............

lpbk2713

(42,769 posts)
19. The $30 T-shirt will probably shrink and the printing will wash away first time it's laundered.
Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:45 PM
Jun 2012



But ... any dumbass who pays Beck 30 bucks for it deserves to
be fleeced big time while he laughs all the way to the bank.


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