Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot:'The Real Case Is That She Had No Security

Source: Think Progress

Tucson Tea Party Founder Blames Giffords For Getting Shot: ‘The Real Case Is That She Had No Security’

In March 2010, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) warned that the rhetoric from the tea parties and Sarah Palin was potentially dangerous. “I can say that in the years that some of my colleagues have served — 20, 30 years — they’ve never seen it like this…when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there’s consequences to that action,” she said on MSNBC. Tuscon Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries called Giffords’ previous concerns about violent rhetoric “political gamesmenship,” claiming that if Giffords was so concerned, then she is to blame for Saturday’s shootings because she “had no security whatsoever”:

*****“It’s political gamesmanship. The real case is that she (Giffords) had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?” he said. “For all the stuff they accuse her Palin of, that gun poster has not done a tenth of the damage to the political discourse as what we’re hearing right now.”

Humphries also told the Guardian that Saturday’s shootings in Tuscon are “evolving into a conspiracy to destroy his organisation and silence criticism of the government.” Watch excerpts of interview here:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/12/tucson-tea-party-blames-gifford/

These people have no fucking shame.

And THEN gave him cab fare.






I hope these t people get everything they're owed by the universe. Quickly.

:sarcasm:

We'll know what you mean.

He protests too much don't you think?

While I agree with the hint you lay there, it's always been that way where I am from. Politicians of almost every strata of government here almost always have police or sheriff escort whenever they are out among us little people. It has been that way for as long as I can remember.

There aren't words for how despicable you are.
You're lower than the snake belly's trail you slithered from.

:mad: :grr:

We apparently need to explain it all to Mr. Humphries in simple terms using small words. I'll have a go at it.

Representative Giffords saw problems but refused to live in fear.

One syllable words: six
Two syllable words: three
Five syllable words: one (couldn't be helped)

I tried.

will go on for good.

Fucking asshole.

Despicable.

I doubt they even know what it means

or lack thereof could come up with such theories.

Yeah, on one point this teabagger is correct. Everyone on princess palin's gun-sight hit list should have had protection.

...as long as they bring their own security. :wtf:

This is the real case:

You people in the Tea Party kept telling this man Democrats were turning the United States into Soviet Russia.

You told him to use Second Amendment Remedies.

You told him that if we couldn't get rid of liberals with the ballot box it was okay to use the bullet box.

So what does this freedom-loving, socialist-hating person do the first chance he gets? Why, go down to a peaceful democratic political gathering and do something that would make Papa Joe Stalin himself smile: pull out a gun with a magazine that's 10 times longer than his dick, shoot a politician who was on the other side of the spectrum, and then shoot everyone else in the area just to be sure.

children contemplating becoming involved in the world of politics better get a bodyguard.

and assume that if he does show up it will be with a loaded weapon and immediately fill him with holes.

What a fricking dangerous moron.

Blame the victim, play the victim.

I think all Dems are going to need protection from some of the goons in your movement if the video Lawrence O' Donnell showed tonight of a losing Tea Party candidate leading his goon supporters in confronting the winner Rep Filmore in CA.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x189913

Hard to see with your head that far up your arse.

n/t

:nuke:

is to separate the people from the people's government, only then can their corporate masters reign supreme.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.