McCain, Palin causing "anxiety, grave fear": Kansas City attorney files suit against McCain

Source: KC Star Prime Buzz Blog

A Kansas City lawyer and supporter of Barack Obama for president has filed suit in federal court, alleging that the Republican ticket has incited violence against the Democratic nominee.

In her suit against Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and campaign manager Rick Davis, Mary Kay Green said she has been injured by their campaign tactics and suffers “terror of the heart, anxiety and grave fear” for Obama’s life.

Green, an occasional contributor of letters to the editor for The Kansas City Star on legal and political issues, said the GOP campaign has used false hate speech to work their supporters into a frenzy, leading to death threats against Obama.

In an interview, Green said she worked as a young woman in the presidential campaigns of both John and Robert Kennedy in Nebraska. Though she has asked for $6 million in damages, Green said the money is not important. The suit is a moral plea to the Republicans to temper their language, she said.



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but I also realize something needs to be done to stop the threats.

I know three artists, who aren't able to work effectively because of the poisonous atmosphere, of the political campaign.
This of course on top of having had our incomes totally marginalized for the past 8 years due to class warfare waged by the Repigs!

so people don't have to file lawsuits.

They've done this for years, but it's amped WAY up because they see the writing on the wall and it's making them desperate. And the problem is - desperate people sometimes do desperate things - UNLESS they're stopped.

I think it's not such a bad idea that we threaten, bully, intimidate, and harrass them BACK. Tit for tat. Show them how it feels to be on the receiving end.

It's like with anything else: No accountability? They'll do whatever they want because they know that lack of accountability will let them get away with it. No consequences? No problem! Do your shittiest! And enjoy the free ride you'll get for it! Nobody's gonna do anything about it.

Well, THAT is just WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. It's why they ARE doing this shit and it's why they WON'T stop. Because nobody's FORCED them to stop whether they like it or not. Nobody's made a big enough stink. Nobody's made a stink with teeth in it. Nobody's tried to do anything to MAKE them stop ('cause they sure won't stop voluntarily - or because it's the correct thing to do). And they won't til they're made to stop. They won't stop until or unless it becomes just too big a hassle or too potentially expensive or messy or there's too much bad publicity shining a bright light on the shit they like to pull in the shadows.

If they started staring this kind of complication in the face for what they've done, maybe it'd make SOME of them think twice before trying to start something else. They haven't had ANY reason to stay away from this kind of activity. Nobody's made it untenable or unthinkable to do these things before. Until now, when SOMEBODY finally decides to fight back - in a way that just might hurt a little.

Lawsuits? How about a hundred of 'em? How about a class action suit? And all the publicity that comes from it, including a rehash of all the violent campaign exhortations and supporters' shouting angry, hostile, deceitful, even flat-out murderous things to remind people of why this is so evil and awful and reprehensible and why we HAVE to do SOMETHING to make it stop?

I think this is a great idea! I just hope it's not the only one. We should be hitting them back in every way we can imagine. Like they always said in sparring class: Keep jabbing. Keep punching. KEEP 'EM BUSY.

I go out doorbelling and working on Obama's behalf all the time and I can tell you some of the shit pitched at me...makes me cringe...I do fear for my safety sometimes!!!

I think people who call for Obama should have recording devices on their phones.

If I was phone banking, I would record--and if I got nasty feedback, I would call
the mainstream media reporters who cover politics.

You could get a lot of coverage. TV follows newspaper, so start with the NYTimes--and
then give the audio tapes to CNN, MSNBC.

If enough people did this--this would definitely be a story.

Consider doing this.

Those records are under $50 at Radio Shack.

where the callers write down the outrageous stuff they hear on the phone.

lobby to report incidents

n/t

She has not been eating or sleeping well because she is seriously worried we are heading toward severe chaos related to racial conflicts. I think there is some real seriousness to the level of stress this behavior is causing.

They are playing with fire.

you talked her into voting for him...........the alternative will be much worse!

this run. Anger is already stirred up and more than ever, we need to support them.

I have had this discussion with several people...
and, too, went into the awareness and thought that Michelle and Barack had given this...

But with a "pull of the lever" on election day they are vanquished to the bowels of the sewers.

:hurts:

As a full-time plaintiff's attorney who represents people who have experienced actual, severe harm - it annoys me to see anyone reduce our civil justice system to a platform for cheap, silly PR stunts. This kind of BS trivializes the cases of people who have been grievously harmed and have nowhere else to turn.

I gotta call 'em as I see. I'll be slipping into my asbestos suit now, so let the flaming begin.

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You cannot simply sue for anything that disturbs your Chi.

A lawsuit must meet certain standards, among them, the person asserting the claim must have proper standing to sue the person they sue. They must prove that the person they're suing has a duty under the law to such plaintiff. They must prove that the person sued has breached such a duty, that harm has come to them, and that damages or injury result proximately from such action.

There's a reason people have to go to law school and pass the bar exam to become lawyers. Knowledge matters. A lawsuit is more than a letter to the editor with a subpoena attached. Every complaint in life does not produce a basis for a lawsuit.

Not grievously harmed? I guess we could wait until one of McCain-Palin's followers pulls the trigger.

think about the consequences of to much "prevention" in terms of your own free speech.

we have no functioning Justice Department.

If people think our financial infrastructure was fragile, wait untill they get a load of DoJ.

Palin is inciting violence, the Bush controlled Secret Service are "investigating" threats.

Are you satisfied that that's enough? What is your idea?

I would like to hear suggestions too.

This is going to get tossed, and it should be.

As we lawyers say, this case is going to get poured out. It's not close, either. It's way off the playing field.

they're grownups that can make their own decisions. Now sham lawsuits like this are gonna tie up court's time? Seriously?

The death threats need to STOP.

Not even worth it.

and McSame walking about the stage saying "that's right", to the crowds mad rage toward Obama.

I do not understand why people who are shouting violence are not arrested and prosecuted. This is very scary stuff. I am tired of people getting away with it.

and bullying to stoke up the racist hatred in a mob deserve to be held accountable with Hate Crimes legislation. I too am afraid for Obama's life. The idiots on the Right have been doing this for decades finally people are paying attention to it because they simply cannot stand the idea that they will not be in charge in America.

is in civil court, but I'm just pretty darn sure that incitement to violence is a criminal offense. So why is this not being dealt with as a criminal matter? At the very least, why is the Secret Service allowing this to go on? These are threats being made against a presidential candidate; a person under the protection of the Secret Service. So why is the Secret Service not putting a stop to this crap?

Any inciting violence should be handled by the authorities (as the Secret Service is doing).

And if she "suffers terror of the heart, anxiety and grave fear", she should seek medical help, not legal help.

The list of reasons this case will be dismissed is a long one. She'll be lucky if she's not sanctioned by the court for filing this frivolous lawsuit.

Every complaint in life does not create a lawsuit, only the ones that rise to the level of being a cause of action under the law. She lacks a cause of action, and she lacks standing to file such a case.

It's a bullshit case. Sorry.

Anybody for a class action suit against * & Cheney? :grr: