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Thankfully Wells Fargo, the employer of leading Idaho tea-bagger Charles McAffee, doesn’t train its representatives to document loan-delinquent homeowners in this manner. Via Raw Story:
The Republican Party chairman of Boise County in Idaho was arrested Thursday for aggravated assault after he pulled a gun on a man whose house he was photographing.Charles McAffee, 33, was among Idaho’s anti-tax tea-party activists, and is a member of the Idaho Republican Party Central Committee. He was arrested after pulling a handgun on a homeowner whose mortgage his employer sought to photograph for being delinquent
Do you see a trend here? Gun-brandishing teabaggers, right-wing preachers calling for the execution of gays and the President…in all of the years the left was out in the political cold, did we see any of this completely unhinged behavior? At some point the GOP and religious right leaders need to condemn these extremists and eliminationists or we can safely assume that they agree wholeheartedly with a class of people who encourage – or partake – in violence as a protest or act of intimidation. The AP:
According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account.”I’m unarmed, I’m an old man,” Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I’m trying to find out why he’s taking pictures of my house. I said, ‘Knock on my door, let me know what you want.’ Then, I think he’s reaching for his business card and he pulls out a concealed weapon and I think he’s going to blow my head off.”
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WTF…Clearly civil disaster looms, with war coming soon. Freakin’ Internet ruined the control of information without which the fabric of Religion has begun to unravel…behold, the Beast.
Don’t Go Hysterical! LOLThis can be some scary shit, but not hard to manage.
If some retarded wannabe-badass goes waving a gun around you (especially at your own front door), pull out your own gun and blow them the fuck away.
When an insect is annoying you, what do you do to it?
Oh myI live in an anti-gun state but they won’t interfere with ownership rights, even to the point of having a full criminal and civil Castle Doctrine.
Anybody comes to by door with a gun and doesn’t show a badge is likely to be shot. Yes, some of we die hard liberals have guns too.
InevitableThe United States has a society steeped in violence. It pervades everything, from comic books to movies and television to pro sports to “religion” to “law enforcement” to foreign policy. The ubiquitous message is quite clear: if you’re not happy with something or someone, the way to deal with it is through forceful, violent action. Clowns like this are only taking the next logical step. This kind of thing was inevitable sooner or later, and it’s equally inevitable that we’ll see more of it.
GeeI wonder why he hates Obama and the Democrats. If they pull us out of the recession he might not have a job in the foreclosure business anymore…hmmm.
Whoa!A crazy far-right-wing nutjob threatens violence in my old home town! Back in the day, we used to call that “Thursday”.
They just can’t stand the thoughtYou are seeing this more and more as time goes by because of this one thing.
Never mind the fact that Barrack Obama was ELECTED with an overwhelming majority of the votes (not a landslide but then again not a fraud like 2000 and Bush)The small majority of tea-bagging, un-educated dip shits with guns (did I mention that they are all white?) Just can’t stand the thought that America has a black President
Get over it assholes, we elected him and you didn’t. If anyone was someone with balls all of these people should be brought up on sedition charges and then we shall see how they like being tried for treason.
I am also very tired of the left doing what it does best and not treat these people with the force that they deserve. God Bless Barney Frank for attempting to put one of them in their place this week.
That is all these retards know is force and then it should be up to us to bloody well give them what they dish out. Yes, I can be militant and I have had enough of our leaders not calling these heavy handed tacticians to book.
“Thursday” indeedI know diddly about Idaho politics, but a KIDK reporter sent me this, and it sure looks like the ID GOP is a bunch of nutters top to bottom. Behold Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter, Jim Risch, Mike Simpson, Mike Crapo, Brent Hill, Jeff Thompson, BBQ-in’ and pontificatin’ …
An Armed Society Is A Polite SocietyIn the fantasy world that Republicans live in, do they imagine that if the homeowner had also been armed, then they would have been polite to each other? Because, clearly the one person that was armed was a total a-hole (not polite).
I imagine the homeowner may have been rude, too, but only after this unidentified man continued to photograph his house and refuse all requests to identify himself and the purpose for the photos. When (presumably) the homeowner actually attempts to interfere with this unidentified man is when the man commits a felony against the homeowner (for no purpose other than to be an a-hole).
Which begs the question: does the armed a-hole not know that pointing a gun at someone is a crime? Doesn’t that expose the need for safety-training, licensing and testing for gun owners? If we (society) can license drivers and register cars, how can anyone possibly argue against the same model for guns?
Or is this a sign that this GOP a-hole felt so secure in his arrogant position that he was above the law?
(An Armed Society is a Polite Society)Well, maybe given the legacy of “the Old West” it was polite, but that didn’t preclude you from getting your head blown off by someone else, did it?
LOLOL!!!!Sob……………