Second Establishment ‘Liberal’ Calls for Violent Death to Florida Governor
Far left talker Mike Malloy (whose rantings are a regular source of material at Newsbusters) calls for the death of GOP Gov. Rick Scott of Florida:
Leftist radio talker Mike Malloy is really obsessed with executing conservatives. When the Navy SEALs shot Osama bin Laden, he asked when they would “drop in on George Bush,” since he “was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden.”
On Tuesday, Malloy wished death on Thanksgiving for Florida Gov. Rick Scott. “And then this miserable son of a bitch has the audacity to go to a homeless shelter? It’s a wonder somebody didn’t hold his head down in a vat of turkey gravy until he stopped squiggling! He goes to a homeless shelter and talks about how he cares…? Mmm-hmm!”
The Naples News reported Gov. Scott made a Thanksgiving Day visit and “joined a legion of volunteers Thursday at St. Matthew’s House in East Naples, doling out Thanksgiving dinners, taking orders for desserts — and getting political advice from the jobless and homeless.”
Late last October, about ten days before he deservedly lost his re-election bid to Republican Lou Barletta, the Scranton Times-Tribune reported that soon-to-be ousted Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski had a penchant for saying a variety of colorful statements in public, ranging from how he and his fellow Democrats “stretched the facts” (his words) to take back Congress in 2006, to calling for the death of his fellow politicians:
This week Mr. Kanjorski told The Times-Tribune editorial board about how large companies don’t want the government changing the way it does business because they make big money off the government, and about how he’s getting closer to supporting a single-payer health care system “because the health insurance industry is about as corrupt as you can ask for as an industry.”
“They’re blood suckers,” he said.
This was followed by a reference to Rick Scott, the Republican candidate for Florida governor, who was ousted in 1997 as head of the giant health care company Columbia/HCA, amid the nation’s largest Medicare and Medicaid fraud scandal. The company paid $1.7 billion in fines and civil settlements.
“That Scott down there that’s running for governor of Florida,” Mr. Kanjorski said. “Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he’s running for governor of Florida. He’s a millionaire and a billionaire. He’s no hero. He’s a damn crook. It’s just we don’t prosecute big crooks.”
The word choice might produce some outrage, at least partly because Mr. Scott was never charged with a crime, but it demonstrates perfectly what we’re talking about.
In the space of a year, that’s two members now of the establishment left that have publicly called for the death of Florida’s Republican governor. In January, we were told that political clip art could kill, to be ever-vigilant for “eliminationist rhetoric” and to usher in a new era of political civility — including from Kanjorski himself! — but as we know, the left does not hold itself accountable for its own rhetoric.
(Or its own artwork when the mask slips, as Jim Treacher recently spotted.)
It is my opinion that these people are just blowing off steam…I am nevertheless going to sit back for a moment and take a view informed (hopefully) by a deep reading of history (and in particular non-U.S. history, for in certain regards we have been a uniquely fortunate country), and I am probably break some sort of taboo, but I think it might be time to discuss what I am about to say, so as to perhaps reset some things back to a more stable condition.
It is my personal view, one I am not going to attempt to fully argue, that if the “cold Civil War” we are in (and we are) ever turns hot–and there is a chance of that, though but small at this point–it will happen because a group on the left finally goes one step too far in a way that demands widespread opposition (or accept a civic castration not achieved through lawful means), and then the dam bursts in an uncontrollable fashion. I take as my template Fort Sumter and Pearl Harbor. Before the Confederates opened fired or the Japanese started bombing, it would have been very hard to get the North/U.S. united behind any military action. After those events, it would have been impossible for anyone to stop the train of war from leaving the station.
Now, as I said, at this time I do not think we are going to have a great clash in this nation, though the conditions are building for such, in the same way a stuck fault zone builds up the energy needed for a great quake to occur when the plates finally slip past each other. I personally think there is still enough lubrication in the system (via the system of constitutional republicanism we have) to gradually relieve the stress that is building and prevent any sort of cataclysm.
Having said that, it is my personal opinion that if the left ever starts anything in the way of something like, say for example, the Japanese military tried to do things in the 30s (and the #OWS crowd certainly would seem to have fantasies along those lines), then I think it is only fair to say that they would be playing with potential fire, and that while I could easily see how they start something, I don’t see how they finish it standing up. This is because while I think they have viciousness needed to start trying to rule by force and intimidation I don’t think they have anything else that would sustain them in any sort of long struggle, whereas I do not believe the converse is true for any likely opponents–and that once those opponents have to take action they are not likely to stop short of a fundamental restructuring of things. My guess is that the contest would be decisive and very short (though it is true that these things do have the habit of becoming drawn out). So folks of a hard leftist persuasion might want to think long and hard about how they choose to relate to people they really don’t like or agree with, because my guess is that if ever comes to shove, they really won’t like the results. Just sayin’. The majority of America is not like the inner portion of the major cities, where intimidation in fact does work. The far left and the unions may want to understand that.
So, to summarize, and to be blunt, in a probably misguided effort to prevent trouble–my message to the Left, in one sentence, would be this–you will never ever ever win in *any* kind of civil war in the United States, so don’t even try to get your way by force and intimidation. Other than that, Mr. Malloy and Mr. Kanjorski, do as you damn well please.
I would note that civil war is FAR closer than you think, and that the Left understands THEY have a good chance to win. For after all, their natural allies in the war will be this county’s “Law Enforcement” who see no reason to honor their oath to the Constitution but instead grovel before their Masters and then do WHATEVER they are told. Much like the fine Germans who said “I vus chust doink what they ordered me to do.” Of course, whenever they ARE called to account, such as the ticket-fixing charges in New York or the Miami-Dade cop pulled over for doing 120 mph to get to his off-duty job, they are quite able and willing to take a stand. So the civil war will be between those who believe that the Constitution is the sole authority for the Federal government, and the rights guaranteed therein are NOT subject to “Law Enforcement” whim, and those who do what they’re told. “Battlefield USA” brings that war MUCH closer.
I see the moonbats are migrating earlier this year.
And you *know* what leftists will say when you call them on this:
“That’s *different!*.
This is the same Kanjorski who castrated FASB and allowed for the mark-to-fantasy that has propped up TBTF banks and the Fed’s MBS vehicles. I wish him excruciating, inoperable cancer.
Mike Malloy is a hateful, petty man. He’s even more a nutjob than Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann put together. About ten years ago, his radio program was carried by WLS-AM 890 in Chicago (the same talk radio station that carries Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin). Mike’s show, which was broadcasted after 10 pm, lasted, if I recall correctly, less than four months on WLS-AM.
“Rick Scott’s no hero. He’s a damn crook. It’s just we don’t prosecute big crooks.”
that’s why obama is still in office…
On the Left it is always “Do as I say, not as I do” – it is the way of the Fascist!