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Subscribe to RSSLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Police were investigating Monday after a cat belonging to the family of a Democrat's campaign manager was beaten to death and the word "liberal" scrawled across its side.
The cat belonged to the family of Jake Burris, who manages Democrat Ken Aden's bid for Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District.
Burris was returning to his Russellville home with his four children when he found the cat on his doorstep Sunday night, the Aden campaign said in a press release.
The mixed-breed Siamese cat had one side of its head bashed in to "the point the cat's eyeball was barely hanging from its socket," the release said.
Aden told Reuters that the event was "horrible, to say the least."
"Thankfully, there are not that many people who want to do something like this," Aden said. "The majority of people in this district are hard-working folks, but you get the occasional crazy individual out there."
The Russellville Police Department is investigating the incident as an animal cruelty case, according to a police official. Russellville is 80 miles west of Little Rock.
Aden is running against incumbent Republican Representative Steve Womack.
Aden and Burris said they did not believe Womack or his re-election campaign were involved in the incident.
Arkansas' 3rd District is heavily conservative Republican and has been held by a Republican since the 1966 election. Womack first won the congressional seat in 2010 with 72 percent of the vote.
The Womack campaign denounced the violence on Monday.
"The thought of brutalizing any animal for the sake of making a political statement is beyond any standard of decency and the person or people responsible for this act should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law," said Beau Walker, Womack's chief of staff.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Disgusting.
so much so, someone find this person and keep them away from the rest of us.
Rightwing extremists. Some of these people are just plain insane.
Hope none of the children saw their poor pet like this.
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someone needs to have their head bashed in as well... as usual, animals have to suffer due to human stupidity...
Jail for life! No parole! Despicable!
The American Taliban strikes again. We're worried about Islamic terrorists... what about these terrorists?
Who ever did this needs some personal time with a shrink. On the other hand, the Russellville police will never find out who did this, they are one of the most inept small town police departments in the nation.
I'm sure that there is absolutely no way it could have been killed by a liberal who made it look like the perp was a conservative, kinda like the libs who crashed some of the TP's gatherings ;-)
Yep it was a rightwing extremist in this instant.
Don't forget there are Leftwing extremists also.
A truly disgusting act and story.
I have a little dog that means the world to me.
You can call me crazy, psycho, whatever the hell you would like ... but If I caught anybody trying to bash my dogs head in, I would annihilate them. Plain and simple. I wouldn't even think twice about it. If you are such a sicko that you could harm an innocent pet that has a loving owner, you don't deserve to be a human.
And by the way, I do consider myself a liberal. I'm just not a pacifist. I deplore violence, but I would meet any violence bestowed upon me and mine with equal wrath.
Sorry for the rant, I just can't stand little cowards that gain strength through the torture of weaker creatures.
Had this article not stated that this took place in Arkansas, I'd have suspected it took place in Arizona.
That is some fine conservative values. Being the south, if the cat was black they'd likely have found it hanging from a tree.
If anything is to blame, other than insanity, it's the media for dividing Americans with this stupid 2 party system.
FXSTC - No it couldn't have been! This is the kind of disgusting behavior you expect from right wing extremists. And, yes, James there are left-wing ones also. And, if they did something like this I would be just as disgusted!
Very sad. Only one kind of sicko does this a "Sociopath" that needs to be put down.
What's a left wing extremist? Is the French communist party known to skin cats and make it look like a southern right wing extremist did it?
Hate is hate, period. Bashing a family's animal, bashing a kid for being different, bashing someone for being a Mormon, is totally disgusting. Life is so hard, just to get along day to day, why burden someone else who is just struggling to be who they are and survive.
Toasty....
I usual agree with your posts but that one sucked and was stupid... cool it!
TO: janierock who wrote:
A "left wing extremist" is someone who loves clean air and and clean water; stops to smell the roses; loves all mankind; believes in freedom of religion; uses the word "Peace" to say "Hello" and/or "Goodbye"; has a positive view towards most everything, and is happy that we have an Environmental Protection Agency to watch out for holigans who try to pollute the air and poison our water!
Obama / Biden 2012
Thank you, well said.
What a loser. Please, if you are going to murder pets, stop pretending to be conservative and leave the country so the useful people can get on with business
American Girl,
Nah, what you describe is a left wing IDEALIST. A left wing extremist is the sort of person who spikes trees to make a conservation point (even though it injures logging workers). It's the sort of person to whom any social program that helps people is good, without pausing a moment to consider the fiscal impact. It's the sort of person who believes that more government is always better (even if we can't afford it). It's the sort of person who hates Christians and Republicans every bit as much as the right wing extremists hate atheists and Democrats. It's the sort of person who would try to make a point about corporate greed by blockading a port, when in reality the only effect it has is to prevent a few hundred contract employees from getting a day's pay (right before Christmas to boot). I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point. . .or maybe you don't.
Sure there are crazies on the right. But there are just as many on the left.
This article didn't make my day.
RE: Yashmak
You are so brainwashed it is pathetic. And you don't even realize it...I pity you!
This very sick and dangerous person represents neither political party or organization of decent people. Idiots like this find any excuse to perpetrate their deranged actions.
We own cats, and love animals. Doing such a heinous act to a defenseless creature is tantamont to child abuse. Find this lowlife and cage him, like to rabid animal he is.
You obviously don't live in Arizona, Ghult.
No, American Girl - 724855, that would be a hippy from the 60s. A left wing extremeist is one who thinks the rich should support them because they exist and that everyone should have everything whether they earn it or not and that the Almighty Obama can do no wrong. In other words. FOOLS.
Just watch one of the republican presidential debates, and you will realize, where the hate is coming from. They are even trying to preach hate about each other.
A cruel and cowardly act meant to control through fear. This is what we're dealing with, folks. Watch your collective backs.
Nearly all right wing extremists are capable of these kinds of atrocities. Uneducated, mentally deranged, charged up, by the likes of a Shawn Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, or a Frank Luntz, and these people often become as absent of reason as rabid dogs. Most of us, and especially the media, choose to deny the reality and commonality of the legions among the population in this country in favor of something called "political correctness. None the less, It is what it is.
Did any of you witch-hunters ever consider that this might just be a liberal trying to stir the hate pot? Seems to have been a bit too effective to have been anything else.
Mac Forrester -- Politically incorrect, but true. There is so much anger with these ultra-conservatives and they have people like O'Reilly, Limbaugh, etc., deliberately directing all that anger. This article is disgusting and further proof that "ultra-right-wing conservative" is just another term for "mentally ill" these days. I hope that poor cat left plenty of bite and claw marks on that a-hole and gave the police something to identify him with.
selfmade13 -- The answer is No, of course not; liberals don't have the pent-up hatred that kind of crime requires.
Yashmack they did it to is a pitiful attempt at reasoning what you should have said is yes republican's are mouth breathing theocratic tyrants who not do not know right from wrong they do not care.
Mac, I'm a conservative. My wife and I own five cats. We used to volunteer at a big cat shelter in wisc., you know lions, tigers, panthers, etc. All were rescued animals. Your comment was totally out of line. To write such dribble as you did, one has to wonder about your mentality. The person who did this to an animal, is insane. No matter what party they are affiliated with, this is wrong. In fact, I might be inclined to put this person in with some of the lions we used to take care of in wisc. Both sides of this political agenda, have gotten out of control. No one is excused, no matter what party they belong to. To be sure, there are some jerks on the liberal side too, as well as on the conservative side.
I am not surprised. Right wingers are hateful and violent people. They are more like the people in the Middle East that terrorize anyone that doesn't believe what they believe. Whomever did that needs to be expelled from this country. We don't need people like that here.
selfmade13 first look up liberal and ask yourself would a liberal do this to an animal defending your party by attempting to blame the other in this case is immoral. But then again everybody knows the only morals a republican truly has is greed Gingrich is case in point of that and now you as well.
@ Ghult & (no surprise here) Toasty,
How about instead of calling Yashmak, aka one of the only people here not making inflammatory statements to get a fact across, brainwashed, or generalizing an entire state, you two use what seems to be your more than adequate IQs to say something useful? I thought you ultra-zealot leftists were opposed to generalizations...
What a horrible run-on sentence that was. Shame on me for not proofing...
@selfmade13, you mean like the girl in Pittsburgh who carved a "B" on her face and tried to blame it on Liberals and Obama voters? Only, she was too stupid to realize she had carved it backwards, thus, indicating clearly that she had done it herself? Stir the pot like that?
just another isolated incident whose perpetrator is most likely a right wing lunatic who has a glenn beck book on his night stand and watches fox news religiously, directed toward victims who appear to be liberal. nothing to see, no dots to connect, no people to be held accountable for their suggestive and/or vitriolic language.
just remember. whatever anybody says, just repeat over and over again that both sides do it.
veteran44: Because one abides near the pile doesn't mean He/She contributes to the smell, I agree. Speaking of Wisconsin, I don't think "Scott Walker" would do something as revolting, but I believe he would, and has, exploited many who would. This is a political shenanigan, made popular by, especially Italian fascism in the 30's and 40's. Benito Mussolini was quite an accomplished architect of such. I contend the American republican partry adopted this tatic on the heels of the "American Civil Rights act" of 1964. I stand by my statement.
Little Rock ARK.-----Need we say more.
These hayseeds in the south are barely civilised and than when the good old boys get egged on by Rush (appropriate name for the drug addict) or the rest of the RIGHT WING NUT JOBS this is the result
A COWARDS attack on a defenseless little animal.
will likely get suspend and/or banned for this but...
@veteran44
watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ0wG8Z7_uM
it matters their political inclination and party. it matters because these things are neither isolated nor random in terms of who the victims are.
there has been an average of one violent attack a month by right wing individuals and that were politically motivated.
when you say that it doesnt matter what party the person is affiliated with, you exonerate right politicians that use phrases like using second amendment solutions. or who put cross hairs on congressional districts held by the opposing party (which are promptly removed from their site once the congressman of that district is shot, which, lets be honest, ammounts to an admission of guilt).
so if you think this is wrong, then the fault is your own because you and your party sit quietly while these things happen repeatedly. if you think this is wrong, look in the mirror, then start demanding that the people in your party stop using that kind of language.
To all those who are saying this proves how disgusting right wingers are... I'm a pretty conservative guy but I effing love my pets (and animals) and I'd never do any harm to a cat. In fact, I have a cat, and a yellow lab, and love both of them. We're not all crazy, I assure you, it's unfortunately just the crazy ones who are loud and make themselves really visible! It's those like me who go out to Starbucks with liberal friends and have polite political discussion that you never hear about!
Good point. Why is it that most of these hate charged political crimes are mostly from the right? Aren't they suppose to love their enemies like Jesus told them to?
And how many times we've seen a faction of the right wing use metaphors of or actually use violence to push their agenda? ie. anti abortion terrorists, tim mcveigh, this cat killer and countless other hate mongering criminals of the right.
The people who try to sweep this right wing issue of repeated violence under the rug by pronouncing that they equally do it on both sides live in an alternate reality where they really believe someone like Sarah Palin is suitable to be second in command of the United States of America.
You really can't fix stupid.
Chad, I stand with you in your response.
Hurt my cats or my wife you will unleash the wrath of H#ll upon you.
Guaranteed!
Conservatives continue to remind us all what warm, welcoming, tolerant people they are.
Maybe the Jon Stewart / Stephen Colbert Superpac can use this incident to create some commercials to remind us all some more? How about it guys?
And to leimeisei...I don't think anyone here believes that ALL conservatives would do something like this...but...and it is a big but...something like this would only be done by a conservative. Do you understand that? Do you? Progressives don't shoot doctors, don't murder gays, and don't beat helpless animals to death. But please, be proud that you are a conservative and continue to stand with those who do things of that nature.
leimeisei,
Good post/good attitude.
It pleases me that most on both sides of the political spectrum find this violent act reprehensible and inhuman. Those using the article as a platform for bashing the other side need to take up a more productive sport.
Anyone that would do something so cruel to someone so innocent...there just aren't words to describe how sad and awful this story is to me. There is NO reason for such a horrible thing as this. Poor cat, and poor family...the children must have been so upset, not to mention the rest of the family.
Loved pets become part of a family, like one of the children in the house. Some people would say the perpetrator brutally murdered one of their kids.
I was told by a neighbor in the same block where I live, a retired Michigan cop in his late 60's, when it comes to politically-motivated right-wing violent crimes like this, statistically, look for a white male in their teens or twenties, along with their accomplices. They don't go around doing these kinds of things to pets and people, alone.
The person who did this horrible act can't be classified as a human nor an animal. What they are is a mean, vile, vicious, sadistic monster. Had I been there and found them doing this they would now be dead and I would be in jail celebrating that I rid society of someone so evil. Another pathetic monster roaming our streets:( Let's hope he is caught and someone makes sure he never does it again. Hang him in the town square!
Scrawling the word liberal on the poor cat tends to confirm that this heinous act was perpetrated by a right wing zealot. I don't buy the premise that it could have been a left wing extremist trying to place blame on the Right. A number of posters (presumably right wing conservatives) claim that left wing extremists are just as likely to engage in such disgusting behavior. That's right wing extremist justification.
What is left wing extremism anyway? Is that like socialist? Environmentalist? Advocates for Choice, or Conservation? Proponents of these radical concepts don't resort to brutally executing pets to make their point, or engage in violence to intimidate their opponents.
Behavior like this happens when activists on one side ridicule, dehumanize and demonize proponents of the other. This tactic was used successfully by the Nazis to justify extreme persecution of the Jews in Germany and led to the holocaust. Just listen to the attacks on liberals made by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Sean Hannity on Fox News to see it in action in this country. The death of a pet is nothing compared to what might happen if these right wing demagogues rise to power. No doubt Liberalism will be made illegal, subject to arrest, and punishable by hanging.
When you preach hate, fear and division, these are the kind of people that follow you.
Chuck W....I'm still working off of the premise that the word liberal was not intended as a slur rather a signature....which sort of proves out your statement...
Why can't progressives just bask in the sort of tolerance they demand.
txmom32...
I have never read anything more idiotic in my entire life. Congratulations! Oh, that's right...as a "progressive" I'm supposed to be "tolerant"...even of the incredibly stupid. I'm sorry!
ROTFLMFAO...
Mom, while you're "working off the premise" consider this. Whoever would do something like this to an animal would probably do it to a child.
Cut it out, ghult.
You're suspended for a day for violating #1 of the Code of Honor.
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Terrible story. I always associate torturing/killing pets with serial killing.
Caligula....Is that some homage to the depraved and sadistic Roman emperior? And you claim that what I wrote to be idiotic. Interesting.
Pedistrain...Exactly, In this day and age of whistle blowers and those who will committ violence in the name of Progressive social protest intent on breaking laws, those who will protest using criminal acts via techno piracy or stealing secret docs it is not a far strech to believe they should be looking at a Progressive agenda. Yes I agree if they will do this to a pet they probably have no scruples to doing such to a child.
lol... that's some spin you've got there, Mom. Whistle-blowing is a far cry from brutality and scare-tactics like those used in this case, to frighten and intimidate a Democrat and his family. Perhaps you should research the phrase and better acquaint yourself as to how the right treats people who call attention to fraud and corruption - whistle blowing isn't against the law, it enforces the law. I certainly hope you're not home-schooling...
@Yashmak. . .
Well said, thank you!
Apparently the ones responsible haven't heard of /b/.
They are doomed.
Pedestrian....you wish to discuss scare tactics...perhaps you need to check out those used by Unions and well community organizers to get their way...aren't they like very left of center...jack booted thugs who could care less who gets hurt as long as they get their way...I think we both know there is no too low for the left and their agents of Chicago styled forced compliance.
Was the cat a registered Democrat? Political zealots are just as bad as religious ones. There are terrorists everywhere, but the person who did this had to be absolutely crazy and should be put away before he harms someone or something else.
Despicable.
The person is a cruel psycho- this is more than animal cruelty- this is terrorizing at the very least. State police has to take dna samples from the victim's fur,paws,mouth etc. This perpetrator is dangerous- the cruelty exhibited for the kitty makes me sick to my stomach- next it will be a defenseless person who will be a victim. Jake Burnes has to have AK state police check his home (outside),car and his office for any other signs of terrorizing.
Believe me, if anything non-political had been written on the cat, neither this site nor any other would even give it a passing thought.
I disagree, DrMan. MSNBC posted the story about the psycho who killed a cat, ate it and wore its intestines as a necklace. There was nothing political there.
In the South, the political zealots are religious zealots.
In the 60's and 70's the nut-cases were pretty evenly split between the right and the left. In the last 15-20 years or so, the crimes like these seem to be coming from people oriented to the extreme right. Jared Loughner, Joseph Stack, Timothy McVeigh...now this. Notice I didn't say Republican. This is ideological extremism targeted at government and political figures.
Should be a white sheet close by.
Ahh compassionate conservatism.
This is truly despicable and cowardly. And yes, it was a right wing extremist that did this. I know that there are left wing extremists too, but I think, that they would be the ones who woud fight for rights of animals, and in some cases demand personhood.
The more people I meet and the more news items I read (like this one), the more I think that a cat, dog, or even a rat, would be more worthy of personhood, than many people.
there are nuts in every crowd. Was the nutjob that shot Reagan necessarily a Democrat or a Liberal?
and Deprogrammer my question is: Why are you there?
deprogrammer. don't get a cage, get video cameras. The local police here (Oklahoma) would not investigate sign stealing and the other anti-Obama vandalism that went with it. I had to get the culprits on video clear as day. It was not until I went to the media with the video and accusations of police misconduct, that they would even open a case. We IDed the perps ourselves, and took our findings to the state police. The signs weren't a big deal, but the creeps did $11K in damages to my house, fence, and vehicles. They were, big surprise, local church-going Republicans.
Actually the nut job who shot Reagan was a republican, a close friend of the George Bush. Yes he was a nut job, and everyone knew he was a nutjob, including his friends, they also knew how easily manipulated he was. Did you ever wonder how he knew Reagan was going to be at that specific place at that specific time? It wasn't a big event, nothing was announced. Someone had to give him inside info. Just saying.
I live here now because just a few blocks away resides my elderly mother who hasn't been doing so well these past few years since her stroke, so instead of uprooting her from the home she lived in for 40 years we decided to move here for a few years, it was far less stress for her. There is no culture, everything in the store is genetically modified, it is windy, cold, dusty and republican, but it is home for now.
Stand and Deliver
I was just joking abot the electrified cage, I wouldnt want to wake up to fried teabagger on my front lawn. I think I will get a camera and maybe an alarm system so I can catch them in the act. If they vandalize my truck again though they will get an ass full of buckshot.
all you need is a fence charger and keep the ground wet. put the surround on plastic posts so oyu don't cook their sorry asses and wait for the howls. Motion detector hoked to a light and video camera works wonders at documentation, too (coyotes always come around at night)
3.1 deleted,deprogrammer 'joking' about killing people in their neighborhood. Please keep it to yourself.
You're suspended for a day for violating #5 of the Code of Honor.
How many of you out there believe ALL Republicans are: Obama haters, money grubbers, religious zealots, racist's, liberal/socialist haters, Nazis, corporation lovers, gun totting cat killers? Feel free to add anything I left. . . er out.
I don't think anyone here believes that. It's just the majority of items like this that make the news are perpetrated by reich-wing whack-jobs. I can't help but feel sorry for the moderate republicans. They had to endure eight years of the "Dubya", then embarrassed by Palin and the Tea-bagger movement. Now that Obama is getting things passed the Reagan had supported, they have nowhere to take cover.
Tnayew, Lets ask your question in a different way:
How many of you out there believe ALL Obama haters, money grubbers, religious zealots, racist's, liberal/socialist haters, Nazis, corporation lovers, gun totting cat killers are Republicans?
Tyler, you are the only one who said "killing people", you can electrify a yard sign with a car battery and it wouldnt kill anyone but you still would smell the aftermath, in fact it would hurt far less than a police tazer, do you throw cops off here when they come on condoning tazering innocent people?
And how do you know the people who stole his yard sign were from his neighborhood? Do you have inside information of the people who vandalized deprogrammers truck and stole his yard sign?
Please do not put words in peoples mouths, blaming someone for saying they were going to kill someone when that is not what they said is a very serious offense and could result in a lawsuit.
BTW tyler, I am the one who voted the above comment of mine as "inflammatory" so you would read it.
I hope they find the scumbag and that the animal cruelty laws in AK are harsh.
What does this have to do with Alaska??
YourPublicName: hahaha!
Alaska has lots of animals, and it has Sarah Palin , Sarah likes to kill things and hates cats and liberals, Hillary Clinton's from Arkansas, she's a liberal and she likes cats, Sarah hates Hillary and has hallucinations that she can see russia from her front porch in Wasilla Alaska, thus Sarah Palin killed the cat. Thats what Alaska has to do with it.
udunnobro, the abbreviation for Arkansas is AR. That's why you got some laughs there. But I agree with your sentiment.
deprogrammer,
Now that is a liberal spin on their own screw up if I ever read one. I am very much a conservative but I like my cats and whoever did this is just another scumbag nutjob.
The death of the cat had little significance to the perp/perps. Unfortunately, the cat was a vehicle used to demonstrate hatred, and hopefully, inflict fear upon the democratic candidate.
I hope whoever did this senseless act of violence against a helpless cat. What is wrong with people? Have they have no heart, no compassion for other living beings, or just plain evil?
Their to busy growing up, unsupervised, left with Video games and TV to teach them about how the world works. Common sence, and common decency have been tossed out in the U.S. long ago. When mom and dad both have to slave for enuff scratch, to cover all the inflated expences of regular day to day life, who's left to oversee impressionable youth in this me first country? Or when most parents come home from a long day of work, who has the energy to rush dinner, clean up, and drive an hour, or more, to a school in another part of town, in which the children were forced to go to because of some government quota. No child left behind, is plainly dumbing down the curriculum, to a point where you don't need to be smart to make a passing grade. Anymore, you only need to be smart enuff to push a button, while stareing at a Video screen to drop a bomb on some schmuck somewhere in the world who doesn't walk in lock-step with US................. Senceless act of violence? What in the world are you talking about? I can just hit the reset button.
This is no time for your ignorant anti-video game rhetoric. Come back when you actually grow up and have some real facts present. Until then you are just talking out of your anus.
Alan, I just bought that game the other day - Karaoke Anus. So far it's pretty good.
As far as the cat goes - unfortunately and far too frequently, these things turn out to be ill-conceived plans to discredit someone. I have absolutely no input or interest in the local AK (sic) election. It's just too bad a cat had to be brutalized for (someone's) political gain.
No need to be vulgar, Alan. How would your mother feel about you speaking like that? Let us please write respectfully to people, even those with whom you disagree. Vulgar speech leads to more disrespect which leads eventually to disgusting actions like the one this story is about.
News flash Floridian1, No child left behind has nothing to do with kids not being able to go to their neighborhood schools. Busing began in the 60s and 70s to allegedly fix the failure of kids from black neighborhoods. Hasn't worked and yet it continues. No child left behind was a means of measuring the success of schools by testing the kids to see how much they learned. The briliant department of education turned that into teaching to the test, so not success there either except some really bad schools did get closed.
correction, shaking my head, busing for whites, began in the 60s and 70s as an attempt to end segregation. Busing was always a reality for black kids in the south who were, because of the Jim Crow laws, bussed out of their neighborhoods to attend all blacks schools.
6, 7 deleted, MSNBStupid smearing Vietnamese folks, not even on-topic, fred-2553568 writing that only 'people who believe in jesus' kill cats.
Look, when perpetrators are at large, there's plenty of room to speculate - manage to not smear everyone of an ethnicity or a religion while you're speculating. You're each suspended for a day for violating #5 of the Code of Honor.
disgusting....but not unexpected..when you create and feed a climate of hatred and resentment, there will always be the dim-witted mouth-breathers who can't see the difference between reality and fantasy. What will be the reaction of the right?....Silence. And that speaks volumes
I think we already got a reaction from "the right..." "eat the cat."
Sarah Palin is to blame...She must have put a cross hair on the cat
I thought the reported response from the Republican incumbant's office was on point and appropriate. Part of the solution to our disfunctional politics is to seek points of agreement. It is a little extreme to have to go to animal cruelty to find something Democrats and Republicans can agree on as wrong, but at least it is SOMETHING...
Proprieties of sympathy, originating from among the properties and propriotors of moral carbuncles tend only to shield the pus and sores.
Well, you know what they say about people who kill animals: it is merely practice for killing people. Or voting Republican. Well, same difference, really.
Looks like someone is lacking a few billion brain cells.................
Seems like this would apply to the cat as well as the perpitrator... Sorry... couldn't resist. Just ignore me...
This one speaks for itself but, in case you missed the point, if this is how the right behaves, then I wanna be left.
One person.................................does not equal "the right"
I doubt some Lib's going to commit a crime like this. They wouldn't be able to get past the weeping.
Republicans on the other hand seem to often have a hard time understanding anything that does not directly and only affect their pocketbook, so this will go unnoticed by them.
Weiser - you should get your facts straight. The cat was killed and had 'liberal' written on it. In Florida - the TeaParty is again saying that Obama is 'definitely a muslim' and that they need to take their country back (from what?). In AZ, the republican party auctioned off a Glock to celebrate the one year anniverary of Rep. Gifford's shooting. Looks like the 'right' has a lock on the lunatic extremists.
Shall we keep going back? McVee (the OK City bomber) thought that the government was too socialist (definitely not a leftie), Ron Paul allowed the American National Socialist Party to advertise in his newsletter (this is the white supremist group - and tells you about the reader base and about Ron Paul). This list can go on. I can't think of any left wing extremists in the last 20 years. Can you?
When all the extremists and nut-cases are in one party, it is fair to state that this is the party of nut-jobs.
interested observer - I do lean liberal but I freely admit there are fanatics on both sides. However, liberals tend to be animal and environmental lovers - wouldn't do this. Unfortunately not all the nut-cases are in one party - it just seems that way because what the right does is so far over the top and blatant!
No Weiser ... one person does not equal "the right". But I never read about this sort of nonsense, including what happened to Rep. Giffords, ever happening to a politician associated with the right Republican Party. Perhaps the left Democrats just can't work up that much anger against anyone? An interesting question ... I don't actually recall ever reading about this sort of thing happening to a Republican. Can anyone else enlighten me if there is such events that have occurred.
@littleoldlady3
Lincoln? Reagan? Surely you remember those.
**Not condoning the douchebag this article is about, just calling bull@!$%# when I smell it.**
Correct JimP1969
The thing I find most repugnant about liberals is they profess themselves to be saints, just don't turn your back.
Wrong Jim
Lincoln wasn't a Republican by today's standards. And Regan was shot by an insane man who thought his dog told him to kill "the president", not "the Republican who is president". If Carter won, he would have been the one who was shot.
Just calling out the bull when I smell it, and boy do you and Shaking reek of it.
actually Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield, and Kennedy. attempts: Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W.Bush, and Obama. Suspected to be assassinations were Taylor and Harding.
So with what the 44th pres in office, a pres has a 43.1% chance of making outa office without an assassination attempt. And these have gone on for a long while. This is not new. Andrew Jackson was the 7th pres. Taylor the 12th and Harding the 29th.
Political parties, Democrat: Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy,Carter, Clinton, Obama.
Republican: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Hoover, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Bush.
Lincoln was a liberal and John Wilkes Booth was a conservative. By today's standards, even Ronald Reagan seems liberal.
So what's your point? You're actually proving mine. The claim was made that this only happens to Democrats. I called bull@!$%#. You know, it's the extremists, both on the Left and on the Right, that will be the death of this country. You're all bat@!$%# crazy on the fringes, and from the middle you all look alike.
The failure of "respectable" conservatives to separate themselves from the extreme right who have no respect for human or animal life in their fascination with ideology (or sheer hate for the more literacy-challenged) is to m e no different from the "respectable" Muslims who will whine, "it isn't me," or "Im not like that" whenever an Islamic terrorist gets on thenews. Unfortunately these so-called respectable representatives of their particular ideology, party, or religion, somehow just don't scream loud enough and heaven forbid they should actually "quit" their association with such company and make a real statement, leaves me cold. Long sentence but basically, it's crocadile tears all around. Yes, Hannity, Limbag, and the other rightist scumbags who de-humanize their political or ideological oppoonents are no better than the Nazis who de-humanized the Jews in order to justify in the gullible public's mind their killling and abuse of this particular group of people who were different from them. It's all h appening again, as someone on this thread mentioned the act of this scumbag inhuman @!$%# is redolent of Mussolini's campaign of fascistm in Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. It always seems to come from the right, be it KKK or Republican, yes I'll say it. How many Democrats have bombed ppublic buildings, killed animals and carved letters in their flesh, and killed abortion doctors? Maybe all Republicans are not bigots and thugs, but somehow these days the bigots and thugs are fully identified with Republicans.
you republicans are to blame for all this!! All we have heard for years since Fox propaganda has taken over as your Bible is hate and fear...encourageing people with guns and Targets and scopes and CROSSHAIRS to kill our president!! and now Walmart has redesigned their stores in Texas ( gotten rid of their sewing section) to make more room for guns and ammunition!! Just for you paranoid scitzos. you shoud be more concerned about Big Business than your government.They are the ones who are gonna make you work for lots less w/o benefits or vacation. Someday...I hope it's not too late...you are gonna beg for the socialistic government to help you...because Big Business is going to use you up an spit you out and have the power to throw you under the bus...literally.My Daddy walked the picket line as a union worker back in the 50's and 60's...and he was proud to do it. He wanted our life to be as strong as his. And now Repugs have all the weakened people to accept that Big Business knows how to run this country...NOOOO...Democrats know how we need to move this country forward...get our jobs back in this country...manufacture here!!! make clothes here!!BUY AMERICAN!!!!! We keep talkin about supporting our soldiers and yet yesterday.the power co. in San Antonio tried to cut off our soldires power bill...just when he got home!! Hey Soldiers!! The government is your Boss...Don't dis them!!I respect and will help all the soldires but I also respect my President and do whatever his office ask me to to HELP!!
One can compare the reactions of republicans to these lunatic actions to the reaction of the muslim community to terrorism. They claim to abhore it but don't separate themselves from the people doing it and instigating it (think Rush, Beck, Palin, Hannity, many of the other commentators at Fox News).
Yup - I just tied the mindset of the right wing to terrorist supporters... When the shoe fits...
Seek help interested observer. SERIOUSLY. Comparing those on the right to terrorist supporters because one idiot killed an animal? Get a grip or book that ticket to the nearest loony bin.
How many of you out there believe ALL Republicans are: Greedy money grubbers, Obama haters, Fox lovers, racists, liberal/socialist haters, Nazis, religious zealots, corporation lovers, gun totting cat killers? If I left anything out go right ahead and add to it. . . . . we'll understand.
The person or people responsible for this need to be made an example of. This kind of hate needs to stop. I can't believe what some people will do....
Up to 400 hours of community service. Let the example begin! Somewhere else. With someone else.
Animal cruelty laws are pretty lame. Not much punishment involved. Too bad, since there's always been a pretty good link between someone who will injure and animal and someone who will injure a human. In fact, it's a characteristic present in almost all serial killers (no cause and effect there, just a relationship). You're right, though - it does need to stop.
SanDiegoNative, here in Arkansas our animal cruelty law has a punishment of a fine (I can't remember the amount; I think it's $1,000) and up to one year in JAIL. I surely hope they catch this person and do all they can to him!
Believe it. And somehow I don't think it's going to stop after this election year is over. No matter who is the next President. The hateful ones just can't ever be satisfied even with a political win. They've somehow got to make other people miserable who aren't just like them. When winning they are bullies, and everyone here knows who that is. When losing, they whine and cowardly always, attack anonymously and violently. No animal is as vicious as a bad human being.
The a$$hole that did this is classified as a sociopath. They need to be taken off the streets and locked up for a very VERY long time.
Only an animal would bash in the head of a defenseless cat and then write on it and leave it on the owners porch. With no regard for the horrific effects on the children.
They make me sick and very afraid.
Don't insult an animal, only humans do things like this
@sdh, Agree completely!
Yes, don't insult the animal kingdom by comparing this creature that doesn't deserve to breathe the air with the rest of us to them. And it's not just that the children will be upset. How about having some compassion for the suffering creature itself? Would you feel better if the children were protected from knowing about this sadistic and gruesome crime against a fellow creature, and everything would be hunky dory then. You can't hide for ever from the evil that is around. You can only look it in the eye and try to prevail against it.
This is not Cruelty to Animals. This is Making a Terrorist Threat and should call for a long term behind bars with Bubba and his pet rabbit.
When they find this @!$%# I hope they bash their brains out.
I hope they do it slowly.
15 deleted, Dwight Jones-4729666 with a one-line Bush derail, 17 deleted, Lucky B extrapolation-trolling the entire South. Not on-topic, folks.
You're each suspended for a day for violating #4 of the Code of Honor.
I know most conservatives are pretty peaceful harmless people, but with Loughner than this, its not looking to good for you guys in terms of character.
"Loughner" mostly had no political leanings and the only person a classmate who ventured as to his political leanings said he was "left wing" so I guess you know not of what you type. Doesn't account for the idiot who attacked the cat.
yeah you are right i read a little more about Loughner. He was just bat @!$%# crazy i don't think he could be called liberal or conservative
His own deranged rambling suggest otherwise. He's cookie cutter tea party material.
Loughner's elevator couldn't even make it off the GROUND FLOOR (let alone up to near the top). In being a few bricks short of a load, he was 99% short. I mean I hate to say it that someone should have just snuffed the bastard and saved the expense
Most atrocities like this are committed by the right against the left. Like that poor woman in Arizona whose life is forever changed because of some hell bent twisted self-righteous zealot on the right. During the Obama run up to the Presidency some very stupid young woman on the right disfigured herself and blamed it on someone on the left. I say she was stupid because she used a mirror and wrote Obama backwards on her face with a sharp instrument. If a young woman on the left had done this we would still be hearing her name. And yet they have the nerve to think of themselves as the moral majority.
I suppose the signs are not meant for them to see.
Loughner was not "right wing" most said he had no affiliations only a classmate said he was "left wing" so please use facts otherwise you look silly.
Um, the gunman had no political affiliations, so............................
Um so......I will type slowly for you Weiser......the use of "twisted self-righteous zealot on the right" in Michael's post about Gifford's shooting doesn't work. Does that help you are do you need a diagram?
His own words mirrored the Tea Party Movement's. He wasn't associated officially with the group, however.
Hey gtouch: I will type slowly for you: HE WAS NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY RIGHT WING GROUP, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OR THE TEA PARTY. What part of my post was so hard for you to understand?????? FYI: I was responding to Michael and NOT you.
As a conservative, I deplore what was done to the cat, but many of the comments on this item are beyond the pale. No person in their right mind would do such a thing and it makes me ashamed of our political system if acts like this define the debate.
It is time that we all remember that differences of political opinion, while important, are not as important as our basic morality.
For the record, Representative Gifford was not injured by a conservative, but by a wild liberal who I hope will burn in the electric chair before he burns in hell.
Sorry Weiser I read it as you were using my "no affiliations" and responding to me. So thank you for typing slowly enough for me on your second post. Still see others want to paint him as "right wing" when there is no evidence at all to show that.
You know there's a pig out there worried he is next. He's only wondering will they carve Newt or Rush on him !
Whoever did this should have the same thing done to them. How this for conservative, you get convicted for assault, you get the ever loving snot kicked out of you. The disgusting thing is this "person" is going to be do maybe a year in jail. Some punishment - free room and board for a year. How about once you convict this person, leave them in a room with this liberal with a good 2 x 4, then it will be justice.
A cat in Houston gets shot with an arrow. Now this. Then there was the guy that dragged his dog behind his vehicle. There are other stories of animal cruelty popping up all the time.
It takes a certain kind of person to commit these acts. These types of monsters will keep doing this stuff as long as animal cruelty statutes are so incredibly lax. I'm not optimistic that that's going to change.
Those of us who have (and have had) companion animals know that they are beings in their own right. They trust people and think people are their friends.
There are evil people everywhere. The best way to protect your companion animals is to keep them indoors.
This is awful. What a sick individual. I would gladly beat his head in.
There will be a pretty long line Nova. I'll be the guy standing in line behind you. It'll be like a scene gone wrong out of the movie Airplane.
Typical republican behavior.
Your brain called. It needs a ride home
Yep, me and my Republican friends troll around at night looking for pets to beat to death because they belong to Democrats. Now do you see how silly your comment was.
And more typical responses from wesenheimer.
...at least you have the courage to admit it - most Republicans are too cowardly to admit this.
His comment was idiotic Dave. I'm shocked you didn't see that.................or not
Actually Weiser, conservative terrorism often involves killing innocents. Remember the OK city bombing, the Olympic bombing, the murder of doctors, shooting up churches, pumping poison gas into a mosque, etc.
I am not a big animal rights nut... in fact I think many people take the whole animal rights thing way too far. This is just dumb though. Everyone was going crazy when that guy ate that... what was it... a cat? I said it was no big deal... they made a big deal out of it cause he ate something an American would have as a pet. I think that is much less worse (killing an animal for food) than this (killing an animal to make a statement).
Hate breeds hateful acts. And, demented souls are influenced by the hate media.
Thank you. Amazing how things escalate in this 'informed' country.
Appalling! People who can hurt an animal can generally also hurt a person. I hope the one (or more) who committed this crime is/are identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
A-bloody-men!
These Republicans will stop at nothing. I cannot wait until we get rid of all of them.
YUp- sounds about right, conservatives have no decency or repect for life. Domestic Terrorist Groups= GOP and the RNC.
Typical republican behavior.
Conservatism is a mental disease.
What proof do you have that the person who did this is Republican? He/she is definitely a sick individual, but it's not fair to say he/she must certainly be Republican. Might not have any party affiliation at all, considering he/she didn't scrawl "Democrat" on the poor dead animal. There's enough divisiveness already. Let's not add to it by condemning all Republicans for the actions of one twisted nut job.
Hope they catch the sicko who did this, and certainly hope the parents can help their children cope with what had to be a very traumatic experience.
Politics and religion tend to bring out the best in humans.