"Why Don't You Go Kill Yourself?" - Two GOP Candidates Assaulted In Minnesota

[Swordsmyth]

Police say they've identified two suspects who allegedly attacked two Republican candidates for Minnesota's state legislature over the past week - attacks that have helped justify President Trump's warning that the Democratic Party has become the "party of Mob Rule" in the wake of the widespread outrage and street demonstrations provoked by the confirmation of SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
According to the National Review, Republican state representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm last week after confronting a man who was vandalizing lawn signs promoting Republican candidates. Over the weekend, Shane Mekeland, a first-time Republican candidate, received a concussion after he was sucker punched while speaking with constituents at a restaurant in his assembly district.


Anderson said she was terrified by her assailant, who only backed off when she climbed back in her car and drove away.

"It was just insane. He was charging at me, saying, 'Why don’t you go kill yourself?' To have someone physically coming after you and attacking you is just disheartening."

Charges against the suspects, who have not been publicly identified, will likely be filed in the coming days, according to local police. Meanwhile, Mekeland has continued to suffer memory loss and sensitivity to light stemming from the concussion he received during the assault.

"I was so overtaken by surprise and shock, and if this is the new norm, this is not what I signed up for," Mekeland said.

The attacks occurred in the days after the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party suspended a member of its communications staff for a week after he wrote in a Facebook post that Democrats would [bring Republicans] to the guillotine" during the upcoming midterm election, per the Washington Free Beacon.
Mekeland expressed disappointment with Democrats for not condemning his attacker and for not doing more to punish the communications staffer.

"He's a political staffer so you'd think if anybody should know boundaries, I think that'd be it," he said.

Republicans were outraged by the suspension, saying the candidate should have been fired, particularly after Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned his colleagues about using inflammatory and divisive rhetoric in the aftermath of the Kavanaugh confirmation vote.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...lted-minnesota

[Danke]

Antifa in the near future:

[devil21]

Mekeland's story pegs my BS meter. Who campaigns at 10pm on a friday night at a bar?

[TheTexan]

Shameful behavior, befitting of savages.

[Brian4Liberty]

Lift up the rug, the MSM will be sweeping this story under there.

[A Son of Liberty]

[Danke]

Interesting. That audio was based on a real accident.

[TheTexan]

Interesting. That audio was based on a real accident.

That's unfortunately what happens when you let women be pilots.

Such a preventable tragedy.

[Danke]

That's unfortunately what happens when you let women be pilots.

Such a preventable tragedy.

Qualification standard should not be lowered. Regardless of gender. This is one of the tragic consequence of that.

Enjoy your next commercial flight with split tails.

[Influenza]

Where would someone ever get the INSANE idea that using violence against government officials can EVER be justified??!?!?!

Imagine if a DEMONCRAT said this, you idiots would be losing your minds

[oyarde]

For those of you have not been to beautiful Minnesota , it is home to the entrenched , old democrat farmer labor communist party . You may always expect unhinged violence and murder from these unwashed barbarians . Minnesota is the perfect example of a failed immigrant experiment .

[Anti Federalist]

Where would someone ever get the INSANE idea that using violence against government officials can EVER be justified??!?!?!

Imagine if a DEMONCRAT said this, you idiots would be losing your minds

Not me...I happen to agree with you and Rand both.

A fight has been coming and needed for a long time...it is high time both sides throw down and light this candle.

OR peaceably secede, before it gets to that point.

There IS an option on the table outside of bloody partisan street warfare between the Whites and Reds.

[Anti Federalist]

For those of you have not been to beautiful Minnesota , it is home to the entrenched , old democrat farmer labor communist party . You may always expect unhinged violence and murder from these unwashed barbarians . Minnesota is the perfect example of a failed immigrant experiment .

Them damn Squareheads.

[Anti Federalist]

Qualification standard should not be lowered. Regardless of gender. This is one of the tragic consequence of that.

Enjoy your next commercial flight with split tails.

I did some number crunching years ago WRT to aviation accident rates between men and woemen.

It was not pretty...IIRC it was almost two to one higher for woemen.

[devil21]

Not me...I happen to agree with you and Rand both.

A fight has been coming and needed for a long time...it is high time both sides throw down and light this candle.

OR peaceably secede, before it gets to that point.

There IS an option on the table outside of bloody partisan street warfare between the Whites and Reds.

Let's repeat history! Surely it will go better than the last time we fell for a manufactured domestic war. Last time, only half of the country lost all of their property to theft and many people died for nothing and the whole system changed for the worse (the corporatization of the federal government, overturning of the original Constitution as the law of the land, among others) in the aftermath. This time will go much better, I'm sure.

[dannno]

Imagine if a DEMONCRAT said this, you idiots would be losing your minds

Well if their idea of a "tyrannical government" is one that doesn't steal enough from people to give to others, and they want a government that steals more from people to give to others, then that is a little scary, yes.

[devil21]

Well if their idea of a "tyrannical government" is one that doesn't steal enough from people to give to others, and they want a government that steals more from people to give to others, then that is a little scary, yes.

Seems to me that both parties engage in this with the only difference being who the stolen money goes to at any particular point in time. Dems can't hand out enough to win votes from certain demographics, while Repubs can't hand out enough to the MIC to win campaign donations.

[dannno]

Seems to me that both parties engage in this with the only difference being who the stolen money goes to at any particular point in time. Dems can't hand out enough to win votes from certain demographics, while Repubs can't hand out enough to the MIC to win campaign donations.

Uh, ya, but Rand said it, and influenza said we would freak out of a Democrat said it. That is because Democrats want a bigger welfare state, more state power. Republicans are sorta split, depends on who you're talking about. It's not a single entity with a hive mind.. but Democrats, they all believe in big powerful government. They have to.

[Influenza]

Well if their idea of a "tyrannical government" is one that doesn't steal enough from people to give to others, and they want a government that steals more from people to give to others, then that is a little scary, yes.

Obvious red herring. Republicans like to claim that dems incite violence, like recently with Eric Holder, whose comments about "kicking them when they go low" was an obvious metaphor.

Or when Maxine Waters said “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Resident Retard Swordsmyth made this thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?523545-Maxine-Waters-Calls-For-Attacks-On-White-House-Employees falsely claiming that she was inciting violence and her comments were a "dog whistle" for the left to get violent.

Meanwhile, Rand Paul, defender of liberty and NAP says the 2nd amendment is for attacking a tyrannical government. The same Rand who had previously called Obama's executive orders tyranny and Obama himself a king and an autocrat.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-rips-obama-tyranny-warns-voters-against-saying-oh-well
https://newrepublic.com/article/1203...tator-and-king

You guys constantly foam at the mouth about Democrats inciting violence, when all the examples you point to are largely contrived. Meanwhile your own favorite politician is so careless with his word-choice that it is a reasonable conclusion to make that he would support the assassination of a sitting president. just LOL

[dannno]

Obvious red herring. Republicans like to claim that dems incite violence, like recently with Eric Holder, whose comments about "kicking them when they go low" was an obvious metaphor.

Or when Maxine Waters said “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Resident Retard Swordsmyth made this thread: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?523545-Maxine-Waters-Calls-For-Attacks-On-White-House-Employees falsely claiming that she was inciting violence and her comments were a "dog whistle" for the left to get violent.

Meanwhile, Rand Paul, defender of liberty and NAP says the 2nd amendment is for attacking a tyrannical government. The same Rand who had previously called Obama's executive orders tyranny and Obama himself a king and an autocrat.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-rips-obama-tyranny-warns-voters-against-saying-oh-well
https://newrepublic.com/article/1203...tator-and-king

You guys constantly foam at the mouth about Democrats inciting violence, when all the examples you point to are largely contrived. Meanwhile your own favorite politician is so careless with his word-choice that it is a reasonable conclusion to make that he would support the assassination of a sitting president. just LOL

Well if their idea of a "tyrannical government" is one that doesn't steal enough from people to give to others, and they want a government that steals more from people to give to others, then that is a little scary, yes.

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There is a difference between the Founding Father's revolution and a Commie Revolution.

The 2nd amendment isn't for inciting a Communist revolution.

[Influenza]

..


There is a difference between the Founding Father's revolution and a Commie Revolution.

The 2nd amendment isn't for inciting a Communist revolution.

Yea, it's for shooting politicians you personally find tyrannical, duh.

[dannno]

Yea, it's for shooting politicians you personally find tyrannical, duh.

Do you personally find politicians tyrannical who want to give you more freedom and responsibility, because they won't steal other people's $#@! for you?

[Influenza]

Do you personally find politicians tyrannical who want to give you more freedom and responsibility, because they won't steal other people's $#@! for you?

No? I find politicians who want start and continue wars, who constantly lie, and who do whatever the highest bidders tell them to do to be tyrannical.

[dannno]

No? I find politicians who want start and continue wars, who constantly lie, and who do whatever the highest bidders tell them to do to be tyrannical.

So what's the problem?

[Influenza]

So what's the problem?

Because I don't think you should tell people to assassinate politicians and then clutch your pearls when a D uses mildly antagonistic rhetoric in reference to a R

[dannno]

Because I don't think you should tell people to assassinate politicians and then clutch your pearls when a D uses mildly antagonistic rhetoric in reference to a R

Rand never ordered anybody to assassinate politicians, he said that the second amendment is in case the government becomes too tyrannical.

An individual or small group of individuals assassinating a politician would actually lead to a more tyrannical government.

In order to have a revolution against a tyrannical government, one would need to form a militia.

If antifa or the left formed a militia, it would be because they think the government isn't stealing enough from other people and giving it to them. That isn't what the second amendment is for.

If a militia was formed in order to overthrow a tyrannical government and to replace it with a free society, then that is what the 2nd amendment is for.

[Anti Federalist]

Let's repeat history! Surely it will go better than the last time we fell for a manufactured domestic war. Last time, only half of the country lost all of their property to theft and many people died for nothing and the whole system changed for the worse (the corporatization of the federal government, overturning of the original Constitution as the law of the land, among others) in the aftermath. This time will go much better, I'm sure.

Yah, pretty sure I was putting an option on the table that would not involve people losing their lives or property.

[Swordsmyth]

Yah, pretty sure I was putting an option on the table that would not involve people losing their lives or property.

devil just wants to be contrarian to try and prove he isn't an NPC, he just ends up sounding like a contrarian NPC.

[Zippyjuan]

Republicans would never condone violence. That is only the Liberals.

[Swordsmyth]

Republicans would never condone violence. That is only the Liberals.

That has been debunked over and over, there are a very few nuts everywhere but the left has embraced the nuts and always had far more anyway.

You can't equate defense with offense no matter how you try.