Welcome to your Friday open thread. Friday sucks and/or rocks, depending on your work schedule. I vote for TGIF.
Police in Arlington, MA this week seized a “large amount” of weapons and ammunition from local businessman Travis Corcoran after he wrote a blog post threatening U.S. lawmakers in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In a post on his blog (which has since been removed) titled “1 down and 534 to go” — 1 referring to Giffords and 534 referring to the rest of the House of Representatives and the Senate — Corcoran applauded the shooting of Giffords and justified the assassination of lawmakers because he argued the federal government has grown far beyond its constitutional limits. “It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately. Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone,” he wrote in the post.
“We certainly take this as a credible threat,” Arlington police Captain Robert Bongiorno told reporters, adding that “multiple federal law enforcement agencies” were involved. Authorities also suspended Corcoran’s gun license, though he is currently not facing any charges.
By criticizing Corcoran, we’re violating his 1st amendment rights since the 1st amendment says conservatives should never be criticized.
There are so many things wrong with this story, I don’t know where to begin. We’ve previously discussed that the conservative CPAC conference is falling apart because of the fear of gay cooties. Now GOProud has teamed up with ACORN-faker Andrew Breitbart.
Breitbart joined the board of GOProud yesterday, the newish political organization for far-right gays who like to be insulted at length by Ann Coulter. GOProud’s invitation to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, from February 10-12 this year, has been controversial within the conservative movement; basically, social conservative groups are boycotting because they’re scared of the gays. Oh well.
Now that these social conservatives are out of the way, Andrew Breitbart can use CPAC to throw the party he’s always dreamed of: a “big ol’ gay party,” which will be ’80s-themed:
I am not endorsing gay marriage, I’m not endorsing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. I will be the harshest critic of the activist gay left, who I fear more than al-Qaida. But for these people not to exist in a two-party system, for you to tell them they’re not welcome in the big tent, I have a huge problem with that and I’m going to indulge in my all ’80s Depeche Mode, Cure, New Order fetish and we’re going to have a big ‘ol gay party at CPAC.
WTF!?! He’s more afraid of gay liberals than Al Qaeda? That actually explains a lot about conservatives. San Francisco must be absolutely terrifying.