It seems that angry rhetoric against the wealthy by Democrats is having an effect. Politico reports that New York lawmakers have received an email threatening to kill the wealthy if they let the “millionaires” tax sunset later this year. By the way, that “millionaires” tax applies to New Yorkers making much less than a million dollars per year.
“It’s time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany. “If you don’t, I’m going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League [expletive] I can find.”
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos reportedly received the email, as did Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari. The governor’s office did not tell the New York Daily News whether the governor himself received the email.
The email, with the threatening subject line of, “time to kill the wealthy,” was detailed and disturbing.
“How hard is it for us to stake out one of the obvious access roads to some tech company, tail an employee home and toss a liquor bottle full of flaming gasoline through their nice picture window into their cute house,” wrote the author of the email. (Read More)
The article goes on to note that the language used in the email is similar to the rhetoric coming from the Occupy Wall Street movement – the movement that has been embraced by the Democrat Party, the left wing media and the unions.
How is fomenting hatred against one class of citizens any different than the way Hitler fomented hatred against the Jews?
Update: Grandpa John linked – thanks!
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Dean Skelos, email, kill the wealthy, new york, Sheldon Silver
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With the Democrats jumping on board of this “Covet Thy Neighbors Goods” mentality it will only help the GOP in 2012.
This will divide this country like we haven’t seen since 1865.
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Like the sun rising in the East lefty ideology always devolves into violence.
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When Obama started running for the Presidency in 2007 the Progressives……read COMMUNISTS……lept from the closet and have not looked back since.
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Would that actually mean “kill the wealthy AND then I can take all their money and property and stuff?”
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[...] don’t even know what policies they’re advocating.I have yet to hear anyone condemn the death threats against wealthy New Yorkers. President Obama came out today and railed against the immoral bankers and Wall Street types, [...]
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[...] SEIU organizer Stephen Lerner laid out his plan to terrorize the families of Wall Street executives. Here he is in his own words, calling for violence at a conference that took place on October 3, 2011. I wonder if he’s behind the death threats against successful New Yorkers. [...]
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