Indiana Official: "Use Live Ammunition" Against Wisconsin Protesters

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On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn't end up happening—one Twitter user sent out a chilling public response: "Use live ammunition."

From my own Twitter account, I confronted the user, JCCentCom. He tweeted back that the demonstrators were "political enemies" and "thugs" who were "physically threatening legally elected officials." In response to such behavior, he said, "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." He later called me a "typical leftist," adding, "liberals hate police."

Only later did we realize that JCCentCom was a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana.

As one of 144 attorneys in that office, Jeff Cox has represented the people of his state for 10 years. And for much of that time, it turns out, he's vented similar feelings on Twitter and on his blog, Pro Cynic. In his nonpolitical tweets and blog posts, Cox displays a keen litigator's mind, writing sharply and often wittily on military history and professional basketball. But he evinces contempt for political opponents—from labeling President Obama an "incompetent and treasonous" enemy of the nation to comparing "enviro-Nazis" to Osama bin Laden, likening ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Service Employees International Union members to Nazi "brownshirts" on multiple occasions, and referring to an Indianapolis teen as "a black teenage thug who was (deservedly) beaten up" by local police. A "sensible policy for handling Afghanistan," he offered, could be summed up as: "KILL! KILL! ANNIHILATE!"

http://motherjones.c...nsin-protesters

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I was about to type something semi-intelligent but just got distracted by the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in this building. Wow!

[Obama 2012 1,714]

idiotic to say that about the protesters.... Whether you like the politics or not, they have a right to protest.

Everything else he apparently said? Pretty true. Especially on Afghanistan. Drop some bombs, then come home. Save billions of dollars.

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Everything else he apparently said? Pretty true. Especially on Afghanistan. Drop some bombs, then come home. Save billions of dollars.

If we kill every human being in Afghanistan and leave the land uninhabitable for the next millennium, do we emerge victorious? And if so, if that kind of victory desirable?

Or if we "drop some bombs", kill a couple of goats and maim a kid, then do we emerge victorious?

The big problem with Afganistan, IMO, is the complete lack of clarity as to what victory would even look like.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

If we kill every human being in Afghanistan and leave the land uninhabitable for the next millennium, do we emerge victorious? And if so, if that kind of victory desirable?

Or if we "drop some bombs", kill a couple of goats and maim a kid, then do we emerge victorious?

The big problem with Afganistan, IMO, is the complete lack of clarity as to what victory would even look like.

Victory is impossible without total destruction. At least by what they are going after. Of course the truth being we shouldn't be there in the first place. False wars will continued to be waged though so long as defense contracts/security companies are looking to make profits/have a lobby in Washington.

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Victory is impossible without total destruction.

Did the U.S. emerge victorious in WW2? Or is the fact that people still lived in Germany after the war was over mean total destruction did not occur, therefore there was no victory?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Did the U.S. emerge victorious in WW2? Or is the fact that people still lived in Germany after the war was over mean total destruction did not occur, therefore there was no victory?

Have you not seen how Europe looked after WWII? It wasn't pretty at all. Also if you look at the lives lost, there's a huge difference to what it took to get to victory.

Let's not ignore the fact of 'the bomb' either.

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Have you not seen how Europe looked after WWII? It wasn't pretty at all.

Perhaps you and I have different notions as to what total destruction looks like. To me, total is total.

Let's not ignore the fact of 'the bomb' either.

'The bomb' came after Nazi Germany had already surrendered? I think so at least.

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Pretty psychotic to have those kinds of thoughts.

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that middle aged woman with the tambourine they keep showing on the news looks particularly thuggish

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I was about to type something semi-intelligent but just got distracted by the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in this building. Wow!

i'm glad to see my contribution to that fund worked to distract you.

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Democrat urges unions to 'get a little bloody when necessary'

By Michael O'Brien - 02/23/11 07:57 AM ET

Sometimes it's necessary to get out on the streets and "get a little bloody," a Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday in reference to labor battles in Wisconsin.

Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) fired up a group of union members in Boston with a speech urging them to work down in the trenches to fend off limits to workers' rights like those proposed in Wisconsin.

"I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going," Capuano said, according to the Statehouse News. "Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary."

Political observers have been the lookout for potentially incendiary rhetoric in the wake of January's shooting in Tucson, Ariz., where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) survived an assassination attempt, six were killed, and 12 others were injured.

On Wednesday afternoon, Capuano issued a brief apology: "I strongly believe in standing up for worker rights and my passion for preserving those rights may have gotten the best of me yesterday in an unscripted speech. I wish I had used different language to express my passion and I regret my choice of words."

Political rhetoric has become especially heated in Madison, Wis., where Republican Gov. Scott Walker has proposed major labor reforms that sparked more than a week's worth of rowdy protests at the state capitol.

"We take security seriously, whether it's for me, the lieutenant governor and all 132 members of the state legislature, Democrats or Republicans alike, because there's a lot of passion down here," Walker said Tuesday on MSNBC about his safety in Wisconsin. "And particularly when we see people coming in being bussed in from other states, that's what worries us."

Capuano made his remarks before a crowd of union members in Boston, along with other members of the state's congressional delegation. Massachusetts has an influential union population that could loom large over the 2012 Senate race. Capuano is considering getting in that race to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next fall.

“This is going to be a struggle at least for the next two years. Let’s be serious about this. They’re not going to back down and we’re not going to back down. This is a struggle for the hearts and minds of America,” Capuano told union members.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/145627-dem-lawmaker-on-labor-protests-get-a-little-bloody-when-necessary

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On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn't end up happening—one Twitter user sent out a chilling public response: "Use live ammunition."

From my own Twitter account, I confronted the user, JCCentCom. He tweeted back that the demonstrators were "political enemies" and "thugs" who were "physically threatening legally elected officials." In response to such behavior, he said, "You're damned right I advocate deadly force." He later called me a "typical leftist," adding, "liberals hate police."

Only later did we realize that JCCentCom was a deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana.

As one of 144 attorneys in that office, Jeff Cox has represented the people of his state for 10 years. And for much of that time, it turns out, he's vented similar feelings on Twitter and on his blog, Pro Cynic. In his nonpolitical tweets and blog posts, Cox displays a keen litigator's mind, writing sharply and often wittily on military history and professional basketball. But he evinces contempt for political opponents—from labeling President Obama an "incompetent and treasonous" enemy of the nation to comparing "enviro-Nazis" to Osama bin Laden, likening ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Service Employees International Union members to Nazi "brownshirts" on multiple occasions, and referring to an Indianapolis teen as "a black teenage thug who was (deservedly) beaten up" by local police. A "sensible policy for handling Afghanistan," he offered, could be summed up as: "KILL! KILL! ANNIHILATE!"

http://motherjones.c...nsin-protesters

He should have known that it is OK for the Socialists to use that language but that he is under the thought police. What a moron.

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the guy got fired...obviously

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I was about to type something semi-intelligent but just got distracted by the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in this building. Wow!

I'm jealous. In the nuclear industry we have something called 'nuclear fine'. A 6 in the real world is a 10 in the nuke world.