MISSION ACCOMPLISHED… Tucson Tea Party Leader Receives Death Threats This Week
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 12:22 PM
Mission Accomplished!
After blaming the tea party for the mass slaughter on Saturday one tea party leader is receiving death threats. The sheriff’s office told Tucson tea party leader Trent Humphries to stay home.
The Tuscon Tea Party leader started receiving death threats since the shootings at the Safeway on Saturday.
Talking Points Memo reported, via Free Republic:
Trent Humphries, the leader of the largest tea party group in this mourning southern Arizona city, has nothing but praise for the way President Obama has led the nation through the aftermath of Saturday’s mass shooting at a constituent event for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally intended to unify Tucson after six people were killed in the tragedy.
Humphries says he’s been getting threats at his home from people who seem to hold him and his organization partially responsible for the shootings Saturday.
Humphries told TPM he’s called the Sheriff’s department more than once in the past few days to make them aware of threatening phone calls.
“We got a not-so-veiled threat,” Humprhies told me. “The Sheriff’s deputies told me to stay away from public places.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Humphries said the threats have coincided with Saturday’s shooting and began nearly right away.
“We had people say, ‘too bad it wasn’t your family that was killed,’” Humphries told me. Other angry calls have come in as well. “‘The blood of that little girl on your hands,’” Humphries recalled one message saying.
But it was a new call that came in this week that Humphries said had him staying out of public view for a while.
“It was something like ‘we hate you and we’re going to stand against you and we’re going to use our First and Second Amendment rights to stop you,’” Humphries told me.
Nice work, Sheriff Dupnik.
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patman commented:
Hopeandchange.
Granny commented:
We sure it isn’t the good “sheriff” himself behind this?
Unfortunately, this is probably just the beginning. If we want our nation, some of us are probably going to die for it.
bg commented:
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OT..
what’s with the stupid (ftib) “do you feel lucky”
ad with a masked man pointing a gun at us GP??
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Granny commented:
#3 bg – haven’t seen that ad. Where is it?
bg commented:
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Granny #4
between this & the post before it..
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rbosque commented:
The sheriff’s job is to protect the citizens, it is plainly clear he has only succeeded in fomenting mindless hatred on the left, he has helped cause the very atmosphere he has supposedly condemned and should be fired for it, politics and baseless accusations are not part of his job description.
jimg commented:
Don’t hide from these punks. Call them out. Bring them out.
Demand they make their best move. And then respond in kind.
The best way to deal with bluffs is to call them on it. And if they’re not bluffing? Take them out.
It’s time we start treating this as it is. A mob mentality that needs to be put down.
Granny commented:
#6, rbosque –
Unfortunately, the good “sheriff” is an elected official. He can’t be fired.
Granny commented:
jimg, yeah, I have to tell you I would probably put on a bulletproof vest and go about my life anyway. What are they going to do? Keep him so scared he doesn’t dare go to work? Sometimes you just have to grab your bootstraps and do what you have to do . . .
olm commented:
I’m going to be as delicate as possible here but it looks to me like this is a concentrated effort on the left to take out the right. I would not go so far as to say planned but I will say that it looks like it is working and I’ll bet there’s a similar incident sooner rather than later.
Redwine commented:
Trent Humphries needs to sue Drupnik.
bg – About the ad: Blog ads are localized and picked up by keywords on the site. I don’t see the ad you mention, but I can see an ad localized for Washington state where I’m located.
MrGoodWench commented:
But Humphries won’t be there tonight when Obama speaks at a memorial rally
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So thats what that phone call from Hussain was all about !
” Hey Pumpernickel, I don’t want no stinkin teabaggers when I read off the teleprompter. Can you do that ? Holder will take car of you . “
donh commented:
This is more evidance that Jarrod is an assassin working within a broader political conspiracy of public employee union THUGS who are using their choke hold on the media and local police department to cover up what is really going on.
kansas commented:
And the term “blood libel” was somehow ignorant? Looks like it was spot on accurate. Of course as per usual Palin is 100% correct while the bed wetter keep on wetting themselves.
Tjexcite commented:
Germany 1938, Night of the Broken Glass all over again.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Olm is right. There is going to be violence perpetrated against the right, real soon. Allee Bautsch-style. Rahm-Chicago-style. For no other reason than the already-mentally-insane among us are addicted to their televisions, and beieve everything that emanates thereout.
Did you not see the Twitter “Palin death threats” video yesterday or today?
What they have done — WORKS….
…and 1/3 of this lost nation are their drones.
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Sad. The Left (MOST LIKELY, given what we know about this case, and about OKC, and about the Crisis the Dem’s have SAID they need, and about what we know about the murderous Soviet-typified history of what Prog-MoFos are capable of, and DESIRE,) uses one of their own to take out a Dem-HATED Lieberman-style Democrat and a Federal Judge who is about to strike down TWO key provisions in the Obama Heathcare bill, and then convince the 1/3 of this United States that is most gullible and detached from reality that the CONSERVATIVES are responsible.
Nothing at all good can come of this.
squeaky commented:
[Jacob Volkmann, the UFC lightweight fighter who said that President Obama was "not too bright" following his win at UFC 125, has been placed on paid administrative leave by White Bear Lake High School in..]
http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/01/12/jacob-volkmann-placed-on-paid-administrative-leave-from-job/
Militant Conservative commented:
Told y’all before the police have duty to protect you.
They are law enforcement officers not body guards.
You safety is your responsibility. Man up and take care of yourself.
Powder is dry.
Drider commented:
Well this just came out of right field now didn’t it.
I certainly hope Mr. Humphries and his family will be ok.I would advise him to arm himself and be alert and for God sake, if any of these whack jobs actually does attempt violence on him and his family…..Don’t miss, every dead center hit will lessen the country of human sewage.After the last few days, that sewage is reeking.
Granny commented:
#19 January 12, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Militant Conservative commented:
Told y’all before the police have duty to protect you.
They are law enforcement officers not body guards.
You safety is your responsibility. Man up and take care of yourself.
Powder is dry.
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You know, as I reread that statement – ““We got a not-so-veiled threat,” Humprhies told me. “The Sheriff’s deputies told me to stay away from public places.”” – it almost makes me wonder if the not-so-veiled threat came from the Sheriff’s deputies. . . .
Militant Conservative commented:
Granny, FYI, federal law prohibits us from wearing a bullet proof vest
and carrying a concealed or nonconsealed firearm.
You carry, no vest. Vest, no firearm.
Joanne commented:
This Tea Party Leader should take these threats seriously and so should the authorities, because if these people who are threatening him believe the man who killed those people did it because he are mad that conservatives didn’t like the way Obama was running the country, then they certainly will use the same excuse to think they have reason to kill conservatives. What I don’t understand is how these crazy-ass democrats can explain how a socialist leftard shot up those he would most likely be affiliated with on a political level?
olm commented:
Exactly, you said it much better. There is more coming and it is coming fast. This sheriff’s loud and obnoxious blame game is just fueling a fire that had already started.
I don’t know what I would do if I were this Tea Party guy but I’ll bet you the next situation is very similar to this one. And I’ll bet that the violence doesn’t yet hit the Tea Party. This truly is a scary situation. Gabby is a blue dog. Listen to this sheriff nutjob, according to him everyone who is not far left should be silenced. He has no concept of anything but his own vision and he is speaking loud and clear to people of similar mindset.
Granny commented:
#22 – Militant -
The dude does not look or sound like the carrying type. But then where I come from, you make a threat like that to me and I’ll make you eat it.
Neo commented:
Sheriff Dimwit does a “blood libel”
gman commented:
Is there or can someone make a compilation on youtube of all the violent nasty things liberals have said?
Militant Conservative commented:
Granny#25
This is why I am apolite person as I consider most people could be carrying.
Lot’s of people are still waking up to the new world Obama has transformed in front of them.
This is a transformation into a hate filled racist world with no jobs and little hope.
powder is dry, stay sharp out there folks.
Curry Walker commented:
Well folks it is time to connect the dots. It seems the Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has no problems blaming and politicizing a blood bath caused by a deranged person. Clarence Dupnik has problems accepting the responsibility of the office he holds. Setting aside all of the problems, the sad thing is he may have harmed the case against Jared Loughner. Now to the point his deride against the right wing media is very telling about how he views his job. He does not view the job as a law enforcement position but as a political position. This is a lawmaker has already admitted he selects and chooses the laws of the state that he will enforce. How far would he be willing to carry his left wing politics? Would he and has he overlook law breakers that have threatened people in Prima County? Has he in the past chosen not to enforce the law and record threats of physical harm and report these people to the state and to the federal authorities? It is my opinion if a lawmaker does not enforced laws of the state he should be the first person to be investigated in this horrible shooting. The moment he injected politics into the case he became a law breaker because he may have harmed the case against this deranged perso. Too many times those who is supposed to be enforcing the laws and regulations of the state are given a pass when they fail their duty or choose not to enforce the laws because of politics or back room deals. Clarence Dupnik should be impeached or thrown out of office for jading the case against Jared Loughner . There should be new laws passed by federal and state lawmakers enforcing the firing and impeaching of judges, law enforcement officers, and regulation enforcers that does not enforce the constitution and the laws and regulations of the state. These new laws should impose penalties on those that choose not to enforce the laws of the state. Now folks we would then see a major change in the way the laws and regulations were enforced in this country and the violence would be quelled because those who is protecting the society is doing their jobs instead continuing to politick and make back room deals after an election is over.
John Fembup commented:
So it appears that the very people “incited to violence” by “rhetoric” and “tone” – - – are left wingers.
Figures.
bg commented:
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Redwine #11
yeah i know, it comes & goes..
still, it’s just more fodder for the now verified insane left..
however, now that i think on it, what does it matter??
they are insane, so whatever we do it’s all evil in their eyes..
ironically, i believe that’s what makes them
happy, what other answer could there be??
“what the fascist left have been aiming for is to “equate” good with evil..
that’s the only way they can appease their conscience in the face of the
harsh realities they are trying to escape from because it does not fit in
with their ideological utopian matrix.. if there is no good vs evil, then all
is good even if [the] all is evil..” – bg
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Rob Crawford commented:
“Is there or can someone make a compilation on youtube of all the violent nasty things liberals have said?”
There are time limits on YouTube videos.
bg commented:
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re: #31
answer = explanation
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bg commented:
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gman #27
a few blogs are making “collections” so to speak..
ie: via HB
OT.. Great Merciful Zeus and A Tale of Two Matthews
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averagemelon commented:
Militant,
Through your blogs and vision over the last 2 years, you have enlightened an awful lot of us to stay sharp and be prepared. Your good advice has never fallen on deaf ears. There are much more of your kind out there than you can possibly know.
The thing we have been waiting for appears to be getting close.
squeaky commented:
[Perhaps in an idiosyncratic way, according to Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University. "Political rhetoric provided some of the context for his thinking, the pretext for his actions, but the core reasons for his actions were his psychosis," Lieberman told National Journal.] i guess the good doctor didn’t get the message. i’m sure he can separate his medical opinions from his political leanings? fund race has him [i believe] donating $500 to charlie rangel.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20028275-503544.html
donh commented:
It looks like Dipstick over 50 years has corrupted his entire police force into a team of political partisian hacks. Clearly the police department will overlook a young punk making death threats from his momma’s basement IF his mommy is a fellow member of a public service union AND the death threats are being made agaisnt the right people. There is something to FEAR in America beyond fear itself.
KansasGirl commented:
This is the intent the left has always strived for. They have their excuse now, it’s going to get worse folks.
bg commented:
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pardon if this point has been made previously..
bottom line: if the Sheriff Dupnik was so worried about Tea Party members attacking Democrats, or Palin supporters targeting Giffords for assassination, then why no warnings or security detail assigned to the event, but he himself unconcernedly out of town??
fyi: none of this info is being “leaked” to the MSM..
we need our own Assange..
yeah i know hypocrisy doesn’t begin to describe the insane double
standard, but accepting that fact does us absolutely no good, we
need to be on the offensive, not the defensive.. gah!!
Sheriff Dupnik, father of inmate junkie
jailbird, was honored by “Big Sis” Janet
well that explains a lot, not that one can explain “insanity”.. *sigh*
I WONDER WHO HE BLAMED FOR HIS KIDS FAILURES??
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StrangernFiction commented:
“[Allen West] is one paycheck away from being this guy; umm Glenn Beck is one drink away from being this guy.”
Granny commented:
Don’t know if you saw it bg, but Dupnik’s department is refusing to release public information regarding the shooter, etc. despite an Arizona law that says they must. I posted the link a couple of threads back.
kansas commented:
So the chairman of the Tea Party got death threats from right wingers? I think I read that somewhere. Oh that’s right. I didn’t.
Ariel commented:
Is there or can someone make a compilation on youtube of all the violent nasty things liberals have said? – gman
gman,
Today must be your lucky day. It would seem that Pamela Geller over at Atlas Shrugs has compiled just such a video log, although mostly of inflamatory signs and displays at leftist rallies, some of which included depictions of murdering Bush. Entitled “The Face of Hate”, it can be found here:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
From what I understand there is also youtube video of the same set to music. If I can find a link, I’ll be glad to post it
Arch commented:
“Militant Conservative commented:
“Granny, FYI, federal law prohibits us from wearing a bullet proof vest and carrying a concealed or nonconsealed firearm. You carry, no vest. Vest, no firearm.”
I just looked and I can’t find that in the Federal Code. It may be in a state statute, but the only thing I see at the Federal level is a prohibition for violent felons or use in the commission of a crime. If you can cite the US Code, I’ll stop wearing it while armed. Thanks!
I have a Second Chance vest that will stop handgun and shotgun loads but I wouldn’t want to try it out. My Mother bought it for me in 1980 before I was sent to El Salvador.
Tom commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-z-jjUfmOVE
olm commented:
40. Good article. Good questions and all relevant. Dipstick is a partisan hack and I feel very sorry for the people who think he is protecting them.
wow commented:
Here-s another You tube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgJKNpjSNI
IOpian commented:
Threats like those remind me of how the old Southern Democrats reacted to rumored crimes against white women. Lynchings usually followed with a feigned effort to keep the peace from the local sheriff.
Militant Conservative commented:
#45 January 12, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Arch commented:
I think the thought stream was from California after the two heavely armed gunmen faced down the cops. Been looking at second chance armour, they come in tall and doughnut cop size??
kozanne commented:
You should read some of the comments over at Talking Points. A veritable bastion of liberal tolerance and understanding and mutual respect…….
NOT.
Arch commented:
As I said, Mom bought mine and it covers the upper torso front & back in sport coat sizes. I’m a 40 short. There’s an interesting book that comes with each vest showing the 12 gauge or 45 caliber bruise you get. It’s far better than a big entry wound.
I did see the California law, and I remember the bank robbers with the full auto AK47s. Scary stuff. Around here (Alabama) I worry about being downtown at night in a BMW or being in the woods with an expensive firearm.
Thanks,
Arch
olm commented:
OMG, read Robert Kennedy’s rant. It’s over on Hot Air. There is no doubt in my mind that these leftards are appealing to their mentally ill supporters.
No doubt. I’m finally there.
jainphx commented:
Lets see Dupnik says that the tea party and right wing radio caused Loughner to kill all those people. Well now that the leader of the Pima county tea party is getting death threats and should something happen to him, can we then put the blame on Dubnik. Dubnik has done exactly what he is railing against, but then again the left does that all the time. Crime comparisons with Maricopa county (Joe Arpaio) Muder Pima 7 times more, burglary 5 times more, assault 11 times more, and on and on. Can you see the difference? One Sheriff obeys and upholds the law, and the other picks and chooses what laws he will uphold. The one that upholds the law has the DOJ come down on him, while the other gets phone calls from Obama thanking him for a GOOD JOB. Dubnik has his own kids in jail, and if anything happens to the tea party head, belongs in jail himself.
Henry Hawkins commented:
In scanning lib blogs it appears the recent blaming of the right wing for the existence of schizophrenia has had the effect of triggering the release of a great deal of anger among liberals building up since November 2, 2010. Al qaeda could learn a few things about mindless anger from what I saw posted.
Texmom commented:
Just don’t let them bait us into anything. They would love to be successful in doing that. Right now, they are looking pretty bad in the eyes of fair minded Americans, so let them destroy themselves while we sit back and enjoy the show.
That doesn’t mean we should not defend our honor, as Palin did today. It just means don’t let them pull us down to their level.
bg commented:
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olm #57
here you go..
they have no shame, never mind perspective, none, they are verifiably
insane, i believe they voted to take Saddam maddasS out just so they
could crucify Bush..
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bg commented:
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re: #62
guess he doesn’t think or speak much about
who took his ‘other brother’ out does he..
IDiots..
the man is in bed with Chavez, and Chavez in bed
with Ayers, and Ayers is in bed with Obama.. gah!!
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Ron commented:
I agree with Texmom. This is a sort of baiting by the left (somewhat purposeful, somewhat not). Mainstream liberals are doing a great job of digging their own hole and no one on the right or in the center should disrupt their own wearing down of their ‘message’ and influence on this nation. The whole of the left are like children with ADD who have trouble concentrating on one thing and overwhelm themselves. That’s where we need to be…the challenge to their own weak beliefs.
Militant Conservative commented:
#55 January 12, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Arch commented:
Hey Arch, You and I are almost neighbors. I live in carrollton in Ga.
I have family down around Andalusia.
I’m not a hunter but I love to shoot and train tactical.
Henry Hawkins commented:
They jumped the shark and hoped a rightwing connection with Loughner would emerge. Didn’t happen, but the accusations took on inertial force and snowballed. Having committed, they don’t seem to know how to disengage a failed attempt to paint the shooting as a political murder by a right wing extremist, something they hoped to create to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Rush, Hannity, FOX, Beck, et al is killing the left, not by arguing, but by arguing too well. The libs posit this idea or that bill and make this promise and that prediction, and over and over and over, conservative media proves it wrong. For the progressive agenda to succeed, they must be stopped.
It is an old truism that when your enemy is talking stupid, let him talk, and when he is digging himself into a hole, let him dig. The NYT and the network news outlets have been fading fast in the age of the internet and a new media that is no longer ‘alternative’, so quickly has it subsumed the old guard of the NYT, Wash Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., rendering these old giants into jealous pikers and shrill potshotters. They have lost their place at the top of the mountain of influence. Whereas only moving to the center to capture a wider audience could have slowed the pace of their downward trajectory, they have instead moved even further left, and now, with the reporting on the AZ shooting, they have completely abandoned anything resembling journalism and are now simple cheerleaders for the progressive/leftist cause.
I say let them go on with it, grant them their suicidal plunge, and soon Obama and the left will lose the only thing that got them into power in 2008 – the no longer mainstream media. They will still have NYT, Wash Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., but it won’t be enough now that they’ve crossed entirely over and away from journalism.
bg commented:
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Henry Hawkins #66
unfortunately for all of US, their staunch supporters are not only deaf,
dumb & blind to their deceptiveness, but they have short memories, no
doubt inlicted by years of being deaf, dumb & blind staunch supporters..
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bg commented:
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gah!! just turned the tv back on and they
have a sololm pic of prez dick and a rose..
NOT ONE PICTURE OF THE VICTIMS IN SIGHT!!
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Dell Inspiron Batteries commented:
Sad that it needed to be said, but very appropriate in my opinion. I’ve posted about manners as well on my blog, as well as added my own little manner list.
http://www.batteryup.com/Dell-Inspiron-Batteries/
Shell commented:
Well in following with the thought of Palin, those on FoxNews and Tea Party Conservatives, what is the problem, since words never incite violence. Come on, you can’t have it both ways, if Sarah is not to blame, than neither is the sheriff.
The GOP has turned into a Party of whiners. I want the old strong Party back.
RickS commented:
Wow. This is an actual case where extreme political rhetoric may actually cause someone bodily harm or even death. Well done liberals! You guys know how to do it right!
RickS commented:
“Shell commented:
Well in following with the thought of Palin, those on FoxNews and Tea Party Conservatives, what is the problem, since words never incite violence. Come on, you can’t have it both ways, if Sarah is not to blame, than neither is the sheriff. “————Shell, come on. The two are connected in this case because THE PEOPLE MAKING THE THREATS SAID THEY ARE.
bg commented:
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Shell #70
do you know what the heck you’re talking about??
re: [since words never incite violence,]
who said that?? seriously, who said words don’t incite??
SP used violent words??
evidently words not only incite liberals to a much greater degree than
conservatives, but liberals use words to incite to a much great degree,
go figure..
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Militant Conservative commented:
#70 January 12, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Shell commented:
Use your brain. The sheriff should have kept his mouth shut about an ongoing investigation. He is a LEO not a politician. Are you that ignorant of the functions of the law enforcement????
powder is dry and some of us are not squishy RINO’s.
Robin commented:
Why isn’t this story front page top of the hour news???
DianeC commented:
Most people that leave threats are COWARDS. It’s the real nuts you have to worry about.
ted409 commented:
the sheriff there in tucson makes joe arpaio look like a saint. ive never heard such twisted logic in my life. im shocked the people of the county would elect this wing nut as a sheriff
or a custodian
Darin Ross commented:
Oh my God what is wrong here. All these comments generalize way too much. do you actually think the left is made up of one person. they are all different from each other just like the right. the hateful talk is used on both sides. no one is innocent here. EVERYONE here needs to calm down, put your guns back in the lock bock and start talking about each other with respect. stop blaming the other guy when the problem starts with you and how you talk. please I am begging everyone to show some love for a change. I challenge everyone to find something good that the other party did, put that on the web and talk about that. peace