"I've been worried for some time, even before the events surrounding these health care town halls, Rich told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Wednesday. "It began during the campaign, where people were shouting ˜treason' and worse about Obama at Palin rallies " and, essentially, no one in the Republican Party would condemn it. " It's just been stepping up ever since then.
Calls for violent revolution at some town halls have recently been made even more threatening by the open display of guns outside these events. A gun-toting online radio host who interviewed a friend carrying an assault rifle at an Obama event in Arizona a few days ago has been revealed as a vocal supporter of members of a militia group who were convicted in 1996 of plotting to blow up federal buildings.
"I think we have a problem, Rich stated. "This has been going on
for too many months. It always seems to happen when there's a new
liberal group taking over. It's not coincidence that the militias
started up again in the 1990s when Clinton came in " or, when Kennedy
came in, the right-wing stuff in the early 60s. MORE PLUS VIDEO"
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