And I find this disturbing.

[vvalkyri]

WashPost: Lawmakers concerned as health-care overhaul foes resort to violence. [Edit: More in depth NYTimes]Death threats, bricks through windows, and a cut gas line at one congressman's brother's house. And the article doesn't even mention some of the other protestor behavior. [edit: Salon on this as related to refusal to accept electoral

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[kmusser]

Salon has a nice summary article on this too http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/03/25/threats_democrats_healthcare/index.html

[vvalkyri]

Good article. I'll add it to the main.

One of the things it brought to mind was the suicide attack on the IRS office - as only one employee died that day it hadn't sounded nearly so serious as it was -- a little bit ago one of my friends excerpted an article about just /why/ almost everyone survived, and that had little to do with the attacker's tactics and everything to do with a lot of training in evacuation procedure: Have you wondered how so many people safely escaped last month's plane crash at Internal Revenue Service offices in Texas

[selki]

Holy wow. I had not heard about how close it came to killing so many more, or the heroism of those who helped.