Tag: Violence
Trump’s GOP Condones Violence Against Reporters
“Of course not. It’s not appropriate behavior. Unless the reporter deserved it.”
— Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), quoted by the AP, when asked if assaulting a reporter is appropriate behavior, following U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte’s (R-MT) assault on a reporter on the eve of a special election in Montana.
Violence Cost the World $9.46 Trillion in 2012
$9.46 trillion
Cost to the world in 2012 of creating violence of various kinds and then attempting to contain and quell it, according to research by the Institute for Economics and Peace, reports the Pacific Standard. That’s 11% of gross world product. By contrast, the recent financial crisis cost just 0.5% of 2009 global output.
Beck Inciting Violent Threats Against 78-Year-Old Professor, Frances Fox Piven
the CCR asks that Ailes distinguish between First Amendment rights, of which they are “vigorous defenders” and an “intentional repetition of provocative, incendiary, emotional misinformation and falsehoods [that place that person] in actual physical danger of a violent response.”
Beginning in September of 2010, Glenn Beck started branding Piven, a distinguished professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, as an “enemy of the Constitution.” Piven, well known for advocating for the organizational rights of the poor and encouraging voter registration, has since received threatening phone calls and letters, and has become the subject of many death threats left open to the public on Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze.”
