Leave it to me to say that Hillary Clinton hasn't faced attacks as severe as Howard Dean about ten hours before her New Hampshire campaign office becomes a terrorist target for the right. A breaking and extremely disturbing story:
An armed man took people hostage Friday at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire, police said.
The incident happened at about 1 p.m. Friday at 28 North Main St. in Rochester. Officials said that a man is holding people hostage at the office, but it is unclear how many people are being held.
There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.
This is very scary. Terrorism has always been a key tool of the right, and considering the hateful anti-Clinton emails I receive on a regular basis, I have little doubt that this comes from their ranks. I have received death threats over the years along these lines, myself. Almost everyone on the left has. I guess it is possible it isn't a politically motivated right-wing attack, but from the stuff I have seen and gone through I would be surprised if it wasn't.
I am going to go watch some TV. A Daily Kos diarist is live blogging:
Update_ Man with duct taped bomb on body/
UPDATE- Helicopters on scene
UPDATE- Two hostages- campaign workers
SWAT team is now there
Several blocks have been evacuated and shut down- no traffic
Man is in 40s, salt and pepper hair
I think I am going to vomit. And to think that it is the right-wing that is afraid of terrorism.
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