Death threats close Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva's offices

By GottaLaff

UPDATE via an New York Times e-mail alert:

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed a bill that would require
the police to ask people about their immigration status if
officers have any reason to suspect that they are in the
country illegally.

Let's see now... Combine a Democratic congressman who looks like this

with the current political climate in Arizona, plus legalizing racial profiling. What could possibly go wrong?

An unidentified person made two phone calls and threatened to blow up Rep. Raul Grijalva's Tucson, Arizona office and kill his staff members, forcing the Democratic congressman to close his two district offices late Friday morning local time.

Just a wild guess, but I'm betting the caller wasn't a Dem.

Grijalva's communications director Adam Sarvana:

"He threatened to blow everyone's brains out in the Tucson office."

Are the Rushpublics going to say it was a Democratic "plant"? Or that it didn't happen at all? You know, the way they did when Congress members were spat on and slurs were shouted.

The caller also said he was going to be "exercising my civil liberties and I'm shooting Mexicans at the border".

How patriotic of him. I wonder if he owns a musket.

The pace of threats and violence has picked up. Let's hope more Congress members act responsibly and continue to call for an end to this, daily, repeatedly, constantly. It may calm a few tempers, but sadly, the real crazies are still out there.

Thank you Sarah Palin, a few Tea Baggers, and a select bunch of stellar public officials ::coughBachmanncough:: for inciting an already frenzied bunch of extremists to action.