Racist and Threatening Right-Wing Reactions

Cenk Uygur at The Young Turks covers the story of the man who showed up at an Obama rally with a visible gun strapped to his thigh and carrying a sign that reads, "It is time to water the tree of Liberty." This is in reference to a Thomas Jefferson quote which reads,

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Timothy McVeigh also referenced this quote on the t-shirt he was wearing at the time of his arrest. The sign and the gun taken together send an unmistakable message: this man advocates advancing his political agenda through violent means, possibly even assasination. I cannot understand how he was not arrested. A commenter (padlok47) on the YouTube video writes, "and now everyone who quotes jefferson is a mcveigh?"

No. Everyone who shows up at a political rally packing heat quoting Jefferson or anyone else about the right to political violence is advocating the sort of political violence that McVeigh committed and should probably be arrested on charges of incitement and threatening the president.

Meanwhile Georgia Rep. David Scott's office sign was vandalized with a large swastika. I'm not quite sure of the intent here, but I assume that it means one of two things, both of which aren't good:

1. David Scott is being accused of being a Nazi. This makes no sense. Is David Scott the first black Nazi in history?
2. The vandal is a Nazi and is putting this black elected official "on notice". Apparently David Scott should stop provoking the Nazi party?

These incidents arrive within a storm of accusations of socialism, communism, tyrrany, dishonesty, death panels, eugenics, euthanasia, baby killing and elder killing. These things are being yelled by wingnuts uninterested in thoughtful debate at town hall meetings and political rallies. This time around there are two identifiable sources of all this vitriol. First, we have the teabaggers, still shouting about tyrrany and still upset that their guy lost the election. Second, the health industry astroturf paying people and paying travel expenses and issuing talking points. Millions of dollars are being spent by the companies who have a stake in this debate to make the reactionaries look stronger than they are. In the meantime all rational debate has been squeezed out and Obama has to spend his time answering questions about death panels instead of the merits and limitations of the policies being proposed.

One more time I'd like to put the question out there to any teabaggers who might be reading this. When the left accused the former president of tyrrany we pointed to specific examples such as the suspension of habeas corpus and the declaration of unilateral and preemptive war and the ordering of torture as acts of tyrrany because they threatened the republican institutions of this country. You shout 'tyrrany' at the top of your lungs but I don't understand what it is that Obama has done that you think counts as tyrrany! Which of Obama's specific actions taken since he took office do you view as tyrranical, and why? Quick caveat: proposing to extend medicare-type benefits to essentially everyone over 18 doesn't count.