So a Deputy Attorney General in Indiana thinks using live ammunition on "thugs" protesting is a good idea?
On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building—something that didn't end up happening—one Twitter user sent out a chilling public response: "Use live ammunition."
I'm going to make this quick as I'm busy working on events in Libya right now but I wanted to get this out there as I haven't seen it covered here. If this isn't a good indicator of our rapid decline towards Fascism, I'm not sure what would be.
We have the Koch's sponsoring the gutting of Unions in Wisconsin and Assistant DAs in Indiana calling for protesters to be shot. Why am I beginning to feel like Libya is coming to America?
The MotherJones people did the digging on the tweets to find out who was behind them. When confronted this was his answer
"He responded shortly after from a personal email address: "For 'context?' Or to silence me? All my comments on twitter & my blog are my own and no one else's. And I can defend them all.
"[Y]ou will probably try to demonize me," he wrote, "but that comes with the territory."
Imagine that, a guy calling for live ammunition on protesters trying to play the victim? That's just so Republican of him. Sarah would be proud.
You can read the rest at Mother Jones.
This is the response from Corbin
Nonetheless, a spokesman for the Indiana attorney general's office, Bryan Corbin, told Mother Jones that Cox's statements were "inflammatory," and he promised "an immediate review" of the matter. "We do not condone any comments that would threaten or imply violence or intimidation toward anyone," Corbin added.
Update: Jeff Cox has been let go by the AG's office. Who knew there was actually something inflammatory enough that a Republican would be held accountable?