Kristallnacht in Knoxville?

Ominous attack on Republican headquarters

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An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of
the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.

The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau
Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.

According to Knoxville Police Department (KPD) officers on the scene
Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a
car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am.

One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked
the glass in another of the front doors.

But wait. There's more.

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Someone burned an 8-foot-by-8-foot Nazi swastika on a home's lawn
near where Bush-Cheney signs were posted. The vandals used grass killer
to spray the symbol.

Several nearby homes were vandalized -- all were within a two-block
radius on the West Side, near Ice Age Trail, News 3 reported.

State Republican Party officials claim it's the latest in a series of
desperate acts by Democrats.

And then there's this

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Earlier this week, somebody chain-sawed the middle out of two Bush
signs on his property in Avon at the William Post Boulevard exit on
Interstate 70. A "Bush/Cheney '04" campaign sign was burned in Wolcott.

The Avon signs had been torn down previously, and others around the
state have been damaged. Also targeted were campaign signs in other
parts of the state promoting the U.S. Senate campaign of Pete Coors,
also a Republican.

No signs promoting Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry or Senate
hopeful Ken Salazar have been reported damaged.

And then there's this third rate burglary

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Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., after the last campaign worker had gone
home from the office in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, someone threw a
rock through the office window of Jon Seaton, executive director for
President Bush's state campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.

Vance said two of the stolen laptops belonged to Seaton and Chris
Taylor, head of the office's get-out-the-vote campaign. A third had been
slated for a field office.

The computers contained much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for
the state and advertising schedules, Vance said.

I say:

This culture of hate has gotten out of hand. Can't the Bush haters
just, you know... move on?

Whining about the Swift Boat Veterans and trying to have it both ways
about 527s I could let slide. But all this is going just a tad over the
line.

Oh, and there's some jackass at zIWETHEY thinks making a sarcastic remark about a sense of proportion
is a proper apologia for all this.

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