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A website went live this morning, but has already been deleted. However, whoever started the website has taken to various alt-right websites to circulate the private information of Republican officials in Georgia for attack. It appears explicitly designed to target them for assassination.
As you can see from the images below, the targets include Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Head of Voting for Georgia Gabe Sterling, and even employees of Dominion Voter Systems.
The website showed their private email address, home addresses, and pictures of their homes. Each target includes a gun sight marking over their heads.
This, Republicans, is what you are playing with. The left inspired James Hodgkinson to try a mass assassination of Republicans and it looks like these nonsensical claims about stolen elections by the President and his supporters are going to get some people killed.
I am not listing the website, which has already been taken down. But the images are in circulation on alt-right social sites.
Activists Begin Doxxing GOP Officials for Assassination
Erick - how fringe is the alt-right, that so many elected officials right up to the Pres feel the need to give aid and comfort to them? They are dangerous, violent, and terribly destructive to the reputation of people on the right. They should be starved of political capital by statements of repudiation. I realized in 2016 that conservatives like myself did not represent a majority of the GOP, and that that there really is a small group of racist alt-right thugs in the underbelly of the party. Now I am wondering if conservatives are welcome in the party at all.
This sort of thing is mental illness, not political activism. However, it certainly serves as a reminder that such madness imagines and carries out insane deeds.
I think there are two problems that should worry everybody. The first is is that those who defend the outcome of the election seem to think that there is some level of fraud that "doesn't matter." The second is that almost nobody cares if the US constitution or multiple state constitutions were ignored as people plowed forward toward an assortment of political objectives. The madness expressed by this website is the responsibility of the sick person who conceived it; Real political discourse and differences don't drive people to murder.
I believe that as a nation we must address the real problems, but the two individual problems are vastly outweighed by the obvious huge problem that our citizens, including our public officials, are simultaneously ignorant and dismissive of the laws designed to prevent the very conflict in which we find ourselves.
I pray the truth will prevail, and I pray that people in our country will be inspired to learn how our government is designed. However, our people also need to learn how to discuss our differences without hating those who disagree with us. Differences of political goals ought never to find expression in hateful aspersions that imply the other person is not quite human. I pray that people will be willing to work toward needed changes without denying the humanity of those who disagree with them.
The person who set up this website is clearly insane. We should not conflate concern for the targets of this insanity with any of the political conflict playing out in our nation.