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Political violence mars some campaigning

November 4, 2008

This is a widely contested political election. There has been both positive and negative campaigning going on. This highly charged political landscape has brought on extreme methods that supporters of both candidates have used to get their point across.

According to Oleg Atbashian, a conservative blogger, a complaint by a district attorney documented the assault on a McCain supporter by an enraged Democrat in Manhattan:

“Defendant grabbed the sign [informant] was holding, broke the wood stick that was attached to it, and then struck informant in informant’s face, thereby causing informant to sustain redness, swelling and bruising to informant’s face and further causing informant to sustain substantial pain.”

Being passionate about political involvement is one thing. Causing bodily harm to someone with opposing viewpoints is quite another.

Similar stories have popped up in recent weeks. A man was arrested in August on Market Street in San Francisco after he allegedly verbally abused and slashed the face of an Obama supporter. Additionally, two men were arrested Thursday for hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree several times at George Fox University in Kentucky, a state that McCain has won by quite a large margin. An effigy of Sarah Palin was also hung in October from a tree in West Hollywood.

These are political parties, with different ideologies and values. But some seem to feel they are soldiers in opposing armies, fighting each other tooth and claw to get their guy to win. Might this be a growing trend?

Story by Ian Sorensen

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