Update (1300ET): Senator Paul’s wife is fuming – and rightly so – after the events detailed below.
Where’s the “tolerance” the left keeps demanding?
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As The Epoch Times’ Janita Kan detailed earlier, Sen. Rand Paul has denounced threats to him and his family after a suspicious package containing white powder was delivered to his home on Monday.
“I take these threats immensely seriously. As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family,” Paul said in a statement, citing a Politico article.
A senior adviser in Paul’s office told Politico that the senator received a large envelope containing the unknown substance that is currently being examined by the FBI and Capitol Hill police for harmful substances. The sender of the envelope is not yet known.
Over the weekend, Richard Marx, a singer and songwriter, took to Twitter to celebrate the actions of Paul’s neighbor, Rene Boucher, who assaulted the senator in 2017. The attack, which occurred when the senator was doing yard work, left Paul with six broken ribs and other injuries. Boucher pleaded guilty to the assault.
“I’ll say it again: If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor, I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume,” Marx wrote in a tweet on Sunday.
Fox News on Monday also reported that Paul had received an image threatening violence on the envelope with suspicious powder. According to the news broadcaster, the envelope had a doctored picture of a bruised and bandaged Paul with a gun pointed at his head. Below the picture was a threat allegedly stating:
“I’ll finish what your neighbor started you [expletive].”
Paul’s office and the FBI did not immediately respond to a request from The Epoch Times for comment.
In a separate statement, Paul said: “I have been targeted multiple times now, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to advocate for violence against me and my family!”
Last summer, Paul and his wife were accosted in Washington by a mob of Black Lives Matter activists who shouted at the senator, issued threats, and called on him to say the name of Breonna Taylor—a woman shot dead by police officers. Several months earlier, Paul had introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act to prohibit no-knock warrants.
Police were required to escort the lawmaker, his wife and other lawmakers to their hotel that evening.
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Where is the GOP organization? No where to be heard. A few muted voices will be the extent of the great resistance.
They only get involved when your Israelis need help.
Maybe they are all in Belle Meade.
There is no making peace with liberals, the sooner people realize that the better…
Oh, there’s a way. It’s messy, but can be done.
I think you mean PIECE not PEACE.
If Christians adopted the same attitude of intolerance, maybe there would not be liberals trying to lord over us.
Which Christians? The ones that are responsible for promoting the SJW Christ? I am amenable to providing links to all the Protestant and Catholic organizational sites to which I am referring.
No need, that was my point. Instead of defending the faith they inverted it.
What non-inverted faith? Jews started the Jesus movement within Judaism and wrote all the NT. A cogent articulation of this original faith would be informative. Then I’d like to see the real Christians live it without self-immolation.
Luke and Acts were written by a Greek doctor named Luke. He PROBABLY is not ethnically Jewish but, no one knows for sure.
Crypto-Jew is more likely than non-Jew. The world isn’t going to subjugate itself.
Odd that we live in a time when a man like Paul who stands up for what he believes in is ridiculed and belittled by his peers. While a half man like Romney, who has betrayed what he purported to believe on numerous occasions is lauded by those same individuals.
Nothing odd about that in a world ruled by men who worship the god of this world.
Someone really wants Rand Paul dead. He’s survived a shooting, being attacked by his neighbor, assaulted by BML protestors, Covid, and now possibly poisoning.
I tend to agree with you. Someone extremely powerful, no doubt. How else do you explain a man physically assaulting a sitting United States Senator (breaking his ribs no less) and walking away without spending time in prison?
Bingo! There is no redeeming the system and more than half the population. None.
Ticktock, not ‘TikTok’, just ticktock. When or if “Jack” comes out of the box, he’s gonna be one pissed off muther.
It might not be a lefty as we know or define them, go read up on the East German Stasi, could of been any of a dozen or more Intelligence agency’s stirring the pot or Corporate, hidden elitist interests. More indication that Paul is one of the least corrupt of the kleptocracy ?
Don’t kid yourself. There is some autonomy in the lunatic rank and file. They seem to act on narrative symbolism. They are benighted useful idiots. The organic butchery hides the engineered surgery.
What do you call a deaf mute Republican with no arms or legs lying on Obama’s doorstep?
Matt.
What do you call a republican with no arms and no legs nailed to a wall?
Art.
What do you call a Republican with no brain?
A Democrat.
Rand needs to carry concealed, practice and tell folks that random threats won’t be tolerated.
As to Richard Marx…that sawed off piece of woodpecker bait couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag .
It is very possible that the Democrats see Paul as the next likely candidate for the White House, so they are starting the assassination campaign early….
The envelope was just some nose candy that was supposed to go to Hoover Biden. Nothing to see here.
The squad sent that letter.
Mark my words.
Sen Paul is a profile in courage and is a real danger to the PTB. This delivery of white powder is their way of warning him with a ‘dead rat’ so to speak.
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. He is not his father to me, and neither are fighter enough to win. You don’t know what real danger is, or you would be more concerned for yourself instead of the show.
Rand Paul, fortunate son, not quite a Senator’s son, but close enough. Choose your heroes carefully, because this self entitled douchebag is no hero…
His Dad is a Free Mason .