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Dem Congressman's District Office Vandalized With Swastika
Rep. David Scott (D-GA) told Fox News that his district office in Smyrna, Georgia, was vandalized with a four-foot swastika.
"We woke up this morning and my staff called me and said there was a swastika, a Nazi sign, painted on the sign," said Scott. "Which of course is very unfortunate, and I just feel very bad about it -- and really feel bad about the person who did it."
Scott -- who pointed out that he is the only House member to belong to the Blue Dogs, the New Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus -- had a widely-viewed tumultuous town hall meeting late last week:
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HOpe they took pictures. Lots of them.
August 11, 2009 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
They'd have torched a cross if they had the Congressman's address
August 11, 2009 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wonder how close to Farrar this guy's district is. Anybody more familiar with Georgia?
August 11, 2009 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
DINGELL: Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.
August 11, 2009 11:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Smyna is right outside Atlanta. And you can't imagine how far out that really seems. It's in Cobb county.Not that Atlanta is much better. Which is awful. But not as bad as Forsyth. But these guys seem to be obsessed with Nazis. Which is what makes me think that most of them are not vets as they pretend. Anyone who had fought in WW2 would never play around with that symbol knowing the reality of what it meant. Or anyone who got past 7th grade which I don't think most of these people seem to have done. Or else if they did, the mental illness took hold right away. The problem is most of them especially in the south don't work. So they have all the time in the world to go to these things. They need to be held in the evening when people who function and have jobs can go so there's more of a balance.
August 11, 2009 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Instead of leaving a swastika, you'd think they'd just send all blue dogs thank-you notes! If this doesn't make them realize how worthless it is to be on the republican side of things, I don't know what would.
August 11, 2009 11:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing is more unhinged than throwing around the "Nazi" slur. They have been mainlining El Rushbo, who recently went as far as to compare Obama's healthcare symbol to the ornamental swastika. He has been beating this "Nazi" drum, and the results aren't pretty.
August 11, 2009 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Getting ugly. The projection of fascist symbology by neofascists would be comical were our collective path not leading so clearly and immediately to violence.
These people adorn baby carriages with the stuff. They do not understand that in order for the brain to be against something, the something has to be invented in the same fullness of the negation. Human invention requires no facts.
It is a sickness that has always been there, unmasked by daring to elect a black president.
Thankfully, the country is seeking an equilibrium of racial fusion, and the numbers of these people will drop.
Until then, they must be aggressively exposed. Arlen Specter gets today's Medal of Honor for dipping into it, and showing indies the pretty shine on the crazy.
August 11, 2009 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Being a Blue Dog and conspiring with the GOP will get you nowhere fast, hopefully Scott understands that now.
August 11, 2009 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's from a very, very conservative area....from the same general area where Newt Gingrich's district was. If he was anything other than a Blue Dog, he wouldn't be in congress.
August 11, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once again Boss Limbaugh forms the message for the Republican party. A message that will repulse a majority of the country. The Republican brand has become so pathetically prostituted by ratings-obsessed entertainers, you almost have to feel some sense of regret about watching its demise as a national party. Almost.
August 11, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
On the subject of having a goddamn SWASTIKA painted on his sign for his district office....
"[the swastika is] of course is very unfortunate, and I just feel very bad about it -- and really feel bad about the person who did it."
Huh? What the fuck kind of reaction is that?
I swear, sometimes I really, really do not understand Democrats. Tepid, milquetoast responses to racial hate symbols? Stunning.
August 11, 2009 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's interesting. I had a different reaction when I read that statement. I was thinking that he was saying he felt sorry that someone was so twisted and pathetic as to need to take an action like painting a swastika on someone's door. I was thinking that Scott was behaving like a grow-up in a world of increasingly immature, inhinged people who somehow think they are justified in taking such actions. Please understand, I'm not saying I'm reading it correctly and you aren't, I'm just saying I read it differently.
August 11, 2009 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had the same reaction. I thought he was demonstrating compassion for the asshole who did this.
Which I, obviously, am not capable yet of doing.
August 11, 2009 12:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which explains why you and all those other evil progressives want to kill grandma and grandpa and Palin's son.
August 11, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps it's because even a swastika is protected speech. Which makes it a distraction.
The real issue is disruption of civil order so citizens cannot petition their leaders.
August 11, 2009 12:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, real productive comment, all we need is some more fire and brimstone personalities out there fanning the flames for the type of people who would put a swastika in front of a Congressman's office.
If this is all the other side can do to try and get their voices heard then I think that puts a pretty sad reflection on this crowd. The fact that any American can seriously carry a around a sign with a picture of our POTUS with a Hitler mustache or compare him to Hitler is beyond the pale, it's ludicrous, disingenuous and dangerous. I as an American will not stand for it, which is why I right my GOP Senators here in TX to let them know what I think of their GOP constituents.
August 11, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's the obsession with Nazis these days? It goes without saying that on the one hand we have these right wing loonies. At the same time, leftists here on TPM show no restraint in calling the teabaggers "brownshirts" and "stormtroopers".
Not a good sign for political discourse when Godwin's Law is in effect across the spectrum.
(ok, you can say I'm the pot calling the kettle black with my icon but it's a literary reference, not an attack)
August 11, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for posting the video which provides a fuller context to Congressman Scott's interaction with the Dr.
CNN originally showed only a snippet of the video- which appeared to depict the Congressman as an angry man who was on a tirade about nebulous "other people" hijacking his forum.
CNN brought the Dr. on teevee and appeared to side with him while saying publicly that Mr. Scott went on a rant.
Blitzer did not show the part of the video where the Dr. was interrupting Mr. Scott and disrupting the meeting.
It will be interesting to see whether CNN covers this part of the story as well.
August 11, 2009 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
The swastika shown is the Hindu form. The Nazi form has mirror symmetry.
August 11, 2009 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink