Let’s Look at What Dems Were Saying About SCOTUS Before an Alaska Man Threatened to Kill Six Justices

Rusty Weiss reporting for RedState 

A 76-year-old Alaska man named Panos Anastasiou was arrested Wednesday for threatening to torture and murder six Supreme Court Justices and their families.

A Justice Department press release outlines that Anastasiou sent hundreds of messages through a site maintained by the Court, which “contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging, and firearms.”

Seems like a real ladies' man, that Panos.

Records featuring the name Panos Anastasiou show up 11 times on the FEC campaign contributions website. The contributor state is listed as Alaska, and a vast majority of the donations were to ActBlue, a fundraising platform for Democrats.

The donations listed were made during the same time the man was threatening the Supreme Court justices. And to nobody’s surprise, while his targets have not been named by the DOJ, the number of them is significant, since the Court has a 6-3 right-leaning tilt.

And, it should be noted, a New York Post investigation has revealed that some of the messages sent indicate two of the targets were Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

In keeping with my previous theme, the Democrats (and the media, which is basically an arm of the left), being held to their own standards of violent rhetoric equating to actual threats of violence, once again are inching ever closer to having more blood on their hands.

They had literal blood on their hands with the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump. They almost had it again with the second assassination attempt.

Now, a case can be made that they inspired Anastasiou to threaten assassination against these six Supreme Court justices. And they’ve used the same rhetoric they used to inspire and radicalize Trump’s would-be assassins.

Congressman Hank Johnson, a House Democrat in Georgia whose most notable contribution to the public square is a debate about the buoyancy of Guam, declared after a pair of rulings by the Supreme Court that didn’t go his way, “Democracy is at risk.”

A person who genuinely believes democracy to be at risk might be willing to go to great lengths to save democracy, no? Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh certainly thought so. So too, must this man have.

Prior to this, Democrats had amped up the violent rhetoric against the Supreme Court to a Spinal Tap-level of 11.

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) had issued a “literal call to arms” against the pro-life movement just months after the nation’s highest court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade.

Just before that decision was leaked to the public, Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a crazed speech to protesters – her voice cracking repeatedly – vowing to fight back against what she called an “extremist” Supreme Court.

That is not a video of a woman with her wits about her, for sure.

But referring to the court as “extremist,” a "risk to democracy," or encouraging violence had already become the norm for some very high-profile Democrats.

Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) quite literally threatened two of the six conservative justices by name if they ever dared to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price,” Schumer shouted, pointing a stern finger toward the court.

“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,” he added, clenched fist repeatedly striking downward.

The Center for American Progress in recent months called the Supreme Court “anti-Democratic.” They described the Court as having paved the way for an “autocracy” much like that of Xi Jinping in China.

Likewise, The Nation published a column by left-wing lunatic Elie Mystal declaring, “The Supreme Court must be stopped.”

All of these comments have laid the groundwork for extremists to view the Supreme Court as a threat. It escalated, no doubt, when that same court struck down other left-wing pet projects, such as racist affirmative action policies, or trying to remove former Presidents from their ballots to ‘save Democracy©!'

You don’t believe for a moment, do you, that the same people who inspired radicals to firebomb crisis pregnancy centers, who inspired leftist organizations to issue online threats against these Supreme Court justices - including maps to their family homes – and who had already inspired an assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh, didn’t inspire Panos Anastasiou as well?

Anastasiou was clearly a threat ready to explode. But Democrats handed him the Molotov cocktail in one hand and a match in the other.

Would it kill them to tone things down a bit and stop trying to get everybody they don’t politically agree with murdered?