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Rep. Peter King’s Office Receives Bloody Pig’s Foot In Mail

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It’s unclear whether this was a botched remake of the famous Godfather scene or a botched remake of the famous Rahm Emanuel story, but New York Rep. Peter King received a strange package today: a bloody pig’s foot, possibly in protest of his recent calls for investigating Muslim groups for involvement in terror.

The story, via AP:

Capitol Police are investigating a bloody pig’s foot sent to New York Rep. Peter King’s office in Washington.

The Republican congressman chairs the House Homeland Security panel which held hearings last month on Islamic radicalization.

The package was discovered by mail screeners before it was delivered to King’s office.

A King spokesman says the congressman was notified of the package on Monday afternoon.

Fox News also got comment from Rep. King’s chief of staff, Kevin Fogarty, who confirmed the package never reached its destination, as “all congressional mail is screened before it gets here.” Rep. King, a Republican, along with the Islamic Radicalization hearings has made a name for himself sparring with Rep. Anthony Weiner over 9/11 aid and going after Julian Assange.

Along with the pig’s foot, the package contained a note with some anti-Semitic references, it has been reported, a sign that the pig’s foot was, in fact, related to those controversial hearings. Of course, Rep. King is Catholic, so the anti-Semitic references, if intended as personal insult, miss the mark.

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  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Well, I doubt it was a Muslim since they’re not supposed to touch pork. Then again, they’re not supposed to fly planes into buildings, but hey, I guess when you’re waging Jihad everything goes.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Zandandido

    The reason for the anti-Semitic references is because he is investigating/attacking Islamic radicalization in America. Fundamentalist Muslims call the USA Big Satan and Israel Little Satan. That’s what the anti-Semitic references were for. This made me support King more.

  • Zandandido

    I’m still wondering about the pig’s foot though.

  • Latin2

    But, but Liberal Nationman says that only Liberal’s offices are attacked…

  • X-3

    Another example of the so-called “reasonable” people who call themselves liberals, socialists, marxists, communists, fascists, “progressives,” and union workers.

  • X-3

    Back in the 1800s, the English smeared lard onto the tracks of their railways in the Middle East, which kept the Muslims from ripping them up or sabotaging them. Given that pigs feet are significantly less costly than Cruise missiles, perhaps the best strategy would be to shower areas holding US interests with pigs feet to keep the jihadist lunatics from planting IEDs, etc. If we wanted the truth out of one we’ve captured, we could threaten to give him/her a pork gravy enema.

  • Zandandido

    X-3 said:
    Back in the 1800s, the English smeared lard onto the tracks of their railways in the Middle East, which kept the Muslims from ripping them up or sabotaging them. Given that pigs feet are significantly less costly than Cruise missiles, perhaps the best strategy would be to shower areas holding US interests with pigs feet to keep the jihadist lunatics from planting IEDs, etc. If we wanted the truth out of one we’ve captured, we could threaten to give him/her a pork gravy enema.

    I would love to see if that would really work (the smearing lard and pig products on USA buildings, installations, etc). If it did work, that’s a good way of spending a lot less money.

  • Color Me Badd

    I bet it was Gordon Bloyer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    X-3 said:
    Back in the 1800s, the English smeared lard onto the tracks of their railways in the Middle East, which kept the Muslims from ripping them up or sabotaging them.

    Nice fairy tale. Who told it and WHY did you believe it?
    In 1857, there was a thing in India called the Sepoy Rebellion. The rebellion was among the native troops. The British Army in their wisdom issued paper cartridges that were greased to waterproof them. The grease was made of pork fat (forbidden to Muslims) and beef fat (forbidden to Hindus). So much for their knowledge of the taboos of the Eastern religions.

  • EricBoisen

    A Godfather spin-off?

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Color Me Badd said:
    I bet it was Gordon Bloyer.

    The foot was sent by someone apparently angered by House hearings investigating the possible radicalization of Muslim-Americans that King, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, held in March. The person who sent the package, who identified herself as a woman, included a message that mentioned the hearings.

    “There’s blood, there’s the severed foot. The message refers to Mohammed, and it says all babies in America would be named Mohammed,” the source said. “It also says, ‘Kiss my black Muslim ass.’”

    I AGREE WITH YOU , GORDON SENT THE PIGGY PAW AND THE NOTE

  • im_lovin_it

    Maybe a drunken Joe Randall sent it to him with love. Just forgot the pickling part……

  • skyfet

    PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian said:
    Well, I doubt it was a Muslim since they’re not supposed to touch pork. Then again, they’re not supposed to fly planes into buildings, but hey, I guess when you’re waging Jihad everything goes.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

    An example of a useful idiot, so you conveniently accepts that it was done by a Muslim. You either despise them or you are just a moron that accepts what has been fed to him. I guess you haven’t heard of the Reichstag fire, or the planting of false flag in the US Army field manual.
    King is under fire in New York for the sudden anti Public worker stand that the GOP are currently taking. You don’t think it’s convenient to get a pig leg through the mail from a supposedly Muslim that hates his guts. These Public workers (Fire department, Police etc.) were the same one that stood with Bush after 9/11, they are now stunned that they are the bad guys, King is not in a good situation, he’d rather bash the Muslims than get his house in order. Read the Politico article, get informed before make silly comments.

  • Barack Must Go

    It looks like Hillary IS really serious about running against her boss.

  • Barack Must Go

    skyfet said:
    An example of a useful idiot, so you conveniently accepts that it was done by a Muslim. You either despise them or you are just a moron that accepts what has been fed to him. I guess you haven’t heard of the Reichstag fire, or the planting of false flag in the US Army field manual.
    King is under fire in New York for the sudden anti Public worker stand that the GOP are currently taking. You don’t think it’s convenient to get a pig leg through the mail from a supposedly Muslim that hates his guts. These Public workers (Fire department, Police etc.) were the same one that stood with Bush after 9/11, they are now stunned that they are the bad guys, King is not in a good situation, he’d rather bash the Muslims than get his house in order. Read the Politico article, get informed before make silly comments.

    Besides isn’t it against allah for a muslim to even touch a pig’s foot unless that pig is his wife?

  • skyfet

    Barack Must Go said:
    Besides isn’t it against allah for a muslim to even touch a pig’s foot unless that pig is his wife?

    I don’t know, but how does your wife feels when you refer to her as a pig. Because to me if you see someone else’s wife as a pig, you definitely see your wife as one. I wonder how you’d explain that to the Wife.

  • Barack Must Go

    skyfet said:
    I don’t know, but how does your wife feels when you refer to her as a pig. Because to me if you see someone else’s wife as a pig, you definitely see your wife as one. I wonder how you’d explain that to the Wife.

    D -, but at least you’ve tried.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Well, let’s see if we can determine who sent this.
    The anti-Semitic reference narrows it down to a Democrat (“reform”, if the Dem was born Jewsih), and the use of a pig’s foot…

    Is it Rosie O’Donnell?

  • skyfet

    Barack Must Go said:
    D -, but at least you’ve tried.

    Send my regards.

  • Dave Richards

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Well, let’s see if we can determine who sent this.The anti-Semitic reference narrows it down to a Democrat (“reform”, if the Dem was born Jewsih), and the use of a pig’s foot… Is it Rosie O’Donnell?

    A Muslim union goon?

  • timcajun

    X-3 says:
    Another example of the so-called “reasonable” people who call themselves liberals, socialists, marxists, communists, fascists, “progressives,” and union workers.
    …………………………………………………
    It was a plant for the tea party! Makes as much sense as this other hate spin vomit!

  • Quite the Pundint

    Just a pigfoot? Where’s the bottle of beer?

  • http://www.dandyid.org/id/okami okami

    whoever sent this was a total retard, and NOT a Muslim. Muslims can’t touch pork; it’s as blasphemous as torching a Koran. either it’s a joke by some weirdo (left, right, lone wolf) who knows nothing about Islam, or it’s a setup by some very ignorant people in King’s staff.

    personally, I think king already ate the rest of the pig. he’ll probably finish now with the leg.

  • captaingrumpy

    The package would NOT have gotten to his office before it was Xrayed,searched and opened. The Dems knew this so I think it was a gift from Reid by way of the “Mob” in Nevada gaming commission.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Islamist Sent Letter Attached to Bloody Pig Foot to Peter King, “Kiss My Black Muslim Ass, White Bitches Will Soon Be Naming Their Sons Mohammed”

    Pardon my language.

  • X-3

    timcajun said:
    It was a plant for the tea party! Makes as much sense as this other hate spin vomit!

    You LIIE!

  • X-3

    captaingrumpy said:
    The package would NOT have gotten to his office before it was Xrayed,searched and opened. The Dems knew this so I think it was a gift from Reid by way of the “Mob” in Nevada gaming commission.

    Had to have been an inside job Grumpy.

  • X-3

    Joseph Glackin said:
    In 1857, there was a thing in India called the Sepoy Rebellion.

    Different event. The event I speak of occurred in Turkey–I read the account some 40 years ago and don’t remember all the details. I had forgotten the Sepoy Rebellion–thanks for reminding me of that one.

  • joe7

    I’m sure a Big Mac would have been more appreciated, but pigs feet are nice once in a while.

  • X-3

    Zandandido said:
    I would love to see if that would really work (the smearing lard and pig products on USA buildings, installations, etc). If it did work, that’s a good way of spending a lot less money.

    Trouble is, it would offend as many Jews as it would Muslims. Political correctness–sheesh–the end of sanity.

  • timcajun

    X-3 says:

    You LIIE!
    ……………………………..
    Yeah, like a “tea hate” would know either way! Did Beck tell you?

  • X-3

    timcajun said:
    X-3 says: You LIIE!……………………………..Yeah, like a “tea hate” would know either way! Did Beck tell you?

    Unlike liberal morons such as yourself, I do not need anyone to think for me. Your lame brained implication that the Tea Party (of which I am not a member) is founded on hate proves my point; having objectively considered what the Tea Party is really all about (and not just echoing what others say about it as you so obviously do), I find the Tea Party is all about restoring the values that made this country the greatest nation to ever exist on planet Earth. All I have seen from the communists, socialists, marxists, fascists and the so-called “progressive” liberals–of which you are aligned with–proves to me that hate is what YOU are all about–hate and resentment especially for those who are willing to get off their asses and make their own way instead of waiting for a government to come along and make their way for them. People like you are destined to always be losers–even if you win at destroying this country you will have nothing left to sustain you and you will be left alone to starve to death while freezing in the dark. People like you are nothing more than despicable parasites, living on the greatness of others. You are gutless, hate-filled cowards. People like you make me want to puke; your mother would have done society a service had she pinched your head off when you were born.

  • timcajun

    X-3 says:
    Communists, Marxist, Fascists, losers, destroying country, starving, freezing, despicable parasites, gutless, hate filled cowards, puke, mother and abortion…………………………….. Lets get this right! All this vomit hate from “you ” is “ok”, but liberals are the ones who hate, not you!!!!!! This is a fine christian example, I’m glad your morals shined through! Thanks for proving my point! Keep up your high moral standards!

  • X-3

    timcajun said:
    All this vomit hate from “you ” is “ok”, but liberals are the ones who hate, not you!!!!!!

    Nice try but FAIL!!!

    So, what are you tim? Are you a Commie? Marxist? Socialist? one of the so-called “progressives?”

    You’ve already made it obvious that you’re not pro-capitalism, that you’re not a conservative. The only thing that’s shined through is your treason.

  • More Liberty5

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/14/georgia-woman-claims-responsibility-pigs-foot-sent-rep-king/?test=latestnews

    Looks like it was a Muslim woman.

    A Georgia woman reportedly has claimed responsibility for the severed pig’s foot that was sent to Rep. Peter King, apparently in protest over the hearing he held on radical Islam.
    Jacquelyn Barnette, who described herself as Muslim, told the New York Post she sent King the package, which also contained an anti-Semitic note, this month.
    The U.S. Postal Service intercepted the package before it ever reached King’s office.
    “I thought the letters explain themselves,” Barnette told the Post.
    Asked about her comments, King told Fox News she “seems to be a disturbed person.”
    “I’ll let the police decide how to deal with her. I don’t want to do anything to encourage her or others like her,” he said.
    In March, King, R-N.Y., held high-profile congressional hearings on Islamic radicalization in the U.S., saying he aimed to confront the threat of homegrown extremism.
    Though the note contained anti-Semitic messages, King is not Jewish. The note also reportedly told King to “kiss my black, Muslim-American a–.

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