Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

(The following appeared on the Mother Jones website.)

On Saturday night, when Mother Jones staffers tweeted a report that riot police might soon sweep demonstrators out of the Wisconsin capitol building something that didn't end up happening one Twitter user sent out a chilling public response: "Use live ammunition."

It turns out the individual who posted the threat was Jeff Cox, a deputy attorney general with the state of Indiana. He has since been fired.

The full story appears at motherjones.com.

Thursday, February 24, 2011