Gas Line Cut at Home of Congressman's Brother After Nigel Coleman, Black Tea Party Member Posts it Online

Gas line cut at the home of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother after Nigel Coleman, a black Tea Party member, puts his address on blog and Facebook page.

Nigel Coleman, chairman of the Danville Tea Party, posted the home address of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother, on a blog and a Facebook page, both maintained by members of a local Tea Party group. The problem is, the actions of Coleman, who is black, led to a wingnut cutting a residential propane feeder line at the home, placing the entire family in jeopardy. It is simply reprehensible that he had the nerve to disclose the home addresses of elected officials, knowing that rising tensions in this country. It was careless and he should be charged with a crime of abetting some wingnut. Since when do we retaliate against a lawmaker in such a vicious way for voting against the perceived will of a small group of people? Perriello voted in favor of the health-care reform bill.

This idiot told Tamron Hall on MSNBC that he didn't want any harm, he just put the address up so that someone could go to the home and speak with the lawmaker. Really? Couldn't they have gone to the congressman's office? His apology was weak and an insult to the congressman's family and American voters. If this moron hasn't realized that many Democratic lawmakers and their families are being threatened with bodily harm, he is dumber than I thought. The FBI should pay him a visit.

One post said, "This is Rep. Thomas Stuart Price Perriello's home address," and added, "I ain't holding back anymore!!" The other urged readers to "drop by" the home and "express their thanks" for the vote.  

According to MSNBC, the cut in the gas line, which runs from a propane tank to a gas grill on a screened-in porch, was discovered Tuesday, the day after the address was posted. The address was removed from Facebook and the blog when it was discovered the address was incorrect. 

The chairman of the Lynchburg, VA, Tea Party, Mark Lloyd, told NBC News, "I learned what happened after the fact. We made an official statement on our Web site," saying that that his group "did not request, sanction, or endorse" posting the address, which appeared on a different Web site. The reality is that the Tea Party movement has attracted the fringe elements of the Republican Party, people only too happy to spew racist vitriol and harm people who don't agree with their views. 

Nigel Coleman is a disgrace to any decent person out there. He had no right to put what he thought was the congressman's home address on the Internet. How would he like someone to do the same to him? It is deeply disturbing that, once again, we have another black person advocating violence against the Obama Administration.