When a suspicious package filled with white powder showed up at his house in Kentucky on Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he knew exactly who was to blame for inspiring the threat: pop singer Richard Marx.
Paul pointed to a Sunday tweet in which the singer behind hits like “Don’t Mean Nothing” and “Endless Summer Nights” said he would buy drinks for Paul’s neighbor, who broke several of the senator’s ribs in a 2017 attack. The intent, Paul argued, was to incite another violent attack against him.
“As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family,” Paul said in a statement shared with Politico, which broke the news of the suspicious package. “Just this weekend Richard Marx called for violence against me and now we receive this powder filled letter.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/25/rand-paul-richard-marx-package/
I agree with Rand that Mr. Marx (great name eh?) should not be making comments like that. Crazy people hear them and act on them.
Words do matter.
When a president offers to pay the legal bills of anyone who roughs up a reporter or someone he doesn't like, those words matter.
When a president gives a speech to a group of police officers and tells them its ok to be rough with suspects, those words matter.
And when a president incites a mob and offers to march on the Capitol with them to take back our country, those words matter too.