Summary: A GOP ( Grand Old Party aka Republican Party) office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed over the weekend, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials. Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday called the fire an "assault on our democracy." McCrory said the incident won't get in the way of fair elections. Hillsborough police said they are still processing evidence from the scene and they are receiving assistance from the FBI, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. A bottle of flammable liquid was thrown through the Orange County Republican headquarters, police said. "The flammable substance appears to have ignited inside the building, burned some furniture and damaged the building's interior before going out. The substance was housed in a bottle thrown through one of the building's front windows," according to a statement by the town of Hillsborough. A 911 call was made by the owner of a business nearby, the town said. "The office itself is a total loss," Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the state Republican Party, told The Charlotte Observer. "The only thing important to us is that nobody was killed, and they very well could have been." Also both Presidential candidates commented on this terrible incident stating how unacceptable it was. Woodhouse told CNN's John Berman and Kate Bolduan that roughly 80 county GOP offices were told to close early Sunday, and a temporary mobile office was erected in Orange County, near the site of the firebombing.
A group of Democrats started a GoFundMe fundraising page to help with rebuilding the office. The campaign has accumulated more than $13,000.
"We've had a lot of people reach out. We've had a lot of people who aren't political who are at the office volunteering," Woodhouse said. "We have heard from some Democrat groups. I agree with both Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump that these were animals who did this, no matter who they represent, and it's disgusting and unacceptable.
Analysts/Synthesis: This is extremely horrible for someone or people to be so disrespectful and horrific because someone has a different political stance than them. As a people living in America we have the right to have any opinion/beliefs we want (1ST AMENDMENT), which includes political beliefs. This situation can be synthesized to "The Night of Broken Glass" or Kristallnacht when angry Nazi's looted, trashed, burned, and did much worse to Jewish business, homes, and people.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/politics/north-carolina-gop-office-vandalized/index.html
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