Palin inspired symbols of hate turn up in Canada.

From the Star:

Disturbing graffiti has turned up on Liberal campaign posters in an Ottawa-area riding, stirring up parallels to the anti-politician rhetoric that became an issue in the U.S. earlier this year.

More than 100 signs for Ryan Keon, the Liberal candidate in Nepean-Carleton, were spray-painted Friday night with rifle-target symbols over Keon’s face, as well as “graphic and explicit” messages, according to the campaign team.

In Tucson in January, a gunman trying to kill Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords opened fire in a supermarket — a rampage that left six dead, 13 injured and Giffords critically injured with a gunshot wound to the head.

In the aftermath, some drew a direct connection between the attack and the anti-politician rhetoric that was being whipped up by Sarah Palin, former Republican vice-presidential candidate and now a star of the Tea Party movement. Shortly before the Tucson attack, Palin had included Gifford’s face in an ad that drew rifle crosshairs on politicians’ faces, with the slogan: “Don’t retreat, reload.”

The vandals who spray-painted the target signs on Keon’s face this past weekend also scrawled epithets denouncing Liberals and “tree huggers.”

This is the REAL legacy of Sarah Palin.  This is what she has helped to usher onto the political stage in America, that has now bled over into the lives of our Canadian neighbors.

She may be a joke, but she is also becoming a symbol of hate and partisanship in the world.

Whether it be the anti-Muslim sentiment in this country, the hatred directed  toward our President, or the vilification of progressive politicians , all of these extreme positions are fairly covered with Palin fingerprints.  She may not have been the originator but, just like the "Drill Baby, Drill," "Death Panels," and the "Obama pals around with terrorists" memes, she is the one to push divisive talking points until they spread like a plague, first throughout our country, and then throughout the world.

If this hateful creature is not convinced to sit down and shut up soon, I see day when anarchists will drop the use of Hitler as a symbol of their anti-societal stance, and instead embrace the likeness of Sarah Louise Palin, as the mother of American domestic terrorism.  You just mark my words.

We have successfully managed to stop the political candidate, but how do we stop the symbol? (And before anybody suggests it, no, violence is not the answer!)