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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — While people here are worried about the growing violence on the Mexican border — a Cochise County rancher was apparently killed by illegal aliens Saturday — the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson has other worries:
For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.
That’s from a column headlined, “The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence.” Of course, the kooks in Michigan are under arrest and charged with federal crimes, while whoever killed Arizona rancher Robert Krentz is still at large. But being a liberal means never having to acknowledge risks of violence except from the “far right.”
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Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 2:10PM
I can't remember the last time a liberal killed 168 Americans with a car bomb.
I think you might also been fair enough to acknowlege Robinson's admission that people on the far left HAVE engaged in violence -- but just that in the last two decades right wing violence has been worse. If you're more interested in facts than propoganda, you have to admit Robinson was accurate.
Tim| 3.30.10 @ 3:04PM
Remind us, how many died at Waco because BATF wanted to impress Bill CLinton?
JohnD| 3.30.10 @ 3:34PM
Didn't Obama's buddy Bill Ayres actually kill a cop with a bomb, and not only get away with it but still says he doesn't regret it? nor does Ayres regret the other bombs he detonated, like the one at the Pentagon?
Eric Cartman| 3.30.10 @ 4:09PM
And didn't Al Sharpton incite a crowd to violence in NYC and a shopkeeper was killed? And another time didn't he incited a crowd to pull a Jewish guy from his car and beat him to death? Think he did,
Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 4:11PM
John D -
No. He did not kill a cop. Ayers is certainly responsible for some violence, but he did not take part in any operation that led to the death of a cop.
And to say Obama is Ayers' "friend" is to repeat a falsehood that is blabbed endlessly by irresponsible right wing talk show hosts. It has no factual basis.
Eric Cartman| 3.30.10 @ 5:16PM
Yeah, John, Ayers and his pals are "responsible for some violence, but he did not take part in any operation that led to the death of a cop. "
"16 February 1970 – Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen."
http://sayanythingblog.com/ent.....iam_ayers/
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:19PM
Screeder--caught in yet another lie.
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 5:24PM
And defending a scumbug yet again.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:30PM
Birds of a feather flock together.
Eric Cartman| 3.30.10 @ 5:42PM
Also, when the brownstone in NY blew up and killed Ayers 3 friends (including his girl friend), they were planning to detonate it at Ft. Dix to kill soldiers. The blast also damaged Jerry Orbach's house. His wife helped two girls who escaped the blast. They disappeared when the wife went to get some bandages - I think one was Ayers present wife. have to research that.
Anyway, Obama and Ayers know each other well - in other words, are pals. BO is a bald face liar.
Eric Cartman| 3.30.10 @ 5:47PM
PS: The only reason Ayers wasn't there was that he was back in Chicago helping with another bomb factory. He was on his way back to NY - the little Ahole. Someone really should take him out now. I wouldn't shed any tears.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:50PM
That witch, Bernardine Dohrn; also involved in the violent and murderous Weather-Underground, on the lam from the FBI for years, married to the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and another commie friend of Barack Obama.
Zack| 3.31.10 @ 10:27PM
The link is useless. It leaves out the pertinent information such as the fact that Ayers wasn't even there! And of course the canard about Obama and Ayers being friends is the same old lie retold. What does it say about your point of view that it can't be expressed without continued lying?
Nobama| 4.1.10 @ 12:03AM
Ayers helped build the bombs that killed innocent American citizens, moron--it's easy to find that out, just google it. His wife is a murdering bitch also--that's why she ran away and the FBI hunted her down for years.
The only one lying is you--liberals always lie.
JohnD| 3.30.10 @ 8:13PM
I think you are mistaken, LR; Ayres made a bomb that killed San Francisco Police Officer Brian McConnell on February 16 1970. He also bombed the the NYC Police Department, the Capitol, and The Pentagon. He admits so doing in his book "Fugitve Days." (He does not admit to killing the Cop, but others have fingered him as the bomb maker).
Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 4:07PM
While I think the government's handling of Waco was far from perfect, I'm not exactly sure it deserves the blame for what happened there. It's a little like blaming the police for losing control of a shoot out during a bank robbery.
There were illegal activities under way in that compound. I wish very much that the people involved could have been rounded up and incarcerated without all the violence and killing, but it IS those people themselves who bear final responsibility.
Julie Anne Burton| 3.30.10 @ 4:59PM
Was any resident of the Waco compound convicted of wrongdoing? We're *told* there were illegal activities, but I don't recall ever being shown any proof, even to cover up BATFs errors of judgment.
As for the government not having full responsibility for the consequences of Waco, who is it exactly you think started the shooting and the fire?
Don't think that I'm a fan of that cult; far from it. But to my knowledge, no one was convicted. I don't think anyone was even indicted. It was completely and totally frakked up by the government, and I doubt we'll ever know the truth.
Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 5:05PM
Julie --
Yes, some were convicted. Some were acquitted. Much of the evidence -- including the young girls that were most likely being molested -- did not survive the fire.
Most of the convictions derived from the four federal agents who were murdered by the cultists in the compound.
But there were also charges of possessing illegal weapons -- like hand grenade launchers.
Again, I don't want to push this too far. The government could definitely have handled this better, and the juries who decided the cases later clearly wanted to offer the government a negative sanction, refusing to convict survivers on many of the most serious charges.
But the RESPONSIBILITY must be appropriately placed. The ATF did not go barging into the home of a law abiding, innocent family.
They tried to handle an extremely complicated and dangerous situation in which some very erratic, very unstable people were holed up with an enormous arsenal of weapons along with women and children they were forced to regard as hostages.
Still -- I don't see how this can be sited as an example of liberal "extremist" violence. It was about federal agents -- four of whom lost their lives -- attempting to enforce the law, albeit clumsily.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:16PM
It wasn't about federal agents, clown; it was about an out of control democrat President (Clinton) and AG
(Janet Reno). Though, I do believe Reno was just a fall guy for Clinton's abuse of power.
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 5:23PM
Liberal Liar Reader's motto: "I cannot tell the truth."
It disgusts me that this lying shrill continually spews his lying filth here.
As a matter of fact, David Koresh used to go into town and walk around freely. They COULD have captured the man there.
Isn't it AMAZING how in depth and in perfect detail this shill lies, point by point, for the Left?
Despicable.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:44PM
Yeah, the FBI and ATF were forced to view the babies, young children and women as hostages-- that's why they laid a 51 day siege to the compound by conducting round-the-clock operations including psyops (psychological warfare) on the occupants.
On the last day the federal agents released CS tear-gas into the building resulting in an inferno that killed 76 Branch Davidians, 21 of them young children.
Thanks for that, FBI & ATF!
Crusader| 3.30.10 @ 5:49PM
So if young girls are being molested, burn down their house and kill them?
Is this an example of the cure being worse than the disease?
Oh, and just WHICH Branch Dividian was convicted of WHAT exactly?????
Eric Cartman| 3.30.10 @ 6:02PM
The local sheriff told the FBI and ATF that he would call Koresh and have him come to the station - like he had before. He had a pretty good relationship with Koresh. The agents told hi no, they would handle it their way. Weren't the agents were under Janet "Big Dyke" Reno - isn't she a liberal? Just sayin'.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 6:06PM
Yes, and Reno was under pervert-in chief Clinton.
A fish rots from its head.
Katherine Lambert| 3.31.10 @ 8:42AM
Liberal Reader is a website TROLL. Probably paid by George Soros or Tides Foundation to do exactly what he is doing. He gets paid by how many Conservatives he manages to stir up. He probably has about 20 other websites that he comments on and then prints out his "results". One way or another Soros, Tides or the Unions get our tax dollars to him to pay him.
Best thing is to completely ignore his postings and then he will find this site is not "rich" for him and go away. Just type Liberal Trolls in google and read all about it.
You know conservatives are just nice folks. Paying their taxes, minding their own business and being happy. Liberals are miserable, unhappy and don't want to mind their own business because they hate America and themselves. They are all about bleeding this country dry of money and happiness because Misery loves company. They have been at this Saul Alinsky game for a long, long time and we are amateurs. Our great question as conservatives is do we become like them to defeat them or just carry our Judeo Christian faith, flag, bibles and guns with a louder song and hope for the best. History has lessons if we learn them.
SoCon| 3.31.10 @ 8:19PM
Katherine, we're aware LR's a troll most likely funded by Soros; but I believe it's important to set the record straight.
Lies said often enough become the truth; fascists like LR and his ilk count on it. We can't afford to be 'amateurs' any longer, there's too much at stake.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 5:08PM
Just what were those, 'illegal activities' that led to the incineration of nearly 100 Americans that day in Waco, dear Screeder? Any idea why those folks were slaughtered by the FBI and ATF?
But, of course, those scores of babies and young children among the Branch Davidian general population bear the final responsibility for their own hideous demise: Herr Screeder has proclaimed it, therefore, it must be true.
Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 5:37PM
No. The adults who were having sex with children and hoarding illegal weapons -- and refusing to obey court orders, and firing on federal officers -- were responsible for the deaths of those children.
You and Timothy McVeigh can defend Koresh all you want. The truth is the truth.
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 5:47PM
Liberal Reader defends lies and liars.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 6:00PM
Liar. Where is your proof that adults were having sex with children? That was supposition on the part of the federal government as a pretext to attack the Branch Davidians. Nothing more.
Clinton okayed excessive force (FBI & ATF) which caused the Waco massacre, and then, like the scurvy dog he is, hid behind Janet Reno to cover it up.
McVeigh was a Nazi like you.
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 6:24PM
Good point, lest anyone reading may be deceived: Liberal Reader and other lying Leftists always try to assign everyone from Hitler to McVeigh as "Right Wingers." In truth, Nazi's and Communists are Leftists. They get to claim that ilk. And Obama hails from that side of the fence as well. So does Liberal Reader, the defender of all things Fascist.
SoCon| 3.30.10 @ 6:48PM
Shine a light on cockroaches like LibReader and they always skitter away.
Liberals have an aversion to the truth.
Mick Lee| 3.31.10 @ 7:45AM
1.) Yes, Koresh and Co. should have surrendered. The fight was completely unnecessary on his part. They also committed a grievous sin: firing on another American who had been directed to carry out the law. (Even if the accusation was bogus, I and other Conservatives would never fire on an American soldier or peace officer. Just take it up with the judge.)
However, there were children in that building. Even if they were the children of those inside, they were completely innocent. Children who have no choice are considered the same as hostages. Force should have been the last resort. It doesn't matter that those on the field were "getting tired" and Reno grew impatient. Personally, I would have given the surviving adults from the compound a fair trial and promptly hanged them.
2.) One of the things that infuriates Conservatives is the whole "right-left" continuum. On the left side, we have liberals and various socialists. On the right side is everyone else--even though they have nothing in common with each other--other than they are not liberal-socialists. What in the hell do Timothy McVeigh and those kooks in the Michigan woods have in common with William F. Buckley, Bill Kristal or even damn Sean Hannity for that matter? Don't tell me they are all against Obama. For one thing, may the sainted Mr. Buckley rest in peace. For another, I know a few liberals who aren't crazy the President either.
astonerii | 3.30.10 @ 4:14PM
That would be because liberals kill in other nefarious ways. It is also because those on the right are far superior when it comes to dedication and putting the effort into knowing what they are doing.
Back to the left and the 'violence' it perpetuates. The left kills people in the way of spies. They never want to be found out to have actually killed people, so they do it through subterfuge and are far better at killing large numbers than even the dedicated right wing nut jobs are. They do so by taking away the ability of people to live, such as banning DDT so that millions upon millions of Africans, Central and South Americans, Pacific Islanders and various other groups are killed by Malaria and other tropical diseases carried by insects. By Banning CFCs that keep food from spoiling, and again, in the poor nations of the world taking away the ability of the people to survive. The shutting down of industry in poor countries, through the guise of wanting to help them save themselves. The war against nuclear power generation. The war against genetically modified foods to prevent them from growing more nutritional food staples for themselves. The war against fossil fuels that is waging right now, in order to starve the world of the energy it needs to expand opportunity to billions of poor around the world. This list goes on and on, and amounts to tens if not hundreds of millions of deaths, and this does not include the direct left killers such as Hugo Chavez, Stalin, Fidel Castro, and others who account for an additional hundred million, if not more, deaths. Then we can get down to the small time numbers of left killers like PETA and other Environmental groups that protest through violence and vandalism. William Ayers and Bernadine (name?), the Black Panthers. The left by far surpasses any right wing killing spree, in fact the right wing pretty much would take millions of years at the rate they kill to catch up to the already accomplished left wing death total.
So, when you want to have a conversation about the killing ability of various groups, I am perfectly happy to have that conversation, and I can assure you that you will not be walking away with any battles won by sheer volume of deaths caused by right wing nuts compared to your side of the aisle, lest I say more, It was a Democrat President that dropped two atomic bombs on civilian cities.
Bill,from WV| 3.30.10 @ 8:03PM
Fact: Bill Ayers killed personnel at the Pentagon and was only filled with remorse that "he did not kill more "as he stated, little as 2 years ago in an interview.
Timothy McVeigh had no more support from the right than Ayers did from the left.
My problem is that this type of behavior should and usually is abhorred by both right and left. It is the extremists of both who dictate the conversation!
MRD
Liam| 3.31.10 @ 2:42AM
Who said McVeigh came from the right? I'm not convinced; I think he was a lone wolf.
Ayers had a lot of support from the left; violence was a way of life for many leftists during the chaotic anti-war days of the 1960s. Many on the left are violent today.
No way can you compare the multiple violent atacks fomented by the left during the '60s to the one attack by that monster, McVeigh.
Zack | 3.31.10 @ 10:30PM
I'm new here, and it looks like I replied to the wrong post, I meant to reply to the one above yours.
zack| 3.31.10 @ 10:22PM
Bill Ayers killed no one. and the quote you give and attribute to Ayers is fake too. T. McVeigh was of course a right winger and Hilter fan. Up thread someone denys that Hilter was a right winger. That's laughable. He is a hero to the militia types, at least to the right racist ones, they celebrate his birthday and his white supremacy beliefs. You people need to at least learn the basics of ideology if you're going to try to make reasonable arguments.
Nobama| 4.1.10 @ 12:10AM
Ayers was a domestic terrorist, one of the leaders of the violent Weather Underground and helped make the bombs that killed innocent Americans. He is a killer and only got off because his father was a powerful douchebag in Chicago. His wife was on the run from the FBI for years--you don't know what you're talking about.
Nazi means National Socialist Party, moron--it's leftist like your hero Obama.
Prove McVeigh was a right-winger, offer proof that's he's a hero to Conservatives before you shoot off your big fat mouth. Turd.
Nobama| 4.1.10 @ 12:13AM
You're lying about the quote, too--Ayers did in fact say it. It's easy to google it--do so.
Wil| 3.30.10 @ 2:31PM
I think the conversation is about the hundreds of millions of innocent human beings murdered and today under oppression and physical threat world wide by totalitarian and authoritarian central planning governments of all stripes. Governments that use misdirection, hysterical propaganda, and finally violence to disuade individualism and dissent. None of these mass murdering regimes are modeled after the pre-Obungle decentralized, free market individualism, that was the USA a few months ago. Many of them were founded as benign beneficent collectivist forms of Socialism and quickly descended into routine slaughter. Please to attempt to transfigure the knotsies (NSDAP) into "rite vingers" The NSDAP was from the outset, modeled on Benito Mussolini's Socialist Corporate State.
TomSwift| 3.30.10 @ 2:53PM
If I remember correctly, liberals commit ~90% of violence overall. However, most of these are motivated by greed (drugs, money, etc) , which people can understand easily.
On the other hand, the "far right" rarely commits "crimes of greed" but is more likely to commit "crimes of passion" (flying planes into buildings, car bombs, school shootings). The public has a much harder time understanding this, which is why the crimes on our side of the isle make the news.
Jeff Perren | 3.30.10 @ 3:17PM
Leftist protesters, and their union fellow-travelers, regularly engage in small scale violence at protests. The examples are numerous and well known.
But if you want to see large-scale left-wing force at work one only has to look to the Federal government, where it has been going on for decades under the cover of law.
Why is this form of coercion socially acceptable, especially when it affects many more? Why, because of the Progressive view that individual rights are an outdated concept and anything done 'democratically' is okay.
martin j smith| 3.30.10 @ 3:21PM
Left socialists in the USA covered for all of J Stalin"s crimes such as the NYT for example. They under reported the actions of the Nazi regime during the holocaust and the so called anti-war left forced US troops out of SE ASIA allowing for a despotic Cambodian regime to slaughter lots of people.
so I beg your pardon but apologizing for America wil only lead to more large scale slaughter.
Let me add this too RINOS such as Bush I and II.
Clinton, and J Carter the later two are not RINOS) have all contributed in varying degrees to slaughter of civilians by refusing to aggresively forced action in situations such as Darfor,Zimbabwe and other places.
martin j smith| 3.30.10 @ 3:28PM
LR of course conveniently forgets to disucss groupos such as the Weather Underground,Black panthers,Faln and in more recent vintage the thug ( I mean use of physical violence ) or threats of during the Bush years and even now under Obama. Isn't he the guy that during the campaign told his supporters to confront opponents ? Boy if this is not an invitation the violence there never was one. And, how about this: Incitement of violence by politicians via de-humanizing your oponents in the current health Care debate. ( so called ). No, once again LR shows in his/her/it ? words what s/he or it really is and will never deviate. Reading off the Saul Alinsky play book. That is it.
bob s| 3.30.10 @ 3:50PM
Regarding LR: "It" is the most likely to be correct.
Pete| 3.30.10 @ 3:34PM
Not to mention, I would much more readily walk at night through a small town full of "rabid, hate filled" Republicans than a similar inner city population of unilaterally Democratic voters.
Interested Conservative| 3.30.10 @ 6:16PM
LR - a few questions.
Do you really consider McVeigh (or Nichols for that matter) "right wing"? Ex-military, yes; troubled, for sure; mentally deranged, absolutely; but "right wing"? Based on what? His advocacy for lower taxes, individual responsibility, free enterprise?
Seriously, he's arguably as "left-wing" as he was "right-wing". Really, he's neither - more like a nut reacting to another nut.
Based on early reports, this new found group is similar. There doesn't seem to be much politics involved, and to the extent they're religiously motivated, even that seems pretty far out of most traditions. Likely stupid, ignorant and racist, a bad trifecta, but politically so far around the bend you cannot tell which wing they are closest to.
Now, none of that will prevent Eugene Robinson and company from calling them whatever he wants - unhappy Rotarians, Swiss nationalists, zealous cineastes, or "right-wingers". Just doesn't make it so.
Liberal Reader| 3.30.10 @ 8:17PM
Interested --
These are difficult questions. Yes, I do think they were right wing.
But that doesn't mean everyone who can reasonably called "right wing" is like them.
The political spectrum is extremely broad, in other words.
They were motivated by a hysterical and unmanly fear of all government power. They were obsessed with demented conspiracy theories not unlike those propagated by the likes of Michelle Bachman and Glenn Beck.
Now, Beck and Bachman are foolish and silly, in my book, but I wouldn't put them in the class of terrorist, which is what McVeigh and Nichols were.
And there have been leftist terrorists in this country. The kook who shot JFK, and the kook who shot RFK, for example. And then there were the various left wing groups associated with the anti-war movement. But that was a long time ago.
Interested Conservative| 3.30.10 @ 8:29PM
I dunno - my point being that it's not a political spectrum, it's a circle, and when you pass a certain point you end up coming around the other side. What Eric Hoffer called "true believers".
Bill Ayres was clearly a "left-wing" terrorist - you gotta take people at their word, and he pretty much claimed and defined it. The Black Panthers, not so much - more violence for violence sake and generalized political terror.
The "left" claimed the prize for the last century (communism and most aspects of "national" socialism). Going back a millenium I suppose you get "right" terror more often, reactionary regimes were deadlier than the revolutions until France kicked off festivities in 1789.
Still, I don't see right wing threats GENERALLY as more worrisome these days - if nothing else look at Latin America - the leftists seem to be looking for much more trouble there. I don't know what to call China these days, it doesn't seem leftist anymore, but it's hard to label communism as a rightist movement.
This current show just seems too made for MSM punditry, too much of a diversion from health care/student loans/immigration/Israel. Where's the gravitas when you need it?
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 9:04PM
Despicable liar. Demented conspiracy theories like Beck and Bachman?
These are decent human beings unlike yourself you lying snake.
Oh how kind of the Obamamaton to "not put them in the class of terrorist."
You have absolutely no credibility.
Do not be deceived by this liar whose sole purpose is to discredit good conservatives and tote his bosses line in the war against us.
Mick Lee| 3.31.10 @ 9:55AM
1.) Most actors in Hollywood are self-professed liberals and socialists.
2.) Hollywood has released hundreds of "bombs" on the American public since 2000.
3.) Before 2000, Hollywood had released thousands of "bombs" since 1900.
4.) Liberals have a lot to answer for.
P.S. Citing Conservatives Charlton Heston and Jon Voight does not balance out the Conserv vs. Lib ratio in Tinseltown nor absolve Hollywood Liberals of their sins.
EC Everett| 3.30.10 @ 9:26PM
Let us grant that McVeigh was angry over the Ruby Ridge incident, and the execution of a fellow-traveling extremist in Arkansas the same day as the bombing (never reported, and I know because I lived in OKC at the time of the blast and followed every detail locally and nationally, and only through contacts in law enforecement did that info come to light). It is impossible to nail down the political beliefs of the FBI shooters at Ruby Ridge, or the political views of those National Guard helicopter occupants shooting innocent women and children as they fled the flames at Waco under the orders of Janet Reno (as aired on C-span hearings where ATF and Justice department officials were ordered to attend and give their account). But let's assume that McVeigh and Nichols were right-wing Christian/racist extremists, despite their ties to Islamic terrorists like Ramzi Yousef, who supplied the tactical knowledge to make work a bomb-design they had previously failed at repeatedly).
Let us look at the "rhetoric of hate" scenario and the claims that it is at near record levels of vitriolic incitement. One may be able to make that argument, IF (note the big "if") one ignores the trumped up non-evidence of "N" word usage, or the Herculean NFL arm of whomever through a brick through a 30-story window in DC; but first, let us return to the last 8 years of vitriol leveled against Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
If a Republican candidate for the Presidency had gone on Bill O'Reilly's program and quipped about going to DC and "killing two birds with one stone in the White House," we could say that was an unacceptable comment that reflects poorly on the GoP at the top of the bill. However, when John Kerry said that to Bill Maher, it was greeted with laughter and nary a peep from the Times or the Post.
If Andrew Breitbart produced a film entitled "Assassination of the President" and it won awards at film festivals for depicting the murder of Barack Obama, one could say that was a grotesque and hateful waste of celluloid. However, when CNN praised a similar film depicting the murder of George W. Bush, that did in fact win film-festival awards and wide approval from the left, again, nary a peep from the Times or the Post, or Huffpo, et al.
If GoP demonstrators had taken to the streets of Denver and tossed bricks through buses shuttling elderly folks to the convention venue, causing injuries and hopitalizations, or were tossing sandbags from overpasses at those same buses, it could rightly be labeled as an indication that abhorrent GoP rhetoric had gone off the deep end.
Yet, when these incidents actually occurred at the Minneapolis GoP convention in 2008, all I recall were the Gestapo tactics of the police in herding the protestors behind barricades being subjected to screed after screed from the looney left.
And let's not forget the propaganda film by Michael Moore which won an Oscar in progressive Hollywood. The "Bush is Hitler" posters present at every ANSWER Intl.-sponsored war protest (not to mention the innumerable signs calling for Bush to be shot, hanged or otherwise executed); nor the leftist violence and mayhem at nearly every WTO or G-20 conference for the last dozen or so years.
Let us forget about Bart Stupak being threatened by the administration (Obama told him his backing would shift to another more-friendly, pro-choice candidate in the next election) nor the death threats he received by supporters of PPACA2010. Ignore the threats and gunshots leveled against Eric Cantor, or the labeling and dehumanizing din of leftist aspersions and epithets being hurled at Tea party attendees by every left of center commentator from coast to coast.
And one of my favorites. Scott Baio receiving death threats from Obama supporters because he made a joke on his twitter account about Mrs. Obama's "homely" appearance.
So, obviously, this is the worst rhetoric in generations, and violence is more often than not the well-trod stomping grounds of those middle-aged-and-older (don't forget mostly white, you non-racist lefties) midwesterners and southerners who go to townhall meetings, Tea party protests and demand that their government respond to their stated desires as the electorate/employers (gasp...the sheer horror!!!).
I, for one, am thankful for the peaceful and sacharrine kumbayas of the tolerant, open-minded, non-judgemental, intellectually superior, ethically sublime, morally courageous, most reasonable, "moderate" left.
Where would we be without them.
EC Everett| 3.30.10 @ 9:43PM
I nearly forgot...if Mr. Robinson's premise is correct that is.... "For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from...the far right...." then I'd submit that the far right need to find better motivational speakers. They're not getting much bang for their "decades-now" buck, if you ask me.
But why bother with mere trivialities, or the truth, when, as Al Sharpton once said..."I don't care if she lied (speaking of Tawana Brawley)...we're building a movement here."
Ahhh, yes. Hope AND Change...
Margie| 3.30.10 @ 9:26PM
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Margie| 3.30.10 @ 9:30PM
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Anonymous| 3.30.10 @ 11:27PM
For left/libtards, tyranny is "social justice"... they get violent and it's "you can't make an omlette without breaking a few eggs," but right-wing extremists with guns lurk everywhere because Timothy McVay blew people up 15 years ago.
martin j smith| 3.31.10 @ 7:37AM
As for me, I would say the one person who could and may create a atmosphere for violence is BHO himself--with assists from his merry bad. ,
They are in power and in charge it is there responsibility to behave as n example to us all civily to their opponents. Instead they do just the opposite. So what do they really expect, their opponents to shut up? That is the general idea that most sane people see.
Its not that republicans, Conservatives et al have no responsibility--far from it. Yet the failure of Democrat Left Leadership to demonstrate an ability to cope withe the fact that more than a majority oppose them is brining out their true colors--and that is RED. As some one else said, it is remarkable that the American People are so tolerant of this BS>
TennesseeVolunteer| 3.31.10 @ 8:16AM
Liberal Reader, the blood of 50 Million dead babies is in the hands of the liberal Left.
We are all sinners and must make amends. This is Easter week and there will be much introspection, prayer and pleas for forgiveness from myself for my own sins.
I will also be praying for these 50 Million unborn babies.
Katherine Lambert| 3.31.10 @ 8:44AM
Liberal Reader is a website TROLL. Probably paid by George Soros or Tides Foundation to do exactly what he is doing. He gets paid by how many Conservatives he manages to stir up. He probably has about 20 other websites that he comments on and then prints out his "results". One way or another Soros, Tides or the Unions get our tax dollars to him to pay him.
Best thing is to completely ignore his postings and then he will find this site is not "rich" for him and go away. Just type Liberal Trolls in google and read all about it.
You know conservatives are just nice folks. Paying their taxes, minding their own business and being happy. Liberals are miserable, unhappy and don't want to mind their own business because they hate America and themselves. They are all about bleeding this country dry of money and happiness because Misery loves company. They have been at this Saul Alinsky game for a long, long time and we are amateurs. Our great question as conservatives is do we become like them to defeat them or just carry our Judeo Christian faith, flag, bibles and guns with a louder song and hope for the best. History has lessons if we learn them.
Derek Leaberry| 3.31.10 @ 10:23AM
Two miles from Capitol Hill, in deepest, darkest Anacostia, four people were killed and several others wounded in gang violence hours ago. In a flash of an eye, more people were killed in an urban, Democratic stronghold than "right-wing" militias have killed in the past forty years.
Not to hint at paranoia, but I find it peculiar that a score of left-wing columnists have tackled "right-wing terrorism" at the same time the FBI raided a few malcontents up in Michigan. Is this an attempt to drum up left-wing participation in the mid-term elections?
randyinrocklin| 3.31.10 @ 11:45AM
I hope this killing is the last straw for McCain and his Amnesty schtick. I hope Arizonans have the guts and brains to boot McAmnesty out of the Senate for good.
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So Much for That ‘Rising Risk’ : The Other McCain links to this page. Here’s an excerpt: