How is it that the members of the most dovish American ideology when it comes to foreign policy always seem to be the ones for inciting violence against their domestic enemies? CrimeThinc (yes, I actually read the article) is just one of a long line stretching back to the Weatherman Underground and the SLA up to the Seattle WTO protestors smashing windows. Discounting lone nuts like Timothy McVee (and remember that the Oklahoma City bombing was universally condemned among conservatives), how is it that the
CrimeThinc (yes, I actually read the article) is just one of a long line stretching back to the Weatherman Underground and the SLA up to the Seattle WTO protestors smashing windows.
Setting bombs and robbing banks is hardly the same as smashing windows (not that I approve of either).
Discounting lone nuts like Timothy McVee
McVeigh.
(and remember that the Oklahoma City bombing was universally condemned among conservatives)
"condemned" like when Ann Coulter said "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." ?
how is it that the half of America which owns guns is never the one calling for violence?
In my limited experience, the vast majority people who shoot other people tend to be in possession of guns at the time.
It seems you've never heard of (to only quote a few examples from the last 20 years, long after the Weather Underground and the SLA went out of business):
"condemned" like when Ann Coulter said "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." ? ---
She's an idiot.
* The Order.
* The various militias.
* The World Church of the Creator.
More of the same...
* The Matthew Shepard murder.
SFAIK, this were just done by drunk idiots. Hateful drunk idiots, but I don't recall it being as political as it was made out to be, in spite of his muderers' attempts to later justify their bigotry, as well as the actions o
Sure, you can distance yourself from the violence of the right, and I applaud you for that. The fact remains that there IS violence on the right, some of it is fairly organized, and some of it (especially violence against abortion clinics) has more support on the right than the Weather Underground or the SLA ever had on the left (more people wish death upon abortion providers than upon the Fascist Insect That Preys Upon the Life of the People).
Ann Coulter is a nut that has some good points but otherwise doesn't know when to shut up.
The vast number of people who murder find themselves under some sort of pressure, usually that they feel threatened. Husband murders wife because he feels it's better than a divorce and the spouse support payments. Wife murders husband for sleeping around. On and on.
You can try to respond to a right wing framing the left as violent with a response that the right wing is just as or more violent, but the fact is, it
Again, the Left is inciting violence (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence (Score:5, Insightful)
Setting bombs and robbing banks is hardly the same as smashing windows (not that I approve of either).
Discounting lone nuts like Timothy McVee
McVeigh.
(and remember that the Oklahoma City bombing was universally condemned among conservatives)
"condemned" like when Ann Coulter said "My only regret with
Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." ?
how is it that the half of America which owns guns is never the one calling for violence?
In my limited experience, the vast majority people who shoot other people tend to be in possession of guns at the time.
It seems you've never heard of (to only quote a few examples from the last 20 years, long after the Weather Underground and the SLA went out of business):
Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence (Score:0)
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She's an idiot.
* The Order.
* The various militias.
* The World Church of the Creator.
More of the same...
* The Matthew Shepard murder.
SFAIK, this were just done by drunk idiots. Hateful drunk idiots, but I don't recall it being as political as it was made out to be, in spite of his muderers' attempts to later justify their bigotry, as well as the actions o
Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence (Score:2)
Re:Again, the Left is inciting violence (Score:0)
The vast number of people who murder find themselves under some sort of pressure, usually that they feel threatened. Husband murders wife because he feels it's better than a divorce and the spouse support payments. Wife murders husband for sleeping around. On and on.
You can try to respond to a right wing framing the left as violent with a response that the right wing is just as or more violent, but the fact is, it