Reply #22: It all seems to start the same way

[Warpy]

Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo all started with a drumbeat of hate from radio. Before there was radio, there was a drumbeat of hate from pulpits and yellow journalist newspapers. It always ends the same way, with innocent people being beaten or killed outright until either people are exhausted by slaughter or enough revulsion sweeps through the population to stop it. Sadly, it's usually the former.

It not only can happen here, it is happening here. Stupid, easily led people will gladly attack anyone they've been given permission to hate by unctuous voices on their radios.

Stupid, easily led people will always be with us. The only question is what will have to happen before their hate filled leaders are finally put under control, reined in by an FCC charged with policing the nation's airwaves so that they remain in service to the public.