OK, I'm a little slow but have there been any right wing, evil, hateful wacko's assasinated lately?

[babsbunny]

I am watching the Ted Kennedy special on MSNBC and this shocking realization came to me. So, we Liberals don't kill people just cause we don't agree with them, or dislike the color of their skin.........

[Doctor_J]

1. No, we don't even fight back when the wingers kill ours

a big reason we've lost so much of the country over the last 20 years.

[villager]

3. going back to Dallas, it's nearly 50 years

...but your point is well taken....

[avaistheone1]

2. I haven't seen any evil, hateful wacko's assasinated in my life time.

[timeforpeace]

31. Sirhan Sirhan wasn't a rightwinger.

[Javaman]

37. yes and no...

Motives
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Sirhan Sirhan's notebook
According to Sirhan's mother, Mary Sirhan, he killed Kennedy because of his Arab nationalism. She said, "What he did, he did for his country." Further, Sirhan believed he was deliberately betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the June 1967 Six-Day War,<9> which had begun exactly one year before the assassination. After his arrest, a spiral-bound notebook was found containing this diary entry, several others, and many nonsensical streams of consciousness scribbles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan

-nationalism is generally looked upon as ultra right wing. So in effect, sirhan sirhan could be looked upon as a rightwinger. But given the fact he was an Arab nationalist, I don't know that would equate to our own republican rightwingers.

[muntrv]

4. I was going to say George Wallace, but he survived.

[alittlelark]

11. That's the only one I can think of as well.

I brought it up w/ hubby last night.

[old mark]

36. He was shot by one of his own, if I remember correctly, as was George

Lincoln Rockwell founder of the American Nazis. Rockwell died outside of a local laundromat - his last words were," I forgot my bleach."

mark

[Arugula Latte]

43. Same with Reagan (but Hinckley didn't do it for polical reasons).

[RoccoR5955]

5. UH, just FYI--

right wing, evil, hateful wackos are the ones who do the assassination.
ALWAYS!

[auditguy]

7. Oswald was not a right winger..

if anything, the opposite

[gopiscrap]

9. Oswald didn't kill Kennedy

he was the fall guy!

[RoccoR5955]

21. DING DING DING DING DING DING! We have a winnah!

You are correct sir!

[onehandle]

10. He was a nutjob who was rejected by extreme left and right groups. Today, he'd be a Libertarian.

And they go hand in hand with today's right winger.

Nice try.

[AntiFascist]

27. He worked for CIA counter-intelligence...

probably getting paid to do what he did.

Previously he had attempted to assassinate an anti-communist retired General who had threatened JFK. It would would have been more in character for him if he had been told to shoot potential assassins located around Dealy Plaza. Who knows if the shots that he fired may have been intended for just that.

[gopiscrap]

33. And Richard Nixon and George Bush Senior

[AntiFascist]

47. According to Brigadier General Russell S. Bowen...

On pages 33-36 of The Immaculate Deception, General Bowen recounts the full details of a government effort to misidentify George H. W. Bush as George William Bush in an effort to cover up the future president’s role in the events of November 22, 1963. Bowen wrote “JFK—Academy-Award winning film director Oliver Stone’s three-hour high-voltage inquisition into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, is the most controversial film in recent history,” while also quoting Stone as saying “Every paper and magazine in America has devoted more space in the last three months to attacking my attack on the Warren Commission than they devoted in the previous 28 years to examining the Warren Commission…My question is, ‘Why are they so scared of this movie?’ What are they defending?”

George H. W. Bush was also linked to a “smoking gun” tape transcript released by the White House on August 5, 1974, according to General Bowen, referring to a June, 1972 conversation between Nixon and his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. Bowen said the tape linked Bush 41 to a “money laundering mechanism which Bush, along with Bill Liedtke and Robert Mosbacher, Bush’s partner, had helped to set up at Nixon’s request in Mexico.”

“During that June 23, 1972 taped exchange, Nixon told Haldeman to order Richard Helms at the CIA to stop the FBI investigation into the transfer of funds from Texas and Minnesota through Mexico City into the coffers of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), and from there into the hands of the ‘Plumbers’ arrested in the Watergate building.”

...


Bush had been chairman of the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in Midland, Texas, in 1952 and 1956. Bush sought Eisenhower’s endorsement for his failed senate race in 1964.
Bush’s concern according to General Bowen, centered around “Nixon’s references to ‘the Texans,’ and ‘some Texas people,’ of whom Bush, Liedtke and Mosbacher were most prominent. The potential threat to Bush’s political ambitions was staggering.”

[Jennicut]

6. Ford had two attempts and Reagan was shot once

I wouldn't consider Ford a hateful type though and Ronnie survived so....

[TicketyBoo]

12. Hinkley was not a liberal…

He was just crazy, looking to impress Jody Foster by shooting the President. Just nuts.

[Jennicut]

18. True, he was totally nuts and not really political.

[musette_sf]

24. look up the connections between the Hinckley family

and the Bush family.

[TicketyBoo]

26. Oh, puh-leez!

The Hinckleys weren't about to sacrifice their son for such a purpose. They'd have hired some assassin if they wanted it done. Besides, why shoot Jim Brady and the Secret Service agent and the cop if the only target were the President. Not everything in this world is a conspiracy.

[timeforpeace]

32. Isn't this place great?

[musette_sf]

50. i'm a coincidence theorist, myself

enjoy your stay

[maxpower]

29. Look up who had dinner with the Hinkleys

Prior to Ronny getting shot.

[TicketyBoo]

30. I've seen it.

Pure coincidence. You do realize that VP Bush was not in Washington, D.C. at the time of the shooting, so he wasn't even there to "take over"?

If Bush had wanted to accomplish a violent coup, a wealthy supporter of his wouldn't have sacrificed a son to the cause. They'd have paid for a hit. Get real.

[maxpower]

41. I just find that there are a lot of coincidences with Poppy

That's all I'm saying. And if were to have something to do with it, why would he want to be there? Common sense dictates he would want to be was far away as possible. The Bushes are indeed a crime family. On another subject, who was head of the security company in charge of the WTC prior to 9/11? I know, another coincidence. Boy that Poppy just can't avoid these little coincidences that he and his family are part of. I really feel for the guy.

[TicketyBoo]

45. Oh yeah, oh yeah!

And GHWB also killed JFK, and GWB killed JFK, Jr.

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/bush_killed_jfkjr.htm

And Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

[maxpower]

46. I agree with you

It just seems that there are a lot of coincidences with the Bush family. Welcome to DU. Enjoy your stay.

[TicketyBoo]

51. I figured you would.

The right-wingers aren't the only ones.

[maxpower]

54. I guess you didn't get the sarcasm

No offense but I was just being a bit sarcastic. But welcome to DU anyway.

[demosincebirth]

8. The good die young and the pricks seem to live forever

[HughBeaumont]

13. Hee Hee hee. . . . some of the invisible speak in this earlier poll asks that very question.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6325368

But don't question THAT reality . . . nooooooo. That'd be BAD . .. "woo woo" . . . conspiracy, man-behind-the-curtain talk.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Kill a RWer? Why rend when you can buy?

[JackintheGreen]

15. Guh! Lincoln was assassinated

and for his wack-a-doodle politics, too. And he was a Republican.

See? Libruls do it too.

(I should point out that I just turned 547 years old, so Lincoln was pretty recent for me. Still hurts a little bit...

[snake in the grass]

20. Here's something to think about.

Lincoln was not a Republican at the time of his death. The radicals in the Republican Party didn't support Lincoln in the 1864 election so he left the party and helped to form the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_Party_(United_States)">National Union Party, bringing together Republican supporters and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Democrats">War Democrats. Even back then, and in spite of the progressive impulses within the party, the GOP had their nutcases. Republicans like to brag about having Lincoln in their legacy, but the truth is, he turned his back on their party, and rightfully so. John Wilkes Booth was against the abolition of slavery and giving the freed slaves the right to vote. I would hardly call him a liberal.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

25. 1) The OP used "lately"; and...

2) John Wilkes Booth was a liberal? You really gotta stop reading Coulter fiction.

Senator Kennedy's death is really bringing out the stupid in people.

[JackintheGreen]

35. Um...wow.

I also said I was 546 years old and used the expression "guh!" So maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't have taken me so seriously.

That's the problem with text-based communication. So many indicators get lost.

What didn't get lost is that you called me stupid. Thanks for that. I appreciate it. I was running out of toilet paper. So I guess I can use my Ph.D in anthropology to wipe my ass now.

(that was what we call "tongue in cheek." I'm really grinning now, so please don't fire back some angry, mean-spirited response that totally misses the spirit. I shall endeavor, in future, not to channel overly-defensive "Party of Lincoln" rightie morans. 'k?)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

42. Lincoln was a progressive, Booth a conservative.

"So I guess I can use my Ph.D in anthropology to wipe my ass now."

Well then at least you'd get some use out of it.

[JackintheGreen]

53. 's what I'm saying

(thanks, by the way, all of you, for totally and completely missing my point. It warms the heart it does. I'm done now.)

[muntrv]

16. What about George Lincoln Rockwell, the neo nazi leader? I thought he

was assassinated.

[NoPasaran]

22. He's the one I thought of too

Supposedly his last words were "I forgot my bleach." (He was assassinated outside a laundromat.)

[liberalmuse]

17. No. Evil people cut down good people. It doesn't work the other way around. n/t

[Shell Beau]

19. There are crazy people everywhere that kill in the name of everything.

[TicketyBoo]

23. Some guy at the local Walmart…

on Monday said, "It will be a great day for the country the day Obama is shot."

I kid you not. It is downright scary here.

[Quantess]

44. And, that attitude is being actively encouraged by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck,

and the other rabid RW pundits.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[TicketyBoo]

52. I know…

You wonder where free speech ends and inciting violence begins. I think they're well past that point.

Thanks for the welcome. Man, I had to find some place where there is a measure of sanity (at least in some corners; left-wing conspiracy theories aside).

The right-wing nutjobs are all around in Nebraska. When they say, "Go Big Red," they ain't just talkin' football.

[subcomhd]

28. 1980 is the last one that comes to mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Debayle

[krispos42]

34. Ken Lay, but he was done in by another right-wing whacko.

BushCo had something to do with it, I'll bet.





Unless he faked his own death

[TheMightyFavog]

38. The only one I can think of off the top of my head happened in Holland

Racist asshole Pim Fortyun.

[Motown_Johnny]

39. some SUVs had been burned. but that may have just saved us some CARS money

and part of a ski resort was burned a decade or so ago


these are "eco-terrorists" who attack things (not people) who they feel are harming the environment. They are as close as the left has to assassins in this country, and they don't come close.

[TheMightyFavog]

40. IIRC, their M.O. is to go out of thier way to make sure only property is damaged.

And that neither humans or animals are hurt.

[alsame]

48. Because we are the real pro-life people. nt

[ParkieDem]

49. Weren't there a couple of ultra-left-wing assassination attempts on Margaret Thatcher?

I thought I read about some of those, but I'm not sure.