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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristian extremists promise bloodshed and terrorism and somehow nobody cares.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/republicans-attend-rally-to-carve-out-new-christian-state-its-either-going-to-be-bloodshed-or-liberty-state/The Liberty State Gala drew about 200 people to the CenterPlace Regional Event Center in Spokane Valley. Supporters of the new Christian conservative state which would span parts of Washington and Oregon as well as Idaho, Montana and Wyoming raised money by auctioning pies and other desserts, the newspaper reported.
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Sheas legislative assistant, Rene Holaday, warned of violence if people did not go along with the idea to state the new state.
Its either going to be bloodshed or Liberty State, Holaday said ominously.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)This is only one such right wing separatist group.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Dominionists
Reconstructionists
Army of God
Gold Bugs
Randian Acolytes
John Birch
Nativists
KKK
Neo-Nazis
Neo-confederates
Anti Tax grifters and protesters
Militia
Survivalists
End Timers
Patriot Movement
Constitutionalists/sovereigns
Christian Identity
to name a few.
Initech
(100,174 posts)We're not the ones swindling businesses, stockpiling weapons, bringing about the apocalypse, giving love to dictators, resurrecting the Nazi party, or getting the public to vote against their best interests.
The next time they call us unhinged and insane, we need to throw that list back in their faces.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)on foreign news sources like The Guardian and Reuters and the BBC to inform us of these outrages perpetrated by the Reich Wing, including tRump's call for death to persons he labels traitors? I am personally outraged! I want tRump and his minions/supporters to be tried, convicted and incarcerated.
Yesterday would not be soon enough!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And, in true irony, the right wing insists that the media is actually far left.
sandensea
(21,795 posts)Those they hate, our GOP friends and neighbors would gladly have hauled off to "FEMA camps" even if they did nothing wrong.
"Because they might."
But those they approve of, are to be "left alone" - even when they become a real threat.
"Because they remind me of my cousin Bubba."
rockfordfile
(8,712 posts)True Blue American
(18,001 posts)Tomorrow.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I mean, they want a theocracy. That's not going to happen if they are a simply another state of the union.
procon
(15,805 posts)they hate it so much? There are islands for sale where they can do a reenactment of the Jim Jones cult finale, or live like oriental potentates with scantily clad young women kept in private harems. Just go, and take their hate and bigotry, the misogyny, con game, scam, racism and greed with them.
ooky
(8,944 posts)Sell them an island where they can start their own country, and wall themselves in with their guns and wait to be raptured into the sky.
Initech
(100,174 posts)I'm sure that a country that puts up with their hatred, racism, and misogyny would love to have them, like Hungary or Poland for instance. If not, put up or shut up.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Might not be a bad idea put them all in there and let them tear each other to pieces
It would eventually turn into a giant Salem Massachusetts
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He is NOT representative of Washingtonians.
roamer65
(36,749 posts)The threat should be neutralized.
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