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Showing Original Post only (View all)DO NOT REMAIN SILENT [View all]
Last edited Sat Jul 21, 2012, 11:55 PM - Edit history (2)
Do not remain silent.
Conservatives certainly will not speak out.
They will blame the lone, solitary, shooter...
They will blame liberal society...
They will blame anything and everything but modern-day conservatism, which preaches that liberals and democrats are the bona fide enemies of America and threats to the nation's very existence.
Only the most naive or apologetic of political observers could doubt that different right-wing conservatives would deal with the perceived threat liberals and democrats pose to them in different ways, and that some would, inevitably, resort to violence.
And as long as that is the case, as long as liberals and democrats are "the enemy" the bodies will continue to pile up.
And that leaves it to us to speak up.
We need not mince words - it is vital that we speak clearly and succinctly and firmly. We will not debate the issue; We are now making a demand: Conservatism must evolve.
It MUST change.
To believe otherwise is to help pass around the nails for the coffin in which the next liberal democrat will be buried in.
No one was out there speaking about the radical right-wing elements that threaten our civil society until Janet Napolitano issued a DHS report warning about extremists that might resort to violence - a report which conservatives across the country demanded to be immediately rescinded. Now that we have seen a series of right-wing assassinations take place, the original DHS report looks, in hindsight, to have been very timely and prescient.
We have seen Jim David Adkisson open fire upon the congregation of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church with a sawed-off shotgun, killing two, simply because he opposed the all-inclusive nature of the church, and of the church's liberal teachings. Adkisson wrote in a letter which he assumed would be his last, "I thought Id do something good for this country kill Democrats til (sic) the cops kill me. His hatred for his fellow Americans could not be contained: Liberals are a pest like termites, millions of them the only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is kill them in the streets, kill them where they gather.
James von Brunn, a radical right-winger from Maryland sought to turn the nation's Holocaust Museum into a symbol for his particular brand of racism, when he went there with the intent to kill blacks and Jews, as an example to the rest of white America to emulate. Luckily for those visitors inside of the museum, the first man von Brunn decided to open fire upon was a black man who had the ability to return the favor, and so no one besides than the very heroic Stephen T. Johns died that day.
Shawna Forde, and two other members of the anti-immigrant Minutman group which she founded, the ''Minutemen American Defense,'' decided that one way to finance her burgeoning organization was to dress up as law enforcement agents, and to rob Mexican immigrants. When Shawna and her compatriots illegally entered the home of Raul Flores, and demanded money, the head of the family ordered the trio to leave, prompting the radical right-wingers to put a bullet into the head of little 9 year old Brisenia Flores, and into the head of her father. Unluckily for the conservative killers, Brisenia's mother was able to barricade herself in her bedroom, where she kept a handgun, and she was able to keep at bay her would be assassins until the real police arrived.
Richard Poplawski opened fire on police officers during a domestic disturbance call, in April of 2009, killing three of them.
Why?
The 23 year-old right-winger feared that the President was poised to take away his hand guns.
Just a few days after that shoot-out, two sheriffs deputies in northern Florida were shot and killed by Joshua Cartwright who later was fatally shot by other deputies. The reason, according to Cartright's wife, was because Joshua "believed that the US Government was conspiring against him," and, according to her, he had been severely disturbed that Barack Obama had been elected President.
The list of victims from right-wing terror does not stop there.
Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, Arkansa Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney, abortion provider Dr. George Tiller...
It goes on, and on: All of Eric Rudolph's many victims... followed by all of Timothy McVeigh's many more... the pre-eminent liberal leaders of the 1960's: JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr.
The list of liberal victims slain by conservative terrorists is LONG, and getting longer with each passing day that we remain silent.
For conservatives to hide blood-thirsty radicals within their ranks and to deny any responsibility in fostering the radicals bloodthirsty behavior doesn't help the conservative lobbyists attain their political aims and goals...
It, instead, helps the conservative terrorists attain theirs.
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B) Holmes came from a San Diego Congressional district that has NEVER voted democrat.
oldhippydude
Jul 2012
#40
But he's using the incident as a sprinboard for the stop-the-guns and gun culture argument.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
#5
I didn't apply a political motive to you. Who was the one who chose to post a political post about
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
#60
And what about all the other incidents he mentioned? Are you saying that the far right does NOT
sabrina 1
Jul 2012
#64
Ahhh, but politics does have something to do with it. The politics of pressuring politicians
geckosfeet
Jul 2012
#8
Well he did create havoc. No one is sure why - yet, but it is clear that he drank deeply from
geckosfeet
Jul 2012
#52
He was using legally obtained guns. Therefore, politics had everything to do with this shooting. nt
Walk away
Jul 2012
#28
I'm not sure what the opposite of "Disaster Capitalism" is, but you exploit it well. n/t
bluedigger
Jul 2012
#9
I wasn't aware that evidence had coming out showing the shooter was inspired by someone's rhetoric.
Johnny Rico
Jul 2012
#16
Conservatives have shredded the conscience of Americans, savaging all living things, then laugh.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#59
I've seen people with fake hunting licenses of that nature on their SUVs and hats.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#37
Actually, when I look at such things I don't see a hunting license. I see "I'M AN ASSHOLE!"
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#45