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Posted on 06/02/2016 10:51:24 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
It seems that David Alpher, an adjunct professor at George Mason University who has a PhD in “conflict resolution” doesn’t think much of those who hold to the Constitution, i.e., “Patriots,” and, after lumping them all in with the likes of Timothy McVeigh, has decided that patriotic Americans who take a stand against an overbearing government are far more dangerous than foreign terrorists.
You know, like ISIS and the terrorists who killed 3,000 innocent people on 9/11.
In a screed entitled, “An expert explains why domestic extremists are a much bigger risk than foreign terrorists in America,” he refers to patriots as essentially, “the threat from inside,” and naturally ties it all to Donald Trump.
In short, it’s your typical left-wing propaganda designed to inflame passions and hatred among fellow travelers.
And of course, he names all the usual left-wing targets of hate: Whites, Christians, males and those he calls “ideologically extreme.” And he links them all to the Bundys and their supporters.
He wrote:
The GOP has spent many years mobilizing both(sometimes tacitly and sometimes actively), in the form of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, racist and antigovernment sentiment. This strategy has secured them votes from the white, Christian, male andideologically extreme demographic needed to offset the party’s growing distance from an increasingly diverse and progressive American society.
This has typically been done in code, a practice that’s come to be known as “dog whistle politics” – but this election has brought it into the open.
Few have emerged unscathed. For months, Republican candidates traded shots claiming that each other, liberals, immigrants and Black Lives Matter protesters – to name a few – are to blame for the picture they’ve painted of a degraded America that’s fallen into hostile hands.
I’m not going to go through his entire manifesto line by line. You get the drift. I will, however, touch on some of the “high” points, such as they are.
Here’s another excerpt:
Every violent group in history describes its own violence as the legitimate response to a threat that was forced on them. Groups survive in the long term when that description makes sense to enough of the population to buy them tolerance and safe space to operate, plan and grow. That’s true of terrorism and violent extremism – but because protesters and supporters alike view each other as enemies of the state and therefore legitimate targets, it also helps to explain the growing physical violence at Trump rallies. It should also provide a warning for what that as-yet-limited violence could grow into.
Again, Alpher wants to blame violence at Trump rallies on the candidate, not the people actually engaging in violence, namely, the leftists and socialists carrying Mexican flags and signs reading “f**k Trump.” Apparently, he’s okay with that and thinks Trump is to fault for the death threats leveled at him. Naturally, those who support Trump and believe in the Constitution are “terrorists.”
And of course, people like Pam Geller, Ann Coulter (with whom I’ve had some disagreement lately), Michael Savage and Glenn Beck are also to blame.
“In an age defined by the fear of terrorism, ‘taking America back from people who betrayed her security’ has real power at the polls, as Trump can attest. But this strategy for winning elections isn’t just divisive. It’s creating a risk of violence that has already outgrown the threat it’s supposed to be a shield against,” he added.
No, professor, it’s you and your ilk who are not just “creating” a risk of violence, but are actually fomenting and calling for it.
It’s enough to make one wonder if leftists like Alpher really do want a second, bloody civil war in America…
H/T Progressives Today
Only dangerous if you make stupid half ass statements about us.
He is absolutely correct. Folks like us ARE a big threat to him and those like him. We better be.
If patriots were indeed half as dangerous as this POS whackjob jackboot licking anti-American piece of trash says, there would be no POS whackjob jackboot licking anti-American pieces of trash left to mouth off.
“...It’s enough to make one wonder if leftists like Alpher really do want a second, bloody civil war in America…”
Of course not. While leftists like this author rail against the cops, military, the constitution and US gubmint, they simultaneously expect those same institions/organizations to protect them in the event of civil strife (even when they are the very people that create such strife).
However, if and when there is another civil war, these pussies will be hiding under their beds when their adversaries come calling because leftists are incapable of protecting themselves. Namely because they don’t own firearms, which are very BAD and EVIL. (Snark, Chuckle, Snort!).
RK
The term "adjunct" is university-speak for "part time"
I just saw Shane this weekend. The scene were the mother tells him she doesn’t like guns and doesn’t want her son to learn how to shoot one. Hollywood still had to throw that in.
He’s right in one sense - I’m one heck of a lot more dangerous than Abu bin Goatluv is. I live here. Unlike ol’ Abu, though, I don’t follow a creed that enjoins me to murder random unbelievers. That is a distinction our adjunct Professor declines to recognize.
His country is the one that doesn’t need a Constitution ... people who want the Constitution to actually function as Law ARE his enemies.
Being opposed to governance by constitutional means is why so-called “progressives” were bad long before FDR slimed his way across the national stage.
That from rules for radicals?
If your a member of, or a vassal to, that overbearing government then yes the patriots are most dangerous to your plans.
This may be his attempt to gain enough radical cred in order to get tenure. Got to please the In crowd, you know.
Hi speed internet and virtual reality tech can replace colleges with online education as good or better.
“But they won’t get the whole college experience” Yeah, no s. Keep your retirement savings in your pocket, as well.
Well I sure aint gonna vote for her:-)
JUNE 2—A woman clad in a burka attacked a Georgia homeowner with an American flag that was flying in front of the victim’s home, police allege.
According to cops, Aisha Ibrahim, 30, emerged Tuesday morning from a wooded area adjacent to victim Dami Arno’s home in Lawrenceville, a city about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta.
This is like the anti-Muslim backlash they worry about after every Islamic terrorist attack. We keep hearing that it might happen, and liberals put all their energy into preparing for it, but it never pans out. That "risk of violence" by real Americans will still be a purely hypothetical risk after the next terrorist attack, and after the one after that. Until . . . I don't think this moron want to know how this will eventually end.
Ph.D. in “conflict resoultion”? What a worthless piece of BS.
I can almost guarantee that won't happen since his degree is from George Mason University. Unless you are a truly outstanding scholar (probably not the case here), schools avoid such inbreeding.
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