Posted on 01/12/2011 12:26:30 PM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- When President John Kennedy visited Dallas in November 1963, he was greeted by a full-page newspaper ad accusing him of being a communist fellow traveler. To his wife he observed, "Oh, you know, we're headed into nut country today." The city, according to historian William Manchester, was a "mecca" for "the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies."
In the hours following Kennedy's assassination, aides assumed a right-wing radical was responsible. When Robert Kennedy informed Jacqueline about Lee Harvey Oswald's leftist background, she felt sick. "He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights," she said. "It's -- it had to be some silly little communist." Eventually, the Warren Commission found no direct connection between Kennedy's assassination and the city's "general atmosphere of hate."
It is a natural human desire to invest tragedy with meaning, to make grief coherent. Manchester, who chronicled JFK's final day, concluded, "If you put the murdered president of the United States on one side of the scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It would invest the president's death with meaning."
The killings in Arizona deserve to have a meaning. The first assassination attempt on a female federal officeholder. The shooting of a respected federal judge. The murder of a girl born on a day known for death, Sept. 11, 2001. We want these lives and all the others to be balanced by something weightier than Jared Loughner.
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who took the blame
“Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies.”
And those groups have been responsible for how many assassinations to date?
I totally disagree.
The left is a political beast. They see politics as a means to control, power and, finally, meaning for their lives. To them, the entire world is politics and they have very much to gain by adapting this worldview.
Conservatives are fundamentally different - one, they are individuals who view involvement in politics as a necessary evil as they seek to prevent the statists from encroaching further into their personal lives. Two, they are fundamentally realists - willingly enternalizing what they can plainly see is a lie is incompatible with their worldview.
Where a conservative politician be attacked I would surely be inclined to make some initial assumptions based upon my political bent, after learning the facts I would adjust based upon the reality. But I hope I would NEVER allow what I knew was untrue to skew my mind as a good chunk of the left is doing today. That would be insane.
“the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies.”
Lots of people don’t remember these three groups. The “Minutemen” especially as these are not the same as the group with the same name today.
Well, yes. The left only manages to associate violence with the “right” by lying about it.
Hitler was not a conservative. He was a left-wing socialist, who was rebranded by the Communists after he broke with them.
Mussolini spent his youth as a Communist, which is where he got his ideas.
The KKK was about 95% Democrat. The Democrats were the party of slavery, and they were also the party of the KKK.
We used to be repeatedly told that the drugged-out skinheads in the inner cities were right-wing extremists and racists. Racists, maybe, but there’s nothing especially conservative in getting stoned every day. The chief difference between a skinhead and a hippie is that one shaves his hair off and the other grows it into a ponytail.
It's like the Black Congressman who said something to the effect of “back in the day we had murders which were unfortunate, but we didn't have the Internet or talk radio. If someone said something, the other person had the automatic right to come on and defend himself.”
So, like, um...m...m is or isn't the vitriol spewed over the Internet and talk radio responsible, or what. If you had the same things happen before all that was available, then what? The nut cases had to attend the local nut houses to get hopped up on hyperbole? I'm SO confused.
It comes down to the fact that conservatives (in general) recognize the principles of objective morality, objective rules, and objective right and wrong.
The left, in rejecting God, also reject objective morality, rules, and right and wrong.
The only way to determine what actually IS right is POWER.
Who controls the power of the state controls “god”, so to speak, because they control the power to set morality, rules, and what is right and wrong.
This is why they are so attracted to State power and therefore to politics.
Yeah, I know its trite.
This certainly is what compells the gay lobby, I don't know why it wouldn't apply to the rest of the left as well.
Wow, . .I can't wait for that to get some legs on the talk show circuit!
I cry foul, the minutemen didn't exist in 1963.
“conservative vs liberal, but well adjusted vs demented.
Yeah, I know its trite.”
No, it’s not trite; it just needs a leeetle tweak.
It is, and always has been, about good and evil.
Leftist thought is evil, and as it has increasingly become the motivating force of the Evil Party, non-evil people have steadily defected to the Stupid Party. It was practically a tsunami while Bill Clintstone occupied the White House, and now it is hard to find a demonrat who does not zealously defend at least some positions that are just downright tickle-Lucifer’s-funny-bone Evil.
They appear demented, true, but the real problem is that the more leftist thought you accept, the more influence over you Evil has.
In the meantime you can try it out on your liberal in-laws.
And neither did Patrick Henry, but the idiot historian William Manchester thinks they did
How come we all have them?
In fact I already do, I listen to see and watch for catch words or phrases they use over & over, and turn them back on themselves.
Everyone can do this, it's very effective.
For example, if they use words like "Oh, he's a good worker." or "He's very capable.".
Well, when that person persecutes you over some knowledge you have that they refuse to become aware of , you say;
"Well, your obviously not capable of doing the work to find this stuff out for yourself.
Oh, they will try to hide it, but you have just sliced them to the core.
For example, I was just on another thread asking someone to direct me to the location of picture of the gunsight over Giffords image they kept referencing.
I've looked, honestly, I can't find it.
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