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To: frankenMonkey
The cited article is a good example of propaganda from the left. The article cites The Center for American Progress, which describes itself as "Progressive Ideas for a Just, Strong and Free America" which in its section on terrorism includes analysis like this (emphasis added):

"To be clear, there certainly are incidents that seem to stand alone and that deserve the lone wolf marker, such as the recent shooting at the Family Research Council’s office in Washington, D.C. In this case the shooter disagreed with the organization’s political agenda and horrifically chose violence to express his disapproval. While the Family Research Council argues that the shooting was prompted by the Southern Poverty Law Center listing the council as a hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center responds that it has listed the council as a hate group since 2010 for spreading false and denigrating propaganda about gay and transgender people. The center did not encourage any acts of violence.

Thus, while this sort of violence cannot and should not be condoned, the shooter in the Family Research Council attack was clearly acting on his own and seems to have been incited to action by facts about the council’s hateful agenda. As misguided as the gunman’s actions were, this incident cannot be equated with the examples of far-right extremism mentioned above.

Indeed, the lone wolf portrayal of far-right extremism ignores the fact that these alleged loners on the right are actually embedded in networks that do preach violence."

So from the point of view of The Center for American Progress, the guy shooting up the Family Research Council wasn't really a terrorist, because he was incited to action by the ideas promulgated by FRC. By that logic nobody is a terrorist, since they always believe what they are doing is in response to somebody's ideas or actions they don't agree with. Or, as would be expected from leftists, violence isn't so bad when it is exercised against their enemies.

There is an endless supply of twisted propaganda from the left, the latest theme seems to be that patriotic Americans who oppose the left are "extremists" and more of a terrorism risk than Islamic radicals, even after a couple of Islamic radicals bombed the Boston Marathon.

4 posted on 08/27/2013 8:17:55 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing
The Left is now, and always has been driven by hate. The SPLC is an organization that typifies the Leftist tendency to view normal people, with normal values, through a totally distorted focus, which attributes the hateful motivations of the Left to those who simply dare to resist the "values" that are born in that hate for normal values. (How To Recognize The Bigot In The Argument.)

The idea that those who support normal family formation & preservation are somehow the "haters," and those who attack normal family values are something else, is obviously absurd. But it has become a false "given" to those who are at war, both with nature & the American tradition.

William Flax

8 posted on 08/27/2013 8:30:03 AM PDT by Ohioan
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