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1 posted on 01/12/2011 12:26:32 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
"had to be some silly little communist

who took the blame

2 posted on 01/12/2011 12:28:56 PM PST by de.rm (Bang, bang, . . bang. Shhh=Bush, the elder, E. Howard Hunt, LBJ, Mrs, Edgar Hoover)
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“Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies.”

And those groups have been responsible for how many assassinations to date?


3 posted on 01/12/2011 12:36:16 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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But outrage on the right should be tempered by the recognition that many conservatives would be capable of hasty judgments under different circumstances.

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.

4 posted on 01/12/2011 12:43:39 PM PST by skeeter
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“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.


5 posted on 01/12/2011 12:46:19 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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“Loughner lives at the center of this blighted ideological landscape; others, from birthers to truthers, visit its outskirts. It is the place where madness and politics merge.” So, what's his point? Did or didn't the discourse cause the short circuit?

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.

7 posted on 01/12/2011 1:02:17 PM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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"the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry societies."

I cry foul, the minutemen didn't exist in 1963.

12 posted on 01/12/2011 1:27:56 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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