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How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism?
Washington Post ^
| June 9, 2014
| BY PAUL WALDMAN
Posted on 06/09/2014 4:21:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Yesterday, a man and a woman shot two police officers in a Las Vegas restaurant after saying, this is a revolution. Then they draped their bodies in a Gadsden flag. According to reports now coming in, the couple (who later killed themselves) appear to have been white supremacists and told neighbors they had gone to join the protests in support of anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy. It was one more incident of right-wing terrorism that, while not exactly an epidemic, has become enough of a trend to raise some troubling questions.
What Im about to say will raise some hackles, but we need to talk about it. Its long past time for prominent conservatives and Republicans to do some introspection and ask whether theyre contributing to outbreaks of right-wing violence. --snip--
And I promise you, these murders in Nevada will not be the last. It may be going too far to say that conservative politicians and media figures whose rhetoric has fed the deranged fantasies of terrorists and killers have blood on their hands. But they shouldnt have a clear conscience, either.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; freespeech; journalism; journalists; liberals; media; mediabias; waldmangay
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
It’s not even close, doesn’t require a study.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:28:46 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It was one more incident of right-wing terrorism that, while not exactly an epidemic, has become enough of a trend to raise some troubling questions.
Dissect that statement.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:29:01 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
These people were meth heads and National Socialists.
Not sure how that has anything to do with conservatism.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:29:03 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How much does
right Left-wing rhetoric contribute to
right Left--wing terrorism?
More than you think
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:29:47 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: Genoa
How much does Muslim rhetoric contribute to terrorism?
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:30:14 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How much does left-wing policy contribute to real Islamic terrorism?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What a stupid article. Crazy people, leftists, and sons of Obama kill people. There is no right wing terrorism.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:30:58 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:31:19 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
To: cripplecreek
The "troubling questions" were all prepped and ready to go, first opportunity.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:32:23 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: freedumb2003
“I dont think you can point to a single right wing violence episode in the last... well, forever (mcveigh was a ultra-lefty).”
Everyone wants to paint the political “spectrum” as a line, when it’s really a circle with the loony left and right connecting diametrically opposite the “middle” where the people who are completely stupid reside.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
well lets compare the numbers 2 for the right wingers and about 300M for the left wingers Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, etc, etc, etc.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:33:42 PM PDT
by
kvanbrunt2
(civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
To: Servant of the Cross
How much does left-wing policy contribute to real Islamic terrorism? And how much do Islamic terrorists contribute to the Obama government's left-wing policy?
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:34:27 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
To: vette6387
I read some of the McVeigh rantings and he could have given speeches at an ANSWER rally.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:35:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Of course Che Guevara T-shirts are not about celebrating a murdering lawless ‘revolutionary’.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:35:23 PM PDT
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: kvanbrunt2
according the the other post then it’s two more for the left wing Nazi’s.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:37:10 PM PDT
by
kvanbrunt2
(civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Right wing terror? More left wingers committing terror everyday.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:38:51 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If we were really interested in stopping terrorism, we would wiretap Democrats, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists, greens, and other assorted Leftists. The Hussein Administration only wiretaps people they don’t personally like (AKA conservatives), so it’s no surprised that mass shootings and crime aren’t going to be prevented by the NSA.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:40:15 PM PDT
by
Objective Scrutator
(All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
——How much does right-wing rhetoric contribute to right-wing terrorism?-——
The answer is “0”.....
Right wing or left wing terrorist are mentally ill....
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:40:41 PM PDT
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If you mean “A-hole” just write “A-hole”.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:43:39 PM PDT
by
lastchance
("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This kind of left wing screed is intended to inspire violence against the right by convincing left wing nut jobs that they face a threat.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:44:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin.)
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