“...Hogg came by his hatred of ‘nuts with guns’ honestly - with a father in the FBI he lived his life wondering if some crazy person might kill his father. That’s worth considering....”
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Right ... FBI Agents and employees and their families wonder each day whether they’ll come home alive that night or be murdered. I hope that you’re not THAT deluded or misinformed.
I checked to find FBI agents who were killed “by adversary actions” and the most recent was in 2008. During the 21st century there have also been two others, one in 2007 and one in 2001. There can be a degree of danger for FBI agents but certainly nowhere near to that faced by front line police officers and detectives.
Hogg is a doctrinaire leftist and a poseur and is nothing else.
That said I appreciate the honest replies of so many fellow freepers... not easy for me to defend anyone with's Hogg's beliefs - so it's not personal. (Also, as some of you have guessed, I could also be wrong on this issue).
Here's my logic on why Laura should not have mocked him:
Let's say some some woman goes on stage, sings like a cat having it's tail pulled, and most people walk out of the theater vomiting... The next day Laura and the local newspaper mocks the woman. Guns blazing, words being spit out to rival the disaster the night before... Fine. Good for Laura good for the press. It's a free country - tell the truth. The woman put herself out there in the public - and we have the right to mock her, laugh at her, condemn her performance - whatever.
Totally fair.
Now, it's a day later - the person on the stage is a 6 year old girl and her kindergarten classmates. She had a cold the night before and in the locally broadcast performance, she sings like a cat having it's tail pulled...
Do you treat these two cases differently based on the ages and 'awareness' of the people involved? YES. That's my take. I don't think Hogg can be a ‘public figure’ in the same way his father would be if he said the same things.Freepers can mock Hogg because in one sense he's our equal but not Laura... she's held to a higher standard.