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Brain -> Political Violence Has A Right-Wing Father - The Erstwhile Conservative: A Blog of Repentance -VIDEO (4/5/2010 1:17:53 AM)
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Racial slurs and bricks through windows are bad but it's really Obama’s fault for not listening to their concerns. Spitting in a Congressman's face and using anti-gay slurs is "not what the Republican party is about" but if Obama would stop being a socialist and just do things the neocon way, none of this would be happening, right?
“Political Violence” Has A Right-Wing Father - The Erstwhile Conservative: A Blog of Repentance
Eugene Robinson, Op-Ed columnist for the Washington Post, wrote this today about the Christian militia arrests yesterday:
The episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.
He is exactly right. And Robinson points out the myth of moral equivalence that seems to qualify much of the coverage of the Hutaree case:
It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are “crazies on both sides.” This simply is not true.
Admitting that a generation ago the “political violence” came from the far left, Robinson says these days, “it is hard to identify any kind of leftist threat.”
He continues:
By contrast, there has been explosive growth among far-right, militia-type groups that identify themselves as white supremacists, “constitutionalists,” tax protesters and religious soldiers determined to kill people to uphold “Christian” values.
If you have listened to any conservative pundits on television or radio the past two days, you have heard a steady diet of “both sides do it.” To which Robinson says,
It is dishonest for right-wing commentators to insist on an equivalence that does not exist. The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction — the right, not the left. The vitriolic, anti-government hate speech that is spewed on talk radio every day — and, quite regularly, at Tea Party rallies — is calibrated not to inform but to incite.
Demagogues scream at people that their government is illegitimate, that their country has been “taken away,” that their elected officials are “traitors” and that their freedom is at risk. They have a right to free speech, which I will always defend. But they shouldn’t be surprised if some listeners take them literally.
As for the issue of Obama’s “legitimacy,” the president himself had the following to say about it and the Tea Party phenomenon, and notice how this dangerous radical who wants to destroy America has a hard time containing his utter hatred for teapartiers:
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http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/political-violence-has-a-right-wing-father/
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