Oct 242010
In a comment yesterday, Nameless gave us a link to a map pinpointing incidents of right wing violence, between March 15 and September 15, 2010. I considered it too good not to embed it and put it up for you all. Thank you Nameless.
View Right Wing Violence 6mos – Mar 15 – Sep 15, 2010 in a larger mapecause
The entire Republican Party is culpable for these acts, because the hate speech from Republican politicians and pundits have stirred up the hate and fear in unbalanced individuals, and because they have endorsed it by their silence after the incidents.
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We are all culpable for this violence because we who are able for the most part spoke out saying “Where is the condemnation from the right?” When we should have been saying more of “This is what you want to lead your nation, this is your patriotism in action?”
In other words we asked the right to speak up against what they have been condoning since before Angle and her “second amendment solution” remarks.
Where was our response to this except in a very general localized way. Why wasn’t Pelosi, Reid and the other more sane voices of the government vociferously attacking these actions as they occurred? Simply because the left was not totally silent does not make the peeps of response to these heinous acts a justifiable response.
When will the liberals realize that you have to get into the fight and not fear getting socked in the nose as long as you are hitting back. And make no mistake I do consider this midterm to be either the end of our nation or a new chance to move forward at assimilation of all of us ito something coherent. No area of gray only one way or the other. We either regain some freedoms lost or we willingly choose enslavement.
Mark, I agree that the response from leaders on the left should have been much stronger,
It’s actually amazing that there haven’t been even more and worse incidents, given the rhetoric coming from people like Beck and the number of armed paranoids out there. Every day I half expect to read about another Oklahoma City attack, if not worse.
I suspect the FBI and the Secret Service are catching and stopping a lot of people before they have a chance to do any damage.
Infidel, you’re probably correct in that assumption. But why arent our leaders shouting that in the faces of Bitch and Boner?
SPLC Intelligence Report devoted an entire issue to right-wing violence, which is available at http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/spring
The Southern Poverty Law Center does yeoman work in shedding light on hate groups, and I always feel better when I make my donation to them.
Sunlight is a good thing when it comes to politics.
I agree. I read their hatewatch released daily as part of my research
Thanks for this, Ahab. Great link.
I love the Southern Poverty Law Center – you are right; when it comes to tracking these hate groups, they do a terrific job. Thanks for the link, Ahab.
Ditto!
When I looked on Nameless’ link the other day, I was shocked to see that there were 28 hate groups right here in IL, a thoroughly blue state. Well, at least up North it is – Central and Southern IL are closer to Kentucky in there thoughts and it’s very red in the lower part of the state. Luckily, Chicago has so many voters (“Vote early, vote often” is the saying around here!), that it overwhelms the lower parts of the state. Sucks to be them. 😆
Lisa, IL may be the only state where “Vote Early Vote Often” is the norm. 😉
Thanks for that link. The supposedly liberal Seattle area has a few other racial/hatred incidents besides the ones shown on that map. Several Seattle cops were filmed kicking the sh*t out of a Latino suspect — who turned out to be innocent of whatever he was charged with — and yelling out racial slurs while they were kicking him.
Lisa G.: I don’t mean to dump on Illinois, but the western part of the state (specifically Monmouth) was pretty backward when I went to college there. That was a looong time ago so maybe it’s changed. When I was there, that area had more rednecks per square inch than any Deep South backwater I’ve ever seen.
Tom, when hate crimes are committed by law enforcement, they never get counted as crimes, because they are justified under the guise of duty.
While it is necessary to know where these groups are and what they are up to, I wonder if it isn’t more important to work out what we can do to dampen the anger and lessen the threat. I just hope there is still time. It doesn’t help that inflammatory statements continue to be issued, especially by that Republican Congressman who warned of violence breaking out should the GOP lose the election. I take these threats seriously.
Realist, I like your attitude on this. The only way I know to dampen the anger is to get people to turn off Fox News.