Right Wing Nut Jobs Assassinate Two Police Officers

After the Birmingham church bombing that killed 4 little girls, MLK said, "It's not about who, it's about what." In other words, the people that bombed the church aren't nearly as important as the conditions that created an environment or society where someone thought it was OK to throw a bomb at a church full of kids. It was a remarkable statement at a time when the thirst for vengeance was great and just another example of why MLK is a greater person than most of us will ever be.

Same principle applies here, whether you are right or left. This is obviously wrong. This is obviously not the first or last time. These are Americans, not people living in a distant place. We can change the conditions that led to this if we want. And I'm not talking about legislation of any kind.

 

Evil people look for excuses to commit evil. When the assassins are given autopsies, I wonder what chemicals will be in their system?

 

Prozac, effexor, and other SSRIs most likely.

 

You're mistaken if you believe I'm trying to convincingly argue my point. I'm not so full of myself to think I can change the opinion of someone who thinks so drastically from me over the internet.

 

Lol... First it was a statement directed at me and now its a generalized "the left". Please cite specific posts of mine that condoned any Islamic terrorism. I have done quite the opposite and if you knew me personally the last thing you would say is that I support Islamic terrorism. " The left" doesn't condone Islamic terrorism. They hate religiously motivated violence. They also hate painting a large group of people with large brush strokes which the right commonly does. You and many other right wingers misinterpret defending an innocent Muslim who has nothing to do with terrorism as defending Islamic terrorism. You and many other right wingers believe that since we don't condemn all 1 billion Muslims that we condone and support Islamic terrorism. That is your problem, not mine.

 

The revolution leaves me a little underwhelmed.

 

It wasn't televised....

 

Excellent point. I don't think these guys are emblematic of the right and they represent the fringe of the fringe. That said it is very clear that they were motivated by the angry rhetoric out of people like Cliven Bundy who have been whipping up emotions for their own ends.

 

Oh, I think they are, at least to a degree. As opposed to right wing pols and media, they not only talked the talk, they walked the walk. The problem now is that an attack on the militant right fringe is an attack on the right regardless of the reason or extreme action. The rhetoric of anger and elimination have become so mainstreamed that it is impossible to question the far, far, far right without the right wing media and politicians taking offense, much like it was after Brown. That has to change. Unfortunately, only Republicans can really make it happen.

Doubly unfortunately, it will be only a matter of hours before we hear that these two were Obama plants who acted under orders to discredit Bundy and his group.

 

Would you still agree with your own post if you replaced the "militant right wing extremists" with "militant Islamists" and "the right" with "Islam"? Just curious.

 

No. But I might if we were talking about specific countries or sects. The problem is that I and we have very little influence there, yet we we can do things here to make a change.

Oh by the way, it seems Alex Jones was way ahead of me and is already talking about Obama plants.

 

Give me a fuvking break. I guess there is Fox News though. [insert sad swoly emoticon here]

Keep an even keel, dude. Don't let the crazy on one side whiplash you into crazy on the other side.

 

Hey, hey, hey... I'm not the only one who uses these.

 

Dude, you totally misunderstood the MLK quote lol

 

King gave two eulogies for the girls. In the more famous speech during the service for all four, he said:

In another service for three of the children, he said:

In these and later speeches he also went into a discussion about passivity and complacency in the black community, which I'm guessing is what you think the quote is about. It's not. One is describing the system and the other is encouraging people to change it.

But maybe I don't get it. If that's the case, enlighten me.

 

A couple of right-wing Occupy Wallstreeters......

 

It was 20 years ago where people could still dissociate right wing militancy as beyond radical.

The base has collapsed onto itself to the point where they can't expand out to other groups, as such they've taken on the mentality of a cornered animal even if they keep appearance of a party on the national level.

They control this decade's redistricting for several states, so maybe we give it a another go the next time around?

RIP officers

 

QFT.
This is a very good post. Every person who thinks all people on the left defend terrorists should read this post a couple of times.

 

Another right wing terrorist shooting in California.

BLM Officer, Highway Patrolman Shot In Nevada County, California

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, in research shared with TPM on Tuesday afternoon, linked Cole to an online profile in which he described himself as "a sovereign American Citizen attempting to thwart the obvious conspiracy and subterfuges of powers inimical to the United States."

 

You never miss an opportunity to (try) to exploit a tragedy do ya?

Unfortunately for you, your OWN LINK states in his facebook posts, he laments an american government that defines terrorists as those who "protest anything (such as those who participated in the Occupy movement)" and those who "Question War".

So it appears he thinks we should question our government when it wants to go to war and thinks the Occupy Movement was legitimate.

Doesn't sound very "Right Wing" to me.