Remember that Deparment of Homeland Security Report that Had Republicans' Panties in a Bunch?

[liz_marcs]

Notice how they're not terrorists when they're armed and dangerous white guys with a right-wing ideology and calling themselves "Christian"?

Notice that?

Independent journalist David Neiwert has been warning us for awhile now eliminationist violence was primed to pop off as soon as two conditions were met:

• the economy tanking
  
• a president who had a "D" after his or her name (the fact that in 2008 either a woman or a black guy was going to get the job was extra-special-sauce)
  

How many instances of right-wing violence have we seen this year, starting with the shooting attack on the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church almost a year ago by a rightwingnut, and now this latest outrage at the Holocaust Memorial Museum?

Notice where these cowards always attack? Churches. Memorials. Holy spaces. Places where normally people would feel safe-ish.

Repeat after me:

When you make threats of violence, when you carry out threats of violence, and promise that more threats of violence are forthcoming unless your demands/desires are met, we call that terrorism. (No one missed the threat issued by Dr. Tiller's assassin that more anti-abortion violence was in the offing, right?)

I'm thinking it's time we start calling them by their real names: Terrorists.

And while I am a good Progressive who loves Civil Liberties and believes that Guantánamo Bay and Other U.S. Torture Chambers need to be closed, the blood-thirsty animal part of me wants to give these white Christianists a taste of what we've been putting Brown People through for the past 6 to 8 years.

However, as a good Progressive who loves Civil Liberties and believes that Guantánamo Bay and Other U.S. Torture Chambers need to be closed, I'll settle for a life without parole in solitary confinement in a federal supermax prison in a cell with a perfect view.

And I'm sick and tired of all the rightwing commentators playing, "Don't blame me!" Fuck it. I am blaming you because you keep calling the people who disagree with you anti-American and comparing them to fatal diseases. What the fuck did you think was going to happen? And the fact you beat the victim drum even louder whenever someone calls you on your bullshit is causing a feedback loop with even more armed and dangerous nutcases.

Shit, Shepard Smith on FOX News has been calling out the bullshit spewed on his own network. What's more is that he's been doing it for quite awhile. People are speculating when he's going to find himself pinkslipped and on the street.

Goddamn, I knew when Obama got into office that it was going to be bad, but I'm feeling mightily overwhelmed right now.

But if these mooks were expecting me to be scared, it backfired.

Right now I'm pissed.

Comments

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

YES. You took the rant right out of my mouth.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I'm so angry that I'm shaking.

Hell, I was working late and then got sucked into reading the news before I left. The post above is a classic case of rant and run on my part.

I haven't calmed down yet...

[cuddlycthulhu.livejournal.com]

While the guy is certainly an anti-Semite, racist, and general Class-A asshole, he didn't do it for God. He's on record as blaming Christianity for "the fall of the Roman Empire". Just so you're aware.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Fantastic. We got our first atheist...

My overall point stands though.

The Holocaust Memorial Museum to make it even worse...

[skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com]

The guard that was killed? An African-American man.

From what I've heard and watched, the sonofabitch opened fire as soon as he was inside. Who wants to be that he deliberately fired at the first black man he saw?

[jennem.livejournal.com]

What I like is that the "Far Left Extremist" memo that went out a bit after the "Far Right Extremist" memo didn't even cause a blip on the radar.

Asshats.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

Fucking asshats...

[aadler]

Criminals are criminals.

The ‘right-wingers’ you hold in such contempt, despise these people as much as you do. Difference is, we don’t give a damn about their background or the excuses they toss out: we despise them because they’re criminals: cowards, murderers, despicable people.

Put me on the jury and I’d convict their asses every bit as quickly as you would, maybe quicker. Only I’d push for the death penalty. I know what I believe, and — whether or not YOU believe it — I know they don’t speak for me.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The only problem with pushing for the death penalty--and believe me, I'm in favor of killing criminals, especially serial killers and child molesters, since it would guarantee that they would not repeat their crimes--is that it can actually keep criminals alive longer than if they were part of the normal prison population...at least until all their appeals are exhausted, which can take decades.

[kurukami.livejournal.com]

*scowl* Right there with you. I can't help but fear it's going to get worse, and worse, and no-one's going to call the conservative-media asshats on the egging-on that they continue to do... at least, not in any way that MATTERS.

*sigh*

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

They're domestic terrorists the same as Tim McVeigh was. They just kill people one at a time.

[texanfan.livejournal.com]

Terrorist is the correct definition absolutely. Problem is, like all terrorists, it's hard to figure out the most effective way to fight them. Martyring is just what they want. The various commentators are just salivating for people to come after them. It's like feeding a troll. At the same time, they're inciting violence. I wish I had a real answer.

[drmercurious.livejournal.com]

I'm all for holding onto the moral highground but y'know there comes a time when you need to add a little chlorene to the gene pool. The problem with these right-wing fundamentalist religious (I WON'T call them Christian, because they are NOT) nutjobs is that they don't /get/the whole concept of 'live and let live'. They wanna kill your own countryment for a better America? I say it's time we /stopped/ trying to talk to them; they never listen and to allow them to remain living is to put other innocents in jeapordy.

[skipp-of-ark.livejournal.com]

My brother, who is much more pessimistic about people and this country in general, commented before the election that if Obama won, he fully expected some nutjob to at least try to assassinate him. Not because he wants Obama or any other president to be killed, but because he fully expects some nutjob to at least attempt to kill the first African American president.

We live in scary times.

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Word.

[rubywisp.livejournal.com]

exactly this, yes.