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by MaggieMae on 11 June 2009 - 23:06
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by MaggieMae on 12 June 2009 - 00:06
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by sueincc on 12 June 2009 - 01:06
Maggie Do you think people are stupid? You cannot continually insult people, follow them around like a yappy little dog, and not expect to get bitch slapped. You can cherry pick all you want, but every one sees right through you, as a matter of fact I got a lot of compliments on that particular post. You asked for it.
by MaggieMae on 12 June 2009 - 03:06
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by sueincc on 12 June 2009 - 22:06
Very apropos article, considering the actual topic of discussion:
June 12, 2009
The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist
Mindset
By Joshua Holland
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an
innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
In April, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report (PDF)
warning that the shifting political climate and tanking economy was
spurring a resurgence of violent right-wing extremism (known as
"terrorism" when applied to those holding other political views) in
the United States. http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
At the time, a number of right-wing commentators lambasted the report
as a politically motivated attack on mainstream conservatism rather
than what it was: an early warning on the dangers posed by a violent,
fringe minority within their movement.
Under pressure from GOP lawmakers, Homeland Security Chief Janet
Napolitano apologized for the report.
But in the short weeks since, the department's warnings have proved
prescient.
An abortion provider who had been a frequent target of Fox News'
bloviator Bill O'Reilly was gunned down during a church service in
Kansas;
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/140387/the_tiller_murder_...
a mentally disturbed man who believed the "tea-bagging" movement's
contention that the Obama administration is destroying the American
economy -- and who reportedly owned a number of firearms -- withdrew
$85,000 from his bank account, said he was part of a plot to
assassinate the president and disappeared (he was later captured in
Las Vegas);
http://dailycontributor.com/man-who-threatened-to-kill-obama-arrested...
and this week, a white supremacist who was deeply steeped in far-right
conspiracism entered the U.S. Holocaust Museum and opened fire,
killing a guard before being shot and wounded by security personnel.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/140573/how_antisemitic_conspiracy_theo...
The three incidents share a common feature:
All of these men thought they were serving a higher moral purpose,
that is, defending their country from an insidious "enemy within" as
defined by the far right -- a "baby-killer," the Jews who secretly
control the world and a president who's been accused of being a
Manchurian Candidate-style foreign agent bent on nothing less than the
destruction of the American Way.
June 12, 2009
The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist
Mindset
By Joshua Holland
Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an
innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
In April, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report (PDF)
warning that the shifting political climate and tanking economy was
spurring a resurgence of violent right-wing extremism (known as
"terrorism" when applied to those holding other political views) in
the United States. http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
At the time, a number of right-wing commentators lambasted the report
as a politically motivated attack on mainstream conservatism rather
than what it was: an early warning on the dangers posed by a violent,
fringe minority within their movement.
Under pressure from GOP lawmakers, Homeland Security Chief Janet
Napolitano apologized for the report.
But in the short weeks since, the department's warnings have proved
prescient.
An abortion provider who had been a frequent target of Fox News'
bloviator Bill O'Reilly was gunned down during a church service in
Kansas;
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/140387/the_tiller_murder_...
a mentally disturbed man who believed the "tea-bagging" movement's
contention that the Obama administration is destroying the American
economy -- and who reportedly owned a number of firearms -- withdrew
$85,000 from his bank account, said he was part of a plot to
assassinate the president and disappeared (he was later captured in
Las Vegas);
http://dailycontributor.com/man-who-threatened-to-kill-obama-arrested...
and this week, a white supremacist who was deeply steeped in far-right
conspiracism entered the U.S. Holocaust Museum and opened fire,
killing a guard before being shot and wounded by security personnel.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/140573/how_antisemitic_conspiracy_theo...
The three incidents share a common feature:
All of these men thought they were serving a higher moral purpose,
that is, defending their country from an insidious "enemy within" as
defined by the far right -- a "baby-killer," the Jews who secretly
control the world and a president who's been accused of being a
Manchurian Candidate-style foreign agent bent on nothing less than the
destruction of the American Way.
by sueincc on 12 June 2009 - 22:06
CONT'D FROM ABOVE:
David Neiwert, a veteran journalist who has covered violent right-wing
groups for years, calls the worldview that informs this twisted sense
of moral purpose "eliminationism."
It's the belief that one's political opponents are not just
wrongheaded, misinformed or even acting in bad faith.
Eliminationism holds that they are a cancer on the body politic that
must be excised -- either by separation from the public at large,
through censorship or by outright extermination -- in order to protect
the purity of the nation.
As eliminationist rhetoric becomes increasingly mainstream within the
American right -- fueled in large part by the wildly overheated
discourse found on conservative blogs and talk radio -- Neiwert's new
book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American
Right, could not have come at a more important time.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780981576985?&PID=32513
In it, Neiwert painstakingly details how the rise in eliminationism is
a very real threat and points to the dangers of dismissing extreme
rhetoric as merely a form of "entertainment."
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David Neiwert, a veteran journalist who has covered violent right-wing
groups for years, calls the worldview that informs this twisted sense
of moral purpose "eliminationism."
It's the belief that one's political opponents are not just
wrongheaded, misinformed or even acting in bad faith.
Eliminationism holds that they are a cancer on the body politic that
must be excised -- either by separation from the public at large,
through censorship or by outright extermination -- in order to protect
the purity of the nation.
As eliminationist rhetoric becomes increasingly mainstream within the
American right -- fueled in large part by the wildly overheated
discourse found on conservative blogs and talk radio -- Neiwert's new
book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American
Right, could not have come at a more important time.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780981576985?&PID=32513
In it, Neiwert painstakingly details how the rise in eliminationism is
a very real threat and points to the dangers of dismissing extreme
rhetoric as merely a form of "entertainment."
___________________________________________
by MaggieMae on 12 June 2009 - 22:06
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by zdog on 12 June 2009 - 22:06
He was a man filled with hate, much like yourself. Also filled with a lot of intollerance and other stuff. But I doubt you'd ever see the similarities.
by MaggieMae on 12 June 2009 - 23:06
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by zdog on 12 June 2009 - 23:06
yes, this board is littered with my hate filled tirades. You've got me pegged :)
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