Political Violence In America

Remember back in school when you had to deal with a bully?  The bully's pattern was predictable: first taunting and insults, second violence. 

It works the same on a national scale.  First taunts and insults, then violence. 

Today in a political act of violence, the head of the Democratic Party in Arkansas was gunned down.  Two weeks ago a man walked into a Unitarian Universalist Church in Tennessee and killed two and wounded seven during a children's music program.

Taunted by talk radio, egged on by pundits, these people are the weapons in the right-wing's bullying.  Were they mentally ill?  Sure they were, but they still were doing what they thought was right, what they thought would help their cause. 

Remember this: political violence in this country is almost always Conservative on Progressive:
JFK
Bobby Kennedy
Dr. Martin Luther King
Kent State
Matthew Shepard
just to name a few . . .

 - rick, disgusted

Comments

[a rose is a rose]

i am disgusted as well. i just don't know if we are too far gone (as a country) at this point.

can this be fixed?

what percentage of americans think something is wrong? NOT anywhere near all of 'em. you know that and i know that

[Success Warrior]

Are you sure all the assassins were Conservative?

[bex]

Sirhan Sirhan -- RFK's assassin -- was supposedly angry because of Bobby's support of Israel during the war:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan

Not sure if that makes him a conservative... but he was a religious nut... but all the other assassins were solidly conservative. The only "liberal" political violence I know of are:

1) the SLA (posers)
2) the Nation of Islam assassins of Malcolm X (fools)
3) the Weathermen (renounced violence against people, set off small bombs in around 20 empty buildings, including the capital building!)

any others?

[CV Rick]

Liberal on Conservative violence is much more rare than Conservative on Liberal violence. I'd like to fix that inequity, but I'm only one guy. Any volunteers?

[a rose is a rose]

i won't do violence BUT i sure would be part of a revolution.

[thepoetryman]

What? Did you stop writing, CV?