The Danger of Political Assassination from the Left

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11 Oct 2018, 1:03 pm

Sorry that there are so many people who act like the right are as*holes that are always in the wrong no matter what.



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11 Oct 2018, 1:08 pm

The mainstream media always tries to hide any information that makes the Left look bad.

Rand Paul Reveals Media Hid Key Detail About GOP Baseball Attacker

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul revealed on Wednesday that the media largely ignored a key detail from the attempted mass murder of Republican lawmakers last year at a baseball field in Virginia.

Appearing on Fox News' "FOX & Friends," Paul condemned the violent rhetoric of the political Left and the Democratic Party and warned that someone is going to end up getting killed if the inflammatory rhetoric doesn't stop.

"I was there at the ball field when Steven Scalise almost died from a very, very angry violent man who was incited really by rhetoric on the left,” Paul said.

"And this hasn’t been reported enough, when he came on the field with a semi-automatic weapon firing probably close to 200 shots at us, shooting five people and almost killing Steve Scalise, he was yelling 'this is for healthcare!" Paul said. "He also had a list of conservative legislators, Republicans, in his pocket that he was willing to kill."


https://www.dailywire.com/news/36994/ra ... n-saavedra


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11 Oct 2018, 1:11 pm

"200 shots at us, shooting five people and almost killing Steve Scalise, he was yelling 'this is for healthcare!"

As I was saying...



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11 Oct 2018, 1:16 pm

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Historically left wing extremists have been very poor shots. Wish that could have been true of the right wing extremists.


At least right wing extremists are less efficient than Islamic terrorists. I mean good God that would be terrifying if they were. Right causes the most domestic attacks, their planned 1997 attack on Fort Worth would have killed 10x 9/11 if not stopped by the excellent FBI, and yet they cause less deaths than Islamic terrorists in the states - not for lack of trying though.

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The Numbers Don’t Lie: White Far-Right Terrorists Pose A Clear Danger To Us All

Yet the numbers don’t lie — even if the Islamophobes do. “Since September 12, 2001,” noted a recent report prepared for Congress by the Government Accountability Office, “the number of fatalities caused by domestic violent extremists has ranged from 1 to 49 in a given year. … Fatalities resulting from attacks by far-right wing violent extremists have exceeded those caused by radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of the years since September 12, 2001.” Imagine that.

The report continues: “Of the 85 violent extremist incidents that resulted in death since September 12, 2001, far-right wing violent extremist groups were responsible for 62 (73 percent) while radical Islamist violent extremists were responsible for 23 (27 percent).” That’s a margin of almost three to one.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/31/the ... to-us-all/

GOVERNMENT REPORT OF FINDINGS:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf


Fort Worth:

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To illustrate the scale of destruction that even a small radical cell could achieve, Potok points to a narrowly averted attack outside Fort Worth, Texas, in 1997. There, three Ku Klux Klan members planned to blow up a natural gas plant as a diversion for a simultaneous armored car robbery. If the local Klan leader hadn’t gotten cold feet and reported the plan to the FBI, authorities believe as many as 30,000 might have been killed.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-greatest ... talk-about


I cannot say this enough and weirdly it’s a radical thing to say these days - God bless the FBI!



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11 Oct 2018, 2:10 pm

Rand Paul was hospitalised by a crazed liberal.


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11 Oct 2018, 2:13 pm

Wow, that's weird and unusual. But y'all are crazy all the damn time.



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11 Oct 2018, 4:04 pm

the left always deflects with "oh yeah what about the right?" which translates to me as them saying they do the same things as the right. that despite all their posturing they are no better and do and threaten to do what they claim to be against.



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11 Oct 2018, 4:06 pm

VegetableMan wrote:
BTDT wrote:
Historically left wing extremists have been very poor shots. Wish that could have been true of the right wing extremists.


Left wing extremists need to spend more time at the shooting range, I guess.


they seem to be quite proficient in shooting themselves in the foot all the time.



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11 Oct 2018, 4:13 pm

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the left always deflects with "oh yeah what about the right?" which translates to me as them saying they do the same things as the right. that despite all their posturing they are no better and do and threaten to do what they claim to be against.

It's a matter of degree. I don't know of any left wing militias, but I can name several right wing ones, and Trump already pardoned a member of a right wing militia, said that Nazis were good people. Of course anyone of any political bent can go bad. But generally the left wants peace and no war, the right is gunning up for civil war.

f**k TRUMP



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11 Oct 2018, 4:37 pm

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EzraS wrote:
the left always deflects with "oh yeah what about the right?" which translates to me as them saying they do the same things as the right. that despite all their posturing they are no better and do and threaten to do what they claim to be against.

It's a matter of degree. I don't know of any left wing militias, but I can name several right wing ones, and Trump already pardoned a member of a right wing militia, said that Nazis were good people. Of course anyone of any political bent can go bad. But generally the left wants peace and no war, the right is gunning up for civil war.

f**k TRUMP


Precisely.

And did someone say shooting themselves in the foot? Well, not foot but Trumpsters sure do love shooting themselves in the leg. :lol:

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A Fake Story Tricked Trump Supporters Into Protesting For No Reason, Then One Of Them Accidentally Shot Himself

Then to cap things off, Benjamin Hornberger, 23, shot himself in the leg.

Hornberger accidentally triggered his revolver as he briefly rested the bottom of his flagpole against the holster it was in, Penn Live reported. Park police applied a tourniquet until he could be transported by paramedics.

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ry ... news-story


I love when I can post some of my favorite news articles. :mrgreen:



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11 Oct 2018, 4:42 pm

I'm sorry; can someone please remind me how many concentration camps for children the Democrats operated?
Trump's Concentration Camps for Kids



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11 Oct 2018, 7:05 pm

Piobaire wrote:
I'm sorry; can someone please remind me how many concentration camps for children the Democrats operated?
Trump's Concentration Camps for Kids

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... mrc&uact=8

Betcha you have seen this one attributed to President Trump's administration:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=ht ... ..i&w=1440




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11 Oct 2018, 7:12 pm

Dude stop muck-raking. Republicans routinely shoot doctors over disagreements about medical practices they don't even understand.


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11 Oct 2018, 7:18 pm

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Rand Paul was hospitalised by a crazed liberal.


'Crazed' has nothing whatsoever to do with political affiliation. We all know who's more pissed off & they hoard weapons.

Do you not realize that violence is just violence & nothing more? Stop justifying your political opinions by whether someone is alive or dead, don't let media BS tell you to think for yourself or you're not actually thinking for yourself.
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11 Oct 2018, 7:20 pm

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Sorry that there are so many people who act like the right are as*holes that are always in the wrong no matter what.


Sorry there are so many real as*holes.


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11 Oct 2018, 7:33 pm

An excerpt from a good commentary on how the media either suppresses left-wing violence or miraculously converts left-wing violence into right-wing violence:

The politics of reporting on left-wing violence against the right

...Hemingway goes on to fisk the Times editorial very effectively. But Hemingway is not the audience the Times is addressing, then or now. It doesn’t need to be logical or truthful, it merely needs to be good at writing propaganda and spreading the desired meme, which is, as Hemingway succinctly put it:

"[The Times’] standard is to blame Republicans for violence against Democrats when there is no relationship of any Republican to that violence, and to blame Republicans for violence against Republicans when the perpetrator is a progressive Democratic activist."

But most people are unaware not only of this ploy, but of the fact that it’s not the least bit new. In fact, it was already well-established over fifty years ago with the press response to the JFK assassination.

Kennedy’s assassination was an act of extreme political violence perpetrated against a Democratic but moderate president by a leftist. There is zero doubt that Oswald was a rabid leftist, but some of the media of the time managed to blame the right in an act of journalistic jujutsu that has rarely been equaled. And that blaming continues to this day.


https://www.thenewneo.com/2018/10/11/th ... the-right/

It goes back well before JFK's assassination by the communist Oswald. For 70 years the American left has dutifully spread Stalin's propaganda that the National Socialist German Workers Party was "right wing."


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