Re: Domestic Terrorism

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3. There is always the danger of a Waco like situation that fires up a huge segment of the far right and leads to a cascade of further terrorist events like the Oklahoma City bombing.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 8:56 AM
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True. The very act of going after these groups confirms all of their conspiracy theories.

(That said, when I finally read about what happened at Ruby Ridge, I started to feel like a conspiracy wingnut myself. This was based on Jon Ronson's account, but jesus christ was the federal government's attack brutal and uncalled for.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 8:59 AM
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Is this about the rancher guy again?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:04 AM
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Bowen Clivendy?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:07 AM
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I'm not much of a detail-oriented guy on the topic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:09 AM
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Three, as the article points out, when the government tries to account for them in any more intelligent, systematic way, the bloodlust maniac rightwing side screams about even the groundlaying - as with the 2009 DHS report.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:30 AM
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1. Rightwing terrorists don't actually pose any statistical danger, compared to, say, domestic disputes and ordinary gun violence (and neither do foreign terrorists).

This may be true for the average person on the street, but I don't think it's true for, e.g., abortion providers.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:54 AM
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Apparently the best way to deal with extremists is to give their kids pot.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:57 AM
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Statistically, no one is an abortion provider.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 9:57 AM
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6: And the maniac side that does the screaming includes some very powerful mainstream organizations like the NRA.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:04 AM
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8 makes me think there's hope for the world yet. It'll last about 15 seconds.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:04 AM
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11: Lynx Gaede concedes, "I mean, yeah, Hitler wasn't the best, but Stalin wasn't, Churchill wasn't." Progress!


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:09 AM
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12. Progress! The sun shone out of FDR's butt, evidently.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:21 AM
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Shining city on a hill, dude.


Posted by: Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:24 AM
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I didn't know his butt shone.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:27 AM
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I didn't know his butt shone.

It's why he was sitting down in so many pictures.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:39 AM
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He was sitting on a polisher.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:50 AM
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I didn't know his butt shone.

Shouldn't that be in the other thread?


Posted by: teraz kurwa my | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 10:53 AM
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Fine butts are always on topic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 11:01 AM
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Fine butts are always on topic.

This isn't about hunting domestic terrorism anymore, is it?


Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 11:13 AM
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The fact that we go from domestic terrorism to talking about butts in less than 20 topics is why we're such wusses about domestic terrorism. Conservatives are able to sublimate their fascination with butts into political goals.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 12:24 PM
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Conservatives are able to sublimate their fascination with butts into political goalsanti-gay activism.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 04-21-14 1:23 PM
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It's not terrorism if you're white.


Posted by: Martin Wisse | Link to this comment | 04-23-14 2:16 AM
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