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Glenn Arnold
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just another cherry picked example of violent conservative rhetoric
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DarkKnight
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and another one
One more...

Another major news story

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Lyrhawn
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Honestly, I think I'd make an exception for the first one there DK.

The second one isn't a death threat. Though it's certainly not nice.

The third one, now that's troubling and wrong.

Really though, we'll be here until the end of time if you want to find examples of individuals from opposite ends of the political spectrum threatening each other. I think the story changes dramatically when you focus the observation on political leaders and leading figures.

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And when we have THAT conversation, things very quickly shift away from strict comparisons of rhetoric by major political figures-naturally.
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Of course, there are those where little girls end up dead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350721/Girl-9-father-shot-dead-anti-immigrant-vigilantes-begged-life.html

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The extremes do not fear their mirrored opponent. Such opposition only strengthens them.

Lunatic Liberal and Fanatical Conservative are brothers and sisters in arms--hating each other but needing each other to be.

It is only the calm center that they fear. Logic, compassionate faith, friendship and courtesy is all it takes to disarm both sides.

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Wow Kate, I'm kinda wishing I hadn't read that story [Frown] .
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I sympathize but think that more people should. [Frown]
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Yeah, it's kind of shocking to me how completely buried that story is, given its topical importance as, among other things, a cautionary reminder of the results of polarized and militant alarmism.

from the philly link i put up in the other thread:

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Prosecutors allege that Forde cooked up a scheme to rob and murder drug dealers, all to raise money for the fledgling, anti-immigrant border patrolling group called Minutemen American Defense, or MAD.

I wrote about Forde and her warped "politics" in my recent book, The Backlash. I noted that in April 2009 -- as first reported by Stephen Lemons of the Phoenix New Times, an authority on nativist, right-wing groups in Arizona -- Forde was amped up after attending her first Tea Party on the steps of the state capitol in Phoenix.

"This is the time for all Americans to join organizations and REVOLT!!!," she wrote in a blog post that was retrieved from the Google cache by Lemons. "Refuse to be part of a system only designed to enslave you and your children. Times will be worse before they get worse. *Say no to illegal immigration* Lock and Load, Shawna Forde."

It was this same month that Forde and her ragtag Minutemen band allegedly approached drug dealers in southern Arizona with a scheme to kill and rob their rivals for cash. One of Forde's goals, allegedly, was to buy a 40-acre property near the border that she intended for her group to use as a base for raids -- which she called "Delta One Operations" -- on undocumented Mexicans crossing the border.


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Glenn Arnold
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I guess I keep forgetting that the internet needs a sarcasm font. It would be used on the thread title, but not on the first post.
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Ron Lambert
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How about [Evil] or the milder [Wink] ?

I guess you can't use those in thread titles though. Maybe in titles you could just say: >sarcasm<

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Glenn Arnold
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One of the perils of a dry sense of humor is that nobody gets it. I'm the same way in person actually. It doesn't do to telegraph it, and pointing it out is just as bad as explaining the joke.
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Ron Lambert
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Alas, that is true, Glenn. I remember writing a satiric piece for my university student newspaper way back when, making fun of certain opinions expressed in the student newspaper of a rival university that reviled my school, and finding that nobody in the target audience even "got it." Satire very seldom seems to be successful as a means of persuasion, so I long ago pretty much abandoned it.
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