Blogblah!!! » extremists http://johnrlong.com I just blather on and on about stuff that interests me, mostly politics and sex and sometimes movies and art. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:49:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 June 10, 2009 http://johnrlong.com/2009/06/10/june-10-2009-2/ http://johnrlong.com/2009/06/10/june-10-2009-2/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:57:44 +0000 http://www.johnrlong.com/?p=2206 Guard Killed, Shooter wounded in Holocaust Museum Hate Crime, the Washington Post story.

Shooting suspect has long history of ties to Neo-Nazis and extremists, according to CNN.

Was the Republican-criticized Homeland Security report about the dangers from the far right confirmed? There’s controversy?

Here’s a profile of the wounded suspect by Talking Points Memo, but if you really want to know who this guy is/was, you can see a fictional character based on the guy played by actor Stacy Keach in the Edward Norton tour-de-force “American History X”:

If anybody should be able to illuminate this guy, it oughta be the blogospheric right wing jabbermouths, right? Michele Malkin says he’s not really a true right wingnut, he’s as left as he is right because he’s just looney. Debbie Schlussel says it’s all the fault of the anti-Semitic Muslims we let walk around. Meanwhile, it appears the right of the right on the blogs, Free Republic, cunningly deleted from their pages a screed by the alleged shooter about Obama’s birth certificate and such. (You can’t link to what isn’t there and I’m not letting you guys go to such a scary site like Free Republic without someone to hold your hand and that’s final, don’t make me stop this car.)

This internet world can be a bit off-putting at times, don’t you think?

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The New York Times reports that a Wichita, KS, abortion doctor was shot and killed while attending his church Sunday morning.

(2d UPDATE) I found some “conservative” reactions to the above at Andrew Sullivan, and they are really shocking in their calloused view of this event, in my opinion.

Not long ago, Republicans were outraged at newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano because her agency had released a threat assessment concerning extreme conservatives.

shut up, he explained

shut up, he explained

However, it seems to me that today’s news reinforces the idea that the right wing in America has gone over the edge. None of this seems to even speak to those survivalists/militia types that skulk around in the great northwest and along the Mexican border (plus, of course, our own local armed crazies along the Arkansas/OK border). The greater radicalization of the already armed extreme right seems rising and that is frightening in its prospects to me. G. Gordon Liddy (don’t even think about getting a link from me) saying on the radio he hoped no important court decisions were made when Justice Sotomayor’s menstrual cycle was near makes me ill with disgust. How can such vile gutterances (intentional made-up word) get into the mainstream of information? How can this be acceptable to decent people of ANY political stripe? God bless us, every one.

A FOLLOW-UP

I reported the comment mentioned in the last post to Politico and it’s been taken off the thread. However, this story appears in today’s online Salon, noting that a Pennsylvania newspaper had to drop and report to the Secret Service a classified ad that appears to invite the assassination of President Obama. You can be sure these right wing fuctards think torture is just fine and dandy. How did they ever become part of the civil discourse of our times? It’s disgusting, frighting, horrible and unacceptable.

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