[xerxes]

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Cool, but I'm still not sure you understand what I'm saying. I'm not saying nutbars are more exclusive to one political ideology, or the other. I'm saying nuts, are just nuts. They don't need politics to motivate them. Sometimes, however political ideologies are convenient, both for them, and for those who would like to present the politics they favor as superior.

I couldn't agree more; crazy transcends politcs. But lets be realisitc as well; right now, in America, political violence is more likely to come from what's defined as the right-wing. You know, the people who belive Obama is either a Communist, Anti-Christ, Muslim, or just plain non-American.

Say what you will about the truthers and the like (and there is a lot to be said), threats to Pres. Bush did not go up 400% during his time in office.

[N_Fiddledog]

I am being realistic. How much more evidence do you need to see there has always been, and there is still as much evidence for craziness, and violent threats, and even attacks from either side of the political spectrum, points in between, and even stuff so wacky it defies political boundries.

That guy who sprayed Clinton's Whitehouse with bullets wasn't attacking for the right wing. He thought he was defending the world from an alien attack. Obama wasn't the first to produce President as anti-christ theories. Bush got that too.

And on Bush, you're joking right? He might be the most attacked President in history. Will you believe me if I tell you I can fill this page with evidence of that. Go ahead challenge me. I have it all handy, it's just a bit of a chore to put it to page.

[N_Fiddledog]

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That was the guy in Pittsburgh who shot three police officers because he thought they were sent by Obama to take his guns away.

I totally missed that one. How did I miss that. Sounds like it was a big thing at the time. It has its own Wikipedia page. I must have been busy that week. Yes, we do too hear about that sort of stuff on right wing blogs.

That guy was some messed up. Sounds like he was a Alex Jones, Ron Paul listening-to, anti-zionist, white racist, survivalist wanna be, and yeah there was an "Obama wants my guns" comment among his litany of complaints.

I wonder though, where do these guys really belong on the political spectrum. I admit I don't want them with me on the right wing, and it doesn't seem like it matters who's in power, they're still going to be pissed. I think of them as some kind of Libertarian anarchists maybe, but that doesn't quite do it either. McVeigh was another one.

Yeah, OK, you've got me. I can't really think of a parallel to that brand of nut that's seen more as leaning to the left. Or I don't know, maybe those left wing anarchists (yeah, I know conflicting terminology) like the Symbionese liberation army, or was it the Beider Meinhoff gang that killed those Israeli Olympic athletes? That type does seem less noisy these days though. Doesn't mean we won't hear from them again though.

Oh wait, black power types. Would they fit. Have they killed anybody lately? Remember the Zebra Murders? Those were brutal.

[xerxes]

It does seem kind of cyclical. In the 60's it was left-wing radicals, now in the naughts and teens, it's right-wing radicals.

[GreenTiger]

Cyclical or not I don't care. Any religious group that advocates killing in the name of God is sick. Listening to the groups of morons makes secularism and atheism attractive (I never thought I'd say that).

These FU groups need to be treated the same way we teat al-quada or any other such group. They need to be hunted down an incarcerated. There should be absolutely no difference in treatment of these folks from the Islamic Fundamentalists.

[xerxes]

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Or was it the Beider Meinhoff gang that killed those Israeli Olympic athletes?

It was a group called Black September actually, one with ties to Fatah.