As also sent to MyDD
Quoted Wingnut: "Would that it were so! ... That the American military were targeting journalists."
Readers should realize that when statements like this are made that there is a natural progress from insane rhetoric to people being shot dead.
People who contribute here, in particular.
It's happened before to libertarians and liberals.
See below fold
Exactly such a progression happened over the abortion issue. We went over time from people equating abortion clinics to Auschwitz to "Have a Blast" pins and abortion clinics being torched and dynamited.
40 years ago, we had had a similar progression from people (the sort who think sheets are sold as 'gentlemen's apparel') complaining about southern Black churches, making progress loosely speaking to churches actually being burned.
And now we come to a divergence. Some of you may be able to fill in all the details on 'either we all pray inside, or we all pray outside.'
In our history, clinics were burned, and the police were called. The women's movement or sections thereof did not confront a similar possible set of alternatives. That would have required a certain sort of consciousness raising that many well-educated women of that period did not receive. One can imagine an alternative history, in which clinics were burned, and people preaching incitements discovered that burning is a two-way-street.
Now we once again have raving loonies preaching violence, and based on history it is but a matter of time until bullets start flying again. And then people on other sides including Kossacks will need to decide what to do.
And, to emerge briefly from the closet, I regularly attend Libertarian Party state and national conventions, and you may rest assured that there is never a metal detector at the door.