Today is a day in which I am not feeling all that proud to be an American, but perhaps I shouldn't say that all too loudly; after all, someone like this
might encourage one of her nutjob followers to take a shot at me. Threatening liberals with violence is a debauched form of entertainment for some dittohead types, as well as for the likes of the amoral and opportunistic, such as Ms. Coulter.
Today, I am grieving for a peace and justice loving community that has been savagely attacked. I am grieving that it could be attacked by a disgusting and pathetic waste of humanity such as this.
As we know, this psychopath lashed out against society, opening fire on a church because he couldn't find a job. He also demonized the gay friendly "liberal movement" as represented by a local Unitarian Universalist church. In his deluded state, the "gays" and "liberals" were to blame for his own likely psychopathic woes.
Sounds to me like a bit of a repeat of the acts of these two men.
McVeigh and Nichols - violent, ultra right wing terrorists/ideologues, utterly lacking in compassion toward their victims.
Those here on Daily Kos who are calling the actions of Jim Adkisson to be an act of terrorism are absolutely correct.
When these deranged killers act, they are surely not acting out thoughts that are completely their own; rather, they draw their inspiration externally, no less so than do those held captive at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers, as prisoners of war, charged with being part of an international criminal conspiracy.
The right wing, racist movement that culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King, was one such conspiracy.
So too, going back 100 years, was the killing of Abraham Lincoln by pro Confederacy conspirators
And of course, let us not forget the Greenboro Massacre of 1979.
As you can see, in this clip, a group of KKK members shot at point blank range at a group of anti-Klan protestors, and did so with tha tacit support of the racist, pro-KKK Greensboro, NC police. Following this horrendous day, in which some forty Klansmen and Nazis were involved in the shootings, only sixteen killers were arrested and only six were brought to trial. Two criminal trials resulted in acquittal of all defendants by all white juries. Much more information can be found here.
I do not like the right wing and/or racist institutions or groups. I am opposed to such things politically. I think Bush and Cheney should be impeached as violators of the Constiution and charged as war criminals. But unlike at least some right wingers, I have never wished death on conservatives because of their political beliefs. They may annoy me, but I don't wish death on them. And that is a key difference between me and them.
Political violence in America has been a historical fact, and while it has sometimes led, eventually, to progress, it has generally had very negative effects.
So today, in contemplating this horrifying shootings, and in the violence of a fair amount of right wing hate speech, while there is part of me that feels somewhat ashamed of his country, there is another part of me that refuses to concede this country to psycopathic right wing terrorists, no matter how scary they may seem at times; beneath the surface, they are pathetic bullies. And they know it!