How else can you describe a movement whose leaders use codewords like "2nd amendment remedies" and resort to "fighting words" in their discourse to make people so angry that people like Byron Williams will "read between the lines" and attempt murderous acts against innocent Americans?
We don't have to speculate on the effect of these right-wing/republican organizations. We have the evidence straight from the mouth of one of Beck's "disciples".
One of the ideas from Beck that Williams "verified" involved the liberal billionaire George Soros. Williams said he was inspired by Beck's shows about Soros (described by Beck as a currency manip-ulator of Jewish ancestry who has "disturbing hair in his nose"). Beck accused President Obama of lending $2 billion to Brazil's oil company Petrobras just after Soros upped his stake in the company.
This turned out to be a false Internet rumor that Beck had amplified, but Williams did more research and concluded that Soros and Obama had sabotaged the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico to cause the oil spill and thereby help Petrobras.
This, Williams said, was his main source of anger before the alleged shoot-out. "With the exception of Beck, not once did even Fox report on things like Soros investing a billion dollars in Petrobras, or not once did they mention the fact that Obama sent them $2 billion," he noted. "Beck will not say it was a contracted hit" on the BP well by Obama and Soros, Williams said, "but he'll give you every ounce of evidence you can possibly need to make that assumption yourself."
This week we saw that same right-wing violence, not from individual crazies lurking on the fringe of society, but from several Teaparty candidates for public office. First we had the incident with Joe Miller's conserva-thugs KIDNAPPING a reporter in Alaska, and today we have "Tea Party Group Accused of Voter Intimidation in Houston Early Voting"
But the story that seems to be flying under the radar is about an incident in Washington state in which a protester was physically attacked by an angry Republican precinct captain. While this story has gotten some attention in the press, no one seems to be reporting the fact that this was a Republican precinct captain or, for that matter, that he is an employee of the local community college. And do you suppose that the Republican Party in Washington came forward to condemn his actions? Please let me know if you see any evidence that they have.