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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRush Limbaugh suggests bombs mailed to Democrats are a false flag:
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/24/rush-limbaugh-suggests-bombs-mailed-democrats-are-false-flag-republicans-just-dont-do-kind-thing/221822
This is the mentality we're up against. He spends 3 hours a day spreading hatred, but Democrats are the violent ones.
I won't post his rant. You can go listen if you want to.
JHB
(37,157 posts)And yes, they do.
Vinca
(50,237 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)You and your party own this shit.
DBoon
(22,340 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)On top of the dead and injured, I wonder how many people suffered blast-induced concussions that are now causing cognitive issues.
Some quick stats from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
...It killed at least 168 people, injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage...
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)He is infuriating.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Let's make a list. I'll start with...
Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bomber)
James Fields (Heather Heyer's killer)
Who else?
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)April 12, 1996. A neo-Nazi named Larry Wayne Shoemake, who is found to have owned at least 22 firearms and an estimated 20,000 rounds of ammunition, kills a black man in a random Jackson, Mississippi attack.
July 27, 1996. A bomb set by Eric Robert Rudolph, who is affiliated with the Christian Identity fundamentalist movement, kills one person at the Atlanta Olympics.
Jan. 29, 1998. Another bomb set by Rudolph kills a man at a Birmingham abortion clinic.
May 29, 1998. Three militia sympathizers named Alan Pilon, Robert Mason and Jason McVean fire 29 shots at a Cortez, Colorado police officer who is trying to apprehend them because theyve stolen a water truck, killing him. The three evade capture but are believed to ultimately have died in the desert wilderness surrounding the crime scene.
July 4, 1998. Several neo-Nazis murdered anti-racism activists Lin Newborn and Daniel Shersty in an ambush attack in the Las Vegas area.
Oct. 23, 1998. With his wife and children nearby, an abortion provider in Amherst, New York is shot and killed through the window of his home by James Charles Kopp.
July 1, 1999. Brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams, who also have connections to the Christian Identity movement, kill a gay couple in Redding, California.
July 2July 5 1999. Neo-Nazi Benjamin Nathaniel Smith kills black basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong and and a Korean graduate student and wounds nine other non-white victims in a three-day shooting spree.
Aug. 10, 1999. Neo-Nazi Buford Furrow kills a Filipino immigrant after firing 70 shots inside a Jewish community center near Los Angeles.
April 28, 2000. An unemployed immigration attorney named Richard Baumhammers who believes non-white immigration should be banned shoots and kills five people in the Pittsburgh area.
Sept. 15Oct. 4, 2001. Mark Stroman, a lifelong criminal with connections to the Aryan Brotherhood, shoots three South Asian men in the Dallas areakilling twoin what he describes as revenge for 9/11.
Dec. 8, 2003. Steven Bixby kills two police officers in Abbeville, South Carolina during a dispute over the states decision to use a 20-foot strip of the Bixbys land to widen a highway.
May 24, 2004. Wade and Christopher Lay, a father-son pair obsessed with the 1993 government siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, kill a bank security guard in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
July 27, 2008. Jim David Adkisson shoots and kills two people during a childrens performance of a musical at a Unitarian Univeralist church in Knoxville, Tennessee, telling police that he intended to target individuals who had voted for liberals and Democrats.
Jan. 21, 2009. Neo-Nazi Keith Luke rapes and kills an immigrant from Cape Verde in Brockton, Massachusetts, then kills a 72-year-old homeless immigrant.
April 4, 2009. Richard Andrew Poplawski, a frequent poster on the white supremacist Stormfront website who apparently believes a national gun ban is imminent, kills three Pittsburgh police officers.
April 25, 2009. Joshua Cartwright kills two Okaloosa County, Florida sheriffs deputies. Per a police report, Cartwrights wife says he was paranoid about the U.S. government and extremely disturbed by Barack Obamas election.
May 30, 2009. Shawna Forde, Albert Gaxiola, and Jason Bush kill a Latino man and his nine-year-old daughter in Arivaca, Arizona during a robbery intended to raise funds for the Minutemen American Defense group.
May 31, 2009. Scott Roeder kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider, in the Wichita, Kansas Lutheran church where Tiller serves as an usher.
June 10, 2009. An 89-year-old white supremacist named James von Brunn kills a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. from point-blank range.
Feb. 18, 2010. Joseph Andrew Stack flies a plane into an Austin, Texas IRS office, killing one person.
May 20, 2010. A father-son pair named Jerry and Joseph Kane (who conduct seminars about how sovereign citizens can evade debt) kill two West Memphis, Arkansas police officers.
Sept. 26Oct. 3, 2011. Avowed white supremacists David Joseph Pedersen and Holly Ann Grigsby kill Pedersens father and stepmother in Washington, a man they believe is Jewish in Oregon, and a black man in California.*
Aug. 5, 2012. A white supremacist named Wade Michael Page kills six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
Aug. 16, 2012. Sovereign citizen-movement adherents Brian Smith and Kyle Joekel, who are now awaiting trial, allegedly kill two Louisiana sheriffs deputies in a trailer-park ambush.
Sept. 4, 2012. Christopher Lacy, a software engineer who lives in a rural trailer and apparently sympathizes with the sovereign citizen movement, shoots a California Highway Patrol officer who dies the next day.
April 13, 2014. Frazier Glenn Miller, a 73-year-old with a long history of KKK activity, kills three people in the area of a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas.
June 8, 2014. Jerad and Amanda Miller kill two police officers in a random attack at a pizza restaurant in Las Vegas, then kill a customer at a Walmart. The Millers had spent time on Nevada rancher Cliven Bundys property during protests related to Bundys dispute with the federal government.
Sept. 12, 2014. Eric Frein allegedly shoots and kills a Pennsylvania state trooper; hes caught 48 days later after hiding from authorities in survivalist fashion in a rural area.
June 17, 2015. Dylann Roof murders nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
July 24, 2015. John Russell Houser, a 59-year-old man with a history of expressing extremist and anti-feminist beliefs, kills two women at a screening of the Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Nov. 27, 2015. A 57-year-old religious fanatic named Robert Lewis Dear shoots and kills three people, including a police officer, at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Aug. 10, 2016. A 38-year-old Oregon man with connections to a white supremacist prison gang drove over and killed a 19-year-old black man after a sidewalk altercation in what authorities are prosecuting as a hate crime.
March 20, 2017. A 28-year-old white supremacist named James Harris Jackson stabs a 66-year-old black stranger to death in midtown Manhattan.
May 26, 2017. Two men are stabbed to death on a light-rail train in Portland, Oregon by a known local white supremacist named Jeremy Joseph Christian.
Aug. 12, 2017. A white supremacist named James Fields Jr. attending the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, allegedly runs over and kills an anti-racism protester.
Source:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/white-extremist-murders-killed-at-least-70-in-u-s-since-1995.html
Also...
https://www.splcenter.org/20180205/alt-right-killing-people
OAITW r.2.0
(24,296 posts)I'd love to see a similar list of people on our side who do these same anti-social actions. They don't exist.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Link to tweet
?s=19
Murders committed by Domestic Extremists in the United States:
74% Right-Wing Extremism
24% Islamic Extremism
2% Left-Wing Extremism
Trump can call Democrats an angry mob all he wants, but the facts show the biggest threat to America is Right-Wing extremism. https://t.co/OyV5Jz5fvf
OAITW r.2.0
(24,296 posts)Even more proof that violence is owned by the Right.
underpants
(182,627 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)I told someone that this is how they will end up spinning it!
Of course it is the violent Dems who want to set up the poor, little, innocent MAGA lambs.
Cha
(296,867 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)I will refuse to watch...my new pledge to self.
Cha
(296,867 posts)totally predictable from the demented trump suckers and constant LYING HATE INFESTED Brainwashing rallies Urging them ON.
Link to tweet
"President Trump has donated his paychecks to help our veterans." Boos all around."
Bullshit.. Pay your Taxes, trump.
Initech
(100,041 posts)Like playing 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon but you can do it in just one degree and everything is a false flag. These morons have used that term so much that the words have lost all meaning.
G_j
(40,366 posts)today
Liberal In Texas
(13,533 posts)Limpballs is nothing more than a paid propagandist.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Sort of shaped like one, but not even close once he opens his mouth.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Fuckin projectionist.