Juliette Kayyem: Assassination does not have to be a well-known target.

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Juliette Kayyem
@juliettekayyem
Assassination does not have to be a well-known target. Its use is prevalent in times of unrest or change. This violence as an extension of politics is nurtured, given comfort, a kind of "come hither" by those who can not win fairly at the ballot box. @cnn @jimsciutto


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4:19 PM · Jun 6, 2022

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1. Violence as an extension of politics is a good definition of terrorism. NT

[Hekate]

2. In other words, stochastic terrorism

Which we are now living thru.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Just read a book about sniper Joseph Paul Franklin, who killed "race mixers" and Jews in the 70s.

He targeted mixed race couples, synagogues, and sometimes just black men and boys, in the hopes that others would follow suit.

He did shoot famous people Vernon Jordan (who he saw with a white woman) and Larry Flynt (who printed pictures of black men with white women in Hustler magazine), but also 20 plus others.

He often planned very careful assaults and escape routes.

I think he fit the definition of assassin.

[Doc Sportello]

4. He really had a thing about interracial couples

Many of his targets seemed to be related to interracial couples, including Flynt for those photos. He laid in wait outside a store about two blocks from where I lived at the time and killed an interracial couple coming out of a supermarket. It's incredible how long these RW nutjobs since the civil rights movement have been perpetrating atrocities. It is terorism and continues today, obviously.