Why Is the American Far Right More Violent Than the American Far Left?

[DirkGently]

40. They blew up little girls in church in Birmingham, as I recall.

I don't forget the Klan. It may be impossible for any terrorist group to catch up with its record.

But even limiting ourselves to the past few decades, domestic terror comes from the rightwing. The plane into the IRS building -- lauded by Iowa's Congressman Steve King. The Sikh shooting. The plot a couple of years back to set off a bomb filled with rat-poison-soaked ball bearings at an MLK parade. The Tiller assassination.

Somehow we never publicly, en masse, connect those dots. The presumption remains: Conservatives' hearts are in the right place. Liberals are wiggy "radicals."

When does that set of assumptions get reversed?

Why hasn't Glenn Beck been called out by major news organizations for promoting FEMA deathcamps and the impending war about taxes and all of that?

Where is the reporting on the absolute bloodthirsty crazy-pantsedness of Alex Jones, who has people mocking and threatening the parents of school shooting victims as "actors?"

Why is that rightwingers can "slyly" scoot riiiight up to the line of calling for violent revolt, based on complete and utter lies, and it goes in the "political pundit" bucket, but OWS protesters get scoped and tracked and gassed?

GLENN: They had scary gates, we’ll show you the deal. They had prison bars and these turnstiles that were leading right into what they claimed were gas chambers.

MEIGS: Yes, actually those turnstiles aren’t there anymore but that was a, it was a work facility and that was there. They had some kind of magnetic pass cars or something like that to let people around.

GLENN: When you say work facility, that was for the Americans that were taken when they were to work?

MEIGS: That was for the people who were repairing the trains and if you think about it

GLENN: Why would they need prison bars and turnstiles like that?

MEIGS: Well, the turnstiles to me look a lot like the turnstiles they have to get into the New York subway.

GLENN: Trains. Interesting that that happens to be a common theme here, also used by Hitler, trains.

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