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calimary

(81,110 posts)
7. Always made sense to me.
Sun Jan 20, 2013, 04:40 AM
Jan 2013

Militant extremism. Well-armed militant extremism. Whether they carry a cross or a swastika or that stupid "Don't tread on me" flag, they seem to be of the same general mindset.

For a long time, these people have struck me as little more than domestic terrorists. Attempting to manipulate people by fear, with attacks on random general civilian groups rather than engage in more formalized traditional war-making. Combatants targeting NON-combatants. In order to bully and intimidate larger populations. We've watched this from the targeting of abortion clinics and gynecologists offering full services - for YEARS. We've seen this way back in the days of the KKK and cross-burnings. We've seen it from higher levels of the establishment, with the witch hunts leveled against accused Communist sympathizers during the McCarthy hearings. We've seen this for quite awhile.

Always seems to be leveled against the left by the so-called "right." Who are ANYTHING but.

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