The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America

[EV_Ares]

Crooks and Liars posted new details about the right-wing psychopath who gunned down three police officers in Pittsburgh:


Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we're starting to learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away.

It appears that what police may be looking at is a budding white supremacist who frequented one of the most popular neo-Nazi websites and harbored an apocalyptic dread of the federal government...

he Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has some corroboration from other sources that indicates he fits this profile:

entire article on this guy @ link: http://www.librarygrape.com/2009/04/chilling-rise-of-right-wing-hate-in.html

[malaise]

1. KO had a good section

on Beck.

[The Straight Story]

2. I am afraid some on DU want to take my guns away, and I ain't killing anyone over it

Of course, I don't own a gun right now, but I digress.

I also fear the federal government (patriot act, et al) and I am not shooting anyone over it.

I've listened to rush, hannity, local radio, and it didn't send me over the edge.

Hell, I have even read Mein Kampf and I didn't want to harm anyone after I was done.

Why do some who do the above go off the deep end?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. six people are, respectively, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, and 10 steps away from the edge of the abyss.

And then something makes everybody go 3 steps forward.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. VERY well put!

[Marr]

3. Break up big media and this problem will be largely solved.

Right-wing lunatics have vastly disproportionate voices in the media because they serve the corporate agenda. Smash these giant media conglomerates into small pieces-- let these people compete on their merits and 95% of them will be unemployed in a week.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. I'm sure that would help, but...

Radio personalities like attention.

Ranting and raving about how their audience of fine, upstanding, patriotic 'murkins are getting the shaft from them thar lib'ruls goes over well with a large demographic.

Dividing up the ownership might fragment the message a little, but I'm not at all sure that it would stop.

People like being told that they deserve so much more and that some local hero is out to get it for them (by taking it away from them undeserving commies).

[NJmaverick]

4. Right wingers are so bad that it's a tough call

are they more dangerous in power or when they are out of power?

[redqueen]

8. Wish I'd seen this in time to rec it.

The RW loves to point to the kind of hate liberals vent at the right... but it pales in comparison to what right-wingers resort to in the name of hate.

Too many of them don't just vent online...