Tally Grows of Viewers Moved to Violence by Beck’s Rants

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/12/01/tally-grows-of-viewers-moved-to-violence-by-becks-rants/


Through countless diagrams and diatribes, chalk-wielding Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has made it his mission to inform his audience that left-wing progressives are purportedly on the brink of revolution. Many of Beck’s fans take him seriously. In the past two years, at least three have decided the best response to his warnings is violence.

Kenneth B. Kimbley Jr. of Spirit Lake, Idaho, is the latest to face prison time for interpreting Beck’s rants as a call to action.

Kimbley claims to be the leader of the Brotherhood of America Patriots, an extreme-right militia whose mission, he says, is to “resist in the event the government started rounding up the patriots” and to stand up in the face of foreign invasions or societal breakdowns. (Authorities believe Kimbley’s group was tiny.) At the time of his arrest in July, Kimbley had 20,000 rounds of ammunition, a stock of firearms, and materials he planned to use to construct grenades, according to court documents.

According to the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., Kimbley’s lawyer described her client as a man with strong political views who posed no real danger to society. “In fact, everything said by Mr. Kimbley is no different than what his idol, TV commentator Glenn Beck, typically states on the air,” public defender Kim Deater wrote in court papers.

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[bullimiami]

1. Beck is heinous but that doesnt seem like "moved to violence by Beck..."

This maniac just thought he found a kindred spirit. His madness is his own.

[MadMaddie]

2. A guy with 20, 000 rounds poses no danger?

Just a matter of time before a lot of innocent people are harmed by these nuts.

[Xithras]

4. Having 20,000 cartridges is legal. They got him for the grenades.

He apparently made a grenade with an undercover federal agent, and discussed blowing up some local bridges.

But there's no limit on the number of bullets you can own. Some municipalities do require that you notify the fire department if you go beyond a certain number, and you're required to have permits if you have a certain amount of raw powder on the premesis, but that's it.

[xchrom]

3. it's all just mcveigh all over again.

mcveigh heard correctly violence in the right wing's radio mouthpieces.

and he answered.

what was reprehensible was when called on it by clinton -- even elected republican house members 'shouted' clinton down
with grunts and diatribes.