Before I continue let me make two things as explicitly clear as a porno movie...
(1) Violence as a form of political expression and/or dissent as opposed to doing so legitimately, in the ballot box is wrong. If you don't like the results of an election or a law then do something positive to change it and violence is never positive.
(2) The above statement is true whether you are coming from the left or the right.
The article goes on to state:
The assassins themselves are ratting you out. They're telling us, straight up, that they were inspired to act by the hate radio talkers that you empowered -- one of whom is now the de facto head of the Republican party. They got it from media outlets owned by your biggest donors. They got it from bloggers who receive daily talking points faxed in from the GOP. They got it from activists representing causes that would have never become causes in the first place if the issues hadn't been politically expedient for you.
Beyond that: You've already admitted your own complicity.
When the Department of Homeland Security expressed their worries about right-wing extremist violence last April, practically every conservative pundit in the country went into a righteous fit. DHS never named anyone directly, so it was astonishing how many of you on the right were so quick to step up and claim that that memo was slandering you, personally and collectively. Since you were so eager to claim that that memo was all about you, now that the violence has come to pass, we're well justified in holding you to that.
It is something the sanest of us have known for a long time now.
When was the last rise in political based violence and the rise of right wing militias?
During the Clinton years. And the same thing is happening now.
Point blank inflamatory hate filled rhetoric is wrong no matter who it comes from and as far as I am concerned... if someone's public spewing inspires another to violence... then the spewer is just as guilty... maybe more.
So... what gives you guys the right?
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