More Right Wing terrorism in the US

Did Sessions just go off-script? I thought right-wing terrorists were supposed to be described as "lone wolves" or "mentally disturbed".

From the Guardian: Trump’s record on white nationalism under new scrutiny after synagogue shooting

Good point. It was my intent to remind people about this long term tendency of American conservatives to pretend that warnings about rightwing terrorism are a liberal plot. I didn't mean to suggest that this is new with Trump.

I remember a few years ago, "slavery was the fault of liberals" was all the rage on the rightwing hate machine.I think this is another case where words have no meaning in the rightwing hate machine.Liberal means "stuff I don't like".
Left means "stuff I don't like".
Socialism means "stuff I don't like".
Shooting synagogues is bad, therefore shooting synagogues is leftwing.
Gun control is bad, therefore gun control is socialist.
Tornadoes killing people is bad, therefore tornadoes are liberal.

It would be nice if that were possible, but it's kind of hard to ignore a fool who's burning down the house I live in.

Naw. I have nothing to say against those who decide they need to leave, I feel I have my duty to do what I can to try to make things a little better. Even if those efforts are miniscule.- You see? This is what I'm talking about - this is the way it's supposed to work. You have beliefs, I have beliefs. You try to convince people you're right, I try to convince people I'm right, You try to keep an open mind and be prepared to admit you're wrong, I try to keep an open mind. In the meantime, you do what needs to be done to keep our elected officials in line, I do the same. In the end, we vote.You certainly are free to move to siberia if you want, but I haven't yet lost faith (not completely) in the democratic process.

And don't get me started on the bitter struggles between the Hamilton Federalists and Jefferson Republicans in the half dozen years on either side of 1800! I'm amazed that civil war didn't break out at that time!

From the Guardian: Revealed: Republican lawmaker and ally urged crowd to prepare for civil unrestIt seems the tin-foil hat brigade is still preparing for the apocalypse.I would hope these clowns are just a small minority of the current Right Wing, but in any case I'm usually a little anxious when nervous twitchy people are holding guns. Added by edit:Oops, I misread the article. The fool Shea is a member of the Washington state legislature, not Congress.Edited by Chiroptera, : No reason given.Edited by Chiroptera, : Deleted refrence to Ilhan Omar - comment didn't make sense since Shea isn't in Congress.

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Also corrected title.

From the Guardian: Christian rightwing figures warn abortion fight could lead to civil warThe article describes more over-the-top threats of violence -- in this case, threats of a "civil war" -- from abortion foes.What makes this unsettling is that even if most of this is rhetoric or confined to a fringe group, some nut with a gun is going to take it seriously and try to apply a "Second Amendment solution".Interesting quote: Interesting because this is pretty similar to how the Right tries to explain why Muslims are a threat. I wonder how the Right feels about the same words being applied to them?

I didn't mean to imply that I think all right wingers advocate civil war and violence. Sorry if it came across that way.Like I said, the worries I have is that these people are out there and being vocal, and there maybe a nut with a gun who's going to get riled up.

From The Guardian: Revealed: Republican lawmaker aided group training young men for 'biblical warfare'Once before I brought up on this thread Matt Shea, Washington state legislator who is warning his followers to prepare for a civil war against the godless hordes overrunning this country.It appears that he is linked to a group giving paramilitary training to likeminded apocalyptic cultists. Edited by Chiroptera, : D to d in titleEdited by Chiroptera, : Added additional quote.

You're psychic!From Wikipedia:

From the Tampa Bay Times: Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame leftThe Republicans have been circulating talking points about how to respond to the El Paso shooting and the rise in white nationalist violence in general. The decision: try to focus on leftwing violence, and if that doesn't work then try to frame it allin the usual "both sides are the same" false equivalence. (Bolding is mine.)How often do they need to claim the El Paso shooter was from the left before it becomes true? Fortunately, they were caught out before we could find out and now claim that the inclusion of the El Paso shooter was a mistake.But the other items in the list are also problematic. And, of course, the Republicans - our white nationalist party - ignore the proverbial 500 lb gorilla in the room: (Thanks to Juanita Jean for the tip.)

Hi, Faith. I though I was clear on that. I linked to a newspaper article which I read. The reporters had a copy of a memo being circulated among Republicans in the US House of Representatives. That memo is quoted in the newspaper article. There is a direct quote from the House Republicans' memo. Perhaps that was an "honest mistake", but, gee whiz, those Republicans sure make a lot of those. And I do think it's suspicious that this "mistake" comes in a document advocating the dishonest framing of an issue. The rise in white nationalist violence is a documented fact. The article quotes both the Anti-Defamation League and the FBI. The link is with Congressional Republicans who have prevented US law enforcement from devoting necessary resources to combat white extremist violence while they are required to spend considerable resources on relatively lesser problems like Muslim violence or environmentalist extremists.The link is the Congressional Republicans' attempt to confuse the issue by making the false claims that leftwing violence is comparable to rightwing violence.The only link to "all of you on the right" would be the implied link where you keep voting for those clowns.

Whoa! Blast from the past!I was just thinking about how I haven't heard that one in a while.