Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts

Monday, November 25, 2013

When does it become too much? Some tea partiers are now calling for Obama’s “legal” assassination

Horrifying. This is what we get when the far right gets a free pass from the mainstream media. How about nightly fact checks on the evening news programs? These people are dangerous (the so-called journalists on the far right) when they inflame potential domestic terrorists so they can drive up ratings with their "info-taiment" shock talk, and then run from the responsibility when one of these nut jobs actually takes everything they've been saying as fact and starts building bombs or firing off shots.

Do they have the right to say the things they do? Well, I suppose they do. But the mainstream media, more so, has the responsibility of challenging what they say, from Fox News to Glenn Beck and beyond. Instead, they ignore it, or even worse, take it seriously and start reporting on the same "stories" these dangerous anti-journalists are fabricating without any real reporting to clarify fact and to separate truth from fiction.

When, not if, but when we have the next OKC, I'll be blaming the major mainstream news outlets as much as I'll be blaming the right wing "info-tainment" outlets. Perhaps even more so, because they truly are dropping the journalism ball where Beck and folks make it very clear that they are pandering to their viewers and listeners for the sake of the holy dollar and have little real interest in actually being journalists.

A lot of these folks cite the Bible for their political philosophies, well here's one for them:

Romans 13 (NSV): 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Christian Tea Party Terrorist Claims 2nd Amendment Authority To Shoot President Obama! | Americans Against the Tea Party:

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Man Charged With Possessing 4,000 Pounds Of Explosives, Saying 'We Will Be Mercenaries' | TPMMuckraker

In the worse case scenarios, this is where the far right and the tea party's rhetoric leads... That is why, while I respect their freedom of speech, I feel that the level and tone of their vitriol is irresponsible and dangerous. There are people out there who take the venomous words of politics way too seriously and become a danger to all Americans.

As the threat of foreign terrorists wanes, at least in the minds of most Americans, the threat of domestic terrorism will increase. And one thing for all of those on the far right who whine about the far left's rhetoric, I will say this. OKC came from the right side, not the left.

Man Charged With Possessing 4,000 Pounds Of Explosives, Saying 'We Will Be Mercenaries' | TPMMuckraker: "A Michigan man was charged with possessing over 4,000 pounds of explosives and allegedly told an informant that "when the government takes over, we will be mercenaries.""

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