Posted on 01/10/2011 1:33:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It took less than 24 hours for the political Left to seize upon the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six people on Saturday to blame the political Right for the shooting.
Perhaps the most egregious example came from Paul Krugman of the New York Times, who wrote "We don't have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was." (The newspaper that published plagiarized and fabricated accounts of the "D.C. sniper" by affirmative-action hire Jayson Blair in 2003 is still publishing unsubstantiated suppositions without "proof," eh?)
"[Giffords'] father says that ‘the whole Tea Party' was her enemy..." continued Krugman, "And yes, she was on Sarah Palin's infamous ‘crosshairs' list." As if that was not enough, Krugman went on to invoke the specter of Tim McVeigh.
Well, we do have some proof now, and it's clear that the shooter was in no way connected to the Tea Party, the Republican Party, or any other movement on the political Right. Law enforcement officials have revealed that suspect Jared Loughner was rejected by the Army, kicked out of college, appeared to have mental-health issues, and was a reader of the "Communist Manifesto."
But since Krugman and the other members of the Leftist chattering classes have brought up the subject of politically-inspired violence, maybe we ought to remind them of the Left's protracted association with political violence.
We could begin over a century ago when William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz was inspired by anarchist Emma Goldman (today a darling of the academic feminists). Goldman's lover, Alexander Berkman, attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick because Frick was a prominent capitalist.
But it wasn't until the 1960s (when Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh became idols of the American Left) that the Left really ramped up the violence. Who can forget Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam? Or Eldridge "rape is an insurrectionary act" Cleaver and his Black Panthers? What about the bombings perpetrated by the Weathermen? Former Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers is, of course, a close associate of President Barack Obama. Ayers managed to escape prosecution (and proclaimed himself "Guilty as hell, free as a bird") but his wife Bernadine Dohrn served jail time for her part in the violence. Black radicals seized Cornell University at gunpoint in 1969, the same year the SDS and the Weathermen staged the "Days of Rage" riots. Race riots took place in Watts in 1965 and nationwide in 1968; leftists rioted at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago in 1968. John Kennedy was murdered by a communist, and Robert Kennedy was shot by a Palestinian - hardly men of the Right.
The 1970s weren't much calmer. The Army Math Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was bombed by Leftist radicals in 1970. Heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped and took part in and a series of armed bank robberies by the left-wing Symbionese Liberation Army. The SLA inspired Sarah Jane Moore to try to assassinate Gerald Ford --less than three weeks after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, tried to kill Ford also. And what about the shooting of FBI agents at Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement in 1975?
Since we're taking about violence against members of Congress, how can we possibly fail to mention the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan and the mass suicide of 900 people by the Leftist/Marxist Jonestown cult in 1978?
Does anyone recall that President Clinton pardoned members of the Marxist-Leninist inspired Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN? Clinton also pardoned left-wing radical Susan Rosenberg, who was imprisoned for her role in the murder of two police officers and a security guard in a robbery in 1981. She was offered a teaching job at Hamilton College, but public outcry forced her to decline the position.
More recently, we've seen anarchist and communist riots against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, and violent anti-Bush and anti-war protests. In 2007 Leftist playwrights in New York created a stage performance about killing president Bush.
The politics of the contemporary Left is absolutely intertwined with either tacit or overt support for violence. How dare the left-wing media attempt to pin the actions of a deranged individual in Tucson on the Right! To do so is nothing less than a calumny, a slander, and a blatant hypocrisy.
View the page source on her Congressional web page. It shows the link.
How easy are YouTube accounts to hack?
I’ve posted this other threads, because I think it’s important we get a consolidated list going of leftist incitement to violence. Feel free to add to it and pass it around.
Numerous examples of violent hate speech by the Left: http://riffenberg.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/leftist-haters-hate-speech/
Bill Maher sorry assassination attempt on Cheney failed: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486049/posts
Alec Baldwin and stoning Henry Hyde to death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Baldwin
0bama comments about bringing a gun to a knife fight vs. GOP:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_knife_fight.html
0bama urges Hispanics to punish GOP enemies: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/10/25/obama-urges-hispanics-to-punis
Durbin: Tone Down Violent Political Language
“The phrase, ‘Don’t retreat, reload;’ putting crosshairs on Congressional districts as targets – these sorts of things, I think, invite the kind of toxic rhetoric that can lead unstable people to believe that this is an acceptable response, Durbin said.”
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/01/10/durbin-tone-down-violent-political-language/#
Gee no rhetoric here Dick:
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”
Dick ‘Turban’ Durbin
Glad you’re back - thanks for the ping.
The New York Times don't need no skinkin' proof...
Michelle Malkin has an excellent documentation of leftist hate on her site.
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And now it starts today.
We will see many so-called news reports from the Obama media group of alleged threats to Democrat politicians.
My Fox Chicago
Representative Danny Davis Receives Possible Threat in Wake of Shooting
Updated: Monday, 10 Jan 2011, 8:39 AM CST
By Joanie Lum, FOX Chicago News
Chicago - Congressman Danny Davis reported that he received a possible threat after Saturday’s shooting in Arizona as Springfield readies for Inauguration Day.
Security will be tight at the inaugural ceremonies in Springfield, where Governor Pat Quinn will take the oath of office.
Davis said the threat came in an email to a staffer, calling it an indirect suggestion of a threat. It said “Could Danny Davis be next?” His office notified authorities.
AND don’t forget VAN JONES recent call for left to rise up and start a revolution! He mentioned a love for Che Guvarre, and that was a violent communist, whose killing, and control revolution in Cuba took away their freedom.
This shooter killed a REPUBLICAN JUDGE, so this isn’t all about the assasination attempt of Rep Giffords, it is about MASS MURDER by a maniac...and I would suppose with his Mein Kompf book, it may have an anit-semetic twist, as Giffords was jewish. It was his opportunity for 15 min of fame, and he didn’t have the money to target Wash, DC, so he used the local Rep, it was convenient act of opportunity. This nut, as substantiated by classmates, was a mass murder waiting to happen.
A large part of the Tea Party is evangelical christians, who in the Bible are described as Jewish by adoption, with Jesus as their elder brother. So trying to say the Tea Party is behind this is ludicrist, for Ms. Giffords was a blue dog (fiscal conservative), which would agree with the tea parties desire to stop increasing the deficit, and lower taxes.
There is a perverse thinking on the left, and their political accusations are like swiss cheese. The Healthcare Vote by this Rep was NO Doubt an arm twist by Pelosi, and she did NOT vote for the woman as leader in protest this term. The woman was a former Republican, who changed parties, and a centrist...not a target of Tea Partiers except in the election, to try for a true conservative.
Surprisingly, he didn’t show the reported the email as proof. As crooked as he is (and I know he is, I’m from Chicago), I don’t recall this crook speaking of threats before. Hmmm-I call BS.
Are these fake emails being sent by their leftist cohorts? I don’t believe it. Could it be the standard chain emails libs are know for? If he went to anyone other than the Propaganda Media, they would ask to SEE the alleged email as proof before printing this tripe.
Conservatives must not be cowered by these lies. We need to confront them and demand proof of accusations.
Off to listen to Rush. He will be on fire today!!!
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Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”
Obama to Followers: “And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them…”
Obama Speech (2x) : … "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Drops Creator.
Obama smoked dope and openly admits it.
Obama’s friend Bill Ayers: Stomps on the American Flag and bombs buildings.
Lougher’s Angry Views:
He went to some far-left high school funded by Ø and Ayers.
He was anti-religious, atheiest, was pissed the military gave him a “mini-bible”.
He LOVED reading Karl Marx, Adolph Hitler.
He supported and engaged in burning the flag.
He was a chronic dope smoker.
His first victim was a Bush-appointed Judge.
His second victim was a Blue Dog Dem.
His 3rd victim was a child born on 9-11.
He was a 9-11 truther, like Van Jones, Obama Czar.
He believed both the Mars Rover and Space shuttles were faked.
Sounds like an Øbamunist.
Added resource bump
hell he didnt even give an honorable mention to hitler, stalin, mao. polpot etc...
Commie pig 0b0z0 & the RAT socialist bastard demoRATs... never was there a more perverse, evil, pack of traitors & instigators of violence & hatred!
BFL...
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