[cripplecreek]

It is only recently (Oklahoma City) that there have been serious anti-government right wing led efforts.

I read McVeigh's anti war screed. He could have been a speechwriter for ANSWER.

[DTogo]

If "the Right" were to get violent, it would be the absolute end of "the Left."

And not "the end of the Republic" as Glenn whines about...

[NoLibZone]

The left shot the first and last republican presidents.

[Mark17]

Is the right wing really more violent?

No. Next question?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

So, did McVey take orders from Rush as Slick Willy claimed? What about those Islamic ties in the Philippines that the media ignore? McVey seemed more of a loner to me.

[Yardstick]

I read McVeigh's anti war screed. He could have been a speechwriter for ANSWER.

Yeah, he was definitely no conventional rightwinger. There are DU and KOSsac posts out there where they've read McVeigh's writings and basically said, hey, wait a second, this guy makes some sense. He was sending letters to uber lefty Gore Vidal prior to his execution, asking for Vidal's assistance getting his message out to the public. That's an odd choice of spokesman for a supposed rightist.

It's funny how extreme rightwingers really don't hold the same beliefs as mainstream conservatives. That's different from the left, whose fringe is truly an ultra-concentrated version of themselves. In fact, I would say the left's radicals don't so much constitute a radical fringe (excluded outsiders who are reviled by the mainstream movement) as a radical core (seen as an ultra pure vanguard whose only fault is being a little too much of a good thing).