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Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Shot

post #1 of 21
8/13/08 at 4:55pm
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Get used to this sort of crap.
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post #2 of 21
8/13/08 at 5:47pm
Snaieke?

Just kidding.

Sorta.
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post #3 of 21
8/13/08 at 6:17pm
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Officially now dead.

Also, here's your liberal media in action.



Democrat headquarters. How respectful of the deceased.
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post #4 of 21
8/13/08 at 6:26pm
I'm sure we deserved it, right?
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post #5 of 21
8/13/08 at 6:26pm
This is McCain's doing.
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post #6 of 21
8/13/08 at 6:42pm
With the way things are I'm surprised this actually hasn't happened more.

I've always wondered what it would take to actually inspire widespread armed revolt in this country.
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post #7 of 21
8/13/08 at 6:51pm
The unfortunate side effect of being closer in the MapQuest "Search Nearby" option than the local Planned Parenthood office.

If that's more than just my personal take on the lunatic, it'd be ironic considering ABC news is trumpeting how Democrats are softening their skulls on female rights.
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post #8 of 21
8/13/08 at 11:54pm
He died four hours afterwards. Damn.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/...party_shooting
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post #9 of 21
8/14/08 at 2:38am
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. I've heard my share of talk radio and what comes out of some of those shows are meant to make Democrats the most dangerous thing to this nation. I know there are cynical reasons for it, but unfortunately a lot of nut jobs take that crap to heart and then this happens. The last time this happened, the police found books by Anne Coulter and Michael Savage in the shooter's home. I wonder what the cops will find at this guy's house?
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post #10 of 21
8/14/08 at 3:15am
Oh, come on. This, and actions like it, are carried out by psychos who feel they have been victimized by "the system." Had it not been a Republican, it would have been a Democrat.

Finding a Coulter or Hannity or, for that matter, a Franken, does not give much insight into a person's madness.

These people are INSANE. there's little background to it.
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post #11 of 21
8/14/08 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by PoppySeeds View Post
Oh, come on. This, and actions like it, are carried out by psychos who feel they have been victimized by "the system." Had it not been a Republican, it would have been a Democrat.
I understand what you're saying, but you're also minimizing the influence of the hateful banter prevalent with right-wing mouthpieces on fragile or even dumb minds.
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post #12 of 21
8/14/08 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by Bancroft Agee View Post
I've always wondered what it would take to actually inspire widespread armed revolt in this country.
That sound you just heard was the click of me taking a picture of this. Thanks, that one's going in the scrapbook.
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post #13 of 21
8/14/08 at 12:28pm
Just a reminder:

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting that he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, including its acceptance of gays, authorities said Monday.

A four-page letter found in Jim D. Adkisson's small SUV indicated he intentionally targeted the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because, the police chief said, "he hated the liberal movement" and was upset with "liberals in general as well as gays."
The Frankens of the world do not use the same kind of inflammatory language as the Savages and the Coulters. I refer to the West Wing for why this is:

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Originally Posted by The West Wing... Josh I think
There may not be anything anymore that outpaces the hatred the right feels for the left or the tonnage of disrespect the left feels for the right.
A diatribe from the left inspires mockery, a diatribe from the right inspires something else.
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post #14 of 21
8/14/08 at 1:25pm
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Originally Posted by soylentgreen View Post
The unfortunate side effect of being closer in the MapQuest "Search Nearby" option than the local Planned Parenthood office.

If that's more than just my personal take on the lunatic, it'd be ironic considering ABC news is trumpeting how Democrats are softening their skulls on female rights.

I like Rev Wallis take that the Dems are going from dogma to practical solutions to reduce abortions.....which I guess would mean stuff like, oh, access to birth control for ALL women (and men, as far as that goes), sex ed in high schools, etc etc. Y'know, those things the right has been whittling away at and blocking for years.
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post #15 of 21
8/14/08 at 1:31pm
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Originally Posted by Bancroft Agee View Post
I've always wondered what it would take to actually inspire widespread armed revolt in this country.
If W couldn't manage it, it ain't gonna happen.

Besides, who do you revolt against? It's too complicated now; it isn't just busting down the castle doors and taking the kings stores of food and gold for the people. Money is less concrete and more abstract; the system is fucked from the local level up to the federal; I'd argue that multinational corporations are as responsible for misery in the US as the government, etc etc.

As much as I'd like to storm the gates of the White House with a pitchfork and a torch, killing W wouldn't get anything accomplished.
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post #16 of 21
8/14/08 at 2:54pm
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If W couldn't manage it, it ain't gonna happen.

Besides, who do you revolt against? It's too complicated now; it isn't just busting down the castle doors and taking the kings stores of food and gold for the people. Money is less concrete and more abstract; the system is fucked from the local level up to the federal; I'd argue that multinational corporations are as responsible for misery in the US as the government, etc etc.

As much as I'd like to storm the gates of the White House with a pitchfork and a torch, killing W wouldn't get anything accomplished.
Well yes, the day after a bunch of civil rights would be suspended to protect americans from the "Pitch Fork Terrorists" , all in their best interest, and signed by Dick Cheney.
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post #17 of 21
8/14/08 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by Khaunshar View Post
Well yes, the day after a bunch of civil rights would be suspended to protect americans from the "Pitch Fork Terrorists" , all in their best interest, and signed by Dick Cheney.
Don't forget the attack of the Pitch Fork Terrorists would result in a wave of patriotism that would help Cheney push through the sale of all national parks to mining companies, drilling offshore, in ANWR, and in your backyard, and Fox News attacking the Dems for being soft on pitch forks.
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post #18 of 21
8/15/08 at 9:43am
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Originally Posted by Jonathan Banks is my hero View Post
That sound you just heard was the click of me taking a picture of this. Thanks, that one's going in the scrapbook.

Yeah, it probably sounded worse than I intended. It was just a thought expressed about an intellectual exercise I've had over the years. I blame it all on my quasi-obsession with Shay's Rebellion.

I've just always found it fascinating that the United States hasn't been swept up in the type of revolutionary fervor from the bottom up as most of the rest of the world has.
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post #19 of 21
8/15/08 at 4:19pm
I hope you haven't forgotten we got it out of our system early. 1776. 1861. If every obsessively hateful ignorant racist gun nut piece of shit in the country suddenly spilled out into the streets armed with shotguns and attempting an Asshole Revolution, I'd be overjoyed by the fact that we'd demolish them, and finally be able to wipe those fuckers out for good.
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post #20 of 21
8/15/08 at 4:23pm
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I hope you haven't forgotten we got it out of our system early. 1776. 1861. If every obsessively hateful ignorant racist gun nut piece of shit in the country suddenly spilled out into the streets armed with shotguns and attempting an Asshole Revolution, I'd be overjoyed by the fact that we'd demolish them, and finally be able to wipe those fuckers out for good.
Yeah, but those weren't "people's revolutions" so to speak.

I'm not ascribing any sort of ideological bent (All those Turner's Diary fucks seem to be only good at killing random, innocent people) one way or the other its just the subject that fascinates me.
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post #21 of 21
8/15/08 at 8:28pm
Say what you will about the Civil War, but 1776 was definitely a people's revolution in the most traditional terms. You've got your privileged idealistic intellectuals doing most of the instigating and whipping up the Joes into war the same way it went in the French and Russian revolutions. I don't know if it ever really is just a straight-up bunch of blue collar dudes spontaneously grabbing improvised weapons in a mass groupthink. The only thing I can think of like that is the NYC draft riot, and that was organized and generaled by the top dogs of organized crime down in the Five Points.
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