With all the talk lately of fear of violence from the right, this article by Mithridate Ombud from NewsBusters.org sums it up nicely. I excerpt this portion only:
- It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused Ann Coulter’s speech to be cancelled this week.
- It was a liberal who bit the finger off a man who disagreed with him on healthcare.
- It was Obama-loving Amy Bishop who took a gun to work and murdered co-workers.
- Joseph Stack flew his plane into the IRS building after writing an anti-conservative manifesto.
- It was liberals who destroyed AM radio towers outside of Seattle.
- It’s liberals who burn down Hummer dealerships.
- It was progressive SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man who spoke his mind.
- It’s doubtful that a conservative fired shots into a GOP campaign headquarters.
- In fact, Democrats have no monopoly on having their offices vandalized.
- Don’t forget it was Obama’s friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
- It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
- It was a liberal who threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.
- It was liberals who assaulted police in Berkeley.
- It was liberals who intimidated and threw rocks through the windows of researchers.
- The two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with nightsticks were probably not right-wingers.
- Every time the G20 gets together, it’s not conservatives who destroy property and cause chaos.
And there’s one more here: the brutal beating of Governor Bobby Jindal’s staffer and her boyfriend in in New Orleans during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Just remember: this is an election year…expect the rhetoric and even the violence to get much worse. Desperation causes politicians to do strange things. And it certainly looks to me like the thuggery on the Progressive side has ratcheted up quite a bit lately. This may be the way things are done in Chicago.
Watching The Nation 
This is good, and I’m so glad you posted it. The libs/leftists just say anything, and don’t even try to hide the fact that they’re plain lying. Just say it, and make others believe it. That’s how they operate, and it’s so frustrating. But sunlight is the best disinfectant.
We need to always challenge their “allegations” by asking for their facts. Most people get flustered by the accusations and can’t think. The allegations tend to intimidate righteous people sometimes. This is a great list to keep handy. And by the way, now we should use Alinsky’s tactics and turn the tables on them by using these factual incidents to charge THEM with violence. Progressives are throwing so much crap around these days…look at the big hoopla about those Congressmen on the capitol steps charging people shouting the n word at them…investigations, by truth-seekers, I might add, have found nothing of the kind happened, and now the congressmen have clammed up and won’t talk. I put a new quote by Pres. Reagan on my sidebar…”When virtue goes, the government fails…” We are watching the implosion as I write.