Posted by: Sister Toldjah on June 1, 2009 at 11:16 am
We all know that, in spite of the fact that fringe left wing ecoterrorism is listed by the FBI as the number one domestic terror threat we face in America, the news media rarely if ever saturates their airwaves, their Internet pages, and their news papers with stories about it, nor do we see massive pundits and politicos lining up to express their outrage. Of course, this doesn’t mean that those pundits and politicos condone the militant environmental acts – just that, in the scheme of things, they don’t see the problem as widespread enough to make an issue out of it.
Contrast that with they do widespread reporting on acts of fringe right wing violence, case in point. We’ll be hearing about the murder for George Tiller for weeks, with hypocritical left wing pundits, politicos, and news reporters alike talking about how this is “concrete evidence” of how “crazy” all pro-lifers are. Just like Bill Clinton did after the OKC bombing, they’ll blame right wing “crazies” for being “accessories” to lone acts of violence by a few fringe nutballs.
Also, contrast that with the wall to wall coverage we received of cop killer Andrew Mickel, a far left winger who gunned down Officer David Mobilio, 31-year-old husband and father of a toddler, in 2002 in order to “bring attention to, and halt, the police-state tactics that have come to be used throughout our country. Now I’m coming forward, to explain that this killing was also an action against corporate irresponsibility.” It was a rampage he wanted to continue, but didn’t get the chance to because the cops read his confession on left wing Internet websites and caught him.
Oh – that’s right, there was no wall to wall coverage of Mickel’s heinous act. Bob Owens explains:
There are some of us in the center-right blogosphere who came down heavily on Mickel for his politically-motivated assassination of an innocent police officer, but the national media largely ignored Mickel’s conviction in a death penalty case, probably because of the fact that they helped shape the terrorist he became, and because he was a living example of the worst extreme of their ideology.
Now that a man identified as Roeder has murdered infanticide specialist George Tiller, the media finally has a politically motivated assassination it can get behind and hype. They will try to portray as some sort of representative example of a much wider group, just as noted conspiracy theorist Andrew Sullivan reflexively did, even though the last murder of an abortionist occurred more than a decade ago.
As I noted earlier, nobody gains from such politically-motivated murders, and I can only wonder how the powers that be will try to use this tragedy to their advantage.
I’m not wondering. It’s already started.
Velvet Lair
Just because Andrew Mickel happened to post a manifesto on websites operated by a “left-leaning” organization doesn’t make him a “far left winger.” He was anti-government, which is classic right wing. WaPo got it wrong.
Besides, for every so-called “left-wing” whacko who kills someone, I can show you half a dozen whackjobs who do their killing in the name and spirit of the Right. Moreover, this happened in 2002 … and Bill Ayers, whom you delight in bringing up elsewhere, did his thing more than a generation ago.
It’s not inaccurate to say there are extremists on both sides, but it is misleading to cherry-pick one or two examples on the Left to justify the dozens of more recent examples on the Right.
Apart from missing the point….. Love to see that link Sinfonian
I know most libs consider it just the removal of inconvenient and useless tissue, but to those who value life abortion is an issue of murder.
Contrast that to this: “Violence and murder will never end the need for abortion,” said Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema.
Poppema is the CEO and chair of some abortion rights organization. What she said is the ultimate non sequiter: abortion IS violence and murder, only it is against the most helpless and vulnerable of our society.
Typical liberal use of Newspeak.
You’re either mind-numbingly stupid or weapons-grade dishonest. Do you happen to remember the political climate in 2002? Remember who was in the White House then? In case you forgot, the people who spent all day prancing around in giant papier mache heads and screaming about a “police state” in 2002 were you leftists. You didn’t see conservatives howling that Bush was Hitler. No, Mickel’s one of your left-wing nut cases.
And you leftists still worship him for it, which is a major difference between your side and ours, and one reason we can still justifiably cite it.
For the moment, let’s grant your still-unproven assumption that Roeder is “right-wing”. Here’s what I guarantee will not happen:
You won’t see aspiring conservative politicians vying for his favor and endorsement. You won’t see half-witted celebrities holding fund-raisers and marches demanding he should be freed, or inviting him to be an honored speaker at their events (even from jail). You won’t see conservatives setting him up as a tenured professor where he’s free to urge more violence and spew more hatred for decades.
On the other hand, you leftists do all this, and more, for killers like Ayers, Mumia, and the like.
I’m with forest hunter here. It’s put-up-or-shut-up time. Go for it.
Before you do, remember, the left gets credit for Mickel, Ayers, Mumia, Al Gore’s follower Ted Kaczynski, and every murder committed by the likes of the Weather Underground, Hezbollah, and the Baader-Meinhof gang. And that’s just for starters.
It’s only fair that the left gets the Virginia Tech mass murderer too. He dedicated one of his taped rants to how much he hated the wealthy…standard left-wing class warfare rhetoric.
Oh, and al Qaeda. It’s a decidedly leftist outfit. We can even point to that “vote for Kerry” tape Osama made on the eve of the 2004 election.
So go for it. The way I see it, to back up your boast of a 6:1 ratio, you have to come up with more than 20,000 deaths from “right wing whackjobs”.
Take your time. We’ll wait.
Sinfonian is having a Sonia Sotomayor “wise leftist” moment.
At any rate, Sinfonian has forgotten (or prefers to forget) the millions who died in Southeast Asia after the antiwar movement forced a Communist victory. Or the efforts by the Left to save Saddam Hussein. Or the millions who are suffering in North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and others defended tooth-and-nail by the Left.
Come to think of it – it’s safe to say that the Left is history’s biggest group of mass murderers (Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, Kim, etc.). All of these fine progressive leaders are hotly defended by the Left in this country.
The local CBS outlet did a one hour ten pm newscast last night. The first half hour was a memorial/love fest for tiller. The vigil in Oldtown was for the late doctor as well. Not much was given over to the actual law and order aspect. Our DA, Nola Folston did state today that it will be a state case against the suspect. So in that respect, holder will stay in DC.
BTW, I live in Wichita.
Sinfonian, anarchy, for whatever reasons, is much more identifiable with the left than with conservatism. Hence, the Unibomber was considered a leftist jerk-job, not a right-wing nut job.
As is Mickel.