[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health

[the lockshop]

Horse Feathers. Those affiliated with the American right generally do not espouse anti-capitalist/pro-communist rhetoric or believe that our currency should be backed by high potency doobage and they most assuredly do not register as democrats. Also, it would be extremely rare that following a right wing incident Noam Chomsky would appear and publicly state that several of the perpatrators assertions were accurate or based on real grievances.

The contention that violence and violent rhetoric is an exclusive property of the right is foolish. I'm sure that I could wander around the net and find a list similar to the one posted by the curse of Riverdale High showing the same sorts of things from a right of center perspective and it would be equally flawed. Pretending that you are perpetually one with the angels is to willfully disregard reality.

g



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
To: "the lockshop" <lockshop at pull.twcbc.com>
Cc: "Reggie Holmquist" <reggieholmquist at u.boisestate.edu>; "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>; "vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health


Gary --

You've said this before, and you're wrong. Both Beddell and Stack had
clear connections to the American right. Stack was a member of a
militia-affiliated tax protest group, and Beddell was an Objectivist
anarcho-capitalist who operated a blog about Austrian economics. He
was unaccountably registered as a Democrat, but that seems entirely
unrelated to the reasons he fired on the Pentagon.

-- ACS

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, the lockshop <lockshop at pull.twcbc.com> wrote:
> An impressively lenthy, but highly suspect list. (one can't help but wonder
> from where it might have been cribbed) Several problems throw the entire
> lists veracity into question, chief among them is the inclusion of Joseph
> Stack, John Patrick Bedell, and Jared Loughner as individuals with some
> conection to the right. Next time it might be a good idea to review (and
> cite) the material you choose to cut and paste. Using non-factual
> information to back up your faulty assertion that another fellows argument
> is flawed makes you look foolish.
>
> g
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reggie Holmquist
> To: lfalen
> Cc: vision 2020
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health
> Your faulty argument is based on the false premise that there is an equal
> amount of hate speech and violence coming from both sides. Please consider
> this short list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false equivalency.
>
> -Reggie
>
> July 27, 2008—Jim Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive
> church in Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it “a symbolic
> killing” because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate &
> House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book,” but was unable to gain
> access to them.
>
> September 18, 2008—Dick Heller, the plaintiff from the case of District of
> Columbia v. Heller, provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding
> firearm-related legislation. Heller’s written, submitted testimony states,
> in part: "‘We the people,’ armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the
> Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that is
> the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city, ARMED
> CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our individual
> neighborhoods.”
>
> September 22, 2008—The National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama
> website, which predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama,
> “if elected…would be the most anti-gun president in American history.” The
> website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit Obama.
>
> December 9, 2008—FBI teams investigating the murder of white supremacist
> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine, find supplies for a crude
> radiological dispersal dervice and other explosives in his home. Cumming's
> wife, who shot him to death after being abused by him repeatedly, explains,
> "His intentions were to construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to
> kill President Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our
> moter home."
>
> February 5, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an hour-long special on
> Fox called “We Surround Them,” a “grassroots effort to wake up our Nation's
> leaders and let them know what many, if not most, Americans truly believe in
> and stand for.”
>
> February 20, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games a
> 2014 civil war scenario called “The Bubba Effect.” It involves citizen
> militias in the South and West taking up arms against the U.S. government.
>
> March 3, 2009— FOX commentator Glenn Beck interviews NRA celebrity spokesman
> Chuck Norris. During the interview, Beck states that, “Somebody asked me
> this morning, they said, ‘you really believe that there's going to be
> trouble in the future?’ And I said, ‘if this country starts to spiral out of
> control and, you know, and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really
> starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a
> totalitarian country … Americans will, they just, they won't stand for
> it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.’ And they said,
> ‘where's that going to come from?’ And I said, ‘Texas, it's going to come
> from Texas.’”
>
> March 9, 2009—NRA celebrity spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial
> published at WorldNetDaily: “How much more will Americans take? When will
> enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen
> or will history need to record a second American Revolution?”
>
> March 11, 2009—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative
> Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers
> understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.”
>
> March 21-22, 2009—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she
> wants residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the
> energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a
> revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people—we the
> people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our
> country.”
>
> April 4, 2009—Neo-Nazi Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police
> officers responding to a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend
> Edward Perkovic tells reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban
> that’s on its way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.”
> Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if
> anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna’ stand by what his
> forefathers told him to do.”
>
> April 7, 2009—The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence
> and Analysis releases an assessment of right wing extremism in the United
> States. The Department notes that “the economic downturn and the election of
> the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing
> radicalization and recruitment.” Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by
> Timothy McVeigh, the Department speculates, “The possible passage of new
> restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans facing
> significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to
> the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable
> of carrying out violent attacks.”
>
> April 15, 2009—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after he
> openly states on Twitter that he is going to turn the upcoming Oklahoma City
> “Tea Party” into a bloodbath. Two months earlier, Hayden had written online,
> “The only thing that is keeping the New World Order from destroying this
> nation is the presence of over 100,000,000 guns in civilian hands. When guns
> are outlawed, only criminals will have guns. Since we are already criminals
> in the eyes of the New World Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and
> to kill those of us who will NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE
> gun "laws" and keep your guns (AND ammo) handy.”
>
> April 19, 2009—The Oath Keepers, an anti-government group made up of current
> and former law enforcement and military personnel, holds its first "muster"
> in Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the opening shots of the
> Revolutionary War. The groups' members pledge to disobey ten different
> orders that they deem "unconstitutional" and "immoral," the first of which
> reads, "We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people."
>
> April 25, 2009—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National
> Guard, shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to
> arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an enusing
> gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was "severely
> disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president. Okaloosa County
> Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was "interested in militia
> groups and weapons training."
>
> May 2009—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that threats
> to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in the past
> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in 2008. Federal officials blame a
> number of parties, including the "sovereign citizen" movement—an unorganized
> grouping of tax protesters, white supremacists, and others who don't respect
> federal authority.
>
> May 21-22, 2009—We The People Chairman Bob Schultz hosts a gathering of 30
> "freedom keepers" in Jekyll Island, Georgia. The meeting plays "a key role
> in launching the current resurgence of militias and the larger
> anti-government 'Patriot' movement." One of the participants, former Texas
> militia leader Jon Roland, claims the federal government has "been engaging
> in warlike activity against the American people."
>
> May 31, 2009—Scott P. Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion
> provider, in the foyer of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,
> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical
> anti-government group. In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka,
> Kansas, for driving with a homemade license plate. Police found a
> military-style rifle, ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound
> can of gunpowder, and two 9-volt batteries in his car.
>
> June 3, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
> blogger/radio host, is arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling
> for the deaths of two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they
> sponsored a bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman
> Catholic parishes from priests and bishops to lay members. “While filing a
> lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle things,” he wrote, “we at
> TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a group of
> tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft. Thankfully, the
> Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to resolve tyranny: The Second
> Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in Connecticut take up arms and put down
> this tyranny by force ... If any state attorney, police department or court
> thinks they're going to get uppity with us about this, I suspect we have
> enough bullets to put them down, too.”
>
> June 10, 2009—James W. von Brunn, a convicted felon and a “hardcore
> Neo-Nazi,” walks into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
> and shoots and kills a security guard. Von Brunn believed that Western
> civilization was going to be replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI
> GOVERNMENT” that would “confiscate private weapons” in order to accomplish
> its goals.
>
> June 24, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and white supremacist
> blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling for the murder of three
> Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals who had
> issued a June 2 decision upholding handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing
> on his blog, Turner says, “Let me be the first to say this plainly: these
> judges deserve to be killed,” and includes photographs, phone numbers, work
> addresses, and room numbers of the judges, as well as a map of Chicago’s
> federal courthouse which points out its “anti-truck bomb” pylons.
>
> July 13, 2009—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,
> Texas, with an assault rifle. Police were responding to reports that Ortez
> or his wife had fired shots at utility workers in the area. Police searching
> Ortez’s mobile home after a 10-hour standoff find more than 100 explosive
> devices; Nazi drawings and extremist literature; and several additional
> firearms.
>
> July 15, 2009—Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia
> House of Delegates in the state’s 99th District makes headlines by calling
> on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the country.
> Appearing at a “Tea Party” rally, Crabill quotes a 1775 speech by Patrick
> Henry and then states, “We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot
> box before we have to resort to the bullet box. But that's the beauty of our
> Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of
> firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the
> Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against tyranny.”
> This thought is reinforced on Crabill’s campaign website, where she states
> the Second Amendment “was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and
> more specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed citizenry.”
>
> July 31, 2009—On WWJB-AM in Hernando County, Florida, talk radio host Bob
> Haa takes a call from a listener who mentions ammunition, target practice,
> and Barack Obama. Haa tells him not to waste his ammunition on targets, to
> save it for the administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the
> Secret Service.
>
> August 11, 2009—William Kostric is filmed openly carrying a handgun outside
> of President Obama's health care reform town hall meeting in New
> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads, "IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF
> LIBERTY!" a reference to the following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of
> liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and
> tyrants."
>
> August 17, 2009—Chris Broughton openly carries a handgun and AR-15
> semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally in Phoenix,
> Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW Convention across
> the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton states, “What do you
> think we did in the revolution, in the American Revolution? The British
> weren't stealing money from us for health care. They weren't taxing us the
> way they are now back then. And what did we do? We forcefully kicked them
> out of our country, and we will forcefully resist people imposing their will
> on us through the strength of the majority with a vote.”
>
> August 25, 2009—During a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls, Idaho, an audience
> member asks Rex Rammell, a candidate in the 2010 Idaho Republican Primary, a
> question about "Obama tags" during a discussion about state-issued tags for
> wolf hunting. Rammell responds, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those." In
> a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the law knows I
> was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue hunting tags in
> Washington, D.C."
>
> August 26, 2009—At a secessionist rally on the state capitol steps in
> Austin, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina states that, "We are
> aware that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war. We are
> aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered with
> the blood of tyrants and patriots.”
>
> September 9, 2009—With President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol to address
> a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform, Joshua
> Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia, attempts to drive his Honda Civic
> into a secure area near the building. U.S. Capitol Police stop him and,
> searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500 rounds of
> ammunition. He is arrested on weapons charges.
>
> September 25-26, 2009—Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at the “How to Take Back
> America” Conference in St. Louis, tells her audience, “If we had our guns
> [during the time of the Nazis’ reign in Germany], we would have fought a
> bloody battle. So, keep your guns, and buy more guns, and buy
> ammunition. Take back America. Don’t let them take the country into
> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler’s party was National Socialism. And
> that’s what we are having here right now, which is bordering on Marxism.”
>
> September 28, 2009—Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman of the Second
> Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House
> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “domestic enemy of the Constitution” at a health care
> reform town hall meeting.
>
> September 29, 2009—An editorial at the Newsmax website calls for a military
> coup to oust President Obama.
>
> September 30, 2009—The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a talk radio program on
> Sirus, takes a call from “Jim” from Oklahoma, who claims that he and 200
> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup against President Obama. Jim says
> they want to restore their "a right to bear arms" and bring the country back
> to where it was 400 years ago, before slavery was abolished.
>
> October 18-19, 2009—Reports emerge that the Secret Service has received an
> unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama. Ronald
> Kessler's account of presidential security, In the President's Secret
> Service, states that there has been a 400% increase in such threats in
> comparison with Obama’s predecessor. Another source of these reports is an
> August 5, 2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which finds:
> “The [Secret] Service’s protection mission has increased and become more
> ‘urgent’ due to the increase in terrorist threats and the expanded arsenal
> of weapons that terrorists could use in an assassination attempt or attacks
> on facilities.”
>
> October 21, 2009—John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard, is
> arrested for making terroristic threats against President Obama. Authorities
> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a stolen rifle. Brek, a
> National Rifle Association member, is also found to be in possession of
> illegal hollow point bullets.
>
> November 2009—Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri,
> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges Missourians to
> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt government. The
> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County Republicans website.
>
> November 11-22, 2009—More than 100 delegates from across the country attend
> a "Continental Congress" hosted by We The People. Attendees include
> Neo-Confederate secessionists, "Common Law Court" enthusiasts, adherents of
> the "Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia backers, and other radicals.
> Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll Island, the Congress issues a
> document entitled the "Articles of Freedom" which declares that the federal
> government "now threatens our Life, Liberty and Property through usurpations
> of the Constitution."
>
> November 29, 2009—Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart tweets,
> "Capital punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high treason."
> Hansen, who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted
> researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who has
> called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global warming.
>
> December 23, 2009—Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three people hostage at a
> federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is armed with four guns,
> including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a criminal record that
> includes convictions for lewd and lascivious beheavior with a 13 year-old
> and attempted second-degree murder (Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a
> parking lot in 1993). Taylor fires at least three rounds before the
> stand-off ends, including one at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of
> Taylor's hostages reports that he was angry about taxes and "the government
> taking over the right to bear arms."
>
> January 2010—A group of nearly 200 "extremely concerned citizens" in Ravalli
> County, Montana, demand that local elected officials fill out a
> "questionnaire" pledging to form a local militia, prohibit mandatory
> vaccinations, allow citizens to bear any type of firearms they choose
> (including fully automatic machine guns), and require federal government
> employees to get written approval before approaching "any Citizen" in the
> county. The questionnaire is organized in part by Celebrating Conservatism,
> a group with direct ties to the militia movement.
>
> January 2, 2010—More than 300 people attend a rally in Alamogordo, New
> Mexico, organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots and Second Amendment
> Task Force. The purpose of the rally is to protest health care reform, and
> many of the rally's participants openly carry handguns and/or rifles. One
> attendee states that his handgun is a “very open threat” to the “socialist
> communists” in the Obama Administration. “The government fears the people,
> and a disarmed people are slaves,” he says. “Political power comes from the
> barrel of a gun ... They’re pushing us to our limits.”
>
> January 12, 2010—Mark Campano of Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty to
> charges of possessing destructive devices not registered with the federal
> government. Law enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November
> 2009 after he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two
> fingers. They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of
> rounds of ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor states,
> "He was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to
> anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was some kind
> of radical, and he didn't believe in the government."
>
> January 12, 2010—Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former Marine with ties to Tea
> Parties and far-right-wing organizations like Oath Keepers, is arrested at
> his home on charges of raping a 7 year old-girl. Sheriff's deputies find
> several firearms inside Dyer's home and a Colt M-203 40mm grenade launcher,
> which was stolen from a military base in Fort Irwin, California, in 2006.
> Dyer had been an organizer of militia groups in Oklahoma and told one
> interviewer, "I'm going to use my training and become one of those domestic
> terrorists that you're so afraid of from the [Department of Homeland
> Security (DHS)] reports." In another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly
> calling patriots, veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I have
> to say is you’re damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to anyone that
> endangers our rights and the Constitution of this republic."
>
> February 9, 2010—Gregory Girard of Manchester, Massachusetts, is arrested
> for weapons charges after police find 20 firearms, thousands of rounds of
> ammunition, and explosive devices in his home. Girard's wife says that her
> husband recently told her, "Don't talk to people, shoot them instead." In a
> January 30 post at a popular website affiliated with the Tea Party movement,
> Girard stated: "We have been in a state of war and state of emergency of
> some time for decades uninterupted ... The entire body of these War Powers
> and 'continuity of gov't' plans render our concept of a Constitutional
> Republic to be little more than thin veil of civility and justice layered
> over a monsterous, diabolic dictatorship that would break out of political
> cage but for Americans vigorously exercising their 2nd Amendment rights ...
> As it stands today at start of 2010, there is never a time that our gov't
> would find itself without some excuse, no matter how perverse, as the
> justification for unleashing their murderous 'War Powers' monster upon the
> public, in an attempt to subject us to tyranny."
>
> February 13, 2010—An unidentified speaker at an event organized by the Lewis
> and Clark Tea Party Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the
> audience, "How many of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What
> happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's
> what I want to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty Murray."
>
> February 18, 2010—Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine plane
> into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing one and
> wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with the
> federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on the bottom
> of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what
> they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is. If this is not the
> measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ... Violence not only is the
> answer, it is the only answer."
>
> February 19, 2010—Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, is arrested and
> charged with making threats against the president after his poem titled "The
> Sniper" is found on the website NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S. Secret
> Service. The poem reads, in part: "As the tyrant enters his cross hairs the
> breath he takes is deep. His focus is square on the target as he begins to
> release. A patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his life. But
> for his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The bullet that he
> has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration on the casing
> reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the trigger releasing all
> his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as he seals that monkey's fate.
> The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death. And where there
> was once a face there is nothing left. Two blood covered agents stare in
> horror and dismay. Looking down toward the ground where their president now
> lay."
>
> February 2010—Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty soldier at Fort Drum
> and member of Oath Keepers, tells a reporter that he and five fellow service
> members at the Army base are preparing to take on the U.S. government when
> it declares martial law, and will turn their guns on their fellow soldiers
> should it become necessary. "I know their tactics," says Pray. "I know how
> they...work their convoys—if we attack this vehicle, what the others will do
> ... If the government continues to ignore us, and forces us to engage, I'm
> willing to fight to the death."
>
> March 2010—The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009 saw a
> dramatic increase in the number of new anti-government "Patriot" groups in
> the United States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups jumped from
> 149 (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in 2009—a 244%
> jump.
>
> March 2, 2010—FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly, speaking about the
> McDonald v. Chicago case before the Supreme Court, declares that plaintiff
> Otis McDonald's inability to own a handgun in Chicago amounts to "tyranny."
> Predicting that four justices on the Court will side with the city of
> Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's interesting that in America today the far
> Left that wants the government to call the shots, not the folks. In the
> past, Right-Wing extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront
> of state control. But with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are
> primarily on the Left."
>
> March 4, 2010—John Patrick Bedell, a California resident, travels to
> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on police officers at the entrance to
> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with two semiautomatic firearms and "many
> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell injures two officers before he is killed by
> return fire. Reports reveals Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the
> U.S. government had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963
> coup. In an Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many
> murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of
> thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as
> a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control."
>
> March 19-22, 2010—During consideration of health care reform legislation by
> the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals attack Democratic offices in
> Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New
> York; and Rochester, New York. Mike Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the
> Alabama Constitutional Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting
> a blog on March 19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,
> thousands, of Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might
> just make up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a
> rifle unnecessary." Several Democratic members receive death threats,
> including Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill the
> children of the members who voted YES"; Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who
> receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know where you live; we'll get
> you"; and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by a caller,
> "Better hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a knife, a club or a
> gun." House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking about Rep. Steve Driehaus
> (D-OH), says he "may be a dead man."
>
> March 21, 2010—As the U.S. House of Representatives enters a final round of
> debate over a controversial health care reform bill, Conservative blogger
> Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the assassination of President Barack
> Obama on his Twitter account. In two separate postings, Forrel writes,
> "ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the #Assassinations of #Lincoln &
> #Kennedy. We'll surely get over a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next
> #American with a #Clear #Shot should drop #Obama like a bad habit."
>
> March 21, 2010—Russell Laing, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and
> making terroristic threats after a four-hour standoff with police at his
> home in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers were responding to a 911 call
> after Laing called a friend and said he couldn't walk. When police responded
> to the call, Laing pointed an assault rifle at them and cocked the weapon.
> After Laing was arrested, officers recovered approximately 150 guns and
> 15,000 rounds of ammunition from Laing's one-bedroom apartment. "I can't
> explain it. In my 40 years, I've not seen that type of collection," said
> McCandless Police Chief Gary Anderson.
>
> March 23, 2010—After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg Tea Party and Nigel
> Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home address of the brother of
> Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge supporters to "drop by," someone
> deliberately cuts a propane gas line at the house. Rep. Perriello is
> targeted by the Tea Party activists because of his vote in favor of health
> care reform. Perriello's brother and his wife have four children under the
> age of eight.
>
> March 24, 2010—After voting for health care reform legislation, Rep. Bart
> Stupak (D-MI) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) receive faxes with drawings of
> nooses.
>
> March 25, 2010—Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care reform
> legislation, receives a package containing white powder and an angry letter
> telling him to "drop dead ."
>
> March 26, 2010—Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care reform
> legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it will take a
> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected you for
> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington, D.C., we will
> get you in Little Rock."
>
> March 26, 2010—NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment on
> FOX News' "Your World" program: “I’m the expert on the health care bill
> because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas and
> seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to help out
> American pigs … We gotta’ kill the pig.”
>
> March 29, 2010—A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged with
> threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon, 38, is
> arrested by the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he referred to
> Cantor's family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed in your heads."
> Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with anti-government themes, and
> threatened others, including President Barack Obama, the Democratic
> Leadership in Congress, and the Pope. Leboon has a long history of mental
> illness, but was able to obtain a concealed handgun permit in Pennsylvania,
> which alarmed his family.
>
> March 29, 2010—Nine members of the MIchigan-based "Hutaree" Christian
> militia are arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy and attempting to
> deploy weapons of mass destruction. The group had allegedly plotted to kill
> a law enforcement officer and then detonate improvised explosive devices
> (IEDs) during the officer's funeral procession. The group targeted federal
> officials, members of the law enforcement "brotherhood" and other
> participants in the "New World Order."
>
> March 30, 2010—Dozens of sitting governors receive letters from an extremist
> anti-government group called the Guardians of the Free Republics. The
> letters demand that the governors leave office within three days or "they
> will be removed" from office. A page on the group's website entitled
> "Rationale" reads, "For those who are concerned about opening the door to
> satanic forces, permit me to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated
> with great sobriety the wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to
> World War III continues."
>
> April 1, 2010—CNN commentator Erick Erickson, questioning the legality of
> the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), makes the
> following comment on WMAC-AM radio: “We have become, or are becoming,
> enslaved by the government ... I dare ‘em to try to come throw me in jail. I
> dare ‘em to. [I’ll] pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS
> twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property.”
>
> April 1-20, 2010—Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury (AGJ),
> attempts to effect a citizen's arrest on grand jury foreman Gary Pettway at
> the Monroe County courthouse in Madisonville, Tennessee, and is arrested.
> Nineteen days later, on the day that Fitzpatrick is scheduled to face trial,
> Oath Keepers member Darren Huff is pulled over by Tennessee state troopers
> as he attempts to drive to the courthouse to arrest county officials he
> calls "domestic enemies of the United States engaged in treason." Huff is
> armed with a Colt-45 handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400 rounds
> of ammunition. He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in interstate
> commerce with intent to incite a riot and transporting in commerce a firearm
> in furtherance of a civil disorder.
>
> April 6, 2010—Authorities charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah, Washington,
> with threatening a federal official after Wilson makes several phone calls
> to the office of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed handgun
> permit holder in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for health
> care reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her back." He also
> told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and some
> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at risk, dear
> ... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between your...eyes."
>
> April 7, 2010—Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San Francisco, California, is
> arrested for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi dozens of times, recited her home
> address, and told her that if she wanted to see it again, she should drop
> her support for health care reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of
> mental health problems" and his mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox
> News and all of those that are really radical."
>
> April 7, 2010—Brody James Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on
> charges including two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement
> officer, aggravated fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from
> an incident on March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker
> over for a traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led
> officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun, and
> escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker questions the
> authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I am not an American
> citizen."
>
> April 10, 2010—At a "Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut
> Citizens Defense League, Martha Dean, the Republican-endorsed candidate for
> Attorney General in Connecticut, tells those in attendance, "If government
> is legitimate and truly is the voice of the people, it need never fear the
> people themselves when they’re armed. Only a government that uses secrecy
> and force to impose improper laws [to] which the people do not consent need
> fear the wrath of its law-abiding citizens at the ballot box or, ultimately,
> with arms … Our right of free speech and to back it up with arms if
> necessary if our government becomes tyrannical and unjust as King George’s
> was to the colonists are the most essential of the rights we as Americans
> have ... I will oppose all efforts to create nonsensical distinctions that
> are nowhere supported by our constitutions between different types of
> firearms. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the government gets
> the effective firearms and the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere in our
> Constitution does it say that the government gets the modern firearms and
> the citizens only get the antiquated ones."
>
> April 13, 2010—Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and Rep.
> Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to discuss the
> formation of a new "volunteer militia" to defend against what they see as
> improprer federal infringements on state sovereignty. Brogdon states that
> the Founding Fathers "were not referring to a turkey shoot or a quail hunt.
> They really weren't even talking about us having the ability to protect
> ourselves against each other. The Second Amendment deals directly with the
> right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an
> overreaching federal government." One Tea Party leader involved in these
> meetings, J.W. Berry of the Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the
> Militia to "launch a thousand guerrilla attacks on the plans that these
> people have to ruin us and our country."
>
> April 19, 2010—Pro-gun activists conduct two rallies in the Washington, D.C.
> area to demonstrate their opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian
> government." Among the featured speakers at the events are current and
> former militia leaders and others with ties to extreme, anti-government
> groups. The choice of date is significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary
> of the first shots being fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of
> Lexington/Concord, the fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and the
> 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh. At
> the "Second Amendment March" in the District of Columbia, Larry Pratt, the
> Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, states, "We're in a war. The
> other side knows they are at war, because they started it. They are coming
> for our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. They are
> coming for everything because they are a bunch of Socialists." Mike
> Vanderboegh, who made national headlines after taking credit for several
> instances of vandalism at Democratic offices following votes on health care
> reform legislation, is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort Hunt National
> Park in Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the legislators
> endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce
> them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of
> war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience
> ... This is what the other side doesn’t understand! We are doing backing up!
> Done! Not one more inch."
>
> May 4, 2010—A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks speaker Rep.
> Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us
> vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside
> enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would he have to do differently
> to be defined as a domestic enemy?" After smiling and stating that "no one
> thinks that the president is a domestic enemy," Cantor is booed by several
> members of the audience.
>
> May 6, 2010—Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South
> Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she holds
> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the Second
> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights ... The
> Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to ensure that our
> limited government stayed limited and that we would be able to enforce those
> limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign people. A sovereign people is
> an armed people."
>
> May 15, 2010—At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in
> Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful Newt
> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in defense of
> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not in defense of
> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of freedom from the State."
> He goes on to make the following reference to Thomas Jefferson's "The tree
> of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots
> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's historically honest has to admit [the
> Founding Fathers] understood the right to bear arms because they routinely
> carried arms. These were tough people in a tough time in a tough country
> doing tough things and the idea that they would allow some D.C. city
> government or some Washington federal bureaucrat to get between them and
> their Constitutional rights, they would have said in Jefferson's terms was
> the legitimate justification for a political revolution in every generation
> which was what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean out the corruption,
> the arrogance, and the obsolenscence that government would invariably have."
>
> May 15, 2010—Referring to a controversial new anti-immigration law in
> Arizona, FOX News personality Glenn Beck tells the 2010 NRA Convention,
> "Let's talk a minute about a 'well-regulated militia' and why you might need
> one because the government isn't doing their job. Let's meet people in
> Texas, Arizona and California."
>
> May 20, 2010—Jerry Kane, Jr., 45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally shoot
> two Arkansas police officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a routine
> traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed during
> an exchange of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90 minutes
> later. Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long
> history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for driving
> with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane considered himself a
> "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that centered on debt-avoidance
> scams.
>
> May 27, 2010—The Washington Times publishes an editorial claiming that a
> United Nations treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade in
> smalls arms "would necessarily lead to confication of personal firearms" in
> the United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all insurgencies are
> bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is to
> rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such as Syria,
> Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone endorse gun control ...
> Governments are a bigger threat to most people than their neighbors."
>
> May 30, 2010—Sharron Angle, a candidate for the Republican nomination for
> U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the Reno Gazette-Journal that a recent
> increase in gun sales nationwide "tells me that the nation is arming. What
> are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of government?
> They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second
> Amendment kinds of ways." These comments echo ones made by Angle in January,
> when she told conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our
> Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason
> and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical
> government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to
> have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but,
> you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really
> looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what
> can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need
> to do is take [U.S. Senator from Nevada] Harry Reid out."
>
> May 31, 2010—Oath Keeper Rex Nichols, a candidate for sheriff in Montana's
> Lincoln County, makes reference to federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge
> in 1992 and Waco in 1993 and promises to keep them out of the county if
> elected. "I am going to take my deputies and stand in the middle of the road
> and tell them to get the hell out," says Nichols. "And if they want a war,
> they got it."
>
> June 2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
> which he dicusses contemporary political issues with America's Founding
> Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach him" and rails about the
> "progressive income tax," the Internal Revenue Service, and health care
> reform, a Founding Father replies, "Gather your armies." Several Founding
> Fathers are depicted as being armed with pistols.
>
> June 9, 2010—Addressing the Obama administration and the
> Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck says, "Tea
> parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the
> principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot
> me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the
> head if you try to change our government. I will stand against you and so
> will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most
> in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and
> brought in wearing sheep's clothing—change the pose. You will get the ends.
> You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have
> called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head."
>
> June 9, 2010—Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening to
> kill a federal official after making two calls to the office of U.S. Rep.
> Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's opposition to
> Arizona's controversial new immigration law and threatened to come to the
> Congressman's office and “blow everyone's head off."
>
> June 27, 2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the Republican
> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs a campaign ad in
> which he compares taxation and "the tyrannical health care bill" to slavery
> and the extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany. "We live in perilous times
> ... We are all becoming slaves to our government," Barber warns. The "army
> of voters" depicted in the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with
> guns. In a follow-up editorial in the Washington Post, Barber makes
> reference to "the possibility of evil conducted on a grand scale" and
> states, "Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to serfdom is
> a long one, but I fear that we are well on the way."
>
> July 2, 2010—The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax
> collections at the state's gun shows because of "increasing animosity"
> toward field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise Tax
> Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that "crossed the
> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than any place
> ... I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has
> experienced some animosity ... I don't want to put my people at risk."
>
> July 3, 2010—Joyce Kaufman, a conservative radio hosts on WFTL in Florida,
> tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party event, “I am
> convinced that the most important thing the Founding Fathers did to ensure
> me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment. And if
> ballots don’t work, bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say I’ll put
> my microphone down on November 2nd if we haven’t achieved substantial
> victory, I mean it. Because if at that point I’m going to up into the hills
> of Kentucky, I’m going to go out into the Midwest, I’m going to go up in the
> Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I’m going to gather together men
> and women who understand that some things are worth fighting for and some
> things are worth dying for.”
>
> July 6, 2010—Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of America, tells Religion
> Dispatches, "If you have a people that has basically been disarmed by the
> civil government, then there really isn't any effectual means available to
> the people to restore law and liberty and that's really the purpose of the
> right to keep and bear arms—is to defend yourself against a tyrant." Titus
> goes on to cite the "totalitarian threat" posed by "Obamacare" and "what
> Sarah Palin said about the death panels."
>
> July 11, 2010—Supporters of Tea Party candidate Joe Miller openly carry
> assault rifles and handguns during a community parade in Eagle River and
> Chugiak, Alaska, while young children march alongside them. Miller, who is
> running against Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, was
> endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described him as a “true
> Commonsense Constitutional Conservative.”
>
> July 18, 2010—California Highway Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams, 45,
> after a shootout on I-580 in which more than 60 rounds are fired. Officers
> had pulled Williams over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in and out
> of traffic when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long gun.
> Williams, a convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives because he
> is wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that he was on
> his way to San Francisco to "start a revolution" by killing employees of the
> ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says her son was angry at
> "Left-wing politicians" and upset by "the way Congress was railroading
> through all these Left-wing agenda items."
>
> July 26, 2010—A proposed ordinance that would prohibit residents from firing
> air rifles and other low-powered weapons within 500 feet of a building
> (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from consideration in Exeter
> Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of Supervisors receives a number of
> angry and threatening phone calls from gun owners. Citing a National Rifle
> Association "Action Alert" that claimed Exeter supervisors were
> "consider[ing] a broad and overreaching attack on our Second Amendment
> freedoms," Exeter Township Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was
> totally false information that was put out. The anger was building, and I
> was concerned that someone might actually get hurt."
>
> July 28, 2010—U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district office
> in Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of the office's
> windows. Authorities also report that U.S. Judge Susan Bolton receives
> hundreds of threats at her Phoenix offices after issuing an injunction on
> Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
>
> July 29, 2010—Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed Project (which is
> dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size
> target out to 500 yards), explains that Americans should own an AR-15
> assault rifle "because they want to tell us what to do. And we don't want
> them to tell us what to do." James Faire, an Appleseed trainer, states that,
> "the government has quite literally become tyrannical. It is fulfilling the
> principles outlined in The Communist Manifesto. It's completely out of
> control from city to state to federal to international law. All predicate
> their existence on plundering the individual and his rights. The only thing
> to do now is to organize citizens into a militia to abolish this
> government."
>
> July 30, 2010—Camp Hill prison guard Raymond Peake, 64, is charged with
> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen. Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death
> at a local shooting range and stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.
> Investigators follow Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms:
> Getgen's AR-15 rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen
> from the range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also
> arrested and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other
> crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for the
> purpose of overthrowing the federal government."
>
> August 14, 2010—Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack—who gained fame in
> anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the federal
> government over the Brady Bill requirement that state law enforcement
> agencies conduct background checks on gun purchasers—tells those in
> attendance at the American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom Action Natonal
> Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for the day that the first sheriff in
> this country is the one to fire the shot heard 'round the world and take out
> some IRS agents!"
>
> August 17, 2010—Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of
> Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to ignite
> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his truck. Sharp is
> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and a
> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an exchange of gunfire with police
> arriving on the scene. Miraculously, no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,
> Eric McClellan describes him as "a great guy" and states, "We're Texans. We
> have a right to bear arms."
>
> August 19, 2010—Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County, Florida, is arrested
> after threatening to "bear arms against" local law enforcement officers who
> were trying to serve him with a warrant. Authorities recover a letter that
> Fornof had tried to serve the deputies with, which reads, "I have the right
> to bear arms against such unlawful entities, up to and including the
> President of the United States, that are coming against me unlawfully,
> lethally, and genocidally."
>
> August 23, 2010—Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after he attempts to bring a
> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook County courthouse. Pidegon was
> supposed to attend a foreclosure hearing that day. His home was to be sold
> to a lender in North Carolina after New York-based BNY Mellon filed an
> action against him in the county.
>
> September 1, 2010—James Jay Lee, 43, takes hostages at the Discovery
> Communications building in Silver Spring, Maryland, while armed with two
> starter pistols and four improvised explosived devices. After pointing a gun
> at one of the hostages, he is shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical
> environmental activist, had previously issued 11 demands through a webpage
> that Discovery was to meet "immediately." The demands involved the content
> of programming on the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his
> MySpace page, "It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"
>
> September 13, 2010—Police stop Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic
> violation in Webberville, Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover
> bumper stickers quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a
> loaded handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is
> arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful
> possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a member of the
> Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with McLeod
>
> September 16, 2010—Patricia Stoneking, the President of the Kansas State
> Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to arm themselves, We have
> the right to put limits on our government, and that's what [the Second
> Amendment] does." Explaining why America's Founding Fathers drafted the
> amendment, she says, "They knew government could become tyrannical. We have
> the right to defend ourselves from a rogue government."
>
> September 30, 2010—Kevin Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a
> group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted
> thugs" of Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree
> militia members earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of
> citizens out there in the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to
> miracles I do not understand that civil war did not break out right there."
>
> September 30, 2010—Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff running for sheriff in
> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent conflict" with federal agents if
> "they are doing something I believe is unconstitutional."
>
> October 15, 2010—Conservative radio show host Glenn Beck lays out a
> hypothetical scenario on the air where the government is considering taking
> his children because he refused to have them receive a mandatory flu
> vaccine. Beck tells his audience that his response to the government would
> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson."
>
> October 21, 2010—Pastor Stephen Broden, the Republican candidate for U.S.
> Representative in Texas' 30th Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in
> Dallas that the violent overthrow of the government is an "option" that
> remains "on the table." "Our nation was founded on violence," states
> Broden. "I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as
> it relates to our liberties and our freedoms."
>
> October 22, 2010—Texas Department of Corrections officers searching for a
> missing person, Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on
> Clements' property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an
> AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He
> told us to get off the property or he would kill us all." Later that
> afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search warrant and an
> armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens fire on the
> vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot and kill
> him. Police find guns and "many rounds of ammunition" in Granger's house.
> They also find the body of Clements, buried in a shallow grave on Granger's
> property.
>
> November 2, 2010—On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional
> candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob Filner
> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego following the
> announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a damn liar. You should
> be ashamed of yourself," Popaditch tells Filner, leading the mob. Other
> Popaditch supporters yell "You're a scumbag!" "Jew!" and "Don't tread on me,
> Bob!" Another Popaditch supporter punches a Filner campaign staffer in the
> face.
>
> November 3, 2010—James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested on
> the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law enforcement
> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle barrel, a .22
> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition, and
> propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock
> former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated the president. He hated
> everything. He said if he got a chance he would shoot the president." Patock
> tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle Association.
>
> November 4, 2010—On his radio show, conservative host Glenn Beck fantasizes
> about President Obama being decapitated during a trip to India, saying, "If
> anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they think he was
> a Muslim over there because he left his religion for Christianity, death
> sentence, behead him.” Beck then tells his listeners that "God forbid" this
> should happen, as there would be a "New World Order" overnight in the United
> States.
>
> November 4, 2010—Fox News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a
> Washington Post reporter while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we
> can behead Dana Milbank?" O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think
> you and I should go and beat him up."
>
> November 9, 2010—U.S. Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida's 22nd
> Congressional District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman
> as his Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party
> supporters, “I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding
> Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a
> Second Amendment. And if ballots don’t work, bullets will."
>
> November 9, 2010—Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee, 69, of
> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street for
> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden with
> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President Barack Obama,
> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of Israel." Officers also seize
> literature from Lee that details "the most expedient means of killing law
> enforcement officers." The November 9 arrest follows an October 19 arrest
> for assault after Lee kicked and swung his signs at a group of girls between
> the ages of 12 and 14.
>
> November 10, 2010—Public schools in Broward County, Florida, go into
> lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL 850 AM. The email is sent
> to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in response to remarks she made at
> a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots don't work, bullets will"). The email
> expresses support for her view of the Second Amendment and says that to
> further "their cause...something big will happen at a government building in
> Broward County, maybe a post office maybe even a school." A phone call is
> then received at the station, allegedly from the emailer's wife, warning
> that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines school and open fire.
>
> November 23, 2010—Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of
> America, writes an editorial in The Register Citizen in which he calls for
> state and county sheriffs to organize large, armed "posses" as "a check on
> the unconstitutional exercise of federal power."
>
> November 29, 2010—U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the ranking Republican on the
> House Energy and Commerce Committee, circulates a PowerPoint presentation to
> his colleagues in which he compares the Obama administration to the Nazi
> regime in Germany and likens himself to Gen. George Patton, bragging, "Put
> anything in my scope and I will shoot it."
>
> December 3, 2010—At "Roe & Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday
> Extravaganza" promoting "Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee
> Emery (famous for his depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal
> Jacket") tells those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to
> point fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot
> to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it until
> they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all rise up and
> we should stop this administration from what they're doing because they're
> destroying this country. They're driving us into bankruptcy so that they can
> impose socialism on us."
>
> December 31, 2010—An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and Raves"
> section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a citizen
> activist who has requested—under Alaska’s Open Records Act—work-related
> emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while governor of the state. The
> threat states, "I think Andre has used up to much oxygen. So I have my scope
> cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her
> last." The Anchorage Police trace the message to the AOL account of an
> Anchorage woman in her 50s, but neglect to verify if she is the one who is
> responsible for it.
>
> January 6, 2011—John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after threatening to set
> fire to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) and shoot members of his
> staff. The threat comes when Davis calls Bennet's office to complain about
> his Social Security benefits, telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and
> "may go to terrorism." "I'm just going to come down there and shoot you
> all," he declares. Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.
>
> January 8, 2011—Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
> (D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a Safeway
> supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal judge John
> Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the head. Loughner
> has an extensive history of mental illness and substance abuse, yet is able
> to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity ammunition magazine legally at
> Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30, 2010. In a YouTube video posted in
> December 2010, Loughner states, "You don’t have to accept the federalist
> laws ... Nonetheless, read the United States of America’s Constitution to
> apprehend all of the current treasonous laws."
>
> January 8, 2011—Fearing violence from tea party activists, Arizona
> Legislative District 20 Republican Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia
> Johnson, First Vice Chairman Roger Dickinson, and former district spokesman
> Jeff Kolb resign from their positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for
> anyone," says Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts
> from tea party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign
> worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in
> which a detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at
> him.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Your arguments would have more veracity if you named people on both the
>> right and the left, but you continue to harp on only Palin and the Tea
>> Party. Talk about hate speech, no one has been on the receiving end of it
>> more than Palin. She has been hanged in effigy. Do you condone that? I
>> suspect that if she were to be assassinated there would be very little
>> condemnation of it from the left. Most likely the comments would be "good
>> riddance" or "she had it coming".
>> Roger
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
>> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800
>> To: Dan Carscallen areaman at moscow.com
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health
>>
>> > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting: "This can’t be blamed on
>> > rhetoric,
>> > nor on extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely
>> > on a
>> > sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps, the “blame” lays on
>> > the
>> > freedom we enjoy by being citizens of the United States of America."
>> >
>> > First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric, or
>> > Palin,
>> > or anyone, or anything. No one that I know who has talked about the
>> > connection between violent rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ
>> > shooting has used "blame" talk. So let's get that straight.
>> >
>> > Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of the shooting,
>> > let's
>> > talk about "explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What can
>> > we
>> > do to prevent shootings like this from happening in the future? Your
>> > opinion
>> > seems to be that we can't do anything, that shootings like this just
>> > happen
>> > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in societies that have the
>> > kinds
>> > of "freedoms" that our society has. That we should accept them because
>> > we
>> > can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive people of their
>> > "freedoms."
>> >
>> > Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical for my tastes.
>> > I
>> > think we CAN do something about these kind of shootings. What can we do?
>> > I
>> > don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are some
>> > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the solution, I'm just
>> > claiming
>> > that we can do something if we put our minds to it and come up with a
>> > plan.
>> >
>> > The claim that violent rhetoric and gun laws and even Palin's poster
>> > have
>> > NOTHING to do with the shooting, that the explanation for the shooting
>> > is
>> > unrelated to the overinflated, violent rhetoric of the right and others,
>> > is
>> > an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical issues. You have
>> > to
>> > back up such an extreme claim -- a claim like the claim that violent
>> > rhetoric has NOTHING to do with violence in America. Here are a few
>> > reasons
>> > why I think you can't back that claim up.
>> >
>> > You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than in
>> > almost
>> > any other country; why the violent rhetoric apparently works when it
>> > comes
>> > to getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of
>> > success in
>> > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a huge part of Republican
>> > victories during the last Bush era) yet has NO other impact on human
>> > behavior; why a lot of the violence from "lunatics" is directed toward
>> > folks
>> > on the left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have the
>> > explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're so certain that
>> > there is NO connection between violent rhetoric and actual violence. I'm
>> > pretty sure you have no formal training in psychology or sociology, so
>> > I'm
>> > unsure what your basis is. I don't think the explanation has anything to
>> > with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision of a society that is both
>> > free
>> > and nonviolent is an absurdity.
>> >
>> > I think it is clear that there is SOME connection between violent
>> > rhetoric
>> > and actual violence. The real questions are how much of a connection is
>> > there (what is the nature of the connection) and what can we do about
>> > it? I
>> > refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Vizzz peeps,
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > We live in a free society. One of the prices we pay for living here
>> > > is
>> > > that there are some loonballs running around who could snap at any
>> > > minute> Should they be? Probably not, but who is to say when and how these
>> > > folks
>> > > should be rounded up and treated? Sure, I think all of us can talk
>> > > about
>> > > the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little sketchy, but what are
>> > > we
>> > > supposed to do? Call the cops and have them haul him in because he
>> > > doesn’t
>> > > fit society’s norm? I think there are a lot of folks, right here on
>> > > the
>> > > Vizzz even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”. But we go
>> > > along and
>> > > live our lives in our free society.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors, and they said “yes, he
>> > > seemed like a nutjob”, but what were they to do? They watched him,
>> > > kept
>> > > their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could. Unfortunately, he
>> > > “slipped through the cracks”. Should he have been prevented from
>> > > buying a
>> > > pistol? Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn’t a convicted
>> > > felon, he
>> > > answered all the questions properly, and he paid his money. It’s not
>> > > a
>> > > speedy process, no matter who or where you are. Even with a concealed
>> > > weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by any
>> > > means.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > This can’t be blamed on rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side
>> > > of the
>> > > aisle. The blame lays solely on a sick man who obviously needs help.
>> > > And,
>> > > perhaps, the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens of
>> > > the
>> > > United States of America.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Your pal
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > DC
>> > >
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