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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>I am absolutely certain you believe
that to be the case.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>g</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com
href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:26 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lockshop@pull.twcbc.com
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">the lockshop</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision 2020</A> ; <A
title=reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu
href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu">Reggie Holmquist</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental
health</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Who said "exclusive"? Violent, as well as distorted, rhetoric is MORE
prevalent from the right.<BR><BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>On Feb 1, 2011, at 7:57 AM, "the lockshop" <<A
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com">lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>g</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From: "Andreas Schou" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:ophite@gmail.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>ophite@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To: "the lockshop" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Cc: "Reggie Holmquist" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>reggieholmquist@u.boisestate.edu</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>>; "lfalen" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>lfalen@turbonet.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>; "vision
2020" <</FONT><A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>vision2020@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:30
PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and
mental health</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Gary --<BR><BR>You've said this before, and you're wrong. Both
Beddell and Stack had<BR>clear connections to the American right. Stack was a
member of a<BR>militia-affiliated tax protest group, and Beddell was an
Objectivist<BR>anarcho-capitalist who operated a blog about Austrian
economics. He<BR>was unaccountably registered as a Democrat, but that seems
entirely<BR>unrelated to the reasons he fired on the Pentagon.<BR><BR>--
ACS<BR><BR>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:27 PM, the lockshop <</FONT><A
href="mailto:lockshop@pull.twcbc.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>lockshop@pull.twcbc.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>
wrote:<BR>> An impressively lenthy, but highly suspect list. (one can't
help but wonder<BR>> from where it might have been cribbed) Several
problems throw the entire<BR>> lists veracity into question, chief among
them is the inclusion of Joseph<BR>> Stack, John Patrick Bedell, and Jared
Loughner as individuals with some<BR>> conection to the right. Next time it
might be a good idea to review (and<BR>> cite) the material you choose to
cut and paste. Using non-factual<BR>> information to back up your faulty
assertion that another fellows argument<BR>> is flawed makes you look
foolish.<BR>><BR>> g<BR>><BR>> ----- Original Message
-----<BR>> From: Reggie Holmquist<BR>> To: lfalen<BR>> Cc: vision
2020<BR>> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:12 PM<BR>> Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental health<BR>> Your faulty argument is
based on the false premise that there is an equal<BR>> amount of hate
speech and violence coming from both sides. Please consider<BR>> this short
list so that you may disabuse yourself of that false
equivalency.<BR>><BR>> -Reggie<BR>><BR>> July 27, 2008—Jim
Adkisson shoots and kills two people at a progressive<BR>> church in
Knoxville, Tennessee, wounding two. Adkisson calls it “a symbolic<BR>>
killing” because he really “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate
&<BR>> House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book,” but was
unable to gain<BR>> access to them.<BR>><BR>> September 18, 2008—Dick
Heller, the plaintiff from the case of District of<BR>> Columbia v. Heller,
provides testimony to the D.C. Council regarding<BR>> firearm-related
legislation. Heller’s written, submitted testimony states,<BR>> in part:
"‘We the people,’ armed, are TRULY what the Writers of the<BR>>
Constitution intended for us to be in Art. 1, Sec. 8, para. 15, and that
is<BR>> the CITIZEN MILITIA. If suicide terrorists DO attact our city,
ARMED<BR>> CITIZENS could be the First to counter these hostilities in our
individual<BR>> neighborhoods.”<BR>><BR>> September 22, 2008—The
National Rifle Association launches its GunBanObama<BR>> website, which
predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama,<BR>> “if
elected…would be the most anti-gun president in American history.” The<BR>>
website is part of a $15 million NRA campaign to discredit
Obama.<BR>><BR>> December 9, 2008—FBI teams investigating the murder of
white supremacist<BR>> James Cumming, 29, a resident of Belfast, Maine,
find supplies for a crude<BR>> radiological dispersal dervice and other
explosives in his home. Cumming's<BR>> wife, who shot him to death after
being abused by him repeatedly, explains,<BR>> "His intentions were to
construct a dirty bomb and take it to Washington to<BR>> kill President
Obama. He was planning to hide it in the undercarriage of our<BR>> moter
home."<BR>><BR>> February 5, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts an
hour-long special on<BR>> Fox called “We Surround Them,” a “grassroots
effort to wake up our Nation's<BR>> leaders and let them know what many, if
not most, Americans truly believe in<BR>> and stand for.”<BR>><BR>>
February 20, 2009—FOX commentator Glenn Beck hosts a program that games
a<BR>> 2014 civil war scenario called “The Bubba Effect.” It involves
citizen<BR>> militias in the South and West taking up arms against the U.S.
government.<BR>><BR>> March 3, 2009— FOX commentator Glenn Beck
interviews NRA celebrity spokesman<BR>> Chuck Norris. During the interview,
Beck states that, “Somebody asked me<BR>> this morning, they said, ‘you
really believe that there's going to be<BR>> trouble in the future?’ And I
said, ‘if this country starts to spiral out of<BR>> control and, you know,
and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really<BR>> starts to spiral out
of control, before America allows a country to become a<BR>> totalitarian
country … Americans will, they just, they won't stand for<BR>> it. There
will be parts of the country that will rise up.’ And they said,<BR>>
‘where's that going to come from?’ And I said, ‘Texas, it's going to
come<BR>> from Texas.’”<BR>><BR>> March 9, 2009—NRA celebrity
spokesman Chuck Norris writes in an editorial<BR>> published at
WorldNetDaily: “How much more will Americans take? When will<BR>> enough be
enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen<BR>> or
will history need to record a second American Revolution?”<BR>><BR>>
March 11, 2009—NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the 2009 Conservative<BR>>
Political Action Conference and announces that “Our Founding Fathers<BR>>
understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.”<BR>><BR>> March
21-22, 2009—Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she<BR>>
wants residents of her state to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of
the<BR>> energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us
‘having a<BR>> revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the
people—we the<BR>> people—are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not
going to lose our<BR>> country.”<BR>><BR>> April 4, 2009—Neo-Nazi
Richard Poplawski shoots and kills three police<BR>> officers responding to
a 911 call to his home in Pittsburgh. His friend<BR>> Edward Perkovic tells
reporters that Poplawski feared “the Obama gun ban<BR>> that’s on its way”
and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon.”<BR>> Perkovic also
commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because “if<BR>> anyone
tried to take his firearms, he was gonna’ stand by what his<BR>>
forefathers told him to do.”<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2009—The Department of
Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence<BR>> and Analysis releases an
assessment of right wing extremism in the United<BR>> States. The
Department notes that “the economic downturn and the election of<BR>> the
first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing<BR>>
radicalization and recruitment.” Recalling the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
by<BR>> Timothy McVeigh, the Department speculates, “The possible passage
of new<BR>> restrictions on firearms and the return of military veterans
facing<BR>> significant challenges reintegrating into their communities
could lead to<BR>> the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf
extremists capable<BR>> of carrying out violent attacks.”<BR>><BR>>
April 15, 2009—Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, is arrested by FBI agents after
he<BR>> openly states on Twitter that he is going to turn the upcoming
Oklahoma City<BR>> “Tea Party” into a bloodbath. Two months earlier, Hayden
had written online,<BR>> “The only thing that is keeping the New World
Order from destroying this<BR>> nation is the presence of over 100,000,000
guns in civilian hands. When guns<BR>> are outlawed, only criminals will
have guns. Since we are already criminals<BR>> in the eyes of the New World
Order, and they intend to enslave us all, and<BR>> to kill those of us who
will NOT submit to their slavery, I say to IGNORE<BR>> gun "laws" and keep
your guns (AND ammo) handy.”<BR>><BR>> April 19, 2009—The Oath Keepers,
an anti-government group made up of current<BR>> and former law enforcement
and military personnel, holds its first "muster"<BR>> in Lexington,
Massachusetts, the site of the opening shots of the<BR>> Revolutionary War.
The groups' members pledge to disobey ten different<BR>> orders that they
deem "unconstitutional" and "immoral," the first of which<BR>> reads, "We
will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people."<BR>><BR>> April 25,
2009—Joshua Cartwright, 28, a member of the Florida National<BR>> Guard,
shoots and kills two Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies attempting to<BR>>
arrest him on a domestic abuse charge. Cartwright is killed in an
enusing<BR>> gun battle with police. Cartwright's wife reports that he was
"severely<BR>> disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president.
Okaloosa County<BR>> Sheriff Edward Spooner states that Cartrwight was
"interested in militia<BR>> groups and weapons training."<BR>><BR>>
May 2009—Data released by the U.S. Marshals Service indicates that
threats<BR>> to the nation's judges and prosecutors have more than doubled
in the past<BR>> six years, from 592 in 2003 to 1,278 in 2008. Federal
officials blame a<BR>> number of parties, including the "sovereign citizen"
movement—an unorganized<BR>> grouping of tax protesters, white
supremacists, and others who don't respect<BR>> federal
authority.<BR>><BR>> May 21-22, 2009—We The People Chairman Bob Schultz
hosts a gathering of 30<BR>> "freedom keepers" in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
The meeting plays "a key role<BR>> in launching the current resurgence of
militias and the larger<BR>> anti-government 'Patriot' movement." One of
the participants, former Texas<BR>> militia leader Jon Roland, claims the
federal government has "been engaging<BR>> in warlike activity against the
American people."<BR>><BR>> May 31, 2009—Scott P. Roeder shoots and
kills Dr. George Tiller, an abortion<BR>> provider, in the foyer of
Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita,<BR>> Kansas. The FBI lists Roeder
as a member of the Montana Freemen, a radical<BR>> anti-government group.
In April 1996, he had been pulled over in Topeka,<BR>> Kansas, for driving
with a homemade license plate. Police found a<BR>> military-style rifle,
ammunition, a blasting cap, a fuse cord, a one-pound<BR>> can of gunpowder,
and two 9-volt batteries in his car.<BR>><BR>> June 3, 2009—Hal Turner,
a New Jersey resident and white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is
arrested on charges of inciting injury after calling<BR>> for the deaths of
two Connecticut state legislators on his blog because they<BR>> sponsored a
bill that would have transferred financial power in Roman<BR>> Catholic
parishes from priests and bishops to lay members. “While filing a<BR>>
lawsuit is quaint and the 'decent' way to handle things,” he wrote, “we
at<BR>> TRN (Turner Radio Network) believe that being decent to a group
of<BR>> tyrannical scumbags is the wrong approach. It's too soft.
Thankfully, the<BR>> Founding Fathers gave us the tools necessary to
resolve tyranny: The Second<BR>> Amendment. TRN advocates Catholics in
Connecticut take up arms and put down<BR>> this tyranny by force ... If any
state attorney, police department or court<BR>> thinks they're going to get
uppity with us about this, I suspect we have<BR>> enough bullets to put
them down, too.”<BR>><BR>> June 10, 2009—James W. von Brunn, a convicted
felon and a “hardcore<BR>> Neo-Nazi,” walks into the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.<BR>> and shoots and kills a security
guard. Von Brunn believed that Western<BR>> civilization was going to be
replaced with a “ONE WORLD ILLUMINATI<BR>> GOVERNMENT” that would
“confiscate private weapons” in order to accomplish<BR>> its
goals.<BR>><BR>> June 24, 2009—Hal Turner, a New Jersey resident and
white supremacist<BR>> blogger/radio host, is arrested again after calling
for the murder of three<BR>> Republican-appointed jurists on the 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals who had<BR>> issued a June 2 decision upholding
handgun restrictions in Chicago. Writing<BR>> on his blog, Turner says,
“Let me be the first to say this plainly: these<BR>> judges deserve to be
killed,” and includes photographs, phone numbers, work<BR>> addresses, and
room numbers of the judges, as well as a map of Chicago’s<BR>> federal
courthouse which points out its “anti-truck bomb” pylons.<BR>><BR>> July
13, 2009—Gilbert Ortez, Jr. kills a police deputy in Chambers County,<BR>>
Texas, with an assault rifle. Police were responding to reports that
Ortez<BR>> or his wife had fired shots at utility workers in the area.
Police searching<BR>> Ortez’s mobile home after a 10-hour standoff find
more than 100 explosive<BR>> devices; Nazi drawings and extremist
literature; and several additional<BR>> firearms.<BR>><BR>> July 15,
2009—Katherine Crabill, a Republican candidate for the Virginia<BR>> House
of Delegates in the state’s 99th District makes headlines by calling<BR>>
on Americans to resist the course President Obama has set for the
country.<BR>> Appearing at a “Tea Party” rally, Crabill quotes a 1775
speech by Patrick<BR>> Henry and then states, “We have a chance to fight
this battle at the ballot<BR>> box before we have to resort to the bullet
box. But that's the beauty of our<BR>> Second Amendment right. I am glad
for all of us who enjoy the use of<BR>> firearms for hunting. But make no
mistake. That was not the intent of the<BR>> Founding Fathers. Our Second
Amendment right was to guard against tyranny.”<BR>> This thought is
reinforced on Crabill’s campaign website, where she states<BR>> the Second
Amendment “was clearly intended for self defense as well as, and<BR>> more
specifically, to keep the government on notice of an armed
citizenry.”<BR>><BR>> July 31, 2009—On WWJB-AM in Hernando County,
Florida, talk radio host Bob<BR>> Haa takes a call from a listener who
mentions ammunition, target practice,<BR>> and Barack Obama. Haa tells him
not to waste his ammunition on targets, to<BR>> save it for the
administration. Haa is later visited by an agent for the<BR>> Secret
Service.<BR>><BR>> August 11, 2009—William Kostric is filmed openly
carrying a handgun outside<BR>> of President Obama's health care reform
town hall meeting in New<BR>> Hampshire. Kostric holds a sign that reads,
"IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF<BR>> LIBERTY!" a reference to the
following Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of<BR>> liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and<BR>>
tyrants."<BR>><BR>> August 17, 2009—Chris Broughton openly carries a
handgun and AR-15<BR>> semiautomatic assault rifle to a health care rally
in Phoenix,<BR>> Arizona. Simultaneously, President Obama addresses a VFW
Convention across<BR>> the street. In a video recorded that day, Broughton
states, “What do you<BR>> think we did in the revolution, in the American
Revolution? The British<BR>> weren't stealing money from us for health
care. They weren't taxing us the<BR>> way they are now back then. And what
did we do? We forcefully kicked them<BR>> out of our country, and we will
forcefully resist people imposing their will<BR>> on us through the
strength of the majority with a vote.”<BR>><BR>> August 25, 2009—During
a GOP barbecue in Twin Falls, Idaho, an audience<BR>> member asks Rex
Rammell, a candidate in the 2010 Idaho Republican Primary, a<BR>> question
about "Obama tags" during a discussion about state-issued tags for<BR>>
wolf hunting. Rammell responds, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."
In<BR>> a subsequent press release, he adds, "Anyone who understands the
law knows I<BR>> was just joking, because Idaho has no jurisdiction to
issue hunting tags in<BR>> Washington, D.C."<BR>><BR>> August 26,
2009—At a secessionist rally on the state capitol steps in<BR>> Austin,
Texas, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina states that, "We are<BR>> aware
that stepping off into secession may in fact be a bloody war. We are<BR>>
aware. We understand that the tree of freedom is occasionally watered
with<BR>> the blood of tyrants and patriots.”<BR>><BR>> September 9,
2009—With President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol to address<BR>> a
joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform, Joshua<BR>>
Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Virginia, attempts to drive his Honda
Civic<BR>> into a secure area near the building. U.S. Capitol Police stop
him and,<BR>> searching his vehicle, find a rifle, a shotgun, and 500
rounds of<BR>> ammunition. He is arrested on weapons
charges.<BR>><BR>> September 25-26, 2009—Kitty Werthmann, a speaker at
the “How to Take Back<BR>> America” Conference in St. Louis, tells her
audience, “If we had our guns<BR>> [during the time of the Nazis’ reign in
Germany], we would have fought a<BR>> bloody battle. So, keep your guns,
and buy more guns, and buy<BR>> ammunition. Take back America. Don’t let
them take the country into<BR>> Socialism. And I refer again, Hitler’s
party was National Socialism. And<BR>> that’s what we are having here right
now, which is bordering on Marxism.”<BR>><BR>> September 28, 2009—Rep.
Paul Broun (R-GA), the Chairman of the Second<BR>> Amendment Task Force in
the U.S. House of Representatives, calls House<BR>> Speaker Nancy Pelosi a
“domestic enemy of the Constitution” at a health care<BR>> reform town hall
meeting.<BR>><BR>> September 29, 2009—An editorial at the Newsmax
website calls for a military<BR>> coup to oust President
Obama.<BR>><BR>> September 30, 2009—The Michelangelo Signorile Show, a
talk radio program on<BR>> Sirus, takes a call from “Jim” from Oklahoma,
who claims that he and 200<BR>> others are meeting weekly to stage a coup
against President Obama. Jim says<BR>> they want to restore their "a right
to bear arms" and bring the country back<BR>> to where it was 400 years
ago, before slavery was abolished.<BR>><BR>> October 18-19, 2009—Reports
emerge that the Secret Service has received an<BR>> unprecedented number of
death threats against President Obama. Ronald<BR>> Kessler's account of
presidential security, In the President's Secret<BR>> Service, states that
there has been a 400% increase in such threats in<BR>> comparison with
Obama’s predecessor. Another source of these reports is an<BR>> August 5,
2009 study by the Congressional Research Service which finds:<BR>> “The
[Secret] Service’s protection mission has increased and become more<BR>>
‘urgent’ due to the increase in terrorist threats and the expanded
arsenal<BR>> of weapons that terrorists could use in an assassination
attempt or attacks<BR>> on facilities.”<BR>><BR>> October 21,
2009—John Brek, a 55 year-old Newark Airport security guard, is<BR>>
arrested for making terroristic threats against President Obama.
Authorities<BR>> find 43 firearms while searching his home, including a
stolen rifle. Brek, a<BR>> National Rifle Association member, is also found
to be in possession of<BR>> illegal hollow point bullets.<BR>><BR>>
November 2009—Billboard is erected on I-70 in Lafayette County,
Missouri,<BR>> that promotes "a citizens guide to REVOLUTION." It urges
Missourians to<BR>> "LIVE FREE OR DIE" and "PREPARE FOR WAR" with a corrupt
government. The<BR>> billboard is highlighted at the Lafayette County
Republicans website.<BR>><BR>> November 11-22, 2009—More than 100
delegates from across the country attend<BR>> a "Continental Congress"
hosted by We The People. Attendees include<BR>> Neo-Confederate
secessionists, "Common Law Court" enthusiasts, adherents of<BR>> the
"Sovereign Citizens" movement, militia backers, and other radicals.<BR>>
Planned at an earlier May meeting in Jekyll Island, the Congress issues
a<BR>> document entitled the "Articles of Freedom" which declares that the
federal<BR>> government "now threatens our Life, Liberty and Property
through usurpations<BR>> of the Constitution."<BR>><BR>> November 29,
2009—Conservative web publisher Andrew Breitbart tweets,<BR>> "Capital
punishment for Dr James Hansen. Climategate is high treason."<BR>> Hansen,
who heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is a noted<BR>>
researcher on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions and an activist who
has<BR>> called for public policies to mitigate the effects of global
warming.<BR>><BR>> December 23, 2009—Warren "Gator" Taylor takes three
people hostage at a<BR>> federal post office in Wytheville, Virginia. He is
armed with four guns,<BR>> including a .40-caliber Glock pistol, despite a
criminal record that<BR>> includes convictions for lewd and lascivious
beheavior with a 13 year-old<BR>> and attempted second-degree murder
(Taylor shot his ex-wife three times in a<BR>> parking lot in 1993). Taylor
fires at least three rounds before the<BR>> stand-off ends, including one
at the station's fleeing postmaster. One of<BR>> Taylor's hostages reports
that he was angry about taxes and "the government<BR>> taking over the
right to bear arms."<BR>><BR>> January 2010—A group of nearly 200
"extremely concerned citizens" in Ravalli<BR>> County, Montana, demand that
local elected officials fill out a<BR>> "questionnaire" pledging to form a
local militia, prohibit mandatory<BR>> vaccinations, allow citizens to bear
any type of firearms they choose<BR>> (including fully automatic machine
guns), and require federal government<BR>> employees to get written
approval before approaching "any Citizen" in the<BR>> county. The
questionnaire is organized in part by Celebrating Conservatism,<BR>> a
group with direct ties to the militia movement.<BR>><BR>> January 2,
2010—More than 300 people attend a rally in Alamogordo, New<BR>> Mexico,
organized by the local Otero Tea Party Patriots and Second Amendment<BR>>
Task Force. The purpose of the rally is to protest health care reform,
and<BR>> many of the rally's participants openly carry handguns and/or
rifles. One<BR>> attendee states that his handgun is a “very open threat”
to the “socialist<BR>> communists” in the Obama Administration. “The
government fears the people,<BR>> and a disarmed people are slaves,” he
says. “Political power comes from the<BR>> barrel of a gun ... They’re
pushing us to our limits.”<BR>><BR>> January 12, 2010—Mark Campano of
Cuyhaoga Falls, Ohio, pleads not guilty to<BR>> charges of possessing
destructive devices not registered with the federal<BR>> government. Law
enforcement are called to Campano's apartment in November<BR>> 2009 after
he accidentally detonates a pipe bomb and loses parts of two<BR>> fingers.
They find 30 pipe bombs, 17 rifles and handguns, and hundreds of<BR>>
rounds of ammunition in the dwelling. Campano's next-door neighbor
states,<BR>> "He was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen
to<BR>> anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos ... He was
some kind<BR>> of radical, and he didn't believe in the
government."<BR>><BR>> January 12, 2010—Charles Allan Dyer, 29, a former
Marine with ties to Tea<BR>> Parties and far-right-wing organizations like
Oath Keepers, is arrested at<BR>> his home on charges of raping a 7 year
old-girl. Sheriff's deputies find<BR>> several firearms inside Dyer's home
and a Colt M-203 40mm grenade launcher,<BR>> which was stolen from a
military base in Fort Irwin, California, in 2006.<BR>> Dyer had been an
organizer of militia groups in Oklahoma and told one<BR>> interviewer, "I'm
going to use my training and become one of those domestic<BR>> terrorists
that you're so afraid of from the [Department of Homeland<BR>> Security
(DHS)] reports." In another video, Dyer states, "With DHS blatantly<BR>>
calling patriots, veterans, and constitutionalists a threat, all that I
have<BR>> to say is you’re damn right we're a threat. We're a threat to
anyone that<BR>> endangers our rights and the Constitution of this
republic."<BR>><BR>> February 9, 2010—Gregory Girard of Manchester,
Massachusetts, is arrested<BR>> for weapons charges after police find 20
firearms, thousands of rounds of<BR>> ammunition, and explosive devices in
his home. Girard's wife says that her<BR>> husband recently told her,
"Don't talk to people, shoot them instead." In a<BR>> January 30 post at a
popular website affiliated with the Tea Party movement,<BR>> Girard stated:
"We have been in a state of war and state of emergency of<BR>> some time
for decades uninterupted ... The entire body of these War Powers<BR>> and
'continuity of gov't' plans render our concept of a Constitutional<BR>>
Republic to be little more than thin veil of civility and justice
layered<BR>> over a monsterous, diabolic dictatorship that would break out
of political<BR>> cage but for Americans vigorously exercising their 2nd
Amendment rights ...<BR>> As it stands today at start of 2010, there is
never a time that our gov't<BR>> would find itself without some excuse, no
matter how perverse, as the<BR>> justification for unleashing their
murderous 'War Powers' monster upon the<BR>> public, in an attempt to
subject us to tyranny."<BR>><BR>> February 13, 2010—An unidentified
speaker at an event organized by the Lewis<BR>> and Clark Tea Party
Patriots in Asotin County, Washington, tells the<BR>> audience, "How many
of you have watched the movie "Lonesome Dove"? What<BR>> happened to Jake
when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's<BR>> what I want
to do with [Democratic U.S. Senator] Patty Murray."<BR>><BR>> February
18, 2010—Joseph Stack of Austin, Texas, flies a single-engine plane<BR>>
into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, killing one
and<BR>> wounding 13. In a suicide note, Stack lays out his grievances with
the<BR>> federal tax agency, stating, "The law 'requires' a signature on
the bottom<BR>> of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they
understand what<BR>> they are signing; if that's not 'duress' than what is.
If this is not the<BR>> measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is ...
Violence not only is the<BR>> answer, it is the only
answer."<BR>><BR>> February 19, 2010—Johnny Logan, Jr. of Louisville,
Kentucky, is arrested and<BR>> charged with making threats against the
president after his poem titled "The<BR>> Sniper" is found on the website
NaziSpace/NewSaxon.org by the U.S. Secret<BR>> Service. The poem reads, in
part: "As the tyrant enters his cross hairs the<BR>> breath he takes is
deep. His focus is square on the target as he begins to<BR>> release. A
patriot for his people he knows this shot will cost his life. But<BR>> for
his race and their existence it is a small sacrifice. The bullet that
he<BR>> has chambered is one of the purest pride. And the inspiration on
the casing<BR>> reads DIE negro DIE. He breathes out as he pulls the
trigger releasing all<BR>> his hate. And a smile appears upon his face as
he seals that monkey's fate.<BR>> The bullet screams toward its mark
bringing with it death. And where there<BR>> was once a face there is
nothing left. Two blood covered agents stare in<BR>> horror and dismay.
Looking down toward the ground where their president now<BR>>
lay."<BR>><BR>> February 2010—Pvt. 1st Class Lee Pary, an active duty
soldier at Fort Drum<BR>> and member of Oath Keepers, tells a reporter that
he and five fellow service<BR>> members at the Army base are preparing to
take on the U.S. government when<BR>> it declares martial law, and will
turn their guns on their fellow soldiers<BR>> should it become necessary.
"I know their tactics," says Pray. "I know how<BR>> they...work their
convoys—if we attack this vehicle, what the others will do<BR>> ... If the
government continues to ignore us, and forces us to engage, I'm<BR>>
willing to fight to the death."<BR>><BR>> March 2010—The Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces that 2009 saw a<BR>> dramatic increase
in the number of new anti-government "Patriot" groups in<BR>> the United
States. Specifically, the number of Patriot groups jumped from<BR>> 149
(including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) in 2009—a 244%<BR>>
jump.<BR>><BR>> March 2, 2010—FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly,
speaking about the<BR>> McDonald v. Chicago case before the Supreme Court,
declares that plaintiff<BR>> Otis McDonald's inability to own a handgun in
Chicago amounts to "tyranny."<BR>> Predicting that four justices on the
Court will side with the city of<BR>> Chicago, O'Reilly states, "It's
interesting that in America today the far<BR>> Left that wants the
government to call the shots, not the folks. In the<BR>> past, Right-Wing
extremists like Hitler and Mussolini were in the forefront<BR>> of state
control. But with the exception of Burma, today's totalitarians are<BR>>
primarily on the Left."<BR>><BR>> March 4, 2010—John Patrick Bedell, a
California resident, travels to<BR>> Arlington, Virginia, and opens fire on
police officers at the entrance to<BR>> the Pentagon. Bedell is armed with
two semiautomatic firearms and "many<BR>> [ammunition] magazines." Bedell
injures two officers before he is killed by<BR>> return fire. Reports
reveals Bedell to be a Truther who believed that the<BR>> U.S. government
had been taken over by a criminal organization in a 1963<BR>> coup. In an
Internet posting, he writes, "This organization, like so many<BR>>
murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of<BR>>
thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks,
as<BR>> a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric
control."<BR>><BR>> March 19-22, 2010—During consideration of health
care reform legislation by<BR>> the U.S. House of Representatives, vandals
attack Democratic offices in<BR>> Pleasant Ridge, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas;
Tuscon, Arizona; Niagra Falls, New<BR>> York; and Rochester, New York. Mike
Vanderboegh, the former leader of f the<BR>> Alabama Constitutional
Militia, takes credit for the violence after posting<BR>> a blog on March
19 that states, "If we break the windows of hundreds,<BR>> thousands, of
Democratic party headquarters across this country, we might<BR>> just make
up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a<BR>> rifle
unnecessary." Several Democratic members receive death threats,<BR>>
including Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), who is told snipers will "kill
the<BR>> children of the members who voted YES"; Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI),
who<BR>> receives a message saying, "You're dead; we know where you live;
we'll get<BR>> you"; and Rep. Betsy Markey (D-CO), whose staffer is told by
a caller,<BR>> "Better hope I don't run into you in a dark alley with a
knife, a club or a<BR>> gun." House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking
about Rep. Steve Driehaus<BR>> (D-OH), says he "may be a dead
man."<BR>><BR>> March 21, 2010—As the U.S. House of Representatives
enters a final round of<BR>> debate over a controversial health care reform
bill, Conservative blogger<BR>> Solomon "Solly" Forrell calls for the
assassination of President Barack<BR>> Obama on his Twitter account. In two
separate postings, Forrel writes,<BR>> "ASSASSINATION! America, we survived
the #Assassinations of #Lincoln &<BR>> #Kennedy. We'll surely get over
a bullet 2 #BarackObama's head! ... The next<BR>> #American with a #Clear
#Shot should drop #Obama like a bad habit."<BR>><BR>> March 21,
2010—Russell Laing, 52, is charged with aggravated assault and<BR>> making
terroristic threats after a four-hour standoff with police at his<BR>> home
in McCandless, Pennsylvania. Officers were responding to a 911 call<BR>>
after Laing called a friend and said he couldn't walk. When police
responded<BR>> to the call, Laing pointed an assault rifle at them and
cocked the weapon.<BR>> After Laing was arrested, officers recovered
approximately 150 guns and<BR>> 15,000 rounds of ammunition from Laing's
one-bedroom apartment. "I can't<BR>> explain it. In my 40 years, I've not
seen that type of collection," said<BR>> McCandless Police Chief Gary
Anderson.<BR>><BR>> March 23, 2010—After Mike Troxel of the Lynchburg
Tea Party and Nigel<BR>> Coleman of the Danville Tea Party post the home
address of the brother of<BR>> Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA) and urge
supporters to "drop by," someone<BR>> deliberately cuts a propane gas line
at the house. Rep. Perriello is<BR>> targeted by the Tea Party activists
because of his vote in favor of health<BR>> care reform. Perriello's
brother and his wife have four children under the<BR>> age of
eight.<BR>><BR>> March 24, 2010—After voting for health care reform
legislation, Rep. Bart<BR>> Stupak (D-MI) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)
receive faxes with drawings of<BR>> nooses.<BR>><BR>> March 25,
2010—Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who voted for health care reform<BR>>
legislation, receives a package containing white powder and an angry
letter<BR>> telling him to "drop dead ."<BR>><BR>> March 26,
2010—Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR), who voted for health care reform<BR>>
legislation, receives a letter stating, "It is apparent that it will take
a<BR>> few assassinations to stop Obamacare. Militia central has selected
you for<BR>> assassination. If we cannot stalk and find you in Washington,
D.C., we will<BR>> get you in Little Rock."<BR>><BR>> March 26,
2010—NRA Board Member Ted Nugent makes the following comment on<BR>> FOX
News' "Your World" program: “I’m the expert on the health care bill<BR>>
because I kill pigs and a just shot a monster big pig here in Texas
and<BR>> seeing as how this is a pig bill created by pig bureaucrats to
help out<BR>> American pigs … We gotta’ kill the pig.”<BR>><BR>>
March 29, 2010—A Northeast Philadelphia man, Norman Leboon, is charged
with<BR>> threatening the life of Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Leboon,
38, is<BR>> arrested by the FBI after posting a YouTube video in which he
referred to<BR>> Cantor's family and threatened,"bulllets...will be placed
in your heads."<BR>> Leboon made hundreds of YouTube videos with
anti-government themes, and<BR>> threatened others, including President
Barack Obama, the Democratic<BR>> Leadership in Congress, and the Pope.
Leboon has a long history of mental<BR>> illness, but was able to obtain a
concealed handgun permit in Pennsylvania,<BR>> which alarmed his
family.<BR>><BR>> March 29, 2010—Nine members of the MIchigan-based
"Hutaree" Christian<BR>> militia are arrested and charged with seditious
conspiracy and attempting to<BR>> deploy weapons of mass destruction. The
group had allegedly plotted to kill<BR>> a law enforcement officer and then
detonate improvised explosive devices<BR>> (IEDs) during the officer's
funeral procession. The group targeted federal<BR>> officials, members of
the law enforcement "brotherhood" and other<BR>> participants in the "New
World Order."<BR>><BR>> March 30, 2010—Dozens of sitting governors
receive letters from an extremist<BR>> anti-government group called the
Guardians of the Free Republics. The<BR>> letters demand that the governors
leave office within three days or "they<BR>> will be removed" from office.
A page on the group's website entitled<BR>> "Rationale" reads, "For those
who are concerned about opening the door to<BR>> satanic forces, permit me
to reassure you. The Guardian Elders deliberated<BR>> with great sobriety
the wisdom of sitting on our hands while the march to<BR>> World War III
continues."<BR>><BR>> April 1, 2010—CNN commentator Erick Erickson,
questioning the legality of<BR>> the U.S. Census Bureau’s American
Community Survey (ACS), makes the<BR>> following comment on WMAC-AM radio:
“We have become, or are becoming,<BR>> enslaved by the government ... I
dare ‘em to try to come throw me in jail. I<BR>> dare ‘em to. [I’ll] pull
out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS<BR>> twerp likes being
scared at the door. They’re not going on my property.”<BR>><BR>> April
1-20, 2010—Walter Fitzpatrick, a member of American Grand Jury (AGJ),<BR>>
attempts to effect a citizen's arrest on grand jury foreman Gary Pettway
at<BR>> the Monroe County courthouse in Madisonville, Tennessee, and is
arrested.<BR>> Nineteen days later, on the day that Fitzpatrick is
scheduled to face trial,<BR>> Oath Keepers member Darren Huff is pulled
over by Tennessee state troopers<BR>> as he attempts to drive to the
courthouse to arrest county officials he<BR>> calls "domestic enemies of
the United States engaged in treason." Huff is<BR>> armed with a Colt-45
handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle with 300-400 rounds<BR>> of ammunition.
He is indicted on federal charges of traveling in interstate<BR>> commerce
with intent to incite a riot and transporting in commerce a firearm<BR>> in
furtherance of a civil disorder.<BR>><BR>> April 6, 2010—Authorities
charge Charles Alan Wilson of Selah, Washington,<BR>> with threatening a
federal official after Wilson makes several phone calls<BR>> to the office
of Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). Wilson, a concealed handgun<BR>> permit holder
in Washington, was angry about Sen. Murray's vote for health<BR>> care
reform legislation and told her she had "a target on her back." He
also<BR>> told Murray, "Since you are going to put my life at risk, and
some<BR>> bureaucrat is going to determine my health care, your life is at
risk, dear<BR>> ... I hope somebody puts a...bullet between
your...eyes."<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2010—Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, of San
Francisco, California, is<BR>> arrested for making threatening phone calls
to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<BR>> (D-CA). Giusti allegedly called Pelosi
dozens of times, recited her home<BR>> address, and told her that if she
wanted to see it again, she should drop<BR>> her support for health care
reform legislation. Giusti had a "history of<BR>> mental health problems"
and his mother indicated he was influenced by "Fox<BR>> News and all of
those that are really radical."<BR>><BR>> April 7, 2010—Brody James
Whitaker, 37, is apprehended and arrested on<BR>> charges including two
counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement<BR>> officer, aggravated
fleeing, and attempting to elude. The charges stem from<BR>> an incident on
March 25, 2010 in which police attempted to pull Whitaker<BR>> over for a
traffic violation on I-75 in Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker led<BR>>
officers on a high-speed chase, fired shots at them from a 9mm handgun,
and<BR>> escaped capture. During his arraignment hearing, Whitaker
questions the<BR>> authority of the judge and states, "I am a sovereign. I
am not an American<BR>> citizen."<BR>><BR>> April 10, 2010—At a
"Second Amendment March" organized by the Connecticut<BR>> Citizens Defense
League, Martha Dean, the Republican-endorsed candidate for<BR>> Attorney
General in Connecticut, tells those in attendance, "If government<BR>> is
legitimate and truly is the voice of the people, it need never fear
the<BR>> people themselves when they’re armed. Only a government that uses
secrecy<BR>> and force to impose improper laws [to] which the people do not
consent need<BR>> fear the wrath of its law-abiding citizens at the ballot
box or, ultimately,<BR>> with arms … Our right of free speech and to back
it up with arms if<BR>> necessary if our government becomes tyrannical and
unjust as King George’s<BR>> was to the colonists are the most essential of
the rights we as Americans<BR>> have ... I will oppose all efforts to
create nonsensical distinctions that<BR>> are nowhere supported by our
constitutions between different types of<BR>> firearms. Nowhere in the
Constitution does it say that the government gets<BR>> the effective
firearms and the people the ineffective ones. Nowhere in our<BR>>
Constitution does it say that the government gets the modern firearms
and<BR>> the citizens only get the antiquated ones."<BR>><BR>> April
13, 2010—Reports surface that state Sen. Randy Brogdon (R-OK) and Rep.<BR>>
Charles Key (R-OK) have met with Oklahoma Tea Party groups to discuss
the<BR>> formation of a new "volunteer militia" to defend against what they
see as<BR>> improprer federal infringements on state sovereignty. Brogdon
states that<BR>> the Founding Fathers "were not referring to a turkey shoot
or a quail hunt.<BR>> They really weren't even talking about us having the
ability to protect<BR>> ourselves against each other. The Second Amendment
deals directly with the<BR>> right of an individual to keep and bear arms
to protect themselves from an<BR>> overreaching federal government." One
Tea Party leader involved in these<BR>> meetings, J.W. Berry of the
Tulsa-based OKforTea group, has called for the<BR>> Militia to "launch a
thousand guerrilla attacks on the plans that these<BR>> people have to ruin
us and our country."<BR>><BR>> April 19, 2010—Pro-gun activists conduct
two rallies in the Washington, D.C.<BR>> area to demonstrate their
opposition to an "oppressive, totalitarian<BR>> government." Among the
featured speakers at the events are current and<BR>> former militia leaders
and others with ties to extreme, anti-government<BR>> groups. The choice of
date is significant, as April 19 marks the anniversary<BR>> of the first
shots being fired in the American Revolution at the Battle of<BR>>
Lexington/Concord, the fiery conclusion to the 1993 siege at Waco, and
the<BR>> 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City by Timothy
McVeigh. At<BR>> the "Second Amendment March" in the District of Columbia,
Larry Pratt, the<BR>> Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, states,
"We're in a war. The<BR>> other side knows they are at war, because they
started it. They are coming<BR>> for our freedom, for our money, for our
kids, for our property. They are<BR>> coming for everything because they
are a bunch of Socialists." Mike<BR>> Vanderboegh, who made national
headlines after taking credit for several<BR>> instances of vandalism at
Democratic offices following votes on health care<BR>> reform legislation,
is the featured speaker at a rally in Fort Hunt National<BR>> Park in
Virginia, where he tells attendees, "Whenever the legislators<BR>> endeavor
to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce<BR>> them
to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of<BR>>
war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further
obedience<BR>> ... This is what the other side doesn’t understand! We are
doing backing up!<BR>> Done! Not one more inch."<BR>><BR>> May 4,
2010—A questioner at a Heritage Foundation event asks speaker Rep.<BR>>
Eric Cantor the question, "In light of what Obama has done to leave us<BR>>
vulnerable, to cut defense spending, to make us vulnerable to outside<BR>>
enemies, and to slight our allies ... What would he have to do
differently<BR>> to be defined as a domestic enemy?" After smiling and
stating that "no one<BR>> thinks that the president is a domestic enemy,"
Cantor is booed by several<BR>> members of the audience.<BR>><BR>>
May 6, 2010—Dr. Christina Jeffrey, a Republican candidate in South<BR>>
Carolina's 4th Congressional District, posts a YouTube video where she
holds<BR>> an AK-47 assault rifle and tells viewers, "Why do we have the
Second<BR>> Amendment? The Second Amendment ensures all of our other rights
... The<BR>> Second Amendment was placed in the Constitution, plainly, to
ensure that our<BR>> limited government stayed limited and that we would be
able to enforce those<BR>> limitations if need be ... We are a sovereign
people. A sovereign people is<BR>> an armed people."<BR>><BR>> May
15, 2010—At the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in<BR>>
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2012 Republican presidential nominee hopeful
Newt<BR>> Gingrich tells the audience, "The Second Amendment is not in
defense of<BR>> hunting. It is not in defense of target shooting. It is not
in defense of<BR>> collecting. The Second Amendment is in defense of
freedom from the State."<BR>> He goes on to make the following reference to
Thomas Jefferson's "The tree<BR>> of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time with the blood of patriots<BR>> and tyrants" quote: "Anybody who's
historically honest has to admit [the<BR>> Founding Fathers] understood the
right to bear arms because they routinely<BR>> carried arms. These were
tough people in a tough time in a tough country<BR>> doing tough things and
the idea that they would allow some D.C. city<BR>> government or some
Washington federal bureaucrat to get between them and<BR>> their
Constitutional rights, they would have said in Jefferson's terms was<BR>>
the legitimate justification for a political revolution in every
generation<BR>> which was what Jefferson thought was inevitable to clean
out the corruption,<BR>> the arrogance, and the obsolenscence that
government would invariably have."<BR>><BR>> May 15, 2010—Referring to a
controversial new anti-immigration law in<BR>> Arizona, FOX News
personality Glenn Beck tells the 2010 NRA Convention,<BR>> "Let's talk a
minute about a 'well-regulated militia' and why you might need<BR>> one
because the government isn't doing their job. Let's meet people in<BR>>
Texas, Arizona and California."<BR>><BR>> May 20, 2010—Jerry Kane, Jr.,
45, and his son Joseph Kane, 16, fatally shoot<BR>> two Arkansas police
officers with AK-47 assault rifles during a routine<BR>> traffic stop on
Interstate 40 in West Memphis. The Kanes are killed during<BR>> an exchange
of gunfire with police in a Walmart parking lot 90 minutes<BR>> later.
Jerry Kane, an Ohio resident and anti-government activist, had a long<BR>>
history with police and had recently spent three days in jail for
driving<BR>> with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane
considered himself a<BR>> "sovereign citizen" and ran a business that
centered on debt-avoidance<BR>> scams.<BR>><BR>> May 27, 2010—The
Washington Times publishes an editorial claiming that a<BR>> United Nations
treaty seeking to curb the international, illicit trade in<BR>> smalls arms
"would necessarily lead to confication of personal firearms" in<BR>> the
United States. The editorial goes on to say, "Not all insurgencies are<BR>>
bad. As U.S. history shows, one way to get rid of a despotic regime is
to<BR>> rise up against it. That threat is why authoritarian regimes such
as Syria,<BR>> Cuba, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and Sierra Leone endorse
gun control ...<BR>> Governments are a bigger threat to most people than
their neighbors."<BR>><BR>> May 30, 2010—Sharron Angle, a candidate for
the Republican nomination for<BR>> U.S. Senator in Nevada, tells the Reno
Gazette-Journal that a recent<BR>> increase in gun sales nationwide "tells
me that the nation is arming. What<BR>> are they arming for if it isn't
that they are so distrustful of government?<BR>> They're afraid they'll
have to fight for their liberty in more Second<BR>> Amendment kinds of
ways." These comments echo ones made by Angle in January,<BR>> when she
told conservative radio show talk host Lars Larson, "You know, our<BR>>
Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good
reason<BR>> and that was for the people to protect themselves against a
tyrannical<BR>> government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for
a country to<BR>> have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where
we're going, but,<BR>> you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it
is, people are really<BR>> looking toward those Second Amendment remedies
and saying my goodness what<BR>> can we do to turn this country around?
I'll tell you the first thing we need<BR>> to do is take [U.S. Senator from
Nevada] Harry Reid out."<BR>><BR>> May 31, 2010—Oath Keeper Rex Nichols,
a candidate for sheriff in Montana's<BR>> Lincoln County, makes reference
to federal agents' standoffs at Ruby Ridge<BR>> in 1992 and Waco in 1993
and promises to keep them out of the county if<BR>> elected. "I am going to
take my deputies and stand in the middle of the road<BR>> and tell them to
get the hell out," says Nichols. "And if they want a war,<BR>> they got
it."<BR>><BR>> June 2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate seeking the
Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional District, runs
a campaign ad in<BR>> which he dicusses contemporary political issues with
America's Founding<BR>> Fathers. After Barber states "I would impeach him"
and rails about the<BR>> "progressive income tax," the Internal Revenue
Service, and health care<BR>> reform, a Founding Father replies, "Gather
your armies." Several Founding<BR>> Fathers are depicted as being armed
with pistols.<BR>><BR>> June 9, 2010—Addressing the Obama administration
and the<BR>> Democratic-controlled Congress, FOX commentator Glenn Beck
says, "Tea<BR>> parties believe in small government. We believe in
returning to the<BR>> principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them.
We revere them. Shoot<BR>> me in the head before I stop talking about the
Founders. Shoot me in the<BR>> head if you try to change our government. I
will stand against you and so<BR>> will millions of others. We believe in
something. You in the media and most<BR>> in Washington don't. The radicals
that you and Washington have co-opted and<BR>> brought in wearing sheep's
clothing—change the pose. You will get the ends.<BR>> You've been using
them? They believe in communism. They believe and have<BR>> called for a
revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head."<BR>><BR>>
June 9, 2010—Justine Haynes, 31, of Phoenix is charged with threatening
to<BR>> kill a federal official after making two calls to the office of
U.S. Rep.<BR>> Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). Haynes was incensed over Grijalva's
opposition to<BR>> Arizona's controversial new immigration law and
threatened to come to the<BR>> Congressman's office and “blow everyone's
head off."<BR>><BR>> June 27, 2010—Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate
seeking the Republican<BR>> nomination in Alabama's Second Congressional
District, runs a campaign ad in<BR>> which he compares taxation and "the
tyrannical health care bill" to slavery<BR>> and the extermination of Jews
in Nazi Germany. "We live in perilous times<BR>> ... We are all becoming
slaves to our government," Barber warns. The "army<BR>> of voters" depicted
in the ad includes individuals who are openly armed with<BR>> guns. In a
follow-up editorial in the Washington Post, Barber makes<BR>> reference to
"the possibility of evil conducted on a grand scale" and<BR>> states,
"Totalitarianism doesn't come all at once ... The road to serfdom is<BR>> a
long one, but I fear that we are well on the way."<BR>><BR>> July 2,
2010—The Wyoming Department of Revenue suspends sales tax<BR>> collections
at the state's gun shows because of "increasing animosity"<BR>> toward
field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's Excise Tax<BR>>
Division, cites one particular incident at a gun show that "crossed
the<BR>> line" and says, "We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than
any place<BR>> ... I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one
of them has<BR>> experienced some animosity ... I don't want to put my
people at risk."<BR>><BR>> July 3, 2010—Joyce Kaufman, a conservative
radio hosts on WFTL in Florida,<BR>> tells a crowd of supporters at a Fort
Lauderdale Tea Party event, “I am<BR>> convinced that the most important
thing the Founding Fathers did to ensure<BR>> me my First Amendments rights
was they gave me a Second Amendment. And if<BR>> ballots don’t work,
bullets will. This is the standoff. When I say I’ll put<BR>> my microphone
down on November 2nd if we haven’t achieved substantial<BR>> victory, I
mean it. Because if at that point I’m going to up into the hills<BR>> of
Kentucky, I’m going to go out into the Midwest, I’m going to go up in
the<BR>> Vermont and New Hampshire outreaches and I’m going to gather
together men<BR>> and women who understand that some things are worth
fighting for and some<BR>> things are worth dying for.”<BR>><BR>>
July 6, 2010—Herb Titus, a lawyer for Gun Owners of America, tells
Religion<BR>> Dispatches, "If you have a people that has basically been
disarmed by the<BR>> civil government, then there really isn't any
effectual means available to<BR>> the people to restore law and liberty and
that's really the purpose of the<BR>> right to keep and bear arms—is to
defend yourself against a tyrant." Titus<BR>> goes on to cite the
"totalitarian threat" posed by "Obamacare" and "what<BR>> Sarah Palin said
about the death panels."<BR>><BR>> July 11, 2010—Supporters of Tea Party
candidate Joe Miller openly carry<BR>> assault rifles and handguns during a
community parade in Eagle River and<BR>> Chugiak, Alaska, while young
children march alongside them. Miller, who is<BR>> running against Senator
Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, was<BR>> endorsed by former
Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who described him as a “true<BR>> Commonsense
Constitutional Conservative.”<BR>><BR>> July 18, 2010—California Highway
Patrol officers arrest Byron Williams, 45,<BR>> after a shootout on I-580
in which more than 60 rounds are fired. Officers<BR>> had pulled Williams
over in his pick-up for speeding and weaving in and out<BR>> of traffic
when he opened fire on them with a handgun and a long gun.<BR>> Williams, a
convicted felon, is shot several times, but survives because he<BR>> is
wearing body armor. Williams, a convicted felon, reveals that he was
on<BR>> his way to San Francisco to "start a revolution" by killing
employees of the<BR>> ACLU and Tides Foundation. Williams' mother says her
son was angry at<BR>> "Left-wing politicians" and upset by "the way
Congress was railroading<BR>> through all these Left-wing agenda
items."<BR>><BR>> July 26, 2010—A proposed ordinance that would prohibit
residents from firing<BR>> air rifles and other low-powered weapons within
500 feet of a building<BR>> (unless fired in a target range) is pulled from
consideration in Exeter<BR>> Township, Pennsylvania, after the Board of
Supervisors receives a number of<BR>> angry and threatening phone calls
from gun owners. Citing a National Rifle<BR>> Association "Action Alert"
that claimed Exeter supervisors were<BR>> "consider[ing] a broad and
overreaching attack on our Second Amendment<BR>> freedoms," Exeter Township
Police Chief Christopher Neidert says, "This was<BR>> totally false
information that was put out. The anger was building, and I<BR>> was
concerned that someone might actually get hurt."<BR>><BR>> July 28,
2010—U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) shuts down his district office<BR>> in
Yuma after staff members discover a bullet hole in one of the office's<BR>>
windows. Authorities also report that U.S. Judge Susan Bolton receives<BR>>
hundreds of threats at her Phoenix offices after issuing an injunction
on<BR>> Arizona's controversial new immigration law.<BR>><BR>> July
29, 2010—Jack Dailey, the founder of the Appleseed Project (which is<BR>>
dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a
man-size<BR>> target out to 500 yards), explains that Americans should own
an AR-15<BR>> assault rifle "because they want to tell us what to do. And
we don't want<BR>> them to tell us what to do." James Faire, an Appleseed
trainer, states that,<BR>> "the government has quite literally become
tyrannical. It is fulfilling the<BR>> principles outlined in The Communist
Manifesto. It's completely out of<BR>> control from city to state to
federal to international law. All predicate<BR>> their existence on
plundering the individual and his rights. The only thing<BR>> to do now is
to organize citizens into a militia to abolish this<BR>>
government."<BR>><BR>> July 30, 2010—Camp Hill prison guard Raymond
Peake, 64, is charged with<BR>> robbery and the murder of Todd Getgen.
Peake allegedly shot Getgen to death<BR>> at a local shooting range and
stole Getgen's custom, silenced AR-15 rifle.<BR>> Investigators follow
Peake to a storage unit when they find three firearms:<BR>> Getgen's AR-15
rifle, a scoped Remington rifle that had been reported stolen<BR>> from the
range in May, and a second AR-15 rifle. Thomas Tuso is also<BR>> arrested
and charged with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and other<BR>>
crimes. Peake tells police that he and Tuso had been stealing guns "for
the<BR>> purpose of overthrowing the federal government."<BR>><BR>>
August 14, 2010—Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack—who gained fame in<BR>>
anti-government circles by joining a mid-1990s lawsuit against the
federal<BR>> government over the Brady Bill requirement that state law
enforcement<BR>> agencies conduct background checks on gun purchasers—tells
those in<BR>> attendance at the American Policy Center's 2010 Freedom
Action Natonal<BR>> Conference, "My dear friends, I pray for the day that
the first sheriff in<BR>> this country is the one to fire the shot heard
'round the world and take out<BR>> some IRS agents!"<BR>><BR>> August
17, 2010—Patrick Gray Sharp, 29, opens fire on the Department of<BR>>
Public Safety in McKinney, Texas, and unsuccessfully attempts to
ignite<BR>> gasoline and ammonium nitrate in a trailer hitched to his
truck. Sharp is<BR>> armed with an assault rifle, a .45-caliber
semiautomatic pistol, and a<BR>> 12-gauge shotgun. He is killed after an
exchange of gunfire with police<BR>> arriving on the scene. Miraculously,
no one else is hurt. Sharp's roommate,<BR>> Eric McClellan describes him as
"a great guy" and states, "We're Texans. We<BR>> have a right to bear
arms."<BR>><BR>> August 19, 2010—Josiah Fornof, 30, of Pasco County,
Florida, is arrested<BR>> after threatening to "bear arms against" local
law enforcement officers who<BR>> were trying to serve him with a warrant.
Authorities recover a letter that<BR>> Fornof had tried to serve the
deputies with, which reads, "I have the right<BR>> to bear arms against
such unlawful entities, up to and including the<BR>> President of the
United States, that are coming against me unlawfully,<BR>> lethally, and
genocidally."<BR>><BR>> August 23, 2010—Thomas Pidgeon is arrested after
he attempts to bring a<BR>> fully loaded .45-caliber handgun into a Cook
County courthouse. Pidegon was<BR>> supposed to attend a foreclosure
hearing that day. His home was to be sold<BR>> to a lender in North
Carolina after New York-based BNY Mellon filed an<BR>> action against him
in the county.<BR>><BR>> September 1, 2010—James Jay Lee, 43, takes
hostages at the Discovery<BR>> Communications building in Silver Spring,
Maryland, while armed with two<BR>> starter pistols and four improvised
explosived devices. After pointing a gun<BR>> at one of the hostages, he is
shot and killed by police. Lee, a radical<BR>> environmental activist, had
previously issued 11 demands through a webpage<BR>> that Discovery was to
meet "immediately." The demands involved the content<BR>> of programming on
the Discovery Channel. Lee had also declared on his<BR>> MySpace page,
"It's time for REVOLUTION!!!"<BR>><BR>> September 13, 2010—Police stop
Richard Scott McLeod, 48, for a traffic<BR>> violation in Webberville,
Michigan, and upon searching his vehicle, discover<BR>> bumper stickers
quoting Adolf Hitler, a picture of President Barack Obama, a<BR>> loaded
handgun, a bullet-proof vest, and bomb-making materials. McLeod is<BR>>
arrested and charged with illegally carrying a concealed weapon and
unlawful<BR>> possession of body armor. McLeod tells officers that he is a
member of the<BR>> Michigan Militia. The group denies any relationship with
McLeod<BR>><BR>> September 16, 2010—Patricia Stoneking, the President of
the Kansas State<BR>> Rifle Association, tells Fox News, "People need to
arm themselves, We have<BR>> the right to put limits on our government, and
that's what [the Second<BR>> Amendment] does." Explaining why America's
Founding Fathers drafted the<BR>> amendment, she says, "They knew
government could become tyrannical. We have<BR>> the right to defend
ourselves from a rogue government."<BR>><BR>> September 30, 2010—Kevin
Terrell, a self-described "colonel" who founded a<BR>> group of "freedom
fighters" in Kentucky, predicts war with "the jackbooted<BR>> thugs" of
Washington within a year. Referring to the arrest of Hutaree<BR>> militia
members earlier in the year, Terrell says, "There was a lot of<BR>>
citizens out there in the bushes, locked and loaded. It's only due to<BR>>
miracles I do not understand that civil war did not break out right
there."<BR>><BR>> September 30, 2010—Steve Kendley, a deputy sheriff
running for sheriff in<BR>> Lake County, Montana, threatens "a violent
conflict" with federal agents if<BR>> "they are doing something I believe
is unconstitutional."<BR>><BR>> October 15, 2010—Conservative radio show
host Glenn Beck lays out a<BR>> hypothetical scenario on the air where the
government is considering taking<BR>> his children because he refused to
have them receive a mandatory flu<BR>> vaccine. Beck tells his audience
that his response to the government would<BR>> be "Meet Mr. Smith and Mr.
Wesson."<BR>><BR>> October 21, 2010—Pastor Stephen Broden, the
Republican candidate for U.S.<BR>> Representative in Texas' 30th
Congressional District, tells WFAA-TV in<BR>> Dallas that the violent
overthrow of the government is an "option" that<BR>> remains "on the
table." "Our nation was founded on violence," states<BR>> Broden. "I don't
think that we should ever remove anything from the table as<BR>> it relates
to our liberties and our freedoms."<BR>><BR>> October 22, 2010—Texas
Department of Corrections officers searching for a<BR>> missing person,
Gill Clements, 69, are confronted by a neighbor while on<BR>> Clements'
property in Henderson County. Howard Tod Granger, 46, points an<BR>> AK-47
semiautomatic assault rifle at one of the officers, who recalls, "He<BR>>
told us to get off the property or he would kill us all." Later that<BR>>
afternoon, officers return to Granger's home with a search warrant and
an<BR>> armored vehicle filled with 13 SWAT members. Granger opens fire on
the<BR>> vehicle, discharging at least 30 rounds before authorities shoot
and kill<BR>> him. Police find guns and "many rounds of ammunition" in
Granger's house.<BR>> They also find the body of Clements, buried in a
shallow grave on Granger's<BR>> property.<BR>><BR>> November 2,
2010—On Election Night, supporters of Republican congressional<BR>>
candidate Nick Popaditch shout down and physically confront Rep. Bob
Filner<BR>> (D-CA) and his staff as they exit Golden Hall in San Diego
following the<BR>> announcment of Filner's victory in the race. "You're a
damn liar. You should<BR>> be ashamed of yourself," Popaditch tells Filner,
leading the mob. Other<BR>> Popaditch supporters yell "You're a scumbag!"
"Jew!" and "Don't tread on me,<BR>> Bob!" Another Popaditch supporter
punches a Filner campaign staffer in the<BR>> face.<BR>><BR>>
November 3, 2010—James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested
on<BR>> the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law
enforcement<BR>> authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber
rifle barrel, a .22<BR>> caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several
boxes of ammunition, and<BR>> propane tanks wired to four car batteries in
his truck and trailer. Patock<BR>> former neighbor in Arizona reported
that, "He hated the president. He hated<BR>> everything. He said if he got
a chance he would shoot the president." Patock<BR>> tells authorities he is
a member of the National Rifle Association.<BR>><BR>> November 4,
2010—On his radio show, conservative host Glenn Beck fantasizes<BR>> about
President Obama being decapitated during a trip to India, saying, "If<BR>>
anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they think he
was<BR>> a Muslim over there because he left his religion for Christianity,
death<BR>> sentence, behead him.” Beck then tells his listeners that "God
forbid" this<BR>> should happen, as there would be a "New World Order"
overnight in the United<BR>> States.<BR>><BR>> November 4, 2010—Fox
News host Bill O'Reilly fantasizes about killing a<BR>> Washington Post
reporter while on the air, saying, "Does sharia law say we<BR>> can behead
Dana Milbank?" O'Reilly also tells co-host Megyn Kelly, "I think<BR>> you
and I should go and beat him up."<BR>><BR>> November 9, 2010—U.S.
Representative-Elect Allen West of Florida's 22nd<BR>> Congressional
District hires conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman<BR>> as his
Chief of Staff. On July 3, Kaufman told a crowd of Tea Party<BR>>
supporters, “I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding<BR>>
Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a<BR>>
Second Amendment. And if ballots don’t work, bullets will."<BR>><BR>>
November 9, 2010—Concealed handgun permit holder George Thomas Lee, 69,
of<BR>> Walhalla, South Carolina, is arrested on the town's main street
for<BR>> disseminating and promoting obscenity by bearing signs "laden
with<BR>> expletives and taking aim at U.S. foreign policy, President
Barack Obama,<BR>> blacks in general, Jews and the nation of Israel."
Officers also seize<BR>> literature from Lee that details "the most
expedient means of killing law<BR>> enforcement officers." The November 9
arrest follows an October 19 arrest<BR>> for assault after Lee kicked and
swung his signs at a group of girls between<BR>> the ages of 12 and
14.<BR>><BR>> November 10, 2010—Public schools in Broward County,
Florida, go into<BR>> lockdown after an email threat is received by WFTL
850 AM. The email is sent<BR>> to conservative radio host Joyce Kaufman in
response to remarks she made at<BR>> a Tea Party event in July ("If ballots
don't work, bullets will"). The email<BR>> expresses support for her view
of the Second Amendment and says that to<BR>> further "their
cause...something big will happen at a government building in<BR>> Broward
County, maybe a post office maybe even a school." A phone call is<BR>> then
received at the station, allegedly from the emailer's wife, warning<BR>>
that he is preparing to go to a Pembroke Pines school and open
fire.<BR>><BR>> November 23, 2010—Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of
Gun Owners of<BR>> America, writes an editorial in The Register Citizen in
which he calls for<BR>> state and county sheriffs to organize large, armed
"posses" as "a check on<BR>> the unconstitutional exercise of federal
power."<BR>><BR>> November 29, 2010—U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the
ranking Republican on the<BR>> House Energy and Commerce Committee,
circulates a PowerPoint presentation to<BR>> his colleagues in which he
compares the Obama administration to the Nazi<BR>> regime in Germany and
likens himself to Gen. George Patton, bragging, "Put<BR>> anything in my
scope and I will shoot it."<BR>><BR>> December 3, 2010—At "Roe &
Roeper's Miracle on Indianapolis Blvd. Holiday<BR>> Extravaganza" promoting
"Toys 4 Tots" in Chicago, Illinois, actor R. Lee<BR>> Emery (famous for his
depiction of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal<BR>> Jacket") tells
those in attendance, "The economy really sucks. Now I hate to<BR>> point
fingers at anybody, but the present administration probably has a lot<BR>>
to do with that. And the way I see it, they're not gonna quit doing it
until<BR>> they bring this country to its knees. So I think we should all
rise up and<BR>> we should stop this administration from what they're doing
because they're<BR>> destroying this country. They're driving us into
bankruptcy so that they can<BR>> impose socialism on us."<BR>><BR>>
December 31, 2010—An anonymous threat is posted in the "Rants and
Raves"<BR>> section of the Anchorage Craigslist against Andree McLeod, a
citizen<BR>> activist who has requested—under Alaska’s Open Records
Act—work-related<BR>> emails that Sarah Palin sent and received while
governor of the state. The<BR>> threat states, "I think Andre has used up
to much oxygen. So I have my scope<BR>> cross hair on her head! She better
watch out, the request may have been her<BR>> last." The Anchorage Police
trace the message to the AOL account of an<BR>> Anchorage woman in her 50s,
but neglect to verify if she is the one who is<BR>> responsible for
it.<BR>><BR>> January 6, 2011—John Troy Davis, 44, is arrested after
threatening to set<BR>> fire to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
and shoot members of his<BR>> staff. The threat comes when Davis calls
Bennet's office to complain about<BR>> his Social Security benefits,
telling a staffer that he is schizophrenic and<BR>> "may go to terrorism."
"I'm just going to come down there and shoot you<BR>> all," he declares.
Davis is charged with assault on a federal employee.<BR>><BR>> January
8, 2011—Jared Lee Loughner, 22, shoots U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords<BR>>
(D-AZ) and 19 others at a "Congress in Your Corner" event at a Safeway<BR>>
supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. He kills six, including federal judge
John<BR>> Roll, and wounds 14, including Giffords, who is shot in the head.
Loughner<BR>> has an extensive history of mental illness and substance
abuse, yet is able<BR>> to purchase two handguns and a high-capacity
ammunition magazine legally at<BR>> Sportsman's Warehouse on November 30,
2010. In a YouTube video posted in<BR>> December 2010, Loughner states,
"You don’t have to accept the federalist<BR>> laws ... Nonetheless, read
the United States of America’s Constitution to<BR>> apprehend all of the
current treasonous laws."<BR>><BR>> January 8, 2011—Fearing violence
from tea party activists, Arizona<BR>> Legislative District 20 Republican
Chairman Anthony Miller, Secretary Sophia<BR>> Johnson, First Vice Chairman
Roger Dickinson, and former district spokesman<BR>> Jeff Kolb resign from
their positions. "I don't want to take a bullet for<BR>> anyone," says
Miller, who cites verbal attacks and threatening blog posts<BR>> from tea
party members upset with the fact that he is a former campaign<BR>> worker
for U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Miller also reports an incident in<BR>>
which a detractor made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it
at<BR>> him.<BR>><BR>><BR>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:55 PM,
lfalen <</FONT><A href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>lfalen@turbonet.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>
wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> Your arguments would have more veracity if you
named people on both the<BR>>> right and the left, but you continue to
harp on only Palin and the Tea<BR>>> Party. Talk about hate speech, no
one has been on the receiving end of it<BR>>> more than Palin. She has
been hanged in effigy. Do you condone that? I<BR>>> suspect that if she
were to be assassinated there would be very little<BR>>> condemnation of
it from the left. Most likely the comments would be "good<BR>>>
riddance" or "she had it coming".<BR>>> Roger<BR>>> -----Original
message-----<BR>>> From: Joe Campbell </FONT><A
href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>philosopher.joe@gmail.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=2
face=Arial>>> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:12:59 -0800<BR>>> To: Dan
Carscallen </FONT><A href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>areaman@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>>>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] that Jared guy and mental
health<BR>>><BR>>> > Dan writes, in regard to the AZ shooting:
"This can’t be blamed on<BR>>> > rhetoric,<BR>>> > nor on
extremists from either side of the aisle. The blame lays solely<BR>>>
> on a<BR>>> > sick man who obviously needs help. And, perhaps,
the “blame” lays on<BR>>> > the<BR>>> > freedom we enjoy by
being citizens of the United States of America."<BR>>> ><BR>>>
> First, no one on the V at least "blamed" the shooting on rhetoric,
or<BR>>> > Palin,<BR>>> > or anyone, or anything. No one
that I know who has talked about the<BR>>> > connection between
violent rhetoric (or gun control, etc.) and the AZ<BR>>> > shooting
has used "blame" talk. So let's get that straight.<BR>>>
><BR>>> > Rather than talk about "blame" for or even "causes" of
the shooting,<BR>>> > let's<BR>>> > talk about
"explanations" for the shooting. Why did it happen? What can<BR>>> >
we<BR>>> > do to prevent shootings like this from happening in the
future? Your<BR>>> > opinion<BR>>> > seems to be that we
can't do anything, that shootings like this just<BR>>> >
happen<BR>>> > for NO reason whatsoever -- or they happen in
societies that have the<BR>>> > kinds<BR>>> > of "freedoms"
that our society has. That we should accept them because<BR>>> >
we<BR>>> > can't do anything about it, unless we want to deprive
people of their<BR>>> > "freedoms."<BR>>> ><BR>>> >
Sorry but that seems a little too fatalistic and cynical for my
tastes.<BR>>> > I<BR>>> > think we CAN do something about
these kind of shootings. What can we do?<BR>>> > I<BR>>> >
don't know. I'd prefer to talk about it, though, see if there are
some<BR>>> > possible solutions. I'm not claiming to have the
solution, I'm just<BR>>> > claiming<BR>>> > that we can do
something if we put our minds to it and come up with a<BR>>> >
plan.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > The claim that violent rhetoric and
gun laws and even Palin's poster<BR>>> > have<BR>>> >
NOTHING to do with the shooting, that the explanation for the
shooting<BR>>> > is<BR>>> > unrelated to the overinflated,
violent rhetoric of the right and others,<BR>>> > is<BR>>> >
an extreme claim. Issues of explanation are empirical issues. You
have<BR>>> > to<BR>>> > back up such an extreme claim -- a
claim like the claim that violent<BR>>> > rhetoric has NOTHING to do
with violence in America. Here are a few<BR>>> > reasons<BR>>>
> why I think you can't back that claim up.<BR>>> ><BR>>>
> You'll have to explain why there is more violence in American than
in<BR>>> > almost<BR>>> > any other country; why the violent
rhetoric apparently works when it<BR>>> > comes<BR>>> > to
getting people to vote (Tea Party candidates had some level of<BR>>>
> success in<BR>>> > the last election; anti-gay propaganda was a
huge part of Republican<BR>>> > victories during the last Bush era)
yet has NO other impact on human<BR>>> > behavior; why a lot of the
violence from "lunatics" is directed toward<BR>>> > folks<BR>>>
> on the left (as well as gays, Muslims, etc.). Now if you have
the<BR>>> > explanation, please give it -- please explain why you're
so certain that<BR>>> > there is NO connection between violent
rhetoric and actual violence. I'm<BR>>> > pretty sure you have no
formal training in psychology or sociology, so<BR>>> >
I'm<BR>>> > unsure what your basis is. I don't think the explanation
has anything to<BR>>> > with our "freedoms." I don't think the vision
of a society that is both<BR>>> > free<BR>>> > and
nonviolent is an absurdity.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > I think it is
clear that there is SOME connection between violent<BR>>> >
rhetoric<BR>>> > and actual violence. The real questions are how much
of a connection is<BR>>> > there (what is the nature of the
connection) and what can we do about<BR>>> > it? I<BR>>> >
refuse to think that "Nothing" is a good answer.<BR>>> ><BR>>>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Dan Carscallen <</FONT><A
href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>areaman@moscow.com</FONT></A><FONT size=2
face=Arial>><BR>>> > wrote:<BR>>> ><BR>>> > >
Vizzz peeps,<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > > We live in a free society. One of the prices we pay
for living here<BR>>> > > is<BR>>> > > that there are
some loonballs running around who could snap at any<BR>>> > >
minute> Should they be? Probably not, but who is to say when and how
these<BR>>> > > folks<BR>>> > > should be rounded up
and treated? Sure, I think all of us can talk<BR>>> > >
about<BR>>> > > the guy in our neighborhood that seems a little
sketchy, but what are<BR>>> > > we<BR>>> > > supposed
to do? Call the cops and have them haul him in because he<BR>>> >
> doesn’t<BR>>> > > fit society’s norm? I think there are a lot
of folks, right here on<BR>>> > > the<BR>>> > > Vizzz
even, that don’t necessarily follow the “norm”. But we go<BR>>> >
> along and<BR>>> > > live our lives in our free
society.<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > > The media talked to this Jared guy’s neighbors, and
they said “yes, he<BR>>> > > seemed like a nutjob”, but what were
they to do? They watched him,<BR>>> > > kept<BR>>> > >
their distance, stayed as vigilant as they could. Unfortunately,
he<BR>>> > > “slipped through the cracks”. Should he have been
prevented from<BR>>> > > buying a<BR>>> > > pistol?
Maybe, but in a free society, how? He wasn’t a convicted<BR>>> > >
felon, he<BR>>> > > answered all the questions properly, and he
paid his money. It’s not<BR>>> > > a<BR>>> > > speedy
process, no matter who or where you are. Even with a concealed<BR>>>
> > weapon permit, and a pre-checked background, it’s not quick by
any<BR>>> > > means.<BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > > This can’t be blamed on
rhetoric, nor on extremists from either side<BR>>> > > of
the<BR>>> > > aisle. The blame lays solely on a sick man who
obviously needs help.<BR>>> > > And,<BR>>> > >
perhaps, the “blame” lays on the freedom we enjoy by being citizens
of<BR>>> > > the<BR>>> > > United States of
America.<BR>>> > ><BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > > Your pal<BR>>> > ><BR>>> >
><BR>>> > ><BR>>> > > DC<BR>>> >
><BR>>> > >
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