The Lurking Fear
Some sage words about the rise of right wing terrorism, from one of the great experts on the subject, Dave Niewert:
This is something I have talked about repeatedly, when these incidents occur (every week or two these days) and are totally written off by the press as the acts of deranged individuals with nothing uniting them. I wonder why the same grace is not granted by the mainstream press to the shoe bomber, or the underwear bomber.
"we actually have seen this happen time after time after time: A mentally unstable person is inspired by hateful right-wing rhetoric to act out violently -- and yet because of that mental state, the matter is dismissed as idiosyncratic, just another "isolated incident." And over the months and years, these "isolated incidents" mount one after another.
But simply ascribing these acts to mental illness is a cop-out. It fails to account for the gross irresponsibility of the people who employed the rhetoric that inspired the violent action in the first place, and their resulting moral culpability."
But simply ascribing these acts to mental illness is a cop-out. It fails to account for the gross irresponsibility of the people who employed the rhetoric that inspired the violent action in the first place, and their resulting moral culpability."
Of course, I am going to grant the title of sage to anyone who agrees with me, but do you think he is wrong?
This is something I have talked about repeatedly, when these incidents occur (every week or two these days) and are totally written off by the press as the acts of deranged individuals with nothing uniting them. I wonder why the same grace is not granted by the mainstream press to the shoe bomber, or the underwear bomber.
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Otherwise, it is a deranged individual, driven to their act of homicidal rage by feminists, Mexicans, 'all them smart people in Harvard', and Burt and Ernie - said act having nothing to do with being told everyday by gutless millionaire shock jocks that their government is plotting ceaselessly to destroy them.
I trust this answers your question.