Allegory wrote:
However, the idea that the right has only a few fringe maniacs who can't be attributed to or correlated with the rhetoric being espoused is also ludicrous. Go read stormfront.org and read their politics section. They are ALL conservative. Most conservatives aren't racists bigots, but most racist bigots are conservatives. It wasn't the hippy liberals talking about free love while high on marijuana that terrorized and lynched blacks and gays. Most of the outed KKK politicians were dixiecrats, who then later switched to republican after it was clear democrats no longer had a place for them.
We're talking about actual violence though. Not speech which you don't agree with, or which you feel might incite someone to violence. Actual violence. It's easy to point to someone's speech and say "That person is calling for violence!", but that's not the same as actual people showing up at political rallies and protests and throwing rocks and bricks and lighting cars on fire. That's not the same as going out and slashing the tires of poll workers for the other party on election day. That's not the same as gathering up a group of armed people, driving around in trucks and literally running poll watchers from the other party out of town (yes, this happened in 2004, and it was a group of Republicans who were run out of town by the armed band). And that's not the same as two men wearing uniforms and carrying clubs bracketing the doors of a polling place on election day and loudly talking about how nobody better vote against their boy Obama. And it's also not the same as throwing bricks at elderly people on buses because they are attending a convention for the other party. Or dropping sandbags from overpasses at cars heading to said same rally. Or lighting more fires.
All of those are things that have happened in the last decade by liberals targeting conservatives.
And those are just things we can directly connect to actual political activism. We could also talk about threats and violence by union thugs against anyone who might dare to cross their picket lines. We can talk about the eco-terrorists you mentioned earlier. We could talk all day about clearly liberal organizations which regularly employ violent means to achieve their objectives.
Despite nearly constant violent acts by liberals in this country, it's the rare and occasional violent acts by conservatives which everyone leaps upon and hypes as though it's some sure sign of a massive wave of violence or something. The reality is that violence from the right in the US is marked by its rarity. It's so rare that it is news when it happens. While violence, much less threats of violence are so common from the left that they get dismissed or excused as just something that happens. Really? One might want to reconsider their politics if violence "just happens" as a natural result.
And for those still confused about the Black Panther thing, here's a
decent article dispelling much of the BS. There are direct quotes from the investigation. The reality is that no one doubts that voters were intimidated, and no one doubts that a violation of election law occurred. But no one wants to do anything about it? Perhaps they feel intimidated as well?
And for those still confused, there was a New Black Panther once again stationed at the same polling place in Philly. This time he didn't have a club, but was handing out sample ballots (with Democrats filled, "as a suggestion" I suppose), directly in front of the doors of the polling place. That's a clear violation of the law. The intimidation by liberals of voters in many of these places is so bad and so constant that anyone attempting just to observe the polls to make sure intimidation doesn't happen is harassed. Which is bad by itself, but in many cases the media joins in attacking those who are legitimate poll watchers and ignore the ones who aren't supposed to be there. How dare conservatives actually want fair elections, right? It's somehow twisted around into intimidation for them to observe (as they are legally allowed to do) to make sure that the elections are fair.
You've got to have some particularly huge blinders on to think that it's conservatives who are using violence and threats in the political process.