Right Wing Terrorism

[Suddenly]

Originally Posted by Parsman

To be fair, the first Rambo movie was about a man traumatized in a war who was mistreated and attacked by American rednecks and fought back. Now Rambo 2, you have a point

The first was exploring the stabbed in the back myth. Veterans were mistreated somewhat because of lack of resources, etc., but tales of straight hostility towards vets were wildly overstated and the idea that the war was winnable if only the government would have not held back the army is completely asinine.

The second was wish fulfillment w/r/t the stabbed in the back myth. Do we get to win this time. Yes there are forgotten POWs and the higherups are covering these things up, etc.

[Suddenly]

Originally Posted by Armitage72

Heck, back when I was in college I took a Japanese history class as an elective. It was History of Japan 1, so it stopped long before the modern day. When I mentioned it to my mother, her reaction was "Why do you want to study them? They attacked us." Not only was this conversation in the 1990s, she wasn't even born until 1944.

Some historian pointed out that wars don't end until the all the children of the people alive during the war die.

It's pretty apt.

Vietnam is one of those things that doesn't get enough play when looking at the rise of Trumpism.

[lobosrul5]

More right-wing terrorism, local to me, suspects caught!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/us/so...ngs/index.html

ETA: ahh I see it had been discussed earlier.

[smartcooky]

Originally Posted by WWBDD

Seems likely to whom?

<BS snipped>

Further to your short life-spanned post, definitions of terrorism are;

dictionary.com: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Collins: Use of force or threats to demoralize, intimidate, and subjugate, especially such use as a political weapon or policy

Brittanica: The calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.

FBI:The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a Government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Given the above definitions, I can't see any possible argument that a political candidate who lost at the polls, who then both hires people to shoot at the homes of political adversaries, and then does so himself, while claiming that the election was rigged and that he was the true winner, can be any anything BUT terrorism... and the fact that he was a Republican candidate makes it right wing terrorism by definition.

So... WWBDD, would you care to come back and revise your bull-**** post?
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[azazal]

Nothing to see here, just another normal day.

Police investigate Illinois Planned Parenthood fire as arson

CHICAGO (AP) — A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.

Officers responded to a report of an “unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail” into the Peoria clinic building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police spokesperson Semone Roth said.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-...5396a140904545

[smartcooky]

Originally Posted by azazal

Nothing to see here, just another normal day.

Police investigate Illinois Planned Parenthood fire as arson

CHICAGO (AP) — A fire at a central Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic is being investigated as arson, Peoria police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted sweeping abortion protections.

Officers responded to a report of an “unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail” into the Peoria clinic building at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police spokesperson Semone Roth said.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-...5396a140904545

Where was the "good guy with a Molotov cocktail" ?

[gnome]

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[smartcooky]

Originally Posted by gnome

Here! (image from The Good Place)

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[Stacyhs]

Two extremist neo-nazis have been arrested for planning to attack a power grid outside Baltimore:

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman spent months conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader based in Florida to plan an attack on Baltimore’s power grid, hoping to further their racist mission, law enforcement officials said Monday.

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Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, was working with Brandon Russell, who founded a small Florida-based neo-Nazi group, to plan a series of “sniper attacks” on Maryland electrical substations, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday. The document also included a photo of a woman authorities identified as Clendaniel wearing tactical gear that bore a swastika and holding a rifle.

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According to the complaint, Clendaniel was planning to target five substations situated in a ring around Baltimore, a majority-Black city mostly surrounded by heavily white suburban areas.

“It would probably permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully,” Clendaniel told a confidential informant she met through Russell, according to the complaint. She was most recently living outside the city in surrounding Baltimore County, officials said.

[dudalb]

Originally Posted by Stacyhs

Two extremist neo-nazis have been arrested for planning to attack a power grid outside Baltimore:

I guess we should be thankful most of these morons are too dumb to sucessfully pull off a attack like the one they planned.
Plan itself was way too complex;you want to keep it simple.

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by dudalb

I guess we should be thankful most of these morons are too dumb to sucessfully pull off a attack like the one they planned.
Plan itself was way too complex;you want to keep it simple.

Take a lesson from Wile E Coyote.

[The_Animus]

Another report out recently regarding ideologically driven mass killings in the US in 2022

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Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday.

Axios article

Direct link to the report

A common response I've seen from right-wingers in various comment sections is: "Whatabout Antifa and BLM, they're the real extremists!" followed by an inability to name a single mass killing perpetrated by Antifa or BLM.

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by The_Animus

Another report out recently regarding ideologically driven mass killings in the US in 2022



Axios article

Direct link to the report

A common response I've seen from right-wingers in various comment sections is: "Whatabout Antifa and BLM, they're the real extremists!" followed by an inability to name a single mass killing perpetrated by Antifa or BLM.

True. But many still think they were behind Jan.6...along with Nancy Pelosi, the Dems, and the FBI. There's just no stopping stupid.

[The_Animus]

FBI arrests Michigan man who plotted to kill Jewish elected officials. He used to work at the University of Michigan but was fired for refusing to take the covid vaccine.

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/antisem...article-733136

The terrorism from the left thread is falling way behind in examples. Better get on that resident righties

[The_Animus]

Some more terrorism to add to the list.

Two far-right Trump supporters who sought ‘war’ over 2020 election sentenced for conspiring to blow up Democratic Headquarters

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A federal judge in California handed down a pair of multi-year prison sentences to two men for their roles in a firebomb plot targeting the offices of the California Democratic Party following the 2020 presidential election, which they believed was stolen from Donald Trump.

CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism,’ Crowd Goes Wild

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“If transgenderism is false—as it is—if men really can’t become women—as they cannot—then it’s false for everyone,” the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles said at CPAC. “If it is false then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”


“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing,” said Knowles.

[Stacyhs]

Originally Posted by The_Animus

Some more terrorism to add to the list.

Two far-right Trump supporters who sought ‘war’ over 2020 election sentenced for conspiring to blow up Democratic Headquarters



CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism,’ Crowd Goes Wild

Quote:

“If transgenderism is false—as it is—if men really can’t become women—as they cannot—then it’s false for everyone,” the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles said at CPAC. “If it is false then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.”


“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing,” said Knowles.

What next? Are transgendered people going to be made to sew stars onto their clothing to identify them? Will they be rounded up and put into cattle cars and taken to "re-education" camps?

But, nah....there's no bigotry here, right?

[dudalb]

"There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing,” said Knowles."

Well, I think there is no middle way of dealing with militant violent fascists. There is only the way the Greatest Generation dealt with it in the 1940's.

[Gulliver Foyle]

Originally Posted by Stacyhs

What next? Are transgendered people going to be made to sew stars onto their clothing to identify them? Will they be rounded up and put into cattle cars and taken to "re-education" camps?

But, nah....there's no bigotry here, right?

Pink triangles. The stars are reserved for (((them))).

/S

[Stacyhs]

A woman in Wyoming has been arrested for torching an abortion provider clinic:

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A woman was arrested on charges of setting fire to a building in Wyoming that was being renovated to house the state’s only full-service abortion clinic, authorities said Wednesday, hours after a judge temporarily blocked a ban on abortion that went into effect a few days ago.

Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, of Casper, was arrested on Tuesday by Casper police and agents from the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Wyoming U.S. Attorney Nicholas Vassallo said in a statement.

Green faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted, according to the statement. She is scheduled to appear in federal court in Cheyenne on Thursday morning.