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July 28, 2008
Kill Liberals-- The TN Unitarian Church Murderer's Motive (with poll)
By Rob Kall
The 58 year old killer who entered a Unitarian Church in Tennessee was set on killing liberals. Article includes poll
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The 58 year old killer who entered a Unitarian Church in Tennessee was set on killing liberals.Even if this man hopefully acted alone it is chilling to all progressive people and groups, like the Unitarians. Are we free to express our views, indeed to allow our children to perform in a church play?
Adkisson must be tried on terrorism charges and the White House and Congressional leaders must speak out against this form of domestic terrorism too, not just the inflated threat from Islamic extremists that threaten American political and economic interests abroad and help drum up defense contracts at home."
Day after day so-called "conservative" radio talk show hosts go on the air and blame the "liberals" for everything that has ever gone wrong in the world often times outright lying about something to bolster the point. The target audience of these shows is the not-too-bright crowd to begin with but a certain percent of any group is going to be mentally or emotionally unstable, this particular group moreso than others perhaps? So day after day these not-too-bright, emotionally unstable folks listen to Lush Rimjaughbe and his ilk tell them that the liberal, god-hating, gay boy, gun grabbers are responsible for making their lives miserable and eventually some of them snap. When this happens lets not pretend that the right wing vitriol that they have been exposing themselves to played no role in the snapping or at the very least the choice of victims.
Who really killed those Unitarians? Was it the preachers who spread hatred and intolerance? The politicians who court and flatter them instead of condemning their hate speech? The media machine that attacks liberals, calls them "traitors" and suggests you speak to them "with a baseball bat"? The economic system that batters people like Jim Adkinson until they snap, then tells them their real enemies are gays and liberals and secular humanists?
If you ask me, it was all of the above.
You killed them, Pat Robertson. You killed them, Pastor Hagee. You killed them, Ann Coulter. You killed them, Dick Morris and Sean Hannity and the rest of you at Fox News.
How'd I hear about this last quote. I tuned in to Sean Hannity. He was chastising Arianna Huffington for publishing Eskow's article. He now calls the liberal media the "obama media." Sean just doesn't get it that when he villifies liberals, when he characterizes liberals as causing the problems in society, he actually DOES influence unstable individuals like Jim Adkisson.
This is a horror story. A man walks into a church where children are performing a version of the musical, Annie, on the stage. He's carrying a guitar case, but pulls a shotgun out of the case and starts shooting.
UU churches are probably the largest denomination of reliably liberal church in the USA. The very thought that they are now endangered by psycho right wing haters is a terrifying one. We've seen people like Adkisson shoot or kill people who work in abortion clinics and in pregnancy counseling facilities. What's next, drive-by shootings at Obama campaign headquarters?
Naah. That's not necessary. Greg Palast reports that already, in many key states, blacks and other left leaning voters have already been inappropriately, possibly even illegally purged from voter rolls. Why bother killing when you can mass purge?
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