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How can you rationally conclude that from what I have written. I have never condoned any calls for violence from the left. Those guys outside the one polling place in ohio (not polling places, as Kaffis seems to imply)? They never laid a hand on anyone. That guy in the Unitarian church murdered two people unrepentantly because they were liberals. Do you honestly believe these things were morally equivalent?

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Aside from the fact that they weren't disenfranchised in Ohio in 2004, standing outside a polling place with a nightstick is clearly an attempt at intimidation. It does nothing whatsoever to protect people from disenfranchisement unless they are overtly being turned away from the polling place. Since that wasn't happening, nor was there any good reason to think it was going to happen at that polling place, no one is misrepresenting that situation except for the 2 guys claiming to protect people from disenfranchisement.



So you admit there was no antagonism, and even if there was, since when does that justify assault.



What dead cops, and what does the unitarian church murder have to do with anything? It's been pointed out repeatedly that this guy was acting completely on his own, attempts to link his actions to others by the SPLC fact-manipulation crew notwithstanding. As for the Tea Party, bringing a weapon, loaded or otherwise, does not come up to the level of actually hitting someone.



Calls for violence are neither casual nor common on the right, and a comparison of government practice to the nazis, crass as it may be, is not relevant to the issue of violence.

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Actually, the trick is to ally yourself with the eventual winner of a bigger conflict. I still say that if Hitler had come to power a decade later he might have gotten away with the Holocaust. I mean, I'd wager the majority of college graduates don't even know what the Holodomor is, despite the fact that it probably killed more than the Holocaust.

As long as he let the US install missiles in Germany to point at the USSR, massacres, land-grabs, and other atrocities would have been overlooked. They certainly were all over the world when it came to other fascist dictators. Invaded Poland? Well, better fascist than communist.

This is likely. It should be noted, however, that the Holodomor appears, historically, to have been an unintential consequence of some absolutely terrible economic policy decisions. As much as we like to vilify Josef Stalin (because he really was a villain!), an unbiased look at history shows that "genocide" to really have been a colossal **** of bad choices with unexpected consequences, compounded by lies and coverups. This doesn't make any difference to the 2-10 million people who starved to death, but we do recognize intent as a determining factor in criminal law. Hitler was the bigger monster.

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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1179231/black_panthers_intimidate_voters_in.html

Philadelphia is not located in Ohio.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Interesting article on exactly that topic:

http://reason.com/blog/2009/11/02/littl ... today-abou

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