I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing until more of the facts were known, but, as I’m sitting here tonight, reading the analysis of folks like Alex Jones, who thinks that it was an inside job perpetrated by the government, and Fox News contributor Erik Rush, who thinks that it’s clearly […]
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Seeing in the Boston bombing though the filter of preexisting prejudice
Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Atlanta, bombers, bombs, Boston, Boston Marathon, conspiracy theories, Erik Rush, false flag, FOX News, Islamophobia, mass murder, Olympic bombing, patriot movement, Patriots' Day, Richard Jewell, Taliban, terrorism, Time Square, Timothy McVeigh 73 Comments
Dateline Detroit
I don’t have a functioning television, so I didn’t see last night’s Dateline special on Detroit, but I’m watching clips now on my computer, and, from what I can see, Chris Hansen and his producers did a pretty good job of it. I know some people are are up in arms today over it, claiming […]
“See, the Democrats are violent too!”
With the news that a mentally ill man in Pennsylvania had threatened the life of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor, conservatives everywhere have begun jumping up and down, waiving their hands around wildly (imagine Arnold Horshack trying to get Mr. Kotter’s attention), and claiming that this definitively proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Democrats […]
Posted in History, Other, Politics, Religious Extremism Also tagged anti-globalization, anti-government, Arnold Horshack reference, Bill Ayers, Christian soldiers, constitutionalists, death threats, domestic terrorism, Eric Cantor, Eugene Robinson, Hutaree, militias, Norman Leboon, Patricia Hearst, political violence, potential for violence, rhetoric of violent revolution, Symbionese Liberation Army, tea party, teabaggers, teabaggery, the nonexistent leftist threat, Timothy McVeigh, violence, violence on the extreme right, white supremacist 40 Comments