Tag Archives: threat of violence

Trump appears to call for the assassination of his rival, stating that “Second Amendment people” could keep Clinton from appointing judges and destroying the country

By Mark | August 9, 2016

The above comment was made by the Republican candidate for president earlier this afternoon in Wilmington, North Carolina. If you don’t believe me, you’ll find the unedited video below, in which Trump clearly suggests that second amendment enthusiasts might be able to stop Clinton from appointing judges and further “destroying” our country. Let that sink […]

Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Gore, assassination, conspiracy theories, Dan Rather, DNC, Donald Trump, double standard, EOS, gun control, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, incite violence, intelligence, John Kerry, Julian Assange, Michael Hayden, misogyny, Mulford Act, national security, North Carolina, people the Clintons have had murdered, people who get away with murder, political violence, presidential assassination program, Presidential politics, Ron Brown, Ronald Reagan, Seth Rich, sexism, temperament, threat of assassination, Wikileaks, Wilmington | 64 Comments

The Imperial Wizard of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan calls for the murder of undocumented children entering the United States

By Mark | August 4, 2014

Continuing our conversation of last week concerning the immigration crisis building on our southern border, I wanted to share a clip from our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center. It seems as though at least one faction of the Ku Klux Klan is calling for the murder of undocumented children crossing into the United […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Jazeera, anti-immigration, illegal immigration, immigration reform, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Robert Jones, Southern Poverty Law Center, Vassar, xenophobia | 3 Comments

If you’re going to be compared to a terrorist, it might as well be a brilliant one

By Mark | September 30, 2013

On Sunday afternoon, I was standing in the rain in Ann Arbor, by myself, with a half-eaten cupcake in my hand, when a friend approached me, and greeted me with a question that I’d never been asked before. “How’d you like being compared to the Unabomber?” Having no idea what in the hell he was […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged A2GastroBoy, activism, Alan Haber, Barenaked Ladies, Boots Riley, cupcake, Derrick Jensen, doppelgänger, injuries that Mark has suffered, isolation, James V. McConnell, Jeffrey Dahmer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., meet a blogger, Miss Piggy, MLK, non-violence, Omari Rush, people Mark looks like, people who look kind of like Mark, SDS, Steve Page, technology, Ted Kaczynski, terrorism, the human condition, Unabomber, University of Michigan, violence, violence vs non-violence | 15 Comments

Boots Riley of The Coup… on Communism, Corporatism, hip-hop, and the need to beat down scabs

By Mark | November 28, 2012

Last night, I had the occasion to speak with world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley on a wide range of subjects spanning from his childhood in Detroit, spent in a household of Communist organizers, to his current work, organizing people in his neighborhood as a member Occupy Oakland. And, of course, we touched on his equally […]