After the arrest of a Florida man for sending homemade bombs to former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders, many on the left — and not a few allegedly neutral reporters and pundits — predictably attempted to assign blame for his deranged and dangerous acts to President Trump. They pointed to “lock her up” chants at Trump’s noisy rallies, to the “fake news” charges and to a long list of Trump lines that left-wing activists and some mainstream media voices have categorized as beneath the dignity of the president.
The truth is the spectrum of violent behavior runs from the far-left extreme of the Bernie Sanders-supporting shooter at an Alexandria baseball field to last week’s mailing of pipe bombs to prominent Democrats to Saturday’s stomach-turning massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue by a Trump-hating neo-Nazi, which made an already awful week even worse. That is the whole range of criminality at the fringes of American politics, a left-right full spectrum of angry, hate-filled obsessives. The threatening envelopes sent to both Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Vanessa Trump, like those received by members of the media and no doubt by elected officials on the left, means crazy figures on the fringes of the far left and far right are a permanent part of the political terrain.
We are now arguing over what is properly considered “incitement” to violent action of all segments of that fringe. Consider the moron who accosted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in a Louisville restaurant, or the mobs that chasedSen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and his wife or Homeland Security SecretaryKirstjen Nielsen or Stephen Miller from their eateries: Who is responsible for inciting that behavior? For the physical attacks on two GOP candidates in Minnesota? For the Portland Antifa gang harassing motorists and a woman in a wheelchair? The reasonable apprehension of physical violence is assault, not free speech. Who is responsible for the assaults and the far worse violence of the bombs and the shootings?
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Joe
Look up the show the View. Megan McCain blasted joy beher on gun control.
wow the comments are that article sicken me..the leftards are think ignorant hypocrites..
Those were not bombs, they were fake (just like the media) and the NY police blew up an innocent package.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), explicitly calling for confronting Trump officials in public places:
“If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Encouraging people to "create a crowd" and "push" while telling someone they are unwelcome in random retail establishments is crossing the line. It is the law that "reasonable apprehension of physical violence is assault". This is what Waters is calling for.
I would argue that you can tell them they're unwelcome in a retail establishment that you own, but if if you substitute "a black person", or "a homosexual" for "anybody from that cabinet", you have discrimination.
You can spare me the argument about explicitly protected groups. What we are talking about is people being reasonable and civil to one another while disagreeing on certain things.
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