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(Disclaimer: Chaz wanted me to make note of the fact that this was originally posted at NH Insider. His comments are directed to the bloggers and usual suspects there. - Beth Campbell)
Last month a gunman opened fire in a Unitarian Church in Knoxville TN. He killed two and wounded seven "progressives." A note in the killers car expressed his "hatred of the liberal movement."
Today Bill Gwatney, the Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic party was murdered by a lone gunman. He was shot three times at point blank range. Judging from the rhetoric I see on this site I would imagine that some of you are chuckling. The liberal got what he deserved!
I'm not surprised. I've written many times about the undertone of violence that is pawned off as free speech in NH. I never get any traction with those columns of course.
When Neil Rowland writes that a "slap" would do our Congresswoman some good, I don't see any outrage. And to make matters worse, Neil Rowland is helping a candidate running for the United States Congress. This isn't some obscure bar fly muttering in his beer folks!
When a front page blogger rags on Unitarians for no good reason just a month after the shootings, no one blinks an eye. Those comments were jarringly out of place in the bloggers own thread. I know that writer isn't a violent or threatening person, but I would have thought that under the circumstances he might have thought twice before hinting that Libertarians aren't good Christian Churchgoers.
When a front page blogger shows a video of a man hollering and intimidating Democrats-mostly women-the usual suspects here see an act of political courage rather than thuggish behavior.
Constitutionalists are quick to tell us that the Constitution advocates political killings in certain circumstances.
Well yes it does, but there are a lot of people who think liberals should be killed because they are liberals and that God and the Constitution will be on their side when they pull the trigger.
You reap what you sow people.
I'll bet my last dollar that somewhere in NH, someone is making a joke about the Chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. "Too bad it wasn't...
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