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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDebunking More Right-Wing Bulls**t: Liberal Shooters
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/31/debunking-more-right-wing-bullst-liberal-shooters/This letter to the editor has been making the rounds since January so I think its about time we debunked it. The letter is a hit job that originated with right-wing radio host Roger Hedgecock. The former mayor of San Diego has a radio show and podcast which he uses to spew his ugly messages. This one was picked up by viewers and redirected at local LTE pages nationwide. Lets have a look, shall we?
The article debunks each of these, including the one picked up from Breitbart, then gives
just a sampling of incidents of right-wing violence.
Oklahoma City bombing, a horrible attack driven by political ideology.
Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber ...
Extremist chatter on the Internet while he was evading capture praised him as a hero.
Michael Frederick Griffin murdered Dr. David Gunn in Pensacola, Florida.
Paul Hill shot Dr. Bayard Britton in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun.
Anti-abortion terrorist John Salvi carried out two fatal attacks on two abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts in December 1994.
Anti-immigrant vigilantes murdered Raul Flores Jr and his 9-year-old daughter Brisenia at point-blank range in their Tucson, Arizona
George Richard Tiller, MD was murdered by Scott Roeder, a militant anti-abortion protestor.
There was the killing at the Holocaust Museum
and now the possible activity of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas killing the Kaufman County prosecutors
and on and on
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Debunking More Right-Wing Bulls**t: Liberal Shooters (Original Post)
ashling
Apr 2013
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NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)1. Link please?
I didn't see one in your post.
Not surprised at the result, though.
ashling
(25,771 posts)2. oops - thanks!
just added it to op
ck4829
(35,076 posts)3. What about Jim Adkisson? He shot people because of they were in a liberal church.